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RAMBLINGS
From WALTI -
Getting to
wor t Teaching
As many of you will remember, the f i r s t task l i s ted in my brochure and
in my
presentation was
that of teaching
a t Chiangmai Bible Inst i tute
(CBl).
my first work was
the
trj^
t Q_ Burma
described
last
time.
On
that
I
taught
Christ ian Evidence. Upon returning
to
Chiangmai, i t was
to be good
fo r the
CBl s tudents to rec eiv e the same
mater ia l .
Two
o f s tuden ts
were,
involved.
Firs t
there
were
the
students of primarily
Burmese
background.
They
some ab i l i t y in
English
so
tha t
they could receive
the
teaching d i rec t
ly in English. However, a f te r the
f i r s t
day I was advised they were having
and that
I
should slow my rate of speaking. Lest Americans feel
in
t he i r English language ab i l i ty they should be
aware
that most
f these
students
speak at least
languages (in addition to English) We
with our l imited
education
in l anguage should be humbled when made
of the studen ts of CBl. Putting these ab i l i t i e s to work will be the
of another of these Ramblings. ....
The second
group of
students
were
th.ose -of
Thai heri tage. For these,
t ranslated
into
Thai
which
made
teaching
a team
effort .
(Poyon
is
the
reacher
of the. Thai Christian Church
which
meets in
the CBl building.) He
sure
he
understood
the d i f f i cu l t English words so the
Thai
students
understand
the
Thai
which he spoke to
them.
I
l ike
working with a
t rans la tor . Besides giving
the
speaker t ime to phrase his sentences, t rans
lat ion
requires that he
avoid
long
complicated
sentences, making what he
more eas i ly diges ted
In
smal le r
b i t e s .
For th is course, the t rad i t iona l
system
of examinations
and grades
has
een
replaced
by several
projects
from
which
the students may
select .
The
rojec t chosen wil l
requi re
them to
review
the
mater ial which has
been pre
s en t ed
and wi l l
be usab l e in o t h e r work o f th e m iss io n.
t
i s
a t rill to
see
them
quickly volunteer
to do
the
projects.
_
At
the
same time I have been presenting Christian Evidenc^ ^,'Paul ParrisB-
has
begun
a study of
Acts.
In this course,
Paul
is teaching t-he^ tu-
with Poyon t ransla t ing for the
Thai
students . We intend
for
th is
to
e
th e s ta nd ard proc edure as
we continue
to develop the
curriculum of
CBl.
(Next: Life In Chiangmai)
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RAMBLINGS of WALT
Mews Letter
of
Walt Prevost
SOUTH
EAST
ASIA
EVANGELIZING
MISSION
BOX
59 CHIANGMAI, THAILAND
MAKE CHECKS P Y LE TO WEST SE TTLE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
4400 42ND.
AVE.
S.W.
SEATTLE, WASH.
98116.
c/ o DOROTHY WEBER,
FWDG
Volume
February 1978
Number
4
Life in Chiangmai
When on e
f i rs t arrives in a new
location,
he
immediately
be
comes aware o f differences between his
new
l oc a ti on a nd tha t
from which
he
has
just
come.
Often these
take th e form of nega
tive criticisms, which are unfortunate and are indications
of
cul
ture shock. Comparisons should
be
made
in
terms which are not
negative about th e new surroundings. I will try to take that
approach as I make the following observations about life in
Chiangmai.
Traff ic dr ives
on
th e left. T hi s is obvious t he m om en t
one
leaves
th e
airport
in
Bangkok.
I was
not
concerned
about
this
when I was a passenger.
But , when
I
had
to learn to
ride
a motor
cycle
while trying
to
remember to stay to the lef t,
it
was a
bi t
traumatic
at
times. However, this did no t last long. The major
problem
I
had
was
remembering
that,
when
making a
right turn
across
traffic,
those
cars,
motorcycles,
and
trucks ahead
of
me
on
the
right are coming towards me
Chiangmai is th e motorcycle capital of the world. We have
been
told
that on a per-person basis Chiangmai has more motor
cycles th an any
other
city
in th e
world.
