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Ziden L. Nutt

Family

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Lowell, Indiana 46356

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P. 0 . BOX 392, SINOIA

RHODESIA, AFRICA

February

25,1970

Dea r

Co -Wo rk e r s ;

Greet ings in th e

name

o f

Chr i s t , Much has

happened

sino©

we—last-v/rote to-you,—and-a©—we-

dec ided -tt—wee t ime-^o

send a long

a letter

A Rock i n The

Pi l l ow

The words

dr i f t ed

from Tom s bedroom to

th e l i v i ng

room - I can t sleep. I t

fee ls

l ike there i s a rock

in

my

pillow.

Upon closer invest igat ion we

discovered

th at in sp ite

o f

no-.-pr^^uihuS - -^^^^^

o f

f ev e r o r an yth in g

much, th e

rock

was- a 7 mump on the r ight s ide . Karolyn and Lynda have not

taken-^^^heffi vas:

However,

many

children

have

been out of

School with them inc luding

Heidi

Marshal l v/ho presen t ly has

t h em .

This Saturday i s spor t s day a t the Sinoia Primary

School. Tom

is

Number 1 in his class

for running,

and

Karolyn i s

in s e v e r a l even t s as wel l f o r , h e r c l a s s .

This

all

makes schoo l l i f e qu i t e en joyab l e . Both seem to have ad jus ted

v/ell to school here.

Lynda

feels

l e f t

out,

but helps

Helen

in the ki tchen .

The ch i ld ren

have del ighted in

ge t t i ng

some

o f t h e i r f r i e nd s to a t te nd th e

youth

c lub which meets on

F rid ay n ig h ts

a t

the

European

church

bu i ld ing ,

which i s

being

rented f r om

a

local business man .

irst

ilmstrip P roduc e d

Good News Productions is now well on i t . s way,

and

th e first

f i lms t r i p i s r eady to go. It

approaches

th e

sub j e c t

o f th e B ib le

b e ing the Voice

o f

God, from th e Afr i can

background. I t

s t a r t s

from

th e

long sea rch fo r

th e s p i r i t s

t h rough

spirit mediums,

and shows how

t h a t

th e B ib le

i s

th e

Voice o f th e Grea t Sp i r i t .

This

pa r t o f

th e v/ork

in

Sino i a

wi l l

be known as

Good

News

Productions .

Working

space

is

very

limited; but,

wi th in a

yea r

we hope to bu i ld

up enough

funds to s t a r t on a

bu i l d i ng

th a t w i l l

prov ide

th e p rop e r

f a c i l i t i e s fo r an o f f i c e

and th e

making

o f f i lms t r i p s ;

and,

a l so

house

th e Good News

Books to re , which p r e sen t l y i s being p lanned .

—Affiliated With Central Africa Mission, Churches of Christ —



Witnessing to Rhodesia . February 25, 1970

The

Ford

pick-up

was

ea s i l y conver ted fo r a mobile un i t .

Thousands

of

t r ac t s

are

be ing

pr in ted ,

and

wi l l be handed

out each

t ime

we

show

f i lms t r ips .

We

showed

the

new

f i lmst r ip

to

a

small

group

of

about 300

people

l a s t

week

and were

pleased

with

the

good

response

Church ( ^owth

Dale

Marsha l l

and I have a schedu le t h a t

t ake s

each

o f us

to

a t le a s t

2

places each Lord s

Day,

and usual ly

to 5

or

6

depend

ing

on

the

^ s t a n c e . We are exci ted over th e response and conver

s ion , and remain concerned abh ut the~leadersh ipT ~

Lessons are being

prepared

by us

fo r

a comprehensive

s tu dy w ith each chu rch group

o f

men in p a rt ic u la r .

t

wi l l

have

app rox ima te ly

27

l e s sons

and wi l l

t ake

30

c l a s s

hours

wi th each

o f

some

32

groujis , p lu s s tudy and

t e s t

t imes .

Lord wi l l ing ,

we are planning

on

th i s being

worked

in to

a correspondence course as

well . I t co uld

ea s i l y be handled by th e

Bookstore clerk

when

it opens.

In

the

meantime we ane

trying to

f ind tim e b etween

preaching and ca l l ing to

wri te

the many l es sons

and

produce

th e f i lms t r i p s ,

which wi l l

broaden our

reach to the

m sses

A

V i s i o n

to Grow

Dale

has

been

working with a

white

congregation

here

in Sinoia , and it i s growing.

The

most recen t

conver t

i s th e

town j3v;eler who asked

for

help

with

a drinking problem he had.

Dale worked pa t ien t ly unt i l the man

gave

up drinking and turned

h is l i fe

over

to .Christ .

He was a

f ighter pilot- during World

War

2,~and oTi bne occasion fn

earl ier

l i fe , made

a twenty

foot boat and

sa i l ed from Aus t ra l i a

to

Capetovm.

The congregation recent ly decided they

needed

a perma

nent building in which .to

meet.

We were

th r i l l ed

t ha t

they have

t h i s

kind

of

vis ion .

. I t v/ i l l

not be

a mission

bu i l t bu i ld ing ,

but wi l l be paid

fo.r

en t i r e ly by

the

people here . Other than

Dale p reaching , and , bo th o f us giving personally,

it

wil l be the i r

pro jec t .

They

may

want

a

loan, but they

wi l l

pay

it

back

as

wel l

to who

eve r t h ey

ob t a i n one

f rom.

:

praise od

for

the way in which He is

leading.

Prob

lems

come

and go, bu t be ing on God s

s ide

makes them

to

seem

smal l .

»It looks l ike there i s no

l imi t

to the opportuni t ies . Please pray

t ha t God can make us equal to the t ask before

us.

As we

l abor

wi th you

fo r the

saving of sou l s in Rhodesia , we want to again

thank

you

so

much

fo r

your

fa i th fu lness

in prayer and support .

Thank you fo r

.making i t possible that God

can

use us

in

witnessing

to Rh o d e s i a .

Your Evangel i s t

to

Rhodes ia

•

— /-

-

f / Zlden L. Nutt and family



Volume 10

1

If you

are

seeking an interesting

and challenging place to labor for the

Lord, why not consider Salisbury,

Rhode s i a ?

Without

question,

Sal isbury is one

of the most delightful places in the

world to

live.

Its

advantages, as

se t

ort in a brochure by a local publicity

associat ion, are t remendous. In answer

to the

question,

What are the

advan

t ages t ha t Sal isbury has to

offer?

the

pamphlet states:

There is

he r

geographical

position.

The city lies in the ce nte r of th e area

STORY

Mar ch 1 97 0

known

as Central

Africa,

so

tha t it is

reasonably

accessible

to a ll par ts of this

vast area.

Salisbury is the

capital

and

chief

i nd us tr ia l c en te r

of a

powerful

economic country

with

a

vast potential

in

agriculture, industry and mining.

Salisbury s climate is her second

asset .

Though

in

the

tropics, it

is

situated

on the Mashona land plateau, five

thousand

fee t abo ve

sea

l eve l As

a

r e su l t

of this

altitude it

ha s

a

temperate

climate

with

sunny

days

and cool

nights for

seven

months

of

t he yea r-

In

summer

it is warm

with

occasional

very

ho t days, and

ye t

the

nights are cool. There

are no

extremes:

people c an work in comfort throughout the

ye a r

Number 3

With such a climate, including a

rain

fall

of over thirty inches a year, an d w it h

fertile

soils ,

Sal is bu ry h as become

a city

of

gardens

se t

of f

by

flowering trees.

It is

these,

both public

and

private, which

give

the

city distinction, beauty

and

graclous-

ness

and

arelaxed

and

res tful a tmosphere .

In

the

city

are streets

of modern shops

tempting

purchasers;

there

are

banks,

building societies, hotel s , restaurant s

and

c in emas o ff er in g

services

to those who

need them. There

ar e

government off ices

where civil servants c ar ry o ut th e adminis

tration

of

th e co un tr y

with

quiet

dignity

an d

efficiency.

(Continued on page 6



REMEMBER WHEN?

Have you

ever s topped

to realize

how much we tend to live in the

past?

The

far ther we progress along life's

pathway,

the

more we tend to look

back

and remember when .

Two

of the happiest years of our

lives were

spent

at

Mashoko

Mission

where we

helped

wi th t he medical and

evangelistic

witness in th e mrea.

Dur

ing

this

time we

truly

l e a rned to

love

the

bush

life.

Perhaps

it

was

a

combination of

the

personalities

present at the time that made the

experience

what it was for us . Certainly

some who have

fo l lowed

u s h av e n ot

shared

our

enthusiasm. Nevertheless,

Those

were the

days,

my friend, we

thought

they'd

never

end,

as the

song

go e s

Yet

today

we find ourselves in the

capital

city

of Salisbury, City slickers

by missionary standards, a role we

don' t cherish, being country bumpkins

by nature, in

spite

of the fact

that

I

was born in the city of Hazard, Ken

tucky.

You probably

won't

do

so ,

but you

might ask,

If

you

liked

Mashoko

so

much, why did you leave?

Perhaps

we

can

answer by doing a

little

remember

ing. It might also give you an

idea

why

we enjoyed

ourselves

in

spite

of a

lo t

of hard, d ir ty work.

I remember when, on the nig ht of

our

arrival

at

Mashoko, our

so n

David,

then

age

8

years, listened

to

Lester

Cooper talk

for awhile,

and then inter

rupted with, Say, I know who you

remind me of, the Beverly Hillbillies

Lester

was very polite,

even

though

he must have b ee n i ns u lt ed

He

has

never even been

to Beverly

Hills

I remember the many, many hours

spent with Dr. Pruett and the nursing

staff

in surgery and on the wards of

our 130-bed African hospital. Our mid-

morning b reak came around ten when

Lucy Pruett

brought her

husband's

breakfast

down to him. He is very

generous, so we always enjoyed sharing

h is b re ak fa st

with him.

This

triggers

o ff ano ther memory, when nurse Sara

Stere and I set an endurance record by

sharing the same

teabag

for seven days .

Each

day after dipping it into our two

cups,

we would reverently wring it out

and hang it on the f il ing cabinet to dry.

Frankly,

I must admit I don't

really

know how

one

reverently

wrings

our a

teabag. In fact, other than the two of

us , everyone else seemed rathe r d is

gusted as they

drank

their

coffee.

