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Feb.

14th, 1976

Box 183, Maspeth, N.Y. 11378

gone and it is high time I wrote another letter. I have just written
my 36th radio script for the book of Acts and am only half-way thru
the book, which I had not yet started when I wrote last. But the Acts
program will not go on the air until March. -

- -

It was on Nov. 29th that all of us missionaries of the Formosa

Christian Mission converged on Lotung and had a big Thanksgiving

dinner with the Ted Skiles family at the new orphanage "God's House
of Love." There were the Alan Bemos, (6) the Sam Hazkwoods (5),

the Chuck Johnsons (6), myself and Sue Rhodes and another family,
the Chris Quains (4) - in addition to the Skiles family of 7. So with 11 adults and 19 children - it was some week-end. Our arrivals

and departures - from Friday thru Sun. - were staggered, so that

except for Sat. noon, we were never all there at the same time. But
we were all glad to see the orphanage and the 19 children living

happily in it and a new road built to it, plus a telephone - which

cost a small fortune to install - and the building indebtedness to our

building fund - of over $2600.00 - all paid off. What thrilled us all
even more, however, was the witnessing of the baptism, that Sunday
Two blind Christian radio listeners
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orphan boys and the 3 Chinese nurses who take care of
and feed the children. The three nurses had been sprinkled but, after seeing two of the orphan boys baptized
the week before, had begun to ask questions and decided to follow their example.

. December is always a busy month for everyone and we were no exception. It is also an expensive month
- not only because of Christmas but because we always pay six months' rent in advance. (And, of course,
we have always saved up in advance, in order to do so.) This year, however, our landlady raised the rent
another $52.70 per month, making our rent, now, $237.16 per month. It seems exorbitant to us for just an
apartment but if we could find one cheaper it would have to be way out of town and not on the ground
floor, with nowhere to play for the children except on the street. And we do have an excellent office space
downstairs. So we've paid 3 months rent and will decide later what to do.

At Christmas time, this year, we decided to have some of our radio audience and others we have met

who are blind and crippled come to our home for a big Christmas party. The church members had each
taken the name, age and sex of one child from the Lotung orphanage and bought and wrapped a special gift
for his particular one. And in addition the church gave them a Christmas gift of money for their holidays.
But Alan had been teaching in crippled Bro. Yoh's home and in the home of the Tsais (She is blind and he is
crippled.) and we had other listeners come as well. Two blind girls are Christians and one read the Luke
account of Jesus' birth from memory and the other sang 2 carols from memory for our party.

My own Bible class women gave quite large money gifts to the Church through me and we used this to
buy these handicapped folks new "pu kais" (heavy cotton wadded blankets with satin covers) for Christmas.
Left: Alan Bemo,

Mr. Yoh and Pastor

Joseph Loh having

a class & Communion

together.
Right: Becky's 7th
birthday cake.

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One of those attending this and church services in December was a radio listener who had written in.

Miss Chang wrote that she had never heard about Christ before but was convinced, by listening to our
program "Bible Story Time" every day, that Jesus had died for her and she wanted to accept Him. So she
was baptized on the first Sunday in January.

Somehow, these conversions - one in Nov. and this one - have given us fresh hope. And other listeners

have become the deep concern of Alan's, so that he spends two full days each week teaching and helping
these blind and crippled Christians in so many ways. He is now making tapes for them in several languages.
And using them for helping to keep these handicapped people interested, during their long days. In fact, he
is beginning to copy our Japanese programs for their relatives, too. And today, Alan told me that crippled
Bro. Yoh copies my program every morning and plays it back at least 10 times each day. (As I am telling
the stories all the way through the Bible, he will become quite well-informed about "the Book" even though
he cannot read.) And it gives me joy to help make this possible. But Alan's truly concerned and loving
follow-up makes all the difference.

