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NEl vS WITH THE NICHOLSONS
^
IN SOUTH
AFRICA
Vo
1
January,
I962
you
had a very Herry Chris tmas and have now entere
int^,. t^>3|J e.^: Year, which
shall
both be happy
and
prosperous
for
you
and
for
the; Kingdom,
of our Lord Jesus Christ , Christmas here,
was
not
a wjiit^-.one,-, buy a wet one. However, this did not
darapen
our
spirits
at
all ,
W? hah our Christmas repast
at
the
home of
the
Stanleys. Ho
good i t was to have
le t ters
and
cards
from many of
our friends
in
mer i ca
If there is any one who would like
to
have pictures of our famil
wi l l you ]-lease wr i t e and l e t us know.
A
date
^looked forward to by our family with mixed
heelings
is
th
of February
^th,
Sandra is
to leave
Johannesburgfor America and will
arrive in .New. York dh the10th; W e are happy that, she has ffnTslied-...
her school iwork
and
wil l
go on
to prepare
-
he rself in
the
service of
the Lord,
Our
prayer is that
God^s richest bQe
ssing shall-.res
upon
her s.t. a ll times. At the time
that
we write
this,
we are not certain
^^3
received
a l l
the
money
fbr^her
fare or
not .
I t
takes
^1420
to
New York and
then
her
fare on to, Mpls,
Minn. We and
she
greatly appreciate the
sacrifice
of those
who- have
yiven
of their
mon e y
When schobl closed
at
the Ministers Training School,.
th eyTgnW...
a
skit of the birth of
Jesus. Ho w
well
they
did
and I
know
you would
have
thrilled
to see them. They had no written
script,
but put them^
selves into the parts
that they p layed , even
to the bir th of Jesus.
Brother and Sister Barnabas Songo have both been present for this
last
term. They have a
l i t t le
baby
girl
born
in
September,
The
mother took the l i t t l e
one
under the
sheet tha t
she wore
and
when the
scripture
was
read
that
she brought
forth
her
new
born babe
and
la id
him
in
the manager, she did just that.
The
baby slept
right
through
x t ll
I
took
a
six
day
trip out
to vis i t
three churches. Mostly
i t
was to set
r ight
some problems and
we
hope thrt
i t
will
help
the work
f o r
t h i s
New
Yea r
The contract is s igned and
th_e^builder
is set to
begin
work on
^ the churph, at^Rort Eas tcr tlme,
whGn we mee t~
at~East
LondonV
i t shduIdTe possible for us to
rundown
and s ee the completed
building. Thanks again to those who have helped with money for i ts
erection.
_0n the_
IGth,
I w
ent
w5th
the
Land Development
off icer
-to
si te there was marked
out .
I was present vjith the
folks
on
the
17th
to
seek
to help ther^ raise the money for thoir
building.
. The making of blocks and pouring the foundation
shall
be
gin
this
month. There are days when I wish that i t were possible to
be
two
men r a th e r
than one .
The IJmzimkulu
Blblg.
was a
great
sucoeas. Attendance was
_ sixteoh ,^Smaller than
wo
had hoped
for,
but
good
since we
started
came threo^c^urche
s .
They were very enthus ias t rc
students.
.Six^jef
the ojif.iber wo:r:^
baptized into
Chr.Mqt. Because
tho school dormTtbry Uhs not^ yeT:~Yi ushe^d/ wd^ make do with
housing, but
there
was
no grumbling even
with
rain.
The
boys used
the beds in tho school building, but tho
girls just
grass and grass
mats on the
f loor
of:
the
ro^idavel near tho school, RLans- ar-e-.nowto
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of fellowship togethoro
Like
all times,
even when we
take a few
days
holiday, we must also do some work, I
want
to visit the congregation
^ t them started on making blocks
for
thejir church
building.
Also
to run out to Cj^npbell to
see
where we shall have to
move our building. The boad is
going to
be
bui l t
whore
our church
building
now
stands
and
so wo
must
build
in
another place.
As yet
we do not know what
place
has been set aside for us. Also we must
see what the
situation is
concerning the Kimberley
building,
Tho^ dormi.tory
at school- is /
comiLLeted and i s now get t ing i t s
paint so aS u be roady the l i r s t of^'F'obruary when the
school
will
open
for the
New
Year.
Our
boys
have
been
helping with th3
painting.
Two s
tudents
arc already on hand
for
that time,
Thoy are
both work
ing
a t schoo l
Mr. and Mrs.
-^^Ibort
Ladbrook and their daughter Louiso, stopped
to
visit
with us for a
few
hours
one day
before Christmas, ^ow
happy
were to ^oe thom^^ but_3p__^oiiry they
could
not tarrx ^ns Ql^ Mr.
LadbroblTTs doing
evangelistic
work
for
Dadaya
Mission
and Mrs. Lad-
brook teaching homo making
at
their
homo,
Dadaya Mission is in
Southern
Rhodesia.
Their daughter is
taking nurses training
at
Cape
t own
'or the new
Year
we would
l iko
to find
four
Phurches
tha t
would
- the work here in Afr ic a f d a a an a t h a t
would
Pleage...^^j^^-gh and
ten
individuals who woul (r gr?rb--/S , This
would
really
us in p].anning
for
work
that
Is ahead,
Sometim.3.s_.l,...wxsh^ / .o.u.-C.ould come and walk
with
mo, to
an-many
of
around cither completely nakeT^?5*^alf-- '
nakoul
^Some
with turrx^iy buttons as big or bigger than a large
marble. Some w ith no^es
that
are running not only to the
mouth,
but
off the end of their chins, i f you could see this your heart would'
truly ache
to
help them to be clothed and fed, and most of them
truly
need
i t .
But, beloved
brethren,
more
than anything.cjIsq. they
vrater
of
Ilfe prai me
what
goodi
is''W3lYnrl-Gt ,n- ' hd
-fe^^^^ the
soul
i t sel f
bo naked
Thanks a million to all who have helped us through I96I; lot
us
however
make I962 a better year
for
the Lord Jesus Christ and
His Kingdom.
FORWARDINC
AGENT:
Mrs .
Ed
Wld l und
1603 IJorl by
Rc
Alber t Lea, Minn,
Yours
in the Lord^s army.
The
Ni c ho l s o n s
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HEl /S WITH THE IIICHOLSONS
I N SOUTH AE RICA
5?
2 February I962
On th e
morning o f the
5 th
about k- 30 Mi, we saw Sandra
ta ke
o f f
fo r the St at es frora
Johannesburg
Then a few minutes l a t e r we
saw
her land again.
The
plane
had
developed
engine
trouble
soon af t er
take o ff.
The young
woman whom Sandra
drew
as
a
s eat
partner l ived
just
outside
Johannesburg and asked her to stay
with
her
u n til the
plane
was
ready
e
had
only
witnessed the
plants
return
because
we
had
not
l e f t
the airport Immediately
Ue
took them to
the
g i r l s
home
at
Randsfontein
and returned that day to Port
Shepstone
While
we have
long been planning
and
talking
about Sandra s
going i t s t i l l
seemed t h a t we
were
n o t a l t o g e t h e r prepared fo r it
There
is_ s t i l l
ne e de d
co mp l o t e h e r f a r e
School
has
s t a r t e d at
the iUniaters Training
School at Umzumbe.
^Onee again
wo
^
a_re disaooointed
in attend^_ce for many
who
had said
tho y were coming not pome i^ One
who
was
present
for half of
last
year did not come back. At the present time we have five one of
whom is ^_glr]^ and expect*
one^
more^ a g i r l
alsoj
to_corne,, V/hile
they
will
not
be
ministers
in
the
church
I
am
certain
they
v/ill
be
a great help to the churches from which they come. They are younger
and have a better
education
than
some
of the
ministers.
