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DIRECT MAIL TO GHANA: FORW RDING GBNT j NEWSLETTER:Miss Dorothy Eunson Ifrs, Tom Barkes Mrs. Jeriy Owen P. 0. Box ^722 6C3 Twin Brook Lane 617 Marshall StAccra N Ghana Joppa^ 21085 Altamonte SpringsFL 32701

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Dear Friends in Christ January 1 7kI pray your new year has begun well. Both your world inAmerica and mine in Ghana are full of problems but thank God forour hope in JesusThe post-vacation testimonies of some of our students oughtl i t you up as they do us. Noah Nee-Whang we tease him aboutbeing Chinese, but he s not joyfully told how that after preaching a gospel sermon at a funeral, a wife came and asked to be baptized without the knowledge of her husband. They were both paganand she feared his opposition. The evening this was done, thehusband came quietly and asked Noah to baptize him without theknowledge of his wife. His id.fe worshipped idols, he said, andwould object to his baptisml So now that couple is one in theLord and can help one another in their stand against juju.William Okletey was happy that scripture he had learned at theleadership conference concerning a godly home had enabled him tor efoncile a man and wife in his congregation who had been havingtrouble for a long time. We also rejoiced with him that the chiefof-^ village where he had preached twice and converted 10 peoplehad invited him to come back and establish a congregation there,: The leadership conference was conducted by Dick Kostetter andChristian Adjei at Ada-Foah. Eight congregations were representedin the 30 - 35 people who attended regularly. The reaction to theteaching and to the question and answer periods was excellent.Another man in Accra has obeyed his Lord in baptism as a

direct result of the radio program and another convert. He waspresent in our worship service last Sunday evening..The last few years, we have given the scholarship students asum of money weekly to feed themselves either by cooking or bybuying from the many foodsellers on the roadside. They used part


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of t h a t money fo r soap pens or even t r a v e l expenses and so didnot always give themselves a balanced diet. To some of us i t seemed that their health and mental alertness was being detrimentallyaffected. This school year, we have gone back to the c j f e t e r iprogram o f hiring a cook to feed them on campus, Thig n e c e s s i t a t e sthe charging of low fees from the non-scholarship students, plusthe shopping bookkeeping planning and supervising neifissary forsuch a program or some reason in hana it isnt ea^ to buy foodin bulk at wholesale prices. Also various foods ar^ ^t time^scarce so. that someone has to spend time huntina^C The cost intime, money and effort has to be compared with >ne health timeand convenience of the studeints, I ve given this much detail so ^that you may Join us in prayer t hat the Lord s money will spentwisely t h a t the student^ w i l l be treated f a i r l y and t h a t the workand responsibility will be shared agreeably among the faculty andst ffIn the last letter you were informed about the ^fe 000 alienemployment ta x to which we a re subj e c t . We have w r i t t e n a l e t t e r t oth e government requesting exemption and s etting forth our reasons.So f a r no judgment has been made for us o r o th e r m i ss io n ar ie s Mai^ of you have le t us know that you are praying about this matter.Don t stop I Some officials assured us that we would be exempted,but one never knows until the l a s t paper i s signed. Meanwhile, wea r e g o in g on w i t h th e w o r k .I n t h e middle o f November I went w i t h t h r e e s t u d e n t s t o a townabout 100 miles from Aqera. On Saturday ni ght we t r i e d t o show f ilm -strips in the church from wl:iich the student who planned the tripcomes. There was no electricity so we used a projector powered tyflashlight batteries but i t wasn t really strong enough. Next timeI l l take the equipment to run i t off the car battery. Severalhundred people ha d f i l l e d th e building.I spent the night with a church member family. They a re ra th erwealthy by Ghanaian standards, and the house was wired for electricityand had all the plumbing for running water, although neither amenityi s a v a i l a b l e y e t3unday morning in the worship service I gave one of my flannel-graph stories and one of the students preached afterwards. The othertwo took turns translating as this was an Ewe town. The church i sa denominational church but I went for th e sake of the studentwhose home church i t i s . He i s not brilliant but very serious anddedicated to the Lord s work. Just this past week, he told about


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seven inde endent, indigenous churches who are looking for new leadership. There i s potent ia l here, but w e l l wait and see what theLord and the people do.After the service t h a t day, we drove to a nearby sett lementfarm to look around and came to re aliz e th at ray emergency brake wasjammed on. We found a f i t t e r in a nearby town and . s a t i n the shadefor two and a hali hours while he charged the battery which wasalso dead) and after waiting for the wheel to cool, disconnected thehand brake and the cable so we could drive home. e arrived safelyat the college in the middle of the evening service, instead of be-fore dark, as we d planned, -We ha d enough of a gasoline shortage i n November and Decemberto help us appreciate what you are going through. We too, sat inl i n e s hoping t h e r e would st be some l e f t when t was our t u r n .The shortage was blamed on the mid-East war, but Ghana favours theArabs and she gets her o i l from Russia, so I think there was someother reason. In Accra, we are back to normal, but the fresh supplies have not penetrated the northern and outlying areas yet. Analumnus in the north wrote tha t they couldn t get kerosene for thei rlamps.

