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T

LION S

See

ihe

Lion ol (he tribe of Judah . . . has triumphed

April

998

i

IN

AFR

OLD

FR IENDS

Mike

and

TracyWalton are

very dear friends

and fellow work

e r s

f rom ou r

years in Zaire

the

Congo .

M ike bu il t

th e

church

and

mis

s ion

home

in

Bafwasendeand

Tracy, an RN,

t ook

c a r e of

many

medical

needs.

They

are

now

living in

Centralia,

Illinois

where

Mikecontinues in

the

building trade

and

Trac

works as a surgical nurse. Their famiiy, includin

three children, Andrew, David,

and

Katy, worship a

the Greenview Christian Chu rc h wher e Mike is a

elder

We

are very happy to

announce

that Tracy

going to

be

our Publicity

Agent

for this next term.

S

what kid of a job is that? She willbe responsible fo

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keeping you informed of what is going on with

our life and work in

Masasi .

That m e a n s

that

we

w

keep her up to

date

with E-Mail reports,

phone calls, and a supply of current photos to

share with you. Ifyou want to know

something

about

our

work, or your church needs

recent

information about us for a special program,

you

would

contact

Tracy.

Her

address

is: Tracy Walton

4 2 4

A n d e r s o n

Centralia,

IL

62801

6 1 8 5 3 2 6 7 5 0

Her E-Mai l a d d r e s s

is:

J a m b o

midwest.net. Please pray for Tracy as

she

takes on this responsibility,

and

be sure to

take advantage of her position

Our

Fonwarding Agent,

as

you

remember.

Is Lynn Kohlhagen. Please continue to send

all support and gifts through her. you have

a question and

aren t

sure who to call, please

call either Agent and they w be glad to help

-you.

This can t

be June already?

Right

next

to my

computer

is a priority mail

envelope

that

contains two t icke ts for Dar e s Salaam. W e

are scheduled to leave

on

J u n e

6th

from

O Hare Airport, on British Air. With

an

11 -hour

layover

in

England,

we have chosen to take a

day room in a hotel and try to

get

some

sle

When

you don't

have

a

teenager

along

w

wants

to

see the Rock Museum,

It

makes

t

decision much ea si er .

W e will arrive in

Dar

S a l a a m on

J u n e

8th

a t

which t ime w e will

making the flight

arrangements

for our trip

Mtwara

and there,

we willbe met with a vehi

for ourfinal leg of

the

trip. Are you worn out

reading this?

We

should be arriving ho

around the 12th. Nothing

happens

quickly

Africa.

No

it s

not

June,

but April is histo

This

is strange We

are

writing this

at the

e

of March, but you won't

be

getting it until

end of April,so Ihave to write about the fut

in the past tense??? Anyway, at Linc

Christian

College every

year

they

havea

W

of Evangelism;

everyone

has to

get

invol

as

it is part of

the

curriculum. Because of

work of report ing to churches while home

furlough. Dawn

was

not required to do W

of E, bu t

she was specifically

asked

by

friends.

Bill

and Jane Sears , to go

Chamaquero, Mexico.

The Sears have

b

taking

people

down to Mexicoon MissionT

for years --17

w

be going on their trip

time.

This year,

since

they

are

going to

leading a VBS program at a new church the

they asked Dawn to be the Missionary for

VBS. She is thrilled at the idea of tel

children in Mexico about children in Africa

Here

in the States,

also

in April, we wil

sharing the

leadership

of a Sunday

Sch

C l a s s a t t h e Jefferson S t r e e t Chris t ian Chu

The

classes

are designed

to

increase

c h u r c h s m i s s i o n s a w a r e n e s s .

TAH DAN We

are

still in April,

but

n e e d e d a bit of fan f a r e for t h i s

n e xt o n e.

those of you who have not heard, all two

you, our daughter, Rachel Shew, is goin

have our first grandchild in

May

around

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19th. InAprilDawn

and

Elizabeth

are

hosting

a

baby shower

for

Baby Shew.

