Wrcstlingwith dangling shoelace . . . a stubborn knot in the h a i r Wrestling over. piles of home-

work . . . misunderstandings . . . hurt

feelings. Wrestling a t night with a favorire tear-sogged reddy bear and that awful inside feeling that defies naming. Wrestling whether girl or boy, big or little, because life is real and "hurts" are part of i t . But i t is very obvious that the hurts of these special kids, lovingly dubbed "MK'r", have been graciously tem- pered with good things. These young globe trotters are a t home in nor- mally bewildering places like air- ports and terminals, at home with motic names and places such as Hawaii, Hong Kong, Singapore. Cross-cul tu rd communications can't help but fun-force a broad perapec- tive on life. Fdrnily times arc super- special. It is true,

they leave home, Mom and Dad, brothers and

sisters, for three-quarters of each

but they find, yes they d o find, in multiplied fashion, ''aunts" and

year . . .

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“uncles,” fellow MK “sisters” and “brothers.” To peek in on a hostel (dormitory) situation you”might see an MK rummaging through a bureau hunting a special treasure for someone’s birthday, hands busy with paper, magic markers, and scissors reaching out to a sick one through a unique “hand-carved” greeting. Could it be they know the knawing, empty feeling of being sick themselves and away from the touch of Mom and Dad? Could it be that someone has given that extrasense of caring that has bright- ened their birthday? During times of loss and hurt they stand un- mistakably linked together, for they have suffered similarly.

In September Steven Grunau, a first-grader, neared diabetic coma, possibly created by stress. Steven and his mother went to Canada for adequate medical help, and have since returned to Indonesia. Floyd and Joyce, his parents, are much-needed teachers at OUT higher school of theology in Ujung Pan- dang. And now, what about their future? And so the wrestling goes. We must recognize that we are in spiritual warfare . . . the struggling is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers that seek to undermine the work of the Lord. Is it not logical that the enemy of the Gospel should attack the children of God’s servants? What could more affect their parenrs and roadblock strategic ministries? R a y for parents agonizing over the hurts of their children often thou- sands of arm reaches away when the crisis hits. I t is not easy for

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parents to work when thoughts of their children in need miles away tug at heartstrings. Will you join in the struggle? We are on the winning side!

We appreciate our two schools and dormitories for our Indonesia MK’s. Children in grades 1 - 6 are lovingly cared for by Uncle Ivan and Aunt Bernie Lay in the city of Bandung, Java. They make a delightful home for these children from August through December, and February through June. Cuts, bruiser, vitamins. ctiorer, room charts, piano practice and home- work are all significant to them. During these same months, OUT

young people, grades 7 - 1 2 stay at Penang, Malaysia. Both schools are staffed by dedicated teachcrs.

Parents of MK’s now in the homeland, remarked that missionary life goes by in blocks of time . . . first term the kids are little and at home, second term they are at school in Bandung, third term Pe- nang. And then . . . and then . . . the void of vacation times when there is no one to anxiously an- ticipate and greet with great, huge, gusty hugs and kisses. Those special MK’s. like kids at home, are rudden- ly grown, in college. and finding life-long relationships.

We d o not ask to be spared from surrendering OUT children to the care of others. but we d o ask for your prayers for God’s protection of them and for His all-sufficient grace in the life of child and parent.

GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN YOU THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD! t

‘ y a m 500” i~ the nnme Guen to a virion held by the C&MA mirsion and notionol church in Indonesia, whereby 500 churches will be e r ~ tablirhed on Java irlnnd between the v e a n of 1980~1990.

“I like to call Java 500 ‘The Impossible Project,’ ” says Surabaya pastor Bapak hlarkur Yakub. “Why do 1 call it that?” you might ask. “Realizing that by human effort alone thc goal is impossible to meet, 1 can rcmember in faith the verse in Luke 1 :37 that says: ‘For nothing will be impossible with God.’ ”

Java 500 Update:

By Anne Hobbs Marie Peters “TH E

IMPOSSIBLE P R 0 J E C T” Lay people provide the key

The relatively young KINGMI (C&MA) church in Java needs pas- tors who will equip their local constituencics for evangelistic mi- nistry. h4issionaries are presently teaching pastors’ seminars on how to disciple kymcn in their churches. lheolagical Extension by Education (TEE) will also equip lay people to minister. The laymen’s movement will be seen in small prayer and Bible study groups as extensions of their “home base church.” We

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can envision 300 new churches by 1990 as the diictplerhit, concept of “each church s f a m a post-a-year” lakes effect.

Jerusalem . . . Judea . . . Samaria There also must be a vision for

world-wide mission Needed workers could come to Java as missionaries from the six other districts that make up the entire Indonesian church.