We completed our f i r s t term i n November and had t h r e e weeks o fclasses in the new term before holidays. We now have eight studentsl e f t in the f i r s t year classfinances and family responsibilitiesbeing the chief reasons for the dropouts. Just before holidays, wea l l enjoyed a party with games, filmstrips and food I After a longbout with the flu, Doris Rife stopped coughing long enough to singtwo carols with the mixed q u a r t e t .I enjoyed a week s t r i p with Hostetters over the holidays to agame park in northern Ivory Coast and then to Abidjan, the capitalcity so modern i t s called the Paris of West Africa. We spentChristmas Day in the game park and saw warthogs, hartebeasts, manymany animals in the deer and antelope families, baboons, hippos through binoculars) and a gorgeous big python. The snake layquietly i n the water watching us with l i f t e d head while we tookpictures. Then he s l i d quiet ly away.Thank ^ou for the many many cards, and gifts of food and moneyI r ec eive d. All three made i t a happy holiday.May the Lord bless you in 197U and may you be more aware eachday of the reality and power of, Christ in your lives. Pray for us

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DIRECT MAIL TO GHANA:Miss Dorothy EunsonP. 0. Box 722Accra N., GhanaipiMARDING AGENT;Mrjg. Tom Barkes603 Twin Brook LaneJoppa, Mb 2108

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NEWSLETTp.:Mrs JerW Owen617 M^shal l Altanoniie Spgs.FL 327Ja

March l | l iDear Fijiends in Christ,

Let me tell you the good news quick Missionaries havfe beenexempted from the ,000 cedi ^ien employment tax. All of us'weretogether Friday evening March l th, and Ron told us he had sLnthe announcement in a small article in the back pages of the oaper.we thank the Lord- and we thank you for your prayers. 'On March 10 I enjoyed a trip to a village near Ada. (Ican't sp^ll it and I cant pronounce it. Ayoung Christian fechoolteacher has a Bible Club there, and he invited;, me over to teach agospel lesson, with special attention to baptism. This is thfevillage where the chief and elders refused to have a church. Mr.Goleka is with these children in school and wants to win themiforthe Lord. Some of the children attend church in nearby villagesbut some go nowhere. ^ ^ n ui ^ ?cember we took 20 of our Bible dub children theri formchl and games. Our children wo the quiz but not b^This trip, I-also took four of the children with me ~ 'co-worker Dick Hostetter's son Jeff and three Ghanaians. Jeffand Kwame gave fine testimonies about what the Lord means to tkem.translatedthis time into Adanlbe.After my talk, we had a question and answer period. Most of tSechildren who had been sprinkled, some in '

c n i i a h o o dAfter our discussion, we taught them one of our favoritdwent along began to . rhythm stick game they enjoy souch. When our time limit was reached we went Iqr Ifr. Goleku a


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home v illage fo r some coccmitB and then on home. W e got back justin time for o\ir own evening Sunday School and worship.After talking about them and working on them for eightmonths, the song booklets have been completed This was arevision and an enlargement of the one I made 3 or years ago.The new edition has English choruses, Twi, Ga, and Ewe hymnsand choruses (called shoute )^ and a few shouts in a couplemore languages. Another helpful change i s the addition of anindex. Sometimes the vernacular spelling of Jesus is a J ,sometimes a and sometimes an I , f you know which i t isfor the song you want, you' re in business.The f i r s t Friday in March, we had a special musicalchapel inaugurating the song booklets. t was a singspiration .including our old favorites, the demonstration of a couple ofthe new songs, some special music by the mixed quartet and thewomen s t r io , and the recitation of scripture passages ofpraise. Some of these l a t t e r were given in the vernacularlanguages also. 'The Student chaplain, and the senior perfectshare the song-leading privileges with me. We echo the dedication prayer that the song booklets will bring glory to God and -be useful to His Kingdom.The other day a shocking headl ine greeted us in themorning: -premium petrol had increased in price from 70j pesewasper gallon to one cedi twenty pesewas. That is a 70 increase.We have no shortage now as you suffer from, but that priceincrease is unexpected. As usual, the Ghanaians suffer themost. All their transport costs, even the crudest mami^y lorryride, have practically doubled. A ride that a few months ago^cost them three pesewas now costs ten. n the salaries theyii3^e, this is difficult. Food costs \n.ll follow, I m afraid,as the market women have to pay the higher transport costs, too,^ Food costs had ^ready increased a lo t and the food program of the school is expensive. In fact, the college has spentmore ifl.the last three months than has been received by ourtreasurer in the States. That is not a good state of affairs .You have been generous in your support, so I have asked rnyforwarding agent, Mrs. Barkes, to send f i f ty more dollars amonth fo r the col legeThere is a choice road front corner lo t right next toour college property, that we want to buy very badly. W ewould use i t to build a chapel. t would be a sad thing i f apetrol s ta t ion or drinking bar got tha t land. We have t r ied


