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Cyril Simkins Missionary

1914

Accra

Ghana

Africa

Robert L. Mize Forwarding Agent

Route 4 Admiral Drive

Concord

Tennessee 37720

JULY

1969

0

GOD S WORD FOR AFRICA

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S-^kini

pu-ttuig the Btble tnto the

hancU

ofi an AftAtcan pAeacheA]

We have jus t

purchased here

in Ghana

another

SlOO

worth

of

Bibles to

give to

the

students

and to others . In

general

it i s

t rue

t h a t

Bibles can be purc ha se d her e

more

cheaply than theycan

be sent from America

We want to

thank

the people

who have sent

money fo r Bibles and

inform

them of

what

we a re doing

to

d i s t r i

bute these Bibles

to

the people of Ghana.


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HDAD TO DAMASCUS

A few weeks

ago

I went with

Derry

Smaage

t o a

v i l l a g e

i n Ghana

which

i s

named

Damascus. I t

is a

vil lage

about

100 miles

from here

and l i e s

deep

i n th e

bush. At

the t ime

I

d id

n o t

r e a l i z e

how difficult it would

b e t o r e a c h it

We

left

a b o u t

6 : 0 0

i n the morning but did not r e t u r n

home

u n t i l

11:00

a t

n i g h t .

When the

A p o s t l e

P a u l was on t h e r o a d

t o Da

mascus in

Syria

it was three years

b e f o r e

he

r e t u r n e d

t o

J e r u s a l e m .

I

began t o

wonder a t t imes

if it might

not take us t h re e y ea r s t o

g e t back

home.

saw some good

examples o f

b a d

r o a d s .

When we

turned o f f the main road

t h e road

became

p r o g r e s s i v e l y

worse.

The

f a r t h e r

we went the worse the

roads

became. The r u t s

grew

so deep

t h at t - h a c a r w o u l d n o t t ra v e l iir

them.

Twice

we had t o g e t out

and

dig the c a r out o r push it out o f

a

d i f f i c u l t

place.

t r i e d one

road

and it

became

impassable we turned

a r o u n d a n d w e n t b a c k t o a n o t h e r . A f

t e r

managing t o g et a cro ss

a

danger

ous b r i d g e

we

went on t o more ob

s t a c l e s . At l a s t

we found o u r s e l

ves

buried

up t o the axle i n a mud

h o l e w i t h w a t e r i n it W i t h t h e

help

o f some

Afr icans

who

came

by we

managed

t o push

the c a r out

back

wards. We

then parked it alongside

th e road

and s t a r t e d o u t

by f o o t .

s t i l l had

7 miles t o go

but

by

taking a shor t cut thru

the

f o r e s t

we

could

g e t t h e r e

by

walking only 5

miles . After walking t h i s 5

miles

we

f e l t

more

l i k e r e s t i n g

than prea

ching. I t was 1:00 when we a r r i v e d

but

the

people

were

wait ing

f o r us

a t

t h e

church .

T h e r e f o r e

we

com

m e n c e d t h e c h u r c h s e r v i c e .

The service was very

pleasant . e

were imoressed by these

people.

were not only pleased w ith the wel

come

r e c e i v e d

b u t a l s o w i t h

t h e

s e r

v i c e itself a n d

t h e

men who t o o k

c h a r g e

o f

it

About

4 : 0 0

we

f i n i s h e d

t h e

s e r v i c e

a n d s t a r t e d home. As

soon a s we l e f t someone brought

us

news that a little i n f a n t c h i l d h a d

d i e d . He w as t h e c h i l d o f o n e

o f

t h e church

l e a d e r s

and had

been

sick fo r severa l days.

We

turned

a r o u n d

a n d w e n t b a c k to s e e t h e m .

Again we began the

5 mile walk

b a c k t h r u t h e

f o r e s t to w h e r e we h a d

l e f t

the c a r .

When we reached it

we still

had 100

m i l e s

t o

d r i v e

b e

f o r e

we w e r e home.

I

d o n t know when

I

have been so g l a d t o g e t home.How

e v e r the

t r i p

was worthwhile. The

t r i p was a va luable experience.

PLAN TO

VISIT

NEARBY MISSIONS

Mr

Simkins has been trying to

a r

range a v i s i t to our next door neigh

bor

Niger ia

during

the

summer

hol i

days. The purpose i s

to

v i s i t the

mission

work there.

In

fact i t i s

hoped t h a t a

v i s i t can

be

made

t o

other places such as Congo. Congo

i s not

far

away but i t may be d i f f i

c u l t t o g e t t o th e p l a c e where our

m i s s i o n a r i e s

a r e .

Mr Simkins h a s

been

a s k e d t o

t e a c h

m i s s i o n s

i n one

of

our B ible colleges

when he

comes

home next t ime. I t i s hoped

t h a t

a

f i r s t - h a n d

v i s i t

w i t h

o u r

m i s s i o n

a r i e s t h e r e w i l l

be

o f c o n s i d e r a b l e

help

in

t h i s . I t will also help our

m i s s i o n

work h e r e

t o

know what

o t h e r s

are doing

and how

they are handling

o u r

e v e r - p r e s e n t problems.

I n all

p r o b a b i l i t y

Mrs. Sim kins w il l

remain

i n G h a n a .


