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TAIWAN TALK J
ADDRESS:
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0.
Box 223S4
Taiwan
100 R.O.C.
FORMOSA
CHRISTIAN MISSION
Feb. 14th 1976
FORWARDING
AGENT:
Miss
Margaret McGinn
Box 183,
Maspeth
N.Y. 11
wo
ew
ears
as we as t e
rstmas
eason ave com e
one and
it is high
time
I
wrote another letter.
I
have just wri
my 36th radio
script
for the book of Acts
and
am only half-way t
the book, which I had not yet started
when
I wrote last. But the A
program will not go on the air until March. - - -
It was on Nov. 29th that all of us missionaries of the Form
Christian Mission converged on Lotung and had a big Thanksgiv
dinner with the Ted Skiles family at the new orphanage God's
H
of Love. There were the Alan Bemos, (6) the Sam Hazkwoods
the Chuck Johnsons (6), myself and Sue Rhodes and another fam
the
Chris
Quains (4) - in
addition
to the Skiles family of 7 S
with 11 adults and 19 children - it was some week-end. Our arri
and
departures
-
from Friday thru
Sun. -
were staggered,
so
except
for
Sat. noon, we were never all
there
at the same time.
we were all glad to see the
orphanage and
the
19
children liv
happily in
it and a new road
built
to it, plus a telephone - w
cost a small fortune to install - and the building indebtedness to
building
fund
- of over 2600.00 - all paid off. What thrilled us
even
more,
however, was the witnessing
of
the baptism, that
Sun
Two
blind Christian
radio listeners
^ orphan
boys and
the 3 Chinese nurses who take car
d feed the children.
The three
nurses
had
been sprinkled
but,
after
seeing
two of the
orphan
boys bapt
week before, had begun to ask
questions
and
decided
to follow their example.
.
December
is
always
a busy
month for
everyone
and we were no exception.
It is
also an expensive m
not only because
of
Christmas but because we always pay
six
months' rent in advance. (And, of
cou
have always saved up in
advance,
in
order to
do
so.)
This
year, however, our landlady
raised
the
52 70 per month,
making
our rent, now, 237.16 per month. It seems
exorbitant
to us for just
but if
we
could find
one
cheaper it
would
have
to be
way
out
of
town and
not
on
the gro
with
nowhere to play for
the children
except on
the
street.
And we do have an excellent
office
sp
So we've paid 3 months rent and will decide later what to do.
At Christmas
time,
this
year,
we decided to have some of our
radio
audience and
others
we have
are blind and crippled
come to our home for
a
big Christmas party. The church
members had
the
name, age and
sex of one child from the Lotung orphanage
and
bought and wrapped a
special
r his particular
one.
And in addition the church
gave
them a
Christmas
gift
of money
for their holid
Alan had been teaching in
crippled
Bro. Yoh's
home
and in the home of the Tsais (She is blind
and
h
and we
had
other listeners come as well.
Two
blind girls are Christians and one read the L
ccount of Jesus' birth from memory and the other sang 2 carols from memory for our party.
My own Bible
class
women gave quite large money gifts to the Church
through
me and we used th
these handicapped folks new pu
kais (heavy
cotton wadded
blankets with satin covers) for Christm
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One
of
those
attending this and church services in
December
was a radio listener
who
had written
ss Chang
wrote
that she had
never
heard about Christ before but was convinced, by listening to
Bible Story Time every
day,
that Jesus
had
died for
her and
she
wanted to accept Him.
So
as baptized on the first Sunday in January.
Somehow,
these conversions - one in
Nov. and this one
-
have given us
fresh
hope.
And other
listen
become
the deep concern
of
Alan's, so that
he
spends
two
full days each week teaching and help
blind
and
crippled Christians in so
many
ways.
He
is now making tapes
for
them in
several
languag
d using
them for
helping to
keep
these handicapped
people interested, during their long
days.
In fact,
beginning to
copy our
Japanese programs
for
their relatives, too
And
today,
Alan
told me that cripp
Yoh
copies
my program every
morning and
plays it
back
at least 1
times
each day (As I am tell
stories all
the
way
through the Bible,
he will
become quite
well-informed about the
Book
even thou
cannot read.) And it gives me joy to help make
this possible. But
Alan's
truly concerned
and
lov
makes
al l
the difference.
