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The following evening I showed th e Christmas filmstrip for the neighbor children ands e rved them r e f r e shmen t s .Many of you have asked about the Ghanaian celebration of Christmas. Many churches holdservices on Christmas Day but fo r most i t is a time of merry-making. We saw manypeople wearing party hats such as we associate with ew Year celebrations or birthdayparties. Some of the taxis and lorries v/ere decorated with flowers and green branches,and ..firev7orks are a bi g part of th e festivities from a vzeek before Christmas straightthrough ew Year s. Since the other missionaries were here last year, they enteredth e Ghanaian sp iri t of things and we enjoyed fireworks along with our more traditionalce l eb r a t i on s .

On Christmas morning several of us spent a couple hours in a Ghanaian home drinking softdrinks, and eating cakes, cookies, and barbecued goat meat with red pepper sauce. Thelatter was a l i t t le tough bu t tasty. This family received many friends during th e dayand en t e r t a in e< i t h em i n t h i s manner .About 5:00 a ll of us gathered in th e Smaage home for a veritable feast of chicken,dressing, and as many of the trimmings as we could find. In addition to the threefamilies, Derry Smaage s mother and father were present, and one student. Aftenvardswe sang cai ols, played games and just enjoyed a relaxed time together.y the way I had gone do^jntotjn two days before Christmas and i t was as bad as anyshopping rush in the States. Only parking places were even more difficult to find-I finally ^ave up and came home Even a x^eek before Christmas there was hardly roomto walk on th e side walk because dozens of women each had their l i t t l e display ofshirts, dishes, toys, or what-have-you right on the sidewalk to sell. You would haveto s ee it to b e l i e v e it

The day after Christmas I went with Rifes to the village of Tamatoku for a session ofa convention. One of our. students preaches t her e, and t hr ee o th er s were there for theconvention. Ron preached in English and the local preacher translated into Ga. Thenanother student preached in Twi and th e message was again translated into Ga. It wasa pretty little village full of coconut palms.. We were given rice and palm soup withfish in i t . I m getting to like that peppery soup The people gave us lots of young,green coconuts to bri ng home* ^Just la st Sunday I was invited to dinner by my neighbors and tasted fufu for th e f i r s ttime. It is a pounded mixture of cassava and plantain eaten with the palm soup, thistime just full of good meat. I really preferred rice, but maybe next time I ll liket h e f u f u a little betterNew Year s Eve was brightened by a get-together, including Mabel and Edgar Nicholsand their daughter and,son-in-law. Bob and P hy ll is M i ll s, on their way home for afurlough from m is s io n work in South A f r i c a ,Moire news wil l have to wait unt i l another mcnth. We leave you, then, a l i t t l e b i t sad,bu t looking forward to the return of t he st ud en ts fo r another term of diligent studyan d o p p o r t u n i t i e s fo r spreading th e Word.

joyfully His,DOROTHY

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I t s been quite a while since I talked to you last. =;Without further apologies',;w i l l g i v e yo u the news h i g h l i g h t s . . , ^ u ; -i'lSimkinS arrived ^}h .March 11th, Imperfect communications led us to ^.xpWt them. Friday, biitf^^ffS- rffiet ^the Tuesday plane j.st in case ,., and they were qh i t I I t was ^goM to sê theta; 3itli:e others knew them better bu t our acquaintance and friendshipdeepened Yapidly dating their stay with me. In less .than three weeks .they had . .found d house and. moved in and .Gyril had assumed a full teaching loa^. . The.ir .c^^^has arrived-f^rom-Europe and-the only things they ars^-still-awaiting ar:e ,dri|ms. p_f_belongings from America, and the arrival of their daughter, 13-year-old l-la^ Ann,in . September;fi iVisits to th e orthodontist are keeping her in th e rStafes ^wi,,th am a r r i e d b r o t h e r . - ; ,Ii,final3o^ got my in chapel. I gave a model Sunday School le.sson..u0ing iRore of visual, ;.aids in order to d,emonst:rate th.ei-r. ^se....Th^. Christian .Education.-class studies these, but a live display .makes themjmcjip,^real. A complete s et of Junior Teacher Quarterlies and Visual Aids for each ofthese same: student has been ordered. I t s a big investment a,b\:^t a worthwhile ,o;ne ,fa r h^lpinô,the.mieixecute an effective-teaching program. - ,j,-i

