foAfrel twct centw

(CHURCH OF CHRIST POSTAL MISSION)

P.O. Box 5135, Johannesburg

MAY 10):
HINUTE REPORT

Jan

1. Lesson books distributedrm

2. Certificates recorded

Feb. 2075
3^5

Jan./Feb. 1971

3. Sent School Catalogue to

287 26

58

4. Requested baptism by the

nearest minister.

5. Iirpresslons printed 86500

ROBERT & PHYLLIS HILLS

75,000

Sponsored by:
Webber Street Church of Christ

Dear Friends in Christ Jesus,

The state of oin: bank balance and the demand on our time

Urbana, Illinois

Forwarding Agent:
Mabel S. Mills

forced us to combine two months in one news letter again. During this time, we have managed to bring out three book re-prints and one new printing, however. Two more large re-prints are also immediately to be done.

Box 134. U. Salem. Illinois

62476

Our office helper, Simon, moved to a far part of his circuit and Watson went to ^s^oolr-in Port-5hep&tonescr^e are--ttowHLn H:he^-Joh^aanesburg -atea-wirth-no African ministers at all, plus having lost Simon's valuable help in the office. He read our African language mail and did all the assembly and finishing of our lesson books for us, so we are doubly appreciative of two special contributions which made the purchase of some very badly needed printing equipm^t^possible. The Maud

church send funds with which we were able to buy ^ c i ^ ^ c s t t h e

stapling of the assembled books, and the Webber Street"'dhW5tr"slnfrtmds which we used to buy a gmal 1 pl.ectrirL machine for the assembly of the books in the right page order, and mucK~mbre rapidly than by hand. Without these two items
we could not have managed to complete the thousands of books we did in the past
few weeks.

Ruth has started work as a secretary in the office of a small pump factory near

home now and is saving toward her further schooling. Unfortunately, since she has
gone to work, she has not been of very much help in our own office, so we continue to pray for the safe and speedy arrival of Mrs Mitchell and ^dyJChomas who will

take over our own typing. Ruth was able to get the one book ready for printing before she went to work and she and Edwin take the responsibility for the planning and leading of the youth meetings each week.
Brother 'Stamm h^ still not received his visa to come take over the Beit Street

work, so I a^^till ministj^rin^ there. One aid to this is that after more than a
year on the waiting~list~,' our telephone has finally been installed. They can new phone if they need me. Previously, the only answer was to send someone to the house or to send a telegram.
We are continuing our search for a suitable meeting place for the Tulisa Park (white) congregation. Please make this a matter of prayer. So far, every lead has resulted in failiure and somewhere other than a home is badly needed even to

accomodate the ones we already have in the Sunday School,

'=lP'>ne was from Ko Dmiel had told him what my number was aunnoserl Mitane of or Rustenburc Kuscenourg. I i

educated young man and is keenlv intLIi^ k 'II he will return to Rustenburg to establish a cir^ V
Beme's supervision,

in their home? hrwUl brilllfto his baptism aid Wruct hi^ in th! =

L'Tn'the^S: llVlT^Tn j" f^earT-^i^g.^Da^LTh^^g" nenbers of the church there Mrs sfme ^ "'^er
"^hat they will plan
Daniel is a well
rcuit church there under brother

availablehere' 'so''S a"wf cm^'S^tl when they have the opportunSy"^ Lve^^f^f^^ ? V

the like. This makes it rathe^^V^'pro'po^S^r (A minimum of $775.)

Yom im His Sewice.

pools and are required to be fenced filtered^Inrf^f^ considered to be swimming

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Robert and Ayllis Mills

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CHURCH OF CHRIST POSTAL MISSION

Robert and Phyllis Mills, with their

and expand, now in several languages.

two young daughter, sailed from New York

in May 1953 for their first term of mission work in Africa. Kathy was only a little over a year old and Ruth was only seven
weeks at the time.

