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NEWS
WITH
TH E NICHOLSONS
Vol. 16 No. 1
January,
1975
Dear
hr is t i an
Fr iends
Greetings in this New
Year
o f
1975.
e
do hope that you
ha d
a
very
happy
Christmas
se son
Never
before
have
we
seen crowds
like
came
to
this
area
this
year.
They had to
put
police
on th e comers
of some streets
where
there
were no
lights
to keep t raffi c moving.
e would park at th e
furtherest
free parking lot and walk fo r i t was quicker than looking
for
parking
closer
in. While
we
had much
rain,
from 6
to
8 inches
along
the coast on
Christmas afternoon, a ll
indications
ar e
that
th e
visitors
had a good
time.
Christmas
Eve
a ll th e
missionaries gathered a t
the
Bible
Ins t i tu te
where Michael
and Caryl
Stanley
were our hosts. At
this
time we had
ou r g if t
exchange. This
year we
s e t an approximate amount and
th en w ro te in
a book th e th in gs we could use t h a t cost about
that
much
so we received things that we could really use.
To make i t
different, they
took the presents-
on Sunday
b ^ o r e
C hr is tm as e ve . When
we
arrived,
we found a
Christmas
t ree
drawn
on
th e b l a c k b o a rd
w i t h
names a t t a c he d.
Each
one
found
the i r name w i t h a
clue on
the
back as to
where
the gi f t was
hidden.
Christmas
Day
the
two
Stnaley
families
were here with us. Brian and Deanne
Guy
had
his
mother and
her
friend
at th eir place.
Brian s mother had planned to have Christmas
Dinner
but
spent a few days in th e hospital
just
before
Christmas.
Sunday
th e
28th,
a l l
t h e m i ss io na ri es came here for a carry-in-dinner and then on
th e
2nd of January
th e
Floyd
Stamm
family
came
down from
Durban
and
t he ot he rs came
again
so we had good fellowship.
The
Sandy Sinclairs were
away bu t will
perhaps be down to vi s
us next week
th a t is th e
2nd f u l l week o f January).
Our Christmas
parcels
arrived
right at
Christmas so
we
had a good Christmas. Our
children
all
met with Steven and his family at Clear Lake on
th e
14th. While they were
a ll
together,
they made a cassett
tape
fo r us . What a wonderful
b le ss in g t he cassette
recorder is. Even th e noises a
l i t t le
one makes are a blessing to the grand parents.
What
happens
in
a day
for
a
missionary
is
th e
question
that
one
is
sometimes asked?
The
29th of
December
brought a
letter
from one of the churches
that is erecting
a
new
building. e
had shipped
the
lumber
fo r
the
roof
of
their building from
here
in
Natal
because
we
could buy
i t
so much cheaper at the mill and even railage
was
not so high.
After i t was shipped, 1 wrote them a letter saying we would have to come and cut some
o f
the timbers for we could save on both costs by taking
x6
and then cutting them to Ih
X 3. Also there were others to be cut. ow they sent word
they
had r ec ei ve d t he timber
but the long pieces were not
enough
so they had
gone
and bought
them
and would we please
send th e money. The few pieces
they
had bought cost 3/ 4 as much as the total of a ll
we
had
bought.
1
sent
a
telegram
telling
them
to take t h e i r timber back.
But
th e
end
o f
th e
m ont h
wi l l tell w h at w e n t o n .
The
same
day
we
went to
Invutshini
fo r Anna Songo
th e
wife of the
minister, to
take her to
Greenville
Mission
hospital
about 50 miles from
here.
She
is
going to
do
a
crash course to
see
i f sh e ca n get her cer t if icate as a Nurses Assistant. She ha d
been
working fo r
this
when she go t married bu t has not been able to get back fo r i t until now
She
has also just completed her Red Cross
certificate.
e also
wanted
to visit the hospital
to meet a
doctor
who came out from
Arlington,
Washington to
help
out there
for
8 months.
Before we
left
the
States, my sister
had sent us the clipping from the paper telling of
his coming. At th e book store, we found his daughter, who took us to talk with her father.
He was working in
o u t-p a tie n ts
so
la ter
we
went to
talk
with his
wife.
When
we l e f t a
man
came and asked for a
ride
to th e main
road. When
he l e ft , another
one
asked
for a ride
to Port
Shepstone.
I t t urn ed o ut
that he had a
wife
and child as
well. Even though
we
had
th e l i t t le car, we
could
take all
very
well.
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The
f i r s t
weekend
in
this month
we
were at
Escourt.
On
Saturday
they
had a wedding
The
couple
had been married at th e m agistrates
court and
now had a service at the church.
What a time they had
bringing
th e couple to the church
singing
and dancing a ll th e way.
The
bride
was
very pretty in her white
outfi t .
