MISS SUH BECOMES MRS. SUB

On April 15^t Miss Suh J^ec^ Doh "becames Mrs, Suh when she was married to Mr.

Choi in Seoul, Korea ^ in Korea the "bride retains her fami'.y name and Just ■becomes

Mrs, instead of taking her e.>^aY.r|^i tnQmo)f

Mrs. Suh works witk^b^ Bert Ellis famj/iy of Korean Broadcasting Kiasion in

Pusan, Korea, The Ellis miQil2_j;:6pel'fed the wedding in their newsletter. Here are exerpts:

"The wedding was a Christian one^held according to the custom in a large downtown

hall. Fathers of 'both^'bfide and groom are elders in their respectiTe churcKes® The "brideentered on her father's arm and was met "by the groom before the pulpit. The entire

congregation, led by the minister, Joined in singing "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing"*

which was printed in the wedding program. There were prayers by the minister and a

sho^t sermon, after which he stepped down from behind the pulpit, had them clasp their

hands, and place them upon his Bible, and then pronounced them husband and wife.

"After the usual exchange of gifts, similar to our ring ceremony, the gifts thistime being two rings for Miss Suh and a watch for Mr. Choi, they turned and did a deep

ceremonial bow to the audience, yien we all Joined in singing "Praise God ^rom Whom AllBlessings Flow" and the couple proceeded down the aisle. Miss Suh was dressed in a

Western-style wedding gown, but changed at the wedding hall and went away in a traditional■a±5i^ Korean dress."

Bro. Ellis also indicated in the^ newsletter that the work is progressing well,and said that son John, student at Milligan College^ speaks on weekjLnds for the mission,and will be traveling during the summer for that purpose. His address is: John Ellis,Milligan College, Tennessee,

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^ outline:Mr, Choi and Miss Suh at their ^ ^

April 15® wedding in Seoul, Korea, She works

with the Bert Ellis family in Pusan, Korea.

KOREA

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THE BERT ELLIS FAMILY

May - Juno, 19^5

Dear Christian Friends;

Greetings again from Korea I Iho press of many activities has delayed our report letter for May and Junoj but hero it is now!

There are so many things to tell you we hardly know vdiere to begin. One note ofprogress is that we have finally taken over the ishole building v^ere wo live and work.Things had become so crowded wo felt wo must. Bert has moved his office from thethird floor down to the second vhere most of the other workers are located and thisis much more convenient. Ho also has a little moro room (only a little more for hisnew office is only 8® by 11' so you can imagine how crowded he was before!) Our living quarters are on the first floor, offices (^hich double as Sunday School space) onthe second, and chapel and one small office on the third floor. The building is approximately 42' by 22' so this gives you some idea of our work and living space. Thelocation is excellent, right in the middle of the downtown area of this city of abouta million and a half people!

One addition, permitted by our taking over the rest of the building, is a new classfor junior high students "ihich meets on Sunday morning in one of the new office rooms.There are about twenty students in this group. Right now the time and place of mooting are an experiment. If the group grows, as wo hope, then we will have to changethe time so that they can meet in the chapel or the large office.

In addition to all the regular activities Bert has Kad the privilege of speaking "in-a-number of churches and schools reOently. He has preached or diown filmstrips in aPresbyterian Church, Methodist Church, Church of Christ (non-instrument brethren) andhas several other invitations. Mhen he preaches in the denominational churches hepreaches on "The New Testament Church" and so far this has been well received and hasprompted a number of inquiries. Denominatiohal lines are not as strongly drawn hereas in the States and this is a real opportunity to witness Ooncerning the New Testament position which we believe and teach* Ohe Saturday morning he Spoke at a boyS'high school to 2,700 students. As they have no hall large enough to hold such agroup they stood in ranks on the parade ground for the short service. If time permitted we could have many more opportunities like this but until there is anothermissionary here we are limited as to the number of those outside invitations we canaccept.

We also continue teaching at the Soninary here, Marge teaching English, in x^ich weuse Biblical materials, and Bert teaching two classes, "The Life of Christ," a coursein the Harmony of the Gospels, and "The Epistles of John." These take a lot of timeas we must prepare text materials, as well as lecture materials, as there are no textbooks available for such courses.

