LONDON

JANUARY 1980

MISSION

8 Rullord Road, SIrealham, London SW 16, England: Phone (national) 01-769-4563 (inlernatlonal) 441-769-4563 American Office: P.O. Box 383; Rutland, VI. 0S701: Phone 802/773-7474: Bernard Ooly, agent and secretary; F. P. Miller, director

U.S. VISIT
A number of blessings accompanied the recent visit to the U.S., not the least being the help received from Mr. and Mrs. Scotty Witt, who loaned their 78 model car to me to drive 12,000 miles. And Mr. and Mrs. Dixie Diaz, whose auto I drove 6,000 miles. We needed to visit and inform
churches and I can't mention all who made the tour an ef

Also, in the event that we visit the U.S. in October or November of next year, we would like to hear from church es who would make a personal presentation of the work a part of their program. Write to us.

SUMMER INTERNS
The summer of 1980 may become one of the most fruit ful evangelistic efforts that we have ever attempted - if the make-up of the group forming is any harbinger of the future. The group of interns will be the most mature (and therefore potentially effective groups we have worked with) - the median age being about 23. It has been our habit through the years to use youth teams in basic evangelistic work. For instance, churches were established at Rutland, Vermont; Elmira and Albany, N.Y.; Hartford, Connecticut; as well as the Baiham and Streatham churches in London with youth teams. Beside starting churches, existing churches have been recipients of help from these teams in the northeast ern U.S. and England. Often these groups have consisted of untrained early teen youth. Surely the advantage of training and maturity of years should portend greater effort and hopefully better results. We should pray to that end.

fective and successful time of fellowship and informationspreading. Promises amounting to $665 per month resulted. However, when the final total of churches who have yet to decide come in, the total will be closer to $800 per month.

BEN ALEXANDER'S MEETING

Ben Alexander, God bless him, and Ron Sunseri did us a lot of good. Ben spoke in a number ofchurches and schools and, on his own, visited the Spiritualist Society of Great Britain. He made an impact on students in Kenny's school so much so that questions flew from the upper 6th formers
who, according to reports, usually sleep through similar sessions. Ben held a protracted meeting for us at Streatham

and the most prominent impression about it was that it was too short. I believe we would have had a packed house in a few more nights. We hope we can get Ben back again.
Thank god for him. You can read about the rest of his truly amazing exploits in London among his former medium friends in his next newsletter available from: ESP Ministries, Box 1723, Joplin, Missouri 64801.

MEETINGS TO BE HELD
Bob Blanshan of West Concord, Minnesota, is due in February to hold a series of meetings and Bible teachings for us. Pray for this effort. We do have much satanic opposi tion. Don Pinon of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, is due for a longer meeting in September as follow-up to the work of the sum mer interns. We look for other visitors who will supply short term mission work and help. Why don't you be one of them?
Tara and Mandy Rhodes, regulars on Sunc/ov and Wednes

PROMOTION

day/ since February last year.

Six applications have already been approved and others are in the process. Names of the individuals in the group will be in the next newsletter when all are completed so that you can pray for them more effectively. We are planning 6 weeks of door-to-door calling, Vacation Bible Schools, nightly preaching, intensive home study groups, and mis sions to existing churches. The internship of 1980 merits your prayers. Please keep the added financial burden of the London Mission in your prayers.

BALHAM CHURCH AND

STREATHAM CHURCH
The church at Baiham continues to grow under the leadership of Neville Pink, assisted by Neville Shaw. The meeting place is absolutely the best. Praise God, attend ance is at 65. A young South African man, Ian Stuart, was recently baptized and is growing. Neville Shaw strikes
again! Thank God for Neville's zeal and his unselfish shar

Meeting place in Clapham Common of Baiham church of

Christ.

If you would like to hear more of the London Mission work, we will soon be able to send a film strip and cassette tape describing the work. Write us asking to book a date for the film and tape to use for a church, class, or prayer group. Van Miller is presently working on the audio-visual presen
tation.

ing. Pray for Ian who shows great potential especially since he has found his way through a maze of unreality usually associated with many youth searches for the real world. He, along with two others, found the real world recently in the Waters of Baptism. New people are attending the church in

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companied by Ron Sunseri, did us a lot of good. Dereck and

Debbie, Celia's friends at school, have been attending the services and recently Dereck made the good confession. As he is only 13, he must convince his parents of his sincerity, and we ought to pray for their open hearts.

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Mrs. Hall, near neighbor, and Charlotte with Bible and Studv guide. Mrs. Hall attends services, is 83.