On Dec. 23rd,
all our
missionary group travelled to
Chung
Li, where Chuck and
Molly
Johnston
in a very active campus ministry
and where
Chuck
teaches
many
classes
in a Christian Univers
This, however,
was
our
Christmas
dinner
and party
day
together.
And after an absolutely scrumptio
nnerwe had the tree.
Each child had
drawn a child s name and
each
adult had
drawn
an adult s so it w
to
watch
each
one,
in turn, open
his
gift of the day. But afterward,
we
had an even more precious
ev
hen we went over to the chapel of the college and
Alan
baptized Becky - the 2nd of their children
cept Chr is t and be born aga in .
New Year s Eve, according to our solar calendar, was a long night of seeing the new year in with
ristian brethren - and I ended up by going home with my friend Kathleen Langton-Smith for the res
night. She is Supt. of the Gladys Aylward Children's Home, here in Taipei, and, being a
long
time orph
rself, is almost like one of our family and has been for
several
years.
But in the Orient, there is always a far more important lunar New Year's Day. It was on Jan. 31st, t
ar, and up to that time everyone
works double
and over time. And after it, for two
weeks,
to all inte
d purposes, no one works. It is a grand national holiday when everyone visits friends and relatives and h
new
clothes. This is the last day of that holiday and tonight the children will all carry lanterns
e the season out.
So before we all settle back into the groove again, I am happy to have had lanterns out into
around us and
shall
try - along
with you
and your lamp -
to
keep
them trimmed and burning
un
r Bridegroom
arrives.
Your China Missionary, Isabel M. Dittemore
P. S. I plan now to
wait
until the
end
of this
year
to
go home for
furlough.
And
may
God
bless
our
year
I
Lef t
My
Wednesday
morning
B ib le C l as s
Righ t Radio
l is tener
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to June, 1976
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Hsin Sheng South
Road,
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At the close of our last letter I mentioned that
we
were thinking about
the possibility
of
being
back
in the States this
summer,
I wish I could tell you in detail the way the
Lord
has
been leading us through His
Word
and circumstances in the last few weeks, I would be glad to
communicate to any of you by
letter
or cassette tape if you axe interested. All together we
have sent out fifteen copies of the tape I mentioned in our last issue concerning the book
AGAINST
THE
TIDE about the
l i fe of
Watchman Nee and the restoration movement here.
Fea r
We were th inking
of
r etu rn in g t o
the States - for 2ui indef in i te
per iod
o f
t im e b ec au se
d id no t
seem
t ha t
much
was
being
accomplished
here
and we thought
that
we should
possibly go back to re-apply
for
a
visa to
Tha i l and ,
That d id no t
mean
t h a t
there was
not
a lo t of
important
wark to be done
here.
The
thing
tha t
bothered
me
the most was
t h a t I
hated to s t a r t anything
t h a t
-I cou ldn t
be
sure would be car r i ed
through
to
completion. With my own
unsureness of how
long
I would be
here
and the seeming fa i lures I had
seen
in
th e past I was l i t era l ly
a f r a id to
launch
ou t on any new
ventures . These
needs
and,
suijcord-
ingly,
f ee li ng s o f
fear
kept grow
ing
until
on
th e
morning of
May
4 th I knew a
f ina l
decis ion
had to
be
made.
As I went in to our bed
room to prayer
the Lord taught
me
lesson
number
one, I prayed, Lord, I know there is much to be done but I am afraid. . , .
s I said the word afraid thewords Iwas afraid and hid your talent in the ground. (Matt,
25 25 came to mind, I couldn't
remember
exactly
where
this passage was sostopped and looked
i t up
and
read
the whole parable in which this statement is found Matthew 25il4-30, Even
though I had read i t many times before and heard sermons preached on i t this passage
seemed
very new and fresh to me. It told me that
it
is very wrong for any servant of God to be afraid
to use any possession
God
has given to
him
because
God
would
not have given
i t
unless the
servant
first already had the ability (vs.15) to use i t . I decided that I would try to never
again let
fear
stop
me
from doing or trying to do anything. Right then, if I were to take on
some
of
the things that needed to be done I need^ to have a Chinese co-worker, I had been
afraid to because others I had worked with had
hot
only l e f t
working
for the
Lord but had
become unfai thfu l in Church attendance afterthey quitworking with me, when before
they
had been
faithful
members of the Church, I wondered i f I had lost the Lord s precious property and had
been afraid
to touch any
more. Now,
I knew, there
was one young man who
had attended our Bible
Institute
and
was
interested in serving the
Lord
full time, I got up
from my
knees
right
then
and went over to the place where he was working and a^ked him if he was interested in working
witTrme-ln-the Lord s work, sure that the Lord would not
entrust
His property to me unless I
Farmer Gau wi th tw o sons
i n
farm h ou se
not ice
family a l t e r
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Ti ability
to invest it
wisely.
