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No. 94

HeltoDville, Indiana

January, 1966

Sandra Mull
To Toronto

We are pleased to announce that Sandra Mull has made her decision to come to Toronto to join in the work of Toronto Christian Mission. Sandra is no stranger to Toronto having spent a mission interns hip here in 1963, and
assisted in Vacation Bible School and the Missionary Conference in 1965.

Sandra graduated from Lincoln Christian College in 1965. She enrolled in Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn., to standardize her degree and further
qualify herself for her work in Toronto. As she comes to Toronto, her work will be centered in the area of re

ligious education. Her studies in Lincoln and Peabody have given her excellent classroom education. Practice teaching in public schools, plus local church work, have given her practical experience. Such a background qualifies her to do much in developing an outstandii^ religious education program in the To ronto area. She will be a part of the church-planting team, assist in teachertralnir^ activities, and is already at work in preparing a comprehensive Chris
tian Service Camp curriculum for the new camp.

Sandra's home church, West Side in Sprir^ield, 111., has assumed par tial living-link support, but additional support will be needed. She will be available, beginning in March (following completion of her work at Peabody), to present the work to interested congregations. She may be contacted by writing her in care of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mull, 3004 Thayer, Spring
field, Illinois, 62704.

TORONTO-THE CITY
Nine years ago this month the Dulins announced their decision to move
to Canada to establish new churches and do other evangelistic work as Christ

opened doors of opportunity. TORONTO CHRISTIAN MISSION came into exist ence as a result of the great need for the conservative, Bible-centered message of New Testament Christianity in this rapidly growing area. The city, province and country continue to grow unbelievably. Let a few days pass without going into a well-known area and you won't recognize it as something familiar when you return. The heart of the city is changing more rapidly than even the ever-expanding suburbs. A new $30,000,000 city hall was opened last fall. A bank has just built Toronto's tallest building, a 56-story and $125,000, 000 tower. The largest department store has announced a pro posed $250, 000,000 building program in the very heart of the city. Population continues to grow. In 1957 Toronto was the fastest growing city in North America, but today the "city fathers" acknowledge that New York and Los Angeles are now growing a bit faster than Toronto. But even third place on the continent means 15,000 new housii^ units must be constructed each year to take care of 65, 000 new people who make Toronto their home. Immi gration from other countries means that more than half of the nearly 2,000,000 peoplein Toronto were born in some nation other than Canada. To build houses, schools, offices, shopping centers and industry to take care of this rapidly ex panding city, $6,000,000 in construction programs were authorized last year
alone.

While statistics are sometimes boring, these do indicate the type of city
in which we work - a boom city bursting at the seams, a city gobbling up land on the north, east and west, and now even filling in the lake on the south to al low for added expansion, a city pushing higher and higher into the sky with

towering structures in the heart of the city and hundreds of high-rise apart ment buildings in the suburbs, a city modern, cultured and wealthy, BUT A
CITY WITHOUT CHRIST!

Nine years ago when TORONTO CHRISTIAN MISSION was established, one small congregation with 60 in worship was the witness for simple New Tes tament Christianity. Today there are four churches - three English and one Russian. In the surrounding area two other new churches have been established and five older churches in rural Ontario are now served by "independent" min isters. Three other Russian coi^regations are in close fellowship with our
people.

God has blessed abundantly, but there is still so much to do!

Our

growth, as blessed as it has been, has not kept up, even on a percentage basis, with the population growth. The foreign-born people, with their unfamiliar language and problems associated with building a new life in a new land, offer a real challenge and a wonderful opportunity, but missionaries with a burning desire to reach these foreign-speaking people are desperately needed. Housing developments in the suburbs offer real challenges to devoted men who are wil ling to "lay their lives on the line" for Christ and really "buckle down"to spend three to five, perhaps even ten, years building a congregation to a self-support ing basis. In outlying areas we have hundreds of cities and towns where New Testament Christianity has never been preached. Again, the challer^e is there. "Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" (Isaiah 6:8). Can you? Will you? Why not answer, "HERE
AM I; SEND ME. "

CHURCH

BUILDERS CLUB

CONTRIBUTES $5203.68
CHURCH

TO NIAGARA CHRISTIAN
Acheck for $5203.68 was recent ly presented to Niagara Christian
Church f-om the CHURCH BUILDERS FUND of Toronto Christian Mission.

This check represents the total 1965

contributions to this special fund, plus

premium on American funds trans

ferred to Canada. The Niagara church is applying these funds toward the purchase of church property. A par sonage has been purchased and will be ready for occupancy by the end of February when the Thackstons are expected to arrive. A verbal offer
has been made on a church building

John C. Smart, Chairman of Niagara Christian Church coi^egation, re

ceiving Church Builders Club check

from Lenora Dulin as Gene Dulin
looks on.

site, but no reply has yet come from

the owner.

.The CHURCH BUILDERS CLUB

now has 611 members (some became members after one or both 1965 calls

It is again that time of t h e year when many REPORT readers forward

some funds to help publish REPORT.

were made). This is still far short

of the 2000 members needed to pro

vide sufficient funds to really get a

new congregation off the ground. If you haven't yet become a member, please fill out the coupon at the bot
tom of the page and forward it to us.

$1.00 per year will cover the cost of printing and mailing. If you would like to send more, your funds certain ly can be put to work for Christ.
We still have a few MISSIONARY

Your joining with others of like pre

cious faith will make possible contin

ued progress in starting new churches

in the Toronto area.

If you would like a copy, please write us immediately. Cost on these is about 50^ each, if you'd like to cover cost. The coupon below is for your
convenience.

CALENDARS for 1966 left.

TORONTO

CHRISTIAN

MISSION

19 Templar Drive
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Weston (Toronto), Ontario, Canada

1 Please enroll me in the CHURCH BUILDERS CLUB. I will endeav or to contribute on call $5.00 twice each year for the New Church
Building Fund.

CD Please continue sending REPORT FROM TORONTO.

Please send me a 1966 MISSIONARY CALENDAR.

cm Offerir^ of $
Name

is enclosed.

Street Address^
City, State
ZIP

IN MEMORIAM
J. FRED DULIN

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July 4, 1892 - Dec. 24, 1965

J. Fred Dulin, Heltonville, Indi ana, died of a massive heart attack

AYLMER church, reporting con tinued growth, passed 50 in Bible School recently. 82 attended Christ
mas services. Minister Ben Wood

Christmas Eve. He is survived by Mrs. Dulin; adaughter, Mrs. William Pauley of Indianapolis; and a son, Gene Dulin of Toronto. Harvey Pow
ell, minister of the Mt. Pleasant

ruff underwent thyroid surgery in No vember, but is fully recovered. MOUNTAIN VIEW church (Ham ilton) is making continued growth. 46 InBible School recently set a new rec ord. The architect is drawing pre liminary plans with summer construc tion of a small f i r s t unit planned.
Membership now is 13.

Christian Church (Bedford), where Mr. Dulin was a member, and Henry
Weaver, minister of Heltonville Christian Church were in charge of
funeral services on Dec. 27.