RECENT VISITORS
Ian Stuart and Kenny Miller. Ian is a South African recently
baptized in the Balham church.

TRANSIT VAN PROBLEMS

Auto problems continue to plague us. The van must be replaced or repaired. We are not able to pick up children who normally come to Sunday and Wednesday classes due to the van's condition. Your prayers are needed for a van replacement. The clutch must be replaced as well as the damage to the front end sustained by a rear-end crash. A fund for the van is started with $250. We will need $1,000 more to repair the damage and worn parts.

STUDY MATERIAL
Great interest is greeting the use of the study book'"52 Simple, Stimulating Studies" by Donald G. Hunt. This study series is a thorough treatment of basic Christian doctrine and living. In the past we have found that people completing it have few doctrinal vacancies and rarely fall prey to false teaching. To the contrary they are armed with Holy Spirit weapons and have the advantage with the spiritual enemies. These studies have proved unusually interesting to English people. If you have never used the book I recommend that you order it for a welcome change in your Bible study group. It's available from: Voice of Evangelism, Box 566, Ottumwa,
Iowa. 52501

Ben Alexander and Ron Sunseri stayed with us for two weeks while doing their important work in England...Sam Burtin, Bible College student from the U.S., is with us for two weeks while he finds points of interest in his search for a place of labor. Sam is married to Alathia, daughter of Fred and Vickie Hintz, former missionaries to Jamaica...Nolan Head and family, returning from a 5-year mission term in Australia, used our home and spoke to the church here while passing through to the U.S....Albert and Faye Ward stopped on their way to Spain and will do the same on their way back to the U.S....Demas and Aphodia Haniel were helped with storage and transportation on their embarking to Nigeria...Linda and Kurt Nordhielm stayed two nights while serving churches in Kent...The Chester Woodhall family, missionaries to Zambia, spoke in the morning ser vice and stayed a few days...Mr. White, a Christian tourist from California, stopped with us for two services...Susan Conrad of Eugene, Oregon, was here most of October and November helping with the work. Our location makes our

home an ideal place for Christian travelers to stop when getting in or out of London and England. Please take advan tage of the facility. We want it to be used of God's people or for any people in need of a helping hand through London. Keep the address and phone on file.

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SUMMER PROGRAM SHAPING UP

Young people with varied experiences and back grounds are coming to England this summer to help in
the work. There will be two from missionary families in Rhodesia and Italy. A retired Air Force Christian, college
Ed Tolosa, Daly City, California Joyce Pennington, Rhodesia, S. Africa Marie Franke, Novelty, Missouri Scott Pixler, Montrose, Colorado Ann Gosseft, /{osei;t7/e, /Ninots

students, Bible college students, and non-college students will be among the number. At different stages and at differ ent times the following are set, Lord willing, to serve the
Lord in London this summer:

Joe Wallace, Lebanon, Indiana Sarah McGuire, Portland, Oregon Margie Patterson, Winona, Minn. Carrie Fowler, Italy Brion Morris, Joplin, Missouri

Norma Harris, Ottumwa, Iowa Nina Fowler, Sedalia, Missouri Wanda Toon, Joplin, Missouri Cindy Zickel, Joplin, Missouri Byron EIrod, Loveland, Colorado

Cindy Zickel

Brion Morris

Debbie Sisseck

Wanda Toon

Nina Fowler

Ann Gossett

Scott Pixler

Joyce Pennington

A great many calls will be made in this effort, VBS held in three locations, and countless studies in homes are antic ipated. A three-day rally is planned August 8,9,10. Preach ing many sermons and a great deal of money will be ex pended and invested in Christ's message here in England. You can help encourage us: 1. Pray earnestly for the success of this group this
summer.

2. Make an extra contribution for the added ex

penses that a household of 23 or 23 will make. Designate it to the "intern program."

3. Volunteer to come and cook for the team. We

desparately need a cook. 4. Pray again, this is no picnic. It is not an outing or "tour" to see a foreign land. It is an evangelistic
thrust into one of the most influential urban cen

ters in the world community.

BOb'bLANSHAN'S MEETING
Bob and June did a wonderful job in Clapham and Streatham. Many people we are working with came for the first time. Our limited goals for the meeting were all achieved and surpassed. Two were added to the fellowship, one a Christian and one baptized into Christ. Bob and June,
missionaries to Jamaica, have made fast and secure rela tionships with the West Indian Christians in London.

and her two children, members of Streatham church and Bible school for one year now...Glyn and Pat Howard, that

they will accept the teaching now extended over long per iod...Derek, Dianne, and Debbie Blow, age 12-14, all of whom want to be baptized but who have parents who are
slow to let them...Derek and Barbara Gomez and sister

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Dorothy who are now being taught and with whom we have had a long acquaintance. They attended one of Bob Blanshan's meetings...Marva Charles, who has just started attending with us...Iain Stuart, hospitalized due to damage from drug use before baptism.