e prontptly
\ J
i/j-lf-tl
said that
he had been praying about this very
j
f A matter and
wan^sA^to,
That being so I went
on
to
I -H explain what the work would involve and at the sane
Wlftflfll^'''''''''''WKK/BmM^ time committed myself
for some time to the work
iJr^ I 15 here. This young man's name
i ^Galyin
Lai and he .
p| ^ ^ J
started
working with me the following
Monday
May;
5.'. 4 The main project
we
have been working on
since
then
I is a
correspondence
course. Chuck
Johnston and
I
V--1. had been
talking about
working together on
it for
\
., q.uite some time^but
this
fear had
kept
me
from
went to
Chung
Li
where the
Johnstons l ive to
real ly
txB'-x'-.
^%PBi
get the ball to rolling
in working
with
Chuck. Now
4^ we have read the proof on and are just printing
3',.0GO copies
o f lesson one,
the
f i rs t
in a
series
~~
of ;^v^ lessons.
This course
was originallr
^ written' in Spanish and has been used with great
response by Ed Holt in Chile,
I t
was t ranslated
Calvin
and Joyce working in th e office
into English
and now Chuck and some of his student
f r iends
a t
the college
where
he
teaches
have
t rans
lated i t into
Chinese, Calvin and I go over
i t
too and then each
lesson is
checked
carefully
by a brother here Homer Liu, whom we worked with when we first came to Taiwan and who is a
very good advisor since he
is
a secretary to the President of the Republic of China, After
this
we are taking the manuscript to the printer along with the
art
work which has been
re-drawn by an ar t student in the Church, I wish lesson one was finished printing so I could
put a picture of i t in this report maybe next time. We are planning on advertising this
^course by daily
newspapers
as has been
done
in Chile
and
we believe that the response will
good. The course is
called
THE COWASS
OF
TRUTH,S
good. The
course is called THE COI;H^ASS OF TRUTH,
Mor e
l e s s on s
On
May
13th I
was
asked to preach
at
the leprosarium the following Sunday, the l6th. I did
and had selected
for my
text
Matthew
1502-38. The
thought,that when the
disciples were abso
lutely
at
a
loss
to
ful l f i l l
the
needs
of ^,000
hungry people
Jesus
could and only
then
could
He
provide
in
a miraculous
way?had really moved
me, I had been at..my end
when
I
felt
that Jesus started taking oyer the work here. That was lesson number two. However, I had
come upon a problem i t
seemed
that I could very eas ily get too
many
jobs to
do
i f I
didn t
have the
excuse
of fear with which
to
say no. I had just said
no
to
a
very
big oppor tunity
to preach the gospel because, I said,
I
just don t have time to do i t Then as I preached
to the leper^ that
morning
I learned lesson numberJihre : _
You
don't say no
when
you don't
have enough because Jesus will bless what you
do
have, I read the words of Jesus in
this
story, what do you have?
i t
really hit me. Instead of trying to do everything myself I
on the road to th e fa rmers
putt ing
my
hand
to
the
plow
Taiwan
cowboy
I J
m
mm
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should present what I
do
have (time,
talent, money other
Christians) to Jesus and
let Him
bless i t I decided to
try
to do this and so far i t has worked
beautiful ly. For
example,
have
written
th e f i r s t three
of
a planned twenty radio scr ipts to go along with tne
corres
pondence course, Calvin has
translated
them
into
Chinese, and
then
we have
given
them
to
a
group of
Christian
professionals in this
field
Overseas Radio and Television
Inc.
~ and
they are
recording
them for us. We
will
pay them fo r their expenses fo r rewriting our scripts
(not changing content) for radio and then recording. There is st i l l the
call
to go to Thai
land and th e need of a Chinese primer for
those
who have just accepted the Lord and need
training, I
can t
go
to
Thailand r ight now bu t I can work on
the
primer so that
we or
someone
e lse
can use t l a t e r Since then
I
have not said
no
to any opportuni t ies and
these
opportun
i t i e s
have e i the r
been taken o r
not rea l ly
material ized
Cabbages
Oh yes, I started back to language school in the midst
of
a ll this to try to learn the Taiwan
es e dia lec t of
Chinese,
the mother
tongue
of 80 percent
of
th e
people here, which is
the only language
many
of the
country
people understand.