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The AREA CHOIR Christmas Concert was well attended at Grant-

in spite of icy weather. by MARY ANN BROWN.

brook (Willard Walls, host minister) JOHN HUK

directed the choir and was assisted

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JEANNE MILLER has partici pated in numerous activities in all area churches. She is presently lead

ing two youth groups at Westway. And

her work on the mailing lists has brought them right up-to-date.
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ther or both of these weeks, write Gene Dulin, 19 Templar Drive, Weston (Toronto), Ontario, Canada.
ONTARIO CHRISTIAN MISSION

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ARY CONFERENCE is April 3-8 (week before Easter) with services each night and all day Friday. Visit ors wanting housing information should write immediately.

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No. 95

Heltonville, Indiana

Feb. & Mar., 1966

Good News From Russia

"At present in Moscow many gospel meetings are opening up and the
Word of God is preached freely." (January, 1966) "In the city of. . . there are many gospel meetings in different parts of

the city. " (January, 1966) "I am taking a more active part in the preaching of God's Word. There are some reforms which are going on in our country in connection with evan gelism. In the very near future there will be changes for the better." (January, 1966) "We met the New Year in our apartment. There were 35 people pres ent. There was singing, musical numbers, and testimonies. Five different churches invited me to visit them for the New Year services." (January, 1966) "In the month of August, I made a visit to my relatives in . . . , Russia. A big change is noticeable towards the better. There is more freedom in the church services, more children are now present in the services. The young people are taking an active part in solos, duets and testimonies. " (From Po land, December, 1965) "At the present time there are many changes for the bettermaterially and more freedom. " (January, 1966) Letters like these are arriving regularly, bringing us the good news of numerous changes in the churches in Russia. Children in services! Church in an apartment! Gospel meetii^s in Moscow! Preaching freely! Such a change could not have been imagined even two years ago. "What is the significance of this new freedom?" is the question which keeps coming to mind. The many years of religious oppression cannot be for gotten overnight. Our minds are still suspicious. Perhaps this is merely a plot to bring the Christians out in the open and then, with one mighty sweep, wipe them out. On the other hand, the government may have concluded they have nothing to fear politically from the Christians. Only time will tell. This period of additional freedom certainly means the Russian Chris tians have opportunity unknown in the past two generations. They now may talk to others about Christ, and obviously they are using every moment pos sible. They know what it has meant not to be allowed to preach and now, with

another chance, they won't miss the privilege. To understand one very interesting change, a bit of history is neces

sary.

In Russia the government forced an amalgamation of the Evangelical

Christian (Russian restoration movement) with denominations, principally Bap tist, Pentecostal, and Mennonite. This "Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptist church" has been forced to work through the government and, without question, some leaders have worked with the government. Grass-roots Christians have disliked this and even in years past, when there was nothing but prison facing an opponent, independent Christians have spoken out against collaboration on the part of some of their leaders. Not only was their opposition to cooperation with the government, but there was also dissatisfaction with the merger, on the part of many. I remem ber one person's stopping me in the Moscow church and saying, "The Pente costal people of Russia extend their greetings to you. " Strong Baptist convic tions have been evident. And the Evangelical Christians have been dissatisfied since some obvious restrictions on them were necessary. The forced Union
was just thatunion, but not unity.

The following quotations from recent letters indicate just what has hap
pened to the Union. "There are certain divisions between the churches, some for the old order (the Union) and others for the new order. The movement to

separate completely from the old order is givii^ positive results. " "Some di visions amoi^ the brethren have engulfed the whole country. " "We are enjoy ing good measure of freedom for the Word of God, and as a result of it many left the Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptists and are working with other congregations." Bro. John K. Huk says, "Judging from these bits of information coming from believers in Russia, which no doubt are reliable, the matter of religious freedom in Russia is undergoing great change. What this will do to the Evan gelical Christian movement in Russia remains to be seen. Will it take again its original position on the Word of God as in the days of Ivan S. Prokhanoff, the great leader and promoter of New Testament Christianity in Russia?" Bro. Huk observes that "every false cult and denomination in the U. S. and other parts of the world will look for their share in the religious life of the Russian people. " But what will be the part of New Testament Christianity in the U. S. ? What will we do? Bro. Huk feels that "personal contact, even lim ited fellowship, and friendly encouragement from American Christians are of the greatest value in these critical days." One dear brother in Russia writes, "When you come again, we will try to meet you properly. " He remembers an incident when one church leader, who was cooperating with the government, closed the pulpit for one service when we were there. He is assurir^ us that if we come again, the pulpit will be ours without hesitation. Some consideration has been given to another missionary journey behind the Iron Curtain, but the present changes are so current that it seems wise to give time for develop
ment before another trip.

But we are workii^ as much as possible.

New Testaments are getting

through. One man in Russia wrote, "The New Testaments of your edition are seen in many hands of our believers in the services. It is a very handy edition for carrying around." We are sending tracts and the Christian Doctrine lec tures of Denver Sizemore. We are corresponding with these brethren and giv ing them encouragement. And we are praying for full freedom and a great re vival among the Russian masses and a restoration of New Testament Chris tianity in Russia. Please pray with us.

A LETTER FROM A RUSSIAN

PREACHER

To my greatly beloved in Christ Jesus, Brother Gene Dulln and your family, A hearty greeting to all of you. Mercy to you and peace, and love, be multiplied. This brief letter is from . . . and my family. Thanks be to God that we are all fine. The Lord keeps our life and our health. We are thankful
to Him and rejoice in Him. It has been a loi^ space of time since I have writ ten to you. I have been so busy that I could not write, working almost every day, except Sunday, physically. There was need for this, that is to work, dur ing the summer months. I am an old man very soon becomes tired and need to have rest. But in the months of September and October I have visited many different places where some churches had the feasts of harvest (Thanksgiving).
So I have been also invited to attend these feasts of harvest, where hundreds of

believing people were gathered together for the glory of God to praise the Lord for the abundance of harvest that we have received from the loving hands of our Heavenly Father. At the end of May in the beginning of June we have had a heavy shower of rains which have brought to our fields very great damage. Many people began to think that they will suffer even a starvation. But the lovii^ Heavenly Father has showed His very great mercy to all people. He has given for all people our daily bread. Thanks be to Him now and forever. We have just few new people this year that are constantly visit our wor ship. They are not baptized yet, just one young girl was baptized this year. She is the own daughter of my own sister, that is my nephew (niece). May the Lord help for others to surrender themselves wholly to the Lord. Now I want to let you know, my dear Brother Dulin, that I have bought a wooden small house for myself, fourteen feet loi^ and six feet wide because my own house in which I lived is too small for my family. I have four sons, one is married and three are not, so I offered my house for my sons, but for myself I have bought one. I have paid for it 2500 rubles (about $2725). I have sold those two bedspreads which I have received from you because there was need of money. 300 rubles ($327) I have got for those two bedspreadseach one 150 rubles ($163). We have already winter season there are had fallen much of snow and it is very cold, frost. To walk by foot is impossible. Please greet all Christian Friends, Canadian and Russian, and espe cially Brother John Huk and his family. May the Lord bless you and your work for Him in Canada and me and my work for Him in Russia. I am praying for you always I know you are doing the same. Good-by. Yours in Christ . . .
Nov. 24. 1965.

