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KOREANBROADCASTING
MISSION
PUSAN
KOREA
Furlough Address: Forwarding Agent:
335 Lockburn Miss Loraine Lindsa
Indianapolis, Indiana Gabool State
Bank
Phone - Hapel 4-5994
Gabool,
Missouri
April, 1963
Dear Friends:
Greetings
in
the
name
of
our
Lord and Saviour Jesus C h r i s t . How time fliesi
V / e
have been
in
the
States on furlough
now for
9
onths
and
we have been
so busy
that it
hardly seems possible that it has been
that
long. Many of you we have
visited
during
that time and
what
a
joy
and
blessing
your warm
reception has been to
us.
We have
not
ye
been able
to
visit with some
of
you but intend to do so
before
our return
to
Korea.
The work in Korea is progressing well even though
some
adjustments have had
to be made that we
did
not anticipate. You
will
remember that we had expected the
Seggelke family to arrive in Pusan last August 1 o
supervise the work
while we
were
in
the States. Due to various personal problems their retur n was delayed and finally
they
announced
on
January
1 that they would
not
be returning to
Korea. This
posed a problem
but it has been successfully solved by
the
fact that
our
wonderful Korean staff has shown
unusual
devotion
and ability
and
Harold Taylor
and
Gordon Patten
of
Korean Christian
Mission in Seoul
have
been
taking
time from their own busy schedule to go down to Pusan
every other weekend
to help
with the work and
to advise and
encourage
the Korean
staff.
How
thankful we
are to
have such fine Christian
friends
and
co-workers
for
the
Lord
in
Korea'. In recent weeks there
have been
several baptisms
in Pusan
and
Lee Ki Nam,
our
fine interpreter
who
was
a high
school teacher before coming to
work with us, has preache
several Sunday evenings, something he had never done before in his life. I t is evident
that the Lord
is
leading'. How thankful
we
are that we have a Lord who will show us the
way
even
v d i e n
there
seems to be no pathway openl
The work
of
KBM
began almost
5
years ago and
we
are so thankful for
the
way
the Lord has
blessed
our
efforts
for Hi m in
these
past
5
years. A
number
of
avenues
of
service were opened during that time:
1.
A daily
gospel broadcast over
HLKU,
the commercial radio station in Pusan. It
is difficult to know how
many people
have
heard
the gospel of Jesus
Christ
by
means
of
that broadcast but the best available figures give an estimate
of
over one million people listening to HLKU in the evening
hours
when we broad
cast.
The program i s
temporarily
off
the air
but
will
be
resumed
on our
return
to Korea. Through
a
fortunate business arrangement we have with this station and
its sister station in Seoul we have piled up credit enough
to broadcast
a
daily
program for
several years
without any
further
payment.
2. Student Bible clubs, 5 clubs
of
high
school and college students meeting each
week in
our chapel
with some 125 students enrolled. This work is continuing
under the supervision
of
Miss Suh Jung Doh.
3. Bible school, meeting Sunday morning, Sunday evening and Wednesday evening in
our
chapel.
More than
350
children from the age of 4 ears through the 6th grade
are enrolled. This
v/ork
continues
under
the
direction
of
Mr.
Kim
Duk Sung
and
Miss
Suh and with the assistance of teachers drawn from
our
small congregation.
4. Correspondence Bible
study,
with many students enrolled from all over Korea.
There are
3
courses now available in the Korean language and others in prepara
tion.
When we
left
Korea
there were
approximately ICQ
enrolled
in various
courses.
This number is constantly
increasing.
5. Our
small congregation,
the
Tong
Kwang church. During
our first
term we
baptized
50 and there
have
been a number
vAiile
we have been
on
furlough. This group
meets
each Sunday
morning
and
evening
in the
mission
chapel.
For a new mission, especially
in
an Oriental
country, these
beginnings are unusual.
The
Lord
has blessed
this
work in
a wonderful
way
and
we
look forward
to
the
even
greater
things
that we
know
He will do in Korea as we continue to follow Him.
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KBM REPORT LETTER -
pril, 1963 age 2
As
many
of
you know, Bert has not been in good
health
for the past year. Al
though he has tried
his best
to
keep
going, far
beyond
what he should
have done,
he has
finally had to
ease
up. The middle of February he
went
through a medical
clinic
in
C hi
cago
and
on
the
basis of their
first preliminary
findings he
was ordered
to
cease
all ac
ivities
iuanediately. Since that
time he has
been engaged in
a round of
medical tests,
ex
aminations and x-rays for almost
6
weeks. He has been fortunate
to
have
the
services of
some
of
the best medical
specialists in this part of the country.
They
have
found a
num
ber of things: he has a severe case of anemia,
so
severe that the doctors wonder
how
he h
kept going as he h as
and
are considering blood transfusions; he has a large hiatus hernia
some
30^
of his
stomach
extending into
his
chest cavity; a tumor, which the doctors belie
is
probably malignant, has
been
located
in the lower
abdomen. Medical treatment has al
ready begun
for
the
anemia. The
doctors are of the opinion that a
large
weight loss
m ay
relieve the
hernia.
He is slated for an operation
as
soon
as
possible for the tumor.
He
has been placed
on
the hospital em ergency list in Indianapolis and we expect to
receive a
call
any day
that he may enter. The
doctors
are very optimistic and, as we say, we have
the finest doctors available.
Naturally,
all
these things
together cause us
some
anxiety and
in addition
there
are financial problems
to
be met. The
decision
of
the vSeggelkes not to
return
to
Korea has
increased our
financial burden.
As you know
they
shared
in
the
financing
of t
work
in Pusan during our first term. Now that they have dropped this support it is neces
ary for us to
raise
an
additional
$150
to $200
a
month just
to keep the
work going.
Even
though we are
not
in
Pusan
the work continues to
be
financially dependent upon
us.
I n
ad
ition, the expenses are
increased due
to
the travel
and expense of the
missionaries
from
Seoul going dovm to Pusan every other
weekend.
Our living here in
the
States also costs
more and
although
we have
tried
to practice every
economy we cannot live
as
cheaply
as
we
did in Korea. In addition we will
have these medical esq^enses
and you know how
they moun
up. In order
to
keep the
work going in Korea we have put all our personal
funds
into it,
seldom drawing more than half of our salary while we were
out
there,
so we do
not have
an
personal financial
back-log.
You folks
who
have supported us have been
wonderful in
every way. Now
we
co
to you with this special
appeal. I f
you could
make
an extra offering
during this trying
time it would relieve our minds of that particular worry. N o v / that Bert is unable to vis
the
churches
for
some
time, we
can
only appeal by
mail. Additional
monthly pledges are
needed desperately,
or
perhaps your church
could
increase their pledge
if
you
are
alread
giving.
V J o n t
you
help share this burden with us? In most cases this letter is going to
only one
person
in
each
congregation
so
will you make a
particular
effort to do
somethin
about this nowl
Above all, please pray with us that the Lord's v r i l l
might
be done. Pray for
the
work
in
Korea and
for
those who
work there so
faithfully.
Pray for the
doctors who
a
attending
Bert
in this illness. Pray
that finances and
workers may
be
available to
carr
on this work.
