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bride and

ow mu

they had lef t . Then the grooms family answered and

that

was the end

except for more

eating and drinking.

Please

pray for us, for we a re g ra te ly

in

need of your

prayers.

Sincere ly

in

Chri s t

Alv in

V e m i t a Nicho l son

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Vol.

17 No- 2 NEWS

WITH THE

NI HOLSONS

February, 1976

Dear Chr i s t i an Friends ,

Greetings

in

the

precious name of Christ our Saviour.

thank God

for

His

b le ssin gs- Vernita

and I had to

leave

early from

the meeting

of the Missionaries

at Willem

Pretorius, January 16th

to

20th

because she

was

sick.

After

we

got

home

she spent from Tuesday night until Friday morning the

local hospi ta l-

But

since

that

time

has been

feeling

better

than she

has

fe l t

for

months- She

is

helping

Lucille Stanley teach sewing

to the s tudents

at school and has been working

to p repare

l e ssons fo r th e m in i s te r s wives and women

o f

th e church .

The meeting of the missionaries at Willem Pretorius was a great blessing to all who

were present- Those who planned the program did a

good

job as well as did those who

led

the discussion periods- Because South Africa has been having good rains, i t was cool

and cloudy and not at

all

hot- The animals were out

in the

open so that all had good

viewing-

._The l^s.t

week^d_we

made_a quick tr ip to Cradock, Brother Qwemesha from

school

went along with us- The church has been

in

a turmoil over a

prcku^which

some or tne

men

made a down payment on without the consent

of

the church. The minister has passed

i t

into

the

hands

of

the poli ce -

The

man

to whom

i t

was

given

asked

that

they

call me

to

come and

one

other man from

outs ide

the church who

could

t r ans l a t e from t he i r minute

b o o k s .

Sunday morning,

we

met with the minister and a large number of the men of the church

They said they wanted to finish the business. If they got the record books and t i t le to

the ca r

okey and

i f

they

did not i t

was

also

okay; they were going no

further. After the

af te rnoon se rv ice

the o ther s ix

men

came to t a lk

w ith us. We asked

them

i

they

were

willing to give back the books and t i t le they held. They said yes,

for

they

also wanted

this

business finished. So a f t e r the evening service we

ta lked

to a ll the people

present

and

both sides agreed

they

wanted

to

f inish

this t rouble

and forget about i t -

When we

saw the policeman on

Monday

morning, he

was glad

to

prepare

the paper which

he and

the

minister

signed

that

the

case

had been

settled. He

told

the

men

present

this

time

as he had told them before - church business does not

belong

to the police or to the

ourts

-

Both Brother Qwemesha and myself were sorry

this

problem had gone so far ,

but

we are happy for the spir i t we found amongst them this time and really hope

they

will

go ahead with the

Lord s work

now.

I

really appreciated

Brother Qwemesha s wisdom in

speaking to the people

and pointin

out errors they had made

in

such a Christian way. Also the

exceptionally

good sermon he

preached to

a

large

crowd

present

on Sunday morning on

Influence , using for his scriptu

Y e are the

s a l t

o f the

ear th ,

I no t iced

t h a t

most o f th e

t ime

he

used the

Engl i sh

word

influence

rather

than t ranslat ing i t . Later he said You know there is no good word

in e i ther the Zulu or

Xhosa

language fo r inf luence .

Just published:

Total

populations of

South

Africa

at the end of 1974

is

put at

24,936,000 of which more than 70 percent

are

A frican . African s a t that stage made up

17,761,000 of the population; whi te s 4 ,158 ,000 ; co lour ed 2 ,307 ,000 and Indians 710,000.

The white growth rate is 2-04

percent,

Africans 2.72 percent, coloured 2-69 and Indians

2.56. White

percentage

to ta l

of th e o ve ra l populations is

16-68.

Please pray

for

Robert Geldenhuys, David Mtamo and Gift Gcobo.

Coming back

from

Cradock, we

had fuel

pump

t rouble . Bu t it happened

when we

were

only

one

mile from a garage

and

in

a town where we could get a

hote l

room. I t cost us a


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nights

lodging

and a

new

part plus 16 hours more

of our time

very l i t t l e

Bu t

we

coun t ed

it

to b e

School has started and there are

14^students

present. There are two new young men

and a

third m n is

to

ome shortly.

Almost

al l of

the

f i r s t year students use

English

and want

to learn i t

bet ter

so there is no tr ou ble th er e.

They

par t ic ipa te very well in

t h e cl sses th t I

t e a c h

Fai thfu l ly yours.