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many times to complete the deal, but we can*t deal directly withth e owner, who i s out o f town, an d she d o e s n t seem t o be i n ahurry to s e l l . The land is increasing in value because at longl a s t t h e y a r e working on paving t h i s s t r e t c h o f road What ablessing to a l l who l i v e along i t I Viill you please pray thati f th e Lord wants us to have that land, t h a t the lady w i l l bemoved to s e l l an d a t a r easonable p r i c eA bewildering and discouraging s i t u a t i o n i s t h a t we nowhave only s i x l e f t in th e f i r s t y e a r c l a s s an d tw o o f those wereabsent--we hope with l e gi t i m a t e an d temporar y r easonsf r om t h e i rsecond term finals l a s t week There are always reasons, but whyshould the devil be gaining this ground Pray for those remainingplease, t h a t the Lord w i l l meet t h e i r needs and give them thecourage to s tic k i t out in the face of d i f f i c u l t y .Now f o r some more good news: F or s e v e r a l weeks we t r i e d t ohold a prayer meeting e sp ec ia ll y f or the young people, but the mostthat came was two I j u st didn t tr y for a couple weeks but theboy who came urged me to try again. So on the 12th we went againand t h i s time t h e r e were about s i x boys plus our s t u d e n t d i r e c t o rand myself. nd those boys really prayedt Each peisson couldp r ay more t h a n once and s e v e r a l prayed t h r e e o r fo u r t i m e s . I twas a blessing to a l l o f u s, an d I m sure more ch ild ren an d moreblessings w i l l be coming, You w o n t f u l l y r e a l i z e th e happiness o f th e next announce^ment because you don t know the man personally, but y o u l l be gladto know that the college will hire their second Ghanaian facultymember in June after he graduates. The person in question is MrJoseph Nsiah who is the tenor in our mixed quartet, the BeginnerS.S. c l a ss teacher in Twi), the director of the Christian BibleClub an A student and a preacher of faith and power willg re a tly miss him in a l l these capacities because he w i l l servein Takoradi a t least this f i r s t year, working with the extensionclasses. David and Barbara Kalb go on furlough In May and Josephwill seek to carry on the work they have been doingMay t h i s y e a r s s p e c i a l remembrance o f our Lord s r e s u r r e ction bring increased faith and zeal for His Kingdom work and lovef o r H is l o s t o n e s

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GH N^ Received independence in 1957. Is bounded on the west br IvorvCoast on the north by Upper Volta on the east by the Republic of Togoon the south by the Atlantic Ocean. The republic of Ghana is divided inadministrative regiona: Western, Eastern Northern Central upper VoltAshanti and Brong-Aô. The area of Ghana is 91,81*3 squaêêspopjaation (1965 estiniate is 7,7iiO,000. Included among the largest tow

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DIRECT MAIL TO GHANAiMiss Dorothy EunsonP, d Box 72^Accra Ghjana

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NEWSLETTER:Mrs. Jetry Owen27 Marshall St.tambnte SpringsJL 32^01

Vol 2 No. 12Dear Friends in Christ ' Jfey 1971*

Many interesting things- hav.e happeried in the las t monththat I want to share with you. Today is jihe -nexi to the last dayof our Easter vacation, and after I finish, this li must tend to. lessonsThe Churches of Jesus, two Christian Churklies, and anotherindigenous church held their Easter convention in \ town just 20mles away. Each of the teathers took a turn tea.chd^ng or preaching. Christian Adjei and I went, Friday af.ternoon jffir a two hourt each ing session on The Christian Home. He had thhad the women - abont 30. of., than. The pre^.cher s wijlated for me used two languages; this really slows tlbut there is nothing to be done about it unti l someGhanaians know one language. ^ The .women seemed to listen well enough^ altho ugh some wereobviously sleepy. Since the previous evening's se.rvice had lasteduntil midnight, and they had risen about 5* I wasn't surprised.The sepond^ hour was spent in questions ^nd answers. That is wheretheir real intbrest showed, and their questions on family relationships could have been the same as, those Raised in the States. Ireal concern was how to interest iheir children in the Lord. Theyfind it difficult to .believe that even a chdJ.d .un?3e r two caix learn.We met uhder the palm-thatched shelter and vised the portableloudspeaker,. The men /njet in the spacious buildjUig/belonging tothe local congregation.. In the $amQ building we w ire given ourfish stew and banku before the e-Jening Service. Christian and Itook no part excepi as. niembers of the dongreg^tionf, .One of ourEwe students preached in English, arid two pther pJopl translatedinto Twi and Adangb^. thqy never cpuld get their/generatorjning, so til^^ Xanips fuiinished the light arid two portable loudspeakers the volume needed. There were five adul^^s w o gave their

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hearts to the Lord that^vening.Last month I tol you about ny visit to the village BibleClub with a gospel l e s s on e sp e c ia lly on th e meaning o f baptism.Two weeks l a t e r Dick H o s t e t t e r an d I both drove to t h a t v i l l a g et o help tak e th e youth to th e r i v e r . Because was th e dryseason a nearby pond was unusable. More than 30 young peoplewere baptized t h a t afternoon. Riding space was a t a premium soon th e l a s t t r i p back th e Ghanaian t e a c h e r and preacher ha d t or i d e on th e luggage rack on th e r o o f o f D ic k s c a r .

