Hamilton Al Annette 1963 SouthAfrica

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SOUTH AFRTCAN CHURCH OR

CHRIST MISSION

I 1963 ) Sept. 15, -Oc

Fwd. Agent: Missionaries:

rs. Hamilton Mr, Mrs. AHa

East Hauser, Rt. 3

Box

17175, Hillbr

Missouri Johannesburg, So

Christian

Friends

While

the

weather

there

is

beginning

to

cool

down,

we

are

getting hotter

and

h

had some

much

needed rain last week

that

cooled

things down for

a while

but i t is

up there today

The

family and I are

all

doing very well. Francie had her iith birthday last w

Annette

had a little party for her with her

fi?iends

from the church. She enjoye

rself very

much and

so did Jon. Jon

is

getting along

all right

except

he

sti l l w

I t hink tlia t he

is

just lazy

The f irs t of

this

month,

the

family and I went to Kimberley and then

Bob Mills

went on to Craddock for the planning meeting for the conference

for the

native chu

year We

had a very nice

trip

and the family enjoyed

getting away

with

me

for

of

staying

a t

home.

At this

meeting at Craddock the missionaries all

met

and decided to plan a prea

here

at

the Troyeville

Church

of Christ for

December,

It

will

just

be

for a

w

but i t

^11 be

a great help to

all

of us.

The theme is

How shall they hear .

are looking forward to

this

meeting very much.

For

some

time now, I have been having a speech

class for

the ones

interes ted in

at the

Church and

right before we

went

to Kimberley ye decided to expand an

more

classes for these

young

people because we

felt

that they

needed

i t

and

som

e m

asked

for

i t So upon

our return,

we began

having 6 hours of evening class

wo

hours

a night for three nights

each

week

and

also

Uncle

Sam

we memtioned him

in

letters) is taking 10 hours of classes in the daytime besides these ni^t c

.

He

is veiy interested

and

is a very sharp student so I really

have

to dig to ke

of

him and

the others in these classes.

The Elhurch

here is supporting

b-im

in

ey are giving him

about

I O dollars a month

from

the

church

and

then inviduals are

him

also.

That

way

he

doesn't

need

to

work

at a job

bbut

can

spend

all

his

ith his studies. Rlease pray for

him

that

he

continues to do the fine job that

he

e so far This is the first time a

local

church every supported a student

mini

_-. ¥e_have 8 atudenta_

(2

men over

30,

-2 young men

in their 20'

s-and-ii-y^ung

ladie«

in the

evening

classes of the

School

of

Evangelism.

Brother Mills,

Zimmerm

I agreed

when we

met at Craddock to each offer classes in our respective areas a

upon

completion

of the required

work

we will award certificates of recognition

we will have one School of Evangelism

but

i t will be located in Capetown,

and Johannesburg. One day we hope to have someone

who

will be able to give th

time to

such

a school and have

i t

located permanently in one place but until su

time, we will just have to

do

our best to fulfill the needs of the local congregat

make

this a part of

your

prayers.

The Lord

knows

the

need and

surely

He

can

f i l l

i t

when the time

is

right

We

are happy to see the attendance at the Troyeville

Church

coming

back

up

to th

and 50's. The Lord

added

another young Chinese man Robert

Fortoen)

to the Chu

l a s t week

Annette and I have found i t necessary to buy a house. Because

of

the influx of

to

this

country, i t is nearly impossible to find a decent house to live in

And the rents are so

high

that i t

is

cheaper to

buy

and make paymentrs rath

an renting. Most of the other missionaries

have

already bought but

we

put

i t

off a

ng as

i t

seemed

best

Anyway we will

have

a permanent address even

when we

come b

^ rlough

which

is due in 1965. And if we don't have a missionary to come to li

while we^e gone

that year, we

can

rent

i t

out

without

any trouble.



S A

Vol

1 No 1

Committee

meeting to

plan

1964

conference

Ooap«l Llgb t

DIRECTORY

Hamiltons

Page

ernans

M i l ls

4

Ni cho l s o n s 5

Stanleys

Zimmermans

7

uildingProgram



HAMILT N

Johannesburg

In

conjunction with

t he Preache r and

Christian leadership training

done by

brother Mi

in

Kimberley, we

have

also

opened classes in

th e evenings fo r eight

of

ou r church members he

in Johannesburg. Four

men are

studying to become

ministers of the

church

of

Christ. Three

a

Chinese

and one

is Coloured. Two of the

men

are

in

their

20s and th e

other

two

ar e

36 and

years of age. We also have four young ladies of the church in the school which opened in Get

o b e r

One of

th e

Chinese men Sam Yung Pong) aged 36 , is

taking

a full six hours of eveni

classes and also

te n

hours a week of daytime

study,

which I teach him in

th e mornings.

