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T
LION S
See
th e
Lion of
th e tribe
of Judah
. has
triumphed
BOB DAWN BAIRD
Elizabeth, Rachel
Joshua
April 1984
IN
Z I R E
F R I C
And thi s
is my p raye r: t ha t you r
love
may
abound
more
and
more in knowledge
and dep th o f insight, so that
you
may be
able
to d is ce rn what is
bes t a nd
may
b e p ure a nd
blameless
until
the d ay of
Christ, filled
with the
fruit
of righteousness
that
comes
through Jesus Christto
the
glory and
praise
of
God. Philippians 1:9-11
The
men
in
thi s p ic tu re
represent 10 churches, 10
Bible
studies,
10 different communities of th e world. Our goal fo r
them and the churches and
study
groups is th e same
as
Paul s fo r th e
Philippians.
Abounding
with love they
will
grow
in
knowledge and insight. They
will be
able to
discern
t he ir own world through Chr is t s Eyes and Christ s Love.
They will
choos e t he pure and
blameless
way, not because
we have
made
them, but they have
come
to
desire
to
make
th at c ho ic e.
They will
bear
the
fruits
of
righteousness
through the ir r elat ionship
to
Jesus Christ. God will
be
glorified and pra ised because
of
t he Church
in Zaire.
The
goal
of
ACM/PBT
in Zaire is to help
the Church to mature.
Please
pray for thi s goa l
with
us .
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E
are simple. First you start with the scripture
to
read
and
then a
question
is
asked
about itwith a
space available
fo r
thei r wri tten answer. The
next
section answers the question immediately
and then goes
on It is
slow
in
pace and
r ei te ra tes over
and
over the theme using
th e
questions and answers and
also other
appropriate passages.
As
they are working
th ro ugh e ach week there
is a
tape that goes
along
wi th it
Each
center
has
a hand crank
cassette
tape player. The ta pe
reads the book
out loud to them so they can hear it and see it
Through this system those who desire
it
are
able
t o s tudy every
book
of the New
Testament.
Basic
Chr is ti an Doc tr in es as well
as
Old
T e s t a m e n t s tu d ie s O u r P re ss h e re in u k a v u
prints these books
at a cost of about 1.50 to
me
fo r each book Then
I in
turn sell the b o o k s
to
th e students at a
cost
of about 15 Tha t put s
th e book in an
affordable
range for
them
and
makes
it
an
investment
on
th ei r p ar t
in
their
e d u c a t io n
For my
part
in
the
program
besides
purchasing
I
am also the delivery man. Earlier
I
said
the 10 week p rogr am t akes 5 mon th s. T he
reason
for
this
is the delivery
problem.
Ifly
from
Bukavu once
a month with
tapes
to cover two
weeks
of
study. The men know what day
Iwill
be
there from the
last
trip so
they
come
in
from
the i r ten
different
co mmu n i t i es
to
meet
with
m e
at Bafwasende . We
discuss
any problems
from
the last two weeks of
s tudi es and
they return
those tapes
to
me.
I
then pass out the new tapes
and we look through the
new material together.
What
1
try to do
is
to give th e leaders
of
these 10
different centers
something
to stretch
their
minds something
that
will help them to
grow
something
that
they
will
be
able
to
pa ss on
to
o th er s W h en w e
mo v e
t o a fw a s en d e
I will
b e
able
to work with
that
group on a weekly
basis
eliminating the
tapes.
The outlying communi
t ies
will co n t in u e
with
th e o th er m e t h o d
This
is
how T.E.E. w o rk s h er e
in
Zaire T h e s e
a re
th e
too ls
w e
u se t o d e a l with
t he n e ed s
o f
th e
church
here. When you pray about T.E.E. your
prayers should
include
the Africans receiving it
and the
missionaries
giving
it
th e Flight
Pro
g ram t ha t suppl ie s th e
way
to g et
to
these
pl a
ces the Printing Ministry t ha t s upp li es t he edu
cational
mate ri al t o
use. a nd th e
Casset te
Min
istry that supplies the tapes an d
players
for each
center. The
fulfilling
of the
goal is
the sum of
ALL the par ts
and the sum
of
your
prayers for us
Once
over Bafwasende to chase t he goa ts
and people
off th e
airstrip
then we land.
Meeting with
T.E.E.
leaders
a t t he chu rch
in
Bafwasende.