Thus
they
r a i s e th e s ta n da rd
o f
work i n th e c l a s s and
caus e
o t h e r s t o w ork
h a r d e r .
The .church building-at -^ort
Elizabeth
is to bo
finished this
We
rejoice that this shall
be so,
'f6r ' we^
have been
desirlfig
o b uild th er e
since 195^^ when th e
s i t e
was re c e ive d. Wo also have
th e
p l a n s ready f o r
th e
c h u r c h a t Warrenton.
Th e
block
machine
has
been delivered to them and
they
are to have started making
th e ir
The Lord willing the building will be started and perhaps
finis hed
before
the
end
o f
t h i s
year.
We
must
build both
a
church
and
a minister s home here. The house will be I7 feet 5
inches
by 55
feet. I t
will
have three bedrooms, a pantry and living quarters
will
be in the middle
being
lOfeot by I7 under I5
feet.
This
i s
not
very l ar g e
homo,
yet i t i s l a r g e r
than many o f
the
homos which
are
being
b u i l t
in the locations today. I t i s so planned that th e
r o o f
is
near
self-supporting which
i s
a
very
big help in
the
cost
A l e t t e r
has just
cone from__C^r.ip_b 3-ll
saying
that they
are
going^to plan t hei r now
location
soon and mark o ff
the
plots. Wo
hopo i t w i l l not be long before they t e l l
us
where our si t e is to
be.
The
new
road
wi l l
go
through
the
old
location
and
right
through
the
place where our old
church building
now
stands
V/e
a re _sjbil ]L4j;e^ing t h a t
th e
Lord w i l l la y i t up
on
th e
he a rts
o f
those who
w i l l give regularily to help
toward
the
expansion of
the /
work h e r e i n th e Rep u b lic
o f S outh A f r i c a .
The
boys
are back in
school
again. They started on the
30th
of
January.
Steven is doing h is
l a s t year
and preparing for
the
matric ozaras at the end
of
the year. Both he and
Barrel
Stanley
have been
named Prefects
fo r
t h i s ''oar, James was
re a l l y
happy
to
g o
b a c k t o
s c h o o l .
Hot^jgioather i^..ours.^atthis
time-
th e
h o t t e s t
we have had t h i s
y e a r . The h u m i d i t y i s so
h i g h .
We f i n d it d i f f i c u l t to do .our--work.
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Ho. 3
Karch, I962
We had th e pr iv i l ege o f bap t i s ing a
young
man here in th e poo l
by the
sea on
the
23th
o f
February .
He has been jo in ing us in
our
Sunday evening
se rv i ces
at
ou.r
home
as vje ll as a t t ending the
Saturday
evening class
on
the Ghijrch
of C hris t-
There
a re tv;o
young
vjoraen s tudy ing
in
school t h i s
t e rm . One
o f
them, whi le qu i t e
young,
has f i n i shed th e e igh th grade and i s doing
very we l l - Af t e r v i s i t i n g l a s t
Sunday
a t I nvu t s h i n i , wo
see
where
thoy can do a t renondous
amount
o f work. Mrs. Barnabas Songo a t tended
l a s t yea r
wi th
ho r
husband . She
has
t aken
ove r
th e Sunday
School a t
Invu tsh in i . Sunday
there were
75 presen t and
the
number
i s
growing.
How easy it was fo r ho r
to
l e a d them. She asked if she migh t have a
new
p i c t u r e
roll to
h s l p wi th th o
t e a ch i ng .
The church a t f o r t El izabe th should soon
bo
comple ted .
V o
shoiild
have had v;ord by
t h i s t ime
t ha t
it was f i n i shed ,
bu t it
has no t
ye t
come.
Brother
John
K-jrnan
o f Eas t
London
wi l l
be going
to
v i s i t
thorn
as soon a s i t -
i s
completed.
Saturday morning, I drove
out to Gcilima.
As I l e f t
tho
car
a t
tho shop about a
quar t e r
o f a mile
away,
I could soo the
women
wi th h
b as ke ts g ath er in g s tones and car ry ing
them
to the s i t o . They
were
no t
us ing
very b ig baske t s , yot when
I
ar r ived
a t tho
bui ld ing
s i t e
I found a l a rgo p i l e o f s to n e s . I am sure t h a t none o f us would
want
to ca r ry a
very
l a rge baske t o f s tone on
our head .
Severa l men
wero pre sen t break ing tho rocks which v;Gro too la rgo to use in the
founda t ion ,
/ . f tor checking the s i t e
l i n e s , we l a id
thorn
out
so
tha t
thoy
may
dig the tronchos for the footings. We hope to build just as
f a s t as
thoy
r a i s e
monoy fo r
o
work
as
thoy plan to
pay
a l l tho cos t
o f th e bu i l d i ng
thomselvos .
My .w:lfe_^thpught t ha t
DDT was
j us t
fo r
tho
dog un t i l the
Doc 161^
rocommended it fo r mo. I made a t f ip~iht o~tho~Cnp o- to v i s i t some o f
the
chu r c lTdd~ tho r cT Sovora l o f
t h e A f r i c a n
Loc a t i o n s have i iad
a
nuia
bo r
o f
dea ths from tvphu^---^^ There is no vacc ine , so thoy sa id
it
is
be t t e r
to
ge t
th e l ouse
be fo re ho
b i t e s .
The
t r i p
was
made and no
effects
ha \G
come forth
t seem-s
t h i s yea r wo have
had t r oub l e v i s i t i ng
th e
peop le a t
Tscmo.
In
Hovombor,
th o ca r
b roke
down.
Th i s
t i n e
wo
n o t
fo r
a
s h o r t
t im e w ith them
or. Thursday
a f t e rnoon ,
but th e planned
riieoting fo r
tiie
nex t morning was
no t
poss ib le
because o f ra in .making l , t impossiblo
to
g b f
up
th e hill This i s tho ha rd e s t o f all p laces wo have to
reach- . -
T he area has b o o n divided into districts
an d
e a c h
f e n c e d
with
s ome
ga t e s ,
bu t
no prepa ra t i on has boon made fo r roads . Tho hill I s very
s toop
witih
nuge
rocks ,
some
o f which wc dr ive
over ,
o the r s wo dodge
as we can. Real ly it i s j u s t an oxen and s led t r a ck . Groat
changes
have
eoon i-ade
in tho
Tcomo a r e a s
s ince we first
v i s i t e d
t h e r e .
Homos
k.,
have
been
moved
i n to l i n e s
as
in a c i t y , wi th t h r e e ac re s , I be l i ove ,
ir each s i t c Oti .or a r ea s have
been
con t ou r ed as f i e l d s and th o
r ema in
i s fo rced
fo r s tock . Tho
n- iribor o f
cat-^lo
each may
own
is l im i t ed
Tomorrow,
a mooting o f
the m in is te rs o f
the
area
has boon
planned
to
d i s cus s p lans fo r tho Jh ly Youth
Gamp.
t has been dec ided
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as written
that ho hopes to
corao to school
when tho. next torm. begins.
shall be
very
happy
for
this.
Brother Stanley
is working to. so.o^if
is wife cannot cono^to school with h i n ,
Tho now
dormitory i s proving
a wolcomo
addit ion.
I t
i s
much
for tho
men, and makes
I t bettor in school
as w e l l .
Tho only
l o f t
to
be
done i s
tho
f inishing
of
the
closets
for
t h e i r
clothing
nd
p u t t i n g up
o f tho
two water t a n k s .
Officai approval has boon given for the oponing of a^Clinic
t
school.
I t will
bo open
only
once a week in tho
beginning at least ,
s the nurse
w i l l
be coming from one of tho nearby cl inics for tha t
I t
does open a new opportunity
for service in
that
area
and
now
o p p o r t u n i t y
t o r e a c h
th e p e o p l e .