This has in fact already happen- ed. Christians in East Kalimanran have for years traveled beyond their own tribal areas into regions where the Goad Sews has not yet been preached. These witnesses have left their churches and Christian com- munities to face different triher, foreign languages and completely different cultures. They experienced difficulties -. sirange foods, irola- tion, government harrassment, ha- tred and opposition, deaths of wives and children. R u t %-hen one worker left, another came, and the work went on.

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In the late 1970’s the East Kali- mantan church was offered a new challenge ~- the open doors and unrrached millions of the island of Java. Enthusiastically they took up the challenge and promised 14 workers to hclp the small church there. In July, 1980, two young families, the Matias Sakais and the Yus Parens. arrived in Java. l w o months later Solemon Yunus and Martin Hendrik joincd them to be- gin their ministry there. These peo- ple are mecting hardships - a com- plicated languase, the strangcners of city life, homesickness, illness, and a differcnt religion. They need our prayers that the vision that brought them to Java will not fade and that thcir ministry will he c f ~ Fectivc in the midst of difficulties.

Java 500 and the home base

Missionary work in Indonesia is the cxtenrion of the homerending bares of England, Australia, Canada, and the United States. There are aapects of the project, then, that

the Java 500 workers hope t o secure from those home baser.

“Personal interest in thc project means a lot ,” says Rev. Gary Fair- child, as he remembers the words of a pastor from the Stater. The pastor assured Gary that Gary’s ministry was as important to him as his own statc-side church work. What en- couragement!

“We’re asking for concerted P R A Y E R , too,” Rev. Fairchild con- tinued. Think of the harvest of souls from Java 500 as each church back home prays fervently.

“Hecause we arc short staffed in Java, we nced to be mobile,” Rev. Fairchild foresees. This m a n s we will need finances for transpor- tation, as well as seminars, key city church buildings, literature and cor- respondence.

May God lay the burden of Java 500 on your hearts! By your faith and works, we can see together the ‘‘Impossible Project ~ Java 500” become a reaiitv under God.

I There rni5liondriea from East Kalimantan have taken uo the challenge a1 Java 500.

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“Relax! Kick evenly!”PegLeffler has begun teaching another of her popular swimming lessons. Peg, the neweststaff member at the Bandung Alliance School, parses on her en- thusiasm for sports to her students as she teaches swimming and Phy- sical Education classes. PE fills only one part of Peg’s busy schedule as she has also taught the fourth and fifth ,grades this past semester. Next year she will be acting principal as MI. Valley is on furlough.

Peg claims New York state as home. She likes to joke saying, “Like a turtle with a shell on its back, my home is where 1 live for 1, 2, or 3 years.” She became a Christian after maduatine from high

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school. While living in Rochester, New York she began attending the Christian and Missionary Alliance Chruch with relatives. Three of the young people in the College and Careen group, as well as the teacher, especially impressed her because they had a happiness and content- ment that she lacked. A sermon showed Peg what it was she lacked. As the pastor asked his congrega- tion if their names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, Peg real- ized hers was not there. That very Sunday she asked Christ t o be her Savior.

Two years later during a mis- sionary conference the L O ~ A spoke to her about becoming a missionary. But it was five years before the Lord directed her to St. Paul Bible College. She comments. “The Lord

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had much for me to learn in his own ‘practical’ training school.” One of these lessons was the im- portance of praising the Lord in difficult situations according to I Thessalonians 5:18.

As Peg stepped out in faith to attend Bible school, the verse, “_ . . 1 being in the way the Lord led me . . . ’ I (Genesis 24:27b) encouraged her. T+vo missionaries also greatly influenced Peg in her Christian life. One of these was Carrie Moore, a veteran missionary to Guinea, West Africa, now in the Lord’s presence.

After attending Bible college Peg worked for 3 years with retarded children while earning her BA in English and Elementary Education at Roberts Wesleyan College. All in all, Peg has spent 11 years working with retarded youth.

Peg’s first overseas experience was in Dalat School, Penang, Ma. laysia. She was first a dorm auntie for a year after which she taught in the elementary school.

The door to overseas service seemed to close for Peg after she returned home and completed her MS in Reading Education. Shc was informed that there were no open- ing overseas for teachers at that time. However, on April 24. 1980, at a District WMPF Conference, an Indonesian missionary informed her of an opening in Indonesia. On April 29, 1980, she received word from C&MA headquarters con- cerning this very teaching position. On May 13 the appointment was official!

Welcome, Peg, to Bandung Alliance School.

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“You shall be

Do you want t o meet some “eliue, ”witnessing Christilrnr ? Come along with Jan Kuhnr and visit one of he7 Theological Education by Extensmn classes. The students meet fo. clnrs once every t w o weeks in e humble hut. T h e b home- work ir witnesring and dircipling new belieuerr in addirion to filling out textbooks set up fa. progmm- med learning.