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FORWARDING AGENTS :
Roger Bev
Vickroy
P .O . B ox 5 06
Sherrard,
IL
61281
MAILING ADDRESS:
T h e B a ir ds
Box 53435 (ACM-Bukavu)
Nairobi, Kenya
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S a < 5 I
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T LION S
Se e
th e Lion of the tribe of Judah. . . ha s triumphed
BO B
D AW N B AI RD
Elizabeth,
Rachel
Joshua
J u n e
1984
IT W AS GOOD
55
G 5
IN
ZAIRE
AFRICA
An d Go d said,
Le t
th e
l an d p r od u ce
living
creatures
according to t he i r k inds : livestock, creatures t ha t mov e
a long the
ground,
an d
wild animals
each according
to
its
kind
. . . An d
i twasso
. . . AndGod s aw t h a t it
wa s
good.
Gene s i s 1 :24-25
Not
more t h an 5 miles
f rom Nairob i,
Kenya is
Nairobi
National Park. Actually i t is not a parkas
we think
of one,but
i t is th e
end
of a huge plain which is specificallyprotected by
th e Kenyan
government.
While
we
werein Nairobi we visited
this park a few times.
Many
of the African plains animals live
there
an d by
driving
around for a few hours
you
ca n
se e
most
o f t h em. We we re a b le t o se e l ions,
cheetahs ,
hyenas, cape
buffalo, all types of antelope, giraffes, rhinos ,
hippos,
etc.
This is nothing like seeing
them
in
the
zoo . They are wild and
living just as
they
wer e i nt en ded. Each kind is l ike i ts k ind
an d distinctive from others. Even among a specific
species
of animal there is a
distinction
between types. One
may
be
s u pp le o r
strong,
beautiful o r dangerous , i ndomit abl e o r
fleet
bu t
all ar e a
delight
to
beho ld. Each
of us ,from Joshua
to myself, fel t a sense of aw e from this part of God screation.
All t hese a re made by His design. But then. Genesis is more
than just Chapter 1:24-25 . All i s by His
design.
Maybe if
we
truly opened ou r e ye s and minds to H is creation we might
find more
reasons to
be in aw e of ou r
God .
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Did
yo u
knowthat thereare 1.5million people
l iv ing in Nairobi, Kenya? Did you
also know
that th er e is
on e Christian
Church in
that
city?
Did
youa l s o know that there
is
no
on e
from ou r
Churches working
in Nairobi in evangelism?
In
th eschool wher ewetook languages tud ies
there is a religious map of Nai ro bi . O n that
ma p ar e
th e
locations of all th e churches
an d
their
names
located
in
th e
city. Th e
Jehovah
Witnesses have eight
we h av eo n e .
In
every
part
of
th e
city
is a
mosque
an d
various kindsof
cul tsexis teverywhere , but
in all
of
Nairobi there
is
only on e Christian
Church.
NAIROBI
While
w e w e nt
t o sc hool in Nairobi
we
visited
with t h e Chu rc h
there.
I
sa y visited because
with
th e
t im e w e
h ad t o
work with
t h em
it was
n ot m uc h m ore t ha n
a
visit. T h e C h u rc h is
meeting
in a very dirty
run-down old hospital
building. The mud
and
leaf buildings of
Zaire
ar e far be tte r th an what th ey have,
bu t
they will
no t move.
One of t h e c hu r ch l ea d er s
is
a
polygamist.
On
Resurrection
Sunday
they
did
no t have communion no r would they g ive thei r
reasons why Ther e maybe many reasons why
they have
come
to be wha t they
are,
bu t t he
point
is,
should
they
continue
like
this? They
ZAIRE
Be f or e we
lef t
fo r
Nai rob i
we
we lc omed
Mike
an d
Julie
Nichols t o t h e Bukavu
area.
On
May
28th
we
will be
welcoming
Mack, Joyce an d
Alan Myers
also to th e work here
in
Zaire. These
families
bring
th e
ACM/PBT total to
12
families
an d 2 singles working in Zaire.
The
major par t
of
ou r
work is
in th e Kivu P rovin c e, w i th 3
families
working
in Haute
Zaire
(Bomili an d
Bafwasende).
The
capital city of Zaire is
Kinshasa, th e
major
city o f Haute
Zaire
is
Kisangani, an d in t he s ou th is
Lubumbashi.
ACM/PBT does
n o t h av e
an y families
working
in
those
areas. While you're
praying remember
Zaire. (For
more
details
an d t h e
history of
th e
work here ,
please look a t t h e April
1984
issue
of
HORIZONS.)
V
have
lost desire
an d direc t ion
to
be
different.