The
church
which
r o o t s
a t th e
school
i s now
beginning
t o grow
hen wo f i r s t moved t h e r e t h e people were more or l e s s
watching u s .
through
tho
use
of slides at the close of
each
school
terra,
visi
by
the students
in
school
and a
regular
S unday
Schoo].,
the
are beginning
to
come
on Sunday and one was
baptised
and
ut
i n
mep-ibership t h i s l a s t r. onth.
MAl
] y y--
V/ith
the
plane
crash in
hew York,
and
another here in
Africa
claimed
25
l ives
from
Natal,
we wore raore
than
happy
that
has arrived safoly,-in .the-JJhifi^d
Statos^X_iyyerJvS3-
She bo-^
^cTa ss ^aFdiinno30ta Bible
College
o h the ~lq.th of March.
We
a l l know that
,^^.^utomobilo
only runs while i t
has gasoline
n thp^tank. The work
of the
missionary
is
soraewhat
like
that. There
re
portio ns of
tho
work
which cannot
go
ahead
i f
there
i s
no money
use for tho projects, i/o thank God for tho ch urches who have pledged
o us regular
money
for our living and
some
for
our
working fund.
ut
i n some raonths wo have not roccived very much
from
tho o f f e r i n g s
just cone now and then. This has kept us from doing work which
planned to
do.
We
have no way
to
look but to you,
VJo
would app
eciate any who could help with regular monthly offerings ^which helps
ro-auuch in planning.
This
i s hot
to
say do
not appreciate
those
[ho give
when
they can, for we
do and
without
them
the
work woiald be
e v e n m o r e
diffi ult
Please
pray with us and for us. Prime
Minister
Hacmillian.of
r i t i a n
s a i d
when
he
v i s i t e d
Sou th ^^f ric a,
Th^w.ijid__of_cMh_SG
i s
V o
d es ire th at tho change of heart tow^d__t.ha_Xord sha l l
e
included. - -
Yours i n t h e M a s t e r s
S e r v i c e ,
FQRVJ /i
RI>I rTG~-TtG5iT-T-^-
M r s .
E d. W i d l u n d
1605 Morloy Rd.
A l b e r t Lea, Minn.
Alvin, Vernl ta , Steven John
a n d J a m e s
N i c h o l s o n
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Dear B r e t h r e n
NEV/S WITH THE NICHOLSONS
IN SOUTH
AFRICA
A p r i l 1962
. Praise yc the Lord, Sing unto the Lord a now song, and his praise
n
the
congregation
of saints.
Psalms
ll^9:l praise
Ellzaboth
is
a l l finished except for the plum-
they
p l^ to
have
dono shortly.
Brother
and Sister Kornan
visited there this last nonth
and
say
it
Is a very attractive building.
F are dug for the foundation, but
now
the ~
LA until after
conference
tino.
Brother
Zobolo
s busy with
his
work as Concession Registrar. The Govomant allows
nakAA A those who are attending special neetings such as this
ake
application to then several nonths ahoad after which they
AA
A
that
the
people
ostination
on
the
day
of the noeting
and
must
rAum
^ a great help. Brother Zobolo also handles
rnAAnAA 1 fJ S^^tod to the ninisters. So ho -is
busy and
no one
fJA yhor to supervise the
work.
They
have
nen
to
work
Uu no onO With
oxpurioncc
to
suporviso
Cam.p, It will bo held the first week in July.
Wo
will have tho
WGok, I n v i t e
th e nearby
chiarches to cone on
th
^ children
on
that
evening,
unday the dedication sorvice, for tho Dorr-dtory will bo hold. This
planned
earlier
in February, but had to bo postponed. V/ith this
pAJlo ' ''
children can return in tho buses
z? thought April Pool s day had caught up with mo for
sure.-
On
,,hb ^ , yndoland
to visit with
Gilbert Sotiya
and
the
peoplo
cnh neoting place is quite a ways
back
frLi
he road
and
inpossiblo for a car to
travel
the foot
trail
I asked then
'h
arrived on Saturday, the horsos
were
resent. It took just
two
hours to roach our destination. After the
wAAt
Ah
h afternoon, I
returned,
after dark,
to
tho
Trading store
LAt to
spend
tho night. I
rode
by faith that
kniw
the
uAAAA loading
seemed
Know the-path
for
we
arrived
safely. Sunday 1orning April
1 st
car-ip
tAAA ^
o'clock,
I decided
to walk
and
meet
T A J wont and one hour and twenty minutes
l a t e r
I
rrived at
my
destination.
They were
just getting
around
to
cone
after
A
^yorvcs
does
not worry nuch about
time
except when tho
school,
so tho church
takes
its tine. Even though most
tA
were
present at 10 a.m., we did not begin services until
wo
Ah A A
A People
of
Hcetoni once again, because
bor
A A circuit a niuiber of tines, it
has
boon a good
wllAboAuAA Ah
station.
They
have a church site
T .K l putting up
thoir
building this
yoar.
It will be a stick nd
AA
^^ ^ t'
-
Ad
tAA
-
i n
between wi th
nud
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HEV^/S y i T H THIS UIGHOLaOHS
lil SOUTH i xPRIOA
Vol.
5, Ho. 5 May, I962
A d r i z z l i n g r a i n - a n d a
c o l d
wind b l o w i n g
o f f t h e
anow
on
t h e
Berg
l e t ua know t h a t we a r e noving toward our w i n t e r
w h i l e
many
of
you
are look ing
f o r
the new
s p r i n g
f loi jors .
-ii-lmost
e v e r y t h i n g
d u r i n g
t h e month
o f
A p r i l p oi n te d
toward
t h e
A n n u a l C o n f e r e n c e
w h i c h
m o t at E a s t L o n d o n He
traveled
down to
East London on
the
l 6 t h .
Because
Sandra i s overseas and
Steven
stayed
with
Larrol Stanley,
fir,
and
Mrs.
Enock
Zobolo wont
down
with us.
To
make
t h i n g s e a s i o r t h i s
y o a r
wo h i r e d a trailer
house
t o
bo
used
j u s t a t the camping
s i t e . V/hile it
was s n a i l i t
made
it much e a s i o r f o r t h o womon t o do t h e cooking and c a r e f o r t h e d i s h e s
but at
feeding t ime
it
was s t i l l necessary for
the
gang
to eat
o u t s i d e
We a l m o s t had a c i t y
o f
o u r own
on
t h o p l o t t h a t wo
h a d .
Tho t r a i l e r
house,
t h r o e
t e n t s
and
t h r e e c a r s two o f th os e b ei n g
u s e d
f o r
s l e e p
i n g
a t n i g h t .
Tuesday
morn ing
wo,
p i c k e d
up some o f t h i n g s which w ere t o
be
used a t t h e L oc a t i o n f o r
f e e d i n g t h e p e o p l e
and t h e n on t h a t a f t e r
noon wont b a c k a g a i n . T h i s t ime wo r e a l l y l o a d e d down t h o back
o f
t h e Thames
w i t h
f o o d .
1-ioal ie
m o a l saiap and b e a n s w h i c h wore b o u g h t
by
the I80 lb . bags
took
up a l o t o f the
rooia,
Tuesday
night
the
m i s s i o n a r i e s who
wore
p r e s e n t g a t h e r e d a t t h o Kornan home f o r a b i r
t h d a y p a r t y f o r t h o s e
h a v i n g
b i r t h d a y s
i n
A p r i l
Tho
opening s e r v i c e
f o r
Conforonco i t s e l f
was hold on
Wednesday
evening .
The minis ter said t h a t they woi o
feeding
about I80 people
e a c h
d a y .