We have not said much recently about our regular monlhly activities so we thought wewould give you a short sketch in this letter. There are four Student Bible Clubsmeeting each week in our chapel, Monday, V/ednesday, Friday evenings, and Saturday afternoon. There are about twenty-five high school students in each of these clubs,some belonging to denominational churches, most with no Christian background or relationship at all. The first week of each month these clubs have a Bible lesson,studjring from the book "'^hat We Believe," written by J. Vernon Jacobs, vhich we haveavailable in the Korean language. We study a chapter each time, and then have awritten test after the study wi1h the clubs and individual students competing witheach other. We give pretty stiff tests and you would bo surprised at how good thegrades are# These past two months they studied "The Lord's Supper," and "The Lord'sDay.'' The second week of the month we show a filmstrip from a series on "The Life ofChrist" idiich is followed by a discussion period prompted by the filmstrip. The twof-\l'^'5trips the past months wore "The Transfirv tion," and "He Is Risen!" Wo trans-" '■ the scripts into the Korean language en. ne staff records them, taking the

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parts of the various characters, and these are used in Sunday School .as well as for theclubs. Bie third week of the month Marge teaches English, using Biblical materials^idi we have prepared, built aro\md the questions most frequently asked concerningChristianity and the Christian life. Ihey study English in school from junior highon and are most interested in learning in this way. The lessons, the past tiro monthswere "l^hat and Inhere Is God?" and "Tfthat Is God Like?" Ihe foui^ week.of the monththe meeting varies among many topics, with the Korean staff preparing this program^Each meeting begins with a devotional program prepared and conducted by the students.Frequent meetings are also held with all the clubs meeting together at ihich timeBert or a visiting speaker often speaks. There are other work and social activitiesalways underway in these clubs also. One of the Ihihgs we enjoy is that so much ofthe ̂ rk and planning is done by the students -th^nselvess a; great deal of the responsibility for the success of this program is that Mrs. SUh is so capable in -this particular way. Tuesday evening there is usually a planning ineeting with the officers ofthe four clubs so you see most evenings in the week are taken up, uhat with 1he staffmembers-having Thursday as their day off*

In the Sunday School on Sunday mornings we follow the Standard Uniform Lessons justas most of you study in your churches. Lesson helps are translated from various ofthe quaterlies and other helps and Miss Sung then teaches those iho teach the variousclasses. We have three departments; those of the first grade of school and belowmeet in our second floor office with Mrs. Suh and Miss Oh in charge, the seating spaceis 12» by 18« on tatami mats on the floor and (you will find this hard to believe) wehave as many as 120 children seated in this space with an average of someihere around100 on Sunday morning| those from -the second through the sixth grade meet in the chapel with Miss Stmg in charge and average about I50, with as many as 200 5 the middles^ool, or junior high, meets in the small second floor office, and there are about20 in this group. Various high school and college students help with the teaching ofthe largest group, the one meeting in the chapel. Various aids, pictures, flannel-graph etc., are used in these lesson presentations and each child receives a smallcolored picture card of the lesson Then they leave. We have found that in many instances Then they arrive home the Thole family gathers around to examine the pictureand listen to the story told by the child. In the evenings we meet in the samegroups, but use puppet shows, filmstrips, flannelgraph etc., to present a Bible lesson, and. the attendance in the evening is often a little higher than~in-th«-^no!MiingiiDuring May and June the average attendance on Sunday morning was 232 Td.th a high of287, and in the evening an average of 220 vdth a high of 299. Ihis counts only the(h^dren, and there are ten or twelve teachers and helpers. There were a couple ofrainy Sundays and this always cuts down on attendance.

In addition to this ihere are many, many personal conferences TJith preachers, students and others, Ihe visits to the various churches and schools, the routine correspondence, and Bert also conducts a Bible class on Sunday morning, studying the Bookof Acts, and preaches at our church service, so you can see that we manage to keepbusy.