After the
ceremony they
each
had a
cake
t o
cut though
it
w a s n t e a t e n
u n t i l
we went
t o
h e r
home f o r
a meal
had
services at
th e church on
Saturday
evening and then again on Sunday. 1 would
like to ask
you
to pray for
Brother
Sithebe
and his
wife.
This man has a great zeal
for
the
work
of the Lord.
do
want
him
to
come
back to school
for more
training.
He
i s
a
driver
and
says
that
companies
have
sent
men
out to
try
and
get
him
to
come and
drive
as
he is so dependable. But he has been giving
himself full time
to
the
work. To help suppo
himself he
has been raising
potatoes
which
grow
well in that area
when the rain s come. Th
price
is good as well. He said also that his garden was doing better because he had done
what I had
told
him
to
do. They
cut
a
lot
of grass and
put i t
in
the cattle
pen:
then
before
planting the potatoes they
put i t
on the land.
have every Sunday
in this
month
scheduled
which
will mean quite
a
lo t
of
driving.
The 17th - 19th we
are
to
be at
Dimbaza near
Kingwilliamstown.
are to take the tent
and
set i t
up on our church si te . hope
in this
way
to
encourage them to
raise money
fo
their building. Pray for this congregation please.
Our c ra te s a rr iv ed
and
have been cleared through
customs
did
not
take
us long to
get
i t unpacked.
As we
finish writing th is l e t t e r
we
have just taken
on
another job
for
awhile.
Brian and Deanne
Guy have fr iends
coming to
v i s i t them
from the s t a t e s . R at he r t ha n
changing
teachers
several times during the f i r s t
quarter
he
has
asked that I teach his
classes
for
the
f i r s t
six
weeks of that quarter.
This
means we
will be teaching a l l
week
an d away from hone most weekends.
Hqw thankful
we are for prayer. There have been some problems that
have
r isen in
different
areas.
have
prayed
for these and
have
asked some
of
the
brethren to
pray
^r tjiem and most
of
them
have been
worked out. thank you for your prayers as
well.
A f t e r we go t
it home it
May
God r ichly bless an d keep you.
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NEWS WITH THE NICHOLSONS
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^ Volr 16 No, 2 February, 1975
Dear hr is t i an Fr iends
The month of January was interesting in
that
I visited four different
places
each Sunday. Beside
this
I also had
four different traveling
companions-
y
Vernita
went
with
me
to
Tabamhlope White Mountain
near
Escourt
the
f i r s t
Sunday. Lynn Stanley went with me to Ntabangadlinkomo (The Mountain that did
not
eat the catt le
near
Bizana on the
second
Sunday. The
third
week end Nic
Qwemesha
accompanied me to
Dimbaza near
Kingwilliamstown. The last weekend I was
helped
by
Brian Guy as we visited Graaff Reinet and Cradock and brought students
back to
school.
Freddie
Sithebe
is the
minister at
Escourt. He is a very energetic young
man
and
one who
loves
the work
of
the Lord.
would
greatly
love to have Freddie in
school
again, but
he drives a
delivery truck
to help support
his
family. Saturday, they
had a church ceremony for a couple
that
had been
married
at the
Magistrates
court.
Their coming to and leaving
the
church is the
colorful
part
of
their ceremony. Sat
urday
night
and Sunday
morning, we
had
a
fu l l
house for
both
services.
The
people
in
Pondoland were not expec ting to
see us when we
arrived
a t the
meeting
place
because
of the
rain,
did
a
l i t t le
sliding
about
but nothing
to
worry
about. On th i s occas ion , fo r the f i r s t t ime we
used
the
s l ides
o f the Old Testament
given us by
Central
Christian Church of Wichita Falls, Texas. 1 preached for the
Saturday evening service and Brother Lynn Stanley fo r Sunday morning.
Nic and 1
took the mission
tent when
we
went
to
Dimbaza, have a
church s i te
bu t i t has been slow work for the people
to
raise money for their church building.
fel t that
services
on their own property might encourage them and then
i t
would give
us greater freedom. When
w
arrived
w
found the brethren had already put up the
posts
and they erected a very
strong
fence around
their property
on Saturday,
Shortly, we
are going
to lay
the foundation
fo r the bui ld ing
and go as
far
as
the money
on hand
will take use.
They only had 300
in the
bank,
but
hope
to increase that
amount
in
the next couple
of
months. 1 know though that i f any one would like to help them they
would
great ly
appreciate,
Dimbaza is a town created to move people from
the western
Cape,
have many
people
there from Middelburg and Cradock. The problem has
been
that i t is about 12
miles from Kingwilliamstown and most of the work in
the
town is done by the people from
the location there. So many of the
men
from Dimbaza have
to
go
to
further ci t ies
to
work and thus are not
always
a t home with the i r families. Four new factoxies
have
recently
been
bui l t there and
others
are being planned.