After 4 months of
worshiping
with
this
congregation I s ti ll do not know what will
happen to
t hem. But
I
do knowthat th e
city of
Nairobi n e ed s t he
a tten tion
of th e Chr is t ian
Chu r c h e s
What
would you
be willing to do for Christ in
Nairobi?
Will youp r ay for that city to
be
won to
th e
Lord?
Will
you p ray
for
the
purity
of
th e on e
congregation
that
represents
us ail
there?
Will
you go there if in your prayers you find God is
sending
you?
Kinshasa
* (Leopoldville)
Bomih
Bafwas ende
Kisangani
(Slanleyvilie)
Buka vu
ZAIRE Kidodobo
Lubumbas h i
A
SPEC IAL VISIT
We had a very
special
visitorwhile we were in
Nairobi. Dawn's
sister Holly
came
an d
spent
six
weeks with
us.
Shewas
a b ig
help
to
us because
the
children's holidays did not
correspond
with
ours
and they finished
before
we
did. So
Holly
was a great help taking care of
them
while we
were in school We we r e ab le to t a ke h e r around
Nairobi an d to th e
Park so
t h a t h e r t im ewa s no t
all
work but
i nc lu de d m an y
first time
experiences.
We just praise
th e
Lord for her
comingand thegreat help and joy she brought
t o o u r
whole family.
TRANSPORTATION
Since
o u r De cembe r Newsle t te r was never
printed
our
truck repor t
to you was lost with it.
At
th is t ime
there Is stil l $4000.00
left t o p a y o n
th e WHITE
ELEPHANT . I f
you
would like
to
help
with this please designate
th e
gift as
being
for the Truck . That waywe ca n
keep
separate
monies and make payment s as they come in.
Also
in
th e realm
of
t ransporta t ion, while
in
Nairobi we
checked
Into
th e c os t
of
ou r
furlough f light to America. Whil e it will be
subject
to
any
in cr ease over th e next
year,
at
leas t w e have
an
Idea.
Tha t
cost will be
3,400.00. I f
you would
like to
help
in
this
area
please designate i t for Furlough Flight and
Roger will be able to
se t
it aside. We
now have
on e year left before coming home on furlough.
PRAISES
&
PRAYERS
1. Praises for Holly coming to stay with us .
2.
Praises
for
many
miles of safe travel
both
in
th e air an d on the ground.
3. Continue to pray for Ed, Brenda,Scotty, f
ohn
and
Matthew Buell |
4.
Pray
for th e peop le
o f Zai re as prices
(
continue
to rise
j
Pray for workers for Zaire
and
for |
Nai rob i .
t
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TH LION S
See
the Lion of the tribe of
Judah
.. . has triumphed
t
O
DAWN BAIRD
Elizabeth,
Rachel
Joshua
December, 1984
FURLOUGH
IN
ZAIRE
FRIC
From
Attalia
they
sailed
back
to Antioch,
where they
had been committed
to
th e grace of God for th e work
they had now completed. On arriving there, they
gath
ered
th e Chu rch
and reported al l
that
God had
done
through
them
and how he
had opened
th e door of
faith
to
th e
Gentiles.
And they
stayed
there
a
long time
with
th e disciples. Acts
14:26-28
When
I
read this
passage
In
th e book
of Acts my
mind
tends
to fill in
th e blanks
about
the
returning
to
Antioch. Paul
and
Barnabas
had set ou t
from
this church and they had
some very
deep ties
to that
area
nd the people
of that
church. They
had
traveled into parts of the world that might
have been
strange
to them, new
languages, cus toms,
attitudes
and
maybe they
had
received
a
shock
as to
th e
dif
ferences they
faced.
They had worked hard
for a
time
estab
lishing
churches and
they had used
themselves and had
been used
by
the people
they were serving. But now they
had
come
home again
to
the place
from
which they
had been
sent.
We
know
from
reading this passage that
they
reported
all
that God had
done
thru
them for th e
spreading
of th e
Gospel . But that was not all that happened in
the
long time
t hey had s tayed there. They became reacquainted to dear
friends and family members that they had not seen for a long
time. They
basked
in
the
love of those people and they began
to replenish in
themselves
all that had been given for
the
advance of th e Gospel. I
don t
know if
when they
returned to
Antioch they
already
had
decided
on
th e
second
journey, but
this
furlough
that they
took prepared them spiritually, men
tally, and physically to go again and to give again for the
spreading
of
th e
Gospel.
A few months from this newsletter, we will be returning to
th e place where we were committed
to
the grace
of
God
for
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the
work of
the
Gospel.
We
are
looking forward
t o thi s
with
much anticipation.