The t h r e e c h i l d r e n I ha d t a k e n along from A ccra decidedfrom t h e i r c o n v e r s a t i o n t h a t a few had done j u s t t o eopy t h eo t h e r s . However th e m a j o r i t y had; come t o t h e d e c i s i o n . a f t e rmuch thinking and questioning Frank Goleku th e Christians c h o o l t e a c h e r i s v e r y s e r i o u s i n h i s d e s i r e t o n u r t u r e them i nth e Lord P ray fo r him i n t h i s r e s p o n s i b i l i t y . I ta lk ed w ithtwo o f th e g i r l s and t h e y s a id t h e i r p a r e n t s were n o t C h r i s t i a n sA coupler weeks ago th e young C hr i s t i a n Church i n Dzebetatoheld t h e i r second h arv est t p encquijage th e giving o f money f o rt h e i r b u i l d i n g I t o o k th27ee s t u d e n t s and two e l d e r s from anearby town i n ny c a r I was impressed to discover t h a t alreadyt h e i r b u i l d i n g had r each ed t h e h e i g h t o f a b o u t f o u r f e e t o f bl oc ks IAnd t h a t i s mainly from t h e i r own resources. The student-preacherFrancis was nearly as disorganized as he was a year ago but hewas ve r y happy when th e grand t o t a l of s ev er al o ff er in gs andcollections reached 13kOO

At 2:30 P.M.. we a t e a quick meal o f r i c e and stew i n th ec h i e f s house. Mine wa s r e a l l y quick because Was so hot w i t hpepper I c oul dn t e at much. We made .back to Accra j u s t in timef o r Sunday S c h o o l .Between our second and third terms a t the college thesecond Annual L e c t u r e s h i p was h e l d . The theme was C h r i s t i a nMaturity and s i x g ue st s pe ak er s including two alumni gavel e c t u r e s followed -by questions and answers or by panel discussio n s o f speaker t e a c he r and a stu d en t. Again our stu d en tsp r e s i d e d an d conducted th e song s e r v i c e s A new dimensionincluded th e presence o f about te n alumni. They were given as p e c i a l i n v it a ti o n t h a t i n c l u d e d f r e e m eal s and rei m burs em ento f t r a v e l expenses. This was an experiment t o give themencouragement and s p i r i t u a l refreshment and of course to


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strengthen the bonds between them and t he c ol leg e. On one afternoon they were all given an opportunity to give a testimorQr abouttheir lives since they left college. The continuing problem formost s how to feed themselves in the Lord s worko Ghanaians arevery r e l u c t a n t to give^ favorite speaker in th e lectureship was a retired government officer of about 60. e was a political prisoner \inderNkrumah s regime and was won to the Lord during that imprisonment.He is surely a spirit-filled man. e talked for more than an hourand answered questions for another hour. o one grew weary butonly eager for more. It was a grand climax to a greatly improvedle c tu re sh ip .In July the Rifes will go home on furlough and Ron will bein school for at least two years. They will not accept missionsalary during those years, and since virtually all the collegefunds come through the individual teachers Rifes absence willleave a financial deficit as well as a^very large hole in serviceand friendship, DaviJ and Barbara Kalb will also go on furlough inMay and will try to raise the needed funds, but t will take themsome time. In July we also increase the expenditures with theaddition of Joseph Nsiah to the faculty. Because you hava beenfaithful and generous with your contributions, I have enough maneyon hand to help ease us over this period of transition. The onlypossibility I see for an emergency c a l l w i l l be the land we wantbecoKes available. We ll let you knowi Thanks for giving your

selves to the Lord and giving your money to His work here in Ghana,Of the two freshmen who missed second term finals we accepted one back with a stern warning, and sacked the other. Hisattitude had further deteriorated and we learned his r e a l desireand course of action pointed to joining the army of Ghana insteado f the L o rd s arny.Last weekend I enjoyed a weekend holiday with the Kalbs inTakoradi The only way to be refreshed is to get completely awayfrom Accra. Barbara and I attended the wedding of Cecilia Bansahthe Christian nurse who has been a friend over the years, I enjoyed the worship service held on Sunday evening with several of theKalbs extension students. We hope this will be the nucleus of aNew Testament congregation.


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Oin^-Tihildren fs-program-nacluded th e .takin g o f 19 . children to-ljhe--zroo^They~had-reached a mininmm score in our most recent unit of attendance-and-jnemorywork. The youth prayer meeting continues to thrive. It is a time of real Joyfo r me and a blessing for a l l of us. 2/The American Women s Association here, of w;hich I m an. associate meudjer^has been sponsoring: bi-monthly lectures on aspects of Ghanaian culture. I have -attended is^eral and am looking forward to the fiAal one on Ghanaian music.. ;r ow iad are those for whom l ife is boringJ. I t is never so with me/ andI m sure t h at a ll of you who have Christ on th e throne of your l i fe share thesame exciting and abundant l i fe . Thank you for being a part of hqt life throughfriendship and prayer and support.

In C h ri st ia n l ov e .

Dorothy wrote th is le t ter underdate o f A pr il 1 ^, 197k>

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DIRECT miL to GHANA:Miss Dorotty EunsonP. 0. Box 5722 ,Accra N. Ghaiia /