Finally,
pray for each
of
us
personally
in this trying tame. Since
we
know that H e
invariably gives
Hi s
attention
to our prayers,
whatever
they
are
about, we
c
be
quite
sure
that
our prayers
will
be answered. -
I
John 5j15 (Ph illips) .
Faithfully yours.
Send
all contributions to: Bert
Marge and John
Ellis
Loraine
Lindsey
Cabool
State
Bank
Cabool Missouri
P.S. More workers are
desperately
needed in
Pusan.
We will be
glad
to correspond or
tal
with any who might be interested
in
going.
P.P.S.
Bert entered the
hospital
April 3 and was operated on April 4. We are so thankf
to be
able to report there is
no cancer.
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May 14, 1963
ELLIS
FAMILY REPORTS ON KOREA
The
work of
Korean Broadcasting Mission continues
from
Pusan,
Korea during
i
the Absence of
the
Bert Ellis
family^in the
^tates o n
furlough>-and t h e Joe
S e g g e l k e f a m i l y w h o a r e n o w s e r v i n g at L i n c o l n C h r i s t ia n C o l l e g e a n d
S e m i n a r y ,
s/^ OK I
L i n c o l n 1 1 1 . K o r e a n l e a d e r s h i p
i s
c a r r y i n g
o n
w i t h
t h e
a i d ^ o f m i s s i o n a r i e s
H a r o a i
T a y l o r a n d G o r d o n
P a t t e n
f r o m K o r e a n C h r i s t i a n
M i s s i o n
in S e o u l .
F i n a n c i a l
h e l p
s h o u l d b e c h a n n e l e d
t h r o u g h t h e K o r e a n B r o a d c a s t i n g
M i s s i o n , C a b o o l
S t a t e
B a n ^ ,
Cabool, Mo.
Bro. Ellis
reported: The
work of KBM began almost fiv e years
ago a n d we
are
so thankf ul for t he way
t h e
Lord has blessed
our
efforts for Him. A
n umber
of
av e n u e s
o f
s e r v i c e
we re o p e n e d
( f f u r i n g
that t i m e :
1. A daily
Gospel
broadcast over HLKU,
t h e
commercial radio
station
in Pusan...
w i t h an e s t i m a t e d m i l l i o n l i s t e n e r s
i n
the e v e n i n g h o u r s w h e n
w e
b r o a d c a s t . T h e p r o g r a m
is tempo rarily
off
t h e
air b u t w i l l b e
re s um e d w h e n w e
r e t u r n
t o Koreajj
0\JLJ
2 .
Our five clubs
of
high school a n d college students
meeting
e a c h w | S K ^ i j j
o u r
c h a p e l
w i t h
some 125
s t ud e n t^e n rol l e d is
no w u n d e r
the
super vis io n of
Miss
Su h
J u n g Dop
3. Bible
school,
meeting
Sunday
morning, Sunday
evening
and Wedne sday evening
u
i n o u r
chapel.
More
t han
350 c hildren
f r o m the
age o f four years
throu g h
t h e
6t h
grade are enrolled . This work continues under the direction of
Kim Duk
Sung and Miss
S u h w i t h a s s i s t a n c e o f t e a c h e r s f r o m t h e ^ c o n g r e g a t i 9 n >
4.
Corre s pon d e n c e B i bl e
s t u d y ,
w i t h ma ny s t u d e n t s enrolfed from
all
o v e r K o r ea ,
There are three o r o u r s e s now available i n
the
Korean language and others i n preparation.
W h e n w e
left Korea ther e wer e
approximately
100
enrolled
i n
va r i o u s c o u r s e s.
T h i s
n u m b e r i s c o n s t a n t l y i n c r e a s i n g j p
5.
D u r i n g o u r f i r s t t e r m
w e ba p t ized
50
a n d t h e r e have b e e n a n u m b e r w h i l e w e
h a v e b e e n o n f u r l o u g h o T h i s
g r o u p ,
t h e T o n g
K w a n g
c h u r c l ^ m e e t s
e a c h S u n d a y
m o m i n g a n d
evening i n the
mission
chapel.
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llis
Indianapolis
Bro.
Ellis
was
h o s p i t a l i z e d / A p r i l 3rd f e a r ' o p e r a t i o n to
remove a
t t a m o r in
the
lowe r abdome n.
The
operation
was
April
4th and Mrs. Marge Bllis w rote
afterward:
We a e so
thankful
t o be
able t o
r epo r t
t h e r e is no cancer,
Bro. E llis also said
that
s i n c e s o m e
of
t h e s u p p o r t
money for the
b r o a d c a s t i n g
w o r k c m e t h r o u g h
t h e
S e g g e l k e s j ^ ^ c e
t h e i r
c h n g e
o f f i e l d s ,
i t
w o u l d
b e
n e c e s s r y
to raise 1 5 0 t o 2 0 0 m n n t h l y in a d d i t i o n a l f u n d s t o a d e q u a t e l y c a r r y
on
the p r o g r a m .
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KOREAN RO DC STING
PUSAN KOREA
MISSION
New Fiorlough Address:
335 Lockburn
Indianapolis, Indiana
Phone; CHapel
4-5994
June, 1963
Forwarding Agent:
Miss Loraine Lindsay
Gabool State Bank
Cabool, Missouri
Dear Friends:
Greetings
in the name of o u r Lor d and Saviour Jesus Christl
to
us
again in the last few months.
Surely the Lord ha s been g o o
Bert
underwent
major
surgery
on
April 4. His condition had been so bad
i n
the weeks prev
ious
that they
were
expecting to g ive him
blood
transfusi ons before
and
during the operat
ion but to the surprise of
all
concerned, when he
entered
the hospital on the evening of
April
3y i t was found that
his bloo d was
up to
normal.
When the
sur geo ns operated
they d
not find the malignant tumor they had
esq^ected,
in fact, they
did
not even fin d a tumorl
They examined hi m thoro ug hl y and found that the
only
problem he has
now is the
hiatus her
ia
we
had mentioned before and
it is
their opinion
that
this
can
be taken
care
of by diet
and weigh t loss. Bert
has
already lost 30 pounds and
is
feeling better than he has
i n
ma
years.
He
was released
from
the
hospital
on
April 10
and after 2 onths
of
convalescence
he seems to be
completely recovered and is hard
at work again. We
all
certainly do appre
iate
the many prayers,
cards, l etters
and
financial
contributions of so
many of
you good
folks. I ^ h a t a blessing Christian friends arel After the operation the surgeon told us,
Someone
must
have been
prayingl
We
are sorry that
we have not been able to thank each
of
you individually
but
we hope you will accept
this letter
as
o u r
thanks.
John finished his junior year
at
Ben Davis High School this year and
was
on
the
honor rol
His mother and father were
thrilled
when
he
announced a few weeks ago that
he
had decided
to
return
to
Korea
as
a missionary after finishing h is
education.
He
is acting
as
a
miss
ionary
in
several
of
our
young peoples' camps
this
summer.
(If
some
of
you still need
a
missionary let
him
know right
away
as he still has a few dates open. V / e
have pr epared
a
study gui de for the
campers
and have
a
fine set of
slides
which will be
enlightening
to
them.)