The Nicho l son s

fo rward ing

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Vol. 17 No. 3 NEWS WITH THE NICHOLSONS March, 1976

Dear Christian Friends:

^

rh

Our

summer

is supposed

to

be almost over, but

we

have been having the

hottest

weather of the year.

However,

we

are very thankful that i t comes at the end

instead

o f a t the

beginning.

The f i rst week

in

March

the ministers

met at Dimbaza near KingWilliamstown

for

Minister s Week. Twenty-five African ministers attended and ten missionaries were

present.

The

ministers took

more

than an hour each morning

for

their

meeting. All

that

I

talked with this

time fel t

they

had done more and gotten more from

the

meeting

this time than before because they had spent more time talking^.bout what they could do

to improve their work and less time on problems.

The Annual

Conference

has been se t

for

Mtubatuba

in

Zululand

for September

15th

through the

19th.

The theme for the

meeting will be

Jesus Christ .

This last

weekend

we set up the tent at

Boboyi

near Port Shepstone

for

Brother

on. th e

Old

Testament, There was one who came

to give her

l i fe

to

Christ. The

people

asked that

the tent

be

brought back again

and

notice

be given through

out

the area

before

hand

that we

would have

pictures.

They would

like for

services

to

begin

on

Friday night so that they could have

more services.

Also present

for the

weekend

was a schog] prinr. ipal.

He

has asked us to

bring

the

tent

and set

i t

up in the

school grounds. He said

there

are so

many

people in that area who do not know

Christ.

Two more men have

arrived

at school, so

this brings

the number

of m-en

to

five

and the number ofstudents.âi=SdBSS33u.

I t

has been

womgn studâtil^ twelve,

so witKou t

some

one

dropping out

only

one

more can

dc en-

roTlernext tei^^ Wêâre sti l l some

other

men who are hoping to

come

to school.

e kpew that two young

women

from Mashoko

Mission

in Rhodesia were

coming

to

help Anne Stanley drive

her

new Peugeot pickup

when

she returned

to work

up

there.

e

were

pleasantly surprised

when we

learned

that one of them was

father

is

Howard Snow who

ministers

a t

Elmo,

Missouri.

The

Elmo

church

supports

us

so we have been

guests

in the Snow home a number of

times.

Finally,

1 got the pickup cab home that I bought

some

time ago to take the

place of the very rusted one on our pickup now. e took i t all apart

to transpor t

i t

here,

so

now we

are busy welding

rust

proofing,

tarring

up and touching up be

fore we make the exchange. e

shall

also change from left hand drive

to

right

hand

to make

e a s i e r

fo r us on th e r oads he r e

Last night, returning to school with the students and the

tent

the highway

patrol pulled me off

the

road for a check. But

all

lights, signals and brakes were

working so there was no problem 1 am

used to this for

they often

think

because

of

the

canopy

that is

on the pickup

that

i t

is

a

private taxi being

used by an

African

man

to

haul passengers

for

hire.

For

my

own

safety

and

the

sa fe ty of my

passengers, 1 try to keep

i t

in good mechanical condition.

Six African mini s t e r s rode with

me to

and f rom Dimbaza .

Some

tim es to da y,

1

do look longingly at a or Toyota bus, which would put all the passengers inside

of one vehicle

and

give them a l l good seats to s i t upon.

We have reserved the Oribi Gorge camp

for June 28th

t i l the 2nd of July,


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I almost forgot

to

t e l l you about

th e

church building

at

Dirabaza The work was

a l l con^leted except fo r

t he p ai nt in g an d

p u t t i n g

on

of the g u t t e r i n g . I t is going

tb

make a

n ic e p lac e

for them

to

worship. While

ou r

meeting was going on

they

brought

Water to

th e

site.

he

people

also

pointed out

that

a^corner site which borders on

dhe church

s ite is ours

for a

minister s

home I

just

wish we had

the

money to begin

to bu i l d o n a t

once

Th e min i s t e r cou ld

have a n i c e home

a n d no t

have to r e n t

a n d

a l so

a good s ized s p a c e

fo r

a garden.

Your

C h is ti an F r ie n ds

Alv in

Vern i t a

N i c h o l s o n

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He is

teaching

a class in the local school each day at noon

and

has been invited by

others to h av e e ve nin g c lasses

in t h e i r areas .

The Minister

of

Finance has

jus t

given his new budget and

a ll

is up and

nothing

down.