We a re ready
to
report to
the
churches
what h as
been
accom
plished
and
what still needs
to
b e d on e. We
need to be with you and fellowship with you and
draw
strength
from you
so that as
Paul
went
out
a ga in, w e also
may
go
out
again.
INITIAL F U R L O U G H
P L A N S
ivlany of
you
have already
started
asking
about what our plans will be when we
come
home on furlough.
We
do
have
some,
but we
know
an d h ope
that you
realize
all of
t hese can
only be tentative at
the
best
and
are always
subject
to change.
We expect
to
arrive in Ch icago abou t t he mid
dle
of
May and we plan
on
staying with my
sister
long enough
to have
our physicals
completed at
t h e
c l i n i c
in
W h e a t o n W h e n
t h at h as b ee n c o m
pleted, we will travel to Rapids City, Illinois
which will
be
ou r base for
this furlough,
While
in
Rapids
City
we
would like to
arrange an
initial
meeting
with
representatives
from
all
our
suppor ting churches .
In June
our
plans
are
to
go
to
Mesa,
Arizona
fo r
a
few w e e k s
of
v a c a t i o n
t i m e
with
D a w n s
m o m a n d s i s t e r W e
will
h a v e
a
P B T B oa r d
meeting to attend during this t ime a lso. At
th e
end
of
June
we
will
be
going
on
to
California
to
visit Dawn s dad
and
my dad and sister and
other
family members
who l iv e in
that part
of the
country.
While
there, and this will be
moving
into
t he month ofJu ly , we
hope
to travel
into the
Northwest
to
visit ou r suppo rt er s in that area.
We
are expecting
to
return
to I ll in oi s
about
the
middle
of
July
a nd th en
from
that time we
will be open to
speaking
dates.
We
will
be trying
to
get
to
the
North
American
and also
to
the
Missionary
Convention
later
on in
September,
along
with the
ACM Board meeting and getting
our children into
school.
Also
in
our
plans
and
hopes Is the possibility of my entering LCC
Seminary
to
go into
th e
Master s Program there.
T h i s c o v e r s
t h e f irst
five
m o n t h s
o f
o u r
furlough and we hope tha t
it
gives t he answer s
that
you
need. I d like to repeat
that
it is
tentative.
We
have thought and
prayed
about
it
and
now
present
it
to you to do
the
same.
F U R L O U G H
N E E D S
We
are
very grateful
that
God has
provided
for
us a
house
for
our furlough.
He
provided
it
thru
two very
good f riends of ours, Chuck and
Hilde DeTombe of Rapids City Illinois. As
fa r
as we know
t he hou se
is
unfurnished.
If you
would like to help furnish
th e
house you may
c o n t a c t e i t h e r Mrs. T e r e s a D e B o a r d a t 3 09-523 -
2681 or Mrs. Deedle Legler at 309-496-9214.
Another
l ar ge need tha t
we have fo r furlough
is
that
of
an
automobile.
With
all
the
traveling
that
we
will be doing
this
is
one
of
these
can t
do without items.
In our thinking it
would
not
fit
into our finances to try to buy
a
car and then
have to
arrange
its
sale before leaving again.
We
would be
very
interested in ren ting or leasing a
car for
our furlough. We
are thinking about
economy
and tha t
our
children are growing
and
needing
more space, along with what
we
will
have to carry
for
our
traveling.
If
you
have any
ideas or
suggestions for
us in this
matter
we
would
appreciate
your contact ing our
Forwarding Agent . Roger Vickroy at 309-593-
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WHAT N E E D S T O BE
C C O M P L IS H E D
During
our furlough we want
and need to
make contact with
ail of
you who
have
so
dili
gently kep t
us
in
your prayers and have kept us
going
financially. We
want
you
to
know
what
we have
been abl e t o
accomplish, our problems
and successes, and wha t we plan
to
do with the
future. We would like
to
ti e ourselves
to
you
even
more
tightly before we return to
th e
field
again.
One
of the things tha t
became
evident to us
quite
early
was tha t we came t o Zai re w ithout
enough
funds.
During ourfurlough
we
will
have
to
correct
t hi s s it ua ti on . We will
be
adding
some additional expenses, because when we
re tu rn Rache l will
be going
off to bo arding
school. We
know
that
all of
you, who
have
supported
us
so
faithfully,
have other
commitments and
responsibilities
and
we
underst and concern ing
the
financial
situation
in
America. So
in bringing
our finances up
to
where
they
should be
we will
have to
move
out
to other churches and individuals, to find the
additional
support
we need.