Because of the
time lost
in hi s illness
Bert i s not planning
to
serve
at camps
this
sunmie
with
one exceptio n
which he
promised
last year. Jul y 15-20 the whole family wil l be at
Hanging Rock Camp at
J e s t
Lebanon,
Indiana.
Bert had to cancel many dates and i s trying
now
to
re-schedul e these. There
are
still
some
of
o u r
supporting chur ches
which
we have
not
visited and we want
to
visit
these
as soon
as
possible.
If
you would
like
for
us to
visit
your
church
please
let us know as soon as
possible.
The work
continues
to go well in Korea as you
can see
from
the
following
excerpts
from
Mr
Lee's
letters:
The
I.A.H.
(I
Am
His,
student Bible
clubs)
clubs have
their
regul ar weekl
meetings, and on every
other Saturday
afternoon they hold joint meetings to be taught on
H e b r e v / s by
Mr,
Patten.
By the
first week of this
month (April)
some members of each club
were replaced by new
ones,
and
as
the
Unhasoo club
grew
a bit oversize with quite a few
students
flovdng in for the first time fro m Kyongnam Commercial High School,
we are thi nk
ing of dividing it in two, organizing a new club. .
he
childrens' Sunday school is
g
ing on all right. V J e
got the
teaching materi als such as picture rol ls and cards from
the
Standard Co, just in time. . Besides the Easter
Sunday
service in church,
the
clubs h
their
own
Easter
service
on the
preceding
Saturday afternoon, and
I 4 r ,
Lee
Soo
Pil
was inv
ed to
preach.
After the
service
they had
'gr aduation ceremony'
of the ol d members who we
now
in the 3rd
year grade
in high school and presented
them
with a little gift, an
inexpe
ive ball-pen,
for memory.
spring here,
we
recall the day we
went to
Chinhae wi
you
seeing
cherry-blossoms
and
we all
miss you
very much.
When
are you coming back?
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KBM REPORT
LETTER
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une,
1 3
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age 2
Things are going on
here smoothly,
Mr.
Taylor
and Mr. Patten came
without
fail every
other Sunday
to
preach in
the morning and evening
services.
Three weeks
before, two
young
members were baptized
by Mr. Patten in
a bath house
downtown^
and on the coming
Sunday
three others are going
to
be
baptized. While in Pusan they (Patten and Taylor)
stay
in an
ordinary Korean hotel
and
go back to Seoul by the night train, I
think
the trip makes the
very tired, and
we appreciate very
much their
kind
help
managed
out of
their
busy
schedule
up in
Seoul.
Following the advice
from
Mr.
Taylor, we also have
Sunday evening
services
when neither of them
were
here, and I am
preparing
and delivering the sermons, though I
feared it was beyond my capacity and
qualification.
,
The
Sunday School is well taken
care
of
by Mr.
Kim, Miss
Suh and
six
class leaders. The leaders come and teach children i
divided classes every
Sunday
morning, and give us much help also in evening meetings.
We
have a chart put on the wall, and every Sunday morning, after the lessons are given, red,
yellow, green
or purple
stars
are
put
on the
column
of
each class according
to
the
marks
they got on the basis of good manners, lesson study, bringing new members, gift and
so
on,
and from
time
to
time
the good classes get a little prize. The children are
very much in
terested in this, and ompete with each other
very
earnestly.
.
J e
had a
very
cold wi
ter
this year,
the coldest
in
forty years. ,
Now,
belatedly,
I
tell you the sad news
qbout one
of
the staff, Pak, His father, who
seemed
very healthy, suddenly died of cerebr
hemorrhage, leaving
behind
a
helpless
family -
Pak's mother, two
sisters, Pak, and three
little
brothers, I gave Pak 1,000
won
(about 7.70) out of the mission fund
besides
the
other 1,000
won collected
from
among the three
of
us, according to the
custom
here on such
occasion.
We
attended
the funeral
and
wept
with
the
bereaved.
Now
a
heavy burden
is on
Pak's shoulders,
and
he
will have
to
give
up
his
long
cherished hope
of
going
to
college
next year, VFhenever
we
see his
sad
and discouraged look, we are very sorry for him
and re
flect if there
cannot
be
a
way to help him,
,
r,
Taylor asked
me to
handle
some relie
goods
unloaded in Pusah
through
the custom
house
and
another
supply
unloaded in Chinhae
an
sent me some money for the expense. I made a two
day
trip to Chinhae last week to pick up
and send the goods to Seoul by rail. He
gave
us a bale of used
clothes and we distributed
them among the church members and Sunday school children.. , J e are
in
very bad financi
condition,
as
you may imagine.
However
hard we
may try
not
to
spend, some
money
must
be
spent
to
keep work going
on,
so from time to time I had to borrow some
money
through my
wife
from her
relatives and use it for
our work,
(This
has
now been repaid but they
are
still short
of
money.) .. . ould you tell me
by
now
about
when
you
will be able to come
back
to us?
The
death
of
Pak's father was quite a shock
to
us. We considered him to be
one
of
our goo
friends and this is quite a loss to us as well as
to
his
family. We have
mentioned before
what a
fine
boy
Pak Sung
II
is. He is an excellent worker, working every
day
from 7-30 AM
until
5:00
FM
for the mission and
then
going
to
school
at
night.
He
is
an
honor student a
will be
graduating
the
first of
next year and had intended to go
on
to college, taking
classes at
night.
Now he must support his family so unless we
can
increase his salary so
can
support
them he will
not
be able to go on to
college.
We
had anticipated
that this
young man would be a real help
to
the mission in the future. We do not have sufficient mo
ey to
take care
of Pak. If
some
class or
church would
like to
make this
a project, ^45
month
would be sufficient
to
take care
of
his
family
and
school
expenses.
This would be
o
of the finest
contributions
that
could
be
made to
the future of
the
Lord's
work in
Korea.
If
you are
interested,
let us know and
we
will
visit
v i l t h
you
or
send details.
As you can see from Mr, Lee's
letter,
finances
are still
a
problem.
We must send
about
a month to Korea and we
are
just about one month behind at the present.
Additional
monthl
pledges are sorely needed.
(See the
next page
for
a detailed list.)
We have just prepared
a
17 page
syllabus telling
about Korea and its people,
history, cus
toms and culture and the work of Korean Broadcasting Mission. These are available to
you
request and
we
would like for you to have one. Write to us. Please continue to remember u
and the
work
in your
prayers.
Faithfully yours,
Bert,
Marge and
John Ellis
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The following list includes what we
need
before
we
return to Korea:
1,
Supplies, Equipnent etc.
Korean
Language
Typewriter
(To
be
purchased
in Korea) 250
Standard Office T j r p e v / r i t e r (to b e p u r c h a s e d
in Korea)
. 225
Motor Scooter
(Possibly
can be purchased in Japan
enroute to Korea). .. . 250
Gestetner Duplicator (Now being
purchased
on monthly payments from
G e n e r a l
F u n d ) .
350
Scope
and
Color Change and
Equipnent
for Duplicator ... .
.