On Dec. 23rd, all our missionary group travelled to Chung Li, where Chuck and Molly Johnston are
involved in a very active campus ministry and where Chuck teaches many classes in a Christian University
there. This, however, was our Christmas dinner and party day together. And after an absolutely scrumptious
dinnerwe had the tree. Each child had drawn a child's name and each adult had drawn an adult's so it was

fun to watch each one, in turn, open his gift of the day. But afterward, we had an even more precious event
when we went over to the chapel of the college and Alan baptized Becky - the 2nd of their children to
accept Christ and be born again.

New Year's Eve, according to our solar calendar, was a long night of seeing the new year in with our
Christian brethren - and I ended up by going home with my friend Kathleen Langton-Smith for the rest of

the night. She is Supt. of the Gladys Aylward Children's Home, here in Taipei, and, being a long time orphan
herself, is almost like one of our family and has been for several years.

But in the Orient, there is always a far more important lunar New Year's Day. It was on Jan. 31st, this
year, and up to that time everyone works double and over time. And after it, for two weeks, to all intents
and purposes, no one works. It is a grand national holiday when everyone visits friends and relatives and has

pretty new clothes. This is the last day of that holiday and tonight the children will all carry lanterns to
see the season out.

So before we all settle back into "the groove" again, I am happy to have had lanterns out into the

darkness around us and shall try - along with you and your lamp - to keep them trimmed and burning until
our Bridegroom arrives.

Your China Missionary,

Isabel M. Dittemore

P. S. I plan now to wait until the end of this year to go home for furlough. And may God bless our year!

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Left: My
Wednesday

morning
Bible Class.

Right: Radio
listener, Miss

Chang who was

baptibed on
Thanksgiving Day.

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April to June, 1976

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Desir Friends,

At the close of our last letter I mentioned that we were thinking about the possibility of

being back in the States this summer, I wish I could tell you in detail the way the Lord has

been leading us through His Word and circumstances in the last few weeks, I would be glad to
communicate to any of you by letter or cassette tape if you axe interested. All together we
have sent out fifteen copies of the tape I mentioned in our last issue concerning the book
AGAINST THE TIDE about the life of Watchman Nee and the restoration movement here.
Fear

We were thinking of returning to

the States-for 2ui indefinite period
of time because i t did not seem

that much was being accomplished

here and

we thought that we should

possibly go back to re-apply for a

visa to Thailand, That did not
mean that there was not a lot of

important wark to be done here. The

thing that bothered me the most was
that I hated to start anything that
-I couldn't be sure would be carried

through to completion. With my own

unsureness of how long I would be

here and the seeming failures I had

seen in the past I was literally

afraid to launch out on any new

ventures.

These needs and, suijcord-

ingly, feelings of fear kept grow

ing until on the morning of May
4th I knew a final decision had to
be made. As I went into our bed

Farmer Gau with two sons in farm house

notice family alter

room to prayer the Lord taught me

lesson number one, I prayed, "Lord, I know there is much to be done but I am afraid. . , ."
As I" said the word "afraid" the words "I was afraid and hid your talent in the ground." (Matt,

25(25) came to mind, I couldn't remember exactly where this passage was sostopped and looked
it up and read the whole parable in which this statement is found Matthew 25il4-30, Even
though I had read it many times before and heard sermons preached on it this passage seemed

very new and fresh to me.

It told me that it is very wrong for any servant of God to be afraid

to use any possession God has given to him because God would not have given it unless the
servant first already had the ability (vs.15) to use it. I decided that I would try to never
again let fear stop me from doing or trying to do anything. Right then, if I were to take on
some of the things that needed to be done I need^ to have a Chinese co-worker, I had been
afraid to because others I had worked with had hot only left working for the Lord but had

become unfaithful in Church attendance afterthey quitworking with me, when before they had been
faithful members of the Church, I wondered if I had lost the Lord's precious property and had

been afraid to touch any more. Now, I knew, there was one young man who had attended our Bible
Institute and was interested in serving the Lord full time, I got up from my knees right then
and went over to the place where he was working and a^ked him if he was interested in working
witTrme-ln-the Lord's work, sure that the Lord would not entrust His property to me unless I

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matter and wan^sA^to, That being so I went on to'

explain what the work would involve and at the sane

time committed myself for some time to the work

15 here. This young man's name i&^Galyin Lai and he .