I believe
it Now
I
have
joined this vast companywith a Thailand-built Honda
JXllO.
Much
honking
of
horns
is
the standard procedure
for driving
in
Thailand.
Freely translated, a
honk seems
to mean, I'm com
ing through
Parking p lace s for motorcycles are found
in
the
downtown
area
of
Chiangmai. Diagonal stripes across the curbside parking
area indicate motorcycle parking . No parking metersbut th e
Chiangmai version o f mete r maids collect 50 satongs (=
Baht
= 2Vi
cents) for parking, sometimes.
Weather has been beautiful, in t hi s dead of winter, s ince I
arrived in Chiangmaihighs in
t he 80' s,
overnight lows
some
times into
th e
upper 50's; mostly dry bu t with several rains . I
will
reserve final c ommen ts o n th e weather
until
after I have
been through an entire year with its ho t and rainy seasons.
C ities are cities are cit ies around
th e
world.
Bangkok, th e
capital and largest city of Thailand, is a big city with a
popula
tion
in
the
millions.
The c it y
has many people,
much
traffic,
and
loud
noises.
There
are many
sidewalk businesses. Bangkok
is located in a river delta
area
and has many canal s which were
o nc e th e
traffic arterialsbefore th e advent
of
motorized
wheel
transportation. Across t he Chao Phraya River in Thon Buri is
th e
famous f loat ing
market
where
much commerce
is
carried
on in boats.
Chiangmai
is
Thailand's second city,
about 150,000
population. It is about 450 miles to the
north
and is at an eleva
t ion o f abou t 1
f ee t; i ts
longitude
is
such
t ha t
i t
is
15
h o ur s a he ad o f Seat
tl e in time;
it s
lati
t ude is abou t th e
same
as Mex ico City.
The picture shows
downtown
Chiang
mai, a modern city.
The vehicle
in
th e
foreground is a taxia small pickup with seats in the back. Most
rides
in
town
are
two baht (about
ten cents) .
Housing is good in Chiangmai. The house pictured is the one
I have rented. It is a three-bedroom
Thai house
of above average
const ruc t ion I t has
an L-shaped living-
dining room, kitchen,
small
bedroom,
and
Thai bath (Asian
to il et a nd cold-only
shower) downstairs;
upstairs are
two
bed
rooms, a huge
hall
(equal in size to
the
two bedrooms) , and
a farong bath (American style with toilet and
ho t
shower). I
use
th e small
bedroom downstairs as a
s tu dy . The
house has
many
screened windows which
open
wide
for
ventilation. There
is no heat; when the
temperature
outside is in the
50's,
the
house is almost that cool; sweaters or coats must be worn in
doors during the
cold
winters
Fresh fruit is plentiful in Thailand. Traveling College mem
bers will remember the huge slices of fresh pineapple which we
enjoyed. In addition, there are bananas, papayas, oranges, and
other fruit in
abundance.
As elsewhere in Asia, rice ( cow in
Thai) is the staple of the Thai diet. The Thai people put on the
rice various dishes called gopp cow. Most are very good to the
taste
of
farongs (foreigners). Some, though, are very
hot
with
chili. I have a Thai meal prepa red for me at
noon. For
the
other
meals I cobble up something for myself. Among the
western
foods which are available here is Bisquick, a staple of the Walt
Prevost cooking attempts. I have already
pu t
the waffle iron to
work
Electricity in Thailand is 220-volt 50-cycle, requiring a trans
former for
appliances
brought
from America.
Many rice fields can be seen in the city of Chiangmai. The
winnowing of rice
shown
here
occurred
very
recently
in a
field very near where
I have been
living.
The fa ns a re u se d
to
crea te a breeze
to
blow
th e c ha ff
away
from the falling rice.