'
100
Portable Typewiter (Now being
purchased
on monthly
payments from
^
General Fund)
110
DeJur
Stenorette Dictating Machine (Now being
purchased
on
monthly
payments
from G eneral Fund) , . 285
Offset
Printing
Press,
with Copier etc, (Used, if in good condition). .
.
.
Film Strip Library (A pproximately 200
Strips
at about $3.50 each)... . 700
Film Strip Projectors (Two at
about
|35 each)
.
....
.
70
Refrigerator . . . 250
Gas Stove . .
,
. . . . ...... 100
Visual Aid Supplies
and Teaching
Materials.
,
. .
.
.
.
.
. . . . .
400
Jeep (Can possibly be
p u r c h a s e d
in Korea)
1,200
For
Housing
Deposit
. . . .
,
1,000
For
Passage
to
Korea 850
. or
Shipping Charges
to Korea ..... ....;. 6OO
Miscellaneous
Supplies and Equipment . 500
Tape Recorder
(Can
possibly be purchased in Japan enroute
to
Korea) .
.
.
.. 250
. Additional Pledges
To Support the V J o r k
,
Mr. Lee Ki
Nam,
(Interpreter, preacher,
teacher
and
business
manager) Salary $55
per
month
Mr.
Kim
Duk Sung (Interpreter, teacher, in
charge
of
childrens'
work) Salary 45
Miss Suh Jueng Doh (D irects
student
Bible clubs,
correspondence
work,
and
assists in radio
production
and
childrens' work)
Salary
50
Mr, Pak Sung
II
(Printer,
general office help,
purchasing
agent and general assistant) Salary 45
Rent
for
Office and Chapel 60 ;
Postage and Supplies 85
Equipment (purchased
as
needed but averaged out
monthly)
50
TOTAL
I 390
There are no funds
designated to
pay these
workers
and their salaries at present must com
from the G eneral Fund
which
is always
short.
Your
class
or church
c o \ i l d
take
one of thes
workers for your missionary
in
Korea
or
one of
the
items of
equipment as
a
project
to wor
on. Vfrite to us
for
details.
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Address:
Forwarding Agent:
335 Lockburn Miss Loraine Lindse
Indianapolis, Indiana
462^1
Cabool State Bank
Phone: CHapel 4-5994
Cabool,
Missouri
September, 1963
Dear Friends:
Again we greet
you
in the
n a m e
of our Lord and Saviour
Jesus
Christ
This
ha s
been
a
busy
summer for all
of
us and as fall swiftly approaches we are thinking daily
of
o
return to
Korea.
It
had been our intention
to
return about
the first
of September
but
the
time
lost due to
Bert's
illness will delay
us
a
few
months. We are
happy
to
report
that
Bert is feeling won derful and working hard
again.
The work i n Korea continues to progress and we want to share with you the
latest repo
with these excerpts taken from
Mr. Lee
Ki
Nam's letters -
From a
letter late i n
June
- "Mr. Patten (from Korean Christian Mission in Seoul) ha
been
here
regularly every
other
week to help us.
He
taught
the
club students on Scripture
on
Saturday
afternoons,
a
couple of times showing slides with the projector he
brought
wit
him.
He put all his
young
energy into those sermons he gave on Sunday mornings
and
evenin
and I ometimes found
myself
breathless interpreting for him. ...
On those
Sundays when Mr
Patten was not here, Mr. Lee
Hak
Kyong gave the morning sermons
and
Mr. Kim and I ook tur
in preaching i n
the evening.
Though
both of us
try
hard and
give
much time to
preparing t
sermons, we are not,
a n d
have never properly
trained to be, good preachers, elieve.
Wh
ever we stand before the congregation we cannot help longing for
your
returning soon and
taking this awkward part
of our service
from off our shoulders. We will do our best, howe
er,
until you come back.
On
Sunday,
May
12, w hi ch
was
Mothers'
Day,
w e
provided
the members w ith
red
and white
c a r n a t i o n s to be p inned
on their
coat, and
also
ornament ed
the
c hurc h with some flowers an
signs.
...
On Sunday,
June
2, all the church
and
the key members of the clubs had an outdoor
ser
ice and picnic
at Ta
Dae Po, eight miles away from the city. After the service on the bea
w e
enjoyed, with M i r . Patten taking a
most
active part,
playing
many games. We could have
stayed longer,
but
for the
rain
which started i n late afternoon and we
got
wet
hurrying
to
ward
the bus. We
regretted
he had not
been able to
bring his
wife from
Seoul,
and thought
how nice
it
would be
if
you,
P I r s . Ellis, and John
were also with us.
... i ^ I r s
Patten
accom
anied him
to Pusan last
Saturday, leaving their daughters with the Taylors.
It
was the
first
time
she
came
to Pusan
after
she
had settled
down in Seoul. We took them
to dinner
Sunday afternoon,
and
were glad to
see
them
enjoy
'bulkoki' (thin sliced
beef,
marinated i
a special Korean sauce and then charcoal broiled
-
delicious ) and crab, which I ad heard
was h er favorite dish. ... We sure appreciate
his
good help, and hope to get more people t
church by the time
he
c omes next.
The
childrens' Sunday school
is
getting along fine . ... The children n o w have a new
chart,
that is,
a
picture
of a
grape
vine with
clusters
of blank grapes, on which good
cla
es on each Sunday put red, yellow or purple grapes, thus competing with each other. ... On
Childrens'
Sunday,
May 5> gave
a
little prize to the good classes
and
children.
We are very thankful for the money ($400
and
$300) you sent
us
despite very difficult
financial conditions over there. We could pay some urgent back bills and also get our sal
aries,
which
I
as much
relieved to receive after
living
in
debt
for
quite
a
while. For
t
last
severa l months the prices have been on a steady rise and particularly the price of ri
j u m p e d up to
V / y O O
a m a l (about
$5.25):
it
was
about /OVO
this
time last year.
We
don't
expect
the
situation x - r i l l scon get better, and only desire it will not get worse.
...
Well, that is
all I can
think
of
to tell you
now.
Remember here
are
your people who
keep praying for your rapid recovery
of
health, your quick return to
Korea,
and better day
for
our mission."
From a
July letter:
"On June 20 the
southern
part
of
Korea
was
visited by a
typhoon,
especially the Pusan area, followed b y a heavy rainfall lasting nearly two weeks, with lan
slides
and flood,
causing more than ICQ death s, 13,000 people h o r a e w r e c k e d and crop damage
estimated
at
$16,000,000.
T h i s
turned
the food shortage
worse, and last week the price
of
rice soared up to
an
unprecedented
/ / I , 3 0 0 a 'mal' (an
average adult
needs I7 'mal' a mon th
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with
the price of other foodstuffs and goods also going up. Today the rice is sold for
^ 9 1 0 a
* m a l ,
a s m y w i f e s a y s , a n d
i t
s e e m s
t h e
p r i c e w i l l n o t d r o p b e l o w
y / 8 0 0
w h i c h i
still
more than twice as much as that of this time last year, till the harvest in the fall
The
government
started rationing rice
and
barley or flour, but it is neither
regular
nor
enough to supply the need. It is really a trying time for the people here. The governmen
is all in haste to
import rice
and barley
from
the States and South
Asian countries, and
w
hope the situation will improve, but
also
fear not soon. Many religious and other relief
agencies
are extending
their
help to the
poor
and
unfortunate, and
a nationwide
campaign
for giving alms has been
launched.