HELPFUL

SERVANTS

James Brown, minister at Centerville, Indiana; Robert Hargrave, min

ister at Cape Coral, Florida; and Heather Matheson, missionary in Jamaica are recent examples of helpful servants of Christ. Each of these co-laborers forwarded us names of people comii^ to the Toronto area. These names were given to the nearest preacher for immediate follow-up. This assistance strengthens the churches here and helps avoid New Testament Christians'being lost to the cause of Christ when they move. Our thanks to these co-workers for their help. Do you know someone in Toronto or Ontario who should be contacted for Christ? If so, please forward their names and addresses to Toronto Christian Mission, 19 Templar Drive, Weston (Toronto), Ontario, Canada.

A VACANT SPOT

Across the road there lived a man

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Who daily woxild go to his window

and stand

Toronto's second Missionary

Conference will be April 3-8. Par ticipating missionaries will include Gust Koleba (Russian), western Can ada; Titus Solomon, South Africa; Claude Likins, Japan; Bill Vernon,

To stare into the deep blue sky.

This lonely man to one was shy The Mighty One who lives on h^h. He had accepted Him before,
But in His face then slammed the
door.

Christian TV Mission; Delroy Brown,

Jamaica; Frank Rempel, India; Dor othea Parker, Rhodesia; and Ozark Bible College students. Local mis sionaries on the program include Mr. and Mrs. Alan LaRue, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Thackston, Jeanne Miller, Mary Ann Brown. Sandra Mull, John Huk, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Dulin, and
Vanita Dulin.

Now wanting to become the same, He thought he might be put to

shame.

But as he prayed when all alone

Our Heavenly Father took him

home.

Karlita Dulin
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All planning to attend from a dis

tance should contact Toronto Chris

tian Mission immediately for housing

S S E

arrangements.
Our thanks to all who remem

bered us with Christmas cards and

gifts at the holiday season. And a special word of thanks for the many
cards and letters we received at the

passing of my father.
DEWEY

Gene Dulin
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THACKSTON

assume leadership of the NIAGARA

Christian Church the first of March.
MOUNTAIN VIEW in Ham

ilton, A1 LaRue, minister, reports two membership transfers in January.

New attendance records were also set

in January with average attendance of 44 in Bible School, 36 in church, and 22 in the evening. An average of 52
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different people attended each Sunday

in January.
NORTH AMERICAN CHRISTIAN

CONVENTION, Louisville, Kentuclq^, June 28-July 1.

19th NATIONAL MISSIONARY

CONVENTION, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sept. 27-30.

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No. 96

HeltonvUle, Indiana

April, 1966

Going To The Dogs?

Toronto newspapers, like newspapers from all over the world, carry some dreadful stories to illustrate the decline of morality in the age in which we live. The need for reaching youth is made more dramatic almost daily. Recently, a gang of robbers, led by an 11- and 13-year-old girl and boy with thousands of dollars of loot, was caught. Girls openly solicit in our neigh borhood shopping center. A teen-age dance at a nearby denominational church ended in a knifing and brawl that required police to break it up. A girl whom we tried to reach for Christ not too long ago is pictured in a current "girlie" magazine. Another girl who wanted to become a Christian, but whose parents

said they'd rather see her a Buddhist, is a street walker.

A call girl ring of

junior high age girls has been discovered. They used homes where parents were out on all-night parties. A boy in Vanita's school was arrested recently for peddling dope. Girls in Karlita's junior high school slip away from school at noon to go shoplifting. In Vanita's home room, out of a class of 30, only 4 claimedany faith in God at all. We wouldn't think of letting our girls walk even a block from our home at night. And yet we live in a middle-class housing de
velopment of highly respected people.

Such moral decay is not too surprising when the spiritual life of parents is known. A boy once said he'd never go anywhere else but to Westway Chris tian Church, but was forced to go to the Anglican church. As soon as he was old enough to "get by with it." he proved his word. Now, as a young teen-ager, he goes nowhere to church. He has long, long hair, dresses like a hoodlum, plays in a rough dance band, and has girl friends in at noon while his mother is
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away. But why shouldn't he? His father died a couple years ago and now an other man, still married to another woman, has moved in with the boy's moth er. The stories can go on and on. But it isn't all bad! We have been able to reach some young people. And they are the "cream of the crop." Thursday night before Easter, after the sessions at the Missionary Conference, twenty-five teenagers and college age youth came to our home for a pizza party. The party started about 11:00 P. M. Lenora had the pizza ready to put in the oven and the kids ate, visited and sang until around 12:30A.M. when the talk turned to more serious spiritual mat ters. There was no planned program, but different young people "just talked" about their problems, their heartaches, their joys. I have never seen a more spiritual gathering. Around 1;30 A. M. oneof the teenagers suggested a prayer session and for thirty minutes these young people stood in a prayer circle and prayed. How many youth this age are praying at 2:00 A. M. on a holiday week
end?

Several of our young people are life recruits. Niagara has three; Grantbrook, one; Keele Street, one; Westway, four. All of these young people are planning to attend Bible College and devote full-time to Christian ministries.

The Toronto area already has one young man in Johnson Bible College, one girl in Lincoln Christian College, and one girl in Milligan College. Indeed, we do not believe the young people are going to the dogs. Cer
tainly, many have gone the way of the world, but thank God for these we have reached! From this beginning, we prophesy the development of a strong and faithful church of Christ in Canada. It will take time, faith, courage, and pa
tience, but His word will not return void.

NEWS
The first North American Chris tian Convention AREA RALLY outside the U.S. will be held in Toronto April 28. Convention Director Leonard

W3fmore will be speaking.

The first time the Cincinnati Bi

The Sunday afternoon reception for Dewey Thackston as he began his ministry at Niagara was well attended by Christians from all across Ontario and numerous visitors from theNiagara area. Over 140 were present.
The Thackstons and another transfer

ble Seminary CONCERT CHOIR has toured outside the U. S. was April 15 when a concert was presented in To ronto under the direction of E. Wayne Berry, head of the music department
of C. B. S. The choir toured Toronto

later in March bring membership to

17. Attendance is about 30.

Anna, 12-year-old daughter of John Huk, minister of the Toronto

in the afternoon, were served a meal by the Keele Street church ladies, and

Russian church, was baptized Easter Sxmday.

sang to a full house before traveling on to Niagara Falls and back to the
U.S.

John K. Huk recently visited the

Russian churches in western Canada. His tour allowed him to visit several Russian Christians who live in areas where there are no churches. He also preached for the Doukhobor mission

Karlita Dulin announced her life

recruit decision at the Missionary Conference. Bible College and a life

of Christian service have always been

held before her. The public announce
ment comes as no surprise.

and prepared several radio programs

for broadcast in British Columbia.

CAMP
"We realize how necessary the new camp is and are enclosing a small

check to help in this great work. As I have been connected with camp work for many years, I realize how valuable it is. Many are the young people who are challenged for their life work at the Christian Service Camp. " A Kansas
preacher. Most who have watched the growth of the church of Christ-Christian church credit the Christian Service Camp movement for much of the progress. In the Toronto area we are just beginning to "blossom out" as a movement. We are reaching more and more youth. Rented facilities can no longer meet the
need. We thank God for friends like the one who wrote the l e t t e r above and

sent a check to help develop this important evai^elistic arm of the church. While the expense for such a development is great, the reward of youth
saved foralife-timeof service to Christ makes the investment well worthwhile.