Dear Fidends in ChristI t has bee^^êej^nth^ since I last wrote The first month was a bitslow as far as Weh^ to write about, so I procrastinated, and now look Idoubt if I cs^ f it eyei^ I*d like to teU. you into this_letter. _Another of Ghiana Christian College and Seminary lias come to a close.On the 22nd o f Jufie we held griaduation exercises fo r f iv e s tu d en ts one ofwhich was a night student of thie Extension classes in^fficoraSTT^ Two of thegraduates are ^ready ministering to churches, one is the new faculty member

for the college, one is an pld man whose opportunities lie in witnessing tomembers of his extended family and the night student is s t i l l in the GhanaNavy. Pray for a l l of them that they will be able to withstand the wiles ofthe Devdl arid, be able to souls and establish churches and support themselvesand their .âmîes.We were pleased that the sun actually shone for the occasion. We are inthe middle of Jbthe. j'giny sp-aôn and the weather is always a questionable iwitteraOur guest speakerwas a preacKer from Takoradi; his message was very practicaland down-to-earth. Music was brought by local church choirs, the college mixedquartet and part of a former college men's quartet. ^ _The closing weeks of school were marked by an unusual number of cpjpblei^.'^Mr. Ad;êi says he thinks the Devil attacks with severity every year when he seesthat school is nearing the completion of another year of service for the. Lord.A studerrt'we had readmitted with a severe warning after he had missed finalexams second term announced abruptly to the faculty one day that he was leavingthe school. His reason was that he.was accepted at another seminary. The realrea5gn_fchatisurfaced a few days later was that he, too, like a former fr i^dwas headed for service in Ghana's Army. His attitude and action really hurt.Yet another situation was the l^g^djîcent to the. college that I havementioned before. When a man started to. bring cement blocks to the site at arapid rate our hearts sank. Upon investigation, we found out that the familyfrom whom we had been trying to buy i t for many months did not own i t afterThe local chief was selling at least part of the land to the block-bringer.Our spirits drooped as we sought an interview with the chief. Time and againMr, Hostetter and Mr. Adjei went to his house only to meet his absence . I tturned out all right in the end, but you can see how the inter im was a burdenon ou r h e a r t sThe students were not unaffected by these situations^ they planned apeexal three nights of prayer. The fi rst two nights were devoted to variousneeds and problems, and the third night emphasized thanksgiving and victory.The last was held at midnight to set i t apart from the ordinary. I enjoyedthem all especially the third. Learning to give thanks always for alljbhingsi'JLs a grace to be sought. ~

We thank God that at last the men were able to communicate with the chiefj^d the parcel of land directly., in front of the school building has been sold.to us after all. The lol is still quite full of the other man's blocks, but thepapers ^ e in the name of the college. There is enough extra money in ny sere funds to pay for the land in full. Praise the Lord for that, tooi^Jâduation,was as busy as ever. Prospective students cameEight were accepted for the September class.

FORWARDING.AGOTsMrs . To m Barkes60 3 Twin Brookl LaneJoppa M 2108^

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NEWSL^TER:Mrs.. Jer ry Owen617 Marshall S tAltamonte SpringsFL 32701

July 197U

Usually riot all who are accepted come, so we will have a smaller class thanlast year, but we are hoping to keep more. We will also be trying a differentof fees and food. They will be asked to pay 20 cedis as an enrolment^ dnd then no more fees will be required of them. However^ the food programHI take care of meals only from Monday evening to Friday noon. This willsave mney on the mounting cost of food, free us from the embarrassment ofpressing them for food fees many cannot pay, and yet sti l l leave them with asueable responsibility for feeding themselves, or getting involved in weekendministries where they will be fed.. ^ ing this long vacation, we are paying one of the students to take avillages in the Eastern Region to discover those without ^chinrch at all or those that seem especially conducive to the planting of an

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indigenous church. We pray that th is will reveal open doors for a repetitionof the successfi il venture in Dzebetato. Satan didn t l ike this scheme. Theyoung man had just le f t the coll ege with the money for his chop and travelfor a: month when someone picked hi s So.. .we had to star t a l l overagain a Pray for Noah-Niiânârid his survey.Near the beginning of June, five of our young people from the Ch^tianalong with director Joseph Nsiah and me, attended a ymith rajiy^near A'da. Our children sang and two gave testimonies. The rally was forthe purpose of establishing a new BibJ.e dub in that coinmunity. It was verys u c c e s s f u lOn the l a s t Sunday in June, our old friends from the Bible Club inKpodokorpe, came to have a rematch in various act ivi t ies. With crammedinto their hired bus, they outnumbered their hosts I Our Bible Club won theBible Quiz, by one point89 to 90, but they won the soccer match 3 to 2.Adjei served our visitors Kenkey, fried fish and pepper sauce, and thenJoseph and I took them to the zoo before they headed home. We got back just^ Sunday School and worship at the college. Abig dayi '^The congregation that meets in the college building has decided to helpa student preacher with his travel expenses to two young congregations for six

--^months. - In order that the people might really know where their money isgojjig, Christian and I and two men converted through the radio program visitedone of those congregations recently. The two new Christians seemed to takethe responsibility of helping very seriously, and each took his turn at reading a scripture passage and giving helpful comments on i t to the villagecliche They realized the difficulty of teaching people who cannot read I^ subject most vi l lage Christians know l i t t l e^ ^îS'^êstSeilig-Tinanc^l problgmsj5ripp^^..J and cause^J .,.'tbe_pre^^ Christian Adjei feels their heed of teachingvery deeply, so he and I have settled on a plan for visiting al1 those who will,welcome us for a combination preaching/teaching program Our initial planscall for two visits about a month apart. On July 7th, we made our maiden tripoChristian preached the introductory sermon, then I proceeded with teaching,using very attractive picture charts made for me by Phil Taylor. I wasgratiJîed with their attention, V e had planned an afternoon session also, butsustained, heavy rainfall prevented the people from returning after the dinnerbreako We will visit them again the last Sunday of this monthj anH proqnhergive them more teaching meanwhile. We don t expect miracles, but i t is abeginning, and we will eagerly praise them for any improvement we see. Praythat the Lord will use us as He sees f it , and that the Christians vri.ll learn thejoy of regular, proportionate, generous giving, no matter how poor they are