Our son, John, has also been busy. He finished his first year at Milligan Collegeand, after a short visit Tdtii some of the family, spent the last two weeks of Junein Georgia. During one T^eek he spoke each day at two Vacation Bible Schools, in themornings at First Christian Church, East Point, and in the evenings at CentralChristian Qiurch, Atlanta. The foUoTdng week he spent at the Hi^ School Week atthe Georgia Christian Assonbly Youth Camp. We think he also spoke at Mt. OliveChur^ at East Point. Those fine Georgia hi^ school kids gave an offering to ihemission Tfork of $308,021 This Tjill be a big help in taking care of our youth camphere Thich will be held in August. The students here pay one third of the cost andmission ̂ nds subsidize the rest. Our thanks to all the wonderful people in the Atlanta area Tho made John so welcome, the Morgans, Sizemores, Reggie ̂ omas, NealPuckett ̂ d all the oihers Those names we do not have. From his letter he had a wonderful time. You Tjill never know how much it means to us to have John Tjith such fine

friends thile we cannot be TJilh him. His address for the summer iss c/oClay Hockman, 555 Woodrow, Indianapolis, Indiana. We surely appreciate the Hockmanstaking in our poor orphan boy, too! We do not know his schedule, exactly, but perhaps you could TJrite or call him at the above address if you woiad like to have himin your church or camp.

We were pleased to have visitors for one evening during the past month. Mr. and Mrs.LeTjis Foster of Cincinnati Bible Seminary, Those hallowed halls we once trod, andI4rn and Mrs. Mark Maxey of Japan were our guests for supper and an evening on theirth-.^e Jay ThirlTiind trip of Korea. We surely did enjoy talking Tdth the-Tio"

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And then, along with the joys, there are sorrows. Sunday, June 20, Father's Day, wereceived a cable from the States telling us Marge's father had died on June 18. Thisis probably "tiie hardest thing a missionary has to bear, to be separated from our loved ones at a time like this. All one can do is send a cable. Marge's father, G. W.Davis, had been ill for a long time, so it was not entirely une:^ected, but it wasstill a ̂ ock. G. W. was a good Christian, had been an elder in the South Side C3i\irdiof Christ at Danville, Illinois for many years. He was one of the elders iho participated in the laying on of hands xhich set Bert apart to the ministry almost twenty-five years ago.

As you can see, things are progressing well with the work. We are just now gettingready for Vacation Bible School and our summer Youth Camp. We will tell you all aboutthese in our next letter.

Finances have improved but we have several extra expenses ri^t now such as the campand VBS. In addition^ the building owhei' from ihom we rent has asked us to pay ourrent a year in advance* If we do he will discount it at a saving to us of some $150.It will take $750 to do this and we just don't have that extra. Dae rent here isvery reasonable, much lower than most around us, and as rents here are going up constantly we are trying to cooperate with oUr landlord, hoping we can keep our rentdown. We will certainly appreciate any extra help you can give us at this time. Allfunds should be sent as ustial tos Miss Loraine Lindsey, Cabool State Bank, Cabool,Missouri.

We hope "bo have a number of developments to report to you soons we are in the processof foriiiing a committee of trustees in the SAtes and incorporating! we are revisingour sy^"b6m of sending ou"b publicity etc! Ahd we are desperately "trying to get anoverall financial report and budget proposal ready during the vacation period ofJuly and AUgust* We "will keep you advised of this progress.

Write "then you have time. Vfe have been surprised recently at how few personal lett>ers we have received. Die finances pick up and personal correspondence has gone-doml JBsihaps^ we have not been too good in answering but we always try to eventuallyanswer every letter we receive. We do love to hear from all of you and are alwaysinterested in news from the various congregations. Above all, please remember usin your prayers as so many of you have been faithfully doing. Unless the Lordbuilds with us webuild in vain, so your prayers mean so much. Again, thanks foreverything you all have done.

Faithfully yours,

Bert, Marge and John

Address for 1st Class Airmail Letters (U.S. 8^) CaJLYs

Bert Ellis

Korean Broadcasting MissionA.P.O. San Francisco 9^259

Address for 2nd Class Mail and Packages! (International Mail)

Bert EllisKorean Broadcasting MissionP.O. Box lAlPusan, Korea

ALL FUNDS ^ould be sent to!

Korean Broadcasting Missionc/o Miss Loraine LindseyCabool State Bank

Cabool, Missouri

CABLE ADDRESS for emergencies!

KMISSION

Pusan, Korea