The fact that the camp is designed to be used the year around also makes the investment more advisable. Plans call for regular Christian Service Camp weeks to be supplemented by a summer camp program for "unchurched" city children. Bible College youth will be recruited to assist as counselors in this program where Christian example and instruction through morning chapel and evening vespers will have tremendous influence on the youth. This will open many doors in the metropolitan area where we have not been able to go before.
The camp location and terrain is such as to allow development of a win

ter program, too. Tobogganing, short ski slopes, and ice skating will be pos sible. This will allow week-end retreats for school and college age youth and for yoimg married people. Men's retreats and other such activities are also planned.
All associated with Toronto Christian Mission are enthusiastic about

the camp and its potential for Christ. It has taken several years to come to the place at which development could be justified, but we are there now. Future

progress is dependent on the proper training of our youth. Many of you, after receiving our Camp Mailing, have helped in this project. Others are consid ering it as class projects, or Vacation Bible School projects. An expenditure of around $17, 000 will have to be made before the government will allow us to open camp July 9. On faith contracts for the main building have been signed. On faith we are acceptii^ registrations for camp and have begun work on ar ranging the camp prcgram. Your help is needed. If you haven't shared, please do. And talk to your class or to some friends. Perhaps they'd like to help,
too. Mark contributions FOR CAMP and send to Toronto Christian Mission.

ONTARIO CHRISTIAN HI88I0NAB7 CONFERENCE "Next year's Missionary Confer A good combination of veteran ence can't equal what has just missionaries, nationals in America passed," was the common thought af preparing for service, and Bible Colter our 1965 week of mission empha lege youth resulted in a tremendous sis, but the 1966 pre-Easter Mission spiritual impact on the Toronto area. ary Conference was better in every The program was so arranged that way. Attendance was higher, congre five missionaries were before the gational singing was better and spe congregation each night. cial music was more varied. Every If you are planning a missionary single speaker "rang the bell. " It rally and would like the prc^ram used was just great! at the Ontario rally, write Gene Dulin.

Faith-Promise

Missionary Conference
Forest Avenue church, Knoxville, Term., Richard Gardiner, minister,
held their first Faith-Promise Mis

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I ' 4/"' I' ^ I WESTWAY church, Les Shell, minister, set another new attendance record March 20 with 110 in morning

sionary Conference March 23-27, with Gene Dulin bringing the messages.
Mission contributions in 1965 totaled

worship. A Week of Preaching led by Don Forrester of Atlanta, Georgia,

was well attended. There were four

$2875. The 1966 goal of $4960 was topped when over $5300 were com mitted on Faith Promise Sunday, with other commitments expected. We heartily commend the FaithPromise program as a scriptural, in spiring, challenging prc^ram for any congregationlarge or small. A fre quent comment after such conferences is, "This did us more good than any
revival we ever had!" Indeed, the

baptisms duri:^ the week. Vacation Bible Schools during Easter vacation have proved quite
successful in the Toronto area. West-

way and Keele Street churches both are holding schools this year. Lenora, Vanita, and Karlita Dulin are all help ing in the Westway school this year.
Jeaime Miller, who arrived in
Toronto last November to share in the work of Toronto Christian Mission,

Faith-Promise program is a revival when people are challenged to put

faith into action.

For additional information, feel

free to write Gene Dulin. For the

testimony of one who tried, write

Richard Gardiner, minister, 1713 Forest Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37916.

and Everett Lassiter (Les Shell's fos ter son) have become engaged and planafall wedding. Most of Jeanne's support has come from the Lincoln Christian College student body. Since this commitmentwas only through May of this year, Jeanne has decided to take secular employment rather than go back to the States to raise neces sary funds to replace the L. C. C.
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HeltonvUle, Bidiana

May & June, 1966

Progress
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KITCHEN AND DINING HALL

On faith, before any work had been done at the campsite, July 9 was set as the opening day for camp. "It will never be ready, " was heard from differ
ent sources. And yet, promotional material for camp went out and a staff was recruited. Registrations were accepted. Even as this is written the first of June, some say, "It will never be ready!" But with God's help, and the coop

eration of the Christians it will be ready. The shell of the main building and the plumbing were contracted. The rest of the construction is being done by volunteer labor. Gene Dulin is serv ing as manager, purchasing agent, and supervisor of construction. Having material and work available for an xmknown number of workers on any day they decide to show up for work is not easy, but no one has been idle. Excellent
cooperation on the part of local Christians has resulted in an unbelievable a-

mount of work done in a very short time. At this writing, the outside of the main building is completed. Most of the interior work has been completed. Two cabins are complete, except for some small tasks. Tw.o other cabins are "sawed out" ready for erection. The road is completed, the recreation area is nearly complete and the campfire (continued on page 2)

area is ready. Much cleaning up has been done. Things are just now beginning to "fall into place." With every work day, we can say something else is com pleted. Unless we have a number of Saturdays when the weather is impossible the grounds will be ready and our campers, on July 9, will sing out again, "There's a camp in Ontario where I love to go . . ."
Financial assistance from American Christians has enabled us to move

ahead with this project. Your offerir^s have given us a "base" on which we could borrow needed money to develop the camp to meet governmental stand ards. Offerings continue to be needed to repay the loan. Certainly every worker in Toronto Christian Mission joins in saying THANKS for your help.
And, without question, all the Christians in Ontario echo AMEN.

NEWS
Gene Dulinwill be speaking at the GLOBAL WITNESS Banquet at the
North American Christian Convention

Vanita Dulin will be missionary

speaker at the Vacation Bible School of Northway church, Kenneth Wilkin, minister, South Bend, Indiana, Jime

Thursday, June 30. The banquet is being served as a box lunch in the

convention hall by a Kentucky Fried

chicken caterer.

13-22. She will serve as pianist and speak each day to the various depart
ments of the school.

TheDulin, LaRue, and Thackston

families are planning to be at the con vention and will have a display. We

The Gene Dulin family and Mary

Ann Brown have been presenting pro grams at various Ontario churches in the past few weeks. Churches visited

hope you will be there, too.

are, come aroxmd to see us.

If you

include Aylmer, West Lake, Westway,

Sandra Mull will be driving to
Toronto from the North American

Toronto Russian, St. Catharines Rus-

sian, London Russian, Niagara,

Mountain View, and Selkirk. Other

Christian Convention to begin her

work with Toronto Christian Mission.

She still needs $50 per month livii^link support. If your class or con gregation canhelp her meet this need, please do. She has prepared herself in the field of religious education and is desperately needed in Toronto now.
ATTENDANCE RECORDS

congregations will be visited as time permits.

IT HAPPENED AT V. B. S.

At least part of the lesson was put across by Vanita Dulin as she taught a group of beginners in Vaca-

Westway church, Les Shell, min

ister, with 96 in Bible School May 29,

set a new record. Worship attend ance of llOequalledarecordset a few
weeks earlier.

tion Bible School. Alan and Ricky became angry and began hitting each other. Vanita tcld them they were
friends and "friends shouldn't do that.