Th

makes

a to tal

of

16

hours of

work for Sam, known

to

us

as

Uncle Sam , and he

i s

being

who

sponsored by the local church of Christ by being paid R30. a month to support him while

studies. Please keep Uncle Sam in your prayers

that

God

will

use him

mightily

to prea

th e Gospel here.

Of

course leaching

a 16 hour week

cuts

our

plans

to

begin

a new European

while

wor

since

we

have

already

begun a

new

Coloured work.

We

will

have to postpone our plans

f

developing the European work, and some of the

visiting

of the

local

Native African

developing the European work, and

some

of the visiting of the local Native African church

will

become impossible with the new projects

under

way.

We desperately need funds for text books or library books for the school of Evangelism

as well as

other

missionary workers fo r Johannesburg. If you

are interested

in helping ou

please write

to P.O.

ox

17175, Hillbrow, Johannesburg, South

Africa.

NEW COLOURED WORK OPENED

On

the 20lh of October,

we began holding

services

in one

the

large

new

Coloured townships in

the

Johannesburg

area.

Fi

of us from th e Troyeville church of Christ went out to Bosmo

and began

services, using

a school room as a

place of worsh

Since

we are a government approved church we have

th e

free u

o f

th e s c hoo l room

We plan to do

extensive calling

and

adve rtising of t

beginning

services

in Bosmont. Several

of the

Coloured memb

of th e

church in

town

will

be expected to move out to Bosmo

in

early

1964. We

will

need to have regular

services there

f

them as

well

as fo r new people. We hope

that

we can

t rain

Coloured preacher

fo r this

tremendous opportunity for

the

Lor

here in Johannesburg.

Forwarding agent -

Mrs A.W,

Hamilton

Sr

104

W.

Sante

Fe,

Marcel ine

Missour i



During ihr rourso ol our

visils utiiony

thn

churohos,

moot many doligliltul

Christ

ians. ami Ihoir chi ldron. Horo, at a r.h-

urch near Siutierheim, Heather, Atuie, and

Giles

make friends with a l i t t le

African.

The

i\ew Bi r th

Chr i s t i an

l i f e

re joice

to sec .

Here the congregation at Iduiywa found a

spot in the river where there was much

water, and the new convert was buried

with the Lord. Churches of Chris t

in

South

Africa

average more than 1000 bapt

isms

a

year .

is

the beginning

of th e

a

beginning

which we

a ll

KERN NS

Ea s t London

Although

Alvin

oversees

mosi

of

Ihe

building

fo r

the m ission,

.lohn is

le

arning

something

about i t .

Here

Alvin,

with minister

George

Fupi, examines

a

concrete

block made by

th e mission s blo

ck

machine

fo r

the

new

church house a t

Ta r k a s t a d .

v . -

- l.-. S

The

major

part

of th e

work

of

th e

Kernans

is

preparing Christ ian

l i t e ra tu re

part

icularly the monthly magazine SOUTH

AFRI

C N

CHRISTIAN

and

Sunday school mater ia ls

Minister

S id ne y Roj i

gives

a copy of th e

magazine to a

denominational minister

and

explains to him something of New Testam

en t

Chr i s t i an i t y .

Forwarding agent-

Mr Kenneth Pew

Box

372,

fsJr f ie ld



MILLS

Kimberley

The mulii-racial congregation of

th e

Kimb

church

o f f e r s

many

o p po rt un it ie s o f service for

w

we

are

very thankf ul

however

there is

jus t

more

one family can

adequately

manage to cope

with

with

th e

very

capable help o f our student

m inis

brother Roland Joseph. Since our day time is occu

with

th e

pri nt i ng

of

tracts

and

th e

GOSPEL

LIOIT

preparation

and mailing o f

th e

same, and t he e ve n

ar e

used

for the night study c l a sse s with Rol

ihere is

Just not enough time

fo r t he p er so na l

n

of the

congregation.

At

present

we have

only

evening o f th e

week

no t

engaged

is some way

wi

vhurch meeting

and

that

evening ha s

us ually

been

fo r c a l l i n g o f

some

sort

Each

Lord s

Day

.our

con

gation

ha s

four se p a r a t e

B i b l e

Schools s c a t t e r e

v ar i o u s

par t s

o f th e ci ty Kimberley i s

a

city

more

than 65 000 population

and is

well

on

th e

way

being

one

o f th e l a rge r inland ci t ies o f South A f r

hence

we

feel

every

jus t i f icat ion

in

requesting

prayers

that

th e

Lord

may

provide

a

family

who

wi l l

w i l l i n g

to

come

m i n i st e r

to

th e

church an d

re l iev

fo r th e increasing

work

of

printing

m aterials for th e spreading of th e

Gospel

through

postal roiitavls

and

th e

visitation

of t he N at iv e c hu rc he s

and resumption

o f c la ss es

among

PRINTING EQUIPMENT

praise the Lord for the

provision

of a brand new A.B. Dick offset

press

and much

the related p<iuipmeni necessary fo r th e publication

o f desperately

needed materials

fo r

Afr

Ke

t ru ly

t h r i l l

a t

th e nei\s

from

brother S imkins

of

th e movement in

Ghana toward

New T e s t a

Christjanily.