Glorious May Mark your calendars

May 19th, on or before, the

Shew baby w

present himself to his orherGrandparentsand

they willtry to pack in all

the

hugs

and

kisses

they

can for

the next

two

weeks . When we see

Baby

Shew

again

she

or he

w

be

walkingand

talking.

The less

exciting part of May is

that

Dawn

will be having her finals from May

18

to

the

nd

June and

the

empty nest syndrome.

We

have reversed the empty

nest

syndrome

by having

the parents leave

the nest while

leaving

the

kids behind.

Joshua

is currently

working at a hog farm called

Pork

Place.

Although he likes

the

job

and the people

he

worksfor

and

with, he

w

probably

have

to find

something that

pays

more. He

w

be living

he re in ou r house in Lincoln.

Elizabeth

w

be

living with Mark

and

Rachel.

While

she

is quite

pleased

with this

arrangement,

she

is ecstatic at

the

idea of

living with

her

new

niece

or nephew. Becom

ing

an

Auntie is definitely going to

be

a high

point In Elizabeth s life.

New s

From

th e

T e am

In

M asa s i Even t s

continue

to

be

exciting for

the

work in

Tanza

nia. Ourfriends

at

Tukae Wote really

want

to

start theirown

worship,

but seem

to

be bogged

down.

Roger

Lieb, our

teammate

in Masasi,

told us in a

phone conversation

he

thought

it

might

take

getting me

back

with

them

for it to

happen.

Meanwhile,

the

team

has

decided

to

start

regular worship service at

Nyasa,

this is

the area of Masasi in which we live), in 10

weeks.

AtMsikala,

where

JeffWhytsell works,

the men are

taking more responsibilities in

teaching

and

leadership. Since

we have

been

gone there have

been many requests

for

Team

to start new classes in the surround

area. But

they

were

unable

to

do

that beca

of already having a full work load.

One

m

named Amandusi, from a very smal l to

called Lukuledi,

asked Roger

to

come

to

home

and

begin a Bible study. When Ro

told him

that

was

not possible, Amand

started

coming

to

Roger s

classes and tak

the material home to teach at Lukuledi. By

time you

get

this letter,

there w have been

baptisms

there,

and

Amandusi

is leading

classes, a

Wednesday

prayer time

and S

day Worship. This

group

is

also

planning

building a

place

to worship.

God s w

is be

accomplished

despite our human limitati

Our

new

family, Richard

and Shan

Nevels

a

doctor

and

nurse

respectively),

be

finishing up their Swahili

language stud

around the en d

of

June; we

should arriv

Masasi

aboutthe

same time.

For nowthey

be

living with

Jeff

and Lois Whytsell. Nei

family

has

children, and Roger and Tr

should

be moving out of our house

soon

t he ir own

is a lmos t

f inished. Our

house

been

completed.

We only have to have fu

ture, closets, shelves and cabinets ma

Roger reported

to us

that

this

last

year

th

was a MONSTER RAINY SEASON,

an d

back porch did not fare too well. Infact, it

unusable because of all the rain coming

The solution

to that problem is louvered w

dows which Roger is going to buy for us in

when he goes to help

the

Nevels receive t

container this contains their living and w

related necessities).

Getting Our

Giaa

Bytes

We wer

need

of a computer in

Masasi,

and

thought tha t we would have

to

buy

one

h

and

take

it

over.

God had a better

p

Missionary

Aviation

Fellowship was abl

purchase a large amount of computers

were already

in Tanzania,

and we

were a

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to purchase one of those.

Thank

you,

Lord.

Did

You Know? S in ce w e h a ve

been

home we have been

raising

funds

to

purchase

a

Toyota

Land

Crui se r

fo r

ou r

work

in

Tanzan ia .