Shortwave
radio is
a
must
for English-only westerners . I have heard no English
radio on Chiangmai stat ions. Voice of America, BBC, FEBC
Manila,
and
other English-language broadcasts can be heard on
shortwave. I t is
convenient
fo r me to listen to a VO A
half-hour
news broadcast each
evening at
10 p.m.
Shoes are
no t
worn in
Tha i homes . The y
are removed and
placed near the door as is the custom in many other Asian coun
tries. This is no
problem
to me, since I have been in the habit
of going
barefoot
in my own place for years .
Thai language study is a high priority i tem for ail missionaries
working in Thailand. Unlike other team members who have
spent several months in Bangkok for language study, I have be
gun work in Chiangmai while s tudying Thai one hour per day
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Walt
A
VISIT TO
THE
NORTHEAST
.ol, o 6
1
traveled
to Chtangkham to
vis i t
Dorothy Uhlig and
W
Callaway.
I
renewe
my
acquaintance
with
Dorothy when
sh e
came to borrow
CW s
station wagon and some m an
and boy power
to help
move
a badly
burned lady
home
from
the
clinic
which Dorothy
operates.
It was
my privilege to visi t the
refugee camp outside Chiangkham
with
W He went
to the
camp
to
purchase baskets from Lahu tribal
people. After prices had been
es
tablished for
all
of the baskets
he paid them and then
we
loaded
the baskets into the car. There
is
an
active church in the camp;
Christians,
both refugee and non-
refugee are
busy with
1Iteracy
classes
and various
other projects
designed to
improve
the quality of
l ife of
the
refugees.
The
Callaways
operate a
hostel.
A
very enjoyable
hour was
spen t with
several boys and girls trying to
help them with
English.
Lois Callaway
was
away
in
Bangkok
supervising
th e
print ing of
th e
third Yao language primer - an
Im
portant basic fo r
preaching
the
Gospel
to people
who
cannot
read.
week
in the northeast was very
educational and enjoyable. | now
have a much
better
Idea of th e
work being done by other mission
aries
in Thailand to the glory
of
God
and the Lord Jesus Chri
st.
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RAMBLINGS of
WALT
News Letter
of W^ah
Prevosi
SOUTH EAST ASIA EVANGELIZING
MISSION
BOX 59 CHIANGMAI, THAILAND
MAKE CHECKS
P Y LE
TO WEST
SE TTLE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 4400
42ND.
AVE. S.W. SEATTLE, WASH.
98116.
c/ o DOROTHY WEBER,
FWDG.
AG
V o l u m e
I May
1978
N u m b e r 7
A Week
in
Ban San
Lao
The
congregation of Chris tians in
th e
village of Ban San Lao
asked
the
Thai Christian Church, which meets in the building of
Chiangmai Bible Institute, to par ti cipate in a week of meet ings
on th e occasion of the dedication of its bui ld ing. Tim Viner ,
Jerry Headen, and
I
accompanied Poyon,
the TCC
preacher,
to
Ban San Lao to help in the program.
BanSan Lao is the home of Manop and Witt, two of our Thai
s tudents . It is located a
few kilometers
o u t o f
Pu a
in Na n
Prov
ince, about
400
kilometers east-northeast of Chiangmai, about
35 ki lometer s
from
th e Laot ia n bo rde r.
About a
hundred fami
lies l ive
in th e
village.
The h o u s e shown be
longs to
Duan, the
preacher, n i s
whe re we
stayed. Its
construction
and
gen
eral
arrangement ar e
t y p i c a l of Thai
houses. Water for
the village is ob
tained at th e village
well and is carried to
the
homes using the familiar
bamboo
pole
over the shou lder with bucket s hanging from the ends of the
pole.Electricalpower
does
no t ye t
reach
to
Ban San Lao; Poyon
took
a
portable
gen
e r a t o r
to us e f o r
lights
and
to
show
movies.
A village
landmark
is
th e
large
tree;_its .-diameter
is
a b o u t
twenty-five
feet. 1 i
The building dedication was to celebrate the completion of
the church s new meet ing house, loca ted in the cleared area to
^ the east
of
the village.
