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SOUTH
AFRICA CHUIiCH
OF
CHRIST
H a m i l t o n News etter
Fwd. Agent June, I961 Albert
Annette
Mrs. A. V/. Hamilton
Sr.
P. C. Box 50
Marceline , Missour i
Kimberley,
S. A.
U . S A ,
Dear
C o - l a b o r e r s i n
C h r i s t ;
CO
o
Although this is our June
let ter ,
today is
the
lM:h.oT'JUly;
hope that each of you enjoy the short holidays therej5
The Sa.ut__
African fourth of July
comes on
Oct.
10
and i s called G uy Faulks
day,
which
corresponds
with
the
American Holloween
asd
Li-thi.hfXra
c o m b i n e d .
The
entire
Bionth
of
June was
fi l led- .with preparation and ^ar rying.
out
of the Revival
and
D.V.B.S, here in
Kiriiberley, The church
at
V/arren
St.
had
printed
and
delivered over I|.0
large
posters
and
1,000
hand
b i l l s
advert is ing the revival meeting
which ran
from the
11th
to
the 2^rd , On the
12th
we began the V.B.S. . Annette was the d i r e c t o r
t h i s
year
and
Bob
and
Phyl l i s M il ls
and
I
taught
classes,
VJe
also
had
two
o f the Church members
teaching
t h i s year , Mrs. Keith Forres ter and
Annette PIo Yan. Since
Carrol l
Fulford and family v;ere with us for
the
revival , they
brought
with
thera
C a r r o l l s mother, F lorence
Fulford,
of
the
Wynburg
Church
i n
Capetown,
to help
teach also. This
gave
us
7
teachers
and two o f
these were a s s i s t a n t teachers ; Annette
Ho
Yan and
Mrs.
Forrester ,
Phyllis Mills gave the mis siona ry
talk each day
and we
took an offering each day. I t
amounted to
approximately
I5 dollars
-
i t
was sent to the
hospital in Rhodesia. Annette had charge of leading
singing
and
the
closing
devotion.
The
average
attendance
was lj,5,
x^ith
the h i g h e s t
o f 55 f o r one day. There
were
65
e n r o l l e d
i n the
school .
This was a very
f ine
Bible
School,
and the
closing
program on
Sat.
Afternoon
helped b ring several nev; adults to the Church build ing for the
f i r s t
tii;ie.
One young man, Henry Ho Chuhg was
baptized
at the
close of
the
f i r s t
week.
He
has attended
the
services for
over two
years.
The
reviva l
meeting
was held in the evening
along
with the D.V.B.S.
with Brother
C a r r o l l
Fulford
proaching
and
h i s
mother
M
c.
Fulford
playing th e piano.
Many o f
th e
yoixng
people
o f
the V.B.S. at tended
th e
services r egu la rl y, one of which ;ras Henry
vjho
was
baptized during the
meetings. Bob and
Phyll is Mills
both
did
an i n s p i r i n g work
vjith Chalk
drawings during the meeting and
members
of th e congrega tion provided
special
music. The
higtiest
attenda/ice was i|5 foh
the service
and many
of the
Coloured Chris t ian
Brethren group were a t a l l but two of
the
services .
The hect ic two weeks envolved the
morning i n
Bible School,
the
aft ernoons he lp ing
to clean
the
Church
building
for
the
evening
services
as
well
as
making
as
many c a l l s
as
possible and the
evening
services which began
at
7:00
P.
M. At
the close of the
meeting
the
F u l f o r d s little g i r l
Alandra
Jo
c o n t a c t e d
t o n s i l l i t i s and was
ad
vised by our physician
to
remain
i n
Kimberley with us for
t h r e e
more
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questions concerning the New Testaraent plan for Salvation
and
f o r
t h e
C h u r c h .
There is a^misaionary meeting scheduled for the last
of
this
month.