Will you come along with me for a visit to a TEE class? The “classroom” is full when we arrive this morning. The 35 students, mostly men, are seated on mats on the ground. A thatched roof pro. tects us from the sun but today we could use walls to protect us from the rain that blows in. ‘The students a t this Kedembak TEE center walk in from different villages; the far- thest is 3 hours away. They are church leaders from seven different churches in the Ketungau District.

Our lesson today i s about the most important task that God has given to the church: making dis- ciples of all nations. How are these students obeying Christ’s command? Listen to their reports. Since the class two weeks ago ~

A mother had won her son t o Gr is t .

Two students visited in the \.illage of Trisup and led 10 people to Christ.

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my witnesses.. . By Jan Kuhns

Fngkuta and Sada led 8 peo- ple to the Lord in a nearby rillage. They also visited Mancu and his family in their makeshift hausc out in his rice field and there he surrendered his life to Christ. Intai and Kila walked four hours and paddled six hours toreach the believers a t Temalui. About fifteen more people de- cided to fallow Christ.

Maranata cxcitedly relates that in Seputau I I he and his friend saw 30 people accepi Jesus. Before this visit only a few were believers.

Daud and Cadi walked R hours to Tcrusan I to do follow- up in a village where, as a result of TEE outreach, all but 2 fa- milies have turned to Christ in

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this year. He recounts, "It was so wonderful t o see the people one by one offer thanks to God in a special Thanksgiving service they had planned. How God has changed their lives!"

They continued on to 'Terusan II t o tcll the Good News to people who had never bcfore heard it. Daud h i d no provisions to spend the night. But as he began telling the villagers about t h e freedom Christ can bring they urged him to stay. Fifteen young men were ready to accept Christ that night. They kept Daud u p all night asking him t o tcll them more about Christ and to trach them Christian songs. The older people were very upset that the younger men wanted

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Hells, bells, bells' ~ MK's ears are tuned to them! Ringing at 6:30 a.m:to rise by, at 7 : O O to call them to breakfast, at 7:45 to go toschool, at 12:OO to eat lunch, at 12:45 to go back to school, at 2:45 t o tell them that school is out. Then comes play time, music practice. and homework. Bike riding, roller skating, skate boarding, tether ball, and four square are some of their favorite outdooractivities. Bells ring again - for laundry pick-up, for supper. for study hall, fordcvotions.

but the job gets done in spite of a few broken dishes now and then.

Dorm rooms arc checked daily for tidiness and a room chart is kept. Every two weeks children receive prizes for tidy rooms. These include candy, fruit or ice crcam. Children with perfect charts are treated twice a semester to a meal out with the hauseparentr.

MK's live together eight months of the year and learn to love each other like brothers and sisters. In fact, many times they are even

A DORMPARENT'S OB SERVATI ONS

Then come baths, good-night hugs closer. Of course, with a number and kisses with special tickle nights, of children living together there are and lights out with sweet dreams bound to be some snags. MK's are until the get-up bell rings again to extremely competitive and peer begin a new day. With that bell, pressure is very keen among them. the action begins with beds to For instance, if a girl decides to make, the floor to sweep and the wear long pants t o school on a room to tidy up. Mealtime pick-up certain day. soon all, or almost all, each day and drying dishes on of the girls are wearing pants on that evenings and weekends is also part day. I f a particular food is served of the action. Some tackle the that some do not like, soon almost dishes with vibrant energy and all of the children dislike that food. others with a lackadaisical spirit, After all, they would be odd if

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,. .. , to play logether. srudy together. share each others' toys; and yes, thcy fight together, cry together, and pray rogcther and forgive c x h other. l h e y get cxcited when onc receives a package and t h ry learn to share i t with their "built in" I m t h e r s and sisters. 'They learn how to ComTort each other in times of loneliness or homesickness. Pa- rents' letters support them with assurances of thcir lovc and. also relate news about their work. 'I'he children share prayer rcqursta for their parents' work during cvening dcvotions.

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'The rwa-month 'acation periods twicc a year give our M K ' r a lot of interaction with national childrcn and a chance to lcarn thc'culture of the people of iha t arrd. Many MK's can help in various ways in thc minis t ry of their parents And tind it f u n and rewarding.

Uells keep on ringing. We ron- tinue to hear (he echo of run- loving. act ive, normal children who art. proud to be called MK'r.

the busy, industrious Javanese. Everywhere we went we were made to feel among friends even if we couldn't feel a t home. So much wzs different yc t so much was always the same; mother and baby, sweating workmen, harried taxi driver and everywhere ~ traffic!