The Bible club students keep asking
about
summer camp, and
we
tell
them we
will soon
hear from you and make
final
decision.
...
If we have
it,
I ear the expenses
will be much
more than that of the one we had summer before last,
owing
to
the
much
higher
prices.
A team
of club students,
mainly of the
college
Bible club, is planning
to go on a
tri
to some island villages
near
Pusan to give
people
there enlightenment, both religious and
educational, during
their summer
vacation
which is
from
July 26
to the end of August,
The
are now also
collecting
used clothes
to distribute to
the poor
people.
We also plan to
have a
summer Bible
school
for the
Sunday
school children from
July 3
to August 3, The expense
is
estimated
at
about y / 3 0 0 0 (about
$23.10)
for
materials
and
re
wards
to
honor
students at the closing ceremonies, and
other
odd expenses. Mr.
Kim, with
other Sunday school leaders, is now busy preparing programs and teaching materials.
Yesterday, Mr. Oh,
the
owner
of
the church
building,
wanted
to see me, and I
alked
with him for
an
hour.
H e
said
he
would like to have the rent on the church raised to
^,0
a
month from July
(about
$53*90 or a raise of about $15.^0).
I
ried
to
talk him into wai
ing until you return, but he said
in
all other places in the neighborhood the rent was rai
ed in
view of the
price
rise.
...
We pray
for
your
quick
recovery
of good
health
and
return
to
us. ...
From
a letter
of August 20: I am
afraid
to have
kept
you waiting to hear from us,
b
anted
to
get
our summer
programs and
pictures
finished
before writing
you.
Your latest
letter surely brought us
good
news and relief. Especially we
are delighted to
hear
that
y
are getting better every day and have already got strong enough to start traveling and go
a
camp.
It is
also
very pleasing to know
that John
has been doing a
good work, speaking
i
churches and camps. We hope some day
he
will be returning to
Korea
as
a
good and faithful
worker for the Lord.
The plan
of
college
students' touring
the villages
was
cancelled
at the last minute a
ter
all
because quite a
few
of
them
were
to
undergo
ROTC military
training
and
some others
were to join relief service teams
of
their respective colleges during the vacation. Inste
other
club members made two visits.
On July
26,
members
of
the KNG
club
and a
few of
the other club
members went
over
by
boat
to Achisom, a small island
outside Pusan harbor. The village there,
though not too
f
away
from the city, is quite
isolated
from the
municipal
benefits
of
the present
day,
and
the people are making scanty livelihood with fishing and farming. They had suffered
much
damage
from the last
typhoon.
There
the
club students gathered over
100 children
in a pri
mary school classroom, told
them
stories from
the Bible,
showed them
how
to keep
their bod
ies clean and healthy, giving some of them long-overdue haircuts
and
finger-nail trimming,
and distributed among them the used clothes which they had collected among the members sin
the st orm, some cans
of
DDT,
handkerchiefs,
and copies
of
the Bible course, 'God's Plan Fo
Your Salvation, o take home and have their parents read, who were mostly out working for
the day.
The
team
was
met with heavy showers several
times during
that day, and
had
to
gi
up house-to-house visits.
They were
all drenched to
the
skin when they came back to our
church
in the
evening.
The villagers
were much impressed and thankful for the students'
services, and
when
the
boat left
late
in
the afternoon, the children and some
adults
x ^ r h o
had returned home from work because of the shower,
standing
on the shore
waved
their hands
toward
the boat until
their figures
faded away in
the
rain
and mist.
On
July 29,
the Unhasoo club students made a visit
to
Shing-Mang-Ae (Faith-Hope-Chari
House, a
poor
hous for the
aged,
far
out
on the outskirts of the city. There live
125 ol
homeless
men
and women, aged between 60 and
90.
After the joint worship service,
the
stud
ents gave them some entertainment, for which they
had
been rehearsing for
a
couple of week
After each item
of
the program ended, the old people
returned
a thunderous
applause
with
their withered hands.
We
presented
each
of them
with
a wash-cloth at the end of
the
enter
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tairanent,
and
it was
a
very moving sight when they sang 'God Be
With You Till
We
Meet Aga
while
waving
the
wash-cloths
over their heads.
Mr.
Han Hyong
Se manager of
the
House
said that it was very rare for them to have
any
visitors from outside except for the Chri
mas and New
Year
season, and
ours was
so much more
appreciated.
They came
out to
the
gat
to
see
us off singing hymns and waving hands
when
our bus left there. A
few
days later
the
manager sent to our mission
a
letter of
thanks.
...
Since
we did not have camp this
summer , we took the Bible
club
students
to the
beach
on the 8th of this mon th, and they enjoyed
games
and swimming there a whole day. They
rea lly do
hope
to
be
able to
have
a
camp
next
year
with
you here.
The
Summer Bible School for the Sunday
School
children started on July 30 and ended
August
3, Mr.
Kim and seven
leaders giving
the
children, average attendance
87,
the
real
little ones excluded,
three
and a half
hour
lesson each day: worship, Bible study in divi
ed
classes, Bible
stories
told
by the leaders i n
turn,
lesson on manners i n church and ho
picture drawing
and
coloring,
handwork, learni ng new
children's
hymns, recreat ion. To
ha
more room
in the
Bible
study
hour, the leader took
a class
to
the
second
floor, joining t
others on the third floor after the
hour
was over (the second floor is our office
space.)
It
happened to
be
the hottest days
when we had
the Bible
school,
but the leaders and
chil
ren
were all very interested and working hard. We wished we had
a
church
ground
on which
to
take the children
out and
have a more active
and lively recreational
hour. On the
las
day
the children were given
a
written test
on
what
they
had learned and
many
of them got
good mar ks.
...
Taking the marks, attendance, manners
in
church
into
consideration,
we
pi
ed out
three
honor
pupils
to receive the prizes: the first prize from you (New
Testament,
hymnal,
and a T - s h i r t ; t h e s e c o n d from me (New T e s t a m e n t , h y m n a l , and a
ball
pen);
the
third from Mr. Kim (New Testament and hymnal.) To the other children we gave
t v / o
pencils
each, and
the leaders
pinned a small
artificial
flower they had made on every child's
bos
when they walked out of church afte r
the
commencement ceremony. To the
leaders and
the o
ganist
we
gave
a
towel each in appreciation of
their g ood
services and in memory of the
event. Mr. Kim
and
the leaders
had
been
preparing
for t he school for
three
weeks, on a
occasions working all morning
and afternoon. On such days and every aftern oon after scho
hours we t ook them to lunch
to
a
moderate place
nearby. For the
last
two Sun days
after
t
summer school
I
watched the children
in
worstiip hour and
I
found their manners have muc
improved. I hink
the
school bore a good result.
In doing
these works,
we tried to
spend
as little as possible, but I am sorry to
rep
to you that, added
up,
the expenses turned out to
be
much
over
what we
had
originally est
mated.