n 1 J I i ' ru ((.: 'r 'Our.,Lord:s^d,. VTeach, . . . -baptize.. . t e a c h . a n d t hat s .what; s happening.Recently were iburied with Christ in baptism aa.it:hey came to learn theway of the Lord more perfectly. A sevente.e_n-vear- Q-ld.Ghanrian was also -b.apti^d inthe .ocfian?:.he i3v a;.ni6mber of -o.ur 'S^day School/ .Pleaseip ^pr these yoijffgên.In additibEt'.'ta iChja^^ôve cause ^for rejfoicing, we were . :he resililtsof an opeti /^r pre eixing-se^yite, in t h^,.market place ai^-^daisp^-.^n t^ra nightîofpreaching, more than 40 people responded to the invitation derive, their lives tp , Christ. There is now^n Stant clo^fâtion there,. ministered to by one of our 'students. Since the bulk of the plans was made by several students i t encouragedboth them and us, shoxi?inp^ that yqunp jaeax-preaîna tb-e.J7ard.lg.4h _^gtablish congrega-tions with th e help of God. Pray f^ r t h i s group and t h e i r ybiiflg evangelist.Ov^r Eastet-weekend, the men preached several different places. With Simkins, andBarbara Taylor I spent Saturday night and Sunday in ^T.akpradi, 130 miles do the 'coast. We stayed in the Workers' College, which caters' to the public when classesar e no t in session. Sunday morning xê attended a session of the Ghana ChristianChurch convention. Since some of th e congregations involved have just joined*' n:;this fellowship without really understanding the New Testament church, some of theattitudes exhibited were disappointing. There were the usual singing drumming,dancing, and testimoniesall done with great enthusiasmand prayer, but what a_^ûhpr. py-r-ii af fl.j.vpn his chaiice to preach Many graduaUy wanderedaway., from the palm-thatched bamboo shelter and others went tfl,a^fiRL He did his^^st, as did the two interpreters. -The ,Qh^nîa^ who know better wer_e^.di5BSLPîntetoo, although the program had been carefully planned with many sermons and sever^Bible Study periods. There were just too many who dida^-caxfe^ Perhaps realpjcpgress will be-ma4e- faster in cohgregations such as Adaiso which ar e started from^scratch by_a_man..a,lxeady...gr.ounded in the Scripture.There were about 500 people present fo r that morning session. Smaages had drivenover that morning fanl^Bonna^ B^fbara and I sang several trios, including an EasterHymn in the Twi language. Here s hoping they understood th e message of i t . Theservice began about 10:30 a.m. and concluded with the Lord s Supper about 2^00 p.m.We a re t ha nk fu l for those present who di d hear and appreciate th e Word and who aref ithful t o H i m .

I was back in Accra Sunday night bu t l e f t again Monday morning with Rifes fo r atrip into northern Ghana. I t was extremely interesting although hot and dusty.Many of the roads are unpaved and they are most easily traveled before the rainyseason begins. As we drove northward, we observed many changes: the ra in f or es tgradually gives way to a mixture of grassland and trees. The air is hotter butdryer. The people of the north have had fewer contacts with the gospel, with education industry with modern development . The farther north the fewer clothes th e


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^ JUIÊ ::i969 DOROTHY EUNSOW NEWSLETTER NO. 1 2- 1 '.jj

Dear Friends, ^ *On June 11 Smaages w i l l be leaving Kotoka In ternat ional Airp ort f or t h e i r furloughin America. VJe are rapidly approaching the end of t h i s school year. On June 19graduation w i l l be th e closing event of the year. Then we face a cool, calm,summerwe hope I fear the hours w i l l be to o short for a l l the work and study wehave planned .In May the students invited, a l l the ladies to dinner at the hostel . After a mealof r i c e and smoked, f i s h (head a n d t a i l inc luded) , the s tu d e nt s e n t er ta i n e d us and-made a-few-requeets-.- -The reasonable one were-for^--a-table cover-and tableware.As- I t o l d youj ; :s ta inless s t e e l i s already on i t s v/ay from America^-and Mary andDonna bought 'plast ic t a b l e c ov erin g t he same week; This coming wfeek we w i l le n t e r t a i n t h e s t u d e n t s t a r e t u r n d i n n e r .