Ghana has been one

of th e major countries

on

ou r mailing

l i s t

fo r th e

GO

LIGHT t h e c or r esp on de n ce lessons and

t r a c t s

fo r some years. presently have about

addresses

on

our mailiiuj l i s t there.

With

t hi s equipment

we

are

now

able to flodd Af

with Gospel literature as funds ar e available for printing supplies Even with this hand

we have printed the correspoiidonce

lessons

in both Zulu and Xhosa languages and have a t

slator working on the Tswana langiiaho at the present

time.

hope to add

Afrikaans

l

aii l as

many

other languagi s

of

Africa as

possible.

have

also

reprinted most

of ou r tr

in

new

formats, using, in

most

cases

coloured inks to

dress

them up and

make

them more

in

est ing to

th e

A f r i c a n

who

l ikes

colour T h i s

month

we

are

making

a

dr ive

to

obtain

as many

t ra nsl a t i ons

of otir more easily prad»C ?d tracts as possible. This

will

include a ll

nations

in ou r mailing l i s ts Ghana

and

Nigeria included along with Kenya, Tanganyika

and Nya sa la ml . The Lord blessing this plan

wo

hope to

produce at

leas t fiv e

d ifferen t t racts

in as many

as

fifteen o r

twenty languages. At th e

present

lime ive

are limited

to five

languages.

The paper you

are

pre se nt l y

reading

is th e l a t e s t publication on ou r

own

equi pment .

RECEN T

V ISITS

Wo

h av e been thrill with

th e

fe w

visits we

h av e

been

able to work

into

o u r s c h e d u l e

of

l a te

with

our

A f r i can

b r e t h e r n .

I

have been a b l e to

go to

Hope-

Town

an d th e

Tswana

reserves with brother

S t a n l e y

while he was

visi t ing

us

r e c e n t l y an d si n c e then have

been to

th e

farms fo r

a

wedding

and

ou t

to the i r r

i g a t i o n scheme

where

we

ha d

a

most th r i l l ing

se r v i c e

with

about

f i f ty

o f th e b r o t h e r s worshiping in th e

g a r a g e

of

th e farmer s ince th ey have

no

church

h o u s e .

Forwarding agent-

M rs

M a b e l M i ll s

Box 134

West Salem

I l l ino



NI OLSONS

Port Shepstone

CHURCH BUILDING

NEEDS

South Africa

is a growing nation and with

i t s changes

come changes in th e work as well .

There was a day when i t s

ci t ies

Jus t sprang up and this was especially true of those areas

where Africans

made

the i r homes.

In

many of the smal le r c i t i e s we st find the

houses

bui l t along

narrow

s t ree t s

very close together

every ty pe of

bui lding

mater ial b ei ng u se d.

However as planning schemes have been taking place in

a l l

th e c i t i es so also

are

th e Bantu

Loc at io ns n ea r

a l l

th e

ci t ies

b ein g rep lan ned a s wel l .

In th e

early

days the churches

were

buil t

of

th e materials which were

the

eas ies t

to

acquire for

th e

area. But now as new si tes

are

given they

are

given with

th e

stipulation

that

the

buildings must be made of

permanent

materials and a plan must be

submitted

and

accepted before any

work

can

be star ted.

This we

believe

to be a good plan bu t i t has

also

placed a

strain

upon

th e

building

program of

th e

mission here. When new

si tes are

granted and

th e

papers have been signed we

are to begin on th e

buildings

within six months and

have

them

completed

within a year.

S ince the ar r iva l of Max Randall on t he m is si on f i e ld t he A fr ic an

churches

have had the i r

own building funds to which

they

have contributed and i t has great ly helped to increase thework

that ha s been done bu t i t

has not

been able to keep up with th e work which needs to be

done.

Plans

for th e

year of

1964 cal l for th e

completion of

th e work

a t Gcilima Warrenton

and

Tarkastad There are

s i tes

already given a t Kimberley and

Vryburg.

Awaiting government action

at th e present time

are

Natalspruit at Johannesburg and Douglas. At Gcilima and Warrenton we

can

almost

say

that

th e walls

are

completed

and th e

next

task

is

th e roofing and

plastering

of

th e

building.