These
days the pri ces here are just not dependable, those of this week being no
longer
the
same as those of last week, .. he house, a room
of
which
my
wife
and I have
been renting since our marriage was auctioned last week, and
we are
notified by the court
to
move
out within two
weeks
without
getting
any of
the key
money back
we had
put in,
(ke
money is
a large
deposit
paid
down when one rents, in Mr.
Lee's case
probably several hun
dred dollars.) So I am a lso in
a
very
difficult p ersonal
situation. By
the
way the ren
on
the house gen erally made a big jump
lately,
and I would like to
let
you know
that when
you
return,
you
x r i l l
have t o
estimate twice as much for
your key
money
on
the house you
w
be living in as you did before.
The
lease on the house you used to
live
was, even at
tha
time, an exceptionally good bargain.
(Our
key money was $1 ,00 0
before.) ...
We are glad to know that you have bought quite
a
few items of
equipment for
our futu
work. I wish we
had
that portable tap e recorder this summer . I would suggest to bring a
so
enough
stock
of spendable
goods
such
as
stencils,
mimeograph
paper, typing paper etc.
They are hard
to
get these days, and if you are
lucky enough to
find
any,
the price is ju
preposterous. ...
We are all praying
that the day may
come
soon when we
will welcome you to
this
old
place and
have a brighter
future together.
All the church memb ers, club
students,
and Su
day school
children
send
their best
wishes
to
you, Mrs. Ellis, and John.
Of course the re port of the storms and the crop damage and resulting high prices is
disturbing.
The
Korean s' economic condition
is
such a precarious,
day
to
day
existence
a
best
that doubling
the
price of rice is a catastrophe. As
this
is the bulk of their
diet
it is just about the same
as
if
your
grocery
bill was
suddenly doubled. In fact,
it
is
much
worse for them for in our case here in
the
States we would all just cut out
a
few of
the luxuries of life where
in
their
case
there are no luxuries to cut
out. It means
they
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will just be hungrier than they
usually are,
and in some cases this will at
least approach
starvation*
Mr.
Lee's plight concerning his
key-money for
a
dwelling place is
very ser ious.
We
di
not
help
him with
his
key-money orig inally
but now that he has
lost
this
dep osit due
t o a
court
decision we feel we must help him. I t will cost
at
the very least 300 to find him
new
place
and it
should
b e mo r e .
We
pay him a
minimum
salary for
his position
and
his abi
ities
so
he
needs help.
If you would like t o designate
a special offering
for this please
let us know. He cert ainly deserves the help
and
consideration of Christian people here in
the States.
We are so proud
of
these Korean workers and thankful for the
way
that the
work
continu
even in our
absence.
This is the real test
of
what value our
work
has been
for
the
past
five
years.
We are
so
pleased to report that since our last letter the
South
Christian Church
at
Mooreland,
Indiana has
taken the support of
our
worker,
Pak Sung
II,
a t
^5
a
month.
This
will enable him to
support
his widowed mother and family
and still go
on to college.
He
i l l b e continuing t o work in the daytime and go to school
at
night. What a gr eat help it
is for this fine church to t ake t his responsibility.
Their
good minister is Carl White an
our corr espondent there is Miss Bernetha Odell, a
former
missionary. Thanks so
much
to
yo
folks at Mooreland
We have b e en informe d unofficially that
a youth
group of another
of
our churches is t a
ing
the
support
of
M r . Kim Duk Sung. We will have more t o
say
about
this
in our next lett
er.
We
certainly
do
appreciate this help with
our
responsibilities
in
Kor ea .
We
still
ne
regular
support
for
M r . Lee
K i
Nam
and
Miss Suh Jueng Doh. With the rise
in
prices this
should be 65 a
month
for i^. Lee and 60 for Miss Suh, at a
minimum. Let
us know if you
a r e interested in supporting one
of
these
fine
workers and we will send you more informat
ion
B e r t ,
Ma rg e
and John
have all
been busy this summer
in
camps and churches and trying t
take care
of
all the mjrriad details
of
life on furlough. We wish we could
tell
you all th
places
we
have been. Bert and John
have
some open dates
on their schedules
for
this
fall
and will be glad to vsit
you if
the date can be arranged. Just write to
us.
Also remembe
that we have a 17 page syllabus prepa red concerning Korea and which will b e sent t o you fo
the asking.
We want you to have one if
you
are interested in the
work.
Please
continue your
financial help.
Y o v i
can
see
from M r,
Lee's
letters
that expenses
are on the rise
in
Korea,
We
send be tween 300
and ^00
a month to Korea just t o keep
things going and each month i f c is
a
struggle to get
this
sent,
along
with
all
the
other
ex
penses
We are thinking every day now about our return to Korea. If
all
goes well we
hope
t o
return shortly after
the
first
of
the year. This will be
about
five
months
later than we
had
planned,
which is just about
the time lost
by Bert's
illness. Our ret urn
depends on
you.
We must have
additional
pledged funds t o carr y on this work
and
we need extra
funds
for equipment and transportation. We are enclosing
a
list of
our
needs.
Please
give it
your
pra yerful consideration. Pe rhaps your class, Sunday
school or
church
can
take p a r t o
this as a pr oject.
Also, continue t o r e m e m b e r us and the work in your prayers. Without
your
prayers the
work cannot
possibly
continue. We do appreciate all your rem emb rances. We also app reciat
beyond
words the help that Gordon
Patt en and Harold Taylor and
their
families
have
given
i
the
work
in
Korea.
These good
folks of
Korean
Christian
Mission
in Seoul
have taken valu
able
time from
their
busy
schedule
to
see
that
the
work
in
Pusan
has assistance
and
over
sight and to give encourage ment to
the Korean
workers.
We
can never r e p ay them for this
We do ask that you
especially rem embe r
th e m in
your
prayers,
Our
very best wishes t o all of
you good folks
who are
partners
with us in the work of
the
Lord
in Korea,
Faithfully yours,
Bert,
Marge
and
John
Ellis
P,S.
As
we write this we have
just
heard there is a cholera epidemic in
Korea, several
hun
dred
cases and some deaths already.
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R E P O i l T
LETTER -
Septe.nber, 19^3
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Page
5
The following
list
is what we n e e d b e for e we r e t u r n t o Korea:
1 .
S u p p lies ,
Equi pme n t
E tc.
Korean
Language
Typewriter (To be
purchased
in
Korea) 30
Standard
Office Typewriter (To be
purchased
in Korea) 27
Motor Scooter (Possibly can b e purchased
in
Japan enroute
to Korea) 25
Gestetn er Duplicator (Now be ing purchased
on
monthly payments from
G e n e r a l Fund) 35
Scope
and Color Change
and
Equipment
for
Duplicator 10
Portable
Typewriter (Now
being
purchased on monthly
p a j r m e n t s
from
G e n e r a l Fund) 11
D e J u r S t e no r e t t e D icta ti ng Machine (Now be ing purchased on monthly
payments
from
General Fund)
28
Offset Printing
Press,
with Copier
etc. (Used, if in
good
condition)
Film
Strip
Library (Approximately 200
strips
at
about 3.50
each) 70
Film Str ip Proje ctors
(Two at about 35 each) 7
Refrigerator
25
Gas
Stove 10
Visual Aid
Supplies
and Te aching
i^terials ^0
J e e p (Can possibly b e purchased in
Korea)
1,20
For
Housing
Deposit 2,00
For Passage t o
Korea
85
For S h i p p i n g C h a r g e s to K o r e a 60
.-dscellaneous Supp lies and Equipment 5 0
Tape Recorder (Can possibly b e purchased
in
Japan enroute t o Korea). ..... 25
2.