Since the day aXter Eastery.-Miss Cathy Bundick, a s e n i o r a t Midwest C h r i s t i a nCollege -has been living with NicolaAn Kumasi to f u l f i l l a missionary internship.Heri s t o r y i n HORIZONS wa.-i but she was never able to get ;avisa, probably because of the c i y i l war, , Cathy has stayed with me twice when the'

i c h o l s and she came to Accra on business t r i p s . A d a i l y Bible c l a s s f o r as many asseventy c h i l d r e n i s keeping h e r busy i n Kumasi.The f i r s t Sundaytîn EOy our Sunday Scho ol ga ve bir-th to a t h i r d c l a s s with Mrs.Smaage as te ac he r. C h r i s t i a n Adjei w i l l teaxjh Smaages go 'home. Y7e s t a r t e d anew series of'lesson^,jusiiig workbooks, but arê^ 'ifa^' discovering'the booksare muchtoo advanced f o r but the o ld e st c h il dr en . ' Justt h i s morning I helped three boyscatch up on last week's lesson; one couldn't 'reM ^ ^11, he is in Class 4^ ^truly believe we are goa^g to have to grade ourSunday Seiiool -by.'English ability,regardless of age, and we :need at least one clas^ taught in a Ghanaian language.

want very much to give these ch ildr en Bibl e t ra ining. Please pray t h a t we can workcut the many problems, and find meiL9ds and materi^s ' that are truly effective ( 5?-.-had 39 =Ghildren:.on June 1st, 1969*) v, ^My seksond-. visitbr . this month was Miss Cecîa Baiisah, a young nurse who was baptized'as a result of the Bible studies conducted by our'men at Suhum hospital last sui^qrand f a l l . C e c i l i a i s no?/ i n another h o s p i t a l studying to be a midwife. She i s .very sweet, attrac-tive young lady, and our students 'appreciated her presenoe. thedays she v i s i t e d school with me. In f a c t one evening she joined our music pract iceand sang in a mixed quartet in chapel the. next day. Her present school i s sponsoredby the Seventh iSay Adventists, so she pisses t he f requen t f el lowship of New TestamentC h r i s t i a n s .

One more paragraph about visitors Four men from the Hessvil le Christ ian Church inHammond, Indiana, came to visit ^îfes, their l iv ing l ink missionaries. They wereextremely busy during ,their two week staypreaching, teaching, sight-seeing, andtaking pictures and tape recordings. That HfesSvilie Church surely ought to, have agood record of what is happening here. Of co^se, the rest of us received great.^pleasure from their visit, too.^. .On their last day they took all of us out for lunch;that made 19 at the tablel Only Doris and Brian Rife missed t because Brian was sick.Now T*m going to do some quo'ting from recent writings of Cyril Simkins. I t will giveyou .some yaluable information and''give you the refreshment of a different viewpoint.

^Then we look back over th e past y e ^ 1968-I969, several facts are revealed.The missionaries have succeeded in staying in Ghana. Through the g rac e of God theschool l;as continued and i s s t i l l t ra in. ing preacher s . The school i s incorporated asa dhanai^ institution, and has requested a quota of .its own. This quoâ has notyet been granted. This could be one of the consequences of the internal struggle i n s i d e t h e U n i v e r s a l C h r i s t i a n C h u r c h .On the credit side, the missionaries r ea li ze that the school is stronger andt h a t the s tu de nts a re b e t t e r s tudents . The missionar ies have remained, and they haveremained on the basis of t h e i r b i b l i c a l doctrine and independent pol icy. They alsosee an unl imi ted p o t e n t i a l f o r work i n Ghana.

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apparent than rea l s ince the missionaries always re aliz ed th at they were a means toan end, but did not of themselves form a New Testament Church. I t does not come tha teasy. In f ac t these groups could be a posi t ive hindrance to a New Testament Churchwhen they ê not in te re st ed in learn ing bib l i ca l doctr ine Although t he m i ss io n ar ie sin some axeas had to s t a r t a l l over , the po ten t ia l remains as grea t as before . Perhaps the grea tes t obstacle now present i s the fac t th at the school still has noseparate quota of i t s own,

A ll of our problems are s t i l l no t solved in re la t ion to the Church which i sneeded in G h an a A l l o f u s r e a l i z e t h a t the fu tu re o f a sound Church i n Ghana ls i nthe Lord s hands., V e cannot do it without His help and guidance. All of the missionar ies here s t i l l agree tha t the poss ib i l i t i e s are grea t fo r the Church in Ghana. Weneed the prayers o f Chri st ian s a t home and the Spir i t of Christ in a l l our work.Knowing how to es tabl ish l oca l congregations or how to help es tab l i sh them withoutmaking them dependent on foreign support i s a di f f icu l t task. I know you re joicedwith us l a s t month about the souls baptized in Adaiso . I t i s only fa i r tha t youknow the d i f f i cu l ty of h ol di ng t he se peop le a ft ervâ rds; the Ghanaians are an emotionalpeople, and o ften lo se the f i r s t enthusiasm of an i n i t i a l decis ion. John Adjei, theyoung preacher , has been having an ext remely hard time t rying to establ ish a congregat ion from t ho se conve rt s. v e want you to know tha t the task remains an enormous oneeven a f te r people are bapt ized. Please pray fo r John and t ha t group of Christ iansOn.a more, encouraging note , we wil l pass on the news of a revival held by the ^Tamatoku congregation with John Snyde r, the Hessvil le minister , preaching., Ron Rifehad helped teach the people and guide them in a, cal l ing campaign before Bro.. .Snyder sarrival. The two preaching services r esul ted in 16 baptisms. (They were rained ou tone night.) Since this is already an.established church, i t is more l ikely that. t he se conve rt s wi l l remain and grow in the f a i t hBro. ,Snyder also preached two nights in open a i r services in a nea rby suburb. TheS'6meetings r esu l t ed in 38 baptisms. B ro. Kue vi, of the Ghana Chris t ian Church, issupervis ing th i s small f lock and planning the holding of regular se rv icesFor.a.bout th ree weeks now we have been having some rain showers, so ou r wors t periodof heat has been broken. It s a welcome change.