I t
i s
l i k e l y
to
be
h e l d
a t
Capetox^jn
o r
n e a r
East
London
where the^Kernan family
recently
moved. Since
we
have been
in
South Africa pur work has been mostly the
responsibility
of the
European and Coloured peoples. For this reason
we
began
in
June
to
receive a l l funds for
the work we
are
responsible
for,
an d
are
not
sending our service
link
any
more novr,
into
the
general
fund which
was
in operation here
when we arriv ed on
the f i e l d .
VJe
now
have an account for
mission
expenses here in Kimberley,
and we
receive
a ll funds, salary and working or service funds)
directlyfbom
our
forwarding
agent.
V;e
keep
seperate
books
of
course for salary
and mission expenses and
vrill begin
this month
to itemizB our service
link
expenses, so you
will
have a complete
r e c o r d
mo n th ly . Vi
hope to
b u i l d
up
a
reserve,
in o u r
m,lssion
service
link
account so that we can begin scheduling film strip
(hod s
2^l9-n
through the ages ) studies in other areas or
towns
and pos s ibly e v a n g e l i s t i c meetings. This would
mean
the
cost
o f
renting a h a ll
or building
for such
meetings. The general
fund
of
the
African
Native
woi-k
here
has
i t s
own
needs,
and
the
treas,
for that fund is Lynn .Stanley of the African Bible Training School
in
port Shepi^tone, Natal, ipf
course our salary covers a l l our
t m n s p c r t a t i o n
expenses
and
c ar r e p a i r e t c .
and h
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SOUTH AFRICAN CHURCHES OP
CHRIST
Hami l t on
News
Le t t e r k .
^d. Agent:
juiy,
1961
Slber,tirAnnett6
Mrs,
A.
V/, Hamilton
P n
nM,
7n
loU
V/est
Santa
Pe
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are
among
the
European and Coloured
population (Churches of
Christ ) .
A n n e t t e s chatter
Some
o f
you
have
asked about
th e
weather
h e r e .
Well
we a r e
supposed
to
be having ou r winter
now.
However it has been a
very
mild one u n t i l
j u s t
t h i s
past
week. I t
rained l a s t
week
end from P r i . through
Mom
and
has
r e a l l y
been
cold
s i n c e .
The r a i n i s very uinusual
because
we
usual ly have
it
i n
the slimmer
(o r
so everyone has s a i d .
The t r e e s
are
a l l
blossoming
(about
8
weeks ahead of t ime)
and the
people
are
a l l
a fr a id t h at there w i l l come a heavy freeze and r u i n any prospects
o f
f r u i t . Eve rybody 's garden
i s
looking n i c e . We
d o n t
have any.
The family i s j u s t f i n e, PranOie i s t a l k i n g
more
and
more.
We
have a driveway gate
that
has a space about 6 inches high at the bottom
and
yesterday,
she
followed one
o f
her
l i t t l e
playmates
as she crawled
under it It
i s a
law
here t h a t
every
p r o p e r t y
be
fenced
completely
b ut nothing about
spaces under
the
gates.
Now I w i l l have to r e a l l y
keep an
eye
on her because
she
has a
memory
t h a t j u s t d o e s n t q u i t when
it comes t o some
t h i n g s l i k e
t h a t .
The
house
was
u n f u r n i r h e d
except
f o r
a
few
t h i n g s
t h a t
t h e
owner
c o u l d n t
g e t
i n t o
t h e s t o r a g e
room.
She
a l s o
l e f t
the
c u r t a i n s
up
i n
e v e r y
room.
The
people h e r e use
a
l a c e
c u r t a i n u n d e r n e a t h w i t h d r a p e s
over them.
The l a c e makes it impossib le f o r any
one
t o see i n i n t h e
day time but
they
are
of
no
use
a t n igh t. The drapes
are
almost always
h a l f - w a y between t h e window sill and t h e
f l o o r
i n st e a d o f t h e c o r r e c t
way. They do some th ings d i f f e r e n t l y here , I am anxious
to
get our
own curtains s i n c e t h e s e l o o k s o o d d ,
VJell,
enough
f o r t h i s t ime .