Page 2

I a lso remember

the

t ime

tha t

Denny

and

I took our

sons

on a whal

ing expedition after they discovered

the delight of making some of our

African

orderly's chickens

jump several

feet off the ground by shooting them in

th ei r so uth ern h em isph ere s

with

air

rifles.

Unfortunately one of the boys

s h o t a

l i t t le

fa r north and the

victim

went down instead of up

I rem em ber the chronic lack of

w ater while we

lived

a t

Mashoko.

Standing in the bathtub and bathing ou t

of a pitcher of water was

the

rule

rather than th e excep tion . Once we

even

go t

bits of a

dead l izard

out of

our

water tap. Perhaps

the

best illus

tration of

this

problem happened just

af ter

we

left t he m is si on Dr. M. E

Chitiyo, an African government doctor,

was staying at the Van Dykes overnight

in

order

to

complete oral examinations

of our

student

nurses.

That

evening

th e do ctor to ok hi s bath, and

when

Greg Van Dyke followed him

into

the

bathroom, he

shouted

with a loud cry

of anguish, Dr. Chitiyo

le t

out the

bath water I'm

sure

Marge Van Dyke

was very proud of her son.

I

remember

the f ir st r ab ie s scare

we had. This was a terrifying experi

ence, b ec au se we

had

to stand

help

lessly by and watch a young African

boy

die

with

this dread

disease.

Marietta

and

I (being expendable) took

th e

brain of the

child

to

Salisbury,

where

a

strongly

positive

report

was

given. Any dogs which were not

licensed,

were

shot

immedia tely We

have had other cases

of rabies

diag

nosed

in

animals , but

fortunately

no t

in

humans .

Severa l

of th e

miss ionar ies

have had to take th e ser ies of 14

painful abdominal

injections.

Poor

D en ise P ru et t

had

to take the

se r i e s

on two

occasions.

Dogs' best friend

1 remember the many birthday

parties

the

missionaries would throw

fo r o ne a no th er

Th i s

s o und s l i ke a

mutual admirat ion

society

until you

l ea rn

tha t

a s of ten a s no t th e e labor

ately

decorated cake

would be made of

cardboard.

Eating time

brings

to mind

th e

t ime

I da shed

in to

the

h ou se an d

eagerly poured myself a glass of

water

out of our whi te ename led pitcher.

Fortunately

I didn't drink much, for my

dear

wife declares to this day that the

bleach sh e put into the pitcher that day

was meant to

remove

te a stains,

an d

not m

1 remember the weekly

trips

1 made

down to Hippo Valley to do dentistry.

by Dr. Jerry R. mifh

Ax this time

there was

no

hospital at

Hippo and

also

no regular transporta

t io n b et we en t he re

and

Mashoko . . .

except

me.

Thus

it was that every

Monday morning

as

the sun came up,

so did

the

people,

al l wanting

a ride

to Hippo

Valley.

I would

usually leave

by the

f irs t light

of

day, and

would

groan when the shapes of more and

more

people

could be made

out

as I

peeked out the window. Once I had the

dubious

pleasure

of driving

past

a poor

old lady who

was actually

on her hands

and knees begging for a ride. Makes a

missionary feel real good. I would have

taken her

if

my

c ar h adn' t

been

full,

hone s t

1 remember

th e

t ime

a t

one o f ou r

mission

schools

where 1 preachedwhen

fifteen people came forward

at the

invitation.

I

have

since

heard

the very

t rue s ta te m en t t ha t s erm o n et te s m a ke

Christianettes,

but

perhaps

even

these

a re

be t t e r

t han t he se c ha ra ct er s we

see participating in peace r io ts all

o ve r t he

world.

I a l so remember

th e

incident

when

Dr. Pruett

was

away and a woman

brought her child who was dying

because

he had inhaled a peanut into

a lung. In spite of a

futile

trip to the

government

hospital

and a

desperate

attempt

to

recover

the nut with an

ordinary suction tube passed into the

bronchus,

the

little

fellow

died.

I

can

s t i l l remember

how w orn

out

and d is

couraged I

felt

after being up so

long

and

working so hard only to se e my

e ffo rt s f ai l. 1 was

thinking

how far

away seemed our friends and loved

ones in the

States,

and was wondering

what in the world we were do ing in

Africa,

when I heard t he hospi ta l

secretary's phonograph playing,

I' d

Rather Have Jesus. This was for me,

the

turning point in our

mission

lives,

the time I really

felt

th at this

was

where we

belonged.

We

can

cite many

other

experi

ences, volleyball

games

with the

African students,

trips

with

Doug John

son to town for groceries, and

breaking

all the

eggs, Easter services

ou t under

the big fig tree in front of the hospital

with over 400 in attendance, performing

surgery

without a

license because

there

was no one else to try, and an

unexplainable urge to help as I

could

in th e name o f Chr i s t

(Continued on page 3)

Central Africa Story



W nhinq

m tke

Giti^

by MaryJo Dunlap

The Dunlap

family

has

been living

in

th e c it y

of

Salisbury

for more

than

a

year now. Our first two

months

on the

mission

field

were spent working in the

medica l m iss io n a t Mashoko .

T he

tr e

mendous task

of

preaching the Gospel

to

the v a s t numbers o f A fr ic an s cha l

lenged

us from

the

very

first

day

we

s e t foo t

in

Rhode s i a . When

i t

be c ame

apparent that

Brenda,

our youngest

daughter,

cou ldn t r eceive her high

school education

at Mashoko, we

began

to look elsewhere for a challenging

f ie ld o f s e r v i c e .

In our search we

began

to think

about

th e

hundreds

o f

s tudents who had

been

t ra ined

in our b us h s ch oo ls

bu t

who

had

migrated to the cities in search

of further

educat ion and

better

job

opportunities.

As we

thought

of

these

we began to give serious thought to

ci ty evangel ism.

We

r ea li zed tha t

such

work would not fit in with our pre

conceived idea

of

mission l ife, but

we

al so

r ea l ized

tha t

mos t of these

ideas

were no t

t ho se

o f

the

Lord

but

we re

our own. When the Lord

said,

Go ye

t he re fo re , a nd

teach

al l nations . . .

He

certainly meant the c it ie s a s well

as the bush .

When we

yielded

to

His w ill

in

this

matter doors

opened

al l around us with

opportunities untouched, multiplied

hundreds of times by concentrated areas

of people.

We also

saw

that

most Afri

cans

who l ive in

ci t i es

have

had some

education

(some

is

even

more

dangerous

than

none,

sometimes)

but until

now

there was no missionary

available

to

guide them. We

finally

saw that our

chal lenge was in Salisbury,

the

capital

and largest city of

Rhodesia.

j -wfSH*? f

I Hp- jis,

The last year has been a difficult

one,

bu t

very

gratifying.

As a result

of our effor ts

the Lord no w

h as tw o

African congregations meeting

in the

African townships of Salisbury (Harari,

70,000

population and

Highfield,

50,000

population).

The Lord willing, we

wish

to start

a new African congregation in High

lands, where

we

live.

Many of

those

who a t tend th e above ment ioned con

gregations are our friends and neighbors

whom

Owen and David have to t rans

port every Sunday morning and Wednes

day evening to the meet ing

places.

We

are

now

facing

a

new problem

for

the

government has refused to

allow

any

more

church

meetings

in

their school

buildings.

Another group which

we

have

assisted

in

getting started

to

worship

is composed

of

the

young

students

at

Goromonzi High School

( see art ic le

in

this issue). Also,

many

hours have

been

spent working

with

the c hildren

at

Jairos Jiri School for

Handicapped

Chi ld ren .

Working with a European

(white)

congregation (which

meets

each week

in the

Dunlap

home),

conducting

vari

ous Bible studies, doing personal

cal li ng and making preparations for it

al l

makes

it a

pretty

big

job.

There

have been twenty-seven

people added

to the

Lord s

Church through baptism

since

we

have

been here

in

Salisbury,

one European

and twenty-six Africans.

All

but one of th e . Vfricans

h av e b ee n

young adults, many of whom

are

mothers

an d

f at he rs . T h es e

wi l l be

th e l eade r s

ary

Jo Ounlap with handicapped children of Jairos Jiri Association.

The children are holding up New Testaments presented to them for

learning the books therein.

Morch 1970

The Dr. Owen Uunlap family.

rom

left: Owen, Brenda, Mary Jo, Charma,

David.

of

tomorrow

and rea r th e fam il ie s o f

th e f utu re .

We

a re th ri lled

to

sa y

that

there

are

great

opportunities

in

th e

cit ies

o f

Afr i ca .

REMEMBER WHEN

(continued from page 2)

We

have st i l l

not

ans wered th e

question

why we

ar e not

s t i l l

at

Mashoko,

except to sa y

that

we

feel

this

is

where

we

belong, and

we

plan

to stay long enough to make the time

spent

in extra

education

worthwhile. I

have

been

t old many times, My,

you

ar e

brave

going

back to school at your

age. 1

didn t

really

realize

how brave

I was

until

I

tangled

with

biochemistry

after a

thirteen year

layoff.

I am

taking medical

training

here

for two

main reasons.

Firs t ,

I am

receiving f ir st hand pract ical experi

ence

with d i s e a s e s

encountered in this

part of the world such as bilharzia,

malaria,

amoebic dysentery, sleeping

sickness and leprosy. Also

we

want

to prove our good faith to

those

who

are

supporting us by

endeavoring to

work on the

field while training.

We

h ave b ee n giving oversight

to

th e

church

at

Umtali, 165 miles to th e

southeast and are presently trying

to

assist

Owen Dunlap family with a work

here in

Salisbury.

However, the credit

goes

to them for any

accomplishments

here,

for we

can only

be

helper bees.

Marietta

is

now

taking

a more

advanced

Shona

language

course and

is

also

involved in a

literacy

cou rse (she

never could read very well). In spite

of the

fact

we are

busy

here in Salis

bury,

any newcomer

to our

house

is

probably going

to be

bored with,

I

rem em ber w hen we were

at

Mashoko .

Page 3



The

Goromonzi

High

School Church of Christ Group

(Edi tor s note: This

art icle was

written

by Zindoga Bungu, a Form III

student

at Goromonzi High School.

