Christian Chronicle (Nashville, Tenn.), Vol. 31, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 23, 1974 Page: 3 of 8
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Plans for Gospel meetings
land, Loyd Williams and Whit
Whittington assisted with the
“Focus Flint” campaign in
Michigan. The team knocked
on the doors of 78 deaf
families in the Flint area. A
the Gospel meetings. Bro.
Williams preaches in the
language of the deaf and Bro.
Whittington interprets for the the Lennon Road church
Christ in Flint. This work is
now growing with sixty or
the ’ more in attendance ar the
have hired Bro.
Garner, deaf mm-
First Full-Time Missionary to
the Deaf
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to the congregation for the
deaf in Austin, Texas usually
accompanies Bro. Williams in Gospel meeting was held the
second week and 11 souls
were baptised into Jesus. A
congregation was begun a
of
hearing audience. Those who
hear enjoy Bro. William’s
preaching as much as
deaf do. elders
The goal of the Bel-Aire Charles
congregation in supporting ister, on a full-time bas ;.
Bro. Williams as a full-time T"
missionary to the deaf is to to be held thus far include: S .
take the Gospel to the areas Louis, Missouri; Tulsa, Okla-
where the deaf are con- homa; Detroit, Michigan;
centrated and establish con- Springfield, Ohio; Hixson
gregations for the deaf, to Tennessee; Tullaho na
train interpreters to interpret Tennessee; Hermitage,
local ministers until the deaf Tennessee; Kalamazoo,
can have their own deaf Michigan; Midland, Texas
minister or a hearing minister and others that are in the
who is skilled in preaching to tenative planning stage,
the deaf in their language, If there are deaf people in
and also to edify and build up your community and you
established congregations of desire to establish a place of
the deaf. worship for them, write to:
This method has proved Paul Vining, Minister, Fan
very successful as witnessed ning Heights church of
by what happened last Au- Christ, 604 Jordan Lane.
gust, 1973. A team: Tom and Huntsville, Alabama, 35805
viva Warwick, Gladys Hol- He is the cojrdinator fc.
scheduling Gospel meetings
etc.
April 23, 1974 CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE Page 3
Church Growth in Kenya
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By Max Harris
in good shape.
Some two years ago Ed
started writing asking for
some of or all of the elders to
Davenport
for
come over and spend two o:
three months with him, to
check on the work there, and
to help teach in some of the
problem areas. The good Lor
willing we will go, if you w.
help send us. Our home con-
gregation will not be able c
give us much help monc
wise, but you as individuals
can help in any amount that
you like.
Two or three of the congre-
gations around the state of
Iowa have already sent money
toward this effort so won’t
some of the rest of you con- i
sider this plea and help us?
1974 and continue to expand
our soul winning programs. I
was recently in a meeting
with the Richmond Hill con-
gregation in West Helena,
Arkansas, where Richard
Kelley preaches. There were
36 responses including 11
baptisms.
During the last three
months seventeen people
have been baptized in the tea
estates close to the town of
Kericho, Kenya. Numbers of
others are listening to God’s
message of saving redemp-
tion.
Among the first to be
converted were Elijah
Akumu, Nelson Okoth, and
Isay a Ojowi, During February
their work was terminated in
the tea plantations because of
an extended drought. As a
result, each of these men has
returned to his own home to
preach the gospel, the results
have been fantastic.
Within one month Elijah
Akumu has baptized forty-
four into the Lord Jesus
Christ. On March 15, four
were baptized at Homa Bay;
on the 17th eight were
baptized at North Nyokal; on
the 19th, nine were baptized
at Otharo; on the 20th
fourteen were baptized at
Kanjira, Elijah’s home; and
on the 22nd, nine were
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Church Growth in Arkansas
SPRINGDALE, Ark.-We
have recently concluded an
outstanding meeting with
Jerry Humphries of Athens,
Alabama, doing the preach-
ing. There were 71 responses
of which 14 were baptized
into Christ. We have now
baptized 32 locally during
My only income is through
disability pension so I don’t
really have anything but time
and that will be donated to
this work. We have already
got our shots and our pass-
ports are in order.
Slides and tapes will be
available for points of in-
terest, also of as much of the
work over there as possible,
for your viewing when we
return.
If you can help, please send
your checks to: Zambia Travel
Fund, Central Church of
Christ, 3526 Brady St.,
Davenport, Iowa 52806.
Keep us in your prayers
always and remember
Matthew 28: 19, 20 and if you
can not go maybe you can
help send.
baptized at Kakdhimu.
Further teaching of these new
converts will be carried out by
James Moore and Lawrence
Barr, who live at Kisii, forty
miles away from this area.
On Friday, March 29, nine
more were baptized in the
village of Nelson Okoth and
Isaya Ojowi. For many years
Isaya’s father had been a
mchawi (witchdoctor). Upon
hearing the approach of
Christians, he said that he
“heard the devil run.” As a
result, Isaya’s father burned
the charms and medicines of
his trade (note Acts 19:19)
and was baptized into Jesus
Christ. James Moore was
with Nelson and Isaya on this
trip and had the opportunity
to teach people who were
directly turning from the devil
to the living Christ.
Altogether a total of fifty-
three have been baptized in
other places as a result of
preaching that has been done
many miles away. Praise
God.
For the benefit of some of
you good brothers and
sisters, Ed has been in
Zambia starting on his
eleventh year. Some of the
brethren in the Davenport
congregation have been
helping with his personal
support. Three years ago
when Ed was home, we of the
Davenport congregation took
over the sponsorship of
Brother Crookshank. Al-
though we are not able to any
way near support all his
needs, we have ask other
congregations and individuals
to help in this effort. The
response has been good,
therefore we have been able
Brother and Sister Harris
will be leaving on or about
July 15th to work with Edwin
Crookshank. First in a month
long campaign, then to help
in a training and teaching
program that will take us to
some of the many small con-
gregations in and around
Edwin’s home town of Luan-
shya.
There were about 300
baptisms in and near where
the Crookshanks live last year
alone, so there is no way that
they can do some of the much
needed teaching. We have
agreed to go if we can raise
enough traveling expense to to care for him and his family
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which will cost about $2,500.
Of this total some has already
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Chesshir, Haskell. Christian Chronicle (Nashville, Tenn.), Vol. 31, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 23, 1974, newspaper, April 23, 1974; Nashville, Tennessee. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1322146/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 31, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.