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NOW

IS TIME

TO

COME TO THE

ID

OF

THE

G

B M

Now is th e

time

fo r al l good

men

and

women to

come

to the

aid

of

th e

Gospel

Broadcasting

Mission.

Step up,

fall

in.

shoulder

a pen, a car or a sneak ing tour.

Much prayer

an d

help needed

The

founders have

ha d

to

fall

back,

not

out,

but for

the

present

ar e limping

along.

Because of Mrs. Colde

(Mainie)

no t

being so up an d coming as sh e wants

tc , M r. Coble

(Walte r) h as to

fall back

somewhat

to keep

th e household duties

from ill

repute,

to

see that

Mainie stays

on h er stri ct diet, take care of more of

th e

correspondence, mai ling list,

and the

money you send in

fo r GBM.

KEEP HIM

B USY w ith th is

more

and

mor e. H e d oe sn 't

mind

banking big gobs of

it

if only we

could. So

much

to be done, so little time.

Also, he

must

edit and tape and

keep

up the

Puerto

Rico

broadcast , tape

songs

for o ther s, retape some for others, keep

up his own equipme.nt for tape recording,

then

proof

read Listen after

Mainie

does

to find errors she missed, if any. Then he

must disti'ibute Listen out to about

twenty

of o ur ch urch

members

e ac h tim e

with

300 to 400 names

to each on e

to

ad

dress.

Then gather it al l up

again

in two

or thre e day s

if

th e

workers

don't have

a way to r et urn t he Listens to

us .

Then

look at

each Lis ten

as

they

come in, tic

them up properly as a former postal clerk

would, then mail them. In about a day

we begin receiving returns for wrong ad

dress

at 10c per

aadress. This

is a full

time

job

correcting addresses. But when

it comes to paying

cut

10c of t he Lor d' s

money

it is tragic. So please

send your

l at es t add re ss , now if you have not.

if you kn ow

of

some

good

persons

who

love the Lord who w ou ld lik e to rece ive

Listen

please send their names and ad

dresses.

I t will help

in

this t ime of crisis

fo r us if

you

would. It is one

way you

ca n

help.

A mission work or worker

depends

on

th e

c on ta ct s t he y

can

make

fo r finan

cial support. Now that we cannot get out

an d

go

an d

s ee people and

personally

pr e

sent the work

to

as

great

an extent

as

formerly

(for

a

t ime

at

least)

we

nec

al l of

your

help

in

many w ay s. Th is is

way you

ca n help.

The

Gospel

Broadcasting

Mission fuhds

are very low We had to wait until beiii

ning of

ugust

until funds increased

s

that

we

could

pay some of the broadcast

in g bills. This is

dangerous

to

th e

gooc

credit

we

have a lway s main ta in ed . It

is

s er ious and could lead to

losing

a good pr o

gram and b roadcast ing

spot that could

never b e r eg ain ed . There

are

those

with

ready money

wai ti ng f or such spots.

The ques ti on now is what will th e

s it ua ti on b e

Sept.

1 wh en all

b il ls s houl d

be paid,

or rather

Aug.

31? At that date

also cur note is du e

of

500 that we bor

rowed at the ba nk (responsibility ours) to

pay

th e

bills of

broadcasting

for M arch.

At

t ha t

t ime

a lo t

of folks

don t

wan t to

touch

their bank accounts in

order

to

pay

their b ig ta xe s. Bu t

big

taxes m ean big

money they tell us . We wouldn't know.

But

now

is a

good

t ime to

give

th e

money saved at that time when you didn't

have to draw on your bank

account

to pay

taxes.

Thank

you,

th e

G.B.M.

appreciates

tha t .

We are making th e following APPEAL

fo r you to help the Gospel

Broadcasting

Mission in this t ime o f cris is and pray

that it will be enough of a bo ost to carry

on an d go

forward.

One

tenth

of a

day's

pay

to the Gospel

Broadcasting Mission this pa y

day

or one-

tenth

of a day's s ell in g o f a

crop

or

tenth of the sale of m ercha nd is e, o r

tenth of what ever your average earn

is for one day.

In the name of

Jesus

w e th an k you

pray God's richest blessings

upon

yo

THE

B UGHM NS

WRITE

FROM WES

FRIC

MISSION

We have

yust

re ceiv ed the Gospe

i rk in Efic and have on orde r th e sec

chapi te r-of Ac ts

in

Eng li sh , Yor ub a, E

Ibo,

an d Hausa

With

t hi s o ff er on Matt

we hope to establish th e extent

of terri

t he p ro gr am

covers.

I

am

enclosing p ic tu re s t ak en dur in

session of

taping

SEARCH THE

SCR

TURES. There a re

tw o

of Don a t

microphone Husse in

Momodu, ministe

th e Ba ri ga chu rc h, is the announcer

Mr. Adeyerno is t he t ec hn ic ia n

a t

NBC

studio

station.

Th e program is

he

at 10 a .m . ove r the

Western Nigeria

Br

casting System (WNES) each Sunday m

ing.