Since we
buy no
gasoline
on
Saturday
and Sunday, Brian
Guy
and 1
know we
must be
at
Cradock by Friday night
at
6 to f i l l up.
made
i t by 5:30 p.m. After visiting with
Brother and Sister Geldenhuys for a short time, we went to ge t a place at Sulphar
Springs
just outside
of town. Here we can
get nice
rondovels with bed and bedding for
1.88 each
and
the
right
to use the big
swimming
pool
which
is
filled
by
springs.There is no odor to
this
water and after a hot day i t was a wonderful treat
before
go
ing to bed. even took another
dip the
next, morning
before starting
our day.
After
breakfast
and seeing Brother Geldenhuys again, we drove to Graaff
Reinet,
85
miles further
west-.
Brother
Labatala,
the minister ,
was
not at
home so we
went
to
the
Colored
area.
They
took
us
to see
the church
building
where they were
putting
on the purlins
that
will
receive the roof.
The man doing
the
roof for them is doing
an
excel lent
job. The wall plate
i s
well
w ired to
the wall .
The t rus ts
are not
only nailed to the wall
plate;
they
are
also wired. The bottom purlin is then wired
to
th e
trust, so that i t will take a real wind to take off
the
roof-
This is a good
size building and th is man is doing
the
work
for
them
for
50 a ptized.~
5 a t
Amabele
wh i ch
is
near by.
The f i r s t
Sunday
in
May, we
went to
Bizana
district in Pondoland
t o mee t wi th t h e
b r e t h r en
concerning a
problem.
We
had an excel len t
meeti
with
a church so packed t
I do
not see
how
so
many
people
go ins ide After
the
meeting,
we l i s tened
to
the i r
complaints, but
by
tha t
t ime
they had
mostly disappeared.
This
Pentecost
Saturday and Sunday, we met
with
the congregations led by Qwemesha
and Songo, having helped
them
with
the
tent and except for having
difficulty
in
finding
the place
of
the
meeting
when we
took
th e tent out
on Saturday morning, had a wonder
ful time of service. Brother Brian
Guy
spoke on Saturday night and I showed the
picture
Fire
on
the
Mountain . Sunday morning, I
was
the speaker
after
they had
'baptized_^l. people.
This
week, we have the
Natal Missionary Conference in
Durban,
fellow missionaries
will be coming
for
a meeting together.
Next
week,
our
Through
th e
help
of
friends,
we
a re getti ng
some
rewiring
done
in the
kitchen
and base cupboards
buil t . Before long,
we
shall not
even know
our own
kitchen.
The foundations have been dug
for
the
new home
that Zobolo s
are bui lding
and as
soon as I can
find
time
we shall
run
the foundation.
They
will
then star t to buy
the
b locks fo r
th e
wa l l s
Milk
is
to go up about
four cents
a
l i t re.
However,
we shall now
be
able
to
buy
gasoline on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. They have
taken
on
hour
off
the
week days
in that stations
will
be open
at
7 a.m. and
not
6. Also on the freeways and open
roads, we
shall
be able to travel
at
90
kilometers
and hour,
or
from
we go up to
about^S6 mil^es an hour The greatest help to us is the fact
that
we can buy gasoline
on Saturday
mowings'.
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pray the Lord s blessing
and guidance for all of
you
forward AGENT:
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Minn.
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NEWS
WITH
THE
NICHOLSONS
Vol. 16 No. 5 July, 1975
Dear Chris t ian Friends,
We a re rejoicing
and
thanking
God that
we
are able to report
that
in
four churches
there was
75 who
accepted Christ and
were
baptized during the mon^l^ of May.
We
witnessed the baptism of
eleven of
these in the
Stutterheim
churcn
wnen w e ^ r e
there.
Another five from Amabele were baptized the week before. There were thirty-one who were
baptized on Pentecost
Sunday
at the meeting near Port Shepstone.
We are having beaut i ful
weather
here now but there has
been
no r a i n for some t ime
so
the
grass i s beginning to turn bi
At the end of June, many of th^sgyTssionaries gathered^
af -
Skoegheim , a conference
center
near Port
Shepstone
for three
days^^i
iellowslrJCp ^ planning.
Present
were
Stuart Cook of
Johannesburg, Sandy
Sinclair of
Eshowe, Floyd
Stamm
of Durban, John
Kernan
of
East London,
Gordon
and
Estelle
Nelson and
their
two daughters, Marcia and
Lisa of Kimberley and the four
families from
Port Shepstone.
One of the
great
problems that
faces
us
today
is the shortage of ministers and othe
teachers
in the church.