Even though the
building had been
use
f o r
severa l
weeks . T ha i custom
d i c t a t e d t h a t t h i s
week
th e meetings
could
not begin unti l
a f t e r th e d e d i c a t i o n .
The building
w a s
- .
J
. completed Tuesday,
the dedication was Wednesday
afternoon,
and the
other
meetings
uegan Wednesday evening. The dedication program began with
the people under the she lter by the f ront of the bui lding. After
prayer and a few very short remarks, the name of
the church
on
the
front
of
the
building was unveiled, a ribbon across
th e door
was
cut
and th e program
moved inside.
Jer ry p re ached for t hi s
program,
pointing
o ut t ha t
God dwells in the hear ts of men and
not
in buildings
but
that buildings are nevertheless very neces
sary
aids to congregational
worship
of
God.
A picture of the King of Thailand was presented to the con
gregation by
some Thai Army
men. Buildings in
Thailand,
in
cluding churches
and
homes (including Walt s), have pictures of
th e King. It was a fine ges tu re for rep resen ta tives of th e pre-
dominant ly-Buddhist government
to give thi s r ecogni tion to a
group of Christians in a small village.
Wait s part of the program was two hours of teaching each
morning on th e Life of the Apostle Paul. The study included
much of Acts as well as information gleaned from his letters
which
allowed a
reconstruction
of his life
and
missionary meth
ods. It was a blessing to be able to share
something
from
God's
Word
with
His
people
in Ban San Lao .
Jerry preached to the Christians during the afternoon pro
grams. He drew ou t of the letters to
th e
Thessalonians
the good
aspects
of
the church there which are good examples for churches
today. Jerry is the lates t missionary to join th e SEAEM teain in
Chiangmai,
coming from
a
fruitful ministry with the
Church in
Glen Lyn, Virginia. He is from
North
Carolina and is a graduate
of Cincinnati Bible Seminary.
Tim did the evangelisticpreaching during the eveningoutside
meetings. Beginning with the
statement,
We ve got a problem
he developed the idea that all people have the problem of sin in
their
lives, bu t
that
there is a solution to
the
problemJesus
Christ. Tim is from Clarksdale, Mississippi . He is a graduate of
Mid-South Christ ian
College
and
shared
classes
with
Walt
at
Cincinnati Christian Seminary.
The Ban San Lao congregation is a working congregation.
Eight people com
pleted their obedi
ence to the Lord by
being
immersed in
nearby Pu a
River.
T h e s e
c o n v e r t s
re
s u l t e d from w o r k
done
prior to the
I- w e e k s meetings.
Seven are fro m Ban
Sa n Lao ; one is
from
^ \lr
-
Ban
Haen.
Poyon translated for us. Poyon Tittipoom was the hard
working jack of all trades for
th e
week. Included in th e multi
tude of j obs which he did was that of translating all of th e
speaking which
Jerry,
Tim, and I did while in Ban San Lao. He
is seen in the pictures
with
Jerry and
Tim.
Poyon was an em
ployee of Voice of Peace at
the
t ime the Traveling College vis
ited
Chiangmai.
Re
cently,
he has been
preachingfor theThai
Christian C h u r c h
translating our teach
ing into
Thai,
an d
supervising the con
s t r u c ti o n w o r k
o n t he
CBI building. He is a
very important part
o f
t h e
SEAEM t eam .
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Movies
are a good evangelistic tool in Thai villages. About
three hundred c hi ld re n a nd adu lt s came
to
th e movies each ev e
ning, a major por tion
of
the village population. Part of th e
c r o w d
ca n
b e
seen
in the picture. One
o f t h e
movies
was a
m o d e m
v e r s i o n o f t h e
story of
th e
Prodigal
Son, placed
in
mod
ern Thailand, and
very effective in
com
municating G o d s
love
in terms
which
the Thai
people
can
u n d e r s t a n d
Rice
was s tanda rd fare in Ban
San
Lao as it is all across Asia.
