simkins cyril mary 1965 rhodesia&ghana

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AFRICAN EV NGELIST

CYRIL C.

SIMKINS

Missionary

RHODESIA AFRICA

P/Bag

56 Zaka Rodesia Africa

Forwarding Agent: Robert L. Mize Route 4 Admiral Drive

Concord Tennessee

Vol 1

August 1965

Professor AlderAt Mashoko

SThe

stu ents

of

an

ose

i

le College

Cal i forn ia

sent

Professor George Alder to v i s i t

t h e mis s ion f i e l d in

Rhode s i a

He

arr ived in July

and

spent

three weeks

teaching in the

Bi

ble

College.

Teacher

Training

School and

th e

church

The

Bi

ble

College students f e l l in

lo v e w ith Mr. Al d e r and a sked

him to re turn. The

highlight of

h i s

v t was a one week r e v i v a l

Both

th e a t t e n d a n c e and th e

GEORGE LDER - TE CHING singing

indicated

the in teres t

th e

Af r i c a n s

had in t h i s meet

ing.

We

wil l remember

for

a long

time

th i s revival and

the

weeks of

t ra in ing

which

were so

thoughtful ly

provided

by

the students

of

San

Jose. God is blessing us in so many ways. Everything that we do

at

Mashoko has an

evangel i s t ic

emphasis. The

v i s i t

of Brother Alder

gave

us an added push fo r evange

l i sm in th e a r e a J u s t be fo r e

Pro fe s so r

Alde r

was to

l eave he

contacted malaria . Consequently

he

has seen

both

the good

and

bad o f Rhode s i a b u t God i s

h e a l

ing him from h is i l lne s s

and

we

know he w i l l

soon

be back

t e a ch

ing

and

preaching

the

Gospel

of

Ch r i s t

18th N TION L i

j MISSION RY CONVENTION |

I

September

-October 1 |

I

JOPLIN SSOUR

BAPTISM DURING

REVIVAL


2/8

The

Church

At Umtali

to

ground

th i s

church

in

sound

doct r ine and in New MEETING PL CE OF UMT LI

CHURCH

Testament

Christ iani ty . e

spent several

days

in Umtali talking

with the

congregation

and teaching the Gospel of Chris t . Brother

Dick Hostetter has

now

arrived

from

the

States

to

take

charge

of

th i s

work. Our

experiences with th i s African

congregation has

taught us a

lo t . We are convinced

tha t we

can

s t a r t churches

in

every

city as

well

as the

villages.

The church

is

spreading in

Rhodesia and

congregations

l ike the one at Umtali make the future

look

br ight

fo r

the cause of Chri s t .

African Funeral iViissionary Young People

- The

f a t - h e r - o f

a - n u r s e

t the

Mashoko

Hospital passed

away

and A C

the

family

asked for

some boards

V -.T* jBt

to

build

the coffin This

is ^ wjj^ a

ra re

th i s

country as

no em-

balming

is

ever done. At the 8

k ra a l a rea

where

hut s o f th e

family are

s i tua ted the coff in

was

wrapped black c lo th and

placed in the

main

hut.

They

VBHII

t h en c a r r i e d t h e

c o f f i n ou t

and

started

down

a path toward the Although most of our time

is

d i s t an t mountains

while

we a l l spent w ith

th e

Africans we are

followed.

s

we walked

along

the

Ot unmindful of

the

needs of

women

sang

hymns

in Shona.

children

of

the missionaries.

At the grave site they asked Dr. e held special

services

for

Pruett

to give the message and I them in Fort Victoria and later

gave the prayer. s everything took them to

Zimbabwe

bove is

is so very dry they did not have ^ picture of some of the mission-

f lowers. After

the

coff in was ^ 7

young

people.

They a re

l e f t

lowered

into

the ground, all of to right: Larry

Van

Dyke, Mary

the men present took turns shov- Simkins, Darrell

Pruett

Pamela

eling

in the dir t .

When level

and Mark

Pemberton. Cyril

Sim-

with

the ground the

men laid

on

kins Steve

Van Dyke, Mark

John

large

rocks. For the

return tr ip

son and Eddie Cooper. David

the

headmen walked in

single Pruett

took

the picture

f i l e then

the women in single

f i l e

followed by

the other

men.