By the end of 1966 Bro. Joseph was ready

to take over the work alone and the Mills'

moved to Johannesburg where they rented down-town office space and opened the Gospel
Tract Centre. The Centre carried about 100

They wearily arrived in Windhoek only

to discover that there simply was no hous

tracts in 15 languages and the correspondence

lesson series of three books which was ra

ing of any sort available. It took several

weeks in various hotels before they finally

pidly being expanded into as many languages

as possible. Regular advertisements in

found an old shop and attached house on the very edge of the location. Here they lived
the balance of their stay in Windhoek.

English, Afrikaans, and Bantu multi-lingual magazines brought in a steady stream of eager students of all colors, languages and
backgrounds. In the latter part of 1969 the Mills' saw that it was imperative that they relocate the

Though this site was ideal, they never really made a foothold with the Herero people of the city. The young colored chil dren readily accepted them, however, and soon a flourishing Bible school was estab
lished and services were held nearly every

evening in the shop. Word of the success

filtered to the Rhenish Church's Colored

work in a larger premises nearer their home. Much time was spent in commuting to and from work, and tiiey desperately needed more space which was not to be had in the purely office building where the Centre was located.
The Lord, in answer to prayer, led to a new
home in the suburb of Alberton. This home

School and they were forbidden to attend. Being the only Colored school of the com munity, the children had no choice, espec ially as the school planted a teacher next door to the shop to see who was attending
services.

was much closer to the city Centre, was near

a four lane freeway, and had a large halfbasement which could also provide all the space ever likely to be needed for the work. Plans were immediately set in motion to

When this avenue was closed, Mr. Mills started a small series of correspondence

lessons in the hope of contacting adults of the area. The response was overwhelming, but almost exclusively from other parts of
Africa. No adult students enrolled in Wind

purchase this property to house both the family and the work under one roof.
We at the Gospel Tract Centre are con vinced that the only way that the church is

hoek, so when Lynn Stanley, principle of the Minister's Training School at Kimberley
invited them to move their work there and

going to make a real impression on the world

for Christ in perhaps the only generation the Lord may see fit to give, is through the prayer ful use of the printed page, in evangelistic form, in cooperation with a located national
ministry. We have seen the printed page overcome

assist in teaching at the school as well,

they accepted the call and moved to Kimber ley. Here they made their home for the next
12 years. Donna, who was born in Windhoek, was only three weeks old when they made this move. Becky was born about a year later, thus completing this rather "international"
family. After a few years the Native Affairs De

serious barriers such as language and color.

Our mail bears witness to this almost daily.
It overcomes time. Tracts and booklets have

an extremely long life in Africa. I have seen tracts of relatively small circulation which
are now nearly 50 years old. It survives wars and famines. We are now receiving letters

partment suggested that the training school be moved to an African area, so Bro. Stanley bought land at Umzumbi near Port Shepstone

on l^e South Coast. A new building had been

from Nigeria mailed to the address on mater ials which we posted there years before the
Biafrian war and following famines. Its in fluence will remain iong after we are gone.
The Lord has blessed this means of evan

bought and a Colored congregation was getting started in Kimberley, so the Mills family stayed on to assist with this yoimg work and train Roland Joseph to minister to the work. The correspondence work continued to grow

gelism in Southern Africa so wonderfully that

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The Christian Mission, Vol. 15, No. 2, February 1971

(continued from previous page)

we have absolutely ceased to set goals. We can only try to keep up to His leading! Our

own go^s are never high enough; they are

For ex

address and to provide full information in the first mailings in lesson and tract form. This is why we use "Gospel Tract Centre" rather
than a church identified name.

promptly passed and left behind.

ample, less than a year ago we thought that

300 new students a month was good. He now
provides over 3000 and the number continues

During the year ending Sept. 30, 1970

more than 12,000 booklets were distributed

to increase. There is no reason why these methods should not work with equal success world-wide. Simply put, we use four simple Scripture filled workbooks of the completion
type, each one accompanied with tracts and an attractive certificate. These are posted in progressive series as they are completed,

along with more than 100,000 tracts. At the current rate of growth, at least 40,000 will
be needed for 1971.

