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SANDY'S SAYINGSDear- Friends and Brethren,

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We bring you our family greetings and belated best wishes for a h^py and prosperx3usYear from Phoenix, Arizona.,01^1ntte and the family, flew home from South Africa as soon as the children corrpaetedtheir school year ' As you know South Aifrican schools run the calendar yJanuary to Decerrber, wii:fr~a srx week surrmer nolid^ fran early December until mid-JanThe family stayed with Charlotte s sister and brother-in-law in Deerfield, Il l inois.Charlotte s sister has multiple scherosis and is now confined to a. wheelchair all dayThis was trie f irs t t ime they were together- for many years. I.. ,c^leteri some iast minfurlough arrangemients in Decemiber and then joined the family Jjx-Deepfield for.-GhrlstmThis was the first time all Charlotte s Irtfnediale family were together for Christmas1965 as her parents flew back fix>m Arizoria fcr the cccasion. I t was a gccd time, espfor our children as i t was th^^ ^ fr^r most of them, and certainlyf irs t Christmas during winter ^non-tropical) they could remember. Christmas in Southbeing in mid-surmer is like July 4th in America, i t is a time of outdoor canping, cooand other hot weather activities. Like ether countries in the southern hemisphere SoAfricans are slowly leaving tne snowy Christmas card concepts of Christmas and Christmtrees with art if icial snow are becorrLng rare as they develop their own Christmas tradusually at tne beach, around the barbeque or pool Very different for us, but certainurpleasant or detracting from our- worship of ôur^God who created the whole world withi t s seasons and times and who gave us the Lord Jesus Christ, His son to save us frcsii os i n s and whose b i r t h we remember.

were wonderful ly received by the miembers and.or FirSt C3irrstlan Church, stayed in a church house, newly purchased but vMch isas Bible School classes ana extra office space for one of the ministers unti l we wereto find a race apartment at 8429 North 27th Avenue, 212 in Phoenix. We would love ôstop by and see us if you are îe to do _Itîs in the same general area as \Aierelived before, and we were able to place tne lUds'in their old school. are actuallyfew blocks out of Alta Vista school zone, but we got a variance permission letter frthe principal ana school stperintendent. The kids enjoy not having to wear school unand like the varied activities of school. Johnny, our youngest, who turned 7 on Janua17th, and who's entire l ife s experience has been Eshowe as far as his memory goes, wmost ipset at ail the changes arid resisted school the most. He flatly refused to go bthe second day, and even Rachard, our- sensitive one, ran into minor adjustment problemWe solved Johnny's by putting him back into 1st. grade even though he has coirpleted 1sgrade in Eshowe, he was a year behind in 2nd grade and that was too much for him tocope with. Richard is fine now having got used to locker s padlock, and knowing now vhis next class Is located, and remeniberlng his pencil and paper and meal ticket. He i th grade, Michael in 8th, Waî-ie 6th and Michelle 4th.In my last newsletter, I mentioned the bacK troubles I was having, and I am glad to beto say that^rriy__back has irrproved considerably from what mind-nurnbing pain I was experiin October. I underwent three weeks of.Jibaction in Eshowe Hospital in November which


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HOLDING FORTH THE WORD OF LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA PHILippians 2:16Volume 10 May 1978 Nu

31/2 YEARS IN ZULULAND: A REPORT

Sandy and Charlotte and childrenLeft to right Michael 15 Michelle8 John 7 Wayne 11 Richard 12


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W h e r e a n d W h at i s ZULULANDZULULAND i s t echnica lly a county, o f about

10,000 square miles that begins 60 miles nor th o fDurban in the province ofNatal, Republic of SouthAfrica. I t is t he a n c es tr a l a n d t r a d i t i o n a l home o fthe proud Zulu nation who comprize of over 4million people. We had fo r many years felt th eL o r d s cal l to work w i t h t h e Zulus i n S o ut h Africa .Through-th generosity ofthe Lord s good people wesailed fo r South Africa in Ju ly 1974, arrived there inAugust and started life in our new home, Eshowe,Zululand, in September 1974.

KWAZULU T O D A YWe joined the work of the South African Church

ofChristmission and worked in fellowship with ourother missionaries in the Republic. We confined ourwork to Zululand and the city of Durban. Ofnecessity, ou r work r equi re s permi ts from theKwaZulu government fo r us to be present inKwaZulu, for any reason, because KwaZulu is thenew semi-independent government of the Zulunation. Old Zululand is being replaced by a Zulugoverned but multi-fi-agmented nation within anation, known as Kwa (the place of) Zulu. Townslike Eshowe become white islands in a black sea,and on many roads KwaZulu begins 10 meters fromthe edge of the road. Permits a re readi ly g iven tolegi timate miss ionaries , and no res tr ic tions areimposed on them as to teaching and preaching, buttw o other South Afr ican homelands Transkei , andB o p h u t h a t s w a n a h a v e a l r e a d y becomeindependent countries and we now need passportsand visas to visit them today. KwaZulu is slated fo rindependence a t some yet unannounced future date,but by which t ime the majori ty ofour Zulu churcheswill be independent and indigenous.