-yDui^lnteTea l and iiivulvmîit in woi aMp and aervice rcmoino hi^ during -tho -summer, so your church won t suffer a summer slumpl Thank you for your in te re st inth is direct ion Keep prayingl

In C h r i s t DOK)THY

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Dear B r o t h e r s and S i s t e r s i n C h r i s t

JULY 1969DOROTHY EUNSON NEWSLETTER NO. 13

School is out Hurrah Hurrah' Many tasks and much study needs to be done thissummer, but the release from the pressureôf regular classes is a welcome change.Shortly before the close of school, all the wives and I joined forces to give adinner for the students. He had i t here at my; ihpuse, isince Hostetters big pingpong table made i t easier to sât them all. - The,;tab,i^s were set with the tablewareand green-leaved plates Simkins brought back;for hostel use next year. The menuincluded rice, corned beef stew (Ghanaian recipe with red pepper), fresh fruit, cakeand coffee. Everyone seemed unusually relaxed, and.after supper we all shared afine time of singing - in many languages. I taped many of the songs for use at theN.A.C.C. i n t h e Ghana b o o t h .A week before graduation we all ate a late supper at the airport restaurant andthen bade good-bye to the Smaages as they boarded a plane for Rome. They will beon furlough until September, 1970, The'Richard Hostetter family will be returningthe first week of September this year, Lord xjilling. Please pray for both families.Graduation climaxed a week of fitial-e^Statos. Don Baughman flew.-over, from Nigeria tobe our gueSt speaker. The students'%ere resplendent in beautiful Kente cloths andwere very proiid to receive their 'two year'certificates. Special music included astudents' quartet singing As AVolunteer ', our ladies' trio presenting So Send IYpû and our mixed quartet singing a Tv7i hymn about the need for laborers in theharvest, t'or isbrnfe 'reason, the graduates were sure i t was a,.finer occasion than thatof l;ast year, and we are happy that' all of the six seem truly ^dedicated to the Lord swork. Most of them will returrf'fbr k third year of work, \ jh ich will be the endresult of a transition from a two td a three year program for, ; il iddle School leavers(about Jr. High level). The four year progrEun X7ill ;be, retained for those vjith.^theG.C.E. c e r t i f i c a t i o n (high school).Th6 day after graduation-I spent some hours :Sorting a. lot .of Sunday School literaturethat my Father had sent,' tnaking a bundle for each student. Th^y seemed .to appreciatei t ; I l l b e interested to find out in the fall; howithey used i t . . i ; jMost 6f the week after formal classes I spent at the School assisting Ron Rife ,;ti^ aChristiEtn;Educatibri workshop for the graduates: He had ordered for them a set ofteachers* manuals and Visual Aid-packs for Standard PublisUing's Junior I course.I t took ail day, Tuesday through Friday, to prepare all the visua |. aids, and carefullyreview the year's lessons, as well as paint and dress puppets they had made earlier, nd to m^fe fine flannelboards froiti hinged^ plyx-7ood. The men. arfe ,not;used to sv^hfine handwork, and' i t really tired 'them, hut they are very proud of all that valûableteaching mater ia l -- . - . - w-Two summer jobs are already completed or-brought up to date. The correspondencecourses axe supposed to 'be a yearrotind job^, but I had sadly neglected i t during thelast few months of school. ' Yesterday'1'mailed a big stack of . lett er-S: and n@W:^ndcorrected courses, completely eliminating th e backlog. On July 4th, I mailed :toMrs. Lewis in Orlando, a 22 pouhxJ box of display curios. I t took two mornings ofpavement-pounding, market-shopping, and bargaining to collect enough items to fi l lthe box. The mailing i tself is an ordeal, since you must l i terally pack and wrapthe box the post office after the contents are O.K.'d by customs. You just takeyour supply of stuffing, paper, string, tape, etc., with you and spread i t all putôn the counter and set to work. Now that my part i s over, I pray the shipping concerns wil l get the package to Florida by early OctoberA new opportunity has presented itself in the form of teaching Sunday School at theAbeka Christian Church near t-jhere I l ive. I go every other week from 4 to 5. MissJuliana, a young T^î-speaking woman, translates for me. Juliana teaches most ofthese same children in a primary school sponsored by the church during the week, soI hope that she can learn by example how to conduct the Sunday School program thissummer, so that she can take over when our college resumes in the fall . I choosethe memory verse to accompany the Bible lesson, but the chi ldren actua lly laarn i tin T\-ji and Ga. Mr. Kuevi, th e preach er, helps us. Since they are beginning to learnEnglish in school, they do leam some English songs. Last week xje began the actionchorus, The Wise Man Built His House . I t was a real success