The reason T s tar ted doing
th is i s our recent
work
with the farming community.on the mountains around Taipei ,
A
s tory
in a r ecen t newsle t t e r from Tha il an d a bo ut p eo pl e becoming Chr is t ians a f t e r th e seed o f th e
gospel
had
been sown
in
the ir hearts
te n
years prior rea l ly touched me too, I
had
become
discouraged working with
people
who
had heard the
gospel many
t imes,
come
to
Church and even
become
Christ ians, and yet were
dull
o f h earin g.
This
story rekindled in
me the
origina l
purpose
of
coming
to
Taiwan
in
the f i r s t
place
tha t
of
t e l l i ng
the Good News to
those
who
ha d n ev er h ea rd t before As I r ead
th i s
s t o ry I
immediately thought
of
some farm people we
had met
while the children and I were mountain climbing one jBk
Saturday, I had gone back several times since then M.
on a
f ri end ly bas is and
Mr, Gau had
been to
our house W
a couple
of
times, I
had given
him some
t racts and
given
a Bible
to
him
sometime
back.
But
now I
deter-
mined to try to rea l ly communicate the gospel s tory
to him, his family and his neighbors. One statement
9
*
by
the
man who became a Christ ian in Thailand af t e r 1 r
ten
years real ly guided me in how
to
do
thisi He
said, I
after he had asked for
more
teaching I
can still
1 ^
remember most of
the story
of Jesus t ha t the lady
missionary
told
and
I
can
remember
exactly
the
way
th e
^
pictures looked, (she had used a flannelgraph) I f -
packed an overnight bag and
took
some colored pictures i'-
of
Jesus
death,
bur ia l ,
and
resurrection
and went to
see Mr, Gau. I got
there
abou t 6 i30 in the evening and found them in th e field s t i l l
planting
cabbages. Much
to their embarrasment,
a t f i r s t I took off my
shoes
and started helping them.
We f in i shed a t about
8 |00
P,H,
well
a f t e r dark That
nigh t
I shared th e s to ry o f Jesus with
them
~
the f i r s t
t ime he
and
h is mot he r a nd fa ther had
heard
t
His t h ree younger s i s t e r s
said that
they had
studied i t in
school
(l
can imagine) but they
listened
too, I found,
however,
that
everything I said Mr, Gau had
to
t ranslate into Taiwanese because his
parents
hardly understood one work
of
Mandarin, That
i s
when I started thinking about studying Taiwan
ese. I spent the night s leep ing on th e
hard floor
of a lof t room with th e men
folk.
The next
day I helped them plant about 2,000 cabbages just fo r the fun
of
i t In the
process
I learned
to
plow
with
a
water
buffalo,
Toma t o s
The next time
I
went
I
took
a
s l ide program of actual people act ing out the
c ru cif ix io n o f
and resurrect ion
o f Jesus and what t means.
This
program
had been prepared by other Christ
ians here
and had an explanation on
cassette tape
in
Taiwanese,
I showed this to them,
spent
the
night and
then worked
with
them ano ther day . The next
night
we went down the
road to
a
neighbor s house and showed i t this time Brother Lwo a Taiwanese
minister,
going with me.
Then j us t th is
past
Tuesday
we
went
again
Calvin,
Mr.
Lwo
and myself.
We
go t
there
about
noon, and, after
eating
with them, went
into
the
fields
and helped them get
the day s
work
done
early
this
time
tying
up tomato vines.
Then
we got
things set up
to show
a movie
in
their cemented threshing f loor fr on t yard. Old Mr, auwent
to
invite
the
neighbors and after
supper
at
8j00
we
showed
this
movie with Taiwanese sound. This movie was about a
man who was
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Mark
with
the Lwo brothers in outdoor cafe
a Buddhi st f armer
l ike
them who accepted
Chr i s t
t was f ilme d h er e in
Taiwan
by a missionary
group.