Goromonzi is one of the si x high

schools

in Rhodesia offering Form VI work to

Africans. In order to be

accepted

a

student

must

have

a high

academic

sla jjding. Zindoga stands ninth in his

c lass

To the b el ov ed b ro th er s a n d

s i s t e r s

in

Chr i s t who are

in Amer ica Th i s

report is given to you by one of the

members of th e Church of C hrist,

a

student

at Goromonzi High School in

Rhodesia. I hope

that

by

this

report I

shall

be able to show you h ow, t hr ou gh

the grace of God, we managed to have

Church of Christ

meetings

here each

Sunday. There

has

never been

anything

like it before. I should think the g ro wt h

of this group is like

t he invisible

growth of a seed.

After we left our

respective

mission

schools for high school, some of us

did not have

anothe r

chance to meet

a ro un d the Lord s table. By the grace

of

God, Mr.

DonStoll was made

to

think

about th i s

when I

vis i ted Mashoko

M is si on during the April, May holidays

in 1969- As Mashoko is the place where

I

lived an d studied from

1964 unt i l last

year, I had gone there to

see some

be loved

fr iends

Mr.

Stol l

asked me

whether

1 had

taken

the Lord s Supper

since I left the place after completing

my

Junior Certificate.

y

answer

was

negative for I had not heard a bout any

C hu rc h of

Christ

g rou p a ny wh er e in the

proximity of my

school.

He asked me

why I had not taken the

initiative

to

a sk him abou t th e matte r a nd 1 fa i led

to a nswe r h is q ue stio n.

Brother Stol l then

told

me

to

investigate the possibilities

of

start

ing a Church of

Chr i s t

group at

G oro mo nz i. H e

to ld me t ha t he would

supply us with the essentials

necessary

for the running of the services. Since I

had never done such a thing before 1

asked

B ro th er S to ll to recommend to

me

an

a ble lea der o f

th e church who

could

help me in conversing witli the

princi

pa l

of

our school. This

he

did. He

recommended Dr. Owen Dunlap who

lives in

Highlands, Salisbury.

What a happy day the 26th of May,

1969 was. Dr. Dunlap and his son,

Dav id , came to

Goromonzi

to talk with

us

my f ri en d, Ben i and

me)

about how

we cou ld

have Church o fC h r i st s e r v i c e s

every

Sunday here at school. 1

was

the

only

one who had

seen

Dr. Dunlap

by Zindoga Bungu

Dr.

Owen

Dunlap with Zindoga ungu on right) and

ularo

Mate,

s tu de nts a t Goromonzi.

before but

he

had

forgotten

me. I

don t

know

as

to whether he

had

completely

forgotten me for 1 was a member of

one

of the most outstanding s inging t rios

at Mashoko.

The

trio was termed, t he

Swonn Brothers .

Anyway it

wasn t

hard for the doc

tor to find

us .

He parked his car out

side

ou r hos te l and sen t fo r us.

Ben i

Sambana, Mufaro Mate

and

I

(all boys

from

Mashoko

Mission) came to him.

He told us tha t he bad heard from Mr.

S to ll about

my

talks

w it h him

and

he

had come to try to persue the idea.

U nf or tu na te ly , the

principal was

no t

inhis

office on t ha t day . We

thought

of going to his house but we turned

down

th e idea

becau se

i t would be a

matter of disturbing him during hi s

r e s t t ime So th e

doc tor

told us to see

the principal about this on the follow

ing day, and

that

in the meantime he

would call him on the telephone to ask

him

a ll

about i t The doctor left us h is

*

Vi

1 1

V

David Dunlap witli ihc Goromonzi group.

address

and

postage

money

so that

we

could wr i te him and

t e l l

him th e ou t

come of our

talks

with the

principal.

On the telephone they

agreed that

w e cou ld have Church

o f Chr i s t

se rv

ices

provided that the

respective

members were known by the principal

a n d t ha t

the r e

was a r e a s onab l e number

We

a l so

wer e

told t ha t

we

would have

to

attend

the general

school service

in

addition to attending our

service.

This

service is

non-denominational.

Any

preacher

from any

denomination

can

come

and preach to the

school provided

he

schedules

beforehand

The n B en i, Mufaro an d

I, th e

first

member s

of

d ie

Goromonzi Church o f

Christ, wrote

two

notes,

one

to th e

gi rl s and the

other

to the boys, to

as k

for any

students

who were m emb er s of

th e

Church o f C h ri st o r

who

would l ike

to join us to come

and

see

the three of

us . A bout four boys and one gir l came.

We told t hem the point beh ind the

call.

We a ll agreed to have a c om mon service

unde r

th e

n am e C hu rc h

o f

Ch r i s t

Wc

also agreed

to take Dr. Dunlap as our

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page

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SERMON BY AFRICAN

STUDENT

A New

Urban

Church

in

a Changing

Env i r o nmen t

by Peter Baka

Th is is

a

se rmon tha t was

preached by Peter

Baka

at the

Chirodzo

Church

service,

one of

our two new

African congrega

tions. Pet er i s a

f ir st year

minis

terial s t u d en t from

Dadaya

Miss ion

It t e ll s s o

we l l

the s i t u a t i on

as regards

African evangelism

here in

Salisbury

an d

what is

being attempted

in

order

to spread

the

Good

News a bo ut C hrist

Text:

I

Timothy 4:11-16

I would

like

to thank my

brother,

Lazarus

Mutangi, for providing me with

this opportunity to preach to you this

morning. When he

asked

me to

preach

in his

place,

I

wondered greatly as

to

what relevant

material

I could preach

to a new congregat ion in an urban

situation. After l ong

hours

of

consid

eration,

I

resolved

to

speak

to you on

the

text I have j us t r ead.

I will often refer in my

sermon

to

thi s congregat ion

as

t he church

in

New Africa. Perhaps it is

necessary

that

I

explain at

the

outset

what

I

mean

by thi s phrase I have just

coined;

I am

here using the

term

N ew Africa

to

distinguish

between this

Africa of the

20th

century and the Afri ca prior

to the

advent of the white man,

known

then

a s T he Dark

Cont inen t

1 rea l ize

that there

can be as

many

differences

between

the two as one may want to

point out. But the

one

major

difference

I wish to s t r e s s i s th e

f a c t

t h a t in

th e

N ew

Africa,

th e Africa

in

Transi

tion, and particularly urban Africa

there

is

today

a

heterogeneous

mixture

of races and cul tu res exist ing, sup

posedly,

as

one

community. This is the

Africa undergoing a rapid

social trans

formation

It

is

significant indeed

that this

new church i s s ta rt ed in an

urban

a rea

and also at a time when the missionary

sc ramble

fo r

Africa

and

th e

miss ion

ar y i nf luence i s

on

the decline.

In

urban

;\frica today there is an ever-increasing

number of people, particularly young

people, who ar e

on

the rush

to

seek

employment in towns. These people

are flocking from the rural areas

into

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7970

the urban

areas. They

arc thus

leaving

the rural churches (where the early

missionaries concentra ted) now almost

empty.

Only

the

older

generation

has

rem ained in the ru ra l a reas

and

thus

the fu tu re

o f

the se

rura l chu r che s i s

futile. Hence we

are caugh t

up in a

situation

where we,

as

th e

church,

either follow the people, attract the

people

back to th e chu rch, or

remain

where

we are and a llo w the

church

to

perish. But I

feel

in our situation

th e f ir s t

a l te rna t ive i s th e b et te r a nd

more practicable one . And consequently

we

f ind m ost

churches have

taken a

new

concept

of their mission. The

urban

indus t r ia l c hu rc h m i ss io n i s

the

category in which you fall and you

must

therefore

understand

it s meaning

and

impl i ca t ions

from the very

beginning.

In my

message

I

will give

you

examples from contemporary observa

t ions which I t hink wil l

help

illustrate

my topic of a growing church.

The

first

one

is the growth, over a

short period of years, of one of the

African townships of Salisbury - High-

field.

This township

started

ju st a s a

small

location with very few buildings

and very l imited residential facili t ies.

It

has since

grown

rapidly. The

town

ship today ha s over 2 ,000 houses. It

ha s even grown

until

it

has

some

divisions

within

itself

—

Old

Highfield,

New

Highfield,

Egypt , Eng ineering ,

Western Commonage, Machipsa, etc.

The s econd example is tha t of

one

of

the commones t

frui t

t rees I have

observed at nearly every house here in

Harare

as elsewhere in the

townships

—

the

peach

tree.

This

tree s ta rt ed a s a

seed in the

ground;

it germinated, gave

a shoot,

th e

branches,

the

flowers

and

finally

it yielded fruit. And yet t his is

no t a l l I t s s e ed s arc a l so sown in turn

and more peach trees are grown until

it expands into a plantation. But al l

these a re mere ly off-shoots of the one

mother peach tree .

The fact

I

wish

to

emphasize here

is that of growing. You ar e still a

young church

and

therefore you ar e

bound to

grow.

I realize

the diff icul ties

facing

you in your

efforts

to grow

and

establish yourselves

as

a

church,

an

independent church. But in spite of

these

difficulties what

you

have

to

remember is the

dic tum:

Where there

is a wil l there is a way. So there is a

way for you to grow. What you need,

however, is encouragement. And it is

encouragement that is the sub ject o f

our t ex t t hi s morning.

In the Scripture passage I have

read to

you,

Timothy, to whom Paul is

writing,

is

representative

of a young,

new church. In our context the

young

church is YOU.

The

passage says

Timothy was

young, despised

and dis

couraged, but Paul built him up,

as

it were,

and

he

faced his

task

with

renewed, and c as t- ir on

determination

as well as conf idence. Apparently

Paul s letter is a reply to Timothy s

plea that the

latter

was

in

difficulty

because the people with whom he

worked despised him for hi s you th . It

is Paul s

response

to the

p lea t hat

is

significant

to us in our

situation.

Do

no t le t anyone despise your

youth,

says

Paul.

Rather, you

like

Timothy,

be an

example

for

the believers

in your

speech,

conduct, love and

faith.

Love

i s an e s s e n t i a l

c l emen t

in t h i s

connec

tion. Love

brought up the whole

idea

{Continued on

page

1

The Chirodzo Church group.

Poge

5



It s

Only a Simple

Word

Like

a mirror casting reflections,

it seems that from most

every

tribe,

tongue, and nat ion,

that simple word

springs

for th . It

is

not

always

in

sound

alone,

but in

deed

as well. I

suppose

it

springs

forth

again today because

my

thoughts are drifting back

to

the

time

our family entered Rhodesia and met a

man who

has

since passed away.

