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DOROTHY EUNSON NS^SLETTER

VOL. 2 KO. h

Dear Friends in Christ

M 2 9 ^^^7

January 1973

Christmasj 1972 was an unusual day. Ron Rife ChristianAdjei and I left about 10:30 for Tamatoku a village about 60 milesfrom Accra. The Churches of Jesus were holding a convention inconjunction with the Christian Church pastored by a G. C. C. alumnusin t ha t v illage . Tvro students are local preachers for Churr es ofJesus. These holiday conventions are common among the so-c Ledspiritual churches. This one had begun on the 23rd; Kent lylorhad gone and taught a class to the elders and leaders on Stew rd-ship on the 2ijth. The strong teaching as t he Ghanaians termedi t was we ll r ec ei ved.

We arrived before noon and the morning service was goin.^strong. iJe were seated on chairs behind the platform of plank.under the canvas roof which gave sturdier shade than the palmbranches over the main section. Samuel Djumah, the host pastorgave each of us an orange to refresh us from the journey. We atei t then and there and threw the peelings and seeds cn the sand undero u r ch irs

Much of this iibrning service was unintelligible because ofthe language problem. I knew scarcely any of their songs either.Sometimes their periods of prayer were begun by everyone praying atonceout loud; then a leader prayed. During the germon, a youngwoman with a switch walked around from time to time speaking inthe ear of those who appeared to be sleeping or tapping them on


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All activities were accompanied by the soft chugging of agenerator diesel-powered) about ^0 yards in back of us. In m nyvi l lages there i s no e lec t r i c i ty so the congregations of theChurches of Jesus had gone together to buy t h i s one fo r aboutv375 I t powered the amplifiers lent by the college, onefluorescent bulb over the speakers platform and scattered white,yellow, red and blue bulbs over the cent ral c pen space.At the close of the morning service about 2;00 p.m.) onewoman convert came to give her l i fe to the Lord. A ju;)u bracele tand ring x^orn to protect- her from ev i l sp i r i t s were removed fromh e r One of our students pointed out to; us. an old man. out of whomdemons had been driven by much prayer the previous evening. I tseems he had been.near dea th , and had he died, would have> brought gre t disgr ce on the church h d sked th t ll hisju ju paraphanalia , of which he had plenty, bs burned.

After the .d ismissal of tha t genera l service , the elders.^coimg men, and a few women-stayed for the clas,a--i^ught by -SgjiTTe^^ssisted by Christian, on Church Government. This is a veryfoucfiy subject because the idea of central ized government i sdeeply enteee=he^= 0 ^^^ their traditional society and missionchurches^Tv^ck Hostgt^;^ has had frequent contacts with theseChurches of Jesus and has planted many, many seeds in the r igh td i rec t ion On t ha t Christmas afternoon, there were one or tvjoelders from the headquarters ; congregation that were antagonisticand tr ied to argue, but I thj.nk basically the local elders andpastors understood and v-ere in agreement. The atmosphere was al i t t le tense, and Ron didn t get much actual teaching done, butour students were th r i l led wj.th the progress tha t was made. Already, the local churches- administer their own financ-es and conduct most of t he i r ovm a f fa i r s and ye t. coopera te in many ways.


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were the Presbyterians and the Evangelical Presbyterians. Another studenscripture lessons in a school and I went with him one week to teach some sWe ll ^o again after the holidays. The students were delighted to receiveclothing for themselves and their wives in time for Christmas. I was hosthe College Christmas party here at my house; as usual I reassured them thmany candles had no religious significance.Many of you have vjritten that you are praying that I will have patienThank you I need it. Also pray that I will use good sense and get more sthat will help a lo t in the matter of patience tooi^ Thank you for your prayers and unfailing support. I am so happy thatgoing to put a new roof and ceilings in the dormitory It will make the rcooler and make sleeping and studying easier for the students It s to before they return from holidays. Joyfully in the Lord

DOROTHT

NORTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST17^J3^5L3[3a?Taven Drive

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DOROTI r EUNSON'ME'-IS]VOL 2 NO.