Teaching
by extension was talked about. Some c la sse s a re
al
ready
held but the distance between
churches and the
fa c t th a t
one cannot
l i v e i n African
areas
means
a
l o t
o f
t r a v e l i n g
to
hold
such
c l a s s e s Ten weeks o f
classes
have
been
held
in Pondoland
and
a second
s e r i e s s t a r t e d These have
been
well r ec ei ved.
June 11th
through the
15^t7 Minister s Wefik was
held
at Graaff Reinet when twenty-
two of the African ministers were present. The f i rst hour each morning was given to them
to discuss their work on their
own.
They were so happy
with
this
that they
have asked
to
have time at
their
annual meeting in September to meet again. How happy we are that ther
i s a feel ing o f t r u s t between
th e A fric an
ministers and the
missionaries
so t h a t we can
work
t o g e t h e r without
f e a r
Missionaries present for the meeting and discussions were
Zimmerman
Nelson, Sincla
Stamm
Guy L.
Stanley,
M
Stanley and Nicholson. Saturday evening and Sunday they had
special dedication
services for the minister's home which was
built
by the minister, John
Labatala and
hi s
congregation. The house
is
nearly
4 times
the
size
of the original
house, thus so much more l i v e a b l e
Saturday afternoon, all the ministers went to visi t the new church building in the
Coloured area.
They
were busy
plastering when we
arrived. They are hoping before the en
of June to
have
the floor in, but i t will be
two
or three months yet before
i t
is ready f
u
The annual meeting of th e churches will be held at Klerksdorp from the 10th until- th
14th
of
September. Messages
will
be upon
the I Ams
of
Christ .
Camp time is upon us
and
we
are
looking forward to i t For the
f i r s t
time in severa
years we shall participate in the camp with the bre thren
here
at Port Shepstone. This
year we are going to make use of a camp ground on a farm about 15 miles west
of
Port Shep
stone.
The young
man who
prepared
the camp
grounds,
works
with
the
Indians and prepared
for their use, but rents i t out to others at 30 cents per person a night.
There
are
cabins for
boys and g i r l s and even
hot
water in the wash rooms. There i s
large building which houses kitchen, storeroom, and
main
hall with a large fireplace whic
is used
for ea ting ,
classroom and
services.
There is also a swimming pool fed from a nea
by stream and a good playing
f ield .
The cost for each c hild for the week will be about
3.00.
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The second week in
Ju ly
we are to go to Pondoland. We w ill l ive in the t r a i l e r hou
parking
i t
a t the near
by
store- Ve wil l
be
taking the tent with
us
for
services
as our
church
building
vvill be t oo small.
shall
slso carry
some
of the
food
for the camp
as
we
can
buy i t I luch
cheaper
here than there.
The foundations
are being
poured
for the
new
home that the
Zobolos
will be building.
The
church at
Dimbaza was helped with some money from
the
Building and Evangelisitic Fund
of the
churches and
they expec t
by
the
f i rs t
of July to begin
work on
their
church
build
ing .
ask
that
you keep these new converts in your prayers and th e need f or m in is te rs .
We
rejoice to
read
of
some
of
your
victor ies in Christ and
new ones
born
into His
kingdom.
Yours
in C h r i s t
Alvin
V er n i t a Nichol son
FORWARD AGENT:
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R i c ha r d
Hanson
16642
Gannon
Ave.
W.
Rosemount
Minn.
55068
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NEWS
WITH
THE
NICHOLSONS
16
No. 6 August 1975
Chris t ian Friends
You are
perhaps
wondering what
has hannened to
us
for i t has been
some
time since
have
sent any news your way.
the caiiip^ h^ld the early
part
of .
Excellent. There were 103
oung people
present
at the camp at
Gorge. When the young people
and saw how n ice it
was
they
if
they could s tay un t i l
Sun
y
rather than
going
home on Fri
ay af te rnoon.
The grea tes t
t h r i l l
o f
th i s
amp was tha t there were 31
people
were bapt ized .
- -The second-week
o f
Ju ly frrian-
and
I
along with Philemon
Waka,
to Ntabangadlinkomo in the
o f
Bizana.
We
had
th e
p ickup loaded down with the
nt a n d f ood
and w i t h
t h e c a r a v a n
CAMP
Brian
and I
parked the
caravan at
the
local store which was nearby. The f i r s t
days we had very strong winds and I wondered i f the tent was going
to
remain
or
be
torn
down. But
except for
the
t ies at
the
top
of th e
side
curtains,
had
no problems. ..
_Here we
had only
80
campers, . Par t of this
came
because
they had been planning
a
camp at Lusikisiki
and
this fell
through
at the
last minute.
Some did not
have
time to make other plans. Each day, we also had a class for th e adu lts who were pre
ent
with
th e young people, and those who were able to
attend
from the area. After
the
f i rs t
night
the
evening
services
had
to
be
held in the tent
as
the
church
building
not
hold the
people who came.