Today, in a quie t place at Dadaya

Mission

some 250

miles

away from

Sinoia, there stands

a

stone monument

over his grave with a normal inscrip

tion of name

and dales

—

plus

a s imple

word: RUDO

which means, i n an Afr ic an

tongue — LOVE. Brother Ray Knapp

loved people, and people loved him

which the epitath

well bears

out.

Through the love of God, Brother Knapp

has been enabled to go on to Heaven;

But,

the

seeds

that

were

planted

grow

on

and

on though he now be

absent

from the

flesh.

Many of us in

Rhodesia

labor in areas today through contacts

initially

made by Brother Knapp with

Afr icans w ho m oved into

these

a reas

with the

message

of

Christ.

In S ino ia th is is

t rue

a s

wel l .

Brother Knapp had journeyed with me

to

Sino ia

on

di f f e ren t occas i ons and

introduced me to

s eve ra l

Chri s t i ans

who were scattered throughout this

vast

area . Mlubi Moyo

and

Miga

Chikanda were preaching in the

area,

and

Miga would go

with

us

when

we

would make the

vis i t s .

Brothe r

B ruc e

Ammerman and 1 made

periodic

visits

also

to the Sinoia area, but

really

had

our

hands

full

at

Chidamoyo Mission

some 120

miles away .

Brother Bruce

made many long trips because of his

love for the

people.

Growth

was

apparent, but I think I can speak for

both of us, that we felt a l i tt le helpless

towards the scattered groups of strug

gling Chr is ti ans because we were so

far away.

In

June

of

1966

a

wonderful

thing

took

place. The Lord

of

Harvest

raised

up the

Dale

Marshall

family,

and also

challenged churches to send them out.

Much

progress

ha s

been

made through

them as God has effectively

used their

many abilities to bring people in con

tact with the

power

of the

Gospel.

Having

occasionally

visited the

area in the early 1960s

and

now

living

and working here full time, many great

advances fo r Chri s t can be

seen s ince

the Marshall s

coming. However,

suffice it

to say

that what

God ha s

been able to do through them is nothing

hy Ziden L. Nutt

Brother S. Silhole center doing

personal work near t Darwin.

s ho rt o f a miracle. Helen and 1 cons ide r

it a

privilege

to help in the work

here.

1

guess

it is only natural, in my

case here,

in

wanting

to

r ef lect thi s

bi t of history

and

to relate a few

personal

though ts concerning the

growth. It is truly

amazing.

Yet 1 sup

pose

it is that

beaut iful , yet

simple,

word,

love

that best describes what

ha s

taken

place. From

the love

of God

on the

cross,

to the love f il le d l if e of

men like Brother Knapp,

it

posses to

men

l ike Brother Dale who continue

untiringly in

their

l abor of love.

It is thrilling to se e throughout

many areas, fine African men like Mr.

Chikanda

whopreach

wherever they

go.

He is

presently

in the Chidamoyo

area.

There

are

many

carrying

forth the

torch

of truth, like

Brother

Sithole who

preaches

and owns

a farm in the Mount

Darwin area. We praise God for

His

love which fi l ls men l ik e B ro ther

Sithole.

He is truly one of whom

it

ca n be

sa id ,

H e

loves

His Lor d. I t

is

to

this end we

all

labor, so as to

Commit t o f ai th fu l men,

who

can

t ea ch o ther s

also.

May it be that we

can so on

move

i nt o o th er a reas o f

th e

world because of men here who carry

the

Gospel

to al l sections of

Rhodesia.

Salisbury

continued rom poge 1

Fa rt he r a fi el d

ar e

th e indus tr ia l

town

ships, pulsating

with a wide

range

of

activities, providing

a

comprehensive

range

of

goods

of

al l description. Each

of

th e ci ty s communities, government. Indus

trial an d

commercial,

makes a contribution

to

the city s

life, ensuring a balanced

development to all.

T he n th ere

a re

th e cul tura l and soc i a l

amenities.

There

is

not

a

sport

(except

ice-skating a nd s ki in g) t ha t

is no t catered

for. Sal is bu ry p rovides a sportsman s

paradise.

It s

climate makes it

so .

If there

i s

one i n t e r e s t t ha t

i s c ommo n to a ll who

live

in the

city,

whatever

their

color,

age

or

means,

it is

spor t. Cultura l

societies of

a ll k inds f lour ish. Music, theatre, s inging,

s ci en ti fi c s oc ie ti es — all have the i r

fol lowers . No

one need l ack a kindred

spirit or interest.

Salisbury has

a

fr iendly charm.

It is a

pleasant

place to visit a nd l iv e

in .

Of

course

none

o f

the

above

mentioned things, nor all of them com

bined, will serve as

an

adequate

incent ive fo r a Chri s t i an

who

is s e ek

ing a place to

labor.

However, in

addition to

al l

of these many excellent

qualities,

t he r e is a tremendous

challenge

in

Salisbury

—the

challenge

of 370,500 people, many of whom do

not

know th e

Lord

Fo r some one person out of the

estimated

75,000

people

who

wil l r ead

this

issue of

the Central Afr ica Story

this may be your Macedonian call. If

so , we trust that

your

response

will

be

like the apostle Paul s who

trusted

the

Lord

and went

where He

sent

him.

Enock

Jirrie,

African mini.sler

now

serving in Salisbury.

Cenfro/ Africa Sfory



Sermon by Peter Boko

(continued from page 5

of establishing this church. Those who started it did so

not because they had nowhere to go to worship, but out of

love

and

a desire to

share

God's Word. Faith, too,

is

another necessary factor. It gives us hope that the whole

scheme

will

succeed

if we

believe

in the power of God

and

His purpose for us.

Faith

and confidence within you will

fe rti liz e the growth of this congregat ion. Once started,

keep going

despite

the

difficulties.

After

al l

it is one of

the principles of l ife to s truggle against the difficulties in

life in an attempt to overcome them.

Although planted by a missionary, this congregation is

not by any means a

missionary's

church. It is your

church

and only in so far as you are instrumental in the service of

God. Therefore you

should

be prepared to take up the

leadership

and

management of your own

church, when the

Dunlaps leave you. Timothy worked apparently in th e hope

that Paul would be

released

from

jail

soon and would

come to help him. But Paul

never turned

up,

at

least when

Timothy was expecting

him.

Paul

had

succeeded in creat

ing

leadership

and confidence

in Timothy. I also hope the

text will inspire you in the same way .

Give your time and effort

to the reading of scr ip

tures, preaching and teaching.

As in accordance with your urban

situation,

you

don't

have to import the methods of

t eaching and

preaching as

you used to in the rural

areas.

That was a d i f f e ren t

environment altogether

and those

methods may

not

work

effectively

for your urban

situation.

But find

suitable

methods

and

also adopt those

rural

methods

only

if you

f ee l th ey wil l help you in your situation.

Do no t

neglect

the

spiritual

gift in you. The power

and

guidance

of the

Holy Spirit

are s ignif icant in your

growth. It

gives

you the

courage,

hope

and determination

in your

constructive

endeavour. So

you

seek with sincerity

and through constant

prayer

the

inspiration

of the Holy

Spirit.

Practice what you preach, in order that your

pro

gress may be seen. As a growing

church it

is

important

that you

note

that you have to be

progressive

and not

stationary.

Only in this way and by example

can

you prove

your worth and

determination

to

al l

other established

churches in the city,

and

cause

your

youth to quickly

disappear.

In conclusion Paul said to Timothy,

Keep

on doing

these

things

. . .

and

you

will

save both yourselves

and

those

who

hear

you. Al l this

is

part

of our

service

to God

and our responsibility in accordance with the Great Com

mission

of

Jesus Christ to His disciples that we do

and

preach the Gospel

to a ll nat ions .

I do hope this short

message

will inspire

and encour

age you to realize your

hopes

of

building

to even greater

heights from th is very tiny foundation.

March 1970

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Dr. and Mre. A. C. Wattero

The Anchoreie

South Fergus

Place

Klrkcaldy, Scotland

FA Mrs. Shells Nenton

Bo> 103

Mllllgen

College, Tenn.

37682

ClIIDAMOrO

Mis a oN

P O

Bo a

330

Karol, Rhodesia

Mr.

aed Mm. F tn iee Anmmmut

FA

Walter

U.

Spia tt

P O

B o a 1 13

Moberly, Missouri 6S270

MIm Madonna llurgcl OS*

FA Mr.

a i td Mr s.

Gene

Sendelur

Routo 1. Boa 120 A

Robards, Kentuchy 424S2

Mr.and Mm. David Cempbell

FAMr.and Mrs. Wallace Storey

702 East

n th

Street

Michigan City, Indiana 46360

Dr. and Mm.

Da le Fr l r ^non

OV

FA Mr.

and

Mrs. Ralph V. Murphy

8 0 4 N o rt h Sth

Street

Ml. Verhon. t l l lnon 62864

Mr. aad Mm,

iarlc>H

Kellcy OF*

FA Mr.

an d Idrs.

Bale Wllcoa

70 2 Kot tn Heo i loch P l ace

Anatielin, Cahroinla S2606

MinnPatflrln A. Ktuioey

FA Mrs. M.

C. Ande r son

2147 Penny

Lone

Napa, California

04SSB

Minn

Olo

Marliui

FA Mrs . Eugene Smith

2156 Ata le a

Drive

LealRgton, Kentuchy 40504

Dr. Kenay Munnuina 11

1908 N, Cepllol Ave . Ap t. S

Indlinapolis,

Indiana

46207

Dr. ud Mm .

Ytll lnx

Nice R

FA

Ml. an d Mrs. Ken n st h R e ei l

R.R.

2

Wslei loo, Indiana

46793

Minn

Judith

Plckett

FA Mrs. Stanley Andersen

1S21

Menio

Avenue

Napa, Calilernla 948S9

OEtVRi' :

MISSION

P.O. Boa

73

Gutu, Rhodesia

Mr. ud Mrs. I.enler Camper OF

FA Mrs. John

P u ck e t t

Central

Church

o< Christ

1211

Grandvlen Avenue

Portsmouth,

Ohio

45662

Minn

Mnrgnret

Devuiin

OF

FA

Mr. an d Mrs, Nelson Roetter

Route

1 6. Box 1 70

Indianapolis , I ndi ana 46278

Mr.

ud

Mm. Donfdaa

iohasoa

FA Mr .

an d

Mrs.