Our experiences with the national Christians were limited but rich with mutual understanding. The pastor in Samarinda preached with spiritual force to a youthful con- gregation on holy living while a missionary whispered a translation in our ears. Wc were one with him. Never will we he able to forget the Dyak church in Mahak Baru. They sat by the hundrcds shoulder to shoulder, aged men to the left. little children in the middle, young people on the right. Hardly a muscle moved for 2-3 hours as they WOT-

shipped and sang. It was singing to make glad the angels! Bold, brilliant tones with unusual fullness and richness of melodic line and harmony. The joy of knowing Jesus so permeated their lives that even the village seemed a near outpost of heaven.

We learned a new appreciation for the way missionaries travel. There were a few heart-stopping moments as our MAF pilot flew above the clouds looking for ~ and finding - an opening just in time to drop down onto an airstrip in the valley. But such a trip is a luxury when we learned of the long days of travel by dugout canoe and the heartbreaking portages around the rapids that dot the Kalimantan interior. An hour one

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day in a dugout made us marvel at the endurance of OUT missionaries in an earlier day.

The capstone of our experience came in 10 marvelous days of fellamhip with our missionaries. Togcther we shared the Word of God, laughed, prayed and some- times wept. Three timer stand out with particular meaning. On the first day we watched missionary parents being greeted by their chil- dren at the school in Bandung. I have a lasting mental picture of three daughters forming a huddle with their parents, arms about each other. all aglow with the joy of reunion. ' Fun night proved, once again, that missionaries are among the most wholesome, well-rounded, ta- lented people on earth. Comic relief from the heavy business of the week served as counterpoint t o keep spirits bright. It was a sense of comraderie thar few of us in thc homeland ever experience to a similar degree.

The tmue measure of commit- ment to the missionary task was taken at the early morning prayer meetings. How we learned to love this time before breakfast. The open sharing of real needs and the earnest praying of the missionary family demonstrated deep love for the Indonesian people and the spirit of genuine partnership with the national church.

Marian and 1 consider our time in Indonesia to be one of the peak experiences of our lives. We salute you, Indonesia Missionaries of the Christian and Missionary Alliance!

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Keying in on MK's

Definite miracles enabled Cindy and Debbie Rudes, MK's, to return to Indonesia for a visit. It meant another.. .

By Cindy Rudes

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Our VW van pulled intoJakarta- Halim International Airport. The back end was loaded with suitcases stuffed with all the things Debbie and I had bought in Indonesia. Three or four porters grabbed at our bags, and we were swept into the terminal and guided to the Cathay Pacific Airlines counter. When the bags were put on the scale, the needle pointed t o digits way over the weight allowance. But the clerk just lifted them off the scale and handed us our baggage claim tickets. “Wow! We don’t have to pay any overweight!!” Dad ex- claimed with a deep sigh of relief. “It’s another miracle!”

‘3ust another miracle.” I thought. It was true . . . hadn’t the whole summer been a miracle? Just being able to go home to Indonesia had been a miracle. It was only two weeks before Mom and Dad were to return to the mission field that Pastor Hazlett had called saying that some friends in the church were sending funds to pay both my sister’s and my way out tc Indone- sia with them. It was a series of miracles that provided visas. tickets, and passports all within the follow-

Cindy ond Debbie Rudes me the daughrers of Rev. and Mrs. Raymond R. Rudes, misxiomaries in Indonesio since 1949.

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ing short weeks. Definite miracles took care of all the other expenses that came along. 1 had prayed so long to be able to return to the land I had grown up in and it was hy miracles that God had answered my prayers.

I was shaken back t o reality by the loud announcement, “Cathay Pacific Flight number 201 to Sing- apore and Hong Kong is now ready for boarding. All passengers please proceed to immigrations and customs immediately.”

I shuddered at the thought of saying goodbye to Mom and Dad for four years. Oh, how I just wanted to scream, “I can’t go!” But instead 1 said the right kind of things, things 1 had trained my- self to say in situations like this. “It’s been such a special time, all we can do is be thankful.” and “I’ll write to you often and pray for you too.” My mascara ran down my face with my tears as I gave Mom and Dad a hug. I remembered the pocket watch Dad had given to me as a keepsake just the day before, and I whispered in his ear, “Dad, I love you more than anyone else in the world!” I hated - just

bated this scene. Mom was being so brave. Dad was being practical, and I was swallowing lumps in my throat and knew that each one of us just wanted to cry unrestrained. With final kisses and hugs and empty words Debbie and I passed rhrough the gate to the immigration official.

“Passport!” 1 handed him my documents and his blank face bright. ened when he saw my SKK, (my permanent residency papers to Indonesia). “ w h y are you leaving?” he asked in Indonesian. “Your pa- pers say that you belong here!” All 1 could do was shrug my shoulders.