Sometimes
we had sticky rice which we
ate
with our fingers
after
dipping in gopp cow (sometimes both rice and fingers).
Other times we had regular rice with gopp cow which we ate
with
spoons.
It was good Christians around the
world are good
cooks
That's Witt, operj
ating
upon
the water
m e l o n His n a m e is
vid Chowsan
(David is pronounced
Day-Witt by
Thais
a n d is s h o r t e n e d to
Witt ). He is
one of
t h e
tw o
CBI s t u d e n t s
from Ban
San
L a o
a n d is in his th ird
year of study at CBL His being at CBI results from work by Vir-
gilio De Los
Santos
severa l years ago. Witt is 24
years old
and
plans to be a traveling evangelist among the villages near his
h o m e
Praise the Lord
for
th^doze^ew Thai students beginning
work at Chiangmai Bible(lnstittrte as we begin CBI's fourth year
of teaching on May 1. Most of these new
students
are Thai-Lisu
and
resul t f rom
work
being done by
Peter Sutjaibun
in villages
north of
Chiangmai
For the first
time
are being
challenged ^
to provide classes
fo r
a new group of
students
in
addition
to
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older students.
The
new students require teaching
in Thai;
they will be taught by Samyong in Thai and by Paul with trans
lation
by
Poyon. Older
students will be taught by Jerry, Walt,
and Paul ; t ranslat ion
will be
done b y Poyon.
You
can probably
see
th e
big
transla
tion load being car
ried by
Poyon;please
pray with
us that
God will
supply addi-
tional
teachers capa-
J , t li _ t ble in Thai. I will be
teaching the course
P e r s o n o f C h r i s t t o
t h e o l d e r s t u d e n t s
Will you pray with us? Our dear heavenly
Father.
. .
Thank you fo r your creat ion which shows us your power.
Thank
you
for the
Lord Jesus
Christ and His sacrifice for us,
which shows us your love.
Thank you
fo r
allowing us
to
be
part of
your
family.
Thank you
for
opportunit ies to serve you.
Thank you fo r
th e
new
Thai
students in CBI.
Thank you for th e older s tudents and their continued
zeal
to
preach
your
wordT
I f i t be Y o ur W i ll . .
The
registration of
th e CBI students might be
completed soon.
Scholarship funds cont inue so
that liNing
expenses of t he s tu
dents may
be provided.
Leadership be
provided
for the small village churches.
Additional
translation capability
be
provided to
CBI.
That th e new C hris tia ns in Ban San Lao
a n d
Ban Haen be
strengthened in their faith so they may withstand the
tempta
t i o n s
w h i c h
will
f o l l o w
That we might be ver>'
efficient
in
the
use
of t ime, so
that we
will accomplish th e most for You .
That we
recognize opportunities
in ou r day-to-day lives
for
showing Christ to others .
God
bless you
all.
With
l ov e i n
Christ,
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Bamblihgs
From
Walt
The Matter of One s Feet
(V.
1
jj B
An
important point
to
remember
when
visi t ingor living in
another
coun
try is
to remember
just
that
-
we
are in a
count ry not
our own. We
must act in a manner which will not
reflect
adverseiy onourselves our
own country, or upon the
Lord Jesus
Christ,
whose ambassadors
we are.
What
one does
with his feet
fs im
portant
in Thailand Enroute
by
bus from Bangkok to Chaing Mai,
seated
on
the
front row one visi
tor to
CBI
found that he was re
ceiving very i
rr
i
tated
glances from
the
driver.
Fortunately a
SEAEM
missionary
with the
visitor real
ized what itwas that was upsetting
to the
driver-
the
vis i tor s foot
I n Thailand it i s considered a
taboo,
a no-no an
insult
to
direct
the sole of one s foot
toward an
other person. The man was
sitting
as most
of
us Americans do
with
his
left
ankle on his
right knee
so that the sole
of
his
left foot
was
pointed di rec tly a t
the driver
The Thai
people are very gracious
people and normally don t
indicate
displeasure
as did
the d r i v e r
This makes it even more important
for
us to
know
about the customs
of the people we are
among
so
that
we may avoid offending them.