Gasoline went

up by 2 cents a

l i t e r here which

comes

to

almost 10 cents a gallon in

American

money.

e

hope the man is r ight who had an a r t i c l e in the paper tha t

he

cou ld h el p us get

bet ter mileage

and have

cleaner motors. One puts a leaner je t in th e c arbu ra to r

and

fastens

on

a

gadget

t ha t l e t s

one

use

bo t t l e

gas.

A

seven

pound

tank

wil l

l a s t

an

average

of two tanks of gasoline

and

they claim

one

thi rd to one hal f improvement in

mileage.

The newspaper

ar t ic le

said

that the Automobile Association

has checked i t and found i t

to

be

so so we s h a l l watch and s ee .

This coming weekend we are

to

go to Ladysmith in Natal f or s er vic es with

Victor

Mazibuko. e want to work out

a

way to s leep in

the

eventual ly .

I

t ook t h e t e n t

t o

th e I nv u t s hin i

chu r c h we r e

it w i l l be u sed

on E a s t e r

weekend.

The

pla te r on the church building

there

was cracked

but the

people have

replastered

and

painted

th e bu i ld ing and

it r ea l ly looks

good.

Lynn

Stanley and

some of the men are

planning

a tent meeting for two

weeks

in ay

from

the 9th

to

the 23rd. Would

you

please

pray

fo r th ese

meetings.

Lucille Stanley and Vernita have had

to

have two classes in

sewing

and typing because

o f the

number of

g i r l s

in school th i s t ime.

Would you please

remember

Moses Tyatyasa and Phi lemon Waka in your prayers as well.

Lynn

and Luci l le Stanley and Verni ta and

I

are studying the book o f Psalms

togethei

and we a re find in g i t a

very

challenging

study.

God

bless

you

dear

fr iends may

you

be

great ly

blessed

as

the Lord

uses you

in His

service

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Vol. 17 No. 5 NEWS WITH THE NICHOLSONS June , 1976

D e a r C h r i s t i a n F r i e n d s :

We

are beginning to feel

a touch

o f

winter

in the

a i r here.

Would you

please

pray for V^rnita as she

is

in the hospital . We hope that her

s t a y t h e r e

w i l l

not

be

too

long.

May

i s

our

month

for

The

f i r s t

Saturday

in

May the

Missionaries in Southernf iaf^nn^ at Port Shepstone.

The

speaker spoke

on

Communism

in

Africa in

the

morning and

on

The

Armour o f God

in

the

afternoon.

The

Natal

Missions Convention was held

a t

Durban on

Wednesday

and Thursday

the

19th and 20th. The

f i r s t

day was given

to

the Booksellers

of South

Africa.

TTie second

day we had

audio-visual

and

the

cassette ministry.

There

are more books being written

in

the

African

languages now

because there

i s enough

sale

for them, so

that

they can

be

produced.

I was able to

get

some

in Zulu,

which I want

th e ministers

to read. In

f a r t T alrpady havft ordftr


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Vemita

has completed a written

lesson

on

th e

2nd

chapter of

Mark

for the women

The

Travel

Agency

has

now

quoted

us a price on our t ickets

to

and from

the States.

So

as

soon as we get the money we shal l make

our bookings.

But a t p_re^mt we plan to

leave here the 2nd

week

of Noymber and return tl^e 2nd week of February

Many

of

our churches

have

plans for meeting this week end which is Pentecost.

May God r ichl y b le ss you one and a l l

in

your

labors

for Him

Sincere ly in Chri s t

Alvin

Verni ta

Nicholson

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Dear Ch r i s t i a n

F r i e nd s :

Vernita is

sti l l

away in the hospital. She came

home

for a

few

days but they had

changed her medicine and i t did not

work

out. So we hope shortly

now

they

will

have

t h i s worked out and she wi l l soon be home.

We want

to

thank you, who have

been

remembering her in your prayers.

God has given us

two

great weeks of camp.

churches of

this

area

met

at Oribi amp

Grounds

from

the 28th

cff

June until

the

4th

of July. The church in Pondoland at Xopozo

from the

5th

o f July unt i l the 7th.

Fer -^hi-sa-r-ea-there

were

11-5-campersand

of these

41 were

baptized.^Philemen

Waka

minister at Mqanduli and Umtata came

to

speak

for

Chapel

and

to teach

one

class.

Three other young people helped

with

the

t each ing

The camp grounds have been improved and

a

young

woman has

jus t

come

from

America

to

help

with

camp act iv i t ies But un

fortunately

she

had the f lu tha t week.

Invu tsh in i campers

Pondoland has 128 campers.