Dear Friends in hr is t -Perhaps you have-been wondering the long gap between

Newsletters. ^F r-the first time duririg y years in Ghana I-havefeeea seriously Fortunately, the periodI felt bad was relatively shortscardS.y more than a weekbutthe subtle symptoms andaftereffects hays- continued longer- Untilthe l iver is back to rioritial, i t is necessa,ry to ê t lots of restand to limit one s activi t iesj even though-one feels perfectly allright. _ , Î spent tbree^we^s in the hospital. The treatment is rest .and a fat free i3tS'E7* âse' as mild' o I didn't need to takeglucose; although I did eat some extra hard candy for the sugarthat helps the liver rest', VJhile in the hospital I enjoyed reading, -v-riting letters, sleeping, and marking a very few papers. Themen teachers and the tvro wives each took one of rr^ classes for thesecond half of the second term, Husic was jus t scrapped.Since-the hospital is government-supportedj theôtal QSi^for my twenty-day stay was 011.70, which is about ^10.00. That ischeaoer than l iv ing a t home,When I le f t the hospital, I came to Taylors house to stayfor a vjhile. This enabled me to resume teaching responsibil i t iesbut to be free from a ll homemaking duties unt i l the blood tes ts

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The Gngffdio progi^^Bput which we spoke during furloughwent on the aS during Ja^HB. Ghri-stian adjei is the preacherand Kent TayMfthe recofflKg engineer . Singers from a nearby-Methodist chua^ provide ^Kt of the music and the-college mixedquartet singsfJvery otherjweek. Because three of us don t speakGa, we have t^ .work hard 5o.learn-the music and the pronunciationof those strange words ^ .enjoy it, however.- Asmall room at thecollege ims peeled with^-substitute for acoustical tile. Unfortunately, despit e the assur^fe;es of the--salesman, . i t doesn't muffle the sound much. The man Sfe Jgom an airconditioner was given forrepair never b rought his shop can be found. Therecording sess.ibns turn int^ contest to see if you can stand thehot, unventila-^d room Idi'fg^nough to record your part of -the program properly^,It is only- a fifteen minute program.

The program i s c alle d Ch ris tia n Conversation and the themesong- deals with uni.ty in Christ. There have been many responses,including req uests for the correspondence program, per sonal counseling and tracts for b.acksliders and,., as is alvjays the case, requestsfor free Bibles. One le t te r of prai.se came from a paramount chiefin the- Volta Region, He has since taken the correspondence courseand has persuaded r.any re la tiv es to l is ten to the program also. Weare pleased x-jith the results of the program so far and look forwardto greater victories for the Lord through this means.At f i r s t the program was scheduled for 9:30 ?.w., which is rather late for hardworking villagers. Then i t was'moved up to9:15} immediately .follov7ing the news. This time slot costs more, but., we: feel is worth i t as many who l is ten to the nevis wills t y t j ined.Between terms the college sponsored a three day-lectureship


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Unity is-; a -^ery .:po^ular theme in Ghaith e world . Some o f . t h e ideas being prtare l i b e r a l and unscr iptural . We feelpared to discern good from bad in t h i ss h i p .

Because t h e d o c t o r h a s t o l dyet, I have not visi ted any vil lage ch\churches before my i l l n e s s . Mr.Adjeichurch a t the request of the o f f i c e mart h e subdivision where I l i v e . I gaveChris t ian preached a fine sermon after-s e v e r a l , o f us v i s i t e d an indigenous ch\ t icket for communion. I t is^small b(address, par t iculars of baptism, and tlpastor. This Was a new custom to me and a l i t t l e stajwas no problem with our being issued tickets . Another'prevalentpractice here i s to forbid communion to men vjho have more than onewife, even though they already had them when they became Christ ians.I t i s t ied up with the popular misconception here that i f one has s inned' during the week, he should abstain from the Lord's Supper Couldany of us commune with our Lord i f t h a t were His command?