LEE TURNER
Missionary to Pakistan, Lee Turner will spend five nights preaching with us March 29 through April 2. We anticipate
Bob and June Blanshan at Windsor during a leisure mo ment after 8 straight days of preaching and teaching.

that Lee will come at a time when there will be some harvest

YOUR PRAYERS ARE INVITED

First of all that we, the Millers, will be USED of God. But there are people to pray for by name. Yvonne Williams

prepared. Please pray to that end. Remember, we sow the seed and gather other workers, you all pray, and all of our combined effort brings the fruit to the place where the Holy Spirit of Jesus can give the increase. Pray ye therefore the
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the Balham Church of Christ when it was first organized

in 1977. Faithful ever since his conversion, he was activ^

in helping the church and in all good works. Always loved

bychildren as theirfriend, he drovecountless miles to bring

them to church and deliver them home again. He decorated the houses of people unable to do the work. His prayers were always moving and his songs built us up. He will be
missed but we do not begrudge him the better home of which he so often sang, "O, I want to go home...". Brother Taylor has gone home.

Jean Gordon (left) baptized February 24,1980. Marva Charles a Christian from Trinidad brought her.

Jeff King, age 29, an Australian, who now plays piano for services and helps in other aspects of the church in Streatham...Pricilla Nicomedes, a nurse, whose home orig
inally is Manilla, a member of the Cruzada Church of Christ...Ress Agra, who lives in San Francisco but is an

airline pilot based in London, a member of the Alta Vista Church of Christ...Jean Gordon, baptized on February 24, who was brought by Marva Charles, a recent newcomer to the fellowship who is originally from Trinidad.

Last summer VBS group in Streatham proposal: We hope to see more reached this year - Summer 1980.

MEETING PLACE IN OXFORD

We now have a presentable meeting place in Oxford. A nice hall has been made available to us by the St. James Parish Church on Beauchamp Lane in Cowley at the junc tion of Littlemere Road. The first service that we held there, February 17, found people from Clapham and Streatham helping out and Bob Blanshan preaching. Mrs. Gill is seri ously considering becoming a part of the group by accept

NEEDS
We have two pressing needs; 1. $3,000 must be repaid to the Balham church. This struggling church loaned their savings to help us purchase 8 Rutford Road. We must raise the money to pay that loan back. 2. $3,000 is still needed to replace the Van we use for the numberless activities including bringing peo ple to church services.

ing Jesus and being baptized. RoseMary Richens has suf fered an emotional crisis and is hospitalized. Needless to say she needs our prayers.

MAIL
Our family looks for the mailman every day. When you are away from home and miss the folks at home a letter from home means a great deal. Please remember to write to Fred and Charlotte, Van, Kenny, George, Fred, and Celia. If you wish to write to any Christian mentioned in our newsletter it would cheer them too. Write to them c/o the Church of Christ at 8 Rutford Road (the address on the mast head of this letter). I am sure that your encouragement will help them and that you will get an answer personally from them.

Neville Pink minister at Ciapham has taken a part-

time job; support for Neville Pink should be sent to his sponsoring Church at 22 Irving Street; Hartford,
Connecticut 06112.

FIsisli!
Four English youth Three girls and one boy are to be baptized next week. The Blow children, Dianne and Derek PLUS Marcia Brown and Debbie Williams. These are long time Streatham attenders. It is a real breakthrough!
REJOICE!!!

BROTHER TAYLOR HAS GONE HOME

Ivan Taylor's favorite song contains the words "O, I want to go home to be with my Saviour and King." When brother Taylor sang the song you could feel the day coming
closer. He was one of the first converts in London. Baptized

by brother Neville Shaw, he became a charter member of

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REVIEW OF ONE YEAR AT STREATHAM

Summer of '79. Evangelistic campaign at Streatham, Eleven helpers doing door-to-door calling and holding VBS resulted in many being taught the gospel and a new church being launched. Beatrice Foikes came into the fellowship (contacted through Correspondence Course directed by Kerry Decker of Hayward, California) and Chris Chapman was baptized.