Wc hope you both are well

an d

pros

in g in th e Lord. He

is

b le ss in g u s

d

Don was f la t on his back fo r three we

awhile back and although he is no t

hi s

back is well eno ug h fo r

him

to c

on .

It has been diegnosed' as a - 'w

back .

Many b le ss ings to you bot h.

In Chris tian love,

Marianne an d Don.^ld Baugh

Wes t A fr ic a C hr is tia n

Mission

B r ot he r Hus se in Momodu

is

th e a nn ou nc er fo r Search The

Scriptures broadcast eery

Sunday

morning at 10 a. m. over

WNBS. This program is taped at th e studio in Lagos.

Don Baughman at th e

microphone.

We

are presently offe

th e Gospel of Matthew in Eng li sh a nd

will

folow

this

with

Gospel

of

Mark in

Efic.

On order is th e 2nd

Chap ter of A cts

Eng li sh Yo ru ba ,

Hausa ,

Efic

an d Ibo

in b oo kl et f orm. Sea

The Scriptures is heard

al l

over N ige ria, and we h av e recei

le t ters

f ro m li ste ne rs

in Ghana and

th e

Cmeroonas .


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JULY

- AUGUST, 1964 ISSUE No.

43

LUXEMB

THE GOSPEL BROADCASTING MISSION MR.

MRS. WALTER COBLE, Founders,

Garreit

Indiana

k

work of faith depending on offerings from God's

pie for missionary radio broadcasting

costs

and promoH

expenses.

Listen-0, Isles unto

me;

and hearken ye

people from

afar Isaiah 49:1.

Poland

The rope-like line, the iron curtain, dividing Continental Europe for many miles. The

darkest shaded map is the concentration of German speaking people. The lighter shades arebi-lingual, German and other native tongues. The English language is also spoken by a

great

percentage over the entire area and millions in British Isles and Europe.

Three Search the Scripture programs over this area, two over Radio Luxembourgh, one

in the Polish language over Transworld Radio to thousands of Polish language people.


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The Christian Mission, Vol. 8,

No. 8,

August,

1964

Page 23

WEST

AFRICA CHRISTIAN

MISSION

Donald and Marianne Baughman are the

only

personnel. There are four phases to our

work: the establishing

of churches,

the

train

ing

of

native

ministers,

the

Search

the

Scrip

tures program,

and the medical program.

Since 9 6 te n

congregations have been

started

and

the evangelists to serve them

have

b e e n t r a i n e d

S P I R I T

O F P O W E R

The Power of the Spirit is

constantly

pro

ven

in

Nigeria. One example

took p lac e in

the vi llage of Appiapum. In t he words

of

evange li s t Lawrence

Ebak:

Appiapum is

my

home

town.

It

is

in

Ob-

ubra Distr ic t , Eastern

Nigeria.

The

village

i s o n th e b a n k o f th e

C r o s s

R i v e r

T h e

i n h a

bitants are mostly farmers. They grow yams,

corn, plantain, sugar cane, oranges, r ice,

cocoa, cassava , beans,

okra, etc. Most of

the people are not Christians.

My visit home

was

only

for two weeks.

Tha t mean t

only

two

Sundays

to be present in the village. The

f irst Sunday I attended a

worship

service in

the Presbyterian church.

This

helped many

people who

never knew

I was

in th e village

to

know that I was there with them. After they

knew that I had successfully

gone

through

my

cou rs e a s a preacher, they never thought of

me

as

an

ordina ry member

of

th e Church

of

Chris t

but as a

preacher . The next

Sunday

I

was

given

an

invitation paper which

reques

te d me to preach them

a

sermon.

I

accepted.

I went to the

church

with my

sermon, Sin:

Adultery

and

Fornication.

After th e

service

was over, everywhere

in the

village

people

commented

on my ser

m o n T h i s w as s o b ec au se I

m a d e

a c h o i c e

on one

o f the

commonest

sins

in the village.

Those

who came to see

me

began to question

me

how and why I

managed

to

become

a

preacher in th e

chu rch o f Christ .

Then they

said

to

me,

Would

you

like to

be a preacher

in the Presby ter i an Church?

Friends,

this was as possible

as having

a child reject his

parents.

This was

not

what

I wanted. They never knew I was seeking

for

a way to have t hem bap ti zed into

Christ .

We know what generally is the reaction

of

men

if one

doe s not

do wha t they wan t him

to

do . There

was

a

great opposition

that I

w o u l d

n o t h a ve t h e

c h u r c

o f C h r i s t s t ar t ed

i n

my village. I

went

to

the

Head

Chief

and

he

was

friendly. He is a member in th e

East

House of Assembly

and

has

four wives. It

was h i s

d e s i r e

to have m o r e churches in th

village.

I

told

him Christ ianity was

no t

a

m a t t e r o f

the number o f churches

one h a s

a

place, but

the Christian way

of l ife.

Th

I said, No one

will

call a man that has mo

than

one wife

a

Christ ian, even i f

he has a

church

right inside his

house.

At th e first

worship se rv ice there

wer

66. As t ime

wen t on

the

opposition

increa

sed,

so the

a ttendance dropped to 40 . I

knew it was not something I was going to d

alone without earnestly asking

th e Spirit

o

ro to give me a

helping

hand in the work.

