3218 Campus Drive

Dayton, Ohio k^kOS

July 15, 1965
Dear Christian Friends:

Regretfully, we^^ded our service Hith the African Christian Mission as missionaries

June 30, 1965.

returningthe'^tates in December of 196h we have been traveling to

the churches which l^ve been^,,^^porting us and reporting to themi We hav6 also been raising

the $3,000 which it

our family from Africa to Ohio,

most of the chur5heff"'^iS to raise the necessary money.

We have teen able to visit

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So that there may be no question afe to the reason for our resignation we woula like to

quote parts of our letter to the trustees of the Klssion which was written from Kampala,
Uganda, Africa on December 8, I96U.
After relating_.our efforts to get permission to work in various countries after having-
evacuated the Congo, and after having indicated that these efforts were all thwarted we
state, "One week ago Betty and I decided to return to America unless we received some letter

or indication by today that the Lord's will was contrary. We redoubled our prayer efforts
and left it to Him. Letters we received in response to our requests for information were

discouraging and local investigations only indicated more closed doors. This morning we
received word that our appeal to the Uganda government to reconsider their rejection of our
permit to work in Uganda was rejected - and finall

"So we are resigning - regretfully - from the Mission. . .

"By way of precaution, Betty and I want to state as plainly as we know how that we are
not resigning because of any trouble or incompatibility on the field nor because of any dis
satisfaction of any kind with the Mission. . Our decision has come over a long and prayer
ful period of time motivated only by the desire to solve the problem of our children's school
ing and climaxed by the providential closing of doors which we have inteipreted as the Lord's
leading."

Though I am no longer employed by the African Christian Mission I intend to spend the
equivalent of a day a week in voluntary material writing and translating for the new print

ing ministry which the Mission is entering# Enclosed in this letter is a brochure aypl^in-

=4j^^ha.,mHj[vH.ntins=>.work=wha:Ch--:fe&-4feflgj:on--is-beginning.I cannot iau enbhuslaiftluallj^

commend this project to you for your faithful support.

The missionaries of the African

Christian Mission are still at work, some in the Congo, some in the U. S, A.; the work is
still going onj plans for expansion are even being l^d, I urge you to continue on in your
support and even increase it if possible. Will you transfer the support which you were
giving through us to the Mission's printing ministry and send it to;
African Christian Mission

1^28 Reid Avenue

Cincinnati, Ohio

h^22k

Christ's sake for the faithful support which you have given
over

not

durin
vain

ur association with the African Christian Mission, This has

money nor our efforts. The gospel seed has been sown in

rebels have taken over they need the Lord more than ever before,
Mai^ are"-^iii LTlruI, atSsomeday when the area is won back from the rebels the work will pick

lip vhere it left off and the future church will build on shit has already been done. We

trust that you have been blessed spiritually for your part in taking the gospel to the Congo

eve^x^is we have been in going.

This will probably be the last letter which you will receive unless you specifically
-quest us to put you^n the new mailii^ list for the work of starting new congregatiore in
lyton, Ohio. We have moved to Dayton, settling finally here only four days ago. As of

July 1, 1965 we have been working under the Greater Dayton Evangelizing Fellowship which is
composed of the elders of the Church of Christ of East Dayton and those of Latonia Christian

Church of Cincinnati, Ohio, The Greater Dayton area contains only two of our churches in a
population of over 500,000. Our intent is to start as many new churches in this area over
the next few years as possible,

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Yours in our Lord,
Ronald Harshe family