Additional
Ple dg es t o S u p p o r t t h e i / o r k
: i r . Lee Ki Nam,
( In t e r p r e t e r , p r eache r ,
teacher
and business manager) Salary $ 6 5 per mont
i r . Kim Duk
S u n g ( I n t e r p r e t e r , t e a ch e r ,
in charge
of childre ns'
work) S a l a r y
55
idss Suh Jueng Doh
(Directs
student Bible clubs, corres
p o n d e n c e
work, a n d assists
in
radio
production and childrens'
work)
.
.
.
.
alary
6 0
. I t .
Pak Su ng II ( P r in t e r , g e n e r a l office help, purchas
ing agent and gener al assistant) . . .
.
alary ^5
Ren t for
Office an d Chap el
6 0
Postage
and
Supplies
.
85
Equipmen t (Purchased as n e ed ed b u t averafSO out monthly
. .
50
TOTAL $
390
Since our l ast l e t t e r su p po r t for Pak
has
b e e n
pledged
and we have heard unofficially tha
Kim's su p p o r t is pl e dg e d. The r e a r e n o funds design a t e d
to
p a y t h e
othe r worke rs o r
ex
pe nses and this must come from t h e G e n e r a l Fund which is always short . In fact, for t he
g r e a t e r p a r t o f t h e i r t i me
in
Korea t h e
Ellis family
has
lived on
half salary
in
orde r
to
pay the o t h e r expenses. Your class or church could take o n e of these workers for your
missionary
in
K o r e a ,
or
one of
t h e
items
of
equipm e n t as
a
p r oj ec t
t o work
on.
Writ e
t o
us
for details.
(A
few
of
the items
have b e e n revised upwards from pr evious stat ement s due to
t h e
ris
in
prices
in Korea .)
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Indianapolis, Indiana
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Dear Christian Friend:
Would you
like
to mak
this year's Thanksgiving
a
real
thanksgivin
for
yourself,
for
hundreds
of children an
young peopl e in Korea and for all
of
us
wh
are a part
of
Korean
Broadcasting
Mission?
You
can
do it, and here s how: take
special offering in your class, your youn
peoples' group, your woinens' society, you
Bible School, your church,
or
make
a
specia
gift
yourself
to help provide
some
of th
tools
we need
to
help
explain to the Korea
people the love and
concern
that Christ
ha
for them.
We are asking
you
to designate one
Sun
day
during the Thanksgiving season,
prefer
ably
November
24,
as
a day
for challengin
Christian
people i n
your congregation
wit
the
needs
of the work
of the
Lord
in
Pusan
Korea.
May
we
suggest that
you:
1.
Make an announcement early
in November that
you
are
going to express your thank
to
God this year for
all
the
blessings
He has poured out upon you by taking a spec
ial
offering on Thanksgiving Sunday
to
provide needed
tools
so
that others, in Korea
who have not
had your privileges
in
the
Gospel, may come to know of
Christ's savin
grace and power.
2. Tell them of
specific needs
and
Just how
even a small gift will do so much,
takin
examples from the enclosed sheet.
3-
Remind them
each Sunday
through November and
in
church publications during
th
month about this specia l Thanksgiving offering.
4. Consider the possibility of having each class or organization have
a
specific goa
such as
a
fixed amount
of
money or
a specific
item of equipment .
5. Intensify the
reminders
in
the
week directly
before Thanksgiving
Sunday.
6.
Work
out
a d r a m a t i c
way of
p r e s e n t i n g the g i f t s b e f o r e t h e
whole
g r o u p so tha
they may be gratified and encouraged in the Lord's work by what they have done.
7.
Mail your gift
in
the enclosed
stamped
addressed envelope to Korean Broadcastin
Mission
W e
know that if you do this you will be blessed abundantly
by
the Lord, you
will
gladde
our hearts as we prepare
to
return
to Korea,
and you will help
to
bring
the
blessings
o
peace and salvation to
hundreds
of Koreans
who now
have no reason for
Thanksgiving.
Refer
to the
enclosed
sheet
and
make your
plans
NOW.
Further
copies of this
letter
an
list
available on request. Let's make this a
real
Thanksgiving Let's sacrifice a littl
as an
expression of gratitude for
the bounty
and abundance
that is
ours.
F a i t h f u l l y y o u r s ^
Bert, Marge and John Ellis
Korean Broadcasting Mission
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Happy
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KORM
BROADCASTING
MISSION
Bert Marge
and John Ellis
Furlough
Address
335
Lockburn
Indianapolis,
Indiana 46241
Phone
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CHapel
4-599^
Forwarding Agent
Miss
Loraine
Lindsey
Cabool State Bank
Cabool
Missouri
Dear Friends:
As
the
angel said to those Judean shepherds long ago, Listen, I bring you
glorious
news
of great
joy
which is for all the people. This very
day,
in David's town,
a
Saviour has been born for you. He is Christ the Lord. u i d the angel hosts then join
ed in praising God, saying, Glory to
God
in
the
highest
Heavenl
Peace upon earth among
men
of
goodwill.
This
is
the greatest message
of
good news
that
you have ever received or will ever
receive.
Because
of
your
financial
contributions
to the
work
of
Korean
Broadcasting
Mission there will be many
people
in Korea
who
will
be
able
to share
in this message of
good
news at
this
Christmas season,
men
and women, boys
and girls,
who would
never
have
heard this glorious message without your
help.
For them, we thank you at this
season
when we
especial ly remember God's
great
Gift
to the world.
Our plans are going forward for our return to Korea. We are now making application
for our visas
and have
written to the
travel agency
for
a shipping date.
We
should be
able
to make
a
definite announcement soon about the date. Actually the exact date de
pends mostly upon our financial situation .^ Our actual ravel
to Korea
will cost approx
imately
$1,000.
Our shipping costs will be somewhere in
the
vicinity of
$700,
(This is
difficult to even estimate
until the supplies are
actually
crated.) We
must
have
$2,500
for a deposit on a place
to
live
when
we
arrive there
for Mr. Lee tells us that housing
costs
have
risen tremendously
in
the last
few
months. It will take
a
minimum
of
another
$2,500 to purchase
the
necessary supplies
and
equipment for this work. These amounts
we
must have before we return to Korea. To go back and live as we did
on
our previous term
in Korea,
without
adeq uate finances,without
the
necessary equ ipment, with our efficiency
cut
considerably
by a
constant struggle
to raise funds to pay
pressing bills
is not the
way to do the Lord's work, in
our
opinion. Each month has been
a
constant struggle
to
keep current bills
paid
and
makes it
impossible to
take
advantage of
the
additional
opp
ortunities
given
to us every week for the preaching of the Gospel or
to esqjand
the var
ious
activities
already
underway which could lead to
a
much more
fruitful harvest
of
souls.