Allan Miller

2198

Moiman Road

Hamilton, Ohio 45013

Ml. u d

Mm. D sn PootKU

FA D r. and Mrs, Wililom Ely

13200 Shady Brook Lone

Route 1

DcWItt . Michigan 48820

FORT VICTORIA MISSION

M in Alice

Fi^ha c k OF

P O

Bo x

231

Ft. Victoria, Rhodesia

FA

Mr,

an d

Mrs . Elton

Fishback

R.R.

1,

Box

78

Monnoutb, Oregon 97361

Mr.

ud

Mrs. Richard Smllk

P O Box 2 4 0

Ft.

Victoria, Rhodesia

FAMr . a nd Mrs . Robert Bientllnger

757 Burchspod

Flora ,

I l l in o i s 62839

Mr.

ud

Mr*.

Thomn*

T h s n u

P.O.

Box 231

Ft. Victoiis, Rhodssla

FA

Mr.

an d

Mrs. J

R P ea r so n

Jr

1102

Texas

Danville, Illinois 61632

01

Ml. and Mrs.

Richard

Boon

1006 5oi t th

Loo

Street

Fulleiton, Callloinla

92631

Mr. u d Mrs .Tayse L. Unger OF

P O Box

122

Fort Victoria,

Rhodotla

FA Mr. and Mrs . Mor ri s Ungai

Box 244

Sullivan, IfiOlina 47682

Mr.

u d

Mm. Lesser

Vn

Dyke

B ox 4 81

Fort Victoria. Rhodaala

FAMr.and Htt. Looter L. BJoreoi

1844 S. E 39tn

Ave .

Potlland,

Oregon 97214

CtKLO

MISSION

Mr. u d Mrs. Dovld

Mtllsrd

P O Box 98 5

Ovtelo, Rhodesia

FA Mr. a n d M rs . John W. Borlo

8 65 N e vi ll e S t.

Follansbee , W. Va.

26037

Mr. u d

Mm. Johi i Valluce

P.O.

Box

76 5

Gwelo , Hhodes l o

F A M l.

Paul

Weaver

5266 Good rich

Read

Claionce, Nan York 14031

[M.

so d

Mr*.

Densia P i s ei l O F

FA

Mr.

an d Mr s. D a n Coltai

2 8 3 0H en l c r aK Ro a d

Ninsten-Sileia, Herin Carolina

27100

Mis* Martha Ral l e

FA Ml. a nd Mrs . Chaileo

WIngfleid

8 0 4 S e c on d S l ie o t

Newport. Tonnos toe

37821

Mr.

ud

Mrs. Joha

R ou

FA Ml. a nd Mrs , Konnslh

Fadloy

3042 R o it n L a ne

Dallas. Teias 75229

Mr.

sad Mrs.

Robert

RaJih

FA Ml. a nd Mrs . Rog er

Kittle

R R 2

Gloustei, Ohio 45732

Mi r a

S a r i

Steve OF

FA Mr.

a nd M rs . Paul Novel

R.R.

1, Box 538 E

Altoona, Ponsylvania 16801

Mr.

ud

Mrs . Don H. Sloll

F AM l .

and

Mrs.

A. L. Henderson

15 2

Ea s t

Drive

Cenlervllle,

Ohio 45459

NVANCTSI MISSION

P O Bo x 4

Nuenels l .

Rhodesia

Mr.

u d

Mrs. Tb i u u

Courtney

FA Mr. a nd M i s. Merle

Scnioeder

10975 Southwest Walnut

Pertlend,

Oregon 97223

SAI .ISmiKY Ml.SSION

Dr. u d Mrs.Owu Daolap

P.O. Boa H.G. 229. Hlghlaiida

Sellsbury, Rhodesia

FA Ml . and

Mis.

Moishei l

J Leggett

828 H i lde en Drive

Lexington, Kenlucky 40502

Dr.

ud

Mrs. Jerry hrnllh

P.O. Box

H.G.

341

Hrghlanda

Slllsbiiy,

Rhodesil

FA Mr.

end Mr s. Vo rnnn Moor e

Route

1

Sprlnglleld, Kentucky 40069

SINOIA MISSION

Ml. and

Mm. Dale

Marshal l

P O Box 2 0 7

Sinola, Rhodesia

FA

Mrs.

Norma

Perry

2 3 10 G r a ce Stieet

Boise I daho 83702

Mr.

ud

Mr*.

Ivu

MiHlB

R

FA Mr. Lynn TeetS

728 S, Chenyvale Road

Boulder ,

Caioiado 80302

Idi. u d

Mrs. Z i d u

i. .

Na u

P O Bd i

392

Sinola, Hhddesio

FA Zldcn and Crys tal Fern

Null

15505

Cllne Avenue

Lowell, Inolxna 46356

HIPPO

VALLKY MISSION

P.O.

Box 96

Chl rodi i, Rhodes ia

Mlu

Maty Blirreii

FA

Mr.

J a c k

M. BIIHsh

Al lan ta Chr i sl l a n Col l ege

Eas t Po in t , Georgia 30044

Dr.

ud

Mm. Dav id

C n b b s

FA Ml. E A.

Grubbj

R R 2

Glouste i, Ohio

45732

Dr. u d Mm.

Jnmcs

R.

3'an

Csrrs

FAMr.and Mrs. Richord B. Tandy

11631 VanoergriTI Road

l ivOljnapot is, Indiana

46601

Dr.

ud

Mr s. R i ib c r 8 ' a lk n r

OF

FA Mr. and

Mrs.

Ron Hackler

445

Waupe lan l De lv e , Ap t. J- l

S ta te Col lege,

Pennsylvania

16801

P O Box

117

Chiiedzl,

Rnpdosia

Mr. u d Mrs.

Jnhn Panfa e rt a n

OF

FA Mrs . Leia LusOy

Kentucky Chris tian Collego

Giayion,

Kentucky 41143

Mr. ud

Mrs. S i e v s i u P u i h e n o n

FA Mr. H ar ry R . CHI

3413

P i e dm o n t R d .

Huntlnglon. W, Virginia

MlnsMsrllys Aan Rll'harda

FA Mis . N. S.

Ogden

801 Ndilh

snoiiiidge

Rd., Apt. 0

Indianapolis, Indiana 46201

Mlu

Uardn Kay

Uiouuc

FA

Mr, and l t

WIHord

E. Lta se re

Valhalla

Apt.

11 0

6719 D ix ie Hwy.

Florence. Kenlucky

41042

HMTAI.I Mi niON

Mr.

u d Mm. Weadel l Fr e e c iu

P o st e R e s la n t e

Umiall,

Rliodesia

FA

Miss

Key

Daniel

P O Bex 1 1 12 6

Indisnepolis, Indiana 46201

M A 9 I K MISSION

P O Hashoke

Rhodesil.

Africa

Dr.

Glo ri a Cohb

FA

Mr.

Robert T Lamb

R R

1

Tlplon,

Indiana 46072

Dr. u d

Mm.

James

Fraaure

FA Mr. a nd Uri. Jerry E. Fraiure

Box 287

Waynesvlllo, Ohio 45068

Miu

Sylvia Menhloicfc

F A M i ss Wtlma Jean n e Gabriel

Box 592

Howata . Oklahoma 74048

Mlaa DaiuLhea P a rk e r O F

FA Mr.Roy Anderson

12 4 Anderson

Le P o rt o , Indiana 463 50

ZAMIIEZl MISSION

P/Bag 9

D4tl, Rhodesia

Mr.

ud

Mra. David

Fluey

FA

Mr.

Donald F Co a

1362 S . Campbell

Avenue

Springfield. MItaouil 65804

Mi. and Mis . Sisgal

Schwaitt

R R

3

Hoopa iton , l l l lno l i 60943

Mr.

u d

Mr*.

Jack

reoafagiiM

OF

FA

Mrs. Eunice S a l tn

Box 3 65

Loigo, Floilds

33541

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The Central Africa Story

published monthly

for

th e

C e n t r a l Af r ic a M i ssi on

C h u r c h e s of

C h r i s t

by

Mission

Services

P r e s s

Box

368,

Joliet, Illinois 6043 t

E dited by T h o m a s T hurman

— o —

Tr eas u r er

F r e d E .

D u n n

4613

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Akron,

Oil

44 3

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C h ai rm a n B oa rd o f

Directors

Mr. David J. Williams

B ox

7 4 7

G r ay s on , K en tu ck y

41143

R E SI GNAT I ON

Mr. T ho m as C ou rt ne y of th e

Nuantesi Mission ha s resigned

f r o m

t he C en tr al A f r i c a M i s s i o n .

Goromonzi High School

continued from page 4)

l e a d e r .

We

w r o t e

d o w n o u r n am es a nd

posted

them to the doctor.

held our first Sunday service

in

a F o r m 1 c l a s s r o o m .

T he d oc to r

a n d

his son

were

present.

We ha d commun

ion first

an d

then the Word

was preached

to us by Dr.

Dunlap.

I

lead

in

th e

singing of the hymns. We were about

si x

in

a ll , e xc lu di ng

the doctor and

D a v i d .

A f t e r

t h e

s er vi c e w as

o v e r

w e

d i s c u s s e d

o u r fu tu r e

s e r v i c e s . S u c h

things

a s the kind of hymn books, the

time of

meeting,

th e

type

of Bible

s t u d i e s w e r e c on sid er ed . T he d oc to r

lead in th e

drafting

of th e schedule.

Dr. Dunlap ha d brought with him

some

Nziyos

African song

books),

bu t

unfortunately some of us

di d

no t

know th e

hymns,

so these Nziyos

could

n o t b e

u s e d

in o u r

s e r v i c e .

H e

a s k e d

if we could us e Great Songs of the

C h u r c h b u t t h is b o o k w a s

a l s o t u r n e d

down because many of u s didn t know

the h ym ns .

Th e

one which

wa s passed

for

us e was the

one which

wa s

being

used by the school. We further

agreed

that we were going

to

have

a service

with

preaching

on one

S un da y an d

a

B ib le s tu dy

on the

next Sunday. Each

of us wa s

going

to take a turn in each

of

these, with th e

exception of

th e

g ir ls who could not preach.

I am ve ry t ha nk fu l for the kind

leadership of God throughout t he y ea r,

1969. T h e d o c to r w as with u s on almo s t

every S unday an d if he failed to come

D a v i d

c a m e .