Using
th is i s s t i l l another
answer
to the
question of
What do you
have?
when I can t ,
After
e ight people
watched th is thirty-minute
story
Mr,
Lwo
preached to
them
fo r tha t much
longer. Afterward
no one was
anxious
to leave
and
on e of the
neighbors
where we had
shown
the
s l i d e s came ove r and
asked i
we would
show th e
f ilm
a t
h is
house,
I want everyone
in
my home
to
see th is
he said .
Providing
the
weather
i s good
we plan to teach a t his
house
next Tuesday,
Jus t th i s morning Brother Lwo,
Calvin
and I went
to make more con tac t s
fo r
showing t h i s fi lm and
preaching in
out-of-the-way
places. We
found a
l i t t l e
s et tl ement o f
s ix ty people a l l r e l a
t ives
l iv ing on a mountainside. They
have
neve
heard the gospel either so we
se t
things up to g
there
next week.
We hope to t e l l the
basic
gospe
to.as many as we can where it
has here-to-fore
H not been proclaimed. Where th e
seed fal ls
on goo
ground i t
will
grow and the Lord of th e harvest
wi l l
prepare
r eape r s
In a l l
of
these
projects I am
t rying
to
keep
others very much involved (using what I have) so
it cun be
carr ied
on
i f
and when we are not here
Pauline ta lk ed to Janet s students
Birthdays
since we wrote l a s t have been Beth s
now
9) on April 18th and
Janet s now
31) on Ma
2'+th,
Jonnie s
is comming up in a few days he will be six on July30th, e is thrilled that on
of his baby teeth is about to come out, Nathan who will be two on August l6th, is
really
start
ing to add to his vocabulary. We have boxight a family membership at a pool an hours bus ride
away
and
now
Janet
is
taking the children
swimming five
days a
week
to attend
swimming
lessons.
I t
is hard work for her but she and th e
children
are becoming
quite
accomplished swimmers,
. Another baby
Now fo r a special announoementj Though not planned and though we're not exactly sure when we ar
happily expecting a new baby.
The baby is
scheduled to arrive
around
the end of October or begin
ning of November
s
the years
and
children increase Janet
is getting more
and
more beautiful.
We
enjoyed the fellowship of Mark Pauline
Maxey
who
stopped here
for
a couple of days on their
way to a convention
in
the Philippines, Also George
Morgan of
Oregon and Bill Turner visited.
I t has been a
real
joy for me to
s i t
down and write this to you. I hope and pray that i t has bee
a blessing to you as well.
May
God bless you as you serve
Him
I m sure you
can
think
of
someone
you have met by chance somewhere around you
who
has not heard the
gospel
to whom you
could
go
and tel l
the
simple
story
which is t he power
of God
unto salvation, Preach
the
Gospell
Yours In Chr i s t
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P e rm i t No. 247
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rAK
f iAx r
August
to
Septein ber, 1976
Dear
Go-Workers Fr i end s ,
0V. 1 ' 137
M is s i on a r i e s J
Al a n J a n e t
Bemo
5-1 Lane
l6 l
Hsin Sheng South
Road, Section
1
Taipei 106, Taiwan R.O.G.
Forwarding
Agent;
Mrs.
Linda Goerke V
R.R. 2
King
City, Mo
64463
Though we do not
pray
as we should we do thank God
for you
and
remember
many of
you by
name
when we come before God. I t
i s
a joy
to
write th is l e t t e r
to
you
and my prayer with it i s
tha t
you
wil l rece ive a blessing
by
reading it
Please notice that
havrg a/new
forwarding agei^^j^Ii^e
thank the Lord for the
good
work
Mrs
Sandi Gant has done as~ fOTwa^ding-ag5nt F6r''^e
last
eight
years.
This job, however,
has become to
much as
her r esponcib i l i t i es
have,
increased in
the l a s t months. Now Mil lard
and
Linda Goerke have t a k e n
ove r .
The Goerkes live on
a
fa rm i n Nor t h e rn Mis s ou r i
and
have
s ix
boys,
two of which pre t ty wel l dominate
the
l oca l foo tba l l team. In Linda s l a s t
l e t t e r she
sa id ,
Even
though
I
don t
understand
footba l l
I
enjoy
watching
my
boys
play .
I hope
to
be ab le
to
put a
p ic tu re
of
th e Goerkes in our next
CRUSADER.
They have been
suppor te r s o f
the work
here
fo r
years now and have wr i t t en to
us
r egu la r ly ll
the
t ime we
have known them.
All offer ings
should be sen t
through
them
now.
