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A new Bible ^chool was opened Jan. 23 1966 in^^of the best resident^^
areas of Pusan, Korea by the Korean Broadcasting liission. At the opening
session 62 children of primary school age were present. More than 200 calls
were made on homes in the area by the mission staff before the opening. En
rollment blanks were distributed in these calls and a number of children have

returned them, signed by their parents. |on the third Sunday, Feb. 6, ^en an
evening session tos also started, the 100 mark was passed with 105 children

present. Sessions will soon^ added_for pro-schppl and for .junior high school
ages. Church services will begin about April 1. (This church will be known as
the Tong-A Church, taking its name from Tong-A University located about a block

away. It is also planned to have student Bible clubs at this location for high

school and college students. ^This is in addition to the same kind of program
idiich is being continued by the mission at their downtown location, the Tong
Kwang Church. Further information about this and other programs can be obtain

ed from: Bert Ellis, Korean Broadcasting Mission, APO San Francisco 96259 (^or
regular U.S. 8^^r-mail

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December, 1966
Pusan, Korea
Dear Christian Friends:

Christmas Greetings from Korea I May all the blessings of this season be yoursJ

Although there are many long miles between us you are often in our thoughts, es
pecially at this season of the year*

We are already in the midst of Christmas preparations for the church and Sunday
School as we wite this letter and look forward to a busy season. We are having
a special Christmas filmstrip on Sunday evening, December 11, a Christmas puppet
play on the 18th and on Christmas Day the children will have their special pro
gram. We wish we could find a building-stretcher for we are wondering how we will
ever handle all the children on Christmas Day.
November 20-th was Thanksgiving Day in the Korean churches and we had a wonderful

program from the Sunday School children that evening. There were more than 500
in the audience; we c^oubt that there was a single church in the city that had

that large a crowdl The program consisted of the usual songs, recitations and,

as always, Korean folk dances. We have mentioned before that in all the programs
in the Korean church, Yon can expect these dances but this time they were a special
tyeatf

In one of the c^nces, two little girls dressed as a farmer and his wife

did a dance in which they planted the' seed, then watched it grow, harvested it,
cooked it, then ga ve thanks to God for it, and finally ate it I We just wish

you could see and hear these children one time I We are sure that they would cap-

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tivate you just as they do us I

As we told you in our last letter, we closed our downtown location and the children
there are going to a nearby church where we had made arrangements for them. The
preacher of that church called on us the other day and told us that they are all att
ending regularly and they have been surprised at what good students these children
are. lhat made us feel good, of course.

The Korean churches have not done much in

the way of training the children and we are doing our best to inspire them to corr
ect this situation.

We were also pleased to find that there is someone here who is interested in produc

ing visual aids for use in the churches. Just a few weeks ago a Korean gentleman
called at our office and said he had heard we were doing quite a bit in the way of
visual education. In a small way he had been producing some flannel-graph stories,
flash cards and such and was overjoyed when he saw the materials we had and use. We
are making plans to do some work together in this field. His work is completely

supported by various local churches and we will be helping only in the planning etc*

of this work. The biggest problem is to persuade the teachers to use these things
but he has been having some success even in this.

As we look back over the year we wonder how time could pass so fasti It takes so
long to get anything done here; someone has said that what it takes a month to do in
the States takes six months here and we are inclined to believe that. We sometimes

feel so frustrated when we see the opportunities here for advancing the kingdom and
cannot take advantage of them all.

We try to do the best we can and pray that there

will be others who will see the needs and volunteer to meet them.

The new church moves along slowly. If we could just persuade the adults to attend

as easily as we can the children it would be wonderfiAl But it just doesn^t work
that way. Although the work in this location is less than a year old the Sunday
School averages from 35O to AOO both Sunday morning and evening but the church att
endance still limps along between 20 and 25* There are about 35 who attend more or
less regularly. We will just have to grow up a generation of Christians.
Winter vacation has started for the seminary. Graduation is being held in December
and there are A graduates. There are several others who should have graduated at
this time but the faculty decided they were not ready yet and should take another
year's work. Vie are glad they have these high standards for many of the Korean sem

inaries do not. The final papers have been submitted to the government and if all
goes wall the seminary will soon be accredited.