After the airport security was satisfied that we weren’t c a v i n g any guns or bombs, Deb and 1 started the long walk out to the plane. The 747 Cathay Pacific was parked quite a distance from the terminal, and I felt like this was my last chance to capture the beauty and warmth of a tropical morning. The sky was a rich smooth blue, and the sun’s rays shone a steady stieam of warmth on every- thing. A whiff of breeze blew hair into my eyes momentarily. Green was all around me . . . in the palm trees;lush grass, bushes, and plants. Yes, this was the idyllic tropical weather I was leaving. 1 stretched each one of my senses to its fullest capacity to somehow grasp the feel of the orient firmly enough so I’d never forget it. I must never forget the smells, the spicy, rich, pungent smells that filter through the air. I must never forget how flowers look blooming all year around in

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my front yard. I must never forget the language, the rolling, rumbling lanpuage that has so many un- matched expressions. 1 must never forget the taste of rice, coconut, CUT and peanut sauce. All of these things I clutched at, afraid I’d lose them the minute I stepped onto that plane.

I turned to search the waving gallery for the only white faces in the crowd. I squinted and strained and saw no familiar face. “Oh, maybe it’s better,” I thought to myself, “waving is so fruitless.” Yet I ached to see them just one more time.

Stepping into the plane, the stewardess tried t o counter our tears with smiles and our sniffy nosrs with iissue. But 1 felt like 1 was imprisoned in the plane. 1 didn’t want to be there and it was like a jail, or even more like a hawk, dragging me, lifting me, unwillingly from the place I wanted to be . . . home.

“Ladies and Gentlemen. please fasten your seat belt, we are pre- paring for take-off.”

Taxiing down the runway I searched the waving gallery once again for that yellow dress, that tall man. “Deb! That’s them! See them waving!”

Thlhey weren’t just waving. their m s were stretched out swaying back and forth. Their arms reached way out to us and somehow they seemed to be able to reach around the world. Love would be stronger than distance, and somehow I knew that my home would always be in mv heart.

Several times a year Jim Kendall leaves home for two to three weeks to visit the churches in one of the three districts where he serves. Some. times these trips are on foot or by boat. Jim depicts a boat trip and rigorous jungle trek - along with some reflections on pioneers of the past.

3y Jim Kendall

"How Lovely on the mountains are the feel of the messenger who brings good news, who announces peace and brings good news of happinas , who announces salvation, and says to Zion: 'Your God r e i p s ! ' " Isaiah 52:7 (NASB)

I had never really thought about the emphasis on feet here . . . that is, until I had been on the moun- tains! It costs something to be a messenger, and more than just one's feet suffer.

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Our boat trip upstream was well under way when wc faced the firs!

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set of big rapids on this river. There are many rapids and each has its own name and story. But of these, two strike fear, even in some of the people here. Both of these we navigatcd by walking around them while the men pulled the boat through.

Finally. on the lhird day o f ou r trip, we arrivcd at 1.ong Berang, former home of several missionaries among whom are Presswood and Willfinger. Presswood had built the mission house which still stands majestically, even if a b i t battered by age, in a peaceful nook by a m u l l river. What of the drama lived by those who had preceded rnc here fif ty years ago? 1 was soon to find o u t in part.

Now we began o u r trek on foot up the steep mountain behind t h e village. Here I madeamajo r mistake. 1 should have paced myself, bu t instead I wen1 with the faster walk- ers. Even after a rest, I could not rally m y former strength. We w r e still climbing. Each time I thought I saw the peak, I was mistaken. A slippery path and blood-sucking leeches made the climb harder. l%en we heard and airplane circling above us. I t was an M A F plane that had just left my home fifteen mi". utes ago ~ no aching muscles, n o leeches, n o slippery path, and no wet clothes for its passengers!

After three hours w e stopped for lunch by a small river and then set out again ~ up, UP, and UP.

Author Jim KCndall and two men from Edit Kalimdntan Pause to look a t t h e

Keying in on MK's

You can't take Indonesia out of the heart of an MK! Dick Lewis, an MK, returned to his homeland to assist Vietnamese refugees.

By Dick Lewis

helping hand

Dick Lewis

In August, 1979, Rick h u m - mond, who had been a missionary to Vietnam before being assigned to Indonesia, heard about the thau- sands of Vietnamese boat people landingon the Natuna and Anambas Islands. He made a survcy trip and found many of the refugees were members of the Tin Lanh (CMA) church in Vietnam. Rick asked to be released on loan for six months to World Relief to start World Relief Indonesia Refugee Services (WRIRS). The Drummond's replace- ment, the Flemings. have also been CMA missionaries to Vietnam and Indoncsia and are presently on loan to World Relief.

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The mass exodus from Vietnam of a year ago has slowed down to a steady trickle. The boat people who land dircctly on the Indonesia" islands in the South China Sea generally arrive in good shape. But the US government is moving many refugees from Thailand to be pro- cessed in Galang Refugee Camp for US resettlemant. l lhese refugees tell stories of rape and murder, h o d lity and abuse. Conditions in the Galang Camp, the main one in Indonesia and the only onc WRIRS works in, are much better than any other camp in SE Asia. What these refugees appreciate most is the first measure of safety and security since

their escape. Their new country 1s

only a step away; the end of their uncertain journey near.