God is your friend and, certainly, you

wouldn't hit Him." She then told them

Aylmer church, Ben Woodruff,

minister, hit a new record attendance

of 80 in May. They are engaged in an

attendance contest with the Keele

Street church. Robert Murray, min

ister.

that God would be unhappy if He saw them fighting. Later in the session the boys became angry once again and Alan exclaimed, "When we get outside I'm going to beat you up, even
if God does see me!"

Camp Workers

From

Detroit Area

Livonia (suburban Detroit), Michigan,

took their vacation time to come to

Ontario Christian Assembly and help in construction work. They were able to finish one cabin, except the siding.
Pictured are the Eldon Branscom

family,

the Bob Tipton family, and

Harold Washburn and his two sons.

These men, plus some other men from Kenwood, are coming back to Toronto the third Saturday of June to direct the construction of the chapel
at camp. This wonderful assistance

Memorial Day week-end three

families from the Kenwood church in

and outstanding Christian spirit is much appreciated by all of us in the Toronto area. Only because of such help will our grounds be ready.

COST OF

LIVING

CANADA'S LIVING COSTS RISE was the heading of a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. While I admittedly know little about how they figure .. April consumer price index rose . 6% from the 142.4 in March," I do know that our dollars just don't "stretch" as far now as they once did. Shopping used to be fun and a form of relaxation to me but recently I dread goii^ - particularly to the grocery - because of the frustration I feel when I see how prices are rising. All the time we've lived here most items have been higher in Toronto than in the U. S. Midwest, but on a recent trip to Michigan I noted "brand name" items and then made a trip to our local store to compare the prices. This list does not necessarily include items we buy regu larly, but does giveafair comparison since the brands andsizes are the same.
U.S. CDN.

Hershey Chocolate Syrup

Chef-Boy-Ar-Dee Pizza

2/. 39
.49

.29 each
.57

Appian Way Pizza Pillsbury Biscuits

Velveeta Cheese {2 1b.)
Kleenex Towels

3/1.00 3/. 25
.89
.42

.49 each 2/. 31

1.39
.55

Miracle Whip (32 oz.) Ajax Detergent

Ritz Crackers

.49 1.26
.39

.69 1.81
.53

Campbell's Chicken Soup

Maxwell House Coffee Morton Chocolate Pie

2/. 33
1.49 .29

2/. 43
1.89 .49

Two items I found to be cheaper in Canada: mushrooms (locally grown)

about 1/2 price, and Kraft Macaroni & Cheese - U. S., 20^; Cdn., 4/53^.
Since gasoline, clothing, linens, shampoo and nearly all other necessary items are growing "dearer and dearer," as the Canadians say, (plus the 5% Ontario Sales Tax recently added) it is plain to see that it is more expensive to live in Toronto than in many other mission fields. Lenora Dulin

Russian Christians Say "Tlianl{s"

May 29, at the aimual convention of Russian Evangelical Christian
Churches across Canada, a standing vote of thanks was extended to the Church es of Christ-Christian Churches of America for their help in financing and pro

ducing the Russian, Ukrainian, English hymnbook. The Toronto church, where
the convention was held, was filled to capacity when Bro. Gust Koleba, a Rus

sian evangelist from Edmonton, Alberta, gave a lengthy expression of thanks

and the congregation gave a standing vote of thanks.

The hymnbooks are being widely distributed and used. Orders have come from all across Canada and the United States, as well as from England. Sample copies have been sent to New Zealand and Australia. A Russian Chris tian minister in London, England, writes, " 'Christian Songs' is ideal and is solving the problem over lai^age which we have in the London church. " This has been the response wherever the book has gone. One minister said, "We should have had this book years ago." Another says, "The only fault is that it needs to be larger - more songs." The hymnbook, our largest effort in print ing on our own press, is well worth all our efforts. We continue to distribute the Russian pocket-sized New Testaments. Around 5000 are now in use behind the Iron Curtain. We receive letters regu larly telling of their use and expressing appreciation for them. Only eternity will tell of the blessii^s brought by this distribution of the Word of God. The need for more Russian-language material is indicated in a recent letter from a Russian preacher. "If you have some periodicals, new books, or used ones, please send them to me. I have an opportunity to introduce them to people who are hungry for Christian H W literature. " Sending behind the Iron O W
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No. 98

Heltonville, Indiana

July & August, 1966

Camp 1966
When campers began "signing in" on July 9, On tario Christian Assembly was ready. Ten weeks before there was nothing but 50 acres of land and a well. As camp opened with dedication services, the lodge (dining 1 hall,kitchen, restrooms and canteen), four dormitories and a chapel were ready for the first sessions. Nearly 1000 days of volunteer labor made all this possible. The Senior Week had 39 campers. One was baptized at camp, three made confessions of faith and returned home for baptism, and three made re
cruit decisions. The Junior-Intermediate Week had 62 campers. One was

baptized at camp and 11 who confessed faith returned home for baptism.
Area missionaries on the staff included Gne and Lenora Dulin, Dewey

and Barbara Thackston, Alan LaEue, Mary Ann Brown, Sandra Mull, and John Huk. Robert Murray, Keele Street minister, and Lester Shell, Westway min ister, also assisted. Help from the U. S. included Mr. and Mrs. Martin Neece, Utica, Ohio; L. C. Emerick, Crestline, Ohio; Ronald Henderson, Painesville, Ohio; Rogers Durham, Loogoottee, Indiana; the Don Poorman family, Detroit;

Mary Slininger, Port Byron, Illinois; Autry Jackson, Clarence, N.Y.; Phyllis
Althaus and John King, Ozark Bible Collie; David Vaughn, Buffalo, N.Y. ; Brent Tipton and Tom Branscom, Kenwood church, Detroit. Our sincere thanks to these individuals and to the churches they serve. Without this assist
ance, we could not have operated the camp.

Various activities, such as a men's retreat, the youth rally, numerous

workdays, week-end retreats for the youth, and church picnics, are planned for the camp later this summer and fall. Winter activities will also be planned. Camp dates for next year are already set. Many Americans tell us they
Ijlfp to help in camp, but they need to know the dates early. For this reason we

are publishing the 1967 summer dates now. If you would like to share in one of these weeks, or even more, write us. Perhaps some churches could even pay travel expense for their minister or others to allow them to share in this
(continued on page 2)

mission activity. The camp dates are: June 17-24, Senior Week; July 13-16, First Chance Camp (younger than Juniors); July 16-22, Junior Week; July
22-29, Junior High Week; Aug. 27-Sept. 1, International Youth Week;Sept. 1-4, International Family Week-end.

THE LORD'S SUPPER

FIRST BIBLE SCHOOL SESSION

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MISSIONARY

CONVENTION

Fort Wayne,
September 27-30
GOD'S WORD FOR GOD'S

Indiana
Gene Dulin is serving as chair man (president) of the convention this

WORLD, the theme of the 19th annual

National Missionary Convention, serves as the title of our theme song,

year and will be bringing the opening message on Tuesday night. At least
50 different missionaries will be

written by Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Brock (Beyond the Sunset) as a special favor
to Gene Dulin and all the missionaries

convention.

speaking at various sessions of the We hope hundreds, even

of the church of Christ.