^ J started working with me the following Monday, May;

The main project we have been working on since then

is a correspondence course. Chuck Johnston and I
had"been talking about working together on it for

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q.uite some time^but this fear had kept me from

went to Chung Li where the Johnstons live to really

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"^%PBi get the ball to rolling in working with Chuck. Now

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we have read the proof on and are just printing

3',.0GO copies of lesson one, the first in a series

of';^v^'lessons. This course was" originallr "

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written' in Spanish and has been used with great

response by Ed Holt in Chile, It was translated

into English and now Chuck and some of his student

Calvin and Joyce working in the office

friends at the college where he teaches have trans

lated it into Chinese,

Calvin and I go over it too and then each lesson is checked carefully

by a brother here Homer Liu, whom we worked with when we first came to Taiwan and who is a
very good advisor since he is a secretary to the President of the Republic of China, After
this we are taking the manuscript to the printer along with the art work which has been
re-drawn by an art student in the Church, I wish lesson one was finished printing so I could
put a picture of it in this report maybe next time. We are planning on advertising this
^course by daily newspapers as has been done in Chile and we believe that the response will
IS good.

The course is called THE COWASS

COI;H^ASS OF TRUTH,

More lessons

On May 13th I was asked to preach at the leprosarium the following Sunday, the l6th.

I did

and had selected for my text Matthew 1502-38. The thought,that when the disciples were abso
lutely at a loss to fullfill the needs of ^,000 hungry people Jesus could and only then

could He provide in a miraculous way?had really moved me,

that Jesus started taking oyer the work here.

I had been at..my end when I felt

That was lesson number two.

However, I had

come upon a problem it seemed that I could very easily get too many jobs to do if I didn't
have the excuse of fear with which to say"no."

I had just said "no" to a very big opportunity

to preach the gospel because, I said, "I just don't have time to do it,"

Then as I preached

to the leper^ that morning I learned lesson number Jihre^: _ You don't say "no" when you don't
have enough because Jesus will bless what you do have,
I read the words of Jesus in this
story, "what do you have?"

it really hit me.

on the road to the farmers

Instead of trying to do everything myself I

putting my hand to the plow

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should present what I do have (time, talent, money, other Christians) to Jesus and let Him
bless it, I decided to try to do this and so far it has worked beautifully. For example,!
have written the first three of a planned twenty radio scripts to go along with tne corres

pondence course, Calvin has translated them into Chinese, and then we have given them to a

group of Christian professionals in this field Overseas Radio and Television Inc. ~ and
they are recording them for us. We will pay them for their expenses for rewriting our scripts
(not changing content) for radio and then recording. There is still the call to go to Thai
land and the need of a Chinese primer for those who have just accepted the Lord and need
training, I can't go to Thailand right now but I can work on the primer so that we or someone
else can use it later. Since then I have not said no to any opportunities and these opportun
ities have either been taken or not really materialized.

Cabbages

Oh yes, I started back to language school in the midst of all this to try to learn the Taiwan
ese dialect of Chinese, the mother tongue of 80 percent of the people here,
which is
the only language many of the country people understand.
The reason T started doing
this is our recent work with the farming community.on the mountains around Taipei,

A story

in a recent newsletter from Thailand about people becoming Christians after the seed of the

gospel had been sown in their hearts ten years prior really touched me too, I had become
discouraged working with people who had heard the gospel many times, come to Church and even
become Christians, and yet were dull of hearing. This story rekindled in me the original
purpose of coming to Taiwan in the first place that of telling the Good News to those who
'had never heard i t before.

As I read this story I

immediately thought of some farm people we had met

while the children and I were mountain climbing one

Saturday, I had gone back several times since then

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on a friendly basis and Mr, Gau had been to our house

a couple of times, I had given him some tracts and
given a Bible to him sometime back. But now I deter-

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mined to try to really communicate the gospel story

to him, his family and his neighbors.