But World Relief attempts to meet still existing needs such as material assistance and welfare. We administer a sewins center, a youth center, a skills training program. The sewing center is very popular and crowded with five hundred students a month taking COUTSCS in

skills that will help tlicrn in their adjustment to a new culturc. Thc skills training program has classes from carpentry to typing to elec- uonics.

The Youth Center has programs that involve the youth of the camp, such as h a n d m a f t classes and sports tournaments. ‘They organizc many projects to help o u t the camp, such as clearing land for vegetable plots.

tailoring, embroidery, and knitting. Not just womcn attend; the y c s e n t Vietnamese administrator, a former military lawyer, had first taken a coursc in tailoring. In the reeduca- tion camp in Vietnam h e had learn- ed ca rpen t ry

Skills are important for refugees going to new and foreign countries,

Richard (Dick) Lew,ir ir rite sun o /CMA missionorics Rev. and Mrs Rodxer l,ewir, serving tn Boli. Thherr doughier H e l m is olso u,orkini: wiih Viermmese r e / q w s or onorher locorron in Indonerio.

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The Center hoslr music nights and wedding receplions. Y e s , there is lovc and romance in a refugee camp, and, as far as I can tell. Victnamese appreciate full moons as much as I do (on certain occasions).

Yet there is a necd that goes beyond thc physical or the material. There i s a spiritual, psyrhologiral need. These people have left their native homeland, most likely for-. wer. They have left family, and some h a w lost family on their cs- capes. They’vc suffered brutal things. They face a n uncertain fu-

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Lure. 1)espitr their smiling faces and their happy talk of rcsrt t lemrnt, thcrc is fear and worry and anguish. Suicidcr are no t rare; some have gonc insane.

With this despair there often comes a rcdrching for some meaning to 11 all. We fcel an u r ~ e to tell these peoplc thal rncaning is found in Jesus Christ. Many have listened to US: many have helicved. One woman, a nuddhist who had n e w r heard the gospel, dreamed one night o f a perion i n dazzling white clothcs opening his arms t o her in love: the next night she went to a film rally at the Tin Lanh church and met that Person. M r . Thao. at the be- ginning of his escape. prayed to M'homcver God was thar his twelvc year old daughter not he harmed. They werc robbed seven Limes, bu t the women were no t touched, and Mr. 'Ihao now has found the true God who had heard his pleas. Or

T ~ W end o f tne lr uncertain ~ o u r n e y near a5 there refugee5 board the ferry headed tor rerettlement ~n AUi t ra l#a or North America.

Mr. Con, a turmcr Vietnamese Army mqjor, interncd four years in a rccducdtion camp, who not only found thr Lord bu t also went around lclling others and introducing Him to thrm.

Cad Flcming pastors thc church on Galmg for lack of a Vietnamese pastor. Most of the Christians are new belicwrs. but they are zealous and ac t i vc in witnessing. They bring many friends to the services, hcld in Vietnamese, Chinese, and Ihglish. l%ey greet newcomers down at the dock. They crew two film teams that show 8 and 16 m m films in the camp.

Thc future of Galane Refugee Y I

Camp is unccrtain: perhaps soon therc will be no morc refugees. Rut until then we will continue to pra- vide help in the name of Christ, and we will continue to tell anyone who will l i s ten, the Tin Lanh, the Good News.

FORWARD LEAPS

LITERATURE By Bud Rudes

Kalam Hidup ("Living Word'? Publishers reaches out to Indonesia 5 emerging new world of readers.

RW. S.M. uali. director of

The greatly enlarged bookstore in Bandung now sells 3,000 t o 6,000 books per month which wi l l ner about 65,000 in sales.

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There are now 6 Kalam Hidup book. m r e i scarrered rhroughour rhe sprawling island nation with the possibility of reveral more new branches opening i f dedicated Christian personnel can be secured.

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About 2,500 inquiries a month Come to the Correspondence Course Depart- menr. Over the past several years more than lW,OOO students have graduated from the John course alone.

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The P a t Groff Memorial Library of Kalam Hidup located a t another site in Bandung offers a "haven" to high school and college rrudentr. It provider .a place for study and anexcellent opportunity to find Chrirr through the many Chrir- rim books.

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Thousands of books are mailed to neighboring Malayria, over 1,500 miles away 21 Kalam Hidup responds to the needs of the expanding church in that country.

000 About 1,000 listeners respond every

month to radio broadcasts and hundreds of letters, tracts, and books are mailed back to the audience.