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Sunday, July 6, af ter our services at the college, some of us drove to the vil lageof Manso for the laying of the i r foundation s tone . For over a year they have hadthe s h e l l of a bu i ld ing erec ted but no roof . This ceremony x^yas to s tim u la tei n t e r e s t an d giving so th e b uild in g can be com pleted.About 500 people were crowded under the bamboo she l te r . Both Ron Rife and Cyri lSimkins x-jere a t home suffer ing with malaria, but Kent preached t he d edi ca ti on sermon,and Doris Rife, Barbara Taylor and I sang two t r i os . Of course, ours was j us t asmall par t of the five hour service. We arrived halfway through.) There were manymusical numbers presented by v i s i t i ng church groups, as wel l as the l oca l s ingingband (choir) . Group singing - with the inevitable drums - prayers, several offerings and var ious speeches were carr ied on with enthusiasm in an orderly fashion.The crowd progressed a 1/4 mile f ar th er in to th e village to the s i te of the buildingshe l l for the ac tua l laying of the stone. The path was rough and uneven, and weEuropeans, dressed in our unaccustomed narrow skir ted Ghanaian dresses discoveredthe walking a l i t t l e awkx-jard. Threatening clouds shortened the serv ice and beforewe could get back to the cars , it began to rain so hard that xê took refuge undersome porch roofs u n t i l it eased.A r i s ing sophomore, Samuel Osei, wi l l now preach and serve a t Manso, while PeterBar f i th e p re se nt preacher , expends h is ef for t s in s ta r t ing a new congregation a tO d a this s u m m e r .

May I quote from Richard Hostet ters newslet ter?The mission xjork in Ghana has now been incorporated in the State of Tennessee underthe name, AFRICAN MISSION EVANGELISM. The incorporators had to be resident in th eState of Tennessee, but a l l the forxjarding agents are members of the Board ofDirectors. The Board xîll be made up of a l l of the forx-7arding agents plus a l l ofth e m i s s i o n a r i e s .

Thepresident of th e Corporation is Robert L. Mize, Route 4, Concord, Tenn. 37720.The secretary-treasurer of the mission is Roy Lumpkin, 3714 Rosalee Terrace, Chattanooga, Tenn. 37416. Roy Lumpkin does not take the place of any forwarding agent forany of the missionaries. Hoxjever, he xvrill handle any funds for the college xjhichanyone may care to send directly to the college without sending them through any oft he i nd iv idual m i ss ionar y s fund.The fo rmati on o f A.H.E. Xizas due to the necessi ty o f re pr es en ti ng th e m is sio nar ie sto governments . Another reason xâs to have a non-profi t organizat ion to protectindividual donors, as well as missionaries, in matters concerned with income tax.TheCorporation xâs not formed in order to dominate th e mission work. Missionpolicy on the foreign f ield is s t i l l in th e hands o f the m is siona rie s. The Missiondoes not attempt to control th e forwarding agents. Its purpose is to help xîthlegal requirements and to protect the missionaries as well as donors to the mission.At the present time, my bank account xvi ll con tinue as Eunson Ghana Mission Fund,but i f you report gifts on your income tax, mark i t as an aff i l ia te of A.M.E., Inc,xfi th Ro b er t H i z e ^ s a d d r e s s in T e n n e s s e e .Please pray for us - espec ia lly for the Rifes and Taylors - as they must leave thecountry soon and try to re-enter on a different immigration quota. Pray for ours tudents as they preach and witness this summer that they xîll be faithful to God'sWor d