The Gospel Tract Centre is presently staffed solely by Robert and Phyllis Mills on an overtime basis, with the occasional help of

their school dau^ters. Donna and Becky, after

school. Kathryn and Ruth are both absent in Bible college. Simon Mtshajrisa, the local African minister, now helps out on a part time basis working mornings. He is especi

each one with a tract list order form listing

all languages and titles of the more than 100
tracts we stock at all times. This order

form is also a tract on baptism and an en rollment form for friends of the present stu dent. It is through this order form that

ally valuable as help as he can read nearly

all African language letters received in the mails. Mrs. Arilla Harrington gave much
volimteer help while she and her husband were working in South Africa. With their

hundred request baptism or to be placed into contact with a local church. Special post cards have been prepared for this follow-up
so that both the minister and the student are

departure, it becomes imperative that addi

tional workers be recruited. Several ladies

given the address of the other and we keep the original request on file for possible evan gelistic trips and meetings. In the case of
persons in very remote areas or distant

countries, we have prepared a special tract

are urgently needed in secretarial capacity to cope with current demands, to prepare materials for printing and for any future pro jects. Some experienced and well qualified

giving full details for setting up a simple New Testament church and including an order of services, full instructions for serving commimion and taking a confession and baptizing
a candidate. This is also sent to all students

ladies are currently considering this work.

Apart from new staff members, our most urgent needs are for funds and prayer. All equipment and supplies are best purchased

locally, but we covet your earnest prayers

that His work may not have to be curtailed

at the final conclusion of the studies, as well

as the address of the Bible college which is

nearest to them so that they can know where

for lack of funds. May we never have to say "No" because there are no funds to prepare
and send tracts and studies.
Robert Mills Box 5135

to make enquiries about training for the mini

stry or in class instruction.

Southern Africa, we publish in many languages

and add to these as time, funds and the need

Because of the many languages spoken in

Johannesburg, South Africa

Forwarding Agent:
Mabel S. Mills
Box 134

makes possible. As a publicity medium, we have found newspapers to be useless, and we always make use of family type magazines in stead. We place attractive display type ad vertisements in these on a regular basis and presently use a popular English, an Afrikaans,
and two Bantu magazines. One of the Bantu

West Salem, Illinois 62476

magazines in distributed in four language edi tions. These cover the entire scope of the

Southern Africa population, both in language

and in color and nationality. We have found

it most projitable to use a non-identifying

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P.O. Box 5135, Johannesburg
March/April
April
2490

HINUTE REPORT

1. Lesson books distributed

2. Certificates recorded 245 3. Sent School Catalogue to A1 4. Requested baptism by the 232
nearest minister. __

496 73

5. Impressions printed
ROBERT k PHYLLIS MILLS

104,700
Dear Friends in Christ Jesus,

Sponsored by:
Webber Street Church of Christ Urbana, Illinois

Opening our mail is like searching for precious gems.

While most letters are purely routine requests for lessons or tracts, every so often there is something almost hilariously funny or something very sincere and heart

Forwarding Agent:
Mabel S. Mills

Box 134. W. Salen, Illinois

62476

touching like the one we have placed on the reverse side

of this letter.

We see God's hand of encouragement in such letters, for so much of our work is

routine, such as the printing of well over a hundred thousand impressions this month,
on a somewhat determined machine. (Machines ^ surely have minds of their own and often revoltV) Or, thermarking of almost SOO-lesson books, or-mailing-xralr nearly
2500 sets of lessons and thousands of tracts. We printed 35,000 this month just to

re-stock.

We used to be able to enjoy occasionally going out to speak at various African

congregations, but our budget will simply not permit this any more. Postage took
another bound this month under the excuse of going metric, likewise gasolene. It

is now sold in tiny liters rather than gallons. The same rises also extend right

across the board to bread, milk and even house loan interests.

No doubt you have noticed that we have not listed the number of people who requested baptism recently. This is because we now find that nearly all who request tracts for friends and many as they complete their lesson books, especially no. 2 book, ask
not keep up with processing the requests in that form. Rather, we have printed a special tract which includes the addresses of ministers in most areas we reach, and
we include this with ALL requests for tracts and all no. 2 lesson books now. Its

this service. It was a very personal and time consuming job and we find that we can

availability is already mentioned in the first lesson book and we will send it at

any time on request of course. Nearly 500 of the first printing have already been posted and we hope to catch up with the backlog of requests in a few days. Since the last letter, brother Stamm received his visa and he is expected this week
to take on the leadership of the Beit Street congregation.