Now
back
to Sonny.
Thank you
a l l
again
for
your l i f e , we are glad to be your
servants for Jesus' sake. IICa;iL:5 o
~
Albert & A n n e t t e
H a m i l t o n
Prances
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SOUTH AFRICAN
CHURCHES
OF CHRIST
Fwd.
Agent
Albert
Annette
>irs,
A.W,
Hamilton Sr. Hamilton P.O.Box 30
Marceline, Mssouri
News
Letter Kimberley, C.P,
Aug.
1961
South
Africa
Dear Co-Workers in Christ ;
The
Lord has
blessed
us with
several new opportunities
here
in
Kimberley.
In the
month
of August
one
family has
finished
seeing the
film strip lessons
and
we
began the series again vrith another
new
family,
in
the same neighborhood.
Beginning
this
week
we
are scheduled to
start
our Bible pictiires in the
Kimberley
Cripple
Care home at
7:oo in the evenings
on
thursdays. On the l^hh of Sept.
we
are
to
begin
showing
the Bible
in pictures to
the
children
in
the
Kimberley
Home for
Handicapped
ChildrEn
in
another part
of town. We thank God
for these
new doors of
service now
open.
t is
also our privilege
to
be allowed
to
come
each Lord s day afternoon to
the
Cripple Care Home to teach Bible
school
lessons
to the Coloured and Native
children. By the
time you
receive this letter
only
Monday wil l be the evening of t l^ week in which we
do
not have a
Church
service
cr
Bible
study
class.
We
hope
that
every
night of the
week
wil l
soon be
f i l led
with
a
stu^y or
service.
If the Lord i s willing we live, Jan. 1962 will be
the
opening
of the
new
Kimberley Church of Christ School
of
Evangelism.
Brother Mills
wil l be
the
Dean of the
school
while I
wil l continue
as
Minister
of
the
Church. We wil l
be
using the church building for the
school,
both brother
Bob
and
I
will
be
teach
ing 8 hours of evening
classes
per week, making a
total
of I6 hours of
class work
to
be
offered. Several
have
already
expressed
the desire to
study
for
the Min-
stry
and
Church
leadership.
We
will
need
more
books
for our school
library,
as
both
Bob
and I
have
only a limited amount of necessary
books. If
you can help
us in
securing
such needed material
we
will be happy to send you a l i s t of the
most urgently required text books etc. We believe such a school can help meet
the need of the European and Coloured evangelism
in
the northern Cape Province
and Transva a l
Recently we began a contest for the purpose of securing new names and addrs-
ses^for the mailing list of the Church paper (Mid-eek Reminder), V/e are giving
a Bible to the person turning
in
the
most names
and addresses of people
who would
like to receive the
paper each
week.
Already
we
have been
given
over
2 0
pro
spective
names,
thus increasing our mailing
l ist
to 350. This trip ling of our
mailing
list
here
in
Kimberley will certainly increase the cost of stamps, paper
etc, thus using most of the
service
link,, but
we
always
intend
to
increase
the
our work in this way. We believe
that
advertising the Bible pictures, studies,
services and proposed
school will
be of
great
value
to the
work
as
a whole.
Already
many have
said they enjoy the material in our
Church
paper and look
forward to receiving i t each week. Please pray
with
us that this means
of
preaching
the
Gospel
of
Chris t
wi l l
bear
f ru i t
We cannot help but fee l that the h ard est part of the work
for
Christ here
in
Kimberley
is over now, the ice istroken for European evangelism here with the
Forrester family taking
great interest
in
the
entire
work
of
the
Church,
Their
very presence in the^rvices, Bible studies
and
help
in
the
work
of the
Church
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S I G N I F IC N T
ACeim
a n d
VieiuA
J R H I G H C L A S S
At Bible School, taught by Annette, meets
in our Volkswagen Kombi. As many as 8
stu dents h av e been
in
this class.
