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March

Ninth

Edition

"And I heard the voice of the Lord,

saying, Ivhom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said. Here am I; send me,"
Dear Friends,

Greetings from Mashokoi It is the rainy season here, and for the first time in yeajps we are having abundant rain. This means crops will grow and hunger vrill be less. V/e along with the Africans are rejoicing and thanlcing God for
the rains They truly are showers of blessing.

On the lighter side, the rains also mean MlJD, MUD, MTJDi

iilvery missionary has

at least one tale to tell about being stuck for hours or waiting for a flood

ed river to go down enough to be crossed. We just don't feel like a mission ary has been properly initiated if he hasn't spent at least one night strand
ed in the bush. At the present time, the Van Dykes' landrover is the only vehicle brave enough to leave the mission. It managed to make the one hun
dred miles to Fort Victoria last v;eek to pick up much needed groceries and

supplies.

It accomplished this v/ith only getting stuck two times.

V/e felt

this was quite a victory over the elements! Recently, I had a most unusual experience as I received a gift from an African. Maria Chauke was being discharged from the hospital and she gave me a good-bye prer5ent. Maria had been a T.B. patient here for over six months and presented us with no end of problems when she first arrived. In those early months, she felt that she was getting no better so decided that she vjould go home. Many tames I personally escorted her back to the hospi tal after having found hor on her v;ay off the mission, a water pot on her
lioRd and a determined look on her face. Each time that I led her back I

sco'Mod her in English as she scolded me in Shona. I expect ye had some of the most interesting Eng3 i r>h-J^hoiia conversations ever heldl

Maria knew three English words, "Good morning. Sister,"

She was very proud

of having mastered these English words and was likely to greet me with this at any time of the day or night, Thrpugh the raonths Haria and I became friends. Three weeks before she was to be discharged, Maria gave her life to Christ and was baptized. Vi/hat a day of rejoicing that was. On the morn ing that she was to leave, she came to me to say good-bye and to give me a gift. As I held out my hands, she placed a tickey (a tliree cent piece) in them. This was her vjay of expressing to me her appreciation for all that had been done for her here at Mashoko. I fought back the tears as I tried in my stumbling Shona to express my happiness over her gift. Not only is it

a very rare thing for an African to give a white person'a gift, but also I
knew that the tickey vjas very precious to her. I'm sure that the Lord sends

these blessings along at just the.right times,

nor her special gift.

I will never forget Maria

middle of the night to be told that our night watchman had died suddenly. He had been on duty that very night and I had exchanged a few words with him before leaving the hospital. His family vias shocked, of course, just as we were. After a long indaba (meeting) the following day, his sons came to us
to request that an autopsy be performed. This is very rare as the Africans

ence V7ith Maria, but some are sad,

Here at Mashoko we have many experiences, many are happy such.as my experi

A few weeks ago l' was awakened in the

normally would never allow such a thing. After inquiring, we discovered that they believed their father had been bevjitched or poisoned.
Dr. Durr was gone at the time, so v/e called on our radio-telephone Hippo

Valley and asked Dr. Kenoyer to come to Mashoko to perform the inquest.
She arrived late in the evening and wo set to work. The body had been enclos ed in our small mortuary building now for about twenty hours. It was a steam ing hot day with no rain, we carried our equipment and water into the mortu

ary and with the aid of a small lamp performed'.the autopsy.

I believe that

this is the nearest I have come to completely fainting away in the course of my duties since I was a first year student. At any rate, we finally finished and could step out into the refreshing night air. Strangely enough, we could not determine any cause for the death. Thus we could not help the family much, but only hoped that they would drop the idea that he had been bewitched^

After having recoivod and considered several thousand (I stopped counting after two thousand) applications for nursing school, ray first year class of
seventeen has been chosen and has be{_'un work f.nd study at Christian Ilospital.

These boys and girls have already stolen my heart,

A fev: -weeks ago two of my

I prayed that God would give me the right words to say as we talked and read Scripture together, V;e read accounts in the Hew Testament of those who became Christians on the Day of Pentecost, the conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch, V!,'e read together the the Philippian jailor, Paul, Cornelius, and others meaning of Christian baptism as found in Romans 6. Before they left my of-

girls came to me and announced that they wanted to become Cliristians.

fice, I heard them make the confession of faith in Jenus Christ as the Son of the living God vihlch was first made by Peter so long ago. A few days later they were baptized. Last week one of the boys caiae to me with the sainc He was baptized on Sunday. Others are seeking and are asking quesrequest.
tions. I

am now teachin?: a class called Christian Living in which I am

sincere

teaching basic Bible doctrine.

Please pray with me that these who are responding to the Gospel are
will wii:

accept Sach year I receive many letters of application saying,."If you me into your nursing school, 1 vjill bo glad to 'join your church','' They say this in Ignorance not knowing or understanding anything about The Church,

but believlng'^that such a statement will favor them in our cyos,

groat deal of teaching v:e must do!

what a

The seeds of the Gospel aro being planted.

eagerness of these students to learn of God and for those who have

Please rejoice with me for

the

eady alrea

made decisions for Him. Please pray with me that these students are being convicted in their hearts by the Holy Spirit to become children of His and
not just pleasers of men.
Until nezt time,,,.

In His love.

Dear

Friends

in Christ:

At this time the Christian Hospital and school at Mashoko Cliristian iiission

face an emergency - - shortage of water

There is not an adequate supply of vjater available at the Mission. The problem faced by the mission personnel is that of getting the water to tho mission station, There is a new bore

liole about a mile _from the station. _ To get the iiLUch needed water from the

well to the mission station requires pipe and at least two (2) pumps to carry

the water.

The cost of such equipment is approxiiliately 1^8,000.00,

But tho operation of the Mashoko Christian Hospital
The CRUSADiiliiS CLASS of Traders

This is a lot of moneyi

is vital to the Mashoko Chi'istian Mission,

Point Christian Church, Indianapolis, Indiana, senses the need for water at

Masholro.

We ai'o sockJ.ng to raise the 8,000,00 for the project,

"vJe aro o.sking help in this largo, and vital endeavor. Please forvjard your gifts to; Mrs, Jtuaes Bailey, Treasurer, CRUSAD.iiRS CLASS of tho Traders Point

Christian Church,

16, Bo:: IJ1.3A.

.Indi:.nr.polis, Indiana 1^.6273,

President
Teacher and Minister Simon -

oincoroly yours in Chr-ist, Byron K. Young Edward C.

Traders Point

Christian Church,

Field Address: Donna L. Kreegar,.R.H, Christian Hospital - Mashoko Mission

Poi'^warding Agents:
Mr. and Mrs, James P.

Ivrecgar

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Rhodesia, Africa,

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R.R.#1. Box -;'/-6lO-G Ande son, Indiana. I|.6011.

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