Although most

of our

time

is

spent

with

th e Africans we are

no t

unmind f u l

o f th e

need s

o f

th e

ch i l d ren of th e

mis s i ona r i e s .

We held special serv ices for

them

in

F o r t V i c to ri a and later

t ook

them

to Zimbabwe. Above i s

a pic ture o f some

of the mission

ary

young people. They a re l e f t

to

right:

Larry

Van Dyke, Mary

Simkins Darrel l

Pruet t Pamela

and Mark

Pemberton Cyri l

Sim

kins

Steve Van Dyke Mark John

son

and

Eddie Cooper.

David

Pruet t

took the

pic ture .


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Mashoko ible College Teacher Training

The s tudents

of

the col lege

a re

t ra in ing fo r th e m in istry

in

Rhodesia

and

we already have

preachers

in Umtal i

Fort

Vic

to r ia ,

Chiredzi .

Bulawayo. and

other places.

Since

coming to

Rhodes ia to t r a i n Af r i c an

evan

ge l i s t s . I have been impressed

with the

in teres t

of these

young

men They are not on as high an

academic l eve l as comparable

c olle ge s tu de nts

in

the

U.S. but

i t is a del ight to

teach them.

They have a good grasp of

the

English

language as well as

an

even bet ter knowledge of the i r

n a t i v e

Shona . Amer i c an s t u d e n t s

often

try to do as

l i t t l e

study

ing as possible but

here i t

i s

qui te the opposite . They are

very anxious to l ea rn and want

the

education. e desire your

prayers

for these

young men

They have

many

obstacles to

overcome

and

many

temptat ions to

r s st b u t

th e

Lo r d s work need s

them as

well

as many more

to

preach the Gospel of Chr i s t .

Three

of

them are preachiftg reg

ularly on

Sundays. Often

i t

i s not only necessary

to

t r a in

the

preacher

but to begin the

church where the preacher is to

preach.

This is also a par t of

the t ra in ing

they rece ive . The

door is

wide

open

in Rhodesia.

e

are try ing

hard

to

enter

while i t i s st ll open. Occas

ionally we have someone

fa l l

by

the

wayside

but

fo r the most

par t ,

there has

been

a very re

warding

success in the

t ra in ing

o f

m i n i st e r s

h e r e .

iL j

lui

In

July

we began a s ix

month

teaching program fo r the African

Churches. Teachers preachers

and

church

l e a d e r s wi l l

come

to

Mashoko

once

a

month

fo r

i n t en

sive t ra in ing in Christ ian Doc

t r ine.

Stewardship and the New

Testament

Church.

plan to

educate them more thoroughly

in

the Gospel of

Chri s t

and

in

New

Testament Christ iani ty . Several

o f th e m is s io n a r ie s wi l l be

part ic ipat ing

in

this program.

At the same

time

we

are taking

the

program

in to

For t

Victor ia

and

Ch i r e d z i .

Th i s

w i l l

mean

t h a t a t

l e a s t

t h r e e weekends

every month

we

wi l l

draw

in our

church

leaders for t rain ing. I t

is hoped that this program of

intensive

training will greatly

s t r eng then

the church

in

the

en

t r a r e a . The

l e s sons w i l l be

t ranslated

into the

Shona lang

uage .

God Called Them Home

Our beloved

f r i end and mis

sionary toBelgium DonCaste le in .

passed away a few weeks ago. Don

had a most unusual abil i ty to

include in

every

conversation

some

r e f e r e n c e to

th e

Lord

J e s u s

Chris t . He could not

keep from

ta lking about Him. Now he

has

gone to be

with

Him Your pray

ers are needed for his

family

and

for

the work

in Belgium.

Short ly

a f t e r

the

news of Don

Cas t e l e i n s

d ea th , an othe r

t e l e

gram arr ived

bearing

the message

t h a t Mrs. S imk in s mothe r

had

d i ed . Funera l s e rv i c e s

were

be

ing held about the

same

hour the

telegram f inal ly reached

us.