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By Wayne Thompson

Certainly life at an MK boarding school is unique. Ivan and Bernie Lay, our houseparents, succeed tre- mendously well at making the dorm at Bandung as much like home as possible ~ but is it ever campletely possible? How many families have 2 1 people sitting around the supper table? Or when was the last time you were called to afternoon snack by a bell? A bell? How else do you call that many people to the same place at the same time? All of those faces staring across their food at you are your friends. but it can never be quite the same as your family. For cxample, everyone at some time in their lives has wanted to “take my ball and go home”. An MK cannot do that. He may be able to take his ball, but he already is

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home, and the children he is trying to avoid may live in the room nexi door to him! As a result, they learn to share, with the usud varying degrees of success.

However, to a new teacher there are some very positive notes. Com- pared to children in the homeland, theaverage MK is much more out- going, and definitely, out of ne- cessity, more sociable. With an absence of television, the play is also much more creative. Nowhere in the USA would you witness a group of children gathering for a game of “Lions and Christians.” ‘The MK has also experienced mas- sive cross-cultural exposure. Where else do you have a group of children who know two, maybe three lan- guages? Generally speaking, mis- sionaries’ children seem to be more

talented creatively, physically, and musically than their counterparts in the homeland. Find that hard to believe? Just check Mr. Valley’s evening piano lesson schedule.

Why? 1 think Mark 10:29 and 30 provides the answer. “And Jesus answered and said, ‘Verily I say unto you. There is no man that hath ieft house. or brethern. or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake and the gospel’s, but he shall receive an hundred fold now in this time, houses, and brethern, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands. with persecutions; and in the world to come, eternal life.’ ’’

What about us teachers? We too adjust and adapt. In the USA, after the day in the classroom we do not see the students until the next morning. An MK teacher living next door to his students can not escape so easily! You literally see them all day. Of course, that also

MIS. T ~ O ~ W O ~ with her f i r s t grade CIBSI.

works m o ways! What child wants to see his teacher all day? You become a substitute parent, playing with the children, rejoicing when a letter comes from Mom and Dad. and turning into absolute ecstasy when they receive a package.

There are differences in instruc- tion as well. You minister to the whole child - spiritually, emo- tionally, physically, mentally, a5

well as academically. Other dif- ficulties, such as a lack of teaching materials. two grades in a classroom, and performing extra instructional activities could certainly be a proh- Iem, but then, we are not dealing in a vacuum. ”Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1 :6

Go ahead. and ring the bell, Mr. Valley. We are ready once again to get at ou r “good work.”

CONFERENCE PICTURE 1980

FRONT (left to rlght) Gardon Chanrnan. Ken RlggenbaCh. Harold Klarren. Mafia5 Abdi. Gunther KamDhaUlen, Jim Oavey (speaker), Craig HBndriCklOn. Ivan Lay.

SECOND ROW: Adind ChaDman. Wilma Riggenbach. Maureen Klarren. Mm. Abdi. Carmen KamDhaulen. Marian Davey. Bey HenLfriCk5on. Bernie Lay , Le l la Lewis. Olga Allen

T H I R D ROW: D I C ~ Lawron. Vonnie MOrsCneCk. Mil l ie Ade. Helen Evans. Lorna Munroe. Lo15 Chandler (Dalat School). Lela Pierce. Alex Valley

FOURTH ROW: Ruth Krikorian. Dee Bennett. Rita Michael. Joyce Grunau. Sharon Kenddll. Janet K u h n l . Pat Swenron. Marie Peters. Beth Drummond. SnerYl Dean. Carolyn van Kurin

F I F T H ROW: Clyde Krlkorian. Geoff Bennett. Eric Michael. F loyd Grunau. Jim Kenddil. Bill Kuhnr. Gordon Swenron. Frank Peterr. RlCU Dlumrnond. Neil Dean. K e n Van Kurin

Rodger L ~ W I I . Marion ~ i i e n

* 'NEWS' * *NEWS' * 'NEWS' * *NEWS' * 'NEWS' * *NEWS' * 'NEWS. *

Pamela Leimmrtoll and Richard Lowson were mav ied on August 7 at the Cimanuk Church in Bandung. J m a . Reu. Ivan Lay and field chairman Reu. Harold Klnrsen led the ceremony. Before her marriage, Pom taught in rhe Bandung Alliance School having come out with the Nauigatorr on loan Lo the Alliance. Dick and Pam haue been working in Snmarinda, East Kulimantnn.

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SPECIAL FIELD NEEDS The following projects have been approved b y the Chrlstlan and Missionary Alliance Board of Managers but are not included In the regular budget.