There

we

had

no

f ac i l i t i e s except the church

building and the surrounding homes The attention and

participation

of the young people

was

ex ellent

Jw Q young people both children of elders have made known their desire to

come

to school

next year.

The

father of the

young

woman spent

one

term at school.

The

father of the

young man has built a building at his kraal

for

the use of the church I would like you

to pray especially fpr Wiseman

Gensana

e impressed Brother Qwemesha with his desire to

learn

and

the

keeness he

showed

in

the

questions he asked. Both

of the

young people hope

to

graduate

from high school at the end of

the

year.

Three

young

women helped the

ministers

with the teaching in Pondoland. I

was

able to

be present

on

only three days 1

am

so thankful for Brother Qwemesha who of his own accord

took much o f my

burden.

This week end.

Brother Qwemesha

and I

are to

go

to Escourt

for a

camp beginning

on

Friday

night

and

ending

on

Sunday.

Brother

Sithebe

works very hard with his young people and this time is

also

given to

testing

their

bible

knowledge on

the lessons

he has been

teaching

them.

We would

l ike

to find another student

in

this area l ike Hames

Mbase,

who is

a t

school

t h i s

yea r

School

will

start

pn:the

27th of

July.

I am to teach

the

books of Paul beginning with

Galatians to second

year

students.

Bible characters,

will be

the class for

first

year

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i

The

Transkei

is to receive i t independence

in October.

We do no know

mu h

of what

changes that shall

bring.

But

o

know that

we

shall have

to car ry passpor ts

and other

p ap er s ev er y

time

we

cross the border.

MsKL

The f l a t

p a r t

o f the

building

is

for

e a t i n g and services , t h i s end o f the

other bulding sleeping q ua rters for

cooks and th e o t h e r

end

t h e

k i t c h e n .

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r io t ing in th e Johannesburg a r e a had

no c on te rp ar t in

t h i s area , e x c e p t

the

.s tu de nts a t t he U n iv e rs it y of

Zululand

^ a b o u t

14 0

m i l e s from us b u r n e d the

r A d m in i st ra ti o n B u il di ng an d l ibrary.

One

from

o u r a r e a

wa s

most

unhappy

fo r

he s a i d

w h a t s h a l l I d o n o w . I

wan ted

to

f inish my

work an d

get a j o b

b u t

a l l

my

pap ers a re burned up .

The do n o t

ye t

ha ve o u r s c h e d u l e

worked o u t fo r r e t u r n i n g home fo r a

vis i t in November because p a rt o f

th e

f l i gh t s have

n o t y e t

been put on th e

c o m p u t e r .

May God s

g r a c e

an d peace

be upon you

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Vol. 17 No. 7 NEWS WITH THE NICHOLSONS August 1976

D e a r Chr i s t i an Fr iends

What a

g r e a t jo y

t was to

be able to

t e l l

Nic

Qwemesha

t h a t t h e r e

was money

to

buy a te n s e a t e r ToxQta^bus for him. But even here God ha d a lesson

for

us.

Nic s old

pickup

was

developing

a knock and he was afraid to drive

i t far.

I knew that

he was looking at another

vehicle.

When I learned there was moneyin

the

States for

him I tried to c a l l him by

t el ep ho ne b ut

could

no t

get through. So I

le f t

a note for

him

to

w ait b efo re

buying

but

the

note

was

not

delivered

because th e

on e

who

ha d

i t

had

to

come

an d

help me when

my c ar broke

down.

When

I

returned four days

la te r I learned

t h a t

Nic had

gotten

a

used

big. How

ever the

garage

was good enough to

le t

us have

th e

new bus

they

had on hand

with

only having to pay

for

licensing

th e other

one and even gave us some

discount

on

the

one.

We

d id have to scra tch fo r

some

money b ef o r e th e

money from o v e r s e a s came.

n w

e

have our bookings

fo r

ou r

t r ip

to

the S ta te s in November. e wi l l leave

Johannesburg on

tl^T JOlBCTand tpehd one

day

and

night in London, They asked

that we do

Thi3~^D^r~ we

are joining-a charteir flighir-rn-d^undortaiiid- i t eould-be-

set

up a

day Our-

arrival in Minneapolis

is

at 10:31 P.M. on the.42th_pJ_Npvember. I told Sandra when I

wrote h e r / that

we

would be

there

for a midnight snack. Our return journey is to s t a r t

on

th e 5t h

of

^bruary

1977.

Vemita is feeling and

looking

much

better.