May. I flew to the U.S. Van Milleraccompanied me until my return to England June 2.1 held meetings (invited by and expenses paid to and from England almost completely by the generousity of the Galax, Virginia church (Locust Grove), where I presented my Revelation series at the request of the congregation. Very well received and some even asked that I repeat it to a larger audience in a hired hall. I also held short meetings at Guaynabo and Vega Baja, Puerto Rico. At the same time I experienced a great out pouring of affection from Christians in Manchester, NH, Enfield, NH, and members of the church of Christ in Rutland, VT. I spoke and/or visited Christians in Albany, NY, New York, NY, Hartford, CT, Bel Air, MD, Washing ton, DC, Harrisonburg, VA, Winston Salem, NC, Orlando, FL, Lakeland, FL, Pompano Beach, FL, and a super week
end with the Central Church at Bradenton, FL. June. The summer has begun. Already our mission cen

ter is getting used as many are coming and going and using it as a stop-over. We rejoice that it is used that way. It is part of the purpose of the building and we rejoice to see God's
people use it. Staying with us and helping at present are Nina Fowler, Ann Gossett, and Wanda Toon. They arrived
Priscilla Nicomedes in fellowship at Streatham.

December. Meeting with Ben Alexander and Ron Sunseri strengthened the brethren and many non-church members came to hear the gospel. Ben did much in the way of helping in the public school system, stirring up much interest. Jean Gordan was baptized shortly after and Priscilla Nicomedes came into the fellowship. February. Meeting with Bob Blanshan resulted in sev eral responses to the preaching. There were new people in the services every nite to hear Bob preach and watch June's
chalk art. Brother and sister Diane and Derek Blow were

early to prepare for the VBS team coming in July. Besides typing lessons and getting hand-work prepared, they are involved in teaching, calling, and home studies. Interest has risen through them and young people who had dropped out have reappeared and are attending the services again. Paul Blowers (enroute to Oxford) was here for a few days
and the fellowship was good. Charlotte's mother and niece are visiting and helping with the work at the same time. Karen Much, principal of Christian School in Leyittown, Puerto Rico, on her way north to see the work in England, stayed with us. Curt Nordhielm of Nottingham stayed over night to talk over details of cooperation in the summer program. Expected are traveling missionaries staying a few days on the way to their mission stations: the Cecil Byrds, en route to Zambia; Don Leach Manhattan Christian Col lege, KS; Dean Davis family, en route to Zambia. Also expected for a week is Florence Bonteil, Christian from Paris. Geoff King, Australian Christian, is due back with us by the end of June.

baptized and others who responded are still being taught. Derek preached his first sermon in May. Paulina Cahn also came into the fellowship.

Diane Blow baptized.

March. Meeting with Lee Turner reached many more people with the message of Christ. Over 69 different people attended the Streatham meetings and Lee preached to 42 in Balham making a total of 111 people who heard him preach. Rosina Marshall was baptized as a result of the week of preaching and others were made stronger.

Geoff King, Australian Christian, playing piano. Van Miller teaching

service.

Previous visitors have been the Alan Ashursts of Man

chester, England for a long weekend talking over special problems of teaching Muslims. Carol Ashurst came for a weekend renewing fellowship and talking over her plans to serve as a missionary in India. Christians from the church
in Manchester, Mr. and Mrs. Cheng Peng Fong, spent a
week with us.

At the same time the Clapham church has experienced similar growth under the leadership of Neville Pink.

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A FAMILY NEEDED-PERHAPS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE GOD.

Marxism is a penetrating and permeating influence in Europe. We are glad that our son Kenneth is returning to
the U.S to attend the Bible College of his choice. We ask you to be praying for our remaining children who are grow
ing up in a Marxist and secular environment. It would be

atheism pressures of Europe. You need to pray for us and the Christians in Europe in general as there is a great fight of spiritual afflictions. Many so called "Christians" talk more\

like Marxists, actually parroting the doctrines of the Soviet;

party line for the churches. Therefore, we need a place to locate for two months in the U.S. while I travel among churches, preferably where there is a Christian school for the two youngest children. Perhaps I could trade places with some preacher who would use the time in England to fill out his own plans for outreach. We would like a man or family to live in our house and lead the work while I am gone. Any interest out there?

necessary for a person to actually live here to experience the impact of the Marxist doctrine on the minds of young people.

It is for this reason that I plan to bring my family with me

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need to be out of Europe to be reoriented to what Iconsider

to be the "real world" in America in contrast to the secular

COMMENTS FROM OTHERS ON THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS

OF MARXIST INFLUENCE.
Both Ben Alexander and Lee Turner made remarks

about the special problems facing young people here. One

stated that he would not want to live here and would want his son in a different environment. The other said that he

would prefer not to see his grandchildren moved here and

subjected to the influences that we refer to. These men are spiritual giants. So don't forget to pray for our family and please don't any of you make small-minded judgements or unholy comments calling the October-November trip a

"vacation" for my family. My kids need a breath of freedom)

Boy in center is David, returned to services recently as has John
Winkle, Linda and Theresa.

tO remind them what it is like.