Bro. Brock's schedule to allow him to be at the convention to introduce

We expect

thousands of our friends, will be

present to share in this great spirit

ual feast.

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Aylmer
1 baptism
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Westway
Keele Street -

Niagara

5 baptisms 1 baptisms

Sandra Mull began her service as a missionary with Toronto Chris

tian Mission early in July. Her im migration was without difficulty and
allowed he r to arrive in time to as

um

sist in camp. She is serving as reg istrar of the camp and will conduct a follow-up program with the campers, especially those from non-church

families.

She will be assisting vari

ous congregations in developing an effective program in Christian edu cation. The Aylmer congregation has already invited her assistance and during the month of August she will be assessing their needs and formu

lating a program for them.

NEWS
Johnson Bible College's VOLUN TEERS FOR JESUS are touring Can
ada t h i s summer and conducted one

week of services, July 31-August 5, at the Aylmer church, Ben Woodruff,

minister.

James Morgan, head of the mis sions department of Manhattan (Kan sas) Bible Collie, was in Toronto for the month of June while he taught in a linguistics school, which assists in preparing evangelical missionaries
for entrance into their various fields.

Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Hall, mission

ary recruits to Brazil, were among the 105 students attending.

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No. 99

Heltonviiie, Indiana

September, 1966

Late News From Russia

This summer many people traveled to the Soviet Union and returned
bringing reports of the condition of the church there. One man who recently returned tells of visiting several churches, some in small villages and others in large cities. The places of worship are filled with people standing through

out every service.

He reports that the spiritual fervor of the people remains

undiminished. The main concern of the Christians, as far as spiritual life is concerned, is to get, in some way or another, a copy of the Bible. One man saw in many hands copies of the smallest Russian-language New Testament ev

er published, that published by Toronto Christian Mission. He told of tears streaming down his face as he saw people using these New Testaments. As he reported, to brethren here, with tears in his eyes again, he expressed great appreciation to Bro. Dulin and Bro. Huk and to the Christians of America for publishing and supplying these people with copies of God's Word. There were many stories of how they received the New Testaments. We rejoice that not one person with whom the man spoke had paid anything for his copy. (While they are always sent without charge from Toronto Christian Mission, there is the possibility that someone might try to profiteer.) One congregation visited on Sunday had a baptismsil service. Since there was no baptistry in the building the service was held at the river. About
700 people attended. Across the river was a public beach from which many atheists were observing and listenir^ to the preaching and singing. Local po lice were present to keep order in case of disturbance. When application for the service was granted by the authorities they set the time at 7:00 A. M., be

fore many people would be present at the beach, but the service began at 9:30
A. M. There were 8 people baptized. The new converts reported that they first heard the message of salva

tion over the radio. Without question the radio is one of the greatest ways of reaching people behind the Iron Curtain. However, this reply is designed to to place less blame on the local churches for evangelizing against government
al orders.

Even though the law prohibits any children under the age of 18 receiving religious instruction, there was a noticeable number of children and yoiuig

A congregation in the Soviet Union. Mar. 27, 1966 Observe the youthfulness of many in attendance.

people in many of the services. The shortage of Christian literature, including Bibles and hymnbooks continues. People use hand-written song books. Poet ically and musically inclined young people prepare Christian songs andsing them in the churches. Russian Christians have never copyrighted their hymns
and they go from place to place freely. Every congregation is blessed with a choir which takes a prominent part in the services. Some churches have string and brass bands. Our friend tells us that many people requested copies of the New Testament and that he distributed his supply as far as they would go.
To the casual observer of these events, it may appear that the Soviet government is softening its attitude toward religion. Without question the cour

age of the Christians has forced any change that may be taking place. Chris tians, old and young alike, are less afraid of physical or material punishment and persecution. To illustrate, a Christian brother was arrested for question
ing by the local police. On his person they found a copy of a Bible and some cc^jies of the gospel of Luke. "I will send you to the white bears, " the officer told him. "This is considered a major offense according to our law." "Citi

zen, " said the elderly Christian, "why should the government spend its money
on my second trip to Siberia? You just designate tlie place for me and give me six months of time, so I can save for my ticket out of niy 12 rubles ($12)

monthly pension. I'll pay my own expenses. After all, I have already spent
12 years of my life in Siberia and I am familiar with many places, so an addi

tional few years of exile will not matter very much.

cleaning backhouses.

For the last two years of

my previous exile I, with the metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox church, was

I presume because of my age they will not give me any

other type of work this time. "

These most courageous words of a simple old Christian changed the

mind and behavior of the policeman and he sent the old man home. Unfortu

nately, he did not return the Bible and gospels. Or perhaps it is fortunate. Perhaps he read them to see if he could find there a reason for such courage
as the old Christian displayed. On May 16, 1966, 500 Christians from 130 different cities of the U. S. S.R. demonstrated before the Moscow building of the Central Committee of the Commimist Party of Russia. After 24 hours of waiting in the rain to present a petition to the Secretary of the Communist Party, Mr. L. I. Breznev, the po

lice forced these Christians into 28 buses and took them to jail. They never
saw Breznev. In the process of the arrest, they were beaten, dragged by the hair, and trampled underfoot. And yet they sang gospel songs as they were
taken to jail.

"ITie petition these people carried requested permission for a church conference, or convention, to be allowed, and also pleaded that their rights under the constitution of the U. S. S. R. be protected, that Christians in exile be
freed, and that persecution of Christians discontinue. Some of those arrested are still in jail. Some have been released.

Similar demonstrations have taken place in other cities of Russia this year. Authorities are using brutal measures to suppress the demands of Christians. These facts never are published or reported by the Soviet press, and seldom is.
even a hint found in American papers. Christians in the U. S. S. R. are coura geous, and are paying with their blood, health, and freedom from jail to ap proach openly local and federal authorities to demand justice and religious
freedom.

communism is an arch enemy of Christianity.

Such persecutions as are taking place merely serve to remind us that Every move the communist

maivcs is a part of an over-all programme to evai^elize the world successfully for communism. Recent reports of a carefully edited "Old Testament Stories" edition of the Bible have suggested an easing of pressure by the communists,
but the publication is distributed as "literature" and the stories are termed

"legends and myths. " Such an approach undermines the authority and inspira tion of the Word. (These terms sound strangely familiar to many who read current modernistic denominational publications in America.) Without question the government has placed within the denominational structure required by law, men who are completely sympathetic with the com munistic system. These men report regularly on all activity of the Christians. Such "co-operation" has brought much opposition from more fundamental Chris tians and has fostered a split within the "Union of Evangelical Christian-Baptist Church. " As word of this division seeped through the Iron Curtain, there was some suggestion that this might be over doctrinal differences between Baptists and Evai^elical Christians, but now it is clear that the division is over "co operation" with the government. Apparently the years of forced union has caused most doctrinal differences to become secondary to existence. Actually, the doctrinal position of the Russian Baptists has always been closer to the New Testament position than that position held by American Baptists, especially on baptism. This will help in under5" 5' S S 5 ? 9 standing why these two gp-oups have Igllsn 2 s 5 < 2 " Es 1 ?: = a > been able to work together as well as B a. c I ^5. 1 Is. g. S g , they have in Russia. , S 1 S 3 n\ While we present the many vic n IB tories being won for Christ in Russia, 3 " I s do not forget that this is in spite of government, not because of it. Only because of the faith and courage of
V

countless hundreds of saints is there

any witness for Christ there at all. The seed has been sown by the Chris tian as he is trampled underfoot, has

been watered in the martyr's blood,

is nurtured as the saint is beaten, is

weeded as the Christian is dragged

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by the hair, and is haz-vested as an

other saint dies in Siberia for his

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Brethren, pray for these, our

Christian brothers.