A new church w i l l be launched soon i n Dzebetato , an Ewe v i llage among a group of villages that have only one t iny Presbyterianchurch to evangelize.them. Kent Taylor and our two iv/e stud en ts areteaching and preaching for eight weeks in t h i s vi l lage r i f e with ju ju .Then .the invi ta t ion to accept Christ w i l l be given and a church startedwith those who respond. The beginning of t h i s project was precededwith'a meeting with the chief and the v illa ge e lders , who approved ofthe idea. A believing schoolmaster also has assis ted with the plans.At the v e r y : f i r s t preaching service , more than 200 people, including

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To make our c h i l d r e n s Bible Club more t r u l y a Bible club^ we a r e givingthem practical Bible verses every week, with a l i t t l e c .^pet it ion to encouragethem. Some are doing quite-well. Others barely understand English so thepronunciations come out strangely but some day when thedr ski l l increasesthose verses may s t i c k i n t h ei r heartsThank you for your prayers and support. Perhaps by the next l e t t e r Iw i l l be able to t e l l you more about the endeavors of the students and otherhristi ns h e r e . .

DOROTHY EUNSbN NEiiJSLETTERVOL. 2 NO 5 :

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DCEOTHI EDMSON MEMSLETTERVOL NO 6 i

June 1973Dear Friends in Christ ,

Today I*d like to tel l you first 3b


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vil lage did not take the D ead in thei r commitment to Christ , butthej assured Mr Kumah they would become Christ ians.On the 13th of May seven more were baptized, but the chie fsaid , Next week . One of his wives i s a fe t i sh pr ies tessand a son i s a fe t i sh pr ies t . I t may wel l be t ha t they areput ting pressure on him not to become a Christian,

The Chri s t i an Church i n Manso i s tak ing new s teps towardmaturity. They have become disi l lusioned with the organizedgroup of the same name headed by a cha irman , because of tha tchairman s personal fa i lu re s and the dishonesty of the off ice rsin handling fund s. Now they want to be a f ree self-governingcongregation in fellowship with others of l ike convict ions. Inrecent t a lks with Kent Taylor and Ronald Rife , they have askedfo r guidance in t h i s path. They are preparing to send one oft he i r own men to Ghana Chris t ian College fo r t ra in ing and theywant to s t a r t another congregation in a nearby vi l lage . Priasethe Lord I This i s a s t rong congregat ion and i s one o f the fewwho has bui l t a spacious, well-^finished house of worship withonly a minimiim of help from others . Their recent at t i tudes have encouraged us a lo t and reminded us t ha t some f ru i t s ofour work come a long time a f te r the i n i t i a l plant ing.

One Sunday in Apri l , I enjoyed a v i s i t to an Accraindigenous chu rch called Chris t Apostolic . Two.brothers fromth is church have received training from our college. Accompanying two students and me was an American couple with doctors -degrees in l ingu is t i c s . They are tour ing much of A frica considering the poss ib i l i t ies of t ranslat ion work, and they wanted tov i s i t an indigenous sp i r i tua l -church . This c hurch i s one o f


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Now I*m oii my om and doings fine, except I know from small indicationst h a t T body s t i l l i s not completely healed. Vlhen school i s out Iw i l l go, have one more blood t e s t t o check on i t . Meanwhile, I mustdo ny best t o get adequate r e s t . Thank you for your prayers. I t samazing how many people have been doing t h a t . God's people r e a l l yc a r e . Our monthly prayer breakfast was here a t my house l a s t week.I t s fun t o t r y . t o think of something different to serve. SomeAmerican stewed prAiries from my hoard proved popular with five outof the seven present . Most of our business was minor, but a t thetop of our prayer l i s t s these days i s a request for God's guidancefor the outgoing students i n finding a place o f service and l ivel ihood.For instance, one man i s married and has th re e child ren. He w i l lcontinue his ministry with a doctrinally sound indigenous church, butthey pay him only 010,00 a monthless than 10.00. His wife i s aseaintress and.returned to the village early to get a clien te le buil tup, and the husband i s working hard to obtain a loan that wil l enablehim to get started i n t he kerosene- se ll ing business in the loca l;market . He i s b e t t e r o f f t h a n some o f t h e o t h e r s .Another majo r prayer concern i s new students. We are helpless

