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Missionar ies

JOE

DORA

SHOLTIS

R O Box

612

Waianae Hawaii

9679

January 1987

Forwarding

Agents

SAM

KIT FISHER

34 5 Mo r en o Av en ue

Lakeside

Calif 92040

19)

44^7137

Dear Friends In Chr is t

Greetings in the

name

of

our

Lord and Savior

Jesus

Christ

We

want

to bring

you

up-to-date

about

our

work

here in Hawaii In particular

about

the

work

being

done

here

along

our

Waianae

Coast

We

are just praising

the

Lord

for

all

the

wonderful

things that

have been happening

with

His

Church

here

at

Maili.

Our Bible

Club

is averaging about 15 and i t

is

such a wonderful tool to witness to

the young

people

of

the

corimunity Mrs Henrietta Luttrell is

doing

a real fantas

tic job in the preparation of the

lesson

materials and we have them doing

Bible

ver

ses and crafts that all relate to the lesson

each week It is

also good to see

an

adult admit that they do not know much about the Bible and also come to the Bible

Club so she can also learn. A

few

months ago 1 had a funeral of a friend that

we

have

know for many years here in Hawaii They are right next door to the

church

and the wife of this

man

has been talking and

mentioning

that some day

they would

c^e It took the dea^ of her

husband and

now

her and the

two

children have not

missed

many se]nn ces

since that time When she first started

coming

she seemed

a

little

restless and

then she

ask me if i t

would

be alright if

she

joined her

children in their class as

she knew

that

they

would

be

getting

more

basic

things

and t^ t is what she needed 1 told here to go r i^ t ahead

It

took a great deal

^ pride to

ccxne

to

the

point to know that

you do

not

need much

cotimon

sense

to

knoWi^that you

need many

tiroes to start at the bottpm before you can get to the top

We ^e also very fortunate to have

Mrs

Luttrells Daughter Leta

and

her husband

David helping

us. Dave and Leta just jumped right in and

began

to take positions

that

we needed

here at

the church. We had no Bible SchDol teachers and even with

^ r

body

in a

brace

from

recent back surgery Leta has taken on the younger

chil

dren ^ David the

Older

ones. On

Sunday Evening

Leta and her

mother

take turns

Inching the younger ones while the message is being preached and on Wednesday

wien

we

study our

Bible

Lesson

Hiere

have

been

a great

number

of

first

time

visitors to the

worship

services

and

we are doing

our

best to

keep

in contact with

them

Sometimes they will not give

you an address and so we have to use other means to

at

least le t them know thaf-we

were very happy to have them in our services.

Recently

one of the young men had

i^ ted a family that goes to another

church and

to his surprise,

and

ours,

they

did come We are hoping that

maybe

they will

come

back

and visit The

children

we

did discover

knew

alot about the Bible and that made us

realize that at least

God

s

Word was

being shared in

one

family in our area.

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In order that our newsletter will be sent out on time we are going to our Forwarding

Agents Sam and Kit Fisher do the mailing

for us.

e were having a time trying to

ge t the

letter

out on time. This

way we

know

that

i t

will get to you and you

will

not

have to be wondering if the Sholtis family is

alive

or not. e do appreciate your

patience with us

in this

matter and we also

will

be saving some postage and some times

there

may

have been double mailings and with the

cost

of postage and other expenses

we feel that

this

will be the best way^ to

make

sure all parties here about our work.

Also to save postage Bro.

Sam

wanted us to mention

that

if

you remember

that

a ll

re-

ceits will be sent out

at

th e end of the year giving you a grand total of your giv

ing.

e

have to

cu t

back

in many

areas

bu t we

do not want to

le t

you

sort of

hold

ing on wondering about

th e

work.

e ar e

very happy with our

work here in

Hawaii and

we j ust know that

th e

Lord ha s great

things

in store for us here

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Miss ionar ies

JOE

DORA

SHOLTiS

R O. Box

612

Waianae,

Hawaii 96792

Forwarding Agents

SAM

KIT

FISHER

45 Moreno Avenue

Lakeside,

Calif.

92040

619 413-7131

FEBRUARY -

MARCH

- APRIL 1987

Dear Friends In Qirist,

Greetings in 3irist from the Aloha State.

It

does

seem

a long

time

since

we

wrote and in checking we saw that

it

was in January

that

we

wrote

our

last newsletter.

One

of

the reasons

that

we

are

not

writing

every

month IS that postage

does

cost and we are hoping that you will understand that when

you send out letters first class i t can amount to a lot of

money

and we are trying

to

do our best

to get you the information

about our work. So we

do hope that

if our

letter

get a little long you will understand this and

enjoy

our reports

when

thev

come

to

you. ^ j r j

mentioned in our last letter about a

young

lady and her two

children

coming to

our services as the result of the loss of her husband

last

year.