Good News for Great Cities - Java 500 . . . . . . . $330,000.00

Lay training for Java 500 - per seminar. . . . . . . 500.00 To llelp eltdbli lh 5 0 0 new C h ~ r c O c I by 1'390

TO equ8D l ay DeOPle to witnerr and t a k e Dart I" Java 500 Pastors' Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,000.00

Daily nation-wide radio broadcasts . . . . . . . . . 15,000.00

For worthy paltors w h o lack tools (5tUdY book51 t o a 0 the i r job. (One l lbrary C o l t 5 about $100 for seventy D o 0 k I . J

Radio Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000.00 FaC~IItiel need to be exDanded 2 5 more Station5 are added and prograrnmlng 11 uograded. ~ , s t e n e r remonse snalcates a large percentage Of the dUdlenCe I S no"-Ctlr,lt,a".

Printing of Theological Education by Education texts . . 10.000.00 4 texts x $2.500 EdUCdt#011 by extenrion d l l o w ~ students t o study ~n the i r home V l l l s g e l Wlthouf leaving their OCCUPatlonl

3 f i l e Cdb#net6. I lyDewriter. 1 mimeograph 1 electric I tenc l l make,

Java Theological Education by Extension . . , . . . 4,000.00

MAF flying program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000.00 Kalam Hidup Publishers . . , . . . . . . . . . 222,500.00

$700.000.00 5,000.00 10.000.00

Bible t iantlal ion 7.500.00 Graduate scholarships for church leaders. . . . . , . 5.000.00 Jaffray School of Theology office. classroom furniture . . 17;OOO.OO

OfflCe fUrn i tUre $1.500.00 CIaIIiOom f"lnlt"re 1.120.00

8 blackboard5 c? $40.00 8 IeCtelns @ $100.00

8 fabler (1' '675.00 5 0 Chairs CW 815.00

8 book r a c k 5 Q $200.00 3 magazine racks a 5200.00 8 lounge Chairs @ 825.00

500 Chair5 c" 1615.00

Library furniture 3,750.00

AIudItorIum furniture 7,500.00

Additional miScellaneous equipment 3.130.00 Jaffray School of Theology l ibrary books - Graduate School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.000.00 lrnrnanuel Bible School (West Kalimantan) . . . . . . 18.500.00

E I e C t r l C wiring 2 new dormitories

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$ 3.500.00 15.000.00

Tenggarong Bible School building program (East Kalimantan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Tenggarong is a new Bible school near the Drovincial capital.

Makale Bible School, Toraja - Building . . . . . . . Regional Bible School library books . . . . . . . . Long Bia Bible School new generator and wiring . . Al l - Java Youth Retreat . . . . . . . . . . Library books - Balai Sepuak Bible School . . . . Fi lm Evangelism Un i t - I projector and 1 generator . Kelansam Book Store . . . . . . . . . . . .

Materials for West Kalimantan Pastor's Seminars. Computer for C&MA Mission Office - Jakarta Vehicle for R . Drummond . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle for G. Fairchild . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle for R. K. Smith . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle for AdelEvans . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle for V. L. Neigenfind . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle for M. K. School . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle for J . Gaskin . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle for D. Beack . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vehicle for R . Lawson . . . . . . . . . . . . .

4 I tDrd e CUDDOdrdl @l 550.00 5 m e t 2 alspiay rack5 B $90.00

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Those interested in giving toward these needs or to the general fund m to ' The Christian and Missionary Alliance

Box C. Nyack. NY 10960 (or1 Box 4048. Regina. SK S4P 3R9 Attention: Treasurer

10.000.00

2,000.00 250.00

10,000.00 500.00

1,000.00 2.000.00

650.00

500.00 20.000.00

5,000.00 10,000.00 10,500.00 7.500.00 Il,500.00 11,500.00

1,000.00 I1,500.00 11,500.00

Lay rend gifts

Published annually by the Indonesia Mission of

TheChristian and Missionary Alliance July, 7981

Home Address: Box C. Nyack. N Y 10960

or: Box 4048 Regina. SK S4P 3R9

Field Address: JI. H. Fachruddsn 9. Jakarta Pusat. lndanerla

Editorial Committee: Ruth Kr,kor#an. Ed,ror. Anne Hobbs. Rita Michael

Reporters Miidred Ade. Sheryl Dean. Marie PeterP

Cover photo: TOP, Sarah Heath: bottom. Gwen Kuhnr.

Photo Credits: G. Swenron-Cover, 5.6.7.1 1.12.13.27.28. "Foto Deppen" -2; H. Klarren-3; B. Kuhnr-9.10; G. Chapman-14.29; B. Lay-12: L. Gohien-14; R . Ruder-17; J. Kendall -19.20; R. Lewis-22: G. Flemlng -23.24; C. Krikor ia-27. Addilional coDiei of The Pioneer may be Obtained for a s ight charge by writing to the field office. Canrrlbu- tlonr for the ministry of The Pioneer may be sent to the home office. marked: c / o Treasurer

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