NEWS

WESTWAY church had a record

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attendance of 119 in worship services in Ai^st and held their third annual Faith Promise Conference Sept. 14-18
with Mr. & Mrs. Lew Cass, Brazil, speaking . . . MOUNTAIN VIEW church, Hamilton, is now meeting in

a school building . . . NIAGARA has set Oct. 2 as "Welcome Back" Sunday, with a goal of 40.

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No. 100

Heitonville, Indiana

October, 1966

Lord, Give Us Preachers!

Lord, give us preachers! is our prayer. Everywhere we turn we are faced with the need, and yet seem unable to supply prospective names to the leaders of the churches. Preaching is not easy in Canada. For that reason we
need stable men whohaveamature faith and are patient and dedicated toChrist. Men who have not been particularly successful in American pulpits will likely

have even less success in Canada. And yet, Canadian churches are small and unable to pay as much as American churches. Growth is slower. People are harder to reach, partially because of the background, partially because the church of Christ is unknown, partially because of our Bible-centered message. But the difficulty does not relieve us of our responsibility.
Consider with me some of the fields and their needs NOW.

1. This congregation in a small town has been without a minister for 16 months. Attendance runs around 100. The building is old, but in good re pair. Salary would be around $100, plus housing. The parsonage is not new,

but is modern and plans are underway to build a new parsonage if a preacher
can be found.
come this.

There is a Disciple problem, but patience and love will over

2.

This congregation is located in a town of 35,000. They have a well-

kept building, but only about a dozen people in attendance. They might provide housii^, but nothing more. There are many employment opportunities here, or a person could raise living-link support and evangelize in this city. They have been without a minister for at least 3 years. 3. This is a rural congregation in a resort area. The building and parsonage are both in good repair, but neither are new. Attendance runs around 40. There seem to be several young people in the area who attend. Sal ary here might run to $60 per week, but some additional support would be nec essary. This cor^regation has been served by an elderly man who must retire immediately. 4. This congregation has a sturdy brick building about 60 years old, in a small town, and a modern brick parsonage which is not new. Attendance runs around 80. They have been without a minister several months. There is a Disciple problem here, but faithful preaching in love will overcome this prob-

lem since the people are basically conservative. This congregation has worked

with "church no. 5, " listed below, and this can be done again if an acceptable minister is called. Salary from the two churches would be around $100, or
perhaps $80 from this one.

5. This small town coi^regation has an older building and about 25 to 30 in attendance. They have worked with "church no. 4, " but several people in this congregation feel they need their own minister, and they do. There will be no significant growth until more time can be given for evangelizing. Likely they would pay a man $50-60 per week. Again, employment is available, or
living-link support could be raised.

6. Recent contacts in Ottawa indicate an open opportunity in this capi tal city of Canada. One man heard of us and wrote asking for suggestions for
starting a new work. A visit in October found about 20 people present in a rent

ed hall for a Thursday night service. The leader of the group says he has been
in many denominations but has found no spiritual satisfaction. Services leaned toward Pentecostal practices, but the man insists he is not Pentecostal, al

though some of the people he is working with have this background. There is
one family from a church of Christ in Saskatchewan who would be in that work.

If a preacher would go there to work with this young man and the other

family, a new work could get underway.

Possibly some of those from Pente

costal bacl^rounds would not stay with the church, but there would be a nucle us. Needless to say, a preacher is absolutely necessary. 7. The Grantbrook church in northern Toronto had difficulty in finding a preacher. Difficulties developed and the denominational group which built and had title to the building we were using, decided to sell it. The price was too high for us, so our people were left without a meeting house. Two recent
meetings indicate at least 38 people will be in the nucleus of the re-established

work. As soon as a meeting place can be secured these people will be having regular services. Attendance should go up to 50 almost immediately. We can give leadership for a time, but the many other demands on us make it impos sible for us to give sufficient time once the church is moving and needs fulltime ministerial service.

There are other places with equally great potential, but they are places
These SEVEN PLACES need help today. What are we going to do? Frankly, I don't know. Missionaries and ministers on the field have discussed this and prayed for guidance. We have prayed for preachers. We wait now for God to answer. Perhaps you should respond to one of these challenges. If you will, please write GENE DULIN, 19 Templar Drive, Weston (Toronto), Ontario, Canada. We will give you all the details we can and give you an honest apprais al of the situation. We say again, none of these fields will be easy. None will bring a bountiful harvest overnight. But each of them provides a place of serv
ice for men of God. How about it?

where we can delay doing something for a time.

NEWS
The Alan LaRues are the proud
The first Men's Retreat was held

parents of a baby boy, Scott Alan, born Sept. 25. After playing the pi ano for morning services, Pat went
to the hospital and Scott was born a-

bout 3:00. Mother, father, baby and sisters are all doing well.

at Ontario Christian Assembly Oct. 14-15. Richard Phillips, professor at Lincoln Christian College was the principle speaker. Attendance varied from 25 to 35, and everyone found it helpful and instructive.

LETTERS:
AUSTRIA

cially in the Lord's work.

Dear brethren in Christ I I re

The church here could use some

of your small Russian New Testa ments. Someone here gave meacopy

of one of them, and they are very nice. We could use 100 copies very easily, as wemake trips toRussiafrom here. We are also visiting other iron cur
tain countries as opportunities arise.

ceived your address accidently, therefore I take this liberty to ask you forafew New Testaments of your edition. Possibly you have Bibles al so, I beg of you, if you can, send
them to me, as I have need of them

PREACHER IN RUSSIA

not only for myself, but for many like myself. I will ever be grateful to you. Be generous, please, and if possible send them to me, as it is absolutely impossible to get this Book of Life in our country. Send them through
. . . in . . . with the understanding that they are for me, so send him my
address thenhe will send them to me.
Enclosed is his address: . . .

I received your letter written in September informing me of a long letter with some questions last Janu ary. But I am very sorry that I did not receive it. It has been lost (?) somewhere in the way and could not reach me. I have sent you two letters since I last heard from you and did not get an answer from you. So I thought that you have stopped to write to me, but thanks be to God that you remember me and my family and praying for me and are ready to send me ^aln a parcel. We are working for the Lord.
God has added some souls to the

I remain in love to you.

humble brother in the Lord.

Your

FROM STOCKHOLM. SWEDEN

Two group trips have been made

this season into the U.S.S.R. lam

just back from a short trip to - (Rus sian city). I thought it would be of in terest to you that one man in the. . .

church there already had one of your

small Russian New Testaments . . . Much more could and should be done.

church by baptism. Thanks be to God for His grace and His love that sin
ners are saved.