We

are

happy

to

on April 22,

1987

the Maili Christian Church

became

the proud bearers

of

three new

Christians. Roberta

Velles and her

two children Paris Kapiolani Green-

leaf and Dutch M

P.

Greenleaf

were

baptized

in the Pacific Ocean around 4:00pm.

Nani

as

she

is called

by

most,

wanted

to

be

baptized

on

her

birthday,

but

said that

the

Lord

just couldn t wait as

He

was

letting

her

know

that she must do

i t now

if

she

^

her family

are

going

to

be happy. She

talked

to her children and

all

three

of thOT agreed to be baptized together.

So we

took

their

confession

and

all of us

went dovni into the water and they came out of the water brand new Qiristians. We

^e asking that

you

pray

for this new family in Christ as i t will be

many

new

exper

iences

from

them

and we know

that this

is

just the

beginning

for the Maili Christian

Cnurcn new growth. o - _

are sad to report that David

and

Leta

Leggitt had

to return to the

mainland. They

are missed very

much

as they did

do

a lot

with

the

work

\^iile they were here

and we

do

wish

th^

the very best in their work for the Lord. t

present

we have

the

Kings,

uavid and

my

and

their

four

girls

here.

my

and Leta

are

children

of the veteran

missionary

family here in Hawaii, Charles and Henrietta Luttrell.

Bro.

Luttrell passed

away on June

11

1986.

Sister Luttrell continues to

work

with both

Waipahu and

the

Maili

wrk

under

the Hawaii Calls Mission.

They

both put their membership

with

the

^i l i

Quristian

Church.

Mrs. Luttrell will be leaving for the mainland to

first

of all

to see her daughter Lora graduate

from

Ozark Christian College.

Then she

will be

attending

the North

American Christian Convention in Oklahoma City. If you are at

the convention please take the opportunity to

visit

with her and hear

first hand about

the work

here in Hawaii.

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As

you know

the

reason most

missionaries

write newsletter is to inform you

of

their

work and vhat r^eeds they do have to let you to have the opportunity to share in those

needs.

Last

month we have a very desperate need where we needed 800.00. The

money

that came

put

a

big

dent into the funds that

we

would normally

receive

over

the

next

few months.

I f

you

are

able

to give

Just

a

l i t t le

more

over

the

next

few months we

would

deeply apprei^iate

i t

very much. The

money

was needed to pay for the school

bill of our son John. The school

that

he attends does not take monthly payments.

They

told

us

that

John would not be able

to take

his

requiered tests unless we

payed

the whole amount. Thus our Forwarding Agents Same and

Kit

Fisher were able to

come

up

with

the amount, as a result we will not be receiving as much as we

had

been

for a while. Please E^Y with us on this matter that

we

can begin to

do

a

more

e f fec t ive

work

here

in

Hawaii

This

i s a

v i t a l

work and we do no t want to see t

die

because

of lack of

funds

to

dp

the

work for Him.

I f

you can help we urge you

to

please

send

a l l contributions

to

SAM

an d

KIT FISHER, 11345 MORENO AVENUE, lAKESIDE,

C3VLIF. 9 2040

We

were

very

happy

to greet

some

folk

from

the

Lakeside

Church

of

Qirist

at

the

airpo

Bro Sam Fisher gave us

a

cal l

and we were able to

give

them a Hawaiian

greetings We

do hope that

your stay

here was a pleasant

one

We must apologize in

our

newsletter

to them

as

this preacher los t the paper with thei r names on them and i f you get a

copy of

this newletter please accep t our apology

and please

write

so we can

le t

you

know we enjoyed having to meet you.

We

would like to

le t

others of you know that i f

you

are

planning a

tr ip or i f

you

know of

someone who

is

coming to vis i t

our

Islands

we would be more that happy

to

meet them a t the

airport

and

feel

a l i t t le of

our

Aloha Spiri t

We

have

not said much about the family and maybe now is the time

I t

seems

that

the

Chicken Pox

have finally le f t us I t a l l

started with

our daughter Eleanor

having

them. Then to

granson Johnathan

From him he

wasted

no time in

giving

them to

his

Uncle

John

and

to

his

father

Stephen

Leaving

only granddaughter

Bridgette

Well

t

looks

l ike somewhere down the future

Bridget

te

will have

to

have the

Chicken Pox

again as hers never really developed into a full

case

As

for the

Grandparents and

the Mother of

the

two

grandchildren i t

was a time to behold.