I t

is

only

af te r

this

experience

tha t we

real ized

how many of the

mi s s i o n a r i e s have l o s t a l oved

one while they were on

the mis

sion

f ie ld . One thing we want

to say. Her

l i fe

was an inspir

a t i on to a l l o f

us .

She no t

only

showed

us the way to God

bu t she walked wi th u s .


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Reeves Reflections

On

Rhodesia

Robert

Reeves,

Minis te r

of

th e F i r s t Chr i s t i an

Church,

Fair

f ie ld

I l l i no i s

is

S ecretary to

th e

Mis s i on s

Commi t t ee

in th e U-

n i t e d S t a t e s .

He has been as so

c i a t e d wi t h t h e work in Rhodes ia

from the

beginning.

He

vis i ted

in Rhodes ia this summer and th e

following

l e t t e r was writ ten on

his re turn voyage.

After spending

a month

v i s i t

ing many of

our mission s tat ions

i n

s ou t h e r n Af r i c a I am conv i n c

ed t h a t wha t t h e Ch r i s t i a n Chu r

ches

do

in the

next

ten

years in

Rhodesia could very well deter

mine the future

of

th i s aggres

sive

young nation. I t is impos

sible

to

conc e i v e o f wha t cou l d

be

done or what

i s

being done

without

seeing the Centra l Af

r ica

Mission in

person.

The h e a r t

o f

chu r ch and

o f

a

f o r th e chu r ch i s

m inis try . Cyril

an

indigenous

hopeful future

in an

educ a t e d

Simkins, John

Pemberton,

and t h e i r

as soc i a t e s

are

providing

the kind of

aca

demic oppor tuni t ies tha t

the

young

preacher s tudents of Rho

de s i a need .

They also have great

plans

fo r a

progressive

and

expanding

min is te ri al tr ai ni ng program.

Those of

you who

support

th is

work

can

be conf ident tha t your

trust

in th e s e men

is

we l l

placed.

(signed)

Robe r t E.

Reeves

M in i st e r

irst Ch r i s t i a n Church

Fa i r f i e l d I l l i no i s

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the

Central

iSfrica

iRiaisd on

Churches o f C h r i s t

BY

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PARK

CHRISTIAN

CHURCH

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FRIC N

EV NGELIST

CYRIL 0 SIMKINS Missionary

RHODESI

FRIC

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Forwarding Agent; Robert L Mize Route 4 Admiral Drive

Concord Tennessee

V o l .

1

N ov em be r 1 96 5 N o . 4

Gutu

ivaagelism

Pkmei

a re undertaking an e v a n g e l i s t i c

pro

gram in Gutu.

Ou r f i r s t

p r o j e c t in

t hi s

campaign

wil l

be to

erec t

a church

b u i l d

ing.

I

have

promised t h r e e

thousand f o r

th is p r o j e c t and

we know

t h a t th e

Lord

wil l

provide

i t I t

is

p o s s i b l e t h a t more

t han t h i s a m o u n t wi l l b e needed

Beginning

with

1966

we

are

opening

a

s eco n d ary

sc h o o l in

Gutu

w ith Doug and

F r a n c e s Johnson in

c h a r g e .

When we en te r

th is

area

f o r ed u catio n we want

to

begin

an evangel is t ic campaign

along

with i t

in ten d

to

promote th e

e v a n g e l i s t i c work

w h ile they are

doing th e e du ca tio na l

work.

Our

work

in

Gutu has come primarily

th r o u g h

th e

work o f

one man John Kurebwa

o u r

p reach er in this a r e a . Although b l i n d

he

has done

an

e xc el le nt jo b o f p l a n t i n g th e

New

Testament Church in

Gutu.

I t

is l a r g e l y through h is ef for t s t h a t

we

have been g ran ted

the secondary school. The church has no building and no money but

t h e y m eet u n d e r

th e

t r e e s I n

orde r

to g iv e an impetus to

h is

work

an d

sca t t e r

i t throughout

th e a rea we

need to erec t one church

b u i l d i n g

I

have

unde r t aken t h i s

t a s k f o r 1 9 6 6

an d th e

people

a re planning fo r i t

Mr Kurebwa

is

v e r y opt imis t ic and

bel ieves tha t

th e Gospel

can

be

preached th rou gho ut the

whole

a r e a .

hope that before

the

year is over

s o m e o n e e l s e

wi l l

b e in th e G u t u

a r e a

looking a f te r th e e v a n g e l i s t i c

work.