She ha s been with

me

fo r th e

l a s t

three

weekends.

Two

we have spend

at

home and one

with

the Sandy

Sinclairs

a t Eshowe.

On

Sunday

morning

sh e and

Charlotte

led one group while Sandy and I went on to vis i t

another

one-

e

hope Vemita will soon be home to stay .

A ll o f the s t u d e n t s b u t one have r e t u r n e d to Umzumbe B i b l e

Ins i t iu te

One

young

woman

s tar ted nurses t r a i n i n g a t

Murchison

Mission

H os pita l

here near Port Shepstone.

At the nresent ime

we

have one minister

and

three of his people coming to

school

f o r

a month

o r s o .

We know

that

we ca n n o t do a

g r e a t

d eal

in such

a s h o r t time

b u t

they have s a id th a t they

are

finding i t very i n t e r e s t i n g an d h e l p f u l .

e

have

gotten

a s e t of th e J ule M ille r Visualized Bible s l i d e s . This has the

black

models which we hope

will

make i t more inter esting

to ou r

African folks.

I t

was on th e

23rd

o f Jul y

t h a t

I l e f t earl y in th e morning

to be

i n

Tarkastad f o r

an

evening meeting.

But

about

30 miles f rom home

the l i t t l e H il lm an b le w

a

head gasket.

I

l im pe d b ac k to the

mission

statio n

an d

they called

Stanleys so I

could ask

fo r

help.

Lynn

got

a tow b ar and came and

pulled

me back home I

t r ansf er r ed

my th in gs to th e

and s l e p t fo r a while an d a t midnight s t a r t e d my t r ip again. I s l e p t in the bu s from

5 to 6 A-M. a t Umtata

and t h e n we nt on

my wa y

aga in .

At

Qweenstown I

passed by th e pla ce where

Malafu worked

to talk

with

him only to

find that they had the

o ld wood an d

i r o n

bui l di ng

ha l f

t o r n

down.

These

working

t h e r e

knew

him

bu t

d id n o t

know where h e

wa s

now

w o r k i n g .

I

went

on

to Tarkastad

arriving

a t noon.

I was

very t i red

so p u l l e d i n t o

th e park

an d

s l e p t

fo r an hour

before

going

into town where I was met by Brother

Robert

Geldenhuys.

A ft er

something to e a t a t

th e

l o c a t i o n

we

took th e e l d e r an d on e of th e

brot hers an d

drove to

a

farm.

The

people were

n ot ready fo r us for

they

ha d s pe nt the

g r e a t e r

p a r t of

th e

ni ght f i g h t i n g a

f i re

in the hi l l s on a

nearby

farm. While I was

waiting I

ha d

te a and

v i s i t e d

with the owners

o f the farm.


14/19

Back

a t

th e h o t e l

tha t evening

I found t h a t I was the o nl y p ay in g guest . Many ^

hotels do not expect to m ke

their

money off th e people who stay th ere bu t off the

ba r

which they

have.

Sunday morning and afternoon we

visited

farms and liad our church

services in the

farm

school building.

Sunday

night we

had

services in

town The

night

was very dark and

cold but s t i l l

many

of the people

were

present f o r this

service.

ond y

morning I

started

my

homeward

tr ip .

I

stopped

by

Brother

Malafu s

home

to

see

what

I

could

learn

b ut learn ed n oth in g

because

he

was a t work

and

h is wife in town

The young

wom n who

was at

the

house

di d not know

where he was working I picked up

s tu de nts f or school

on

this

return

t r i p . arrived a t Port Shepstone at

10 p m

had a cup

of

tea

with

bread and jam at

ou r

home so

that the

students

could

go to

be d

as

soon as

they

ar r ived

a t s c h o o l .

Please continue to pray for

us and

the Lord s

work hv re

Y o u r s fo r

Chr i s t

in Afr ica

Alvin Vem i t a Nicholson

FORWARDING AGENT:

Mr s . R i c h a r d

Hanson

16642

Gannon A v e W

Ro se m o u n t Minn.

55068

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W I T H

TH E

N I C H O L S O N S

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Vol.

17 No. 8

September

1976

Dear

Chr i s t i an Fr i ends

The

good

news

is

that Vernita

is

home

again

and feel ing

very well . We thank

God

f o r

this

The

third week.-Of August

Lynn

Stanley

went into

the hospital

h_e re_.in

Port

Shepstone

and then

went

to

a h osp ital in

Durban where

he

under.-wentrSurgery .-

He has

been

home since

the 4th of September and does not nlan to

go back to

teaching

at the

school

unt i l the twenty of September which

wil l

1 ;

f te r Conference.