It has taken a tremendous amount

of time, effort and money to get things ready. V/e are especially pleased that all
the funds came from Korean sources; this seminary is truly an indigenous work.
John keeps busy in his junior year at Milligan and speaks for the mission in the
churches as he has available time. It has been 3 years now since we have seen him
and of course we miss him at this holiday season.

Once more we thank you all for the tremendous help you are in this work. Without
your prayers and financial help we could not do what we are doing here. Please con
tinue to remember us and the work of the Lord here.

The Nativity sketch in typical Korean

style was done by one of our church
members, Mr. Lee Chong Kuk* He also

Faithfully yours,

did the one last Christmas.

Bert, Marge & John Ellis

Korean Broadcasting Mission
Fusan, Korea

January, 196?
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Dear Christian Friends:

Grandfather Korea sends New Year's Greetings

to all of you! It hardly seems possible that
another year has begun. We look forward, won
dering what the new year will mean to the work
of the Lord here in Korea, but secure in the
knowledge that if wo trust Him who has led us
this far it will be a year of progress in one
way or another.

The old year closed out with a bang with the

largest crowd ever at the Tong-L church for
the Christmas program. There were ij'50
children in Sunday School Christmas morn
ing, even though it was a bitter cold day.

Then about 30 junior high boys and girls

met at 10:00 AM and the church service,
with 25 present, at 11:00 AM. After

the church service there was a party

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refreshments. About 2:00 PM the

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their evening program.

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in two shifts at A:00 PM and

5:00 PM with a total of 610

present, as well as we could

count.

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The schools are in the midst of

their two month winter vacation just

now and this gives us time to catch up

a few things before the new school year

begins.

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We had a few warm days

during the latter part of the month and

we were about ready to get rid of the "long undies" but it is cold again now and probab
ly will bo until the last of February.
We seldom say much about the little trials and frustrations that are a part of living
out here but recently there have been more than usual and we thought you might be inter
ested in hearing about some of them
The Foreigners' Commissary, operated under the auspices of the Korean government,
the only place where wo can buy any V/estern foodstuffs, has been telling us since the
1st of October that a big shipment would be in any day. A few items began to trickle in
on January 15' Meanwhile they had 5 different kinds of canned celery hearts, 3 of bar
becue sauce, 10 of imported beer and every kind of liquor knowi to mankind, but no sug
ar, flour, milk, shortening or any of the other staples I When they do have, prices
are high, a 2-lb. can of coffee is $2.80 1 1 1

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Prices and wages continue going up. The word now is that teachers will have a 2%
salary increase in April. The schools are raising their tuition immediately to more
than ^ake care of this. Our mission budget now is twice what it was 3 years ago. The
cost of living has more than doubled in that time. One of the girls in the office
said a 2-piece suit cost about 3,000 Won ($12) 3 years ago and now about 7,000 ($28).
At the same time the exchange rate, 270 Won to $1, has stayed exactly the same. This
really pinches usl

A young man who ha d just finished a 3 year graduate course in an Australian theolog
ical school came to see about a job as an interpreter. He had a Master's degree in law
from a Korean university before going abroad. We tested him and found his knowledge of
both ahglish and Bible was completely inadequate! How he got a degree abroad is incom
prehensible to usl And this is not the first case of this kind! (NOTE - Sending a
student to the States to study is no guarantee that he will be of help to the work of
the Lord when he ' returns 1)

About November lO, we received the first 3 packages of a shipment of books mailed

from Sigland on September lO. On January lO, Another package arrived and 2 are yet to
be heard from of 6 mailed on the same day, September 10^

This is common with all of

our international mail!