A l l
o f
t h o
m i n i s t e r s
w e r e p r e s e n t e x c e p t
t h r o e . One
o f
t h o s e h a s n o t been w e l l
f o r
a l o n g t i m e . The p e o p l e coning frorii
lk-rt B l i a a b o t h h a d ^ - a - O n e - G h 4 1 d - w ^ G - - b -a d X y ^ c u t on,
t h e
n o c k
and one o f t h o e l d e r s b r o k e h i s
s h o u l d e r .
Tho
o t h e r s
w e r e b a d l y
shaken, but n o t k e p t
i n t h e
h o s p i t a l . They d id n o t a r r i v e .at Con
f e r e n c e
All
o f
the messages for tho Conforonco were based on the
Churc
and the men who
had
Doon
chosen
to
speak did
a
very
f ind
job,
Tho
womon brought
more money f o r
t h e i r
V/idow s Fund
t h i s y o a r
t h a n f o r
any
y o a r
b e f o r e
S.at i i rday n i g h t
t h o
m i n i s t e r announced t h a t t h o
p e o p l e
m u s t
g a t h e r t o go
t o
t h e B a p t i s m a l s e r v i c o a t 1 0 | 5 0 bo back f o r c h u r c h
by 1 1 o
a r r i v e d
c l o s e t o 11 and
t h o y
were
j u s t
on t h e i r way. We
went down
t o
w a t c h
t h i s
s e r v i c e a t t h e r i v e r
where
two wore b a p t i z e d .
t was 12 noon when we
bogan
our morning s e r v i c e but t h i s was
no
problem t o
anyone, f o r t h o s e having
to
c a t c h t r a i n s
wore
g e t t i n g
them
in tho evening
and
they
wore tiappy
for
tho time
thoy hod
enjoyed
here
E x c e p t f o r Al Zimmerman who h a d t o r e t u r n t o Capetown
f o r
h i s
S u n d a y s e r v ic e s
tho
r e s t
o f
the
M i s s i o n a r i e s
remained
u n t i l
Monday
m o r n i n g .
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man
. In Pondo land , who was takon from the minis t ry
many
yoars ~ago, has always boon popping up horo and
thore trying to
s t i r up t rouble
i f ho
could. But
being
so well known,
ho has
never
gotten far. Hoover in I960 he
signed
a paper using the
hiss ion name and was granted a
church
s i t e . Ho used
th is
paper
then, to go
collecting
money for the building, and
also
used i t
to show
t h a t
ho had dr iven out
th e
Europeans in th e work
and had
t aken ove r
h imse l f ,
VHion l e t t e r s
wore
writ ^en
to th e
G-ovornment
aeiiing about this, they
srid
the
site w s
not his and we should
work
through
the
local magisbrato
to make things r ight . Ho cal led
us
both in
and s tu die d the papers
which
we hod and then
asked
the man to
send
mo the
site
papers.
This ho did not do Uiitil
the
iiagistrato had
askod him again. So we. have
rocoivGd
a. church
site- which
is already
fenced
with_a .buildTng^Trrf^ of wattle
and mud
and grass
roof. We
...have a good nuinber of peoplo in th is area so can make good use
of
th o
b u i l d i n g .
One
of tho questions raised
by
one of tho churches
was
con-
corning tho
wearing
of tho women s uniforra. There has been and was
there
much
discussion
pro
and
con.
wo
hpvo
always
t r i ed
to
teach
them
t ha t
they
must
not sp l i t the
Lord s
work over ^his ques t ion.
Heithor must thoy make i t a tost
of
fellowship where the Lord
has
made it nono .
I
f e e l ce r t a in t h a t
in a few
yonrs
wo sha l l see it
worn loss and l o s s . There i s another change
which
also
adds
i t s pa r t
The,
younger women would rather dross in their nicer drosses rather
th n
those
mado
of
bl ck
School has started
again
and once
again
wo hove Leon dis-
appointed.
The l arges t nurber of
applicants
ever was rocoivod, but
so far
only
a few. men
aro
in school, Sori.io did
say
when thoy
got
to
East London they would have
to
cone a t a
l a t e r date, hut
some who
le f t
East
London planning on coming hero are not
yet
present.
We
would
l ike you
to romonbor
those things in prayer:
Service
l ink
for
evangelism;
Building prograTn--\iarrenten and Gcllima; an
o l de r eons idor ing th e
m in i s try .
Thank
you
a l l for
holding
up
our
hands
and keeping
us
in
South
Africa .
May the Lord
watch over
and
keep you.
PORWARDHTG
AGENT:
Mr s .
Ed
W id lu n d
1605
^ orley
Rd.
Albe r t
Lea ,
Minn .
Yours
i n
Ch r i s t ,
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NEWS WITH THE NICHOLSONS
IN SOUTH AFRICA
Vol.. 5 6 June I962
Groetlngs in Christ Josua our Saviour. We are
jus t
a b i t
behind
in g ettin g
this
l e t t e r
started
on
i t s
way
to you.
But
y^Vernita entered
St,
Jiugustines Hospital
in
-^urban on Sunday the
/ . and underwent
najor surgery
on Monday
norning.
She
has
been
, I naking very fine progress and should
bo
able to be
horae
a gain.
i when 10 days are
up.
We thank the nany who have
kept her
in the i r
p ra y e r s dur ing t h i s t i r io
\
Durban being some l i t t l e dis tance a^ay, we have not been able
to
vis i t
there
as often
as
we w
ould l ike but even here
we feel
the Lord
has
helped, us. he
other
day when I went up I stopped
to-get some things which -^ynn b^anley needed for the school . The
man asked we could use some chu rch do ors and windows. , church
had
been
torn
down
to make way
for
a new ofib
and
they
would
l ike
to
see them used in
another church i f
possible, .
While those havd
already
served
for over sixty years they are in excellent condit
ion and
wil l
servo
for
many more yet .
The foundation for the church
at
Gcilima has been poured , and
they have one
of
the
machines
so
that
they
can begin
making
their
blocks.
Because
the
blocks must cure
for
a time,
i t wil l
be
near
the end
of t h i s
month before a s t a r t i s made
on
the wal l s
I do
not
know how
long the
church
at Douglas has
boon standing
But .word
has coriio
from
the Town
^lork that
they are to have
a new
lo.cation
and
that
thi^y would pay us
about ,^ 0
for
our
building
and
wo can remove
anything
t ha t i s
usable This
does
place before
us
an o th e r
b u i l d i n g
t h a t must
bo b u i l t
Thokozilo
has long
been
known
to
us a t Gcil ima, When
we
f i r s t arrived
in Port
Shepstono
he was
working
in a
hote l . Later
he got a l icense and opened a
tea
room, from
th is
ho opened a
store. Since that
time he has
builfl
and
furnished
a new home,
and has a pick-up
of
his own
for
hauling his goods. But th is
deals not with
him,
but
with his son who
passed away from TB.
His
funeral
was
held
on
^unday
the
27th
. The
service
was
held
in
the
yoard
of his
father 's
homo,
i-dien the
casket
was
brought
out
a
groa t
riry went up. More
from
the
heathen
blanke t na t ives
than
from any one
else
and
i t
took some timo
to
quieten
them,
i-.fter
the
service
the body was
taken to
his
fatnor^s place, where
he was bur ied beside his mother. The greatest difference was in
the grave.
They had
dug the hole l ike we
would. But at the
bottom
they
had dug out a shelf on one
side.
Vflien they le t the
casket
do wn,
they put
i t
in
this pla co
and sealed
i t o ff
with
sod. After
the serv ice h ere was closed a nui.ibor
o f
the men
took
off their coats
and
with
a nurabor of
changes for each
shovel
i t
was not long u n t i l the grave
was
fu l l All
re turned
back to 1 .ho
s tore where a meal
had
boon
prepared
for
them.