Because of buying gasoline, we came home on Friday afternoon though the camp
roke up on Saturday morning. When we
came
to Bizana which was about 25
miles
from
they
told us
at the station that
they had no
gasoline.
That
did
not worry us
to
much,
for
I was
sure
I had enough to
ei ther
get me home or close
enough that
Vemita could come with
the
l i t t l e car and
give
us some. However, a few miles out
of
Bizana I could te l l that something was wrong with
the
caravan. When
we
stopped I found
t ha t
we
had h i t
a s tone
t ha t
had ,.f:laite,ned oiir . t i r e .
We were
sure
there
was
no
use
oing
back
to
Bizana,
so we quickly
took
off th e wheel and I lef t for Port Shepstone.
I
fi l led
iqj with gasoline at Ezingolweni
because
I was not sure now i f I could be in
ort Shepstone before 6 P ^ , yneighbor works fox.the retreaders and sells tires, so
e
went back
to
the
shop
with
me
and
fitted
a
new
t ire
and tube so
that
I could go back
for
the caravan
and Brian
and
Philemon. I t was 11 P.M. before we got to Guys
fo r
some-
thing
to eat. ^ ,
hqs
stayed
with Deanna uy and their two l i t t le children when Brian was
gone
with
me. ~ -
In almost every African church service that
we
have been
p resen t fo r
in the last
couple
of
months, there has either been someone baptized
or
someone has
made
the good
c on f e s s i o n .
Since a number of publications have
carried some
articles on
the
need of many parts
of the world for food, I
have
been thinking of
that which
we see
here.
In A frican areas,
people have not been
getting
the
amount
of food from their land that i t
is
capable of
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producing. The government has beenworking to help
in
providing agricultural
officers
and others
to teach
them how
to
grow more.
Custom
s t i l l plays
a large part in that the f ield work
is le f t to the
women. How
ever, they
are
doing
much
bet ter . Several of our ministers are good farmers
and get
good
crops
when
they get
the
rain.
These are
men who work
hard, use fer t i l izers
and
good seed^as well as preparing
the
soil and keeping the weeds down
Many
allow
the
corn
and grass to get three
or
four inches high before tney hoe
or
cultivate i t and by that
t ime
the
corn has
suffered. Jus t
th i s
week, I hauled out 4 sacks o f
f e r t i l i z e r
fo r
Enoch
Zobolo (this cost about 30.00). We are to go to Pondoland again in a couple of weeks
and at
camp
the minister asked me to bring ferti l izer for him as
i t
is d if ficul t to get
there .
He
wants
6
sacks
but
was
not sure
then
of
which
mixture
h e wan ted .
--.1
Enock Zobolo son, Jethro mixing cement for their
new
home.
ing
i s th e I
ams
o f C h ris t.
Ashwell
Bulula does very well
but
he
also had an adventage.
There is a spring some
dis tance
above his home. He
has
bought
pipes and has i t
piped
so that
he can
raise
cabbages and
potato
a t h is home and wate r them. J u s
now we
are
in a very
bad dry
spell ,
so he
is
set
to do
very
weil from his cabbages.
Ashwell
also
has h is own t rac tor^ He
asked
me
to
look
fo r
a
smal l
tw o
bottom plow. Several of the
other men
have
said
they
would
l
to have tractors
to plow
the i r
own fields with and also to plow
those of the
neighbors
(for a
fe
of course) .
5 our work now
is
beginnin
t u r n t owa rd
''^-Sf.J.lieXhurches which
will
be
hel
_from
the 10th to the 14th of
September.
The
theme
of
the
mee
Sandra, our daughter, says that she is feeling
better
all the time and can now work a
full
day
with
no problems ow
we thank od for the operation that helper her so much
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16642
Gan no n A ve . W.
Rosemount, Minn. S5068
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yours,
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0 igTj
Vol, 16
No
7
September,
1975
Dea r
Ch r i s t i a n
F r i e nd s :
Greetings in^.C];tjy^4: .^l Saviour.
Once ConferenJ:iih e has
come
and gone. The
f irs t week of this
month
was
a
very busy
on^ jciiIjwe
tfXod-to get all things in order for going. To make things as easy
as I could after I
got
there, I
counted
out many of the
cards that
we
used
and
put
them
in groups of 10, SO, or ICQ so
tha t
we would
not
have
to
count them out
when
the men wan
ed them and many
would
be standing
by.
I made several communion t rays, but these did not las t any time a t al l . I have take
o r d e r s
fo r h a l f
a
dozen to be made as soon as
I
can .