^ ^K^te jef t for furlough the f i i ;^ of May, but we look forward to theirreturn irr^gust.,_197t jiXe^left for AmeriGa.ôn-ê-nd;:oi:-July. Those ofus who are here now have been together through thick and thin since near thebeginning of the college.. Ron has been principal most of that time and hasprovided strong leadership and unwavering faith that we will greatly miss.It was a difficult leavetaking, but we pray God's blessing on their nextendeavors which include college for both Ron and Greg.I wilJ. direct one week of V.3.S. in August, so pray for that project,too. Thank you for your patience and your prayers and letters. I will answeryour letters soon.., May the Lord bless you, your mission groups and voiirchu rches

In Christian love.

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DIRECT MalL TO GHA.NA: FOB-JARDING AGENT: NEWSLETTER:Miss Dorothy Eunson Mrs. Tom Barkes Mrs. Jerry OwenP. 0, Box ^722 603 Twin Brook Lane . 617 Marshall S t.Accra N., Ghana Joppa, l 2108^ Altamonte Springs

Dear Friends in C h r i s t ,

DOROTHY EUNSON NEWSLETTERVOL. 2, NO. lii

FL 3 2 7 0 1

October 197U

I thought I wouldn t do again, but I v e done i t l Waited two and a h a l f monthsbetween newsletters. But maybe you were on vacation part of the time and di dn tno t i ce _ _t r typewriter ribbon is a brand new black and red one. t is for working onthe catalog cards for the library, Hostetters' forwarding agent, Eloise Grant,a professional l ibrarian, visited t h i s month arjd. gave me l o t s of advice and anoffer o f continuing aid by mail. Kent Taylor ha s taken on a four hour courseoriginally assigned to me, giving me a t .least eight more free hours weekly.So, iry excuses of tm e and know-how have been taken away. I .have finallyadmitted to myself that this term is nearly a now or never opportunity. Ass o o n as I f i n i sh t h i s news le t te r . .Yes, we have, finished two weeks of our new school year. The faculty had agreedto abolish a l l fees except a one- ti me t went y cedi entrance fee for freshmen.We would also limit the food program to meals from Monday .evening to Fridaynoon. ; In this way, i t would still require plenty of faith and struggle tofeed themselves on weekends, and perhaps more weekend preaching would result.The problem of non-payment of fees would also be avoided. There are probablymany tests yet to come, but le t me share the fi rst one with you.Of fourteen first year students accepted, four came, and only one of those hadthe ^uU twenty cedis. The others had good reasons fo r not having it- andsincere, promises-to pa y by the end of the month. Should we s t i c k - t o ou r wordand r i s k having no. freshman c la s s ? Or believe and t rus t them and then sendthem away i f thay failed to pay? Our i i n a l decision was to le t them knowthat we firmly believed our school was worth borrowing or begging for, and thatas a token of their own sincerity and determination, they must find the moneysomewhere before^they started. After a kind and firm explanation, Ihe threewere sent home with a maximum of three weeks to find the money. This wouldencompass thisir own end-of-the-month promises. As of now, two are back withsatisfactoiy arrange^ients, a new man came with his full fees, and a fifth hasbeen accepted who will be able to provide much-needed help in the office.Another has come over the weekend with half his fees (case undecided yet andthere is s t i l l the fourth original man who has unt i l October 1 to return. Soeven i f six prove their determination and complete th e year, that will- be a fai?more e n co u ra g in g p e r c en t a g e than l as t y e a r s four out o f twelve.Our t ot a l student body is at th e moment only twelve. Two of those who shouldhave returned have dropped out to go to an interdenominational seminarywherethey know they will h a ve -a p ai d p osit io n when they leave. This-is hard to 'face, but we have examined again our purpose here, and how we can win moresouls, s t a r t more churches, and help the men we have trained to be free topreach th e S c r i p t u r e s ,The results of the vacation survey taken by one of the students in the regioneast of Accra are a big challenge. e found thirty-two villages that would begood sites for new congregations Many of these have no witness for Christ atall, but are made up of pagans. Therefore, in a definite compromise with whatwe have held to in the past, we are going to support a church-planting evangelist. ewa^ teach in a new place for thirteen weeks before offering an invitationto accept Christ as Saviour. VJhen a good nucleus has been brought into the Kingdom, he will turn that group over to a student or to a Christian leader froman older congregation and move on to a new a re a .Brothers and sisters in Christ, this decision has not been made lightly. thas been made in faith and in an earnest desire to se e a better re tu rn fo rGod s Kingdom on the investment of our lives and your support in Ghana. Pray