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One statement

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by the man who became a Christian in Thailand after

ten years really guided me in how to do thisi

He said,

after he had asked for more teaching, "I can still

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remember most of the story of Jesus that the lady

missionary told and I can remember exactly the way the

pictures looked," (she had used a flannelgraph)

packed an overnight bag and took some colored pictures

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of Jesus death, burial, and resurrection and went to

see Mr, Gau. I got there about 6i30 in the evening and found them in the field still planting
cabbages. Much to their embarrasment, at first, I took off my shoes and started helping them.
We finished at about 8|00 P,H, well after dark. That night I shared the story of Jesus with
them ~ the first time he and his mother and father had heard it. His three younger sisters

said that they had studied it in school (l can imagine) but they listened too,

I found,

however, that everything I said Mr, Gau had to translate into Taiwanese because his parents
hardly understood one work of Mandarin, That is when I started thinking about studying Taiwan
ese. I spent the night sleeping on the hard floor of a loft room with the men folk. The next

day I helped them plant about 2,000 cabbages just for the fun of it.

In the process I learned

to plow with a water buffalo,

Tomatos

The next time I went I took a slide program of actual people acting out the crucifixion of
and resurrection of Jesus and what it means. This program had been prepared by other Christ

ians here and had an explanation on cassette tape in Taiwanese, I showed this to them, spent
the night and then worked with them another day. The next night we went down the road to a
neighbor's house and showed it, this time Brother Lwo, a Taiwanese minister, going with me.
Then just this past Tuesday we went again Calvin, Mr. Lwo, and myself. We got there about

noon, and, after eating with them, went into the fields and helped them get the day's work
done early this time tying up tomato vines. Then we got things set up to show a movie in
their cemented threshing floor front yard. Old Mr, Gau went to invite the neighbors and after
supper at 8j00 we showed this movie with Taiwanese sound. This movie was about a man who was

a Buddhist farmer like them who accepted Christ,

It was filmed here in Taiwan by a missionary
group. Using this is still another answer to the

question of "What do you have?" when "I can't,"

After eight people watched this thirty-minute
story Mr, Lwo preached to them for that much
longer. Afterward no one was anxious to leave and
one of the neighbors where we had shown the
slides came over and asked if we would show the

film at his house, "I want everyone in my home to

see this" he said. Providing the weather is good
we plan to teach at his house next Tuesday,
Mark with the Lwo brothers in outdoor cafe

Just this morning Brother Lwo, Calvin and I went

to make more contacts for showing this film and

preaching in out-of-the-way places. We found a

little settlement of sixty people all rela
tives living on a mountainside. They have never

heard the gospel either so we set things up to go

there next week. We hope to tell the basic gospel,

to.as many as we can where it has here-to-fore

H not been proclaimed. Where the seed falls on good

ground it will grow and the Lord of the harvest
will prepare reapers,
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In all of these projects I am trying to keep

others very much involved (using what I have) so

it cun be carried on if and when we are not here,,

Pauline talked to Janet's students

Birthdays since we wrote last have been Beth's

(now 9) on April 18th and Janet's (now 31) on May

2'+th, Jonnie's is comming up in a few days he will be six on July30th, He is thrilled that one

of his baby teeth is about to come out, Nathan, who will be two on August l6th, is really start
ing to add to his vocabulary. We have boxight a family membership at a pool an hours bus ride
away and now Janet is taking the children swimming five days a week to attend swimming lessons.
It is hard work for her but she and the children are becoming quite accomplished swimmers,
. Another baby

Now for a special announoementj Though not planned and though we're not exactly sure when, we are

happily expecting a new baby. The baby is scheduled to arrive around the end of October or beginning of November, As the years and children increase Janet is getting more and more beautiful.
We enjoyed the fellowship of Mark & Pauline Maxey who stopped here for a couple of days on their
way to a convention in the Philippines, Also George Morgan of Oregon and Bill Turner visited.