With his being sick and

away

at hospital has also

added to the work

that

I

have

to

do. I have been

going to

school

each

da y

to teact:

:

classes

where I could and

to

see

to the general running of

th e sch oo l.

On Tuesday

morning

when I picked up the nurse for

the clinic

day at school we

were talking of problems in the work. She said

often

one

does not

dare

t e l l

people

that

they

have

TB

or

veneral

disease for

they

will

want

to

beat

you up. They

say

their

sickness

has been

caused by some one

putting

medicine

in the

way

to cause

them to

get

si k

On Sunday Vernita

and

I

went

to preach for the Indian church there. Brother Floyd

Stamm

is

planning

to return

to South

Africa

this month

ra ther than

waiting unt i l December

This

l as t

weekend we

traveled

down

to

Queenstown. On Su nda y we spoke at Hinge

and

Izibeleni

which are

two new towns near

Queenstown.

The

plans are

to move a l l the

Africans who have been l iv ing in th e lo catio n at the edge of Queenstown to Ezibeleni

and the

coloured people will

move

into

the area

evacuated by

the Africans.

Monday we went to an

area

know

as

Middlekop

because i t i s in

the

middle

of three

koppies or

small

h i l l s

The

church

has bui l t a church

building

here. This

building

helps them

out in two ways for they are also using ic

o r

a

school.

On the way to

Middlekop

we

passed by Glen

Gary

Falls .

Th e

water

fa l l s between

50

and

75

feet from

a la rg e area o f

i ron

s tones .

The

15th to th e

19th

i s th e Annual Confe rence

a t

Mtuba tuba on

th e

n or th c oa st

We do

not

expect as many of

our

church

people to

come as

have

come

to

many of the meetings

because i t

is

ou t of the center of our chu rches and the cost of

travel

has greatly in

creased. But many

of

the

brethren

are happy we can go to

th is area

for most o f

the

churches

of this

area are new and i t will be a big help to them to have

the

church meeting

in their

midst.

Those

around

them can then

see that the meeting is just

not

the

people

o f t h a t a re a a lo ne

Since our return home we have

been

hurrying to get a l l

things

in

order for

con

ference. There are

many things

to

be

done so that

we

shall

be

ready for that

time.

Some of those

things

consis t o f pain ting

th e

poles

for

the

tent typing th e

minutes of

meeting of the African ministers to be s tenciled set t ing

up

and typing

on

s tenci l the

program for the Conference. Then we are having translated a chart that was

published

in

the Ozark Bib le Col lege

news

so that w ill

mean

stenci ls for about three

languages.

In

addition

to

th i s

Vernita has to

make

curtains

for the

Kombi

so

that

we may

sleep in it a t Conference.

;o

c he has to prepare a

message

as sh e i s

one

of the

speakers for the

Women s

Meetings.

I

also

am a

speaker.

Some

of the food must also

be

bought for seven day

of

Conference.


16/19

y

the time you receive this the Conference will be

history.

e

appreciate your

prayers for we know they have ehlped us through the

difficult

times

we have had and this

busy tim e

of Conference.

e

pray that each one of you are finding the Lord guiding you each day

Yours in

t he M a ste r s

Service ,

Alvin

Vem i t a

Nicho l son

FORWARDING AGENT:

Mrs . R i ch a r d Hanson

16642

Gannon Ave

W

Rosemount Minn.

55068

NEWS

WITH

TH E NICHOLSONS

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Park Chr i s t i a n Church

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17/19

Vol. 17

No . 9 NEWS WITH THE NICHOLSONS

Nov embe r, 1 97 6

D e a r

C h r i s t i a n

B r e t h r e n :

Greetings

i n

Chris t our

Saviour .

All

our e f f o r t s j u s t

now

are

turned toward

g e t t i n g

ready for our short t r i p t o

America.

Next Monday th e 8th, we shal l

be leaving

for

Johannesburg

and

w i l l leave t h e r e

on

Wednesday

night

the

10th.

hope

t h a t we have some

one

t o stay in

our

home,

while

we are

away,

A

police

offi er

h a s b e e n t r a n s f e r r e d h e r e a nd w ou ld l i v e i n o u r home w h i l e h e s e e k s o n e f o r h i m

self

The second

Sunday i n l a s t

month

we were in th e

East

London a r e a with

Percy

Marongo

and v i s i t e d with the Kernans. The next two

Sundays we

were with churches in

Pondoland

an

these l a s t two

Sundays with

churches here i n

our

area.