We thou^t two months ago that one problem was solved when a new phone was installed
week in all. Finally, after I had phoned no end to report it out. of order and had
at last. Not so. In the first six weeks, it was in working condition only about a

witten

It took him several days, but he stayed with it until he finally found that the fault was with our earthing. The ground was simply no good in this rocky soil and It only worked after a rain. This man grounded us to a water main. Now we
shall see what happens when we have the next electrical storm as all liehtnine

general manager twice, we got a repairman who knew what he was doing.

arresters are grounded to the water mains.

We had a thriUing answer to prayer this month, when our friend Johnny Ivan, was baptised. Johnny has many home problems and had resisted baptism because of these. He IS a much happier boy now, but is still much in need of our prayers as the home situation, not being of his making, is still not resolved.
Youra in unn^t AJf^sus.

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ROBERT i PHYLLIS HILLS

139,500

Dear Friends in Christ Jesus,

We have always maintained a few dollars laid aside in

Sponsored by:
Webber Street Church of Christ Urbana. Illinois

case of emergency travel, but this month it was necessary

Forwarding Agent:
Nabel S. Hills

to dip into this fund in order to meet current operating

expenses of the work itself and to pay bills. This was in spite of extra South African contributions toward the

Box 134, W. Salen, Illinois

62476

but we are also facing threatening auto repairs. The differential is becoming very
noisy as a result of constant overloading of the station wagon.
We are placing the news letter in the mail a few days, before ..the end_ of the. month

work. For one thing, the printing press required repairs,

in order to beat an expected rise in overseas mail postage on the first of the

month. Fortunately the mid-winter school holiday has just started so we are able also catching up on a lot of accumulated work that we had not been able to clear

to draft Donna and Becky into the office extra time to make this possible. We are

away by ourselves. I hope to be able to publish a second lesson book in the Sepedi
keen to make contacts there.

the past several weeks. It is a neglected area of South Africa, so we are especiallu
address and student records. As w^will soon have fifty thousand people on our files, we find that it is impossible t^~T6cate records of work' comple

language and a series of tracts in Bemba. Demand far Sepedi has been rising rapidly

I dm currently planning a filing system and addressing system for our mailing

student's serial number and the important date he did his work, which he frequently
forgets, or evenmore important, to search the files for all addresses of a

particular country or area of South Africa, or language, for follow-up purposes. The new system should simplify this and at the same time provide address plates
for several mailings and addresses in books sent out.

fun9r==Torher salary needs as yet though she has her travel documents in order. Louise has the funds on hand but was denied a visa at the last moment. She is to

_aL^wo_^e^jA^fs to ^he work h.ive been delayed in their plans. Sandy is short of
m^e further enquiries as they enclosed new forms in the letter of denial. We pray that they shall both be able to come and soon as we have hardly been able to keep
up with the work as it is and the Harrington's will be leaving for their annual

vacation month in America in a few weeks time.

Please keep this need and the matter of funds in prayer.

Y o^l^^s^

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P.O. Box 5135j Johannesburg - - rU - '

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Friends in Christ Jesus,

July / August

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We have changed the form of our news letter this month in. order
to get the most value for the money as the cost of postage on it has jumped fran cents CSouth African) to 4 cents. This is nearly 6 Anerican cents each item. At the same time we are going over our mailing list to check for obvious duplicates and inact

ive addresses.