Along
with
th ese th ings
the
tent had to be
loaded
and the
pickup
prepared
for
the
journey-
Vernita rode
with
th e S ta nl ey s as well as one of the minis te r s wives. But
s t i l l had
to
take
four
grown
ups and
two children
with
me. I was
very
glad that I did
not have to bring the tent back with me. Derry Smaage and Roland Joseph have taken it
to-ETde^rado-Farrknear
Johannesburg
to~hT7ld a
meeting
for the~Xbloured
congregation where
Ro l a nd is t he m i n is te r-
Klerksdorp i s about
160
miles s ou th
and
a l i t t l e west of Johannesburg in
th e Provinc
of
the
Free State- I t
is both
in the Gold Field area
and
also
where
the farming
is
very
good.
This
i s
out
o f
th e
area where most o f our churches are so o ur a tte nd an ce was down
from l a s t
year.
However, the s p i i ^ o f the conference.was the
b es t IJ ia ve known. I
think that
our biggest
problem was
the
wind and the dust as the wind blew strongly
almost
every
day
and
with many
people walki ng about
even
a t times it was
very
dusty in th e ten t .
But th is did not
dampen
the spi r i t s o f the African brethren.
Most
o f
th e m is sio na rie s s ta ye d away north of town beside a small l ake .
At
the mos
it was a b i t
under developed but
we had
great fel lowship and our meeting place
was
genera
at
the Stanleys
t r a i l e r house be caus e t he y had the bes t
means
of cooking. But
the two
nights when we a l l ate together , we cooked our meat over an open
f i re .
Present
for
the
meeting was
John Kernan, East
London,
A1
Zimmerman,
Capetown,
Mr.
an
Mrs. Gordon
Nelson
and
Lisa
of
Barkley
West,
Mr. and Mrs. Sandy
Sinclair
and
Johnny
from
Eshowe, Mr- and Mrs.
Robert Mills
o f Alberton, Mr. and Mrs, Lynn Stanley, Mr.
and Mrs.
Michael Stanley and g i r l s Mr. and Mrs. Brian Guy wit h d augh te r
and
son, and Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin
Nicholson a l l of Port Shepstone^
We were
chosen
to
help
with the leadership
of
the
work fo r another year .
P le as e p ra
that
God
wil l
give us guidance and
wisdom.
A growing
change
over the years has been the
increase
o f
ministers
wives who go to
th e
meetings.. From th i s area 9 ministers went
and
only
two
went
without t he i r wives. Th
day f ol low ing our return, I had to
take
two minister and wives with one single g i r l back
Pdndoland.
For
them, I
took seven bags of f e r t i l i ze r -
Was
also
to
have taken 10 bags of
cement,
but
there was none
to
be bought in town.
For
some
time
when I
could
f ind
time
I
have been working
on a
69
Dodge
pickup
for t
Gci lima church. Finally
I
got
i t
going
and
passed the
t e s t to show
that
i t
was
road
worthy and
could
be l i censed. How
happy
they were
when
we came with
it
I t
wil l
have
to
come
back
f or p ai nt in g and
fo r
some other things which showed up when we began to drive i
on the road- But we know
it
wil l be a
great help
to
the work.
Word came
today t ha t
vanda l s had broken th e
windsh i e l d .
Whenever
one
travels on the road with a pickup there are always
people
trying to fla
one down
to get
a r ide many
o f them
even
w illing to
pay
for
i t . As I was coming home
from Pondoland, I
passed
a country store and
severa l
women waved to f lag me down- I was
not going to stop
unt i l it
seemed
to
me
tha t
I
could see from the l ips o f one
woman
t ha t
she used the African
name
they use fo r us, Mongameli-
When I
stopped i t
was women
from t
Xopozo church They ha d been wai t ing here s ince morning fo r a bus . t
was
now wel l i n to
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afternoon. They wanted to go to
Bizana
to see the Doctor
T he re w er e
5 women
and
2
children. When
we
stopped in Bizana they said the office
was
closed and could
I
take
them a l i t t le further
to friends.
This I
could since
I was going
that
way- Then they
asked for time
to
go to the cafe
to
buy something
to eat=
This consisted of bread
tea
and sugar. They would have 5
miles
to
walk to see the Doctor the
next
morning tha t th is
they
did not
worry about. How very close I came to passing them by because I
did
not
recognize
them
Work was begun on the church building in Dimbaza in August. Shortly af ter we had
s tar ted
from another o ff ic e th at has oversight over that area we were a sk ed to return ou
permission
to
occupy because
we
had had i t
for
six years and had no t
buil t in the
one
yea
as the
permission ha d s ta ted.
When the
loca l authori t ies
saw
that
we
had s ta r ted
there
was no problem but almost we
lost
this place which
the
church needs so badly. They
said
they had one row of
blocks
to go before they would put
in
the windows and
these
are on
hand .