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about this. Pray for Noah Nee-\^fhang th e evangelist. Pray that God will raiseup leadersin the existing churches, in our college, in the new groupswhocan shepherd these flocks without depending on foreign support. Pray fo r th eleaders of th e Churches of Jesus Christian Churches, and others that we workwith, that they will learn stewardship of life and money and that they willhave a vision of th e los t beyond their own congregation.Speaking of stewardship, Christian and I have continued our teaching/preachingprogram in th e churches. VJe have completed i t in two and are nearly finishedwith a third. The demonstration tithing Sunday in the f irs t two resulted inlarger than usual offerings as expected; the real t e s t will come in the monthsahead If i t helps a t a l l we w i l l be encouraged.The t h i r d church is tha t in Dzebetato. Those women are so e n t h u s i a s t i c andjoyful in their worship that I can t stay quiet long. This last v i s i t event he c hi ef who is a Christian, was singing and clapping and praying. Previdmsly,he appeared to be more of a spectator. The chief s daughter gave a testimonyabout her and her children s and otherChristians praying in the field fo r a boywho had been bitten by a scorpion. At l a s t th e pain stopped. Another testimonycame from a woman who is one of two wives of a pagan. She told how she hadencouraged the other w if e to be unafra id Th e husband t r i es to dra w them backinto their old ways. The other wife was in th e service also. The testifyinglady was gust alive with joy and faith.When t h i s group has one more window frame, they ca n finish th e walls and w ill beready for the roofing. There is so much encouraging there bu t the.preacher iswavering because of h is need fo r money. I believe th e Lord took us t h e r e onthat particular Sunday. Christian was able to counsel him very lovingly andseriously about an intended course of action that may have weakened th e church.He came to th e college two days later with a changed mind, and he was furtherwarned and encouraged and given a testimonial that may help him ge t a teachingjo b in his own area. Pray for him and the church.Joseph Nsiah, our newest faculty member has begun his night extension classesin Takoradi. At last report he had thirteen in his English-speaking classes,^ d four in a Twi-speaking class. The most sfirimjs hindrannft to b-is mimg .Tyis the lack of suitable living quarters. They ar e very scarce. He is st i l lsharing a bedroom with a man whose wife is temporarily away. He needs a placeof his own for concentrated study and for privacy and relaxation.This and that2 Our V.B.S. was very successful numerically. We had I63 childrenon th e first day and over 300 on the fifth day. As director most of my work wasdone before and after but I did enjoy leading the music and presenting themissionary stories on an alumni in the north of Ghana. We regret that therewere no decisions to accept Christ as Saviour bu t pray that the Word taught willbring forth fruit yet. . . We assume the land we have paid for is ours, but thelocal chief is delaying the papers we need to carry th e purchase through the civilgovernment. We ask God to work His w ill in this matter too. . . I enjoyed aweek of re a l away-from-it-all vacation on the banks of the Volta River. Anotherlady and I enjoyed canoeing, swimming and reading and picnicing,. We went outtwice in th e moonlight, singing hymns so th e villagers wo\ildn t mistake us forsmugglers. . . David and Barbara Kalb became the parents of a baby boy, DavidWayne, on July 12. David is in graduate school a t C.B.S. I t will be fun to havea baby in the m ission fam ily again.

Love, in the L or d s f am il y.

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DIRECT MAIL TO GHANA; FOKÎARDING AGENT: NEWSLETTER:Miss Dorothy Eunson Mrs. Tom Barkes Mrs Jerry OwenP. 0, Box ^722 603 Twin Brook Lane 6l7 Marshall S tAccra N., Ghana Joppa, 2108^ Altamonte Springs