It has been a real joy for me to sit down and write this to you. I hope and pray that it has been
a blessing to you as well. May God bless you as you serve Him, I'm sure you can think of someone
you have met "by chance" somewhere around you who has not heard the gospel to whom you could go
and tell the simple story which is "the power of God unto salvation," Preach the Gospell
Yours In Christ,

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MissionariesJ

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Alan & Janet Bemo

#5-1 Lane l6l

Hsin Sheng South Road, Section 1
Taipei 106, Taiwan R.O.G.
Forwarding Agent;
Mrs. Linda Goerke

August to Septein"ber, 1976

R.R. #2

King City, Mo, 64463

Dear Go-Workers & Friends,

Though we do not pray as we should we do thank God for you and remember many of you by name
when we come before God. It is a joy to write this letter to you and my prayer with it is
that you will receive a blessing by reading it.

Please notice that we havrg'^'a/new forwarding'agei^^j^Ii^e thank the Lord for the good work
Mrs Sandi Gant has done as~"fOTwa^ding-ag5nt"F6r''^e last eight years.

This job, however,

has become to much as her responcibilities have, increased in the last months.
and Linda Goerke have taken over.

The Goerkes live on a

Now Millard

farm in Northern Missouri and

have six boys, two of which pretty well dominate the local football team. In Linda's last
letter she said, "Even though I don't understand football I enjoy watching my boys play."
I hope to be able to put a picture of the Goerkes in our next CRUSADER. They have been
supporters of the work here for years now and have written to us regularly all the time we
have known them. All offerings should be sent through them now. Also, if you want slides
or display material please contact them.

During July and August I had to be away _from home for two weeks once__for the family to
attend a missionary conference in T5i-chung, and once when I went to Chung-li to work with
Brother Chuck Johnston in a Summer English Seminar which Chuck worked with for four weeks

and because of which two people were baptised.

study Taiwanese during those two months.

Because of being gone I decided not to

Now I am taking 6 hours a week again,

I'm having

a difficult time with it right now but my teacher says I am going through the most critical

part of learning Taiwanese right now,

E^ch word has one of seven tones and, to make it

worse, almost every word is subject to change to another tone when used in a sentence.
Since I wrote to you last I

that side of the mountain. Howsecond house because the hus-

Lee's house and go on to the ^

down a

small road and then went

on by foot to the next farmhouse.

When we got there we

"

Playing table soccer with English Bus Tour kids

found moininy and four children in front of the house

cleaning some bamboo shoots. I asked her if they

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would be interested in seeing some color slides

about Jesus that evening in their home. She told

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me quite frankly that they were not interested.

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After talking for a few minutes I asked the name

y j [the people who lived back behind their house and

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directions to get there. She said the name was
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pointed to a path and we started off.

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walking for about 15 minutes I realised we

jg had taken
awrong turn somewhere because the path

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decided to try to find the path by walking across
B a field instead of backtracking. As I stepped from

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'tion c^f their house but told me'that they were not

"see my choo-choo train cake"

to tell them all about Jesust

home today.

He wondered why I,^a foreigner, would

be out here looking for the Ghengs. I told him I

was trying to go to everyone's jiouse in the area

"Are you the one who has been to the Gau's house so often?"

he asked. "My name is Ldb and I've been wanting to make your aquaintance for a long time.
I live in the house just not to far from the Gau's." (the house we had just passed by as

a lost cause) "Is that right ! " I said. "I've been wanting to meet you for^a long time

too. Why don't I come over to your house tonight and tell you about Jesus?I" He agreed
so we walked up the mountain together toward his house, passing by where Calvin was on
the way. Before we got to where the motorcycle was parked it started to rain but we
were not bothered by it at all. Calvin and I praised God loudly as we rode from there
to Mr. Lde's house. We showed the slides, talked a while, and left a Gospel of John
with them and left with the good feeling that the seed_had been planted in some more

soil. We spent the night in the loft room of farmer Gau and I went to sleep wondering
what kind of soil the Lefes wouli^ turn out to be. Probably roadside soil but hopefully
the good. Just yesterday Mr. Gau came to our house and asked me to help him find a job
in the city during the winter season.