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Dear Friends I n C h ri s tWe are in a type of limbo right now. The suminer's nearly o^/er, and scliool willbegin s h o r t l y . Ron Rife and Kent Taylor have l e f t the country and are trying fromTogo to re -e nte r on new visas under th e Ghana Christian Church quota. I f their visasare granted, Doris and Barbara and a l l the children wil l have to leave for a l i t t l ewhile, too, and then come back in on the nev7 visas . At the moment we have no way ofknowing i f t h i s w i l l work out, or i f the visas w i l l be granted in time for the mento begin teaching. In Apri l , it w i l l be my turn to leave and r e - e n t e r so we mustwait and p a t i e n t l y pray for God s w i l l to be done.

i s in th e Congo getting acquainted with the miss.ioj3,.work there, andwe women and cliildren ^re holding down the fort here. For the last two Sundays,Christian Adjei has preached at the college, and I have led the singing. We havehad very few adults this summer, but plenty of children This last Sunday thel i t t l e s t ones were so noisy tha t next week we are going to send those who l ivearound the school and who come without parents to t h e i r homes after Sunday School.They c a n t understand English anyway, and they disturb others in worship. The t r i ohas sung both Sundays in an effor t to make the service as helpful and upl i f t ing asp o s s i b l e .Another change while the men are gone has really been fun. Instead of adult Bible i;study at night, we have had a youth meeting for those old enough to read English ''well. We had sword d r i l l s and Scripture hunts of various kinds. Some of thematerial i s from J e t Cadet lessons, but this l a s t Sunday I j u s t prepared referencesto answer three questions turned in by the young people the week before. The Bibled r i l l s are very popular, and I have been pleasantly surprised at how well most ofthem do. Only Ecclesiastes gave them trouble Sunday. The f irs t week we had 15youth from 9 to 24, and the second xjeek 14. Doris Rife said her two children wenthome after the f i r s t night and talked about i t for a half hour. Both weeks we havecont inued from 6:30 to 8:00. T\'io c h i l d r e n walk a mile t o house and r i d e t h e r e s tof the way with me. I would l ike to con tinue the youth meeting because they learntruths and a tt itu d es th at we j u s t don t have tinte to teach in Sunday School.C h r i s t i a n s wife was there the f i r s t week and took an a c t i v e p a r t . We were happyabout that because sheiusually i s shy and withdravm and doe sn t a tt end regularlyV 'On August 25th we had a party for Barbara s S. S. class. They are the youngest onesand most of them don t speak English. We asked Juliana Aboah, the young, womanfrom the Abeka church who teaches school,, to. come and help us with the games. Shedid a wonderful job,,, speaking in Tt^i, Ga, and English;^ A large group, of.people 'gathered oUtslde the gate to watch, and they stayed therfe even while the childrensat dowri'^nd ate tlieir cookies and Kool-Aid, only leaving when the children did.We -had ^a patty for the older children a couple weeks ago here at my house., Barbaraand I picked most of them up at the School. There were about twenty young peoplethere, n^ class and Christian's and Mary's. Most of the time they played in,groupsor pairs i t badminton, ping pong, dodge ball, croquet, and table games. Just beforerefreshments I led them in-r.a Polish group game that Paul Bajko taught us long ago.I t really went over big, go that was a good time to stop for our cookies, peanutsTi waft ra hgr late before I was through delivering kids, a task_thatmade me th ink of U. S. A..youth a c t i v i t i e s . .Our Sunday School at the college and the one at Abeka continue vigorously, althoughthey are radica lly dif fe rent in nature. At Abeka the teaching is by story-rtelling'and rote learning, but a l l attempts to have,, the .children discuss olr give answers tothought questions, especially through Juliana, yho;interprets for me have failed.I t is the same difference.;betX'/een American and English school systems. I willadmit; however that Juliana can handle 40 children of various ages in one class,and I don t think I could. Of course', i f I spoke their language, i t would be a help.Speaking of language, .1 have plodded siowly^ through my Twi lessons this summer.At this rate i t will take me twenty years to leam i t At least I know more thanI d i d b e f o r e I st rted


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October, 1969Greetings i n His Name

' P r a i s e t h e Lord We a r e o u t of - o u r f i f t e e n month l imbo On September 20, t h e g o v e m -' ment stamped new t^ro-year visas 4.nt9i.,the pas spor ts o f Ron Rife and Kent Taylor under the quota of Ghana Christ ian Church. Now I am the only teacher of Ghana Christ ianCollege s t i l l on the Universal Christi