Also,
i f
you want s l ides
o r d isp la y m ate ria l p le ase c on ta ct them.
During July
and
August I had to be away _from home for two
weeks
once__for
the family to
attend
a missionary conference
in T5i -chung , and once
when I went to Chung-li to work with
Brother Chuck
Johnston
in a Summer English Seminar which
Chuck
worked with fo r four weeks
and
because
of
which
two people were bapt ised.
Because
of
being gone
I
d ec id ed n ot
to
study Taiwanese dur ing those two months. Now I am taking 6 hours a week
again,
I'm having
a
d i f f i cu l t time w ith it r igh t
now
but
my
teacher says
I am
going
through the
most c r i t i c a l
part
of
learning
Taiwanese
right now
E^ch word has one of seven tones and, to
make i t
worse,
a lmost every
word
i s
sub jec t to
change
to
another
tone
when
used
in
a
sentence .
Since
I
wrote
to
you l a s t
I
t h a t s i de o f th e moun ta in . How-
s ec on d h ou se b e c a u s e t h e
h u s -
ee shouse n go on to
the
^
down a sm a ll ro ad and t h en went
on by foot to the next farm- Playing table soccer with English Bus Tour kids
house. When we go t
there
we
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found
moininy
and
four c hi ld re n i n f ro nt of the house
cleaning some bamboo shoots. I asked
her i f
they
would be
i nt er es te d i n
seeing some color s l ides
about
Jesus th t
evening in the i r home. She
told
^HRK
me
quite frankly
that
they were
not interested.
' j A ' ^
After talking for
a few minutes I
asked the
name
HjK'^ ^ IfW-j y j
the
people who lived back
behind
their house
and
J directions to get there. She said the name was
R>'\ xVAmI 4fc SF pointed to a
path and
we started
off.
^
I -il
walking for
about
15 minutes I realised we
\3 n jg
h d
t ken awrong turn somewhere ec use the p th
^
]b
decided
to
try
to
find
the
p th
y
w lking
cross
pHIBW B a field instead of backtracking. As I
stepped from
'
tion f th ir house but
tol
me th t they
w
not
see my choo-choo
train
cake home today. He wondered
why I,^a
foreigner,
would
be out
here
looking fo r th e Ghengs. I told him I
was trying to go
to everyone s
jiouse
in
t he ar ea
to te l l them all about
Jesust
Are you the one who has been
to the
Gau 's house so
often?
he asked. My
name
is
Ldb
and I ve been wanting to
make
your aquaintance
for
a long time.
I live in the house just not to
far
from the Gau's. (the house we had just passed by as
a lost cause Is that right I said. I've been wanting to
meet
you
for^a long
time
too.
Why
don't I
come
over to your
house
tonight
and
tell you
about Jesus?I
He
agreed
so we walked up the mountain together toward his house, passing by
where
Calvin was on
the way. Before we got to where the motorcycle
was
parked i t
started
to rain but we
were not bothered by
i t
at all. Calvin and I praised God loudly as
we
rode from there
to Mr. Lde s house. We
showed
th e slides, talked a while, and
lef t
a Gospel of John
with
them and le f t with th e good feeling
that
th e seed_had been planted in some more
soil.
We
spent the night in the loft room of farmer Gau and I went to sleep wondering
what kind of
soil
the
Lefes
wouli^ turn out to be. Probably roadside soil but hopefully
the good. Just yesterday
Mr.
Gau came to our house and asked me to help
him
find a job
in th e
i ty
during th e winter
season.
see my
choo-choo
t r in
cake
wm i w ff
iii
Church
meeting
when Ronnie
Hoffman (3^d from
left) was
here
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newsletter should look a lot better this time -
we are typing
It
on
a
new typwriter
which has
a
carbon ribbon
that
makes type look like
its
printed. ow
if I
can only
learn
to
type
and
spell This typwriter actually belongs to the bookstore. We
reprint
the cookbook,
Tips N
Treats,
when the
printer
told
us it should be
retyped
because
the
former printing was
too
poor to
photograph
for
offset. Having
someone else type
it
on
a
proper
machine would
cost more
that
700 and
typsetting would
be
even more
so
we
decided
to
buy
this typwriter for 450 and type it
ourselves. Hopefully,
it will be an
investment tha
will
pay off
much in the
years to come.
The
correspondence
course
is
still
going slow.