Yes.

God s power

is every

w h e re .

The Gospel i s th e power to

s av e

w h e r e v e r it g o e s . We

need

o n l y

to p r e a c h it

and

l e t Go d do

t h e

r st

JOHN KUREBWA


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Weekly Schedule

No d o u b t

some

f r ie n d s a re in

t e res ted in

how

the m issionary

spends his t ime.

This schedule

is sometimes

in terrupted and any

var ia t ion

from

i t

wi l l

only

add

to

it We must t ake t ime fo r

others

such

as

the nursing s tu

d e n ts o r

t e a c h e r

tr inees

Monday

Morning

4

hrs. teaching

Bib le Life of Chr i s t

C h r i s t i n e

D o c t r i n e

A f t e r n o o n f r e e f o r t h e

preparation of

lessons

Evening

language

lessons

Tuesday

Morning 5

hrs.

teaching

Bib le L i fe of C h r i s t

World o f th e New

T e s t a

ment. Apologetics.

Chapel for

Bible College

t n o o n

A f t e r n o o n 2 h r s

Gr eek

fo r th i rd yrs s tudent

Evening

English class

Wednesday

Mern4ng

3hr s teach in.g_

Bib le Li fe o f C h r i s t

Afternoon 1

h r

teaching

Bible to

missionary

c h i l d r e n

Evening Prayer

Meeting.

Thur sday

Morning

5

hrs. teaching

Bible l i f e o f C h r i s t

World

o f

New

Testament

Apologetics.

Chapel

for Bible College

t

n o o n

A f t e r n o o n

2

h r s G r e e k

for th i rd

year

student.

Evening

language lesson.

Fr i da y

Morning 3

hrs.

teaching

B i b l e and

C h r i s

Doc.

Afte rnoon

1

h r

Bi b l e

Class for missionary

children

Evening

English

Class.

Saturday Sunday

Trip for evangel is t ic

cam

paign or

s ix months

teach

ing campaign or both.

Must

f ind t ime

to

w r i t e

home.

Nyhunda Campaign

1

BIBLE COLLEGE STUDENTS

Don

Stol l and Cyri l

Simkins

are

accompanying

the

Bible

Col

lege

students

for two

days

of

extensive evangelism in

the

Ny

hunda area.

They

wil l go from

house to house inv i t ing

the

peo

ple to come to

the

Sunday

ser

vice

We

expect to cover

a l a rge

par t

of the

Nyhunda

d i s t r i c t in

t h i s way.

The

work

in

Nyhunda

i s grow

ing;

nevertheless

i t needs fur

ther sTf^ngthehihg. The Bible

College

s tudents

can be

very

helpful in th i s kind of

work.

T h i s i s th e first o f a s e r i e s

of campaigns planned for

the stu

dents

plan

to

take them

to

F or t V ic to ria and to Umta l i

as

wel l

as

to

othe r

places

The

s tudents

wil l

s tay

two

nights

w i t h C h r i s t i a n s in

th e

a r e a and

wi l l re turn

to

Mashoko fol lowing

the

church service

on

Sunday.

Color Slides Available

A s e t o f 41 c o l o r s l i d e s

has

been s e n t

to

R o b e r t Mize

fo r

warding

agent .

These

s l ides

a

long

with

a

synchronized

tape

w i l l so o n b e

a v a i l a b l e t o

t h o s e

desir ing to

use

them.

Robert

Mize can be

contac ted

by

l e t t e r

to

h is home

address Rt. 4 Ad

mira l

Drive

Concord. Tennessee .

PRAY FOR YOUR MISSIONARIES


7/8

The

New Testament Church

Our current program

for

t r a i n i n g

the

church

leaders i s

s t i l l in pro

gress . We

have launched

a

six months

program

in

which we are grounding

t h e c h u r c h l e a d e r s i n

B i b l i c a l

d o c t r i n e . Each

week I am

i n

a

ifferent

area .