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Church meeting when Ronnie Hoffman (3^d from left) was here

This newsletter should look a lot better this time - we are typing It on a new typwriter
which has a carbon ribbon that makes type look like its printed. Now if I can only learn to
type and spell! This typwriter actually belongs to the bookstore. We

reprint the cookbook, "Tips 'N Treats," when the printer told us it should be retyped because
the former printing was too poor to photograph for offset. Having someone else type it on a
proper machine would cost more that $700 and typsetting would be even more so we decided to
buy this typwriter for $450 and type it ourselves. Hopefully, it will be an investment tha
will pay off much in the years to come.

The correspondence course is still going slow. We have yet to get lesson one printed, even
though we are having type set for the third time now. After having redone it the second
time we gave it to a non-Christian girl to look at. Her reaction was_that it was terd to r^d
as she could tell it had been translated from English. It was "English-Chinese instead of
good smooth Chinese. Back to the drawing board. This time I think we have found someone
who can do the writing job WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE ENGLISH but former translations. The
printer was due to give us a copy to proofread today. We are all really pleased with he
corresponding radio scripts! I have finished writing eight now and am doing two a week till
all 26

in this series are finished^ Overseas Radio and Televishioni

Inc. is producing

them in Mandarin as fast as we get the scripts written,

of which I mentioned in the Dec,,

1975 to March, 197^ issue. One

attends the congregation where

brother Lwo preaches.

yet been
donating
and I am
have all

One has not

for'jonnie &10 other little Indians

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emmersed but we hope with teaching that she will be. One blind girl,M.<.ss Lee, is
a house to be used for a meeting place, brother L;)b is donating the folding chairs,
going to pay for renting a bus to go around and pick people up. These believers
been very busy telphoning and writing letters in brail and we are hoping for a good

meeting,

Starting in July I took on a new responcibility of being the director of English Bus Tours,
a club started by Overseas Crusade,(an interdenominational missions organization)^to contact
young people who wanted a chance to meet and talk to Americans. Of course the main purpose
is to interest them in the Gospel.

I took on this responcibility with doubts as to it|s

worth and effectiveness but after doing it for these three months I am convinced that it is

a good means of reaching some who have never heard the message before, I started a Thurs
day night English Bible class to which I could invite people on the bus tour to come. We
call it "Happy Time" and are studying from Ecclesiastes to find the real meaning of a happy
life.

Because of the bus tours and this class we have had new people at nearly every

Sunday morning and Tuesday evening service.

We are studying through the Old Testament on

Tuesday evenings. We read about four chapters in advance and then discuss them when the
six to ten of us get together.

Special days: Jonnie was six on July 30'th. He*s in the first grade now and his teacher
says he is one of the best readers in class but has a hard time with other things espec
ially sitting still0 He's taking after his dad in that part I'm afraid Nathan turned two

on August l6th and Janet and I celebrated our 12 wedding anniversary the next day,

Beth

has gone into the fourth grade (that's hard for even me to believe) and Becky the 2nd. You

will probably be getting another newsletter very soon concerning our next ..arrival,

Visitors: Graig and Kathy Moore, internes from Ozark Bible College,were here for most of
the summer working with Chuck Johnston, Also Wendy Collins and Joyce Graham were here
working with the summer English seminar. We enjoyed entertaining Imogen Williams and her

daughter Tina when they stopped off for a few days on their way back to Thailand, We
especially valued her testimony to the brethren here. In August Ronnie Hoffman, missionary
to the Philippines, stopped by for a few days on his way to Korea. At the same time Bill
McClure of Dallas Christian College, also on his way to Korea, was here. He gave us some
real encouragement in our new radio work. In September we were privileged to again be
visited by Mr Norman Noble, a businessman from Bellevue, Washington His being in our

small meeting showed our four young businessmen that God's work should be more important
than business or pleasure. You can't really "call them visitors but Steven and Carol?)rn Taylor
arrived on September 20th with their four-month-old son to spend a year working with the
Skileses. They are studying Mandarin two hours a day and also helping some with the
bookstore,

God answers prayers.