We
have
yet
to
get lesson
one
printed,
even
though we are having type
set for
the
third time
now. After having
redone
it the second
time we
gave
it to a non-Christian girl to look at. Her
reaction
was_that it was terd to r^
as she
could
tell
it
had
been
translated
from
English.
It was
English-Chinese instead of
good smooth
Chinese.
Back
to the drawing board. This
time I
think we
have
found
someone
who can do the writing
job
WITHOUT LOOKING T THE ENGLISH but former translations. The
printer was due to give us a copy to proofread
today. We
are
al l
really pleased with he
corresponding
radio scripts I have finished writing eight now
and
am doing two a week till
all
26
in
this
series are finished^
Overseas Radio
and Televishioni Inc.
is
producing
them
in
Mandarin
as
fast
as
we get the scripts
written
o f which
I mentioned
i n th e Dec
1975
to
March, 197^ issue One
attends the congregation
where
for'jonnie 10 other little Indians
brother Lwo
preaches
One
has
not
^ t v .
yet
been
emmersed but we
hope
with teaching that she will be. One blind girl,M.
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Special
days: Jonnie was s ix on July
30 th.
He*s in
the f i r s t grade
now
and
his teacher
says
he
i s one of
the
best
readers
in class but has a hard time w ith other
things
espec
i al ly s it ti ng s t i l l0 He s taking
af te r
his dad in tha t par t
I m
afraid
Nathan
turned
two
on August l6th and Janet and I
celebrated
our 12 wedding anniversary the next day, Beth
has gone
into
the fourth grade
(that s
hard
for
even me to believe) and
Becky
the 2nd. You
will
probably
be getting another newsletter very soon concerning our next . .arrival, ^
Visi tors : Graig and Kathy Moore , in ternes
from
Ozark Bible
College,were
here
fo r most
of
the summer
working
with Chuck
Johnston, Also
Wendy
Coll ins and
Joyce Graham
were here
working
with
the
summer
English
seminar.
We
enjoyed
entertaining
Imogen
Wil li ams and
her
daughter Tina when they stopped off for a few days on
the i r
way back to
Thailand,
We
especially valued her testimony to the
brethren
here.
In
August Ronnie Hoffman, missionary
to the Philippines, stopped
by for a few days on
his
way
to Korea.
At
the
same time
Bi l l
McClure of Dallas Christ ian College, also on his way to
Korea,
was
here.
He gave
us
some
real encouragement in our new radio work. In September we were p rivi leged to
again
be
visited by Mr Norman Noble, a
businessman
from Bellevue, Washington
His
being in our
small meeting showed our
four
young businessmen
that
God's work
should
be more
important
than business or
pleasure.
You
can t
really call them visitors bu t Steven and Carol?)rn Taylo
arrived on September
20th
with their
four-month-old
son to spend a year working with the
Skileses. They
are
studying Mandarin two hours a day and also helping some with the
book s t o r e
God
answers
prayers. KEEP
ON
PRAYING I
Yours in Christ, -Cmtr Alan Bemo
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EnK ish Hibie
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real
meaning tif a happy l-'ull
life
Cwne and listen, ask
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rAP t
GAX t
masAue i i t l
M i s s io n a r i e s :
Alan
J a n e t Bemo
5-1
Lane l6 l
Hsin
Sheng
South Road, Section 1
Taipei
106,
Taiwan R.O.G,
Forwarding
Agents
October,
November, December, 1976
Written
on
Jan.5>
1977
Mrs. Linda
Goerke
R.
R.
2
King
City,
Mo 64^3
Dear Fr i ends ,
We have a new baby I Janet gave
birth
to a
healthy gir l
on December
6th.
She
weighed 9 pounds, 5 ounces and
was
23i inches long: I
We
named
her
Sarah Lanet . Janet has always l iked the name Sarah and
Lanet i s a combination of
the
l a s t par t of our
f i r s t
names Alan
Janet. I t seemed that we had to wait a long time for her because we '
were not
sure
of the due date
but once Janet
started
having
pains ^
Sarah
only
took two hours to arrive.
Mommy
baby came
home in three
days and
are
both doing
fine.
Sarah
is
gaining
weight
and
Janet
is
The Church has rented an assembly hall not too far
from
our
house 1
^
where as befo re th ey
were meeting in our
basement.
This
move has
been very good
for
them in that i t has given them independence. I t
Sarah
Lanet
has
also
given
them
added responsibi l i t ies.