VAN MILLER RETURNS

After a year and some months Van has returned to the
U.S. He will work in Rutland at a radio station while he sorts

out plans for the future. He hopes to ultimately locate a job

with Christian radio.

PROMOTIONAL TRIP
If you would like for us to include you in a visit and visual ized presentation of the London Mission this OctoberNovember, please write us. Although we will be centered in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Missouri we will be traveling more widely and may be near you. Let us know ifyou would like us to work you in. Who will come to live in our house in London during this time? Phone us (phone number is on
the letterhead).

PRAYER NEEDS
Pray that we will get the mini-bus flxed before VBS time. We still have problems getting repairs. Pray that we will survive the continuing increase in exchange rates (present ly at almost $2.40) and that we can locate the cash to pay back the Clapham church money they need. Pray for the
converts of the Lord's church here. Derek Blow is a future

Derek Blow baptized.

FLASH?
Brother Taylor's (his death reported in last newsletter) 17-year-old granddaughter, Rosina Marshall, has made her decision. She is to be baptized next Sunday!

leader, please build a hedge of spiritual power around him with your prayers.

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Dear Friends of London Mission,

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I don't hear much of the news of the brethren but am in hopes that the work where you are is going well.

Trying to establish the church has the same pitfalls wherever you go. so you will be aware of problems we have here. However, some special problems relate to this field which Is generally unresponsive. We raised lots of interest in the summer program and have one solid convert to show for it and a few more teaching appointments. We rejoice in that but what a mammoth output for so minimum an intake. 1 recently attended a fraternal gathering of 30 other "fiilltime" Christian workers working with a few churches in a faltering attempt to restore the restoration churches left after the rccent liberal departure of the main body into an ecumenical merger. There are 28 churches left, demoralized, with little direction of purpose, not much hope of "revival", and only passing acquaintance with the principles that brought them into existence in the first place. The Christian workers (who invest hours of effort to recondition the churches and evangelize) reported their last year's results. The reports would be enough to demoralize any but the most stalwart in seeking a field like this to work in. I can't say that I was encouraged by the report of so many talented workers, but I must say that from the standpoint of comparing the results it kept me from accepting the word "failure" and from crossing off my own judgement of the work that we are doing in England. Attendance increases reported brought the congregations in most places up to 16 or even 18 only to be followed by interpersonal squabbles. Gains were lost in some places. How painful for those in that labor.
Why work in such an unresponsive field? Or better yet, why answer God's call to work in an unresponsive field? As in New England (where we spent 21 years) my family is not here because we like it this way. We do seem to have the tenacity, as welt as the thick skin, needed to ward off the criticism of friends and well-meaning people who know that they could do it better or rather we could do it better their way. That, of course, is the most painful condition to bear. It is certainly not the opposition of the enemy, who we have fairly well defined, not the lonely despair bred of working in solitude nor the slimness of results breathing their implications of failure. No. it is the shortsighted critic who does not see the patience needed, the waiting required, and the real growth taking slow but firm root under his ridiculing eyes, who evokes the most pain from the inner spirit of this kind of labor.

Why continue? Why not go where the results are better? That makes most sense in the numbers-conscious age where church growth is the norm to be sought. There are very real reasons for restoring the work of Christ where it once stood firm, especially on the outposts of the Christian world. London could hardly have been thought of in those terms at the close of World War II. However, the spector of atheism and materialism has risen to verify the Marx-Engles Manifesto of 1850. How true to prophesy of the coming "haunting" then promised. The implications of the work here are so great that to think of the possibility of having to retreat across the ocean makes me shudder. The non-instrumental churches of Christ are pressing the battle, thank God. If it were not for them we would have little witness in Europe, none in France, none in Norway and Sweden (still a part of the free world), none in Holland, Denmark or any of the countries in the Balkans. Our presence in London has been a witness to Europe, however small, that has seen the message gone into France (we have a baptized believer there) and into Poland with a young school teacher. Visits with gospel literature have gone into Germany. My son has witnessed for his faith in Moscow in the course of a school-sponsored trip. He

talked about Christ on the Metro in Moscow to youth groups who were appalled at his question of any of them believing in God. Our witness in Europe's 600,000,000 (600 million) people is so minimal that returning to the U.S.A. is an unthinkable
defeat.