KEEP ON PRAYING!I

Yours in Christ,

-Cmtr Alan Bemo

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Hsin Sheng South Road, Section 1
Taipei 106, Taiwan R.O.G,

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October, November, & December, 1976

King City, Mo. 64^3

Mrs. Linda Goerke

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Written on Jan.5> 1977

Dear Friends,

We have a new baby I

6th.

Janet gave birth to a healthy

girl

on December

She weighed 9 pounds, 5 ounces and was 23i inches long: I We

named her Sarah Lanet. Janet has always liked the name Sarah and
Lanet is a combination of the last part of our first names Alan &

Janet.

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It seemed that we had to wait a long time for her because we

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were not sure of the due date but once Janet started having pains

Sarah only took two hours to arrive. Mommy & baby came home in three
days and are both doing fine. Sarah is gaining weight and Janet is

The Church has rented an assembly hall not too far from our house,
where as before they were meeting in our basement.

been very good for them in that it has given them independence.
has also given them added responsibilities.

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This move has

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Sarah Lanet

For example they are

having to pay
times as much rent. The main joy is that since October, when they made the
move, the Chinese have been doing nearly all the preaching. I preached once in November and am
scheduled to preach once this month. We have three brothers who do a very capable job and
another who is preaching his first sermon this month. Also, Brother Larry Yang, one of the
capable "preacher boys" has taken on the responsibility of leading the Children's Sunday School
which 20 children are attending. Tuesday evening Bible studies are inspiring. We just studied
II Kings 6 & 7 last night. By the way we had 82 in attendence the second Sunday we met in our
new place ~ we had sent out 1200 invitations to English Bus Tour members with whom we have
been working for eight months now.

About 20 had to stand at that meeting,

Usually we have

around 20 in attendence.

Holiday activities included Thanksgiving at the Johnstons in Chung Li, and for Christmas:
the blind put on a program for Mrs. Dittemore* s women's class on December 22nd and for the
Church on Christmas night, my English Bible class had a party the evening of the 23rd and all
the missionaries went to the Skiles' house in Lwo Tung on December 30 ^ 31st for a late
Christmas dinner and get together.

Mom (Mrs, Dittemore) left for furlough the

next day -- New Years day. She will be in
the States for about a year. We all feel
there is something missing now that she is
gone.

The blind have been meeting for over three

months now Ik meetings in all. For the

two months we averaged 11 at each meeting but

this included sighted people. Even though
these Monday morning meetings have not been

going on very long we have already had prob

lems. Watchman Nee once said,"I make it a

practice to never accept offerings from unbe

lievers. I don't want them to feel that the

Lord is beholding to them."

I think this

Bemos & Mrs.Dittemore in front of new meeting place

is very wise. We started the meetings for the blind in

the vacant house of a non-Christian man whose blind daugh-

ter is a Christian. This man also made contributions

and before long he started trying to run things. We had

some trouble for a while but the Lord has worked all
that out. Now attendance has improved to an average of
eleven blind at each meeting. At our last meeting we

had a
year old man speak to us who was a professor
of psychology until last year when he became blind. He
said,"If my physical eyes hadn't become blind my spir
itual eyes woudn't have been opened." He is a member of |
the "Little Flock" brethren of whom I have spoken in

the past.

His message was the best we've had yetl

English Bus Tours have been taking more and more time
and work. We went on one tour in Dec. on which we took

100 people to a park an hour's drive from Taipei. As

usual we sang Christian songs, played games which re

quired the use of English, and had a devotional.

The Goerke Family

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also had a E.B.T. Christmas banquet on Dec. 18th which

250 members attended. Membership has grown to nearly

3,000 now. We are having three tours in January. I have
had to start another English Bible class because my

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was taken care of. Now we are ready for lesson 2it is
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