Through

G od s l ea de rs hi p again

each one of us performed hi s or he r

duty wholeheartedly. On one of th e

Sundays we

visited

the C hi ro dz o g ro up

in Harare,

S al i sb ur y. T h is

wa s a very

nice day. were able to share our

abilities

with

the people of

this co n

gregation. The Goromonzi girls pre

sented some favorite songs, I

le d

th e

*i -

CHANGE OF EDITORS

T h u r m a n to R e s u m e P o s t

For the past two

years

th e

Central

A fr ic a S to ry ha s b ee n e di te d monthly

by Wendel l Freeman with the

help

of

h is w if e, R ut h. B e c a u se th e Fre e ma n s

will be on

furlough during 1970,

a

new

e d ito r w as s el e ct e d a t th e r e c e n t t r i

a n nu a l m e et in g

of

th e

missionaries

on

the f ie ld .

Thomas

Thurman, wh o

very

c ap ab ly e di te d

the Story

during

1965-

66, was chosen unanimously by th e

group to fill

this

post once more.

A permanent o ff ic e for the prepara

tion

of th e

Central

Africa Story is to

be se t up by Brother Thurman in Fort

V i c t o r i a .

A

h ea rt y t ha nk s

to the

Freemans

for th e many hours spent on th e Story

in

th e la s t tw o

years.

Congratulations

to B r o t h e r

T o m

a n d G o d s r i c h e s t

blessings

upon

hi m a s

he

o nc e a ga in

labours in

th e

capacity of S tor y editor.

song

service

and one of t he C h ir od z o

members

preached

to us .

Th e d oct or

hel ped us

by

paying

a

part

of

ou r bu s

f a r e .

As well known, there is usually a

leader in every group, an d so we

t ho ug ht of choosing one for o urs. Th e

o n e

w h o

w a s c h o s e n w a s Wi l fred

Mhanda, a boy in Form V.

Hi s

assistant

was Norman Nyazeme, a boy in Form

IV. Through

God s

grace they performed

t he ir d u ti es w e l l .

During

the year

18 we re

added

to

th e

g ro up , m ak in g 21 in all. Two

were

baptized into Christ. Unfortunately,

most of

th e

p eo pl e w er e

in

Form IV,

an d since many of t h es e s tu d en t s

will

no t be returning in 1970 we will have

th e task of starting over

again.

We ar e

hoping that

through

th e grace

of God

1970 will be as

great

as 1969.

9 r

European congregation which meets in Dunlap s living room.

Page 8 Central Africa Story



The Christian Mission, Vol. 14, No. 3, M arch

1970

Page

7

THE ZIDEN

NUTT FAMILY

I T S

ONLY A S IMPLE

WORD

Like a

mirro r casting r ef lec tions , i t

seems that

from most eve ry tr ibe,

tongue

and

nation,

a

simple

word

springs

forth.

It

is not

always

in

sound alone, but

in deed as

well.

I

suppose it

springs forth

again

today

because my thoughts are drif ting back to the

t ime our

family

entered Rhodesia and met

a

man

who has s in ce

passed

away.

Today in

a

quie t p la ce a t Dadaya Mission,

some 250

miles

away from

Sinoia,

there

stands

a

stone

monument

over his grave with

a normal

inscription of name

and

dates, plus

as imple

word Rudo which means love.

Bro. Ray

Knapp

loved people, and people

loved

him. The

seeds

he planted grow on

and on

though

he is now absent

from the

flesh.

Many of

us

in Rhodesia labor in

areas

today

through contacts

initially made by

Bro.

Knapp.

In

Sinoia

this is

true. Bro. Knapp had

journeyed with

me

to Sinoia on

different oc

c a s i o n s and i n t roduced

m e to s e ve r al C h r is

tians who were

scattered

throughout this

vast area. Mlubi Moyo

and Miga Chikanda

were preaching in

the

area,

and Miga

would

go

with us when

we

would make

the

visi ts .

Bruce Ammerman

and

I

made per iodic visits

to the Sinoia area, but we really had our

hands

full

at

Chidamoyo

Mission

some

120

miles

away.

Bruce made

many long

trips

because of his love for the people. Growth

was

apparent,

bu t

we

felt a little

helpless

toward

the

scattered

groups of struggling

Christians because

we

were

so

fa r

away.

In

June of

1966 a

wonderful thing

took

place.

The

Lord

of

Harvest

raised

up the

Dale

Marshall family,

and also

challenged

churches

to send

them out.

Much

progress

has

been

made

through them

as God has ef

fectively used their many

abilities

to bring

people

in

contact with

th e

power of

the

Gos

pel . What God

has

been

able

to do

through

them is nothing short

of

a miracle.

Helen

and

I consider i t a privilege to now

be liv

ing and

working

here with

them

full

time.

I

guess

it is only natural, in my

case,

in wanting to

reflect this

bit

of history

and

to relate a few personal thoughts concerning

the

growth. It is amazing Yet

I

suppose

it is that beautiful, simple word

love

that

best describes what has taken pice. From

th e love

of

God on th e

cross,

to the love

filled life

of

men like Bro. Knapp, to men

like

Bro.

Dale who

continues untiringly

in a

labor of love, in to the hands of fa ith fu l men.

It is

thrilling

to

see,

throughout many

areas , fine

African

men l ike

Mr.

Chikanda

who preach

wherever

they

go.

He is pre

sently

in

th e Chidamoyo area. There are

many carrying

forth

the

torch of truth, like

Bro. Sithole who preaches and own s a farm

in

th e Mount Darwin area. We praise God

fo r H is lo ve w h ic h f i l ls m en like Bro . Sithole .

He is truly

one

of

whom i t

can

be

said, He

l oves h is Lord . I t is to th i s

end

we a l l

labor; to Commit

thou

to faithful men, who

can teach others also. May i t be

that

we

can soon

move

into o t he r

a r e a s

o f th e w o rl d

because of men here

who

carry the

Gospel

to a l l

sec t ions

o f Rhodes ia .

Back Home Again

The

dus t was rol li ng behind as

we

ambled

along in the big

four-wheel drive

unit toward

bush country

near

the outpost of

Mt.

Darwin.

The

heavy

duty

springs

made us

bounce

a bit

mo r e .

T he h ot

coca co l a s we

d r ank

a few

minutes before seemed to expand right in

side

us.

But wi th the

cost

of

a king s ize cola

only

s ix cents ,

who

should

complain?

A ll

of

a s ud de n t he f ront

wheel s

d idn t

seem to

respond

to the

Nutt

behind the wheel,

Oh

well,

we got

stopped

and soon had

located

some

wire with

which we tied things together.

We crept along at about fifteen miles per

hour

Things held together

until

we

got

to the main

r oa d wh er e

we contac ted

Linda

and

Helen.

They brought us another

vehicle

so we could

carry on the

journey.

We filled up the gas t ank for 87 ^ a gallon

and

were

on

our

way again. A s igh of

relief

c ame

a s we

r eached ou r

des t ina t ion . Dale

Marshall, two

African

evangelists and myself

were

now

in

fo r some

good

old

hospitality.

We

were given tea, and more tea, and la ter

served the national dish

of

sadza a

corn

meal

mixture)

served

with

pork. After

singing

around a

lovely

campfire

under the

starlit sky,

we we re u sh er ed to a ro om th at had been e s

pecially prepared for

us.

The door

of

corn

sta lks w as shut behind

us .

With no w in dows

in the pole and mud hut with it 's grass

roof,

i t was no t too well

ventilated.

I had

slept

in

many

such huts

in years gone by,

bu t

not re

cently as

we

were

in the U. S. on furlough,

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next

page)



Page

8

The

Christian

Mission,

Vol. 14,

No 3, March 197

(continued

from

previous

page)

The hut was dark, which is

ideal

for s leep

ing, so

we couldn t see. However, another

s e n s e

t o o k

o v e r a n d

i n a

f r a c t i o n

o f a m i n u t e

we

knew

that spec ial

effort

had been made

very

r ecent ly to

prepare

the

house.

We

did

n t

n e e d a c a nd le t o know

t h a t c o w

m a n u r e

(which

actually makes an excel lent f loor con

ditioner)

had been

used.

We rested

well,

and i n the morning

were awakened

as

tea

w a s

s e r v e d

Things had been in

such

a whirl

during

t h e

t i m e

i n

th e S t a t e s and a l s o

i n

t h e f i r s t

days back in Rhodesia ,

that I hadn t mentally

made th e move. However,

lying

on

my camp

stretcher

a few

inches above t he wel l pre

pared

floor, I came

to realize

fully

that

truly

I was b ack

home

again.

How

nice

i t is

to

find

work

going

well,

and

a l s o to find o u t t ha t i nc o m e

t a x

h a s b e e n

reduced in Rhodesia. Of course, we enjoyed

going to the butchery and buying beefsteak

for

about 65 ^ a pound One oould go on and

on,

bu t perhaps this account

relates

a little

o f t h e d if fe re n ce i n t h e d o m e st ic l if e h e r e

It

is

good

to

be in Rhodesia once aga in .

We h a v e m a d e o u r

home t iBre

s i n c e 1961.

We

a r e

t h a n k f u l

f o r a l l who s u s t a i n

u s b o t h

physically and

spiritually.

May God be

glorified wherever we are, and may

a

boimtiful

harvest

be

had

fo r His

granary.

Z i d e n and H e l e n

N u t t

B o x

3 9 2

Sinoia, Rhodesia, Africa

Forwarding Agent:

Mrs.

Crystal Nutt

B o x

1 6 4

Lowel l, I nd iana 46356



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L.

Nutt Family

R.

R.

2,

Box 164

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Forwarding

Address:

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LOWELL, INDIANA 46356

June ,

1970

Field Address:

P.

0.

BOX 392, SINOIA

RHODESIA, AFRICA

Dea r

Christian Friends

Greet ings in the name

of

Chr i s t . It w.as_a__ t e r r i b l e mistake

to make bu t it ended up

in

l augh te r . Going 26

miles

out from

Sino ia on a grave l road you would come to the Snyman home. Due

to th e

d i s t ance ,

they don t ge t in to eve ry s e rv i ce . However

a couple o f weeks ago t h ey were he re , and fo l lowing

se rv ice s

th e

conversat ion

s tar ted

l ike

th i s :

I t

cer ta in ly

was

wonderful

tha t

you

could be

here

fo r se rv ic es t oday . It s a shame it

happens

so. often. With only enough time lapse for an odd look from

Helen

Brother Snyman burs t ou t la ug hin g. His l augh te r ,

and

the

ho t

sun

o f

Rhodesia

kep t

my

face

from

l ook ing

qu i t e

so

r ed .