I

spent

most of

my

time in prayer

and call

The people

said,

The

Presbyterian churc

is

the

mother church,

any other

church

coming into the vil lage

must

take

permissi

from the Presbyterian church before any

work

is begun.

One o f the e l d e r s said , ou h av e

come

to divide the vil lage by bringing in a differ

en t

church. Well, I d id not agree with th

I told t h e m I w a s not a f t e r t h e m o t h e r c h u r

o r the father church,

nei ther

came I

to

divide th e v illage, but what

I knew

was to

preach

th e Gospel.

Since i t w as th e w il l o f God t h a t h is v il

lage

of

mine should receive

th e

Gospel

message, the re were those who

asked

me

to remain

and

t each them. I stayed in

th e

village

for t ii ree months .

After this

th e

attendance increased; the opposition was

coming

to an

end,

and the headmaster of

the school gave me an invitation

to

deliver

a

lecture. My subject on that day was

Immorality: It s affects on educational,

socia l, cu ltu ra l field of l i f e We had

some men who

had

many

wives

who wanted

t o b e c o m e m e m b e r s o f

th e c h u r c h

w i t h

tiieir

wives.

They

were

t old to

live

with

the

f ir st m a rr ie d

one,

and then

have noth

ing to do

with

th e

r e s t of t he wives .

Some

said,

No, I

find

i t very diff icul t to

becom

a

C l i ri s ti a n b e c a u s e

I

wil l

not l i ke to

l e a v e

my

wives

I have married. I loved th em be

f o r e I m a r r i e d t h e m How c a n I le av e t he

w h i l e

I

s t i l l l o v e

t h e m ?

Well,

th is is a

problem

to one

who doe

not

know

th e

value

of

becoming

a

Christian

The

Head Chief said,

But we

read

about

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The

Christian

Mission, Vol. 8 No. 8 August 1964

(continued from previous page)

people who had

multiple

wives in the

Bible.'

This opened a way of explaining

the

Gtospel

to him. I

read

to him a scripture

from

Matt.

19:3-9. Finally he said,

'Let

us forge t

about

that

and

talk of something else. '

Th er e w e re those

who

were f ai th fu l and

were willing

to do anything

that

they were

told

to do in

o r de r

to

become a Chr i s t i an

Not all of the people had difficulties,

bu t

they

needed

to be

taught the Gospel

and

let them

know

their

own

responsibilities

i n l if e.

If

they are taught

the

Gospel and that as a Chris

tian

everyone

ha s

a

responsibility,

they

may

improve to

be

better men when once

t hey be

c ome Chr i s t i a n s

This

was in

August, 1962. In May 1963

the

present

evangelist,

James

Adu

reported

that he had baptized 20 in the vil lage

of

Ap-

piapum and that a

nearby village asked

him

to come and preach to

them. Such

is th e

Power of

the

Spirit

GOALS

The

Ekuri congregat ion in the Eastern

region of

Nigeria has

begun

gathering rocks

for the const ruc tion of the Maternity Home

buildings. There

is

a

perpetually overcrowded

hospital

at Obubra, 38 miles away. Not

many

of the

sick

of Ekuri

ge t

there. Most of them

do

no t

have money

fo r transportation

and

many

of them a re

st i l l

convinced of the

abil i t ies

of

the i r own

nat ive

doc tors

In the o the r

direction is a new Presbjd^erian

hospital.

It,

too, is always full, and again, our

people

canno t make i t t h e r e

This

maternity

home would

no t

only

serve

Ekuri, second

largest

town in Obubra division,

but would serve

many other

villages

lying

adjacent to it. It would be difficult fo r

me

to

tell you what it

would mean to

the people of

th i s

a r e a

A s so on a s

we

r e ce iv e a s su r a n ce

from a doctor or a qualified

nurse

that they

will assume

this

responsibility,

we will

make

an appea l

fo r

funds

fo r building construction

and operation cos ts

NEEDS

We are

in

need of a

battery

operated t ran

sistor Tape

recorder.

About $98

Two

bicycles are needed for

evangelists-

$58.80

each.

$6000 is needed to purchase

land

in Ebute

Metta and

$6000

is

needed to purchase

land

in

Bariga.

Sunday

school literature, particularly

children's papers with pictures to

see

and

a r t i c l e s to co lo r

Our MOST IMPORTANT concern and need

is mor e missionaries to help us evangelize

Africa 's most heavily

populated

coimtry.

Our second to ur o f

four

years ends in J an .

1966.

At

th e

present time there

is

no one

to replace us. There

is

housing available

for two families and t he re mu st b e some on e

to mainta in the mission property and pro

vide supervision to the

evangelists.

If

you are

interested

in coming to

the

mission

f ield, write to us.

Donald

and

Marianne Baughman

Box

46

Otta,

Niger ia , Wes t

Africa

Forwarding

Agent:

Mrs. Carol Scarbrough

3546

S.

Ewing

Ave.

Dallas

16, Texas

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