Especially

when two

seemingly

strong

young men a ll

of

a sudden come

down

what

is

to be know

as

a Child

hood

thing that

you have

in

your younger days They

both

marveled

as

a baby

of

11 months just went on as nothing was happening to him. We are happy to repo rt that

l i s fJ ne

oh

t h i s Hawaiian f r on t

Once again we do want to say M LO NUI LOA Thank you very much for your continued

prayer and financial

support

of

our

work

here

and to

le t

you know

the

happenings of

the effort being made forth here on behalf

of

our Lord. We

will

continue to do His

Work and hope and

pray

that

we

can continue

to

win

precious

souls

for

Him.

Aloha I n C hris t

Joe Dora

John

& Eleanor Sholtis

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JO E od OC RA SHClTiS

iMi is ionr e i

P. O- Boa 612 - Wt n. Qahu Hirai 96^92

9^

MAY - JUNE

Dear Friends

in

Chris t ,

Greetings

in the name of Christ.

We want

to

start

out

by

telling

you that Dor and I

celebrated

our

25th

Wedding

Anniversary

in s ty le. Our

children, mostly

our dau^ter-in-law, gave us a party

t

th e Maili

Christian

Church. Edean our daughter-in-law

did

most

of the

work.

t seems

that

boys

are

not good planners when i t comes to this

type

of thing and

i t does take a womans

touch

in getting the invitations

out

and some of the

other

minor detai ls .

t has

been

a

great

25

years and

although

the road

has seemed a

l i t t le

rough

t times

we have endured

those

and

have

come

to

realize

that the

Lord is

s t i l l

with us and with

His help

we will be able to have a 50th wedding

anniversary.

In

news

of the church

we

cannot begin to te l l

you

the spiri tual

growth we

have

seen

in the folk. We

are averaging around 15 on Sundays and we feel

that

we have

begun to r each out to others in the community. When school ended we were going

to stop

our

Bible

Club

but

some

of the

childgen

approached one

of

our

newest

members and

asked

h e r to have it in h e r home fo r th e

simmer. So she

came

to me

and ask i f we could have one during the summer and that

her

and Amy King would

handle i t

for

the

simmer. They

not

only

handles i t

they made

i t

two days a week

in ste ad o f one.

So on Tuesday and Thursday

during the

simmer we

have

a

Summer

Bible Club. Also instead of one hour

they

have it for two hours. We

are

jus t

overjoyed

at the response and we hope that from this we will be able

to see

these

precious

young

people

come to

the

Lord.

One l i t t l e gir l

even brought her mother

to the class to see idiat

they

were

learning

and ask

her to

come

each

week. t

is just

wonderful how

the

Lord works and we hope

that

Christ

will

be a

vital part

of

this l i t t l e

gi r l s

home.

are anxiously awaiting

the

return of b^s.

Henrietta Luttrell

from the mainland.

She

is

due back

in

a few weeks and we are going to have our Vacation

Bible

School

in August between

our

two weeks of

Summer

Christian Service Camp The activity

around

here

has us encouraged and we hope that you can be encouraged with

us.

There

is

a prayer

request

that we have and we hope that in some way the Lord will

lead

us

to help

this family. A young teenage gir l ran away from home and caused

quite

a s t i r among

the

family members. t seems that her real mother has been

putting off

letting

her and

brother

from coming home and not really

telling the

gi r l the real

reason for her and th e brother

to

come home to l ive with her. So

other

family menbers

have

been

taking the

responsibili ty

of both of

them. They

live next to the church property. Our newest

convert has

been

trying

to witness

to her and hoping that she will

see

the need to

come

to the Lord.

do not

know

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the

girls name,

but

do hope

that

you

will

pray for her and our

efforts to see

her

come to the Lord, She re^ly needs bur prayers and we hope that

through

the

com

bined efforts of both us and you fine Christ ian folk we will see one more come

to

Him

Another big event

is

that our daughter Eleanor will be going to Christian Camp for

the

f i r s t time. She i s excited about

i t

and we

just

know

that

she will

have

a good

time

in

the

Lord

We

have

three

weeks

of

camp

here

in

Hawaii and

i t

is

a wonderful

time

for

the chi ldren. Also

i t

is a good time for the missionaries and Christian

workers

to get

together and share

together.

Also pray

for

our efforts

here that

some of these young people will accepjb the challenge of

the

Lord, ^

With a ll of the

activity

that

is

going on here

in

Hawaii, even more than ever, we

need to raise more support finacially. At present we need 1000,00 a month coming

i t if

we

are going to provide the r i^t effort here to make this work continue for

Himju_ _We_cannot stress^enou^ the importance of^good

financiaUsupport

At

present

the

congregation

is

able to support

a ll but the

minister and

his

family. So as a

result we need the support of you fine

Christian

folk on the mainland churches.

t

will be a

great

day

when we

can

write that we

no longer need your support,'-but

until

that

day canes

we

must

continue to

write

and ask

for

your wonderful

finan- ;^.

cial

and most of

a ll

Prayer

support.