We
wore
hap y t h a t the Humans wore able
to
come and b i s i t
with us from
the
^Oth of i?ay
thru the rd
of ^uno before thffiir
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At
th e
c l o s e o f
t ih is month o f
J ime
th e
Af r i c an
nu r s e>w l l l
be coining to the school to open a one day a week clinic ^ Plans
have
been
in
prepara t ion
fo r sone t ine
and
now wo\aro happy
to
say that they
are
coming to pass* A
place
must
be
made
avail
able fo r hor uso and fo r ho r n o dlc in es t i s l iko ly as we l l
t h a t
some
nod ic lne
s h a l l
have
to
bo
purchasod
each
month.
We are
enjoying the book of Phil l ipinns -as we teach
i t to
the
men
in school . Rpdebo,
who
comes
from
Ladysmith i s doing very
wwll. He has a good general knowle^o
of
the bible . But l ike
many others he
finds
memory work
to be
very diff icul ty The
baby
o f
our school Abraham Mbariali had
a
very
good sermon fo r
Chapel
th i s
l a s t Friday,
He
does very w ell with the
memory work,
but
of ten
f i nds
I t d i f f i cu l t
to
give tiio answer t h a t th e book gives
when you give a t o s t .
But
cont inua l ly he i s
showing growth,
Stovon and Joim are
eoth
busy with ha l f year cxniis, Steven
i s
a
member
of the
schools
f i r s t
rugby
tcor.i
and John
i s
making-
a p la ce fo r h im se lf on th e under fou r t e en
tosm.
One Friday aftornoon a few weeks agp, I
hoard
an oxen making
much noise . .
I
looked toward
a
group o f hu ts not f a r away where
I
had
hoard many people
t a lk ing. They had
the
animal t i ed- to
a
post with a long rope and about
tno
men wore keeping t
t i gh t .
One nan was
wither us ing
a
knife or
speak
to
k i l l the animal with
^ t was ne t
t he i r dosiro
t ha t
he
should bo
ki l l ed innedia te ly
and
^hey
did want him to bellow fo r hat would
c. ll
Mieir f a the r s .
Later one of
the
me n o f
t ha t
noighborhood
sa id
thoy
must
have got
ten the
wrong
sp i r i t
for
on Saturday afternoon as
their
coBe-
bra t ion
was in f t i l l
awing,
the
wind
changed suddenly
and
t
be
came very cold
and
dustf ,
where
i t had been
warn
and
s t i l l . So
many of the custons are s t i l l carr ied on
and
t i s
necessary
fo r them to choose
t h i s day
whom they wi l l s e rve .
May
God
r i ch ly
b le s s
you each
and
every one,
Yuurs w ith th e go sp e l .
Porw^prd ing
A^.ent
ux wi^
j- i U-xxig
/
/
Mrs, L5d ^idlund ^ ^
16 5 orley
lid
r t ^
Albert
^ea, Minn. The IJibholsons,
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HEVfS WITH THE HICHOLSOHS
IH SOUTH AFRICA
Vol.
2,
Ho. 7
July, 1962
Beloved brethren
in
Jesus Chris t , greet ings fron ^outh Afr ica ,
,_^ Vernit)a returned hoir'e frora the hospital on the Ibth of June,
She
has made good progress ,
vji th
th e ex cep tio n of some s t i t che s
t h a t d id no t
comple te ly
d i s so lve but
fo r red
so res and car.ie ou t .
V/hile
she
can do
none
of
the
heavy work about the house, her i n s t
ruc t ions
and
advice
keep
th ings
r imning
r-iore
smoothly.
We r e a l l y fee l l i ke a few days l e t down now
wi l l
be good.
The dormitory
has been
dedicated-and camp is
completed. Thoy were
planned
so
tha t they worked
t ogether , l ju t
it arsd ^ al led fo r ex-
t ra work.
. The children were to cone to Camp on Monday and plans
had been
made
for
an African
storekeeper to bring
then when
he
cane
in
t h a t day,
or
as
many
as he
could hau l . But
when
he ar r ived
he had
none.
Those
a t Gcilima
were not ready
and he had
not picked
up
the
other s ,
V/e understood t ha t
he
would
bring
those from
Gcilima
the next
morning.
In
the
afternoon
I went to Invutshini
to
get
the
group
t he re
and found
20 people , coimting
the min i s t e r . That was
too
many
even for the
Thames
Ixis,
so cal led
for
Lynn
Stanley
to
corne
and
he l p . Th i s
made u s
r a t h e r l a t e be fo re we
had
r e t u rn ed from
Umzumbe, I
waited
for the other group on Tuesday, ixat when they
did not
come took
the
supplies I
had
bou^ t out to Camp, Bnock
Zobolo
came
the next day and
we picked
up
as many
of
th is
group
as
we could reach. There were_27,in Camp, th is year
as
against I6 l a s t
year. ^Pour made the
good c.Dnfession,
Wick (^em osha put
the
boys
in with
his
boys in
his home and the g i r l s we
put
in two rooms
of
the
dormitory. V/e put the
mattresses
on
the
f loor as
fa r
as
they
went
and then put down
grass
for the r e s t to s leep upon. I t was
not
a
cold week and they wore a l l happy even fo r
t h i s
lijake
sn i f t
way.
I f
it
grows
t h i s
much
more
next
year ,
and
I ara
sure
t ha t
it
sha l l
be larger-j I do
not
know
just-
where we sha l l , put
them.
Saturday found
the
folks coming from as fa r
as
Durban, with
otiiers
from In-VTrf htni and Gcilima; GcllIna * s ^group
was^mcH
smaller than they had
planned for.s ince
both
buses were broken,
they had
to f ind
other t raspor t , Thoy X jero well
pleased
with the
building which has
been erected
and with
the program which the
Camp
prepared
for them on Baturday as
well
as
the fellowship
to
gether
in
the service of the
Lord,
The..next big
.need a t school
i s
for
a^ki tchen and
dining room.
On the
l a s t
Thursday
in
Juno,-
the
nurse
ar r ived
for
her
f i r s t
cl in ic , . Five came to
see
her that f i r s t day, but this
l as t
week
tEere wore r-ore
than thirty
present.
One
room of the dormitory is
being used at
the
p re sent time, fler examination
ta^le
is rea l ly a
t ab le bu i l t o f
sof t
pine wood and covered
with
l inoleum. All
are
ve ry happy
wi th
th e c l i n i c in . t h i s new a r e a .
Mrs. Sib inda , th e wife of John s ib inda in Dermiston o f the
Johannesburg area , passed away on the 9th of June, She had been
ill
for
sometime
l a s t year, but seemed
to bo
so
much
be t t e r
th is
year . She was in the hosp i t a l for only two days.
All
but one
of
t h e i r chi ldren
are
grown so it wi l l
not
make it
q\.iite
so d i f f i cu l t
or
hin
The
27th o f Juno th e s tud en ts
f ro r
schoo l
went to
Gci l ima
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The A f r i c a n
c h u r c h e s have r e p o r t e d
277 bapt isms
so
f a r t h i s
y e a r .
Host o f the r e p o r t s a r e o nly th ro ug h
the
month o f May,_
Our boys
a r e having
t h e i r r ; i id-winter
h o l i d a y s
which mean t h a t
h a l f o f t h e i r
y e a r s wor k
i s done .
For
Steven
it
moans t h o y
w i l l
do
/ no
more
new
work,- but
w i l l
be r e v i s i n g
fo r the
l i a t r i c
exams a t
the
c l o s e
o f
th e
y e a r .
I t
a l s o
means t h a t
i n
j u s t
o v e r
six .
months
he.
will
be
leaving South frica
to join
his sis ter
Sandra
at Hinnesota
^
Bible College, . His f a r e back to t h e S t a t e s w i l l come to j u s t over
^600. Would
you
please
help us so
that
wo may have this in hand
the
end
of the year do thank you so mu h for the w y
^ a t you
helped Sandra
and
know that
you will
help us again.