We can not make contacts and follow them up on our own. The church is not one man nor is the ministry meant to be a one-man-operation. Our most desperate need is help in the way of people living on the field. We need a young person or two who would live here for a year (minimum) and a young couple who would come to work in the city with us. We have other opportunities that have opened up and we have had to let them go by because of lack of laborers. We need for you to pray the Lord of the harvest to raise up laborers for the harvest.

Next summer we will use short-term help again. It is not the best kind of help but it is what is available at this time. We need long-term help. Short-term summer helpers, however, are always going to be needed and they will always stir up new contacts. No matter how much problem their immaturity develops they can't be left out. They make a greater contribution than their not being here. There are inevitable drawbacks from using short-term, young, and immature helpers. However, someone
invaribly gets converted so it is worth the pain and discomfort associated with the work. So, next summer, we will use shortterm help again.

We also need periodic encouragement from Christian preachers. If you could be with us for a few weeks, or for the preaching rally, it would be that much contact with the Christians here and the word of encouragement would go a long way.
Would vou be able to make it this vear. Would the church send vou?

In this newsletter you will find a description and application for next summer's program in England. I would appreciate it if you would expose the material to as many young people as possible. Those interested can write to me direct if they want other copies. I need and appreciate your assistance in getting the short-term help. Last summer we passed out 33,000 invitations to receive gospel literature and teaching. If we did that much each summer it would take us 365 years to reach the 11.000,000in

Land^^- Next summer we plan to touch 50,000 mail boxes in London. That way it will only lake 250 years to get the job of
reaching each person in London with the opportiuiity to learn about the Lord. Please let me know if you can help us.
Sincerely in Chri.^t.
Fred P. Miller

SUMMER OF 1981 MILLER INTERNSHIP IN LONDON

Minimum goals: 1. House-to-house distribution of scripture ma terials describing the New Testament church with invitations to var
ious options. 50,000 doors are to receive materials. 2. House-to-

A structured and disciplined plan of action is a welcome arrange ment for those who desire to do a lasting work for Christ. Of course room must be left for unstructured spontaneity of change through the Holy Spirit. "Where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty." How ever, a purposed goal is rarely achieved without planning, especially for short periods of intensified evangelism.

house calling in follow-up operations finding contacts who will receive teaching. Each intern will have an opportunity to teach lead ing to a decision. 3. VBS in a central location, working with a large number of youth for two weeks. 4. A three-day preaching rally in London with active intern participation.

The following schedule is a suggested plan of action and will be generally used. But the unexpected Is to be expected! Alteration of plan inspired by the Holy Spirit is a prayerfully anticipated probabili
ty.

Fourth Week

VBS in Clapham but more emphasis on calling and literature

distribution.

First Week (beginning July 12)

Breakfast and clean up over by Devotion and prayer

Orientation sessions

Door knocking and "cold turkey" calls

Lunch

8:15 8:15 9:15 9:15 - 11:30 11:30 1:30

1:30 2:30

August 7, 8, 9 will be a preaching rally at Clapham. This is the second annual observation of the South London Rally.
Fifth Week

Growth session and feed back

Call backs and home studies

Evening meal Open Group and private devotions

Second and Third Weeks

2:30 3:30 3:30 5:30 5:30 7:00 7:00 - 11:00 11:00 - till bed

Literature distribution in 1980 occupied this week in London, Manchester and Liverpool. A similar work will occupy the week in cities yet to be outlined. Last year our work helped the church in Stretford with whom we may work again if the Lord is willing.
Sixth Week

Travel and personal enlargement. Direction and help will be offered in traveling to other parts of England. You may want to visit other missionaries in the midlands
or visit the continent.

VBS preparation and teaching will occupy the mornings while the afternoons will be occupied with passing out of literature following the same general schedule in the first week.

August 24 Return home. Your stay behind is at additional cost.

The Chester Woodhall's Mis

sionary
Summer of 1980 Interns

Family

in

Kitwe,

Summer of 1980 VBS in Streatham.

Zambia.

Ann Qossett, summer intern with two Bible schoolers. Nev. Pink, Nev. Shaw and
Fred Miller.
APPOCAITON FOfTSUMMER 19B1 INTERNSHIP IN LONDON
NAME

Rosina Marshall being baptised into Christ.

Paulina Chan and son Alpha,

members
Church.

of

Streatham

ADDRESS

I have read the internship schedule and guidelines. 1want to be a part of this evangelistic

effort and will do my best to follow the schedule and program.

Signature
Home Phone

CITY STATE .ZIP-

NAME & ADDRESS OF PARENTS. CITY

STATE .ZIP.