^P1
s i th
us for
Percy
Marongo, Moses Tyatyaza Abraham
Louw
and James Ntoni and
for the congregations which they serve
that
they may labor together in peace so the Lord
work might grow- They have
said
they
will
bu t we know i t is not always that
easy.
So
we would l ike you to help us in
strengthening
their hands by
prayer.
God
bless
you a l l dear
bre thren.
FORWARD AGENT:
Mrs. Ri cha r d Hanson
16642 Gannon Ave. W.
Rosemount Minn. 55068
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n
Vol. 16 No.
8 October,
1975
Dear C hri st i an Fr ie nds ,
It
seems like
this
year
is
anxious to get to Christmas, the way time has been
flying by. But
we
thank God for his manifold blessings and for the opportunities
we
h a v e to
se rve Him,
The mystery of th e broken windshield has been solved.
t
was one of
the minister s
own
children.
One
of the smaller boys had gotten the door
open
and
inside,
but once
inside he could not get the door open and so
made an opening
for himself.
They
never
did get much information from him, but one of his siste r s said he had done i t She
told
this after
he
and all
the
boys
of the area had
been
called together
and
questioned.
A car
is
no mystery to our children who
grow
up with one but something else
fo r
those
who
only see them. This last week end a group of children rode a mile on the
back
of the pickup
and
then had to walk
home.
But
to
them
i t
was
something wonderful.
Qn -
th c 5th of-OeteberT-we-vi-sl-t^d-^heInvutsMn-ir-chureh-;Before we leftthat-
aftemoon, Mrs Songo asked
if
Mrs. Nicholson could bake a birthday cake or cakes
for
he r
because she had not had a
birthday
party f or
he r
children and would
like
to
have
one for
all
of
them.
Vemita
made
two
cakes and
Mrs.
Stanley decorated
them
and
pu t a ll
seven
children s
names on
the
two
cakes.
I wish you
could
have
seen
Anna s
joy
when we
took the
cakes
out. Brother
Barnabas
said the children could hardly sleep
on Saturday night, they were so excited fo r
Sunday
to come. No wonder l i t t le
blessings
l ik e
t h i s
r e a l l y
bring
us
joy.
Ou r area of South A fri ca has few song b i r d s l i ke thos e we t hi nk
o f in
th e middle
west. However, does
have
some very p r e t t y b i r d s , some t h a t
have br i l l i an t
colors
and several
that
have very long tails. Most are rather shy so we have
to
watch and
wait
fo r them.
There have been a
number
about our place
this
past
month.
Perhaps the
mulberries
have
also helped because a litraiber
have been
seen
feeding
in that tree.
In
the
building o f ciq boards fo r our k i t c h e n , we have
collected
a number o f
o f f
cuts
o f
formica and
made some
of
these
into
Commianion
trays.
They
will
be
easier to
keep clean than
th e wooden
ones and I
think easier
fo make because once I
ge t
the
f or ai ic a o n,
I do n ot have to va r nis h or
s ta in them s e v e r a l t imes.
We have helped ^riaa Guv family to ge t their
crates to
Durban fo r shipping and
with a
ca r
while he was getting his roadworthy
for
selling. We plan to take him mother
-t o Durban next month
to
see them o f f .
W e^a ll
miss them very much. t was
Brian
who built part
of the
cupboards
for ou r
kitclienT~ TTTeir T i tt le ~ s ^ was bom on th e
same day
as our youngest son.
He
has such a big smile and has always
been happy
to
have us
hold
him. So he has filled a big place in ou r
lives.
The children
of
two storekeepers got married last weekend. The wedding was here
because this i s her
home.
On
Sunday, they were to
take her to her
new
home
which
i s
about 160 miles from
here.
A bus
hired
to take the
young people
of
this area
to
th e
hdtae
has an
interesting
story.
The
thing
that is interesting
was
that
they
came
and
asi ked one of th e elders
of
the Church
of Christ
to
drive
th e bus.
The
regular bus
drTver
would go
along but they did not trUst
him
not to get drunk.
Even
here, they
often
think Christians
ar e
foolish when they do
no t
follow th e
ways of
th e world. In
t hi s
case, howeveri thei r c h i l d r e n s liVes were s a f e r in
a C h r i s t i a n s
hands.
Please pray that Freddie Sithebe and William Beme who a re t hi nk ing
of
coming back
to
school, may find
some way
to
make
this possible. Their
families need
caring fo r
while they are
in
school. Both men really need th e f u rth er tra in ing .
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Roland
Joseph
who
ministers
at El Dorado
Park near Johannesburg brought the ten
back af t e r a two week meeting. He r epo rt ed a ddi ti ons
in
a two week meeting to t o t a l 50
Sincerely
in Chr i s t
Alvin
V e m i t a
FORW RDING AGENT:
Mrs. Richard Hanson
16642
Gannon
Ave.