t o do an adequa te job i n t h i s matter by ourselves. God i s the only9ne who can. Please join us in prayer that odwill bring to theschool t h o s e whom He chooses as t and a b l e t o p r o f i t from th ecollege t r a i n i n g according t o His w i l l . Examinations and personali n t e r v i e w s w i l l be conducted June 19 - 21. Mark down t h o s e d a t e s andpray f o r . the facil i ty and p o t e n t i a l s tudents during t h a t periodespecially. Thank youiOne day we had a special' ^wo-hour English class to review the useof a , . an ;j. and the . Nearly a l l the students came. Those are


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were grateful for the palm leaf fans given ust The Lord*s Supper was observed,as it has been s ince th i s young man studied under DavidLadies, suppose you went shopping and coidd find no flour, sugar, margarihe/or beef? Gentlemen, suppose you desparately needed new t i res and inner tubes,and there were none? I sêc^.. .ai2L.;riat_,tires before I was able to get the twof irp> c anH fnnr IbougETthree cans b-f-margarine in Tôradi ânds t i l l have flour and sugar from an earlier supply. Happily, we have been able tobuy powdered m ilk n cheese la te ly . Enjoy i t while i t lastsi-Asmall set slides^s available for your use.- You may request-themfrom Mrs. Mack Lewis, liliD5'':aar.ilyn Ave.^ Orlando, FL 32806 or Mr. and Mrs.William Eunson, ^ 6 E. 2nd Street, Bloomsburg, PA 1781^. 'May the Lord bless you with joy in your personal l ife for Him and in yourcongregat ion .

READERS:- For address changes oradditions to Newsletter mailing,wri te Mrs, Jeri^ - Owen617 Marshall St., Altamonte Springs,

Flor ida 32701

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DIRECT MAIL TO GHANAt FORW/iRDING GENTs NEWSLETTER?MLss Dorothy Eunson- ^frs. Tom Barkes Mrs. Jeriy OwenP. 0, Box 5722 ^3 Twin Brook Lane 6l7 Marshall StoAccra N. Ghana ^opp.:.. 2108 Altamonte Springs

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.VOli 2 NO 7 ftAU6Dear Christian mends

GOOD NEWSs The Chief of Dzebetato and two of the men surrendered to Christ and were baptizedGOOD NEWS Avery fine graduation ceremony outdoors for the ^S2JS gr du tesGOOD NEWS Seventeen applicants accepted for the Septemberc l s sThose are the headlj^es: now for the stories. The Chief ofDzebetato finally stopped his procrastination and committed himselfto Christ and the Ch\irch. The two; men baptized were not villageelders but we are s t i l l praying for them.On the 2lith of June/ the missipnaries, Mr. and Mrs ChristianAdjei and the mothers of Ron and Doris Rife who were visiting,went to Dzebetato to share in a ^harvest , a service with specialemphasis on giving for a permanent hbuse of worship. Typically,the service was more than an hour late in starting, and the whole


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amplifier waci hooked up to the car battery and two kerosenelamps, a sihal l table and some benches completed the prepara tions.There was a good crowd and more than a dozen responses a t the endof the se rv ice . At l ea s t t ha t many came on Saturday night a l so .We regret , however, tha t the student preacher changed his originalplans to open a branch church in tha t town, We think that t to o f a r f o r th e new c o n v e r t s to walk th e th r e e o r fo u r m ile sto his church and they may be l o s t to the Lord. We are encouraging him to reconsider.