-The25rd-and~24th-of October

we

were^in

A ShwelT~B ukura and

h is

young people a r~Bizah

These were

s pec ia l s er vi ce s

for the

young people.

But

in Pondoland you never

have

servic

for the

young

people

alone. Lynn Stanley and I went down together

with

students

from

School. The students has classes for the young people and Lynn and I for

the

adul ts .

There

was a s pe cia l b le ss in g fo r us here. Brother Bukula has

been

slow in taking

his young people to the Pondoland Youth

Camps.

Somet ime ago he

did

not feel it necessary

f o r g i r l s to go

t o

the

Bible

Training

School.

But

having

at tended Umzumbe

again

himsel f

the past few months, he has now a great zeal for teaching his

young people

and in making

use o f

those who

have

received

t r a i n i n g

in teaching.

Brother Bukula

has

an except ional

t a l e n t i n i l l u s t r a t i n g h i s sermons.

This man

i s an

outs tanding

farmer

as wel l . He

has

tapped a spring

above h i s

place

and has a very good

gar den, mos tl y p lan ted to

cabbages now. He

has

also

planted

a few

rows

o f sugar

cane and has done

well

s e l l i n g it

f o r 10

cents

a

s t i c k

f o r

chewing l i k e

candy.

The Banta

T r u s t i s to begin work in h i s a r e a .

They work

it out so

homes

a re in

one

area , f i e l d s

in another and the

pastures

in a

t h i r d

thus no

need to

heard

stock

every

day.

He

asked

the

a g r i c u l t u r e o f f i c e r s

if

he

could

keep h i s

f i e l d because

o f use he

cou

make o f

th e w ate r.

When they checked

the

f i e l d

they

t o l d him

they

were going

to

have a

f a r m e r s meeting

a t

h i s k r a a l and

would

i n v i t e th e l e ad er s in

t h i s

f i e l d from Umta ta

t h e

c a p i t a l . They a l s o

s a i d they would

give

him a h a u k e r s

l i c e n s e which w i l l allow

him to

s e l l what

he

grows

any place in

the area.

Many

of you,

I know, are concerned with problems here in SouthAfrica.

There

have

been

no problems here in

our area. In f a c t

there have

been very

few

problems

in

Natal.

There were f i r e s a t a few

schools.

I t was

only

th e A fric an Universi ty cal led Ngoya

t h a t

was damaged

in June

and not reopened for the second h a l f o f the y ear. I t i s only the

churches

of

Soweto

in

Johannesburg

and

those

in

Gugletu

in Capetown

t h a t

have had

any

g r e a t

d i f f i c u l t i e s as f a r as we

know.

Minister s Week has been s e t f o r Middleburg Cape about

the

t h i r d week of March

next

year.

The minis ters

are

beginning to understand the need

f o r

the growth

of

the church

and for keeping active

those

who have given

t h e i r

l i f e to Chris t .

God

grant you

more

f a i t h

more

love,

more

forgiveness and

more praising

of

God

as

you l i v e f o r

him.

look forward to

seeing

some o f

you. With prayers

for God blessing

we a r e . Yours i n

Love ,

A l v i n V e r n i t a N i c h o l s o n


18/19

N WS WITH TH^NICHOLSOI^

^ ^

Vol. 17 No. 10 December 1976

Dear Chr i s t i an Fr i ends

How wonderful

i t is to

be v i s i t i n g

with

our loved ones and

friends.

From hearts

full

of

joy at this blessed time of the year we pray

that

you

will

each one have a

lovely Christmas and a

fruitful

and happy

New

Year.

May

God richly bless

you as you

labor

fo r

Him Thank you

also

for making this a great year in th e Lord s

service

or u s

The question most often asked

is How

are things in South Africa ? There has

been almost no problem in our area. There were s t i l l some problems in Johannesburg

when we l e f t b ut not l i k e those o f the

months

b e f o r e .

There are s t i l l many

changes

that must be made in th e land but

i t is

important t h at changes have been made and

more will be

made in th e future. Many hotels

and

restaurants

ar e

being

opened

to

a l l

raceSr Many jobs

that

were held only

fo r th e

whites before have been opened to others

_ hprfliKP tbftrp wa< no nn ^ to

f i l l

them.Manyj-obs

such-as sales-people

are Also being^.

opened to

th e Africans

because businesses

recognize that their people

make up a

great

part

of their

customers so they want to

increase their

opportunity o f s el li ng . ^

The

Christian

Africans

are

caught

in

a

hard

place

many

times. They do

not

want any

p art of th e

fighting

bu t

i f they

do nothing

they

ar e marked by those who ar e encouraging

y the

fighting

as being unsympathetic with

their

own people. This endangers their life

as well. Pray

fo r them ^

S

We were slow as usual in g ettin g

a ll preparations

for

ou r

t ri p done so we le f t

Port S he ps to ne a lm os t at

noon

fo r Johannesburg

on

the

8t h

o f

November.