Thank you for the Bible School material
you have helped to provide for this and the
other classes this year.
Morning
an d
Evening Church attendance
has increased this year 1961
an d
there have
been 8 baptisms so fa r in 1961.
A .
W. H AM IL TO N F AM IL Y
P.O.
Box
30
Kimberley, Cape Province,
S o u t h Af r ic a .
Since we have been
n
South Africa we have been
n
two Revival meetings with the Polo Road
Church of Christ n Cape Town, the three Coloured and European congregations w have at pre
sent
try
to work together
as much
as possible, for
w
are few and have the great need for many
more ministers here. Other Revival meetings are planned.
B I B L E
C L A S S F O R T H E C R I P P L E D
C H I L D R E N
The Cripple Care Home of Kimberley
granted us permission to come
each
Lord s
day afternoon at 3.00for a short song service
and flannelgraph lesson.
Maureen
Ho
Chung
leads in this service an d teaches the class in
Afrikaans. Mrs.
Mills
plays the portable
organ for the song service.
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NEWLY
WEDS
Te d
an d
Phyllis Brotherhood were bap
tized
a n d
m a rrie d
here
a t
the C hurch
o f
Christ in Kimberley. Ted Edward has ex
pressed the desire to study and preach the
Gospel. It is hoped that he will find the
Training School of help to him in fulfilling
his desire.
m i
V A C AT IO N B IB LE S C H O O L
Was held in conjunction with a Revival
meeting in July of 1961. B ro th er C ar ro ll
F ul fo rd a nd family came from Cape Town
to preach for the two weeks.
There was one Baptism an d an increased
enthusiasm fo r th e Lord s work as a
result
of the
V.B.S.
a nd the Revival.
Th e
congregation is
made
up
of
Chinese,
Coloured and European.
HRISTI N SERVI E M P T
PE
TOWN
Hout
Bay is
th e
site for the
annual New
Year s
camp
for the
Churches
of Chr ist in
South
Africa. We enjoy wonderful fellowship
an d inspiration each year here. First oppor
tunity for the Kimberley Church to attend
this camp, was
January.
1961. We look for
ward
to many more such
experiences fo r
ou r
young people.
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OUR M
K I M B E R L E Y
HUR H O CHRIST
of
bangeli?m
R
S. MILLS A B
Th M
Dean
A
W
HAMILTON
A B M A
Minister
The Lord willing we live January 1962 on the 22nd will be the opening of
classes in the School of Evangelism. We will begin with night classes only four
hours each evening from 6.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.. Monday Tuesday Thursday and
Friday. Both Brother Mills and I plan to teach 8 hours of class work. Thus offering
16 hours of credit to those who desire above every other desire to preach the Gospel
of Christ. Already some are planning to enroll in the School. Please pray for this
much needed school for Christ
and
help us to find books for the library.
The above picture of Brother Robert Mills and myself was taken at Cradock
at
the Native Conference Committee
meeting.
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ROL ND JO SEP H
foreground)
A young man of 21 Roland is planning
to enter the ministry and train in the School
of
Evangelism. Roland is a Baptized bel iever
who
left
th e B re th re n d en om in ati on a fte r
several sessions of Bible study. He has
already taken part in the services of the
Church at Warren Street and is fully con
s ec ra te d t o t he
Lord .
F R N E S M R IE
t
our
front
walk
with her new
dol l
and
buggy which were
her b irthday
presents in
October
of
1961. She also had a
birthday
party. She is 2 years old.
We are pleased to be
your
servants and
pray that God will help us as we work to
gether as long as He is pleased to allow us.
Thank you for
your
LIFE.
DI MOND DIGGING
As in the picture above this
one
also
shows in the distance part of the crain equip
ment used in digging for diamonds. Both
of these pictures were taken at Gong Gong
near Kimberley. Roland Joseph stands near
Brother Mills on the right.
The larger s topes are removed and the
small stones and fine gravel are sifted and
separated by the machine in the picture
above .
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