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Walt Prevost,
ox 59,
Ghiangmai
Thailand
reported
a dozen
new
Thai
students beginning study
at Ghiangmai
Bible
Ins t i tu te
on Way 1, 1978. Also,
a
week
of
teaching and preaching
in the village of
Ban San Lao resulted
in
eight
being
immersed
in the
Pua
River.
Walt s forv;arding
agent is
West Sea t t l e hris t ian Church,
Dorothy Weber 2 5814 K S W
Myrtle
St. , Seattle,
WA 98126
Gleanings M
JUN.
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EAST ASIA EVANGEI IZING MISSION BOX 5 9
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SEATTLE
CHRISTIAN CHURCH,
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CHIANGMAI, THAILAND
AVE.
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SEATTLE,
WASH, 98116.
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DOROTHY
WEBER,
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Volume
I
September 1978
Number
12
RecordingAn
Important
Part
of
Missions
Strategy
Chiangmai Bibls Institute is the main work for which some
o f
us
came
to
work
in Thailand
an d
is vital in
th e
ongoing o f t he
Gospel in Southeast Asia.
However,
it is
only
part of a
coordi
nated effor t
in reaching
people
for Christ
and
in training leader
ship
f or t he
churches.
Recording isan important part of missions strategy in reach
ing
th e people of Southeast Asia. Many unreached people
and
Christian peopl e who need and desire training
live in
countries
where missionaries are
no t
allowed to
go.
Radio broadcasts and
cassette
ministries are
methods available to us
today which
help
in taking th e Gospel and teaching material to these people even
when
travel
to them is impossible.
Recording
has been a
part
of
th e work of
South
East
Asia Evangelizing Mission
since
its be
ginning in 1968. Radio programs have been
produced
in Lisu,
Rawang, and Kachin l anguages for broadcast ove r FEBC in
Manila.
Cassette
lessons
have b een prepared
in t hese same
lan
guages. Until recently, the major part of th e
production
of these
mater ia ls has been
accomplished in a
studio
in th e
home of
LaVerne Morse
in
Cincinnati. This has required sending recorded
music and preaching to Cincinnati for the production work and
then sending th e
completed
casse ttes to Asia for broadcast and
other
use. Now, in th e
nearly-completed
recording
studios
in th e
CBI building,
professional
quality recordings are
being
made. In
th e near future complete production of th e
broadcast
and teach
ing cassettes will be accomplished
here
in Asia.
Some
of
the
material
being recorded
is a part of
work
in CBIthe recording
of s ermons and
lessons
as required p ro je ct s fo r c ou rs es b ei ng
s t ud i ed
Recent activity in the
C I
recording studio included the
recording of 40 songs in th e Lisu language
by
Lois (Mrs. LaVerne)
Morse. Her
ability
to
speak
an d
sing
in Lisu stems
from th e
days
when sh e an d
he r
family w ere
mi s si o na r ie s i n Ch in a a n d B u rma
She
wa s
accompani ed by
Sam-
yong
o n t he R an at ,
a
Thai
instru
ment. Thes e r eco rded
Lisu
songs
will b e add ed
to
th e l ibrary
of
Lisu mus ic whi ch may
be
used
for b ro ad ca st a nd te ac hin g ca s
settes in th e Lisu language.
The recording studio is Tim Viner s baby. (That s Tim
observing Samyong s technique
at
th e
Ranat
in
the
picture.)
He h as b ee n re sp on si bl e fo r
th e
const ruc t ion o f
the
studio In
addition
to raising most of
th e
fun ds fo r th e
cons t ruc t ion
and
equipping of th e
studio,
he has
personally
overseen
it s
details,
including th e design of th e facil
it y
an d being present
during
much
o f
th e work
T h e s tu d io s
have doub le wal ls a nd a co u st ic
t rea tment
to
keep
sound reflec
t io n i ns id e a n d t ra nsm is si on f rom
th e
outside
to a
minimum.