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We. have begun a new--school-year a t the college. Eight of the-accepted dozeit-ihreshmen actual ly came. The majority seem happy, in te l l igent , and eager to learn God'sWord. With these added to re turning students , o ur s tu de nt body now numbers 23. I twas a thr i l l ing s igh t and sound when they were a l l assembled for the f i r s t chapelof the year and sang together .On September 8th, the Richard Hoste t te r family arr ived in Ghana for t he i r seconditerm'. Since I have been l iv ing in t he i r house during the i r furlough, x^re are a l ll iv ing together un t i l the neighbors move from the-smal l house tha t . I : .wi l l -soon ren t .There have been some delays, bu t I'm co nfid ent I .w i l l have' moved befor e' .t he nex tnewsletter. The volume of noige and activity^J-s higher than' I am used to , but i ti s no t a b i t lonesome , .

tv'Th^ you th mee ti ng s r mentioned l a s t month have become a regular fea ture . We averageabott fift;een, several of these coming from the Abeka congregation where I teach S. S.evety other Sunday. That extra hour and a half is bonus teaching time .. And i t sf u n ' ' ,v,, ' :In the college I am te ac hin g th e same oUaSses I had-las t year plus one iSKt-ra evening^'English class for the third year students. We have some new books and teachingaids'V so with l a s t year ' s experience, I am,enjoying teaching more than evet. Wevhave resumed our ex t ra music prac t i ce fo r those in te re s ted . Las t year we had only s tudents regu la r ly , plus seve ra l evening s tudents , Doris Rife and myself . Thisl a s t week we had nine s tudents come to prac t i ce , f ive of them freshmeniy -They workedhard enough to prepare a simple hymn in four-part harmony fbi : chapel j;he next'day.I am excited abp.ut the po t en t i a l o f th i s group. , ' 'On October 1, Ghana's new civil government took over from the military.Natiohai;'^Liberation.Council. Although opinion i s divided,attput.the fairness of th e elections,''it i^ a big step fo r a country ruled by Black Africans t o pea ce fu ll y change-from'arevolutionary mili tary government to c iv i l ian rule.- The 1s t was a publ ic hol id ay

iand'Axicra.xâs.decorated X7ith f lags and bunt ing . Dick Hoste t t e r , son Xirn, -and T l e f tthe^house shortly af ter seven to attend the ceremonies in Black Star Square by' theocean. We X\rere early enough jto ge t good seats ' and we thoroughly enjoyed all th'e'co lo r fu l parades an d ce remon i e seven though the loud speakers were not c l e a r'^.enough to hear the new Prime Minister 's speech.:-So it s a new day for Ghana ^nd fo r us. Future i s Unknown as a popular maimnv wagons logan goes, but we khowM-JKo holds the future, and Xire know He.Holds our. hand.May God bless you in America ;keep lis here w ith prayer, l e t ters and money.^ -MayHe grant you the same uplifting.sense, of- a new begii>nin.g. fo r your fa l l programs'inyouf congregatipns'-. i :. :'i-'Out weather is getting'Steadil;^ warmer i. .n; :. i. . .- i .'.-.I -

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Dear .Ghristiati Friends,,The Christmas season is fast approaching, so I will take this chance to get my greetings in early, knowing i t sometimes takes, several weeks for this message to get frommy typewriter to your hands. Hay God bless yo.u during this season, as you observeHis Son*s birthday. And may all the celebrations re-charge your spiritual batterieswith T/armth, love and concern for those both in and out of the Church. Christmas isa beautiful time for Christian families, and I miss mine, but we learn to make thefamil ies here a*good subs t i tu te .I am learning to correct a misconception I had about living in a foreign country, Ithought all the culture shock and difficult adjustments came at the beginning. Iassumed that as time progressed, one became, accustomed to all the annoyances and thatthey were easier to bear. Actually, in the beginning everything was new and exciting,and the differences were something you expected and treated with amused tolerance.But now the novelty has worn off and the aggravations are just plain aggravatin ..1 find myself wishing to shout at every driver who exhibits carelessness or stupidity,j-.Maybe we never,will get used to someone's making a U-turn in the middle of heavytraffic-or taxi and lorry drivers stopping right in the lane of traffic to take on