I

don t

t h ink I v e

made

such

a

vocabulary

mistake s ince in a message

as

a

s tuden t min i s t e r

v/hen I

r e f e r r ed to

a

matu rn l t y ward as

a

B.C .- Ward r a t h e r than an O.B. Ward.

Anyway

being re sp on sib le f or th e

European

work i s i n t e r e s t i ng ,

and a t t endance is ho ld ing up we l l . The Marsha l l f ami ly l e f t on

the

24th

of April for

a-9

month furlough which leaves us re

spons ib le fo r every th ing , a t l e a s t un t i l the Ivan

Mar t in

fami ly

a r r i v e s

in

ano ther

few weeks Lord

wi l l i ng . During

t h i s t ime we

are

t ry ing

to

pinch

pennies

so

as to

bui ld

up

enough

fo r

housing

{ rather than renting and also provide

fac i l i t ies

for making

f i lms t r i p s

in the A frica n language and

cu l t u r e .

We have one now

complete

and

i t

is

being

received

very

v;ell;

but

we

are

rea l ly

handicapped

by

lack o f space

and

t ime .

During

March

Helen

and 1 spen t

t ime in fu r th e r l anguage

s tudy ; Tommy

spen t t ime

in th e ho sp i t a l

and

i s now

doing

be t t e r

than

he

has

fo r a long t ime , and we a re

p le a sed w ith h i s p rog r e s s .

Thanks to a l l who sent cards and help during t ha t

t ime.

Lynda

spen t the month in an assessment c en t r e , and

Karolyn

s tay ed w ith

th e

Marsha l l s in S ino i a .

We

came ou t on

weekends to keep up

the

p re a ch in g s ch ed ule , and ca t ch up what we

cou ld .

New

Filmstrips

Ava i l a b l e

1 v/anted

to

mention

again

that

a

new

filmsj^^f^p

is

on hand

a t Miss ion

S e rv ic e s , a l so

a t

ou r

fo rward ing

agen t s . It i s

ent i t l ed , They

tha t were

scat tered abroad .

I t

is quite

inform

a t i v e concerning t h i s

area

and we

hope

y o u l l be b le ssed by it

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Witnessing to Rhodesia Page. 2 June, 1970

A

16 mm

fi lm

in

color

and sound

i s also

available through

our

for

warding

agents ,

on

a

l imi ted

bas i s .

I t

i s

along

the

same l ines

as

th e f i lms t r i p .

Gu t a

Ra J e h o v a h

continue

to

be amazed at

the

many opportunities. Though

we have entered many open doors, more keep

opening.

An

imusual

one recerrtl .y opened. I was

appraarrhed

~by- a delegatiiDn

from-

Guta Ra Jehovah (City

of God

which is about 25 miles from here.

They

wanted to

see

the

bioscope (Filmstrip)

we

produced, a t the i r

city for their next meeting. At Resurrection

Day

weekend they

had 1,983

of

their

members

present.

They

also

wanted

me

to

ass is t

them in drawing plans for their new temple. The group is

African

and has

qui te

a

se t

up. Since the Church

of

Chris t i s not ru led

by any earthly

body,

we feel

that

there

i s a strong appeal to

th is body

of indigenous people who don t

want

a white

western

church. Pray

for

this opportunity, and for God

to grant wisdom

as we present

the pure and

simple

message contained

in

God s

Word.

J ^^ve r dreamed tha t the f i lmstr ip and mobile uni t would have

such

.

piritualGrowth

One of the

32 churches we work

with now

feel

they

are also

ready for

an eldership. They are now reviewing the scriptures

on

the

eldership j just before

elect ion. This

is the* thing we viWant

-—to-see i n - a l l

groups,

so

that-we

can ~de

vote

moT^ tm e • to new area~s . ^

First,

w feel, the present groups ought to be more stable. They

are

reaching

out

as

well, for

which we are aiming

also. are

wanting to reach ,the masses as soon as

possible,

and presently

have a

ful l schedule of

showing bioscope

in surrounding areas

as

well as

in.a new

area called Copperqueen,. about 100 miles miles

away

Your wil l ingness to .

help

in

gaining

Africa

fo r C hrist i s

a

g rea t

encouragement,

and

we

p ray

t h a t

God

wi l l . eve r

be

g lo r i f i ed

by

our

e f fo r t s with you

to

accomplish t ha t t a sk . The program t ha t

we a re i n

has

it s demands, bu t th e

r e s u l t s

a re

rnarvelous

and we

are c on fid en t t h a t God wi l l cont inue

to

use you

and

us in

t h i s

minis t ry to

the

saving of souls . Once

again,

thank you fo r making

our

wi tness

to C hris t p os s ib le here

in

Rhodesia .

Your

Co-Worker,

Z i d e n L . Nu t t



The Ziden L. Nutt Family

R. R. 2 Box 164

Lowell Indiana

46356

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L.

NUTT Family

Forwarding

Address:

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LOWELL INDIANA 46356

J u l y

16,

1970

Field Address:

P. 0. BOX 392 SINOIA

RHODESIA AFRICA

-Gree-tlngs i lr -om—Ehode-sia- . Only—a_£eiix men—hane-.-lDaked-.-at—a,—RhinoaerDS.

from t h e

ground

up, and l i v e d . One

who

d i d g i v e s

h i s

t e s t i m o n y t h a t

s i n

i s l i k e a Rhino - t e n a c i o u s and

powerfu l .

We have seen l i o n s s e v e r a l

t i m e s

i n t h e w il d and a r e

c o n s t a n t l y aware

o f

t h e w a r n i n g

g i v e n b y

P e t e r

as well,

tha t the

devi l , your

adversary,

i s l ike

a

roaring

l ion, v/alking

about, seeking whom he

may

devour.

Sin

can c e r t a i n l y

come

into the midst

o f

mankind

w i t h

a p o w e r f u l charge as a r h i n o

or

as c u n n i n g l y as a

l i o n

t o

become King i n

the jungle

o f

s i n ;

b u t we give

p r a i s e

t o God who

can

s e t

t h e

c a p t i v e f r e e r e g a r d l e s s

o f c o l o u r

c r e e d o r

c o n d i t i o n .

And The

Lord Added

•

Many

c o n t i n u e

t o a c c e p t C h r i s t

and

r e c e n t l y two

have been

added

t o

th e church

among

th e w hi te p eo ple as v;ello

J u s t

t h i s p a s t L o r d s Day

t h e one

gave

h e r s e l f

t o

C h r i s t and

h a s

s t a r t e d th e day by

day

p r o c e s s

o f overcoming t h e p o w e r f u l hold o f a l c o h o l i n h e r l i f e .

The

o t h e r was

s t e e p e d i n d e n o m i n a t i o n a l

background

and decided t o t a k e t h e B i b l e

as

t h e

o n l y g u i d e i n h e r life.

. I v a n

M a r t i n

F a m i ly . A r r iv e S a f e l y

S e v e r a l s p e c i a l p r e a c h i n g s e s s i o n s have

been

h e l d r e c e n t l y among t h e

A

f r i c a n p e o p l e and

we

have e n j o y e d t h e

f e ll o w sh ip o f

o t h e r s who have

come t o h e l p . During t h e p a s t

month we ve handed ou t

about

3500

t r a c t s

.at

the three

places

we ve shown

the

new f i lmstr ip -

Baiberi

Muromo

VVaMwari

(The

Bible

i s the Voice of

God), Time i s a major problem i n

more

p r o d u c t i o n s ;

Hov/ever, we were t h r i l l e d

as

a

j e t

a i r l i n e r

l a n d e d

i n S a l i s b u r y

on the 27th o f June w i t h

I v a n

and Joann Mart in

w i t h t h e i r

two

c h i l d r e n .

A l r e a d y t h e y a r e i n vo lv ed i n

t h e work

i n a r e a l w o n d e r f u l

way. It d o e s n t

mean

t h a t t h e r e

i s

anymore t i m e b u t t h a t

we a r e a b l e

t o

d e v o t e

t i m e

t o o p p o r t u n it i e s

w h i c h

a r e

p r e s s i n g

w h i c h

we

o t h e r w i s e

couldn

t .

a n d s e e m

• M a r s h a l ls

The Mar t ins

a r e

p r e s e n t l y l i v i n g where t h e M a r s h a l l s

d i d

t o be a d j u s t i n g v e r y w e l l

i n

t h e i r new home

o f

Rhodesia^

a r e e x p e c te d back e a r l y

i n 1971,

Lord w i l l i n g .

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Witnessing to

Rhodesia

Page 2

July

16,1970

We

are happy to be used

of

God among the

people here,

that more

nations and

tongues

would know

the

power

of

God, and the fellowship

in Jesus

Christ .

Many problems

face

us in accomplishing th i s

taskj

but

the power of God through you

and

us can

do

it as we give

ourselves

to Him. Not

only

do

we

fee l indebted

to

the world

for the

message v e

possess ,

but

to

the

many

of

you

who

sacr i f ice .

to

make

t h i s

minis t ry

poss ib le . Thank you

so

much fo r your

fa i thfu lness in

prayers and

f in anc ia l a s si st ance.

May God r ich ly

bless

His

Church

through each of

u s as we l abour t oge the r in

s pre ad in g th e Good

News.

Your Evangel i s t to Rhodesia ,

Ziden Nut t and Family

Prom

th e

desk

o f

th e

fo rw a rd in g a ge nt

I f

you are

moving, would

you please send

us your

change of

address??

Since the

l a s t

newsle t te r was mailed , we have had 36 re turned to us a t a

cos t

o f

10

cen t s each .

Help

us save t h i s

cos t

to r each

the l o s t .

Thanks.

utt s

News

No t e s

The fo llowin g are

excerpts t aken

from

pe rsona l l e t t e r s t ha t

Helen

has

r ecen t l y

wr i t t e n

;

e had a

fu l l

house at

church this

morning.

We

have

been very

pleased v/ith

the

attendance

at the

European service on Sunday morning.