The
facility includes
a large
studio
fo r
recording
musical groups and
a
smaller s tudi o f or s poken
material
by
one
or
two
people p lus a control
room.
All of th e
very
busy work by Tim
is in
addition
to his teaching classes in
CBI.
As
of
this
writing,
Tim has just left
fo r
home
in Mississippi
on h is f ir st
furlough.
Jerry Headen will continue
work in the recording studio.
The re
he
is a t w ork in
th e
con
t rol
r oom . J er ry h op es to
estab
lish
an LTE (L ead ersh ip
Train
ing
by Extension)
program. He
is
active
in recording as well as
in
teaching
in CBI.
The
First
Term
of
the
1978-79
School Year
The visit of Conley Silsby and George Morgan began the
fourth year of teaching at
CBI.
Both
are
members of
West
Seat
t le Chris tian Church, my support ing church. George
is an
elder
of WSCC
an d
Missions Chairman. It was very appropriate fo r
him to
visit
the field and
to evaluate
th e work
of
a member
of
the staff of WSCC. Conley is retired
Speech/Homiletics
Professo
of
Puget
Sound
College
of
th e Bible. I prevailed
upon
him to
teach a
fe w
hours o f Homile t ics to our
CBI
students I t was
good to
hear
him
t ea ch and preach
again. They were
part
of a
party of seven
from
WSCC who part icipated in th e All-Japan
Christian Convention, held
in
Okinawa on
th e
occasion of
th e
30th anniversary of th e
work
of Harlan
and
Emeline
Woodruff
there. Woodruffs
are
also
living link missionaries of WSCC.
Next, a period of regular teaching for six
vyeeks
Pau
Parrish taught Acts and Basic Christian Doctrine; Jerry Headen
taught Exodus;
1
taught
Person
of
Christ;
Poyon was t he hard
working
t ranslator for
all of these classes.
A team of visiting teachers from Cincinnati completed the
term.
We were priviledged to have th e teaching services of Sher
wood
and Mary
Smith,
Lois Morse,
and Ter ry
Silence, all asso
c iated wi th Cinc innat i Bible Seminary.
Sherwood
taught
Petrine
Epistles
and
Jude; Mary
taught
Principles of Christian Educa
t ion;
Terry
taught Elijah; Lis
taught
Lisu
Music ( to ou r
Thai-Lisu students). Prior to
their visit to CBI,
they
taught
the
first week of a
two week
Asian Leadership Seminar in
Rangoon.
They are seen
(Lois,
Mary,
Sherwood,
Terry)
eating
a meal
following
th e
worship
serv ice
in
th e
home
o f
Dakum
Pi
Graham
Asian
Leadership
Seminar
in
Rangoon, Burma
Jerry Headen and I shared in Rangoon during the week fol
lowing th e
team
from Cincinnati. This was during the last week
of
June; we were
the second team for this special ALS.
It
was requested by th e Chin men; however , a good group of
Rawang/Lisu
men
also attended. While Jerry taught Exodus to
one
group,
I taught Life of Paul to the other, each of us teach
ing
about
five hours
pe r
day fo
five days. The p ic tu re shows Ed
ward Kyon (pronounced
Chon )
Bil l who d id
th e t rans la t ion
into
^ the Falam Chin
language
While
translating th e New Testament in
to Chin, he
discovered th e
principles
of New
Testamen
Christianity
a nd l at er resigned hi
pos it io n w it h
a
denominationa
group.
Th e
brethren
who came
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him
are
of
like mind
and
devoured th e teaching
Jerry
an d
I gave them. They
had
many
questions, including
th e
subjects
of speaking
in tongues and the eldership. Jer ry and I did th e
best we could to feed
their
hunger
fo r Bible
information.