I

have

been

mailing out letters monthly

showingourgoal and

where

we

were

in reaching that, but have never in

cluded this project in TheLion s Line.

So, if you did not know, we are

raising 30,000 for a Toyota Land

Cruiserwhichwill

be shipped

toTan-

zania from Japan. We

have

re

ceived

18,644.14

to date which

l eaves us a balance of

11,355.86

to r ais e b ef or e

June

6th. Please

prayforthe completion of this project.

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PRAYER REQUESTS

1.

Safe

travel

to

Tanzania -

June 6th and

on.

2. God s provisions for our children remaini

America.

3. Our adjustment to leaving all children

and

a

grandchild behind.

4. Praise God for the rich harvest

in

and a

Masas i .

5. Spiritual protection for

the

new Christian

wisdom for Bob and Dawn (and all of our

tea

we plan and teach and bring more

people

Lord.

6. Specifically, Bob, as he helps

the

Tukae

build theirchurch, and Dawn, as she begins

t

ing English.

7.

The Toyota

Project.

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TH LIOH S

See

the

Lion of

the

tribe of

Judah. . . has

triumphed

No v em b e r 9 9

IN

AFR I

The Church Worships

Those who

accepted

his

message were

baptized

and abou t th ree thousand

were

added to thei rnumber tha

day. They devoted themselves to the apostles teachin

and to the fellowship, to the

breaking

of

bread

and t

prayer. Acts 2:41-42

What an explosion The disciples, 120

one

minute

became the

Church

of 3,000+

the

next minute. We

knowthatthey had

house

meetings,

we know

they

were

learning, they were praying, and they had communion

We do not have a specific record of them worshiping, o

how

they

did it. Some historians think

that

soon afte

this eventthe Christians started having their worship on

the first day of the

week,

but many still attended

Synagogue services on Saturday then their Christian

worship service on Sunday. We get

the

idea that praye

was an important part of this, as were lessons from the

Apostles, prophecy, and giving. But what about how

they

conducted

their worship?

The way

we think

about

this is undoubtedly deter

mined by our own

experience

in worship. Thes

people,

at

this time, were all of a Jewish background

So

I assume that

the

early

worship service probabl

followed what they were use to from

the

Synagogue

with the addition of what

Jesus

had fulfilled.

They

buil

on

the

foundation that had

already

been laid.

Dawn

and

I have a foundation of worship from ou

experience both inleadingworship servicesand partici

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patinginthem. We have

shared

with

many

of

you at

your

Churches in your worship. So

obviously, we know how a wor

ship

service

should be laid out.

We

have

built up an opinion, or

idea, on the foundation that has

been

laid

in our

lives.

When the

people at

Tukae

Wote sa id that

they

wanted to

start worshiping together,

we

were

thrilled. This was ano the r

step in

th e

direction that

we

were hoping they would go. A

step

toward

the autonomous

Church.

They chose two men

who were

to be the worship

leaders, not elders because

they

were

not ready for that, but

men

to help us

coordinate our worship.

Just to remind you of some of the back

ground here, all of these people

came

out of

an

AnglicanChurch background. Eusticeand Lukas,

who.were

chosen to

lead

our worship, were both

teachers in the Anglican Church and in fact,

when th e Priest was not there Eustice lead the

service. The

foundation for

their

worship was

that which they had learned in the Anglican

Church. High liturgy

and

everything written

out

for

the year

in a book.

So This was a time

when

Ihad to step on

th e

brakes really hard. Not to stop them from what

they

were

doing, but to

stop

me from opening my

mouth. They were asking me

about

what wor

ship book they were going to

use, and

I kept

talking about the freedom we have in Christ. 1

said if they wanted a worship book they would

have to write their own, so they did 1wanted to

say o o o Let's be spontaneous, let's let

the Spirit move among us, let's followthe form of

worship

I

am

use

to.