On my

l a s t

t r i p to

Fort Victor ia 1 taught

concerning th e c on ditio ns

fo r e nte rin g

the

New Test>

ament Church. Not only

did the

people

l i s t e n

with g r e a t i n t e r e s t but

they would not

l e t

me go.

I had

to spend

much

t ime

answering q u e s t i o n s

concerning

the Church and

Teacher Training

These questions

were

denominationalism or

about

baptism and

the p r a c t i c e

of

sprinkling e t c . I was

encouraged

by the fact

t h a t

they were

thinking about these

th ings .

The Fort Victoria

Church

has

invited us back for a preaching cam paign and we plan to take a l l the

Bible

College

s tu de nts th er e fo r t h i s

campaign.

In a l l o ur te ac hin g we s t r e s s

the

need f o r l o y a l t y t o

the Word

o f God. T h e B i b l e m e a n s w h a t

i t ^ays . and the

meaning

i s con

tained

in the words

of

Scr ip tuK.

U n l e s s it i s

h o n o r e d

a s G o d s

Word

we

c a n n o t

h o n o r God. Un

l e s s i t i s obeyed from the h e a r t

we cannot p l e a s e Him. The

t h i n g s

which br ing us i n t o

t h e

r ig ht r ela tio ns hip

to

God through

Christ

are

indispensable to

our

s p i r i t u a l

welfare .

What

the

B i b l e

tells u s t o do we

m u s t

do

i f we are to enter the Body of

Chris t and

i n h e r i t

the

promises

o f God

Mashoko Bible College

T h e

f u t u r e o f Mashoko

B i b l e

College looks

br ight .

We are in

t h e

l st t e r m

f o r t h e

s c h o o l

year during 1965.

We have

had

ten s t u d e n t s t h i s year and ex

pect more

than

a 50 increase

for

the coming year. Thus f a r

the p o l i t i c a l

c r i s i s

in Rhodesia

h a s

n o t

a f f e c t e d

o u r

w o r k

b u t it

seems wise not

to

go ahead with

plans

to

move

Mashoko

Bible

Col

lege a t the

present

t ime. The

W TSON M BON

M i n i s t e r

F o r t V i c to r i a C h u r c h

p o l i t i c a l

s i t u a t i o n does

not

now

favor

going

in to Salisbury

or

any l a r g e c i t y where the

tens ion

i s

g r e a t e r .

At present we w i l l

r e m a i n i n M a t s a i R e s e r v e .

Since

the A frican school year

runs

from

January

to December

we w i l l b e o u t

o f

s c h o o l f o r s i x

w e e k s s o m e t i m e

i n

D e c e m b e r . I n

Janu ary our

1966

school

year

be

gins . This is summer down

here

below the

equator.


8/8

At

Home

In Africa

The metal

house

pic tured

above i s ou r home in A f r i c a . t

i s a house

made

by

jo in ing two

s e c t i o n s o f m eta l

so

a s t o form

one

building Both the studs

and th e w a l l s a re

meta l .

The

inside walls

are

of

a loosely

FRIC N EV NGB IST

piibiished limonLhly for the

Crn t r a l

in iS0ion

Churches

o f

C h r i s t

DY

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PARK

CHRISTIAN

C H U R C H

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has

f l o o r s o f

concre te

Even

though the

house

does not look imposing i t is

quite

comfortable

and

we have

learned to l ike

i t .

Perhaps the

most

discouraging

fea ture

is

the

f ac t

t h a t

th e re a re numerous

c r ev i c e s

fo r in se c ts to

come

in .

rash

of

scorpions continued

for

some time followed by large

spiders measuring

two

to three

inches

in

diameter . Our most

recent campaign

has

been

d i r ec t

ed

against worms We combat the

problem

by using insect ic ides

freely

and by

keeping

the

floors

c l ean which has

to

be done con

t inua l ly . We have

made

the

house

quite l iveable and

l ike

i t

very much

i s s i o n s

Se r v i c e

Box

963

509 Je f fa reon 3 t

Jol ia l i

I l l i no i s 60434

m

simkins cyril mary 1965 rhodesia&ghana

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