Both nights a f t e r th e service a l l of us went to Nicholascompound and


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Tnffins: A atrib^ ntown crier cams around in May and told everyone onthe roads of a thirty day ban on drununing and clapping preceding a certain afestiv l^en John Adjei was called on to preach one Sunday 6ve?Sing, he had to s^inhis s^dals back on his bare feet before he could go to the front I visited asecondary school the Monday after graduation with a flannelgraph story for theirmorning devotions / ^ jr oucjjI wmt to th ^ Northside Church of cairist of Maitland, Florida for publishing and paying for this Newsletter for the past five years It has been animportant contribution to ny share in the Ghana workand ^^s aU of you a s you love Him praise Hm trust Un

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DIRECT M L TO GHANA:Miss Dorothy EunsonP. 0 . Box 5722Accra N ., Ghana

iFORM^jilG GIMTsMrs/ Toil Barkes603 Twih Brook LaneJoppa, 21085

N WSL TT^Mrs. Jeipy Owen617 Marshall StAltamonte SpringsFL 32701

iDOROTHT EUNSON NEWSLETTERVOL. 2, NO. 8

Dear Friends in C h r i s t , O c t o b e r 1973

The summer has sped away, and we have completed a week ofclasses in our new school year. Ten f i rs t year students have a r r ived so fare We are stilD^iiopi^ig iQ^see one or two more come lateostudent body t^berj_.21..^JI ^g_^chard Hostetter famly arrived^back oh the 7th ofSeptember^ This gives us the^ uii complement of missionaries andmakes the class load a l i t t l e l i g h t e r than usual. We are to concentrate on preparing a detailed syllabus for each class so th a tsubstitutes or replacements can have that guidance.Nancy H o s t e t t e r an d I have a l s o enrolled in D i c k s class inRomans in order to improve our own Bible understanding.In July, a blood t e s t revealed that ray l i ve r was back tonormal a f te r my February bout with hepatitis. Praise the Lord for

tha t May I share with yo^ two trj^ made during the holidays andone almost-trip. In July Taylors and I headed e a s t in car one


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star ted with no t rouble . We drove back to Accra slowly, not knowing what further damge might have been done but we arrived homes a f e and t h a r ik fu l l

Later in July Taylors and I again t raveled east to show film-fetrips fdr a Bible Club conducted by a young Christian teacher. No car t rouble t h i s timeJ There i s no church a t a l l in th a t v il la g ekid many people jammed the school house where we showed the pictures.In August a church about 20 miles away held a weekend preaching campaign. Ron Rife went on Friday night and Christian Adjeiand I took our turn on Saturday morning. The well -bui l t buildingwas r ight in the marketplace I One of the loudspeakers was mountedin a doorway so those buying and sel l ing could hear. I gave aflannelgraph presentation of the Prodical Son and Christian alsopreached. That morning, although the attendance was down from theprevious night one ladjd.ecided to give her life to Jesus. Shehad heard the preaching the market, liked i t and came in to hearmore^ P r a i s e th e Lo rd l

Joseph Nsiah, our Christ ian Bible Club Director , worked fo rthe college a l l summer. I t was. nice to have him here fo r the C.B.C.and the Sunday School and V.B.S. The chi ldren responded amazinglywell to the summer memory and quiz, program. We had very l i t t l etime for sports and games for 6 weeks. At the end of th e p rescribed time, we took 10 of them to Aburi Gardens, botanical gardensabout 2 miles from Accra Not one of them had ever been thereso was an extra spec ia l t reatfrom the walks through the gardensand a romp on the playground equipment to the refreshments. i^e hadta ke n a lo ng .Three of us women and our one teenaged g i r l enjoyed a s ix dayv i s i t to Lome cap i ta l of small Togo to the east We stayed in amission resthouse and re ad , re la xed, and shoppedl Being able to