The two inside pages are presently given over to printing a new booklet which we are preparing in installments. It will appear in our news

will gradually be unfolded in the installments.

whi it has been completed. The Lord has so wonderfully blessed our efforts that we feel others should be encouraged to use a similar means of outreach in their own fields of labor. Our plan for acconplishing this

letters, the Lord willing, but will also be available in booklet fom

The work has continued such a rapid growth that, even with the help of
Miss Thcjnas, we are not able to cope with it, so this month we have had to take the step of cancelling sane of our advertisonents. This should also help to relieve the pressure on finances as we have found ourselves unable to meet accounts the past month or more. If the danand relaxes

encugh, we will take advantage of the breathing space to get more trans lations into print and bring our stocks of material up to date. We are also eagerly waiting for news fron Nhrs Mitchell, that she has received her visa and can join us in the work. Miss Thanas, of course,

sems to be settling in better. UnfortunateI^7^'Ke^TivM""at the worst

more attractive.

ordinary turnover of the lessons. Also, Sandy has only canmitted herself to stay in South Mrip for a few months. She-Jj^-ygrv but now

has already arrived, but she, Mrs Mills, and I are kept busy with the

season, mid-winter. Spring will soon be upon us and things will be much

Tsonga Languages. This was her first attempt at doing a Native laneuaee.
It was not so bad as she had feared. ^ ^

soon as there is time. She also set up several tracts in Besnba and in

on Leadership Training. I nov,' have the negatives ready to print it as

Sandy has m^ged to re-set the type for the second edition of our book

We >^ld also like to express our public appreciation to Midwest Christ

It to set up the titles for the Bemba and Tsonga tracts, but with the Verifax matrix paper as a film. It worked but will be better with the
proper materials. Thank you very raich president Davis of Midwest.
'Christ

It arrived in factory cciidition and we now have the proper film and developers to pt it to use in preparing the tracts and books. We used

ian College for the strip printer which they have donated to the work.

HFTY THOUSAND SOULS

"My word ... shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish
that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thine whereunto
I send it." Isaiah 55:11.

Of what value are fifty thousand souls?

This book is being written
on even one soul,

as we record the address

of the fiftieth
on a work which

thousand student on our mailing list.

If a person cm not place a value

then how can any value be placed

touches so many with the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ? Ours is essentially a sowing mission. As Paul said of his work, "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth
any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase."
I Corinthians 3:6,7.

The emblem of the British and Foreign Bible Society is that of the
sower scattering his seed upon the fertile fields. We believe that there

is a far greater harvesting, never that we need to be people in Southern

need for sowers today. Too many want to do the mind the sowing of the word first. We believe, too, selective in the seed which we sow. There are very few Africa who do not have access to a Bible if they wish.

Nearly all missionaries make Bibles available, the Bible Society maintains book stores for their distribution, and they are available in
most book stores and bazaars. Every school child has one as a textbook.

The word is being sown,

ignorance? No.

but,

is it solving the problem of

religious

It is said that there are over, two thousand different

denominations in Southern Africa.

Many of them have the most illogical

of the Bible in simple New Test

teachings. Men need to be called to those portions particular which effect salvation and which present the

ament church. They need basic tracts and lessons along with their Bibles. After nearly twenty years in a ministry of tract and correspondence

lesson distribution in Southern Africa,

we feel

that there

are many

things we have learned from experience that would J)e,..an^^d to others who

may wish to become sowers of the word in this way. Of one thing we can be certain, and that is that His word win not return void. It will prosper

in the work for which He sends it.

in the Old Testament
basis.

The result may not be immediately

even in

evident to the casual observer, but, it will be there.You may recall that
many of God's promises were not fulfilled

the lifetime of the patriarchs.

They were only fulfilled on a long term

Several years ago now,

I was talking to brother Andrew Calvert,

one

I of our coloured ministers. He connented that he had something he wished to sltow me, and going to one of the back rooms of his home, he soon
retu^ed with a small tract which had been printed nearly thirty five years earlier by brother C.B. Titus, It was yellow with age and
brother Titus is Irag since gone, but that tract still preaches its message just as eloquently as it did the day it came from the press and

was handed over to brother Calvert.

This is a seed which has probably

brpu^t forth fruit many Limes in the messages of brother Calvert as he preaches the Gospel message and reaps the harvest.
Ours has been essentially a sowing ministry. Over the years, we have

P'ioted

and distributed

SSarly 'seven-liun^red^ifty-thousand tracts

printed in one of seventeen languages and sowed widely over~africa. These tracts will still be bearing fruit many years after we have gone from these shores. Will not the correspondence lessons we have sent forth in, their home languages, to fifty-thousand people not effect the lives of probably hundreds of thousands of men and women not yet born? Several of our students have gone on to enroll in the Bible Training College where they have studied to become ministers of the Gospel. Some of these men
represent vast areas of Africa in which the New Testament church is as

yet unknown and there are presently no ministers available who speak the

language. Studies of a printed nature minister, irrespective of language, colour, nation, or even creed. We have corresponded with confessed pagan,
Moslem, African, Coloured, Chinese, Indian, and European all,alike.