A group of Rawang/Ltsu men came from the far north of
Burma, some
traveling
several weeks and over
a
thousand
miles
to
be w ith
us . The
effec
t iveness o f t he se As i an
Leadership
Seminars is
seen
in th e
r em ar ks m ad e
in a
speech by one of the men
a t th e conc lu s ion o f th e
week .
He
sa id th a t th e
teaching
they
ha d received
would soon b e sp re ad al l
over th e
northern part of
Bu rma as each m an wen t
home and
repeated many
times th e teaching
he had
received.
Jerry and
I
returned
to Chiangmai feeling
tremendously
blessed
by sha ri ng with
the
men in
Rangoon.
We look
forward
to
the
next
ALS
in
January
and February.
Around
CBI
I
would
like
to share wit h you j us t
a
little of what
is
going
on at
Chiangmai
Bible Institute.
Bu t
Peter
. . , r ai se d h is
voice and
declared . . (Acts 2:14). The second
term of
our
1978 - 79 schoo l
y ea r b eg an
A ug ust 1 5
with
a one-week short course
on Evangelism,
taught by
Peter Sutjaibun,
the President of CBI. Originally
from
Burma
but no w
a
Thai
citizen, Peter is
very
effective in
worki ng i n th e villages
and
in
relating
to
th e
CBI
students.
His
experience, hi s
easy-going
loving
manner,
an d hi s ability
to
use ov er a
half-dozen
languages
makes
him
an
essential
part of
t he S EAEM
te am o f
miss ionar ies .
Takraw is an international past ime. The chapel of the CBI
building serves
as a
gymnasium
fo r
playing Takraw,
a
game
played all over
Southeast
Asia
at
t his t im e
of
year. Prachuap,
one of
ou r
first-year
students,
is
very
in
tent in
trying to kick th e six-inch
r atta n T al aaw. T he game
is
played
like volleyballby
kicking
th e ball
with
any part of the body
except
th e
hands
Prachuap is
18
an d is
from a
Meo
village near
Pua, to
th e
j >
east
Chiangmai
near
the
border
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A kitchen/dining room has recently been placed in service
It
was built in
about
a month fo r
approximately $1000
in specia
gifts by friends in th e U.S.
Supawat is attempting to teach me the Thai
language
H
is 22, a
Christian,
and work
full tim e at teaching Thai to
several
students,
including
othe
missionaries. We work togethe
in m y s tu dy ;
WSCC
folks may
be
in t e re s t ed to see th e desk
a n d on e o f t h e bookc a s es wh i c h
they gave
me
fo r Christmas
Thank you very much
I continue to praise the Lord and thank Him for the work
He
has
given
me to do
in
th is beaut i fu l country.
He
has placed
me
here with a fine
group of missionaries, whom
I
appreciat
m ore a nd m ore
as I work
with
t hem. I t hank
Him
for th e dedi
cated students at CBI,
who ar e anxious
to ge t th e training they
need
to
b ecome e ff ec ti ve w o rk er s f or H im .
I th ank
Him fo r
th
safe arrival of th e Doug
Umbanhowar
family,
beginning a
second
term
of service.
I
thank God fo r my friends
at WSCC, who s up
ply
my comple te suppo rt , and
fo r
other
churches
and
individual
-who have he lpod- in th e work-iicre,
both
financially
and-with-aU
important
prayer
support.
Will you join me in thanking God for these blessings and in
lifting
up th e following
fo r
His
consideration?
^That our
students who a re in villages may have oppor tuni
ties to be
effect ive witnesses fo r
th e Lord
Jesus
Christ;
That
we all
might
be
more effective witnesses, whereve
w e a r e ;
That
s tudent
scholarship and other
funds
may be
supplied
fo r the operat ion of CBI, f or t he completion of th e CBI building
a nd o t he r work of SEAEM;
That
th e spirit
of
friendship an d
cooperation
between
m is si on ar y a ct iv iti es h ere in
Northern Tha il and m ight
be
strengthened.
Thank you for joining me in this vitally important aspec
of missionary work. May God give yo u His richest
blessings
Wi th l ove
in Christ,