We

were so

thankful for the hospitality

of

the Mills

as

i t

gave us a

chance

to relax

before

we

boarded

th e pl a ne .

From Johannesburg

we

flew Britis h Airways 747 to

Manchester

v ia Niarobi.

We

went

to Manchester

because

o f

fog

at

London. They gave us

train

and

lunch tickets

back to London. I t was

fast

and

pleasant

so

we

enjoyed

seeing th e English countryside.

The t ra in took us to Euston s ta t ion

which was w i t h i n

wa lking d is ta n c e o f

our

h o t e l -

A f t e r a s h o r t res t we went

out

f o r

a walk

b u t

r ai n

an d

darkness so on e nd ed t h a t - We

did enjoy

wandering

through

a

big

f ur n it ur e s to re where most

o f th e furnishings

were

s t ou t

in

r ooms

O ur

brochure s how e d

we

w o u l d

h a v e a con t inen ta l

b r eak f a s t a t our h ote l b ut when^we

came

to

the di ni ng

room th e w ait er asked for

our card

and told us that we would have

the works so we

ha d

a good b ig b re a k fa s t to carry us

over

xontil we were aboard

th e

plane that afternoon. We flew from

London to New

York on a 707 which was no t

heavily

loaded

so

we

had

plenty of

room. I t was something to se e

th e

sun

si t t i ng

on th e

horizon

fro m s o o n

a f t e r

we took o ff u n t i l we w e r e ove r M a i n e . We came

in

f r om th e

no r t h

a n d

passed

rig h t

over

the

center of

New

York

City

before

we

circled

J . F. Kennedy and came

in to l a n d

We

cleared

customs

quickly

and then

ha d to wait for the circle bu s to get to

North

west.

Our f l i g h t

time to Minneapolis

seemed

shorter than th e

hour we

were a t

Milwaukee

unloading and loading.

What.a great

mpment as

we entered the

airport

to see

all o f

ou r

lily

waiting

for

us pliis

f iv e f ri en ds .

There

was to o

much to talk about

fo r

us to

get

to bed

very

soon

so^ that Friday

was-mpre than a 24

hour

day

for V em ita

and

I.

Saturday and Sunday both were spent in much

ta lk in g

before the others

ha d

to go back

to

th ir

h o m e s

and

s ch oo l


19/19

Thanksgiving

week

we

drove

o u t to South Dakota. Many members o f my family

gathered

at

the home o f on e

o f

my s i s ters

a t

Harrold

S ou th D ak ot a

f o r Thanksgiving

day.

We drove

back

to Huron f o r

dinner

on Friday t h a t V e m i t a

might

see

h er

s i s te r

from Rapid C i t y .

Then we

d i v i d e d th e r e s t o f the

time

between

Harrold an d

Huron be f or e

ret urni ng to Minneapolis

the

middle

o f th e n ex t week.

We

spent

a few days in

Iowa

vis i t ing with

Steven

an d

h is fajnily.

Yesterday we wen

to

Rochester

to

help

James

c e l e b r a t e

h is

b i r t h d a y

an d

then

Thursday

w i l l

s t a r t

our

journey

to

rown Point Indiana

to

be

p re se nt fo r

James and Marians wedding. For

Christmas

we

hope

t hat everyone w i l l be able to come her~e to S an dra s .

ow

we

thank

God fo r t hese

o p p o r t u n i t i e s to be t o g e t h e r with our loved

ones an d

th e wonderful

fellow

ship

tha t

we

have had.

Once again th an k you

for helping

us - - and thanks

to

God hav e a w on de rfu l year

i n H is s e rv i c e .

Yours

in

Chr i s t i an L ove

FORWARDING AGENT:

Mrs . R i ch a r d

Hanson

16642 Gannon Ave .

W.

R o s e m o u n t Minn. 5 5 0 6 8

NEWS WITH THE

NICHOLSONS

Pri nt ed an d mailed by. . .

Madi son

Pa rk Ch r i s t i a n

Church

215 N or th 25 th tr t

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Alvin

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