Again, the printed page is far less expent^ivp-. and far more permanent than any other means of presenting the wonderful good news~~of Christ's redeeming plan for man's salvation. Even if it had been costly, how could
one value fifty thousand souls and those whom they will influence?

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Searching out an address

July

niNUTE REPORT

Aug.
1053

1. Lesson books dTstH^ted

2. Certificates recorded
3. Bible School reference

ROBERT & PHYLLIS HILLS

Sponsored by: Webber Street Church of Christ Urbana, Illinois

4. Addresses on file

48,961

5i Inpressions printed

162,700

Foj-warding Agent:
Mabel S. Milts

assorted stamp packets - $1./100 stands

Box 134, H. Saiem, Illinois

62476

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P.O. Box 5135, Johannesburg

'SiuJy to shov>. tlivsclf approved unto'God."

\llTiniq,ihy 2:15

Novonber / December 1971

Dear Christian Friends, Devaluation has struck another blow at our already restri

cted budget! In actuality, the South African Rand devalued along with the American Dollar, in fact even more severely,
birt this is a very limited blessing. While it does mean that we shall gain a few more rands for our dollars than before, it also-means iaroediate mark-i^js in prices which mnre than wipe out the^ie slij^t gains. To counter the effect of this, it has been suggested that we list sane of the regular expenses of the work in units so that grwps can accept the c'^allenge of providing for a unit or project. Our two largest items are pvi'tmg paper and the postage bill. My friend at the p^ier can5>3ny was gracious enough to donate and deliver me sane scrapped ptgier last month and also to open an account for me, but I must now order a miniimjii of 16 reams C21" x 33") at a time, at $10. a ream. We use at least ten such reams a month. If you can underwrite a ream or more each month, it would be most appreciated. We also use about $200 postage each month and need underwriters for portions of this regularly. Also, we presently need two type-balls for the IBM typewriter. These were damaged when they were dropped, one is urgently needed. They cost about $15. each. The Lord has truly been good to us this iDonth. Our daii^ter. Donna, was struck by li^tning as she was removing clothing fran the line just before a thunder shower recently, but was only slightly bumed. We give thanks
for His divine protection, die of our young Christian boys was in an auto

accident on the way to church Christmas Sunday. He was hot harmed, though
his car is badly damaged. His cousin, a passenger, was thrown fran the car

and rolled canpletely across the street in frcnt of the spinning car.

God preserved him with only a few scratches and bniises. He is a very
pronising lad, and we feel sure that God has a great work for him once he has truly given his heart to Him. We ask your prayers for both Edwin and

Hu^. Lastly, while Kiyllis was returning frian a church function with a" load of passengers, our own car was struck fran behind. Fortunately, little damage was done other than to the tail li^t. The two cars behind were
damaged while she managed to miss the one in front entirely. It had made a sudden stop in the approach clover-leaf of a main hi^way. The conp season is ncM over. This was wf first try at managing a camp, but

we had an excellent faculty, a trnendous cook, and good stunts. Hie

week.

result was one of the best camps we have had and three baptisms during the

We would like to thank my Mother v^o has been our forwarding agent for
nearly twenty years. She has decided that it is time to hand over to others and our sponsoring churdi has taken over as agent. Mr and Mrs . Wilbur Boyd will handle the work for them at the present time. "THANK YOU for a job well done, Mrs Mills'*.

Yours-Tk^^ Christ.
i FitytU9 ,ViZl9

HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT OVERCOMING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER?