For
example
they
are
having to pay times as
much
rent. The main joy is
that
since October,
when
they made
the
move the
Chinese have been doing nearly all the preaching. I preached once
in November
and
scheduled to preach once this month.
We
have three brothers who do a very capable job and
nother who
is preaching
his
f i rs t
sermon
this
month. Also,
Brother
Larry Yang, one of the
capable preacher boys has taken on the responsibility of leading the Children's Sunday Scho
which 20 chi ldren are attending. Tuesday evening Bible
s tudies a re
inspiring.
We
just studie
II Kings 6 7 last
night. By
th e
way
we
had 82
in
attendence th e
second Sunday
we
met
in
ou
new place ~ we had sent out 1200
invitations
to
English
Bus Tour
members with
whom we have
been working for eight months now. About 20 had to
stand
at that meeting, Usually
we
have
a r ound
20
a t t e n d e n c e .
oliday act ivi t ies included Thanksgiving a t the Johnstons in Chung
Li,
and for Christmas:
th e
blind put on a program
for
Mrs. Dittemore* s women's class on December 22nd and for
the
hurch on
Christmas
night, my English Bible class had a party
the
evening of
the
23rd and a l l
the missionaries
went
to
the
Skiles house
in
Lwo Tung on December 30 ^ 31st fo r a
la te
Christmas dinner and g et t og eth er .
Mom
(Mrs,
Dittemore) l e f t for furlough the
next
day - -
New Yea rs day. She
wil l
be
in
the
S ta te s fo r
about
a year .
We
a l l
f ee l
there i s something missing now tha t she i s
gon e .
The
b l ind have
been meeting
fo r over
three
months now
Ik meetings
in a l l . For the
two months we averaged 11
a t
each meeting but
th i s
included s ighted
people. Even though
these Monday morning meetings have not
been
going
on
v ery lo ng
we have already had
prob
lems. Watchman
Nee
once
s a id , I
make t
a
practice
to
never
accept offerings from unbe
l i eve r s .
I
don t
want th em
to
f e e l
t h a t
the
ord
is beholding
to them. I
think th is
m
Bemos
Mrs.Dit temore in f r on t of new meeting place
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very wise. We
started
the meetings
for
the blind in
vacant house of a
non-Christian
man whose blind daugh-
r
is
a Christian.
This man also made contributions
d before long he started trying to run things. We had
trouble for a while but the Lord has worked
a l l
out. Now attendance
has improved
to
an average
of
blind a t each
meeting. At
our
l as t meeting we
d a year
old
man speak
to
us
who
was a professor
psychology
until las t
year
when
he
became blind. He
my
physical eyes
hadn't become blind my
spir
eyes woudn't have been opened. He is a member of |
L i t t l e Flock
b re th re n o f whom
I
have
spoken
in
e past. His
message
was the best we ve had yetl j
Bus Tours have been taking more and more time
work. We went on one
tour in
Dec. on which we took
people
to
a park an hour's
drive
from
Taipei.
As
we
sang
Christian
songs,
played
games which
re
the
use of
English,
and had a devotional. We
had a E.B.T. Christmas banquet on Dec.
18th
which
0 members
attended.
Membership
has
grown
to
nearly
now.
We are
having
three
tours
in January.
I have
d
to
s t a r t ano ther Engl ish
Bible class
because my
night class was
running
over ^ each week.
Tom
from Dallas
Christian
College i s coming
to
work
a year exclusively with English
Bus Tours.
We hope
can
be
here
by
the
end
of this
month . I
will
be
relieved when he arrives. He will be doing
regular
work
plus running
an
English Correspon
n ce C o urs e.
e Chinese correspondence course,
THE
COMPASS OF
TRUTH,
really getting
done now,
8,000 copies of lesson
one
ve been
printed
at
a
cost
of U.S.$445 almost the
amount received from a s p ec ia l o ff er ing from a
in
th e
Western
United
Sta tes . We received
the
just a few days
af ter th e
bi l l
for lesson
one
taken care
of.
Now we
are
ready for lesson 2it i s
the printer . The Lord 's po li cy i s
pay
as you
go.
here goes another year. 1976 was
the hardest
yet
r
me.
May
God
guide
a l l
of us in
His f ut ur e s er vi ce .
Jesus,
Alan
Bemo
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Requested
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COMPASS
OF
TRUTH
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