The U.S. government has signed a Status of Forces Agreement with the Korean govern
ment. As one result, w will not be able to use the U.S. Army mail afteh February 9*
This means we must receive all our mail through P.O. Box lAl, Pusan. According to
Korean law we cannot send $ checks, drawn on our American bank, through Korean mail. If
we do and they are caught we will be in trouble1

This means that all of our bills ex

cept for Korean items have to be paid from the States. In fact, according to the law
we cannot even send instructions to someone to send a $ chock to a certain place! You
may think tha t isn't complicated!
Our preacher agitates for a raise in salary.

Wo haven't been too happy with him as

he has been in school for the past year and didn't do much church work. The story now
was that as he had graduated he would have more time.

The church members turned him

down and we turned a deaf ear also. Then we find that he had intended to get the raise
and then go on to gradua te school! And we thought that he was at loastr'above the aver
age of the Korean preachers we had dealt with!

In November, Harold Taylor had a demonstration and strike,lagainst him by the stud
ents at the seminary in Seoul.

This is not at all unusual in Korean schools these

days as we read frequent reports of such in the newspapers. The students don't even
have to have a reason, just an excuse. (At one high school the students demanded the

resignation of their principal because they were not winning enough athletic contests.)
In Harold's case the students demanded ho fire 2 interpreters they didn't like and that
he immediately get government accreditation for the school. (This last is easier

said than done, and it was being-worked oh>X They gave him
hoiu?s to reply! The
disgusting thing is that the-^wo yoiing men yho have been to the States to study and re
turned to start a rival school in Seoul came over to the seminary with some of their
students to egg the students on ..against Harold. We wish the churches in the States who
support these Korean boys had some idea of the mess they have created!

These things are not all, by any means, and they may seem to you rather potty. But it
is the constant stream of these things that give the trouble.

PLE^i-SS NOTE that after receipt of this letter you should no longer send mail to our APO
address. All mail to us in Korea must be addressed; Korean Broadcasting Mission, P. 0.
Box lAl, Pusan, Korea. International air-mail costs 23^ for each i oz. so remember
this when you stamp the envelope.

Continue to send all contributions to; Loraine

Lindsey, Cabool State Bank, Cabool, Missouri. Under no circumstances should you send
checks or money to us directly. This can cause us difficulties with the government.
Our thanks again to all of you for your prayers and continued financial assistance.

We

enclose our latest financial sta tement. We begin the year with a balance but our ex
perience is that Feb. and March are law in receipts, and there are extra expenses coming up so that balance will soon be gone. Pleas continue to pray for the work here.
Faithfully yours,

Bert, Marge & John Ellis

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JULY - DBCEMBHl, 1966
D0YCIT> Jtily 1. 1966

$67-39
HtSBURSEMEaiTS

RBCEIFrS

jTily, 1966

October
Novfflftber
December

TOTAL

$ 666-95
1,049-63
2,035*^

July, 1966

$ 97919
3,217o32
883-25
83^.70
890.32
1,959*25

August
Septoaber

August
September
October

942.07

November
December

841.24

1,637.10

$8,76^*03

TOTAL

$7,1^.45

BALANCS December 31, 1966 $1,524.19

RE)CAPIIUUTION

OF

DISBURSEMENTS

^Bert Ellis Salary (Nov. I965 - April I966)

Korean Staff Salaries

$3,000.00
1,858.15

Bquiiment

306.30

Supplies (General, expendable)

Postage
Sunday School Supplies (Prom U.S.)
Rent (House and office)

411.61
82.00

178.90
194,h4

Relief

Utilities (Offices)
Bquipnent Repairs
Moving Expenses
Taxes & Fees

Vacation Bible School (tiro locations)

Transportation
Promotional Materials

Christmas Expenses (Church & S. S.)

"Key Money (For house; invested)
TOTAL
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37-04
63.00
51.85
39.26
54.39
69.26
109.25
228.43

Mimeograph Supplies (From U.S.)

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37-84
69.26
370.37
$7,172.45
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$100 of ^ich goes to reduce a previous salary deficit- At the close of December, I966
our salary had been paid through April, I966, leaving us 8 months in arrears.