"every man heard them speak in his own language" Acts 2:6 Unfortunately, we do not have the miraculous gift of being able to preach in a language which we have not first learned, today. One of the first problems faced by nearly every new missionary, is that, he will have to leam how to be able to communicate with the people. He will have to
leam a new language, and it will-be one that he will never master to the extent that it will be completely natural to him. I have often heard it

said that if you want to know a man's true language, listen to which language he uses when he prays. In the use of the printed page, language is a barrier. We now have lesson books available in nine languages and tracts in seventeen. Obviously, we do not speak or read and write so many. Even if the new missionary is very adept at language study, he should
not trust his own translation. Many men have thought that they knew the language of the land very well and used it at every opportunity, but whom the nationals of the land could hardly understand. Even if he can be well understood, often his phrasing or spelling or both are faulty. Well educated, and at the same time Christian, translators are often almost

impossible to find. What, then, is the answer? If a person should not do his own translation and he can not-hire it done, how is he to get it? We have personally hired translations done only to have to scrap the entire printing at a later date when we discovered that it was really too
faulty to continue to use. One missionary recently told me of a tract he had seen on another mission field which contained a pledge to be filled
very slight variation in wording and its whole impact was lost. One or two simple rules will help immensely. First, one must keep everything very simple and straightforward.

in by the reader. The entire thought of the pledge was altered by just a

We have developed our lesson study books entirely on the idea of the comple tion of scripture texts. This means that we have to have only very simple titles translated. Such translations are not so difficult to obtain, nor are they expensive as bulky translations of copy would be. In this way
the Bible can be used for most of the copy of the book and it will also be easy to check and grade. The same thing is true of the tracts which we have used. They are mostly Scripture. If error is to creep into the

captions, the scripture itself will correct the misunderstanding.

be known to be accurate.

It can
the

Second, The first printing must be kept small.

This will give

opportunity to make corrections in spelling, omissions, and the like in a second printing which can be much more accurately done. If a large print ing was first undertaken, then it will be much longer before these can be set right. If the printing is found to be too-fault-yrirt-ean-be compl-ctely scrapped at no great loss. If it were a large printing, financially, this would be a very difficult thing to do. Second and later printings can be much larger. Once the negatives are on hand the hard part is already done.

Keep^ the lesson books of correspondence lessons, easy to mark. It is easy to do this with scripture completion texts. Yes and No answers are easy, especially if one has to circle the correct answer. Occasional one word answers are not difficult,but essay answers should be avoided at all costs. These are very difficult to mark, especially in translation. To encourage the student, we have preferred to keep individual booklets
small and to offer a certificate for each booklet completed. A more elaborate certificate for the full course can be offered at the close of

the entire series.

This one might be a miniature version

in reinforced

cardboard
ages

folder

that

can be

carried by
thus

the

student,

if desired.

In correspondence work, Scripture completion

the missionary is working with people of all

the materials must be simple.

and all degrees of education,

can be done by all alike

and at the same time be a

blessing and a challenge to all as well. Through its use you can not only call attention to individual passages of scripture according to subject

matter, but, you can also emphasize the exact portion of the text desired

by making these the words which must be written in by the student.

P.O. Box SI3S

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(A sample translation sheet completed.)

HNANCIAL REPORT
1971

Jan. 1, 1971

Ch hand. Frcm U.S.A.

12.30
5388.04

Donations fron S.A. Sales and Printing

557.91

174.86
375.00
3.48 12.80

Frawn from Bnergency Fund.

Insurance Refund.

Postage Refunds.

Deposited in Emergency Bmd.

Rent for Office Space.

700.00
720.00 1182.88

Office and Printing Supplies.

Advertisements.

Purchase of Bibles. Postage. Office Help. Auto Expenses.

Insurances.

649.01 3.62 1187.83

26.00 288.33 226.35 26.28

Passport Fees. Electric Collating Machine. Electric Stapling Machine. Typewriter.

360.00 111.23
116.40

International Book Numbers (library)

Telephone.
Refund of Donation. Bank Charges.

15.00
7.09 1.00

Conference Camping Fees. Post Office Box Rental.

R 6524.35
5651.46

10.44 15.00 5.00

R5651.45

Balance on Hand Jan. 1, 1972

872.93

(Since devaluation one rand is approximately equal to $ 1.33)

Nov. MINUTE REPORT

Dec.

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