M IS S I O N M E T H O D SA N D P H I L O S O P H Y

We believe the final product of th e missioenterprise is th e in dependent ch urch thats tand , under God and th e Lordship of Chrisitself The missionary then works essentiallymany churches, groups of people formedcongregations, and is a teacher, inst ructingleaders who in turn teach others of their own peand l ead the people to Christ. In bridging thebetween distant cultures we feel this is a prmethod of Church Growth. These were our ga n d t h is i s w h a t w e did:1 The primary goal was to s t a r t

congregations. Churches of Christ.2 Teaching the leaders was the second mgoal. We designed a funct iona l ex tenleadership training program (ELT) usinwell known and mission-field proven TEEcepts, that are designed to educate th e exileaders, in their own language, withourupting their work or productive relationto their society, extracting them from theitural environment or removing them fromh o m e s a n d f a m i l i e s .

C H U R C H G R O W TH S U R V E YIn order to learn the A s I s situation, we beg

chu rch g rowth survey in 1975 to cov er allchu rches o f Christ in South Africa. We desinine survey quest ions that would give us a grapicture of the number, composition, naturemake-up of th e membe rship o f our churches.wanted to know their age, mar ita l s tatus, h igschool grade achieved, monthly wage, yea rwere baptized, were thei r parents members, spa member, and home language. Resultsrevealing a s nea rly al l the ministers, missiona n d c h u r c h e s s e n t t h e ir f o r m s b a c k t o m e . W e f ofo r one thing, 51 of our members had no foschooling a t all.

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Ext en si on Leade rs hi p class at Kwa Mdoiomba nearMtubaluba. Zululand. (April, 1976)

EXTENSION LEADERSHIPTRAINING

Our classes began early in 1975 with two coursesof Zulu workbooks: Talking with God (Prayer),and N. T. Survey consisting of158 and 212 pagesrespect ively. We had 25 start and 10 complete th eworkbooks. The 1976 courses began February 8 thwith The Chu rch in the Bible and I Timothywith 22 s tudents and con ti nued un ti l Hna l exams inDecember. The t ot al enrol lment was 39 students,bu tmany did not finish as they could not handlethework. We had three centers about 80 miles apartand added a temporary fourth center la te r in theyear. Eleven students were given certificates a t ourGraduation ceremony January 23, 1977. Most ofthem continued for the third and more difficult year,and other students joined the classes too, to coverH Timothy and The Beginning and Spread ofthe Church whi ch is a study on th e book of Acts.

Teaching class. Kwa Mdoiomba (Mtubaluba)Zuiuiand. April,1976

Zechariah Khumalo a t KwaNku lu with hi s sister a n d mo

SP IR ITUAL CHURCHGROWTH SPECIAL

WEEK END MEET INGSThe dry win te r months were especially suitour two day long special meetings that begaSaturday afternoon, or evening and usuallywith con tin ual preaching and singingthrough the n igh t concluding on Sunday mornThese were excellent teaching opportunitiesgreat spiritual growth could be seen through t

experiences. All leaders present took tpreaching and exhorting the Christians, chfrom visiting churches added to the atmosphereat th e close of the meeting another church we xt en d t he invi ta t ion and fix the da te for th emeeting. The all South Africa Church of CMission Annual Conference was held a t MtubaZululand September 1976. This is the f ir st t iman over 50 year history tha t the Zulu churcheshost to the conference. They did a fine jo b anhad a good meeting.

Dedication o f th e new building at KwaNkulu.


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CHURCH GROWTH -NUMERICAL

We witnessed rapid growth in th e numbers ofc on gr eg at io ns i n Z ul ul an d from 1975 onwards.When we came in 1974 we were only avfaye. of 13..congregations in Zululand that met reg^A krlyjAHdfcalled themselves the Church of Christ an^ wfellowship with us. A t th e en d of 1977 our records.- -indicated we could count 41 congregations withrh ,Zululand and Durban. Many ofthese new churcheswere organized w he n s ca tt er ed C h r i s t i a n s wereencouraged to begin to meet together for corporateworship at a central point usually a home. Wededicated a fine new building at our largest Zuluchurch KwaNkulu July 1977 where we have over30 0 m em be rs . H ow ev er t h e a v er ag e church wouldh a v e a b o u t 26 members. T h e total Z ulumembership a t ou r last count was 1,090 baptizedb el i ev er s.

C H A R L O T T E S WOMENWORK

^ , Charlotte began a Thursday women s meeone of th e closest Chm-ches topur Eshowe h .1^6 and it grew tremendously from moweekly a t different homBible study; Many of the invi

came fjrpm non-Christian kVaals an d many ofrpriipersons in dire distress. She and her grChristians were able to minister to th e distand needy from th e Word of Life. The Lord bboth of our endeavors in a wonderful way.

B A P T I S M S : 1975 551976 631977 79

F or s pe ak in g engagements write us a t P. O. B ox9851. Phoenix. AZ 85068_pr Bhone. 602) 995-7019.We plan to return to S. Africa early in 1979.CONTRIBUTIONS :P .O . Box 9851P h o e n i x AZ 85068

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