In your own words give your reasons for wanting to be a part of this program In London, 1981 (use a separate piece of paper).

Can you honestly say that you have the Holy Spirit?
Will you make a sincere effort to pray every day for London 1981?.

PHONE

You must haveasponsoringchurchandaletter of recommendation from one of the officers

of that church.

What talents do you have that can be used? (on a spearate sheet)
1. Music, sing. . instrument. 2. What special crafts can you direct? 3. Art, lettering, layout.

SPONSORING CHURCH

. can It be brought?.

ADDRESS
CITY

4. Lead children in recreation and games.

5. Drive a right-hand motor vehicle.

STATE MINISTER PHONE

ZIP

6. Drama - skits and plays.

7. Puppets, can you bring them?
8. I like to cook

9- Dish washing
10. House cleaning.

What health problems do you have (hat we ought to know about. (Fainting, epilepsy, aller
gies. infections, heart problems, etc. (explain or write "none"). Parents permission, If under 18 Enclosed find $25 deposit (not refundable) to be applied toward room and board and local

11. Positive preaching to other cultures and denominations. 12. What language beside English do you speak?
13. Familiarity with black people and other minorities. 14. Use of projection equipment.

transportation fee of 250 pounds sterling (about $500) for the 6 week program. If not returning to the USA after the 6 weeks we need (o know in advance.
Return application to Internship to London. Box 383, Rutland, Vermont. 05701

15. Lead in Jule Miller cottage meeting films.

16. Other

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LONDON MISSION
8 Rullord Road. Strealham, London SW 16, England: Phone (national) 01-769-4S63 (inlernational) 441-769-4S63 American OHIce: P.O. Box 383: Ruttand. Vt. 05701; Phone 802/773-7474: Bernard Doly, agent and secretary;!^. P. Miller, director

to expedite the King's business while you are in London. Keep our address and phone on file.

GOALS AND PLANS FOR 1981

At a December, 1980 meeting with my colleagues Nev Shaw and Nev Pink (without whom I do very little) outlines
were made for the following goals for the work in London;

1. Establishing the South London Bible Institute. Beginning in January, 1981 there willbe six students enrolled in two
Fred with Van standing (with help of back brace and cane) with
James and Yvonne I^ne. James is minister of successful and grow

classes. Nev Pink is to teach Homiletics and Fred Miller

ing church in Hartford, Conn, which Fred and James laid the founda
tion for together in 1976-77.

willbe teaching Genesis. Charlotte Miller willbe teaching women's subjects. More on this as it develops.

VAN MILLER UPDATE

We are still thanking God for the miraculous recovery of movement in Van's limbs. Major surgery, which grafted bones and added steel posts to his back, made it possible for him to stand. He wears a steel brace from hips to shoul ders and uses a cane. But, he is walking!

2. Announced the dates for the South London Preaching Rally. We will host the rally for the second year July 31, August 1 and 2. Speakers will include Lafe Culver of Ottumwa, Iowa; Harvy Bacus, Joplin, Mo; Alan Ashurst, Stretford, U.K.; Sam Burton, Buckle, Scotland; and William Hooker, London. Other details as they develop.
3. Also passed were plans for the summer Bible Schools to be held in union for three weeks in the Clapham building, all youngsters from South London being bused to the
one location for three full weeks.

The medical bills are staggering but some help has been
received. Many have asked for details on the extent of the bill. We are reluctant to be definite or make an appeal (as has been suggested by several) because we are still unaware of what ultimately will happen. Van has received a $15,000 grant toward what was "experimental" surgery. This, of course, goes a long way toward reducing the over $40,000 expense. There may be a further grant to help with the hospital but we do not know yet. A few people have sent help (among whom was the Crusader Class at the Pinedale

church of Christ, Winston Salem, N.C. who sent $1,190).

The ambulance and emergency service (which is about
$500) and Charlotte's airfare can thus be taken care of.

Thanks for your mercifulcarel This money came labeled "to be used as deemed necessary." Thanks for that confidence! There are some expenses that we know will not be covered by grants but we don't know the amount yet. It could be anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000 - we just don't know and
are waiting while officials go over the needs, etc.

In the meantime, Van is gaining strength in the care of James and Yvonne Lane, minister of the church of Christ in Hartford, Conn. After January 1 he will visit his brother

Fred iool^ed for and found Stephanie Nichois. She still does art for
Jesus and daily passes out Gospei tracts among town and others. Those who know her may want to encourage her In the Lord. Write c/o Macedonia Church - 824 Albany Ave., Hartford, Conn. 06112.