Whoops

Eustice

and Lukas' first ac t as worship lead

ers was to write up an order of worship. That

meant writing upevery word to be spoken during

the

course

of

the service,

except for the opening

and closing prayer and the actual

message

itself.

For our first few worship services the

leader

The

r ee hurch

said his part

and

we said

ours,

after

that

began

singing it.

Oh,

Boy

I was not

the

only one uncomfortable

this. My fellow missionaries felt the same

Worshipers intheotherchurchesthathavesp

up

out

of our

Team s

Bible

studies

aren t d

this. But, of course,

those o ther people d

have the same

background

as the

people

Tukae Wote. As I was

pondering

this I

st

thinking about what the worship service

wa

in Jerusalem in

those

early days? With al

Jewish

background

What

about

the

wo

services

in Corinth

or

Philippi? What would

have

been use

to?

Or were

they

starting wi

any preferences at all? What would those

Christians think of my idea of the right kin

worship

service?

Between Eus ti ce , Lukas ,

and

I

we

decided

that

we

will

change our

liturgy

regular basis,

and

have already

done

that

since worship began at Tukae Wote in Au

The

three

of us are also sharing the preac

responsibilities

and

we

have

chosen

to

pr

through

the

book of Matthew. As

afurther

si

progress the

Church

will soon

begin a stud

the qualifications and responsibilities of El

They also recently made

the

decision to

some

of their offerings to help one of

our y

men

to get his

school records so

he can ap

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the

University in

Dar es Salaam.

The Holy Spirit is moving in His Church in

Tukae

Wote,

at

His

speed

Dawn

and

I

are

so

grateful that we have been able to be here with

these people during this time. We believe that

God is pleased with the worship of

the

Christians

from Tukae Wote inwhatever manner they chose

to do

it.

T S O L

Teach i ng

Eng l i sh

t o

Spesikers o f

O t h e r Languag e s

This ismy leftnose, Zachariah said. Barely

controlling

the

urge to iaugh, I answered, But

Zachariah, you have only one nose. He had

responded to my question, What is this? asked

while pointingto myown nose. Imay

as

wellhave

laughed, because all of Zachariah's

classmates

did They are learning language from me, but i,

too, am learning. With these classes a window

has been opened for me into

Tanzanian

culture.

This I h ave l ea rn ed well ~ in a class room si tua

tion, these

people

w ll laugh at any mistake, bigor

small, vocabulary, pronunciationoranything else.

They

are

not laughing to ridicule. Rather, they

are merely entertaining one another. With no

movie

theaters, few books,

no TVA/CR,

or

video

games,

they find their fun in people, in

each

other. A

nice

way to

be

I think.

awnha r d a t work o n TESOL

l e s sons

They

are

serious, though, about learnin

wishyou could have

seen

them

as

they dige

the irregularities ofEnglish plurals through le

ingabout bodyparts. For instance,when Itau

them arm/arms and

hand/hands,

that

wa

too difficult. Simple really, just add an s to

end of the wo rd. But

when

we went to foot/

and tooth/teeth, itwas allvery confusing. E

cially to a Swahili

speaker

whose plurals

formed at the beginning of words such

chungwa{oranQe)/machungwa{oranges),

kaitu {shoe)/viaiu (shoes). God is blessin

altogether with knowledge, friendship, and

Preach ing

Semina

Now here

is one

of those

situations

w

you

have

to

repeat

yourself

and

it is not

bec

you forgot orthatyou are getting old, but bec

you are in Africa. We did an e-mail

and

l

mailing through Tracy Walton, you got that

in that letter/e-mail w e talked about

the

Pre

ing Seminar. Well now,

because

of the del

taking pictures and sending the

lm

your wa

get

them developed

and

then getting

the

pict

back

here so w e can chose the ones w e wan

our newsletter, we finally have pictures o

Seminar. I'm breathing a bit heavy after all

so

let 's

s low d own

So

here is a picture of yours truly teachin

Bob

teaching preaching.

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