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THADITIDIVS

DF

GHANA

THE TALKWG DRU/tS

The

use o f

mus i ca l

i n s t rumen t s i s

socially contr olled, some being re s

t r ic ted

to

c h i e f s ,

an d some a re used

fo r the p ra i s e s

of

t h e head

of

a

s t a t e

o r

o f h is d iv is iona l

ch ie f s

In s t a t e s where s ingle i n s t r u m e n t s

ca n be used by anybody,

one

may find

ensembles o f such i n s t r umen t s r e s

t r i c t e d as they may be the preserve

o f a

c h i e f or

a pri vi l eged c l a s s .

H o s t of t h e s e

i n s t r umen t s

a re used

to

provide

music for th e

dance;

but

some a r e used fo r o t h e r

purposes

providing

rhythms for walking or wor

ding

giving

s i g n a l s

o r

alarms or a s

t a lk ing drums. One

drum

imi ta tes th e

c ry o f

a crocodi le

an d

another

t h a t

of a leopard. This imitation

y

be

to

convey

t ha t

the

rulers

are

regard

ed a s

being

as powerful a s th e a n i

m a l

w h o s e

c r i e s a re im i t a t e d

The

talking

drums which convey mes

sages r e c o u n t th e his to ry of t h e

people, r e c i t e proverbs and wise say

ings or singing p r a i s e s o f

rulers

and distinguished persons have mysti

fied the world. The body o f the drum

is carved

out o f

a tree many times.

There a r e

spec ia l

c a r v e r s fo r th is

and

i t

is

taboo

many

times

fo r

the

drummer to c a r v e

h i s

own drum. The

drum head is made out of an

e l e pha nt s

ea r and s t re t ched

across

the rim o f

the

drum and

held t ig h t or

released

by hammering in or

loosening the pegs

The regulation

of

the pegs

helps to

dif ferent ia te th e to ne s o f th e drum.

Meeting at

Alajo

During

th e v i s i t o f

John

Snyder,

Minister o f th e

Hessv ille,

Indi ana,

Church,

we arranged a

meeting to be

held

a t

a nearby vi l lage named A l a j a

A. r Kuevi arranged the m eeting,

w h i c h we f i nanced

wi th

th e mis s i o n

funds Jo h n S ny de r p r e a c h e d th e

f i r s t tw o nights and Mr. Simkins

p r e a c h e d the l a s t n igh t

Af te r

the

serv ices we would t a k e

t h o s e

who re

s p o n d e d to th e i n v i t a tio n to th e o c

e an

to

be

bapt ized One

n i g h t

we

ba pt i z e d 20 and th e next ni ght bap

t i z e d 18

In order

to follow

up

this meeting

we

have

ins t i tu ted

regula r

s e r v i c e s

in

this village. are renting a

p l a c e ,

an d t r y i n g to g e t a church

s ta r ted Every Sunday

evening, one

o f our A frica n p r e a c h e r s holds se r

vices

ther e.

plan to

ge t

another

c h u r c h e sta blis he d i n th i s a rea


4/4

Six Studen t s

Gradua te

This

year

we

have s ix

s tudents

who

have

received

their

two-year

cert i

f ica tes These students are: Alfred

K.

Appianing,

Julius

Sackey,

James

Tandoh, Victor Agyeman, John

Adjei,

and Samuel Djumah. Four of the

s ix

are now

preaching

regularly in a lo

cal

c h u r c h

We have

four th i rd-year

s tudents .

At

least

three of

these

are

planning

to enter

the fourth

and

f ina l

year

next September.

Next

school year

will

be

the

f i r s t

year

in which we

will

have a l l

four-year

classes . I t

will also be the fourth year of

pre

paration

for

Ghana Christian College.

e

intend to

give

the

fourth year

students

a

degree

ipon

the i r success

ful completion of

the

four

years

of

wo r k

THE CHRISTIAN MESSENGER

Hickory Val ley

Chris ti an Church

6605 Shal lowford

Road

Chattanooga, Tennessee

37421

WEEDS

e can use in our Sunday School

some Sunday School papers. If you

have some and would

like

to

send them

to us, just address them as follows:

Ghana

Christian College

c/o Cyri l C. Simkins

PO Box 5722

Accra,

Ghana, Africa

These papers are

for children.

e

need two s and

three s

or

three s

and

four s. e can also use Junior Life

and

Weekly Reader.

For the college students, we can

use

adult

teachers

quarterlies.

ny

of the above will be welcome. Tracts

in English

language

are

always

wel

come, These

t rac ts

should be about

some clear ew Testament

doctrine,

and should be written in simple,

clear English.

Our

students

are al

ways willing to distribute any of the

tracts

Simkins Missionary Funds should be

sent to

Cyr i l

C,

Simkins

Robert L, Mize

Route 4 ,

Admiral

Road

Concord, Tenn,

37720

GH N

CHRISTIAN

COLLEGE

Funds

be

s e n t t o :

Roy L. Lumpkin

3714 Rosa lee Te r r a c e

Chattanooga, Tenn.

37416

s h o u l d

Nonprofit Orgonizafion

U. S. Postage

PAID

Chattonooga,

Tennessee

Permi t No 9 2

Miss ion s

Se r v i c e

Box

5B8,

50

W

Jef ferson

St

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