One great thing
that
could
be
done to relieve
a
portion of
these
problems would
be
for some
church
or some class
or
organization
to
undertake the support
of our two
other
Korean workers who are
as
yet unsponsored.
The
South
Christian Church
at Mooreland,
Indiana
has taken
the
support
of Mr.
Pak Sung
t $45 a
month
and
the
Youth Group
at
Perry Christian
Church
in
Canton,
Ohio
is underwiting the support of
Mr.
Kim
Duk
Sung
at $55
a month. For this
we
are
exceeding
grateful. Our two
senior
workers, Mr. Lee Ki
Nam
and Miss Suh Jueng Doh yet need
support. At
present their
salaries
come from the
General Fund and it usually means
a
struggle to find
the
money
to
pay their salaries
at
the end
of
each
month.
Mr.
Lee, 37 years of
age, university
graduate
and
a
high
school
teacher
before
coming to work with us
is
a
Christian gentleman of the highest
character.
His ability is
seemingly unlimited. H e
is called
upon
for many
tasks
as
preacher, teach-
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er,
interpreter, business manager etc., and while we have
been on
furlough has
been in
general
charge of
the work and
has
done
a tremendous job. It would
take
$65
a month
to
adequately support him.
Miss
Suh, 27
years
of age, a \iniversity
graduate
and of sterl
ing
Christian character
and ability, is the finest young
peoples*
worker we have ever
known.
She is in charge of the work with the
high
school and college students,
teaches
the younger
children in the Bible
School,
produces many of the
radio
programs,
is in
charge of the correspondence Bible
study
and does
many
other tasks .
An
adequate salary
for
her
w o \ i l d
be $60
a
month. e do not
know
of
a
finer work
a
church could do than to
take
the
support of one of
these
workers and thus have their own missionary in Korea.
These amounts certainly
are
not great,
$65
and
$60
a
month, and there are
few,
if
any,
churcnes
that
could not
raise this amoimt if
they
really set
their minds and hearts
to
it. We will be waiting to hear
from
some of you about this.
We also
need further
support for
our
own
family.
Our
salary,
which is
$325
a
month
at present,
comes from
the General Fund. Our practice has
been
to
pay the
other workers
and the mission bills as they come due and then we live on whatever is left, and
it
is
never $3^5 a
month.
In
fact, for the past 6 years
our family has averaged living
on not
more than
$200
a
month.
We are not complaining
about
this,
just
as
long
as
there are
adequate
funds to get the
work
done, but when we
do
this and still have a
time
meeting
the
bills it is sometimes a discouraging proposition.
Definite monthly
pledges are
needed to adequately
support
the
work.
The
most recent
supports
from
Korea
indicate that
the
work
is
still
going well but
the
Korean
workers
are
getting quite
anxious for our
return.
They
have done
a
wonderful
job
with
the
work during
the past
year while
we
have
been on
furlough, even though
they
had not anticipated having this responsibility
for that period.
One
of
our greatest
satisfactions has been the fact that they have been able to do this. Another years
with them and we will have no hesitancy
about
leaving
them
with
such
responsibility.
In
our opinion this is one of the
marks
of the
success
of the
program,
the fact that the
work has continued so well even without our presence. Gordon Patten,
of
Korean Christ
ian Mission in
Seoul has also been
a wonderful help
by going
down
almost
every other
j^eekend to help with the
work
in
Pusan.
We
do so
appreciate
the help and
friendship
of
the
Taylors
and Pattens in Seoul. We
feel
that with our three
families
cooperating
we
can
at
last
begin
to
accomplish
the task
of evangelizing
the
country
of
Korea.
We
are
hopeful of making
some announcements,about
two
important
factors in our
work
in the near future. We are
tryifff tb s i t
a committee
to supervise the
activities
of
Korean Broadcasting Mission
with
a view
to
the expansion
of the
work and
the
addition of
other
missionaries in
the future. Several prominent ministers have agreed
to
help set
this supervision
up
properly.
The other
announcement concerns recruits
for
the work.
Several families
are considering
the
possibility
of
coming
to Korea
and we
hope
some
announcement can be
made
in the
not
too distant future. All arra ngements
s
far
are
tentative
and
exploratory and there are no definite committments.
We are anxiously looking forward to
our
return to Korea. We are really homesick
for
our
friends
out
there.
The need
is grea t.
The door
is open in
Korea NOW
for
the
preaching of
the
Gospel but in
the
light of world
events
we do
not
know
how
long it will
continue this way. We must be about the Lord's busi ness. As
you
have so generously
helped in the past in
this work
we now
pray
you will continue.
Additional
large
amounts
are
needed
to
take care
of
the immediate needs for
our
return.
Definite pledged help is
necessary in order for
the
work
to continue. Please do
whatever you
can.
May all the
joys
of the
Christmas
season
be
yours.
Faithfully yours.
Bert, Marge and John Ellis
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Bert Bills
333 toekbum
Indianapolis^ Indiana A6241
Dear Bert
Your Chrtatoias Card
and
Nevs
Letter
o a t s e
today and
I do thank you for
them. I paid particular attention about at ou had to
say
regarding your
Furlough. Will
you
please
let me know by
return mail
i d i e n you
plan to return
to Korea? 1 will
be
preparing
copy soon
for
the
January
and
February
Available Speaker Lfstt so I need to
know
for this. Thanks.
Another item in your News Letter th at comes in the field ^ere
I
am trying
t o s e r v e i s t h i s
N e w
^crutt t h a t w i l l go to K o r e a . W h o is
t h i s
w h a t is his
address, ^en
will
he be available to go? Please share all th e information that
you can so
t
can contact him
and
begin
to
gather
the essential
papers. X an
direst support Christian
missionaries
as
you know and any help that you can
give to
me will
be
a
vital boost.
This
part of this service has outgrotm one
p e r s o n
b o n g
a g o . So,
h e l p me
a l l t h a i : y o u
c a n
B e r t
o w
a n d at
a l l
t i m e s .
T h a n
We
wish
you well
in raisin g your necessary
funds,
you
have
made
it
very
clear as to
the
needs, now
certainly th ere will be those wh o will respond.
May 1 ask another favor?
I
heard
a
great compUment about you and
the
information
that you
send out to prepare
the
way for one
of
your speaking
dates. Orval M. Morgan of Atlanta Christian C ollege says that it is the very
best that he has
s . ^ e n
anywhere
and told
me
to write
to
you
for
a copy.
S o,
will you be so kind as to
send
a
copy.
I may be able to
show it
to some of
the other
missionaries and thus
halp
them
too.
Thanks
very
much Bert.
Will
you keep the same Forwarding Agent?
1
heard
you
say once that you
might change.
All h ere
are
well and
very busy.
We
have
never had a fuller and busier
yaar. Yet, we can
see oth er things that need to be done.
We
are
sorry
that
our
gifti income has not
kept
pace with the
growth
of
this service.
We ere
working and praying trusting that we can
change
this.
Our very Best wishes. Merry Christmas
and
a Prosperous
New
Year.
Yours in
MISSION SBRVICBS
W B. Mo Gilvrey, Director.