A l l of
t h e
men who
w e r e
in s c h o o l last tern h a v e r e m a i n e d f o r
t h e
camp
w i t h the except ion o f
h)Radebe,
wh0;:had
t o
r e t u r n
t o
h i s
work t h e first o f t h e month . One ii;an i s
h e r e
a l r e a d y f o r the-
n e x t
t e rm, and we have g i v e n him some work t o do. He
works
f o r t h e
r a i l w a y
and
has. t a k e n h i s l e a v e
t o
come
t o school so
we have
worked
o u t l e s s o n s
f o r h i m t o
fit his l e a v e .
We have
b e e n
asked
t o
h e l p w
ith
a
Sunday School i n
a
new
a r e a .
I t
i s
q u i t e
s o m e - d i s t a n c e
from
t h e m i n i s te r s
home and t h e r e
i s
no
one t h e r e
who
c a n
i n t e r p r e t
so it i s
n e e d f u l t o
t e a c h i n t h e i r
language. Since I n v u t s h i n i i s
strong,
enough now
to
c a r r y t h e i r
own
work
p r e t t y
w e l l
we
want t o give t h i s o t h e r group
a
hand.
Thoy
say t h a t t h o y have about ^0
c h i l d r e n who
w i l l a t t e n d .
Our
annual
Pondoland
Preaching
Rally
has been
sot
for
the l8 th
and IQth o f Auf^st, w ith Bennet t Hqunqutho and t h e c h u r c h a t
Qaukeni
i n
t h e
D i s t r i c t
o f
L u s i k i s i k i .
t
w i l l
b e
t h e
t i m e
f o r
wedding-
b e l l s as well, for
those
o f t h a t
area,who
would l i k e brother Stanley-
t o preform th e
ceremony
f o r
them, w i l l be
p r e s e n t .
f fou have any p i c t u r e r o l l s o r p i c t u r e c a r d s which
you
ar e
not using
we
would l i k e
to have
them.
.Also if some
c l a s s would
l i k e
t o
send an
o f f e r i n g
we would g o t some
hero which have
t h e
texts
a n d lessons written in Z u l u a n d X h o s a .
Somet imes t h e b r e t h r e n
a l m o s t
e m b a r r a s s u s w i t h t h e i r t h a n k s
o f t e n
whin
it seem.s
t h a t
we have done so
little they
t h a n k u s
again
and
again, end
pray
t h a t
God
s h al l r i c h l y b l e s s u s somietinos
they
w i l l
even
k i s s
the
back
of
your
hsxnd.
At
the
sane
t ime
it
causes
us to stop and t a k e thought of
how
thank
f u l
we
are fo r a l l
t h a t God h a s done
f o r
u s .
e
do
thank
you t o o f o r t h e h e l p which
you have given t h a t we might preach the gospel in t h i s land and
say with Paul to the P h i l i p p i a n s
your
o f f e r i n g has
become a
sweet
s m e l l i n g s a v o u r b e f o r e . t h e t h r o n e o f God,
FORVWRDIHG / GEHT:
Yours
i n t h e l o v e
o f
God,
M r s E d
W l d l u n d
1603 Morley Rd.
A l b e r t Lea, Minn.
xou a uxitj xu V o u j
The- H i
c h o
sons
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IJEl/S
WITH THH ITICHOLSOHS
IH SOUTH
AFRICA
Vol 2. Ho 8
August 1962
Grace to you and peace
f ron
God our Father
and
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
V/e
a re all
w ell
and hope t h a t
you
a re th e same.
Vern i t a
i s
f i nd ing t h a t
it
i s
hard to
r e s t
most o f th e t ime . She has some t imes
done
a little
ext ra
when she was
fee l ing
r e a l good and
then had
to
t ake
ex t ra r e s t
the
nex t
day.
The H^nday School
at
Mangwonya has
been
a rea l joy. to ta l of
4 5
the f i rs t Sunday and
JO
the next. Theri; is a young wife
there
who
wi l l
have c lasses when
ever
we are away.
She t akes
care o f every
th ing
but the
t eaching
when we are presen t
Vernita
_and I enjoyed tea with the ^ atron of the S.A.H.T.A.
hosp i ta l
a t
Hiberdene
one
Sunday
af ternoon.
The
fac t tha t
she
i s
a
a l s o a
h i c h o l s o n added
interest t o o u r visit . Wo
have
b een
o f f e r e d
t ime
f o r
s e r v i c e s
t h e r e .
V/e have asked f o r t h e a ft e rn oo n o f t h e
second Sunday of each
month,
V e can have both
preaching
services
and
Sunday School , ^iraong the c hild re n t he re with TB are
one
se t of
twins
and one
se t
of t r i p l e t s .
I'hey did
not look l ike
they
were
s ick
now, but the Matron sa id t ha t they wore both so very th in when
they f i r s t carae. She said
of ten
a f t e r they h ave murse d th e people
for a long tim e
and
they are free to go home tha t they wi l l f a i l to
keep
taking t he i r p i l l s and
then end
coming back
looking l ike
they
had never
been
in be fo re . She showed us
sore
of the very
f ine
hand
work, which had been done
by
some
who
were t h e r e .
School has opened with seven present , -^ his i s
the
largest els. ss
hero a t Um^.umbi, I t
also
o.ppoars to
be
a
very
good c l a s s . At presen
ww a re o f f to a
very
good s t a r t . However
they
a re going to
r ea l l y
give me sore work, fo r they mostly speak Xhosa and I
an
o fte n g et t in g
lost
I
th ou gh t p erh ap s
it wou'd help
sor
e if
you
have no t
seen soi
e
of th e
l anguages
here if we give you
an
example . Vie wi l l use John
:l6, writing the Xhosa
f i r s t the
Zulu next and l i teral English las t
Kuba
weonje n jo
uThixo uku l i t h anda
kwakhe i h l a b a t h i ude
Ngokuba
uNkulunlculu wal i thanda
izwo
kangaka, wase
wanike la
Because God
he- i t - loved
world
l ike
t h i s
ho-you-gave
fo r
wancama uHyana, wakho
okuphela
Itwamaeloyo,
ukuze
bonko
abakholwayo
ngendodana yakho
ezelwe
yodwa, ukuba
uilowo
nolowo okholwa yiyo
by
son h is born only,
tha t
who ever
he
be l i eve th in him
kpye
bangatshabala l i , koko
babe no
bobomi
nbungunaphakade.
angabubi , kodwa
abo-nokuphi la
okuphakade.
do not
d ie
bu t they wi l l have
l i f e fo r ever.
Even so I was no t ab le to show
it
to you
e xa ct ly fo r
raost
o f tho
Bs in the Xhosa rather look
l ike
a 6, but with raoro of a
curl .