With

a

lo t

of

time

we

are sure the

work

would

grow.

After

we

had

taken

the th i rd car load of chi ldren

home and

were on

our

way home, Ziden said

we

should have asked

the lady who was

recen t ly

bapt ized

to

come home with

us for

dinner

because her

husband

was gone. She did come and stayed

most

J3f th e a fte rnoon. Her

husband

came about 3tX)0 and

had coffee,

then we

made a

quick ca l l

on the lady Ziden has

been

working with, a

ca l l

on

an

elderly lady and her son who l ive across from the church, a cal l on one of

the ladies of

the church, who has had the

flu for about

a weekj got a

quick

bi te

of supper and went to

church

a t 7;00.

So

it

was a

busy, but

we f e l t p ro f i t ab l e day. .

Having gone in. early on Tuesday to get the Martins, we took them over,

to Marshall s house. Then on

fednesday, we

took

them around Sinoia in the

afternoon;

they

had supper

with

us and

then we

a l l

went

to

Bible

Study.

Thursday evening we a l l went with Ziden out to one of the farms for

bioscope.

The people who own

the

farm asked us a ll up for coffee after

ward,

which

was very nice of them; so we visi ted a while before we came

home. Karolyn found

out

that

i t

was

the

farm

of the l i t t le

gir l

who

recently

moved

next to

her at school: they have big desks, which two of

them share, and Patricia Williamson had just moved by Karolyn.

We

had

to laugh at her as we were coming back when she

said,

I t

is

really nice

to go to a foreign farm and

find

one of

your

fr iends there .

Wednesday morning

the lady

Ziden has been working

with

called about

6 a.m.^ She was terribly depressed so he went to

see

her,

then

took me

back

with him about mid-morning. Saturday, her

African

housft-glT l

called

Ziden

and^-saXd

she

was

yery

sick;

he.

cal led

the

doctor

who

said

he would

put

her

in the

hospi ta l but tha t

there had been a bad car

accident

and

things were in a

turmoil

at the hospital. 1 Vhile he was

gone, Ziden

had a

ca l l

from

the

hospi ta l :

one of the .

ladies

in

the

wreck (from

South

Africa)

wanted a minister. This

elderly

woman s husband had

been killed

immediately and while Ziden was

there

her daughter died. Apparently the

woman isn t too. bad off, but

they

haven t

told her about the daughter yet.

which^makes

i t hard

for

Ziden

when

he goes to see her.

Then in the.

meantime, the woman he had the wedding for a couple of months ago had coh-

tacted

him, so he had gone there;

also

in the. meantime,

they put

this

other

woman in the

hospital . When

we

went to

see

her

yesterday,

she seemed like

a

different

person.

Maybe we

will

be able to win her to Christ. (They did)

Michael has been here

this

afternoon with

his

l i t t le

boy David, and

Lynda has really had a good time playing with him. She has been

lazy

and

set^Him to push

her on her tr icycle. I must

say

that she

is

doing better

riding i t though. With Love, Helen, Ziden and Children



The

Ziden

L.

Nutt Family

R. R. 2,

Box 164

Lowell Indiana

46356

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Family

PcM warding Address:

R. R. 1, BOX 164

LOWELL, INDIANA 46356

Field Address :

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392,

SINOIA

RHODESIA, AFRICA

29

September ,1970

Drunken

e l ephan t s

have

now

sobe red up; and, wi l l

be

going

s t r a i gh t

fo r

ano the r

year

u n t i l

th e

maru la t r e e s produce t h e i r annua l

ihtoxi c

Flooms

and f ru i t once aga in . 1 suppose

t h i s

to be

i n s i gn i f i c an t

excep t

fo r

th e f a c t th a t ju s t

befo re it

a l l s t a r t e d , I

had begun

a

l e t t e r

to you and d id n t f in is h .

That

was

two

months

ago, and much

has happened

dur ing t h a t

t ime , which

we want to sh are w ith

you

who

make it

pos s i b l e .

W i ll It

Ev e r Ge t

1 /Vr i t t en?

Fol lowing t h ree weeks o f

t o t a l involvement

I

had s e t

as i de l a s t

n ig h t to wr i t e

to

you.

However ,

t h r e e

fo lk

we ve

been

working

wi th

came

by

to

ask more

about

bap t i sm.

Af te r

some hours o f d i scuss ion ,

it

was

dec ided

t h a t t hey were r eady .

It

was a

r e a l

jo y to

see

t h e se

fo lk t u rn

comple te ly to Chr i s t . This now makes 9 bap t i sms and

f ive

t r an s f e r s

among the white v;ork here

in Sinoia

during the pas t four months. Any

way, t on igh t i s a r e a l

t ime of

re jo i c ing as we

have once

aga in

made

oppo rtuni ty to

send

g reeting s to you in

the name of

Chris t .

A Con f e r e n c e

Of

Christians

Over one thousnad Chr is t ians gathered a t Mashoko Mission from

all over Rhodes ia

fo r

the Bi-Annual

Conference.

It

was

a

g rea t

t ime o f

fel lowship

and

study

together

in the

name

of Chris t . i e

had

be en in

v i t ed

to show the new

f i lms t r i p

and to preach. All comments

from

church

l e ade r s were

excep t iona l ly

favorab le

concerning

th e

f i lms t r i p , .

W e ll

neve r answer all th e r e q u e s t s to

b r i ng

th e

mobi l e u n i t

to

the many areas

to

help w ith

t h i s type

o f

impact

in reach ing

th e

masses . It

seems

impera t ive t h a t we s e t up ano ther un i t

as

soon .

as funds a re ava i l a b l e . We ve been

r each ing

t housands with

th e

message

o f Ligh t , and

have

d i s t r i bu t ed t housands o f t r a c t s to he lp them in

t h e i r s tu dy o f

th e

Bib l e .

Las t week we helped

in

evange l i s t i c meet ings a t Chi redz i

under

th e le ad ers hip

o f

Sherman

Pemberton.

In t h r ee n igh t s ws shovvred f i lm -

s t r i p s ,

preached

t o

ove r

2200

f o l k ,

and d i s t r i b u t e d

o ve r 11 ,0 00

t r a c t s .

25 rd Na t i o n a l Mi s s i o n a r y Conv e n t i o n

Lord Vi/hat Vt/ill You

Have

Me To Do

i s

th e theme o f the

23rd

National

Missionary

Convention

v/hich

wil l be meeting Thanksgiving Week

in

Champaign - Urbana,

111.

The

date

-

November 24

-

27,

1970

—

Affiliated

With * Central

Africa Mission, Churches

of

Christ

—



-Witnessing to Rhodesia Page 2. 29 September. 1970

L e t s Go To Camp

Packed in our popular Pord Pick-up, and

the

l i t t l e

Fiat,

we

were

off to camp

at lake Mclllwaine. Eighteen campers, our family and

Ivan Martin were

in

for a great week. I t had been organized with some

of

the non-instrumental

brethern

from Salisbury; and, what a week: 87

Campers

raging (no,

that's

not

right-

i t s

ranging)

in

ages

from

third

Jâde through

High

School; 3 men

faculty and

4 women plus a Cook*

^ i s

was another step forward in

fellowship,

as well as planting precious

Seed

i n t h e l i v e s o f t h e

Youth.

News

A b o u t

Lynda

o. ^ While I was in Chiredzi, Karolyn and I homas were

in

school

at Sinoia and staying with the Martins. Helen, was..taking. Lynda to.-

ive different doctors in Bulawayo. The conclusion

was that

eye

surgery v/as

worth

a

try.

As soon as we can arrange i t Lynda, now

43 years

old,

will be

admitted

to the

hospital for

about a week

I

several

weeks

of

rehabiI tat ion.

Please pray

that

God

will

cause

all

things to

work

together

for

good.

We

do

love

im and are so thankful

that

by His grace

and

your

generosity we

can

iiv

witness among the black and white; but, at times

ike this we feel a keen need for your prayers.

^

prayers

are also needed for one of the ones recently

Physicallv

We

sMn

? eS mentally

and

nysicaiiy . VVe_..§iill̂ _fa.ce. .. . th e p roblem of po-prnffnent ,1nrntlnn flr>H

been''afLd to your prayers and^^^SW^.- We ve

M \ consider

several possibi l i t ies of location

aftp-p th-a

Sa'a? an'^^St

f^Vl

are Lt wanWng to leate

1, but this may

be

selfish. Several major areas are in

desperate need

of

even one family, so

i t

has been suggested

that

we

could

base

our Good News

Production

Center in

one

of these areas

and at the same time give... guidance and help

to

the work. Please

/concerning

these

things. .3q

many opportunities are

open,

ând •

your prayers and much\ne.eded f inancial support, -

that we

might

be used of

God in

some of

.them at

least.

May

God-, richly

bless you in His

service,

as we labor with you to the :saving of s.ouls.

Your C h r i s t i a n

F r i e n d s .

Z i d e n

a n d H e l e n

From,

th e

Forwarding Agent

so thankful for the

many who notified

us of

their

change

of -address ,during the past few

weeks

and would like to encourage others

to

do Ixkewise i f you are moving in

the

near

future.

May God bless each

one of you for your wonderful cooperation.

E x c e r p t s

From H e l e n s L e t t e r

•

We.

followed a lion and

lioness

into the grass tryarfigto get a

picture. Ziden opened the door of the

Fnr-d and

on tL

4 ^ the JJLon charged<^SCm. He roared

u t like the ones

in

the movies. Really

gave~QSr^^^^^â TT*iffht

as Zidnn

scrambled in

and shut the door.

She did^tây rTSJ^^TJfcLre)

timo Sunday afternoon and came back Monday

in

ime to pick up Ivan and go to Salisbury for

a.Camp

Meeting. Ziden got

Th®® d?a

holder

up in

the

hospital ahd

took

some pictures

of

hem.

They didn t

turn out well

as

the brass plates caused

a glare

8

t o 16 afternoon.

Ages

o 16, I believe. Makes

quite

an age range for everything*

especiallv

sports,

of which

Ziden

is in charge. >ids have it elsf-

No d^sSr

Jo^

Afr?onr,

7®

African

fellows for

this

as

well

as

a

cook

and

an

frican

woman

to help.

One

of

the

ladies

from

Salisbury is in

charge

of

cooking and I help her.

Ziden

is using his

generator

fbr films each e f-

ning

and

strung up

some

lights which really helps..

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