At Tarkastad

th e

foundation is dug and

th e

church

is working on

making

blocks

for the building. First plans have been drawn fo r Natalspruit and have been approved by th e

planning engineer

of

t ha t a rea. Kimberley plans are being worked on but for

this

work of 964

we shall need

about 5000

to put

with that of

t he Afr ic an Fund and th e money which shall be

r a i sed

by the lo ca l chu rches.

Forwarding agent

Mrs

Ed.

Widlund

1603 Morley Road

Alber t

Lea Minneso



STANLEYS

Port

Shepstone

THE BIBLE

TRAINING

SCHOOL

The

iTHining

of o uilniblry lor Ih

cliurchi-s

here li:is boon a Imuj d i f f i

lill t ask .

11

uas begun

us soon

there

were

converts on

th e

f i e ld

f i r s t by Ihi- missionaries worki

personal ly

with

a few men as < arly

l J127 with

th e

calling of a

group

men

to

make up a

c lass .

Al

ieasi

o

man

o f

t ha t

first

c l a s s

i s still mi

i s ter ing

Mr

T.D . Malhi be

of

Douglas

The

ear ly school

was a

Ihret- roo

mini brick building

a t th e buck

th e (Church in Kiraberley. I t wus us

for

sevi rul

years us u i ruining

cen

er

and

then

used

as

u dwelling

t i

1951 .

In

1950-51 a

four room buildin

of

hurnetl

brick was

bu i l t

to

repla

th e original . It was c<ni.s i rni i ed in siii h a way Uiut it couiil lUisily be doiiblrnl in size.

Th

was used for

six

yours, luil before il c(]n)d be adtled to it became evident that Kiinb<>rley w

not the

best p lace

for a iriiitiing school for

Africans.

Nearly 100

different students

took som

work

there and

a l but two of ihi ac t ive ministers in 195B

whiMt

th e school was closed) h

been given some t raining in those bulidings.

Under the governmoiit s itrogrum of removing the Africans from the urban

areas i t

becam

necessary to

find

a more

suilubli? place

for th e

school.

A

p lace adjoining

the

reserves

Umzumbe,

Naiai

was

chosen

ami

approved

by

th e government.

The

f i r s t

new building was creel

in

1960

and the

school

was

reopened

in May of tha t year .

Classes have

been

he ld cont inuous

since tha t

time

and another fifty students plus many of the active ministers have been

s c h oo l

t

Umzumbe.

There are

now two teachers

a t th e school

with brother Nicholson teaching one

class

wh

he is

not

t ravel l ing

visi t ing

t he chu rche s.

A

four

room

dormitory

ha s been

buil t

and a

dinin

room-kitchen unit

is

being completed

at

present. The greatest

needs

are: a larger stude

enrollment,

another

teacher

and

pledged

funds

for

operation and

expansion.

THE CLINIC

With the help given by the

Columbiana

Ohio

church a subc l in ic was opened a t the

schoo l

in Jun e 19 62 .

I l has been a

r e a l

community

he lp . One

baby

was

born

a t th e

c l i n i c .

A woman b i t t en by a snake was

undoubtedly saved by our being able to

get t he d oc to r through th e c l i n i c . I t ha s

also

proven

an

opening

for

th e church as

a

cen te r o f community

ac t i v i t y . So

fa r

on ly

a nur se comes to th e c l i n i c .

Plans

a r e

fo r

a

doc to r

to

visit

th e

lini

once

a week

and

the

sec re ta ry

o f the l oca l

welfare

board

ha s

promised to

help. The

local

people have

been

approached in re -

guard to helping

build a cl in ic building

and

th e

nu r s e

and th e m i n is te r f ee l

t h a t

the help wil l be given.

Forwarding agent- Mrs Sybil

Evan

Route 1,

Ladoga,

Indian



Co l o u r e d

The presence

of

th e

Coloured

housing development

at

Bonte

heuwel

Capetown

is a

challenge

to

us

fo r Ch r i s t

Z MM R NS

Cape

Town

European

These ar e a group of young people

from th e Polo Road church

in

a

meeting

at

the Zimmermans home

in

Mowbray

A f r i c a n

Brother Tusha on e

of our Afr ican

min i s t e r s

wi th members

o f

t h e

Church

o f Ch ri st at George about

275 miles

from

Capetown.

Forwarding agent Mrs Ida

May

Kepler

139

Kennedy

Road

Binghamton New

York



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PROGR M

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War r en t on

Forwarding

agent

Mr

Bruce

Mil le r

Hamilton Al Annette 1963 SouthAfrica

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