; . o r d i sc h a rg e p a ss en g er s iWhy, bh, x^hy, does it , taê ,half a doz.er^ trips to get a tax clearnace certificate?l-^y is i t so complibated to get a re-entry visa,; for making a trip to Togo, justthree hours' drive from Accra?' Hy written description is entirely inadequate to: 'conjure up the frustratio^^-ze feel, but .of course the 85 degree temperature and 304 humidity helps. , , ' '' .i-.,Also, my neighbors moved at last - one^week ago -and since that time not one thinghas been done to paint or tdpîr i-.t for my Ôccupancy ; So i t looks like we 11 haveto wdit another month before I can .tell ybti that I am in my own home. ;Nice things hap-pen around'hete, top. About-a month ago-the Zideri Nutt and DickSmith families stopped for a weekend visit OU: their ^7ay back to Rhodesia. It wasrefreshing to see new iacis and heaT.news' from the U . S.' as X7ell as their hopes,problems, and dreams about'the^Lord'> woi^k in iodesia. -We also took a trip toElmina Castle and let our imaginations'takeûs back in'history several hundred years.There is a stOiie compass set in the ground that,Columbus^ checked his-compass withon his way to iêrica in 1492. - s;Birthdays aren't altogether good, but I enjoyed more festivities this year than forsome time. Nancy Hoscetter cooked a delicious dinner for me on the big day i tself, and I bought enough fresh; .apples for us each to have one for supper. (About30


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Over a year ago a generous friend in the U. S. aant two larg pviixttxi^ praceeo hacollege. Their great size proved impractical fo r our needs, so the presses were sold.A portion of that money will be used to purchase a motor cycle for Hr. ICuevi, thechairman of.Ghana Christian Church, for his travels among the churches. Another sizeable sum v7ill be used to heli> erect a building for the small congregation Bro. Kueviis working with in Abeka, one of the sections of Accra . I t will be very simple, butserviceable, and wil l provide a house of vjorship also for those Christians visi t ingA c c r a f r o m o t h e r c o m m u n i t i e s .

Just two weeks ago Dick Hostetter took a weekend trip a l l the way to Yeji, where theferry crosses the Volta lUver, to preach fo r twin congregations of the ^.urch ofJesus, pick first had contact with Bro. J. K. Doku, their preacher, about three ^fearsago. A man of articulate abilityi he has always, been willing to hear and follow thetruth. .They have about five-congregations in different places and observe the Lord'sSupper regularly after being taiight by Dick near the beginning.of their acquaintance- 'ship. The twin groups at Yeji, one literate and one i l l i terate , are less than a.yearold, but together number about 300, and they have built a sizeable building for. their,^.'use.

The congregations are in need of more trained leaders, so if they v;ill help a certaiiitalented youngTman from their number with some of the fees, we will accept him for.some,training in the college. This young man was wellkno^Tn in his area as a ^ ^magician, but now is using his influence for Christ. Bro. Doku brought this,potential student to the sihool this past week, and Bro; Doku himself spoke in chajiei.He urged the students to study their subjects well, as Paul urged Timothy to study,and then to go out and make a real effort to apply what they had learned. Heemphasized the importance of ' 'being one vjith the people , rather than above them, toh a v e real i n f l u e n c e .

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Having been::here.il9 months,I ,am at the âli^-way poirit iii^Ch is first term in .Ghan^..,;I t s getting.iwarte enough-.to.,use the air-conditioners quite regularlyii There :Won*tbe much le t up : t i l next,.June... .SHdes ,are available either from Mr. and Mrs. TJa..Eunson, 596 E. Second Street, Bloomsburg, PA. 17815, 6t Hrs. mck Lewis, 4405 llartlyi^-Avenue, Orlando, Fla. 32806....In the C. 0. M . E. packet for February, 1970, .Nigeria,;,,Ghana,^^nd-Liberia will be.featured. I will ^îte th e Junior Section for Ghana(Mission Services-,..Joliet:, 111.) j.,.GJânaiMS frequently mix up their and I s:*;.une ot the l ii igima ciaaatia ware ib usj^ thu phrasjfc lilwuiiig piuruael^ la ai aemicrtc-î-v: 'one boy asked a question that led me to understand he was thinking ''breeding profuselyI said nbt unless she was hayijig quadruplets ', another of their new words....In thepast five ^têeks, Jeff Hostetter fell in a gutter and had to get a stitch in his-head j :Lance Hostetter jumped into a window and sustained a two-stitch cut ; Heather Hi; ripT,:,';ped off 'a X jhole fingernail w]iile see7sawing next door; never a-'dull^ moment in this,-. ^houfle.'V. .We're, a l l .(including Nichols,.^roiri Kumasi) planniftg to eat Thanksgiving ;i . |.dinner together. . We. have many things to tlânk God for, ih spicfe of ; the-.aggray3ti9nSf-;We are thankful to you folks at home who sustain us materially and prayerfully .: ilay^;vGod bless you and prod you to greater effor ts in His behalf in your totfn. j

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