I t
i s
not
quite so hard
fo r r'o
to read
as it looks
l ike it would be,
t ha t
i s the
Xhosa
from
the Zulu,
but
to hear it i s
often
soi .e thingels
VeSnita
and
I
plan
t r i p to
Kimborloy
fo r
10
days ,
I
want
to
get
work s t a r t ed
on
the bui ld ing
a t Warrenton,
I w i l l also
v i s i t
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SE P 1 4
1962
nsi-^s V /ITH TH E HICHOLSOITS
I N SO U TH
A F H I C A
Vol 2. No 9 Septer.iber I962
T o d a y
we r e c e i v e d t h e J u n i o r L i f e f r o n t h e
S t a t e s
a n d
saw
o u r s e l v e s on
th e
pages t h e r o f
which
caused us to do a
l i t t l e
l o o k i n g back
t o
th e
n i n e
years
ago when we a r r i v e d hero in A f r i c a
This
week
c a u s e s
us to
look
back oven f u r t h e r fo r i t marks twenty
y e a r s
o f m a r r i e d
l i f e a l m o s t
h a l f o f
them
b e in g s p e n t on
th e
m i s -
i o n field
_ V ern ita
James
and
I s p e n t to n
days
in
K imberley th e
f o r e
p a r t o f A ugust. I v i s i t e d Uarrenton S c h m l d t s d r i f t Cam pbell a nd
K imberley. Ha d hoped to accomplish more a t Warrenton
b u t hope
now
t h a t
t h e y w i l l r e a l l y g e t s t a r t e d w i t h th e b lo ck s
f o r
t h e i r b u i
l d i n g
They have
b e en g iv en
a v e r y
n i c e
b ig p l o t
f o r
th e c h u r c h and
a
s m a l l e r
o n e
f o r th e
m i n i s t e r s home
VJe
a r e
g l a d
t h a t
it
s h a l l
n o t be
n e e d f u l
t o
r e b u i l d
a t Caiipbell f o r t h e y h a v e
r e r o u t e d t h o
new
r o a d
so
it
d o e s n o t go
t h r o u g h
th e L o c a t i o n . The
c hu rc h s ho uld b e
p l a s t e r e d
and
t h e n s h o u l d l a s t f o r
a
v e r y
l o n g t i m e . Tho S c h m i d t s -
d r i f t b u i l d i n g
j u s t n e e d s soi 0 r e p a i r w o r k a l o n g w i t h ne w
i r o n s f o r
p a r t
o f t h e
r o o f . I n K ir b er l e y we a r c
h o p i n g
we s h a l l
s h o r t l y
h a v e
a s i t e f o r
t h e c h u r c h
w i t h i n t h e
l o c a t i o n . W h i l e
i n K i m b e r
l e y
we
w o r e
g u e s t s o f
th o
H i l l s . I t was a g o o d h ol i d ay f o r V e r n i t a
a nd sh e
f e l t much s t r o n g e r when
sh e
r e t u r n e d horae.
We a r e
h a p p y t o
s a y
t h a t sh e
h a s
c o n t i n u e d t o
grow s t r o n g e r
ll
t h e
t i m e
a n d
now
i s
a b l e t o
do m o s t
a l l
h e r w o r k a g a i n
Th o
now Sunday S c h o o l
h a s grown
o u t o f
a l l e x p e c t a t i o n s .
They sai d
there would l i k e l y be
about
60
but
l a s t
Sunday
the
nin nbor
w as n e a r 1.2IL^with...a_-g.Qjod mirnhnr n f g b n l t q p r e s e n t j e v e n -
some o f th o b l a n k e t n a t i v e s .
Even
a t G c i l i n a w h e r e vje m o o t f o r
the
second
time
in
tho
morning
we
had 4 9 v;ith pehhaps
a dozen
olde r
f o l k . T h i s a ls o b r in g s
u s
t o a n e e d l / i t h f o u r
Sunday
S ch o o ls i n
t h i s a r e a p l u s t h e c h i l d r e n a t t h e TU h o s p i t a l we w i l l
n e e d
h e l p t o
g i v e
them
a l l a little t r e a t . I t
was
n o t so d i f f i c u l t when
th e
num
b e r
was between I50 an d
20b but t h i s year
i t w i l l
c e r t a i n l y
be
d o u b l e d .
I
ai s u r e
t h e r e
a r e sor-o
c l a s s e s
o f
young
p e o p l e
who would
l i k e t o l e n d a
h a n d . T o l l
M r s . VJidlund w h a t t h e g i f t i s
f o r
wiien
you s e n t it to
h e r .
I f an y o n e s e n d s s m a l l g i f t s t h e y s h o u l d
l e a v e
t h e S t a t e s by th o
middle o f
O c t o e e r . V o would a p p r e c i a t e
a
l e t t e r
t e l l i n g
u s
w h at y ou h av e
s e n t
and
whon
so ho t o h e l p
u s w i t h
o u r
p l a n n i n g .
T h e
c o r n e r
b l o c k s h a v e
b e e n l id t
G c i l i m a a n d w o s h o u l d d o
q u i t e a b i t
t h i s
comiing S a t u r d a y . We
w orld h av e
done
b e t t e r
l a s t
week b u t t h e y
f a i l e d t o h a v e
e n o u g h
w a t e r
o n h an d
and
t h e r e wore
no
oxen t o g e t it r i g h t away
so
I c a ne
home t o
w o rk I h ad h e r o .
Tw o full
c a r l o a d s
w e n t f r o m h e r e t o Q .a u k o n i i n P o n d o l a n d
f o r
th e
two
days
mooting
t h e r e
on
th e
l 8 t h
an d
i q t h .
Once
again
it
w as a ^ ime
o f
F e l l o w s h i p .
S i n c e
t h i s
i s
a b i t o n t h e e d g e
o f
w h o r e wo
h a v e th e m o s t p e o p l e
it
was
n o t a s
l a r g e a s l a s t y e a r .
But
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f l e l i i . Two weeks ag o th e
ch\arch
a t th e new
Sunday
School gav:e u s
sorae
t o m a t o e s e g g s
s u g a r c a no s t a l k s an d one
c h i c k e n .
W hi l e
a t
school
soriiGono e n te re d th e
garden
an d took 12 cabbages four heads
o f
l e t t u c e
and some looks and onions. What a di ffe re nc e the gospol
makes.
One says I ar; happy
to
sh are some
o f
nin e w ith
you
b ut the
on e without th e gospel says what
i s
yours i s mine and I am going
to
he l p
m y self.
The
Rober t H i l l s
family o f KinoerlGy have
docidod t h a t
t h e y
w i l l r e t u r n to Araorica a t th e end o f t h i s
y e a r
f o r s i x months.
We
hope t h a t r- any w i l l make an e f f o r t to see and hoar thoi-i while they
a re t h e r e . Brethren p le a se p ray fo r us fo r we a re working
s h o r t
handed. The
M i l l s decision
to go r i g h t now and only
fo r
a s h o r t
t ime
i s so t h a t two
fsm ilio s
s h a l l not be gone a t th e
sare
time an d
we may keep t h i n g s
moving
as smoot hl y as
p o s s i b l e .
Lynn S t a n l e y l e d t h e f i r s t s e r v i c e
a t
t h e
S . A . N . T . A . TB
center
Vornlta and I
will
eo going
out this
month.
Mick Qwomesha
, j . WJ.-1-J.
o i i j - a
I L u i i u i i r j i O K > c ^ e m e
has been
helping
Lynn
with the
services
a t
the
Railway Conpound,
These a re held on Wednesday n i g h t .
Brethren
please
pray
with
us that
the Lord s
w i l l
may
bo
done. We need a minister for the Kinborloy church and another teac-
her for school. Funds
are s t i l l
needed to
carry
on our building
progra m.
Every month for the rest of
this
year we shall be journeying
some
place to v is it
some of
th e churches.
Even
so we cannot pos
s i b l y see
them or go
to a l l the
placosthat
d esire us.
Hay
the
Spirit
of
od
so
ove
within
us
all
that
it
shall
kindle a groat
rev iv al in
the
hearts
of those we seek for C h r i s t .
TTVM Tr race o f C h r i s t bo upon you a l l
FORWARDING AGENT; , .
o
>
Mrs. Ed.
Widlund / 7 / /
1605
Horley
Road
Alber t
Lea Minn, The Nicholsons
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NEWS
WITH
THE
NICHOLSONS
IN
SOUTH
AFRICA
Vol. 2, No. 10 October, I962
V
. On l a s t S-unday morning as we were re turning from
the
morning
serv ices , a monkey decided to cross
the
roadj
genertilly
you see them
s i t t ing
by
the road, or
crossing
some
distance
ahead,
but
th i s fe l
low got a la te s t a r t and I want to say
that
there Was no monkey
business in the way tha t he was moving.
e
had jus t rounded a shor t
curve and
to
keep from losing his t a i l he had no tim.e
to lose .