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The best th ing was t h a t as the lesson teacher, I d i d n t haveto worry about a split-minute schedule. After a l l this is Africa,and i f you are 1^ or 30 minutes l a t e for your break, i t doesn' t matter.This was r e a l l y nice when you had some important points .to discuss andt h e t i m e was s h o r t . We s t a r t e d w i t h 9 i n o u r c l a s s and had 23 t h e stday. iify 2 or 3 had whole Bibles of t h e i r own, so I gathered up a l l myextras i n a basket and took them. We also had a s p e c i a l competi t ion ofattendance, memory work and bringing new teens t o q u a l i f y fo r a -B ib le .S ix of them were awarded these Bibles on th e c lo sin g n i g h t . Two. ofour g i r l s had to get up e a r l y go t o the market to s e l l food productsb e f o r e V . B . 3 . and t h e n r e t u rn t o t h i s t a s k a f t e r w a r d s .

Instead of the cookies and Kool-Aid o f American refreshments,each child was given one piece of penny candy. That was a highlightfor them. One day a couple boys in our class laughingly scolded PamRife for d i s t r i b u t i n g the candy with her l e f t handthat ' s bad mannersin Ghanaian s o c i e t y .

At 7:00 a.m. on the l a s t day of V.B.S. I had two c a l l e r s a t thehouse. The man was a headteacher of a middle school i n the days of ourworship services i n Kokomlemle. He attended those services o f f and on,and he took an evening English class from me one year . His childrencame r e g u l a r l y t o Sunday School and I knevj h i s wife , al though shea tte nded ano th er church. At t h a t t ime he spent many weekends i n h iss i d e l i n e o f D i r e c t o r f o r th e Ghana Veterans Associa t ion . Although wetalked t o him about putt ing Chris t f i r s t i n his l i f e he thought he was.I had called a t t h e i r home since my re turn, and he had brought acouple of his children to see me t h i s spring i n the car t h a t his nowful l t ime job of Veterans' Director provided him. Jealousy among theo f f i c e r s over t h a t very car led to h is abrupt ouster from his job avery s h o r t t ime l a t e r .He and h is wife had come t o t e l l me t h a t following a period of


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Spiri t will bring him to spiritual maturity and bring forth much fruit through hisl i f e an d min is t ryOur vacation was livened by visitors Geriy Gibson founder of the collegeand his son and a friend and Mrs; Lil l ian Martin former missionary to TaiwanJust this past week Edgar .Nichols who worked here for some years in Kumasi paidu s a brief visit

We women f inal ly got the new curtains for t he co lleg e made the day beforefreshmen orientationl But I must admit that the new song booklet is s t i l l notf i n i s h ed Thank Go d fo r u se fu l work t o do Your prayers le t te rs and support area source of many blessings. May God grantyou much patience widsom and love in your

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DIRECT MAIL TO GHANA:Miss Doi othy Eunson .P. Op Box 5722Accra N., Ghana

Dear Friends in Christ,

FOiMARDING AGENT:Mrs, Tom Barkec603 Twin Brook LaneJoppa, MD 21085

DOROTHI EUNSON NEWSLETTERVoi. 2i, NO. 9

NEWSLETTER:Mrs, Jerry Owen617 Marshall St.Altamonte SpringsFL 32701

November 1973

At the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of Ghana ChristianCollege, we shared the good and the bad with the Ghanaian boardmemberseDavid Kalb s report of the Takoradi work wae encouraging As a resultof his extension classes, 1 4 or 15 men have been baptized. These mennow are holding a late afternoon Sunday service in addition to theirusual church affiliation. In August the men of his Christ ian Education class conducted a successful Vacation Bible School in the eveningsFrom the letters received weekly we know many many people are beinghelped and blessed by the Ga radio program entitled Christian Conversation . There is some hope that in addition to our paid time we canpersuade the broadcasting company to give us a free time period on thenoncommercial station. Mai^ people have rented radio boxes intheir homes permanently tuned to that station. Pray that this doorwill be opened to us. There is 4 great need for a similar program