Kenny at Ozark Bible College for a few weeks, inspect the school and their radio station. Then he will fly from St. Louis to London where we will use him in the correspondence
work and preparation for summer work and in the intern

50,000 MAGAZINES
A MOVE OF FAITH
Printing is being started as an act of faith on 50,000 pieces of gospel literature. They are to be distributed in London next summer. You will receive a copy soon. Please look it over prayerfully and carefully. Consider its value for evangelism. We anticipate 50 home studies from filmshowings, 100 direct inquires, and 200 correspondence
students to result from the distribution.

ship during the summer (if he has recuperated enough). Next Fall Van expects to be in college, Lord willing.

A VISITING MISSIONARY
Peter Sutjaibon, a Thai missionary-evangelist of
churches of Christ inThailand, stopped with us inLondon while he made arrangements for shipping 10,000 Lisu Bibles
to Burmaand Thailand. Peter workedon the revision ofthe

Lisu text. Hehimself invented analphabet and grammar for

the Ngochang tribe and has translated the NewTestament into the language of these people. His translation is in the processofbeing set for printing. Itwasmy privilege to make

all of his connections for him and escort him to his meetings.
His business (which is Jesus' business and therefore mine

too) was expedited. We are more than glad to beused and have some part in helping the larger kingdom in this way. We urge other missionaries to useour facility and service

We need $3,300 to purchase these magazines. When you get your copy, please consider how many you will pur chase and contribute toward their cost. Ten offerings of $330.00 will supply the materials. Our summer interns will be here to distribute and to follow up. Please help buy this vital literature. Those who read this (especially you who have not contributed toward this work) will you sit down now and send an offering to cover the cost of printing? It would only take 100 people giving $33.00 each to get this
done.

EffgWCoffgran P[rg] M i

INTERN PROGRAM SHAPING UP

Four applications have been processed so far for the summer of 1981 program. Quite a few inquiries have been made and a good many have said that we can expect them. However, we count on only those from whom we have received applications as having decided. We would like the applications to be in by the end of February, 1981.We have one person committed to cook. There is need for one more. It is a vital job and makes it possible for the team to be at work. You may be just the one for the job. Please inquire if
you are interested.
Dear friend of London Mission, If Fred Miller leaves London, the work in England will
fall."

Those ominous words were spoken to me only recently

by an elder of a Midwestern church that is itself heavily in volved in foreign missions in Spain and Portugal.

We all realize, of course, that there is no "indispensable" man. However, there are certain individuals who are in
valuable to a cause.

If you want to see London and some of Europe, what better way than by making a Christian contribution.

What, for example, would our Christian women in America be facing were it not for the courageous efforts of Phyllis Schafley, tireless anti-ERA worker? I kind of feel like that observant elder might just have spoken prophetic
truth.

KENNY MILLER REPORT

Kenny is doing well in Ozark Bible College and fitting into the program. He has a job in a florist shop and green house and pays most of his own school bill! He recently
wrote and asked if he could be involved in the intern pro

Fred Miller is pressing the battle for Jesus Christ in the teeming metropolis of London. This great man of God, his good wife and brave children, have made a magnificant sacrifice by uprooting themselves from their beloved American soil to resettle in a country and culture as different
from ours as East is from West.

gram! Of course he has to fill out the application just like

all the rest!

The efforts of the Millers have been exhaustive. The

results of their labor has been truly encouraging. By American standards the number of churches established and

souls saved might be considered small but by European standards the Millers have done an amazing job.
Wouldn't it be tragic if this influential worker and his family could not remain to work for Christ in London be cause Christians in this great land failed to rally to the
cause?

I am writing to you (Fred does not know that I am doing so) to encourage you to please consider sending regular, generous support to this vital work. I weep that we have to beg well-to-do American Christians to share only a frac tion of their possessions with those who have given up all
to labor for Jesus Christ.

Allan Ashurst, after many years of teaching, baptizes Musiim, RahIm

Ullah of Manchester, England.

Won't you write me today and assure me that you will both pray and pay for the work this dedicated family is doing? I want a faithful gospel witness in England, don't you? May the stirring words that Winston Churchill (that grand old man of British Parlimant) addressed to Englanders in World War Il's most trying hour be also true of American
Christians:

T-et us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so

bear outselves that, if the British Empire and its Common wealth last for a thousand years men willstill say, 'This was
their flnest hour!*"

In Jesus' Name,
Victor Knowles

(Minister of Oskaloosa Church of Christ, sponsors of this newsletter)

Debbie Carlson, baptized Into Christ, Is now working with children and older people. A bright spot in the Streatham Church.

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