Without thoseiprayers going up to Our Heaven

ly Father we become weak in Him, It is that

knowle^e

that there are j^ose else

where who are praying

for

us that keep many a missionary really going in the Lord.

t is

with

grateful

hearts

that vire

say

MAHALO NUI lOA

to those

\dio are

sufport-

ipg us financially;

Each

gift

big or small

will

be used to the

effort

of

Him

vAio

gives

us our

physical

strength to do His bidding.

Once

again Mahalo to you all and if you can send a l i t t le gift we

would

appreciate

i t

that

you send

i t to

our Forwarding Agents, SAM

KIT FISHER,

11345

MORENO

AVENUE,

LAKESIDE, CALIFORNIA,

If

you want to write us a note Bro. Sam will forwarded

i t

on to us

here

in Hawaii, We cannot begin

to

say enough about this

fine

couple who

have taken on a

great

task of seeing that the gospel

is

proclaimed here

in

our 50th

S t a t e

Aloha

I n C hris t

Joe

Dora, John Eleanor

Sholtis

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Our Vacation Bible

School

was a great time in e M^rfc 30 and

once

again we

were

blessed

by

great help.

Mrs.

H^i^ta..tuttrell was in,charge

and

w it h h el p fror her daughters, Amy King and Lora L u ttrell ^ d her soh-inrlaw^- David.

King and the

young man we

mentioned to you that helped

in

c ^ ^

Jolm

Scott and myself

and Mrs. Roberta Velles i f was.

felt

that the next one i s going, to be great;..

We

put

ou r

Vacation Bible School between th e two

weeks of

our ClhcistainvService

Camp

August

10-14 and the Lord really blessed our every effort for

Him

this st st^er ^

We cannot

express

the h e a r t f e l t

thanks

to a l l

who

receive t hi s le t ter

from us and

to

know that you are praying

for

our work

here

in Hawaii.

We recently

received a note

from a

man who will

be

here in

January

who

wants

to

preach

for

me.

We

cannot

.stress

enougb how many t imes people

come

and never

take

th e opportunity to worship with us

and we miss that fellowship with

them

and even more precious is the sharing about

the Lord s work around the country. So

if you

ar e planning a trip to Hawaii, please

drop us a line and a ll

the

information that goes with your trip so we can at least

meet yo u

a t

the-airp^t.

What-we--need-is-the-Airl i n e . Date o f arrival-and-the-time

-ofyour^arrival. Give us this opportunity-to share with^ou n^rr rih-risi-ipn

Aloha

Spi r i t

We

cannot say enough

to

you

fine

folk vAio

are

supporting

us

financially.

We

are

s t i l l

in need of funds. There

are some

of our b i l l s

that are

backed up and

we are

very a pp re c ia ti ve o f ou r creditors ^ o are trying to understand our

s i t u at i o n .

f

you

could

write a check today and help us we would greatly appreciate i t

Please

send i t to our Forwarding Agents, SAM and KIT

FISHER

11345 MORENO

AVENUE LAKESIDE

CM.IPORNIA 92040. Any g i f t

will

be

greatly

appreciated and by sending i t to them

gives us a better record of a l l g i f t s . The

gospel

is needed

in

this area and we

cannot proclaim

i t

i f we do

not

have the funds to stay here and work with some of

the Lord s

poeple.

Once

again we

also thank those of you who are continually praying

for

ou r needs

here.

Please

keep us on your

l is t

and

we

ask

that

you continue to pray

that

we

will

raise th e necessary funds that I

will no t

have to go to work. Within the last year

we

ha ve

ra ised

o u r a tt en d an c e

in

a l l

o f

o u r

serv ices

t

i s

f e l t

t ha t

be c a us e

I

ha ve

been

able

to be a t the church property and visible among the poeople in the

community

and we have provided

services

that

others

are not doing we feel blessed by the Lord

to do these things. So continue to

pray for

us daily.

Our family

members

are fine and a t present everyone is healthy. Our granddau^ter

ha s started

school

with Amy

King. She

is really

enjoying

i t

and we pray

that

she

will learn much. Eleanor our

daughter

is~lrr~the forth grade and doing

very

well.

John Earl our second son,

is

working at Burger King

a t present

looking for better

employment. Dora and I are well and hope that we

wi l l

be

able to

do more

fo r

the

Lord a t time goes on.

Mahalo Nui Loa

to

you

a l l

and we

will

be

writing

again

to

te l l

you more

of the Lord s

Work here i n

H a w a i i .

Aloha

I n C hr is t

C\

Joe Dora John Earl Eleanor Sholtis