DOROTHT EUNSON NEV/SLETTER

Dear Friends i n Christ ,

FL 32701

December 197U

May I wish you a very Merry Christmas, f u l l of th e jo y of being j o i n t h e i r s withthe Son whom God sent to us i n the f lesh so long ago. May your New Year beginwith thanksgiving for the l i f e God has given us and with earnest prayer for Hisguidance for our own l ives and for t he count ri es where we l ive. The year 197^wil l see the beginning of a furlough for meabout the middle of July.After a peak of nine f i r s t year students, we now have eight. We are happy aboutt h i s since on the f i r s t day we had only four. Seven of the eight a t l a s t paidt h e i r twenty cedi ent rance fee# The eighth i s working regular ly i n the o f f i c e .The morcde of th e student body started high and has remained high. For t h i s wep ra is e th e Lord.. The f i r s t yea r s tu dent s s t a r t e d t h e i r own singing group. Theysing Ghanaian style gospel music, and we a l l enjoy i t . They have had twoopportunit ies to sing outside the col lege.The church planting venture i s proceeding slowly. Dick Hostet ter and Noah Nee-Whang visited the chiefs and leaders of two villages. (At this f i r s t meeting, thet ea ch in g p la n with the goal of establ ishing a church i s explained. Then theleaders must make a decision and l e t t he evangel is t know.) One village decidedYes , and the teaching has j u s t begun. P ra ise th e Lord The second vi l lagedecided No . Very short ly a f t e r the v i s i t from our men, two big t ruckloads ofJehovah's VJitnesses descended upon the town. The r e s u l t was confusion in theminds of the people, and they decided not to have a church i n t h e i r vil lage.Noah contacted a th ird v i l l a g e as he wants to do two a t once, but a t t h i s wri ting I do not know i f he has defini te word. Kent Taylor went with Franc is Kumahto v i s i t an Ewe v il lage .abou t the same plan.Noah Nee-Whang l3.as great f a i t h ~^d love , arid wii l rbe able ô do a gaoTJ-work i nt h i s area. Satan i s against i t though. Noah's wife had a baby g i r l about f iveweeks ago. Having had a p e r s i s t e n t case of TB, she was not strong, but eve ry th ingwent a l l r i g h t . V hen they were going t o N o ^ s vi l lage a few days l a t e r anotherl o r i y ran in to the one i n which they were r id ing. Martha, Noah's wife, suffered a l a c e r a t i o n on her forehead and had t o s tay i n t h a t v i l l a g e fo r s ev era l days while healed. Then j u s t a week, ago, word came to Noah a t the school that his twoyear old son had died. Now they are l e f t with the two l i t t l e g i r l s . Pray f o r themt h a t they w i l l go on strongly i n the work, i n s p i t e of t h i s sorrow. Martha'sparents are not Christian. We pray .that Noah's and Martha's f a i t h and example w i l lwin her paiênts t o the Lord.The v i l l a g e of Dzebetato saw a l o t of us i n September and October. Christian and Ifinished up our stewardship teaching there one week and went again two weeks laterfor a harvest (fund-raising) service for their bjiilding. Their t i thing demonstrat ion offering was very good. Francis i s such an enthusiastic interpreter, that Ialways f e l t as i f I were teaching something really interesting. I took fivepeople for t he harvest . One of the students preached in Ewe; none of the r e s t ofui^ from Accra could understand i t . I t s bette r fo r the people themselves that way,though. They had erected a bamboo shelter for the occasion, and i t was packed.Many visitors came from other churches. The 'offering was 77 cedisnot as large ason previous occasions. Maybe because they had We only six months earlierJSince then, Chr is tian and I have completed our three weeks of teaching at Tamatoku.Samuel jumah is deliberate and methodical in interpreting. Maybe that 's whysevieral women had a hard time keeping awake during the f i r s t week's teachingI paused three times for a song to be sung to help them wake up. This is a veryuseful,Ghanaian custom On our way home the fi rst week, the manifold came in two,so we roared home like a ten ton truck. The second week, strangely enough, we weregiven coconuts to eat, but no meal. But the third visi t made up for everything.I wasn't feeling very optimistic about their demonstration offering. But I wasjudging by the slowness of the interpreter rather than the power of God's Word.They brought an excellent monetary offering plus a huge quanity of foodstuffs astheir t i the: eggs, tomatoes, peanut butter, bambara beans, onions, okro, kenkey,and on and on. This was j u s t two weeks after their own fund-raising harvest, so


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i t truly showed a willingness to give. They seemed to take special pleasure inbringing thfese fruits of their labors. They gave us lots of things to bring homeand fed us a big meal besides. Mr. Djumah asked us to write the congregation aletter after some time to encourage them again in the ir giving*The land we have bought is still a source of concern. The man who bought theparcel next door is apparently st i l l trying to get i t by hook or by crook. Whilebuilding on his own land, the delivery trucks crossed the empty lot without permission. That's not so bad. It s when they turn around on the school lawn,leaving deep ruts behind, and stack the new blocks and dump the sand and gravel onour lo t that things begin to ge t sticky. Three times th e workmen were askednicely to please use the stack of blocks nearest the volley ball court first sowe would have more room to play. That's the stack, they left t i l l the very lastHow long do we turn irhe other cheek? This man is notorious for grabbing, more andmore land, often leaving legal owners with empty hands. The chief s surveyorgave us the site plan, so we put up a t-enous wire fence and began work on anenclosing wall Our neighbor went to th e police and charged us with forcibleentry; he wds claiming t he land even though th e ch ief and hi s eld ers had warnedhim more than once to stop causing trouble as the land was not his. They eventhreatened to take away the plot he had bought and make him remove his buildingSince he has taken i t to the police,, the matter has to be settled with the^fi aswell as with the chief. Our excellent la>^er tells us not to worry, that the landis ours because we paid for i t . I'm telling you all these details so you can prsQTwith fuller knowledge. Land ownership is a difficult matter to decide with th eshift between traditional methods and modern personal ownership. nd when agreedy, dishonest person is involved,' it s worseI May the land belong to theparty of God's choiceJ (Our neighbor brought a policeman one day to arrest .the mason who was digging the trench for the .wall. At last he brought out hisI D. card. I t had expired in 19721)After a summer vacation our children s Bible Club got off to a slow start. Oneafternoon, two of the boys, one student and I tramped around Abeka calling on theformer members. That, plus the beginning of a new play, gathered them togetheragain. The play took many long and frustrating practices. Only at the very lastrehearsal was everyone present. Except one boy who had the chicken pox OneFriday we had Bible Drama night at the college. The children did their play well.Only once chLd they-get-starteT3 on the wrong sceneT Foira~change7~abo\it^6r^F~7parents or adults came. With the students and college faculty, we had a very niceaudience. Then the college students did a- pantomime of the Good Samaritan. Theyeven had a donkey, a student donkey, that is covered with a brown beadspread. Itwas an enjoyable evening, but I need a long rest before we start another playIBecause of inflation, our food program is costing nearly the same as last year,even though we are feeding the men fewer meals. With a new staff-member, and theexpansion of th e church planting work, our money is tight. You have been sofaithful in your support. When I first came back, my financial report often hada surplus. Now we have bought the land, and all your support is needed regularly.Thank you f or helping- us in this way.

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