This
month
has been so fu l l
t ha t
sometimes we have
f e l t l ike
t ha t monkey
no
t ime fo r s i t t i n g
j us t a cons tan t
move
to keep ahead o f
what
needed
d o i n g
^
Perhaps t h i s was
a
good
month
fo r see ing the w ild
animals ,
for while I was near Port Elizabeth, I again saw severa l baboons
crossing the.road. Out in
the
open they are
much
more shy than are
th e
monkeys,
took an.eight
day
trip this
month. I^eft
homo at
h 3^
a.m. so
that
wo could bo in Idutywa
before the Magistrates
off ice closed
fo r
the lunch
hour.
That afternoon we taught the V7oman*s
Prayer Group, That
night
we
had
a
class
for the men when they had come
from work and then
after
9 O clock preached
our
eveMng sermon,
Fri-
day ca r r ied
us
on
to
East London where we met with the church
in
Dun
can Vil lage They were grea t ly
in te res ted
in the
p ic tu res th at
had
been
tak n
of Conference
a c t i v i t i e s . Please
pray fo r Tshatshaza , an
e lder
there
tha t
he
may
f ind it p ossib le to
enter the m i n i s t ry Sat
urday we hur r i ed on to Por t El i sabe th
Siinday,
wo preached in th e
new
bu i ld ing .
I t I s
a l l
f in ished except for the pluiabing and the p l a s
tering of the baptistry.
his
work
should
be
finished shortly.
he
plumber was
planning
to come and
begin
work the day I l e f t town. But
I have
an i dea
t h a t he
w i l l have
to wai t a
b i t
fo r
th e
c i ty
connec t ions
Hr is n o t
a l a rge bui ld ingy but
io otill
a very nice
one,
On
the
^
homeward l eg we stopped only once
and
t h i s was with th e church a t S tu t
t e rhe im. They
have r epa i red the mud
church,
pu t t ing in l a rge windows
and
renewing
the g rass
on
the roo f . The
community
helped them
with
th i s work. Like so many places they
have a
shor tage of school
space
and t h i s
was the
only
la rg o b u ild in g
in to which they
could expand.
Between
Stut terheim and Port Shepstone, we
made
two br i e f stops
to
pick up th ings which we wanted to
use
hero.
Each
tirae we found a
group of
people
wai t ing
to
v i s i t with
u s
even if it was only fo r
a
shor t
t ime,
I could not speak
above
a
whisper,
so could only speak
t o
t h e individu ls
Have the corners l a id
up
above the damp
course on
the church
a t Gcil ima so f a r . But they w i l l
have
to wait fo r a
little
time
more
before we got
back to
work there . They
have
most
of
the
bricks
made
which
they need
fo r
the bui ld ing . They are ra i s ing i. oney now fo r the
windows
and ce ren t
and
l ime
fo r l ay ing the blocks .
The
bu i l s ing a t
Idutywa
i s up
to
the
top
of
the
walls needing the roof
which
i s
the
thing
that
costs
them the money.
This costs
between ^1^0 and ^200,
not
so much to
us
when we t h ink
o f
our
bu i l d i ngs
but a
g r e a t
de a l
t
them
- ,
The new
Sunday
School
has
real ly
moved along. On three Sunl
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The f i r s t week o f October w i l l
be
the
Annual
Mooting o f the
ConforoncG Con i t t o e in Kinberley. A1 HaiP.ilton w i l l be leading an
Evangelist ic
Meeting
at the
Warren Street
church
during
t h i s
t ime.
Verni ta
and I g r e a t l y enjoyed
the
Sunday we took s e r v i c e s
a t
the
T3
settlement. om
one
will
be going
there
on .the second Sunday
of each
month.
Sunday School
Is
held for the children and preaching
s e r v i c e f o r t h e
o l d e r
f o l k s .
The c h i l d r e n w i l l
have
a t e n day h o l i d a y
from
school
from
the end
of
t h i s month.
They they
w i l l go
back
to
complete
t h e i r
year
in
December Steven has
completed
his t r i a l oxaiasj but does not yet
know
t h e r e s u l t s .
Help
i s st ll needed
f o r h i s r e t u rn
f a r e .
The
popula t ion o f
South A f r i c a c o n s i s t s of 5 000 000 whites
and 12 500 000 non whites .
On
the whole
o f
the A frican C ontinent
l i v e
approximately
220 000 000 people speak ing
800
dif ferent languages and
consist ing
of
many
nations
and
thousands
of
t r i b e s .
About 7
percent
l ive in
the
Republic and
South West
Africa
on 7
percent
of
the t o t a l
land area
^
Five w i l l s t a y
from t h i s tori:i
o f s c h o o l and f i v e more
have
said^that
they will be present for the next.
o far
wo have all boon
m e e t i n g around t h e t a b l e . B ut n e x t to r n w o a r e n o t s u re
what
s h a l l
bo the
b e s t thing t o do.
. Pray with us For
the
school
For men t o . t r a i n f o r the m i n i s t r y
For
a
quickening
o f
t h e
E v a n g e l i s t i c
e f f o r t s
. . among t h e c h u r c h e s . .
For
a n ot he r m i ss io n ar y t o help w ith
the
work
o f
t h e
s c h o o l .
i n I l i n
T h e
N i r r f i o l s o n s
FORWARDING AGENT:
M r s .
B d
W i d l u n d
1605 Morloy Rd.
Alber t Lea Minn.
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VOL.
VI NO 10 October. 1962 A
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Page 9
S A. C hu rc h o f
C h ri st M i ss io n
Th e work began
a t
Kimberley through
th e
p rea
ching of Thomas Kalane who
wa s
converted
in
America by
W. H
Book. A
E.
Payne th e
first
m is s ionar y
died on the field. He was f ol lo we d b y
C . B . T itu s.
From
1930- 1950
w o r k
w a s carr ied
on
by Europeans
of South
Africa an d
native lea
ders.
William
O
Rees family came
in
1949
M ax Randalls in 1950
Lynn
Stanleys in 1953
Alvin
Nicholsons
i n 1 95 3
R o be rt M i ll s
in
1955
John Kernans
in 1958
Zi m m e r m a n s
in 1960
H a m il to n s i n 1 9 6 0 a n d
Carrol l
Fulfords i n 1 9 6 0 .
H O W T H E
B IB L E H EL PS
Ho w
th e Bib le
helps
i n A f ri ca is evidenced
e ac h t im e a n A fr ic an hom e
is
visited
a s m o s t
homes
have
only tw o
books
th e
Bible an d a
hymn
book. On e of th e m i ni st e rs was taught th e book
of Philippians
in th e
Minis ter s
Training
School.
When
he
r etur ned
home
he t oo k his notes and
taught these
same
lessons to hi s people.
One
of
t h ese
w a s
a
m a n who c o u l d
n e i t h e r r e adnorwr i t e
ye t
he w as a ble to
grasp that
which wa s
being
taught him and
in
turn do excellent teaching
on th i s
b o o k to
o the r s
G O A L S
Church buildings at Warrenton an d Gcilima.
Elder
training
classes t hr ou g ho u t t he chur
ches
Youth c a m p s in th e r e s e r v e
areas
N E E D S
Service link picture
rol l s s lides o r
film-
s tr ips
P rimary Sunday
school
papers used clothing.
C H U R C H
O F C H R I S T
MI SSI ON
Al vi n an d Vemi t a Nicholson
B ox 2 1 9
P o r t
Shepstone Natal
South Afr ica
Forwarding
agent:
Mrs
H a z e l
Wi dl und
1603 Morley Rd .
A lb er t L e a M i n n eso t a