W
Rosemount
Minn.
S5068
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Nfuia
iiittj Ija
JJirliolanna
V o l 1 6 No.
9
December 19
Dear C hri st i an F r i e n d s
As
t h e
b l e s s e d
t i m e
o f C h r i s t s
b i r t h
draws near we want to wish you a ll a very
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
May
God
richly b l e s s an d use
yo u
fo r
th e sake
of
h is
Kingdom.
We are on a trip into the Cradock, Cape area. We shall be away from
home
for ten days.
They have
fully
furnished rondovels cabins at one place called Sulpher Springs which has
been a
help
to us as
we
have one
reasonable priced.
They have others
that are much
newer
but also cost more
So
we
have not had to carry so many things with us on this trip.
Philemon Waka who has been present at school
for
three years came-wifJi-us-as -far ^s- -
Umtata, where he will
visit
the church for
this
period that
we
are away Then next year
w i l l
go
t h e r e a s m i n i s t e r
We
visited
friends on the
way down
taking
them
some
bananas for the
many
kindnesses the
have done fo r us. On
last
Saturday and Sunday, the 15th and 16th we were with th e church
at Cradock.
We
had three services with them on Sunday. They had a lo t
of
children for
Sunday School and a
teacher
for them. The la st service
at night
we showed slides
a ft e r
they borrowed the right connection
fo r
the lights and
projector.
We would have
to
just
preach
we thought
but they came
for slides so
th e African men made
a great
effort
to
f i n d w ha t was n e e d e d .
On
the 18th, today, we
made
a trip to Middelburg to see
t he l oca ti on superintendent
but
were unable to see
him as he was away. A
ra in in
th e
night
made
i t
much cooler so we
were
not as hot as
we
expected to be;
we
were able to
find
cool shade in an area usually verv
hot and dry no r eal
rains
t h i s year.
On
th e
2n d
o f
November we went down to Ea st London an d Dumbaza. We took on e
o f
th e
st udent s
from
the
Bible I n s t i t u t e so sh e could be
home
t h a t weekend.
Tlius we saw
the
church building there.
It
was ready for the roof and
we
hope by this time that they have
most of i t
in
place. This is going to be a great help to the brethren.
On th e
same trip we were
at
KingWilliamstown with Moses Tyatyaza.
in g but were disappointed
in that
lie had not made arrangements for a
meeting with
some
who ar e meeting somewhere else because he and they
do
not agree. It was our desire to see a ll these people
together
and tr y to find a solution to th e problem. Because
we did
not
finish services until late in the
afternoon
on Sunday,
we
re
turned to East London and spent another night
with the
Kemans.
Short l y a f t e r we got
back
home we ha d a
telegram
from
T y a t y a z a
t h a t h i s
son had
b een
k i l l e d
in
an
a cc id en t n ea r h is
home on
t hat
Sunday
night;
i t seems be was
h it
by a bus. The
funeral
was
last
Sunday. I t seems most unusual for a body
to be kept for two weeks before buricl bu t
i t
is
not easy
for
the Africans to get
off
work and to tr avel to a
place
like
this. One
daughter lives
near
Johannesburg so
this was
pro
bably
th e reason fo r
i t
being so long.
We
saw the
Guys
hoard
their ship
on
their way
back
to
America, was 15 years ago that
we
took one
o f
the ships
like
this
to
Britain.
We
pray they have smooth sailing.
s h a l l
m i s s t h e m
We had a good m e e t -
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25/25
We r e n t e d
a r e l i g i o u s film an d showed to
th e church
a t Invut shi ni an d
again
on t h a t
evening
a t
th e B ib le
Ins t i tu te
fo r t he i r s e r v i c e s . I t wa s on th e r e s u r r e c t i o n
o f
C hr is
an d g r e a t l y enjoyed.
A special
program is being planned fo r th e closing exercises o f school the f i r s t weeken
in December. A dozen
o f
the A f r ican minis te rs in N a t a l and
Pondoland
a r e b e i n g invi ted
to come
fo r
Friday an d
S atu r d ay
an d
we wil l have s pe cia l c la ss es
fo r
them. They
w ill
have
an
o p p o r t u n i t y to ta lk about the i r work
an d fellowship t oget her. One
of them wil l
b ri n g t h e c lo s in g
message
f o r
s ch o o l.
We
hope
p e r h a p s
t ha t
some
of
yo u
may be a b l e to s e e
ou r
d au gh te r S an dr a,
and
h e r
husban
Dick Hanson, who
wil l
be
a tte nding
th e Missionary
Convention in St. Louis.
Again, we s a y , God bless you.
Yours
in C hr is t s Service ,
Alv in Ve rn i t a Nicho lson
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