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passed a decree some time ago that every expatriate must paymore than |1|,000 each year to stay in the country to workAs thedecree now stands, missionaries are not exempt. Can you imagine thecost of th is to th e Chr is tia ns in America? I t jus t doesn t seempossible that they would require th is of non-profit groups who wantonly to help Our lawyer ha s ad vised us to wa i t and see amendments are made. This is another matter for prayer, for our HeavenlyF ath er s e es and knows our needsIn July I told you that our library had been cleaned, sprayed,and inventoried. During the summer holiday t was also remodeled:two very small rooms were Joined into one. With yellow paint andnew f luorescent l ight ing t i s much more comfortable ahd conduciveto study. The biggest problem is the classification and shelving.We started a couple years ago to order preprinted cards from theLibrary of Congress to help us get set up according to the eweyDecimal system. Unfortunately, with furlough and other interestingthings to be done, I did not spend enough.time on i t Now I am sofar behind that i t is increasingly d if fi cu lt to use the libraryeff ic ient ly I confessed my fa i lure and problem to th e o thers.They agreed to help, and we are going to try hard this year to getcaught up enough so that possibly nex t summer someone trained inlibrary science can spend a couple of weeks with us to finish i t up.In recent weeks two situations that may be opportunities toplant new congregations have come to our attention. Kent Taylorand several young Christ ian men vis i ted the chie f and elders of avillage that has no church. With Mr. Taylor was th e Christia nschoolteacher of that village whom we have known for a long time.Another of the party was the alumnus of the college ^o would beava ilab le for the weeks of teaching-preceding the call to acceptChrist. We were sorry to receive word a couple of weeks ago that


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Mr. Adjei and I gave our joint flannelgrapli-serinoii presentation; andJoseph Nsiah, our tenor, tra n sla te d for both o f us. Now t h a t ourq u a r t e t has star ted to le a r n th e Twi words to some o f th e tunes weJ.earned for the Ga radio program, we are more flexible oThe second v i s i t was to a thriving group led by one of thefirst year students. He launched this group less than a year ago,and th e re a re at least th i r ty adults in i t The number of older menwas small; Cfeletey explained that they were working on cocoa farmsin another region, but would be home for six months beginning inDecember. Christian and I preached again, and Joseph and anotherfreshman gave s h o r t e x h o r t a t i o n s o f the i r own.After the worship service, we were ceremoniously introducedto the leaders of the church. They don t know about elders yet.)We in turn gave them sotne encouragment and advice. At last, we wereserved dinner. I was given a special pot of groundnut stew withoutpepper. t was th e be st I have ever tasted. This was a f t e r th eaopetizer of green coconuts and oranges. The others were sharingcommon dishes, but were more than happy to share mine when I wasfed up . The latter is a common English mistranslationII am so rry to t e l l you t h a t th e older man I described l a s ttime has already been forced to quit the college because of financialreasons. With four children in secondary school, his wife justcouldn t swing i t by herself. This happened just last week, and Imust visit him soon and encourage him not to despair of his aim topreach an d p u t C h r i s t f i r s t

Last week one of our alumni preached in chapel, then hurriedoff to visit friends. He came to see me later and had dinner andtold me t h a t i n the home of h is friend he had witnessed of Christ toa maidservant and taught her from the scriptures. She accepted ChristthenI s she was leaving that day for her unbelieving family, and


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Most Wednesdays the faculty families enjoy playing volleyball with thestudents. A ll those years o f C hr ist ia n s erv ic e camp in the States helped prepare mer fo r th is aspect of mission l i f eHeather and Lance Hostetter form the English speaking d iv is io n o f theBeginner class. I teach them t he le ss on and songs in English and then we jointhe other 80 to color the pictures Yellow is the favorite crayon and the halfdozen left are less than a half inch longIWith praise and thanksgiving to our Lord who saves us by His grace I am

eunson dorothy 1973 ghana

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