Would
you
be
willing
to
help
us
in
this?
What
about o th er
churches in your
a re a o r
other individuals that
you
know that might be in te re sted in the
ministry
of
ACM/PBT here in Zaire? You
have
done so
much to
help
us to
this
point
and
we ask
that you wou ld just go on
as
before.
We d like
to
share with you some
of
the
f inanc ia l
n e e d s
t h a t
w e h a v e n o w S i n c e
coming to Zaire, we have s pent about 900 a
mon th o n the flight p rogr am . This i nc lude s all
th e
supplies, food,
mail,
and
personal
transpor
ta tio n we
needed
in our first
t hr ee yea rs .
n
add it ion to thi s we will
be needing another
100
a
month to
provide
the
transportation
for
Rachel
to and from school. Tha t mon ey will
allow
he r to
come home
four t imes a yea r. A lso
after having
to
take Dawn
to Nairobi
fo r
the
doctor, we are
adding
45 a
month for an
emergency
medical flight fund.
Rachel s tuition
will
be
185 a
month
at
Rethe Boarding School .
In o u r
f irs t
te rm
w e
w e r e
no t
a ble to
se t
as id e
funds for
t axes o r
social security
or
for th e flight
home, which was
a
big
mistake.
We
estimate
that for taxes and social security we will need
125 a month and for
th e
flight we will
need
to
put aside 150
over
the
next three-year
term.
These are just some
of
th e finances
that
we
will
have
to rai se
before returning.
n our estimation
ou r support should
be 1500 a
month for salary
and
2500
a
month fo r
work funds .
We would
appreciate
your praying
for this
on
our
behalf
so
that
th e
way might
be
prepared fo r
us
even
b ef or e w e return h o m e
n th e
area
of
one-time
gifts,
we
will need to
ra ise
t h e r e m ai nd e r of t he f in an ce s o w ed o n
o u r
truck, funds to
pay
our
back
ta xe s and social
security and funds for our return flight to Zaire
We
would also like to look into the possibility of
bringing
back a solar system to lake care of our
electr ical
n ee ds a nd to re lea se u s from
s o m e
of
th e d ependency
we have
on kerosene
and
gasoline.
You might be asking yourself if one year is
enough
to take care of
these
financial
needs
alone. When
consider them
all
together,
as k
th e same question. But
there
are many
things
in
this life that are
overwhelming
in
themselves
and
we always must
fall back on the
truth
that
God is able to do exceedingly and
abundantly
more
than
we
can
even
imagine.
MORE
W Z U N G U
F O R BAFWASENDE
Mack.
Joyce an d
Allan Myers
The
word
Wazungu means
white people
and
we have
added some white people
to
our
town
of Bafwasende. They are Mack and Joyce
Myers
and
their
son,
Allan.
Mack
and
Joyce
are
both in
th e medical program
of
ACM. Mack
is a
Respiratory Therapist and
has had
experience
in hospital management and Joyce is an RN
Since
we will
soon be moving into the operation
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8/10/2019 Baird Robert Dawn 1984 Zaire
10/10
of
th e hospital at
Bafwasende, Mack s
respon-
stbilities
will be in
the area
of
hospital
management
there. Joyce will b e
working
with
th e
baby
clinic for Bomili
and also
with th e
hospital.
Since coming
to
Za ire th ey
have
finished their
b on di ng w hi ch
is l iving
with
an
African
family for tw o
months, and are
no w in
t h e l a ng u ag e learning
and
home building phase
of their first term. Please add them to
your
p ra ye rs a s
they strive
to iea rn
Kiswahili and to
adjust to live here
Zaire.
D A W N S H E A L T H
For those who did no t get the special mailing
about Bafwasende
this
will come as a big
surprise to
you.
On the 10th of September we
flew to Nairobi Kenya for Dawn to be examined
by
a Cardiologist.
This
was
recommended
to
us
by a
d o cto r h er e
because
of
some
past
difficul
ties,
but P ra is e the Lord
she
wa s given a clean
bill of
health.
T he only tr oub le w as th at sh e
came down
with
malaria and was
in
th e hospital
for 3 days
and then
complete
bed rest
for 7
more. Well
we are very
pleased
to
r ep or t t h at
s h e
is f in e n o w
a n d w e a r e
a l l b a c k in
Zai re
T h an k you fo r y o u r p r ay e rs fo r u s in
this
m atter
a n d in all matte r s
FORWARDING A G EN TS :
Roger
Bev Vickroy
P O Box 5 6
S h e r r a r d ,
IL 61281
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Nairobi. Kenya
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