But in due time the Lord may open

more ways.

Your letter has brought u s very much joy that you do not forget us be fore God prayir^ for and helping us materially by sending us help in par cels again and again. We thank you for your love to us.

RUSSIAN MINISTER SERVING IN AMERICA WITH CHURCH OF CHRIST

I appreciate so very much the

work that you are doing.

FROM LARGE RUSSIAN CITY

I am happy

Peace be unto you dear brethren

in Christ!

I greet you with the love of our

Lord Jesus Christ. I wish you the best blessings in your life and espe

to hear about the printing of the Rus sian New Testaments and the hymnbook in three languages. Our need is indeed great for more literature in the Slavic language. I would appre ciate . . . 100 copies of the New Tes tament and 24 hymnbooks.

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FROM POLAND (TO BRO. HUK)

. . . Finally we received all five parcels of clothing sent by you. We thank you numberless times for your care of us and those with you who contributed clothing. Especially we thank your wife for sorting and pack ing. (This is done according to age,
sex and number of members in the

which fitted him like by the tailor. A family from . . . were supplied with dresses and children's clothing. There was enough for everybody. I can not describe to you the joy and pleasure of these needy Christian people. We are in the midst of campaign
xmder the theme "New Testament in

every home. " We need some finan cial help to get New Testaments. We give it free of charge.
Many Russian New Testaments
are sent "over there." Those that

family.) Moreover, these packages were welcomed since they came in time when we had 3 families visiting us from East (Russia). It was plea sure to satisfy their needs and to share with them the gifts of your love.
A brother from . . . tried the suit
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come to visit us are generously sup plied with "sweet buns" (Russian New Testaments). Your buns are accept ed with special delight because of the

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The 19th National Missionary Convention met Sept. 27-30 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gene Dulin served
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workshop of over 150 in a discussion of COMMUNISM and also led singing at the convention banquet. Dewey Thackstonled the singing at one of the breakfasts and sang at a luncheon. Next year's convention will be in Dodge City, Kansas, Sept. 26-29, 1967, with Harold Sims (missionary to Japan on furlough and teaching at Cincinnati Bible Seminary) serving as president. The theme is SO SEND I
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Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday of October. This year the Dewey Thackstons (Niagara) in vited the Alan LaRues (Hamilton) and the Gene Dulins and Sandra Mull (To ronto) for the day. The turkey dinner and all the trimmings were enjoyable but the fellowship was even better.

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A new congregation will hold first services Dec. 4, 1966, in north To ronto, with Gene ]>ilin servii^ as minister. Thirty-eight people have commit
ted themselves to this new work.

The church will be meeting in a nursery school for the first several weelcs during the period of organization. As soon as a definite local area is determined for the new work, a site will be selected and additional plans will

be formulated.

The possibility of purchasing a residence and using this tem

porarily as a meeting house is being considered.

This new work will replace the old Grantbrook work. Former publica tions have indicated that the denominationalists who owned that building sold it, leaving our people without a meeting place. Christians from that area have been worshiping with the Keele Street or Westway churches, but will now be joinii^ in this new effort. Some who were from the demoninational group, es pecially young people, have accepted the New Testament position and will be sharing in this new congregation. As each new congregation is established by Toronto Christian Mission, the leadership is taught from the beginning that the local congregation is com pletely autonomous {self-governing). As soon as men with a reasonable com prehension of the scriptures are available, and they have called their minister. Gene Dulin and Toronto Christian Mission step out of leadership and give as sistance or advice only on request. While the Mission accepts responsibility for the establishment of a work, we have no scriptural authority to direct a work after we have turned it over to the new minister and the local leadership, even though there are times when we may feel some outside suggestions are warranted. The principles dealing with local autonomy and responsibility of local leadership are far too dear to be violated in one local situation.
In this new work in north Toronto we have four men and their families,

plus several young people and ladies . These four men are each well estab lished in the faith and will give immediate oversight to the new work. They have selected the meeting place and have set the date to open the new work. They will determine the area where the building site will be purchased. Gene Dulin will serve as the minister and will give counsel, as any minister does to

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The presence of this number of capable men makes pros pects for the future of this work quite encouraging. A permanent minister for this new work is needed. The high cost of land and building, plus other expenses in starting a new church, will make heavy demands on these few people. This means the new minister will have to supply a rather large amount of his support. We would suggest raising livinglink support, but work opportunities are available for both men and women, if this approach were more acceptable to the individual called by this congrega
tion to serve them.

his congregation.

Your prayers are solicited for this new work as it gets underway. Pray with us, too, that God's Spirit will strive with the right man until that man ac cepts the challenge and comes to serve this band of believers.

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John Huk was gu es t speaker at the Thanksgiving Bible Conference of the Los Angeles Russian Evangelical
Christian Church the last of Novem
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Mrs. Alan LaRue, who under

went gallstone surgery late in Octo ber, is recuperating rapidly. Sandra Mull has completed an eight-week Teacher Training Course with the church at Aylmer. Sandra has decided to teach in a private school for her support rather than be supported by churches in the U.S. She will continue to conduct Religious
Education courses for the churches,

We&tway church recorded a new record worship attendance of 132 on

Nov. 16. Keele Street church had over 120

in worship Nov. 16. This is a record high for recent years. Hamilton averaged 55 in Bible
School for the month of October.

will help in camp and assist in other

ways as needs arise and time per
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Niagara has a goal of 40 for this

fall.

Two FAITH PROMISE MISSION

Mrs. Delbert McDonald (Lenora

Dulin's mother), forwarding agent for

the Mission, spent several weeks in
November and December in Toronto

ARY CONFERENCES (Predericksburg, Ohio, and Mitchell, Ind.) were

conducted by Gene Dulin this fall. One hundred nineteen youth were in the youth rally in October. This
meeting was at Erin, one of the i^ral

assisting in the bookkeeping and other

work.

Toronto area has four young peo ple in church-related schools this year. These include two in Lincoln Christian College, one in Milligan,
and one in Maritime Christian Col

churches, which usually causes a loss

in attendance.

Westway reports one baptism and

five membership transfers in recent
weeks.

lege. Another plans to re-enter John son Bible College in January and five young people who graduate next spring are planning toward church colleges
next fall.

Ken Henderson, STRAIGHT Mag azine writer, conducted a week-end

youth rally in Toronto Nov. 25-27.

/tay pur Christmas be Messed pur New Year rich In happiness

CHURCH BUILDERS
LETTERS:
CALIFORNIA: Would like to join C. B. C. We want to help make things possiblefor everyone to enjoy the real pleasure of building a better life through the building of real churches. KANSAS: Hope the time soon will come when you have enough builders enrolled so that you will have suffi cient funds to build the buildings needed whenever the call goes out.

MICHIGAN: We are always glad

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posed of individuals and groups who desire to contribute $10 per year ($5 in the sprii^ and $5 in the faU) to the building of new churches i n Canada.
A few of the notes with the fall offer

ings are above.

If you would like to be a member, notify Gene Dulinat 19 Templar Drive, Weston (Toronto), Ontario, Canada.
The 1967 MISSIONARY CALEN

DARS are ready for mailing. If you would like one, please forward your
request.