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AN INTERNATIONAL PERIODICAL FOR CHURCHES OF CHRIST SINCE 1943
Vol. XXIX February 14, 1972 No. 4
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Missionaries Plant Uganda Church
Nurses attend an infant at Nigerian Christian Hospital
Youth Raise S3,000 for Korea
for Australia
Campaign
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By Melvin J. Pownall
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Modern Mission Work Foundations
farm and dairy tractor for the
Korean mission.
NGWA, Nigeria—The bullet
holes have been repaired, the
electricity and water restored
and an operating table has been
installed at the Nigerian Chris-
tian Hospital, according to Dr.
Henry Farrar.
Upon his return to Nigeria he
re-activated the 50-bed hospital
that had been established in
1965. The doctor-patient ratio is
1 to 35,000 here. The infant
mortality rate is 50% during the
first year of life and the native
doctors and village mid-wives
complicate health conditions.
Dr. Farrar sees several hundred
people each week. Some of them
are gospel preachers.
Public worship services are
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McClure took the position as
head track coach at Abilene
Christian in 1963 and since that
time his teams have brought
national recognition to himself
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Uganda, once a part of British
East Africa, lies astride the equa-
tor, but most of the country has
an elevation of 3,000 to 6,000
feet, giving it a moderate climate
the year round. It is a country
of 10 million people located be-
tween Kenya on the east and the
See Uganda page 5
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Pace Quickens
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ABILENE, Tex. - Bill Mc-
Clure, head track coach at Abi-
lene Christian College for nine
years and a coach since the
period after the second world
war, has just accepted the posi-
tion as head track coach at the
University of South Carolina.
USC is widely known for its
athletic program under its ath-
letic director, Paul Dietzel.
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to encourage others to. do the
same. Many of those who did
the Marianas, New Cale- not personally prepare them-
The closing years of World
War II and the period through
1960 were impressive, years for
the mission outreach of the
churches. With the exception of
the valiant efforts of d* few cou-
rageous families before World
War II, the inert mission pro-
, gram lay smothered in self-com-
placency defying even the power
of the Spirit to budge us from
our lethargy.
The event which seems to have
provided God the opportunity to
get us moving was World War
II. Out of the twisted thoughts
and bellicose deeds of man,God
brought a whole new mission
thrust among us.
During the dark days of the
war, men of faith in the armed
services found opportunities to
worship and break bread in
memory of the Prince of Peace.
Record is borne of members of
the church who met for wor-
ship in the hot sands of North
Africa, others in the wind-swept
Aleutian Islands, in Honolulu,
Europe, India, China, Japan,
PARAGOULD, Ark. - The
family of Gailyn Van Rheenen
moved to Uganda, East Africa,
on Jan. 28 to help in opening
a new country to the gospel of
Christ. Fhey are under the super-
vision of the Seventh and Muel-
ler congregation in Paragould,
Ark.
Gailyn and his .wife, the form-
er Becky Lenderman, are natives
of the Paragould area. They left
the States with the James Moore
family with whom the) will be
working in Uganda. These two
families will join Joe Watson,
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the forerunner of this missionary
group to Uganda.
Gailyn is a 1964 graduate of
Crowley’s Ridge Academy in
Paragould and a 1968 graduate
of Harding College. In June
of 1969, he completed his class-
room work for his Masters de-
gree in Missions from Abilene
Christian College. He is now
completing his Masters with a
thesis on “A Proposal for Church
Planting in Uganda." While at
Harding, Gailyn led nine student
campaigns to cities in Iowa,
Arkansas, and Michigan. He was
elected President of his sopho-
more class and Vice-president
of the Student Body during his
senior year. . In 1968 he was
voted to “Who’s Who in Ameri-
can College and Universities."
In Uganda the Van Rheenens
will be working as a part of a
mission team called MISSION:
AFRICA. Within a year all the
five families of this group will
begin work in the unevangelized
country of Uganda. The Joe
Watsons, supported by the
church , in Clarksville, Ark., left
on July 6. 1971. The Fieldon
Allisons of Sterling, Okla., and
the Lawrence Barrs of Monte-
vallo, Ala., will be leaving for
Uganda in June of 1972.
ADELAIDE, South Austra-
lia—The Campaign for Christ
scheduled for the northern sub-
urbs of Adelaide from March
5—26, is to begin with the ar-
rival of about 60 volunteer work-
ers from the United States on
March 4th.
The campaign will be underx
the direction of the Randol Mill
Road church, Arlington, Tex.,
with Ivan Stewart serving as
campaign director. The North-
ern Districts congregation in
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The young people raised the
money by collecting over a mil-
lion and a half pounds of paper,
more than 42,000 pounds of
glass and other things such as
aluminum cans, depositable
bottles and Betty Crocker cou-
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and the school. In the past nine
years McClure’s Wildcats have
won seven Southland Conference
championships for ACC.
Because of his work in coach-
ing McClure has been elected
chairman for the NCAA’s rules
committee in track. He will also
coach the U.S. track team in
the upcoming Olympic games
in Munich, Germany.
Burl McCoy, an assistant
under McClure, was named to t*
succeed him at ACC. The Mc-
Clures plan to move to Colum-
bia, S.C. immediately to begin <
his new work.
Nigerian Christian Hospital
Struggles to Serve Helpless
conducted each day at the hospi-
tal and gospel literature is dis-
tributed.
The hospital has a monthly
budget of $1,700 to pay nurses,
lab technologists, clerks, cooks
and other employees essential to
the work. This amount also
See Nigerian Hospital page 12
missionary awakening:
The reason for publishing
this paper is to stir up mis-
sionary zeal and activity
among members of the
church everywhere, and to
give all a broad vision of
the opportunities and re-
sponsibilities of the church
today. It is believed that
such a paper will do an in-
calculable amount of good
by giving direction and unit)
to the efforts of Christians.
Il will generate a wider ac-
quaintance and cooperation
among brethren.
Following a two-month mis-
Korea, as well as Australia and for foreign mission service and sionary survey trip to Europe
smaller islands of the seas i^ich to Encourage others to. do the by Otis Gatewood and Paul
as Guam, the Philippines, Oki- same. Many of those who did Sherrod for the purpose of
nawa, the Marianas, New Cale- , not personally prepare them- See Foundations page 8
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LONG BEACH, Calif. -
Youth group members of the
Uptown church in Long Beach
recently raised $3000 in less than
six months for missionary needs
in Korea.
The money—latest in a three-
and-a-half year campaign which
has raised more than $11,500
for other good works—is being
used to help purchase a new
doma, New Guinea, the Dutch selves for foreign mission work
East Indies and even (my Fiji, were, nonetheless, mission hun-
The good in this was not thaL gry and wen,t about their normal
the war forced these men tow or- business pursuits with an eye to
ship in these places, but was, making them serve the mission
rather, found in the prospects program.
which this situation held for the On June 2, 4943, the first
future. First of all, these Chris- edition of the Christian Chroni-
tians were able to teach many of de made its appearance. Its
their fellow-soldiers the truth of stated policy destined it to be-
the gospel. come one of the chief organs of
Secondly, definite inroads mission stimulus amongChurch-
wcre made by these men on the es of Christ in this period of
populations of the various coun-
tries and islands.
Thirdly, and perhaps the most
important of all, these men of
faith gained great actual insight
and acquired vision into the vital
need the world had for the gos-
pel. The significance of all this
was that souls were led to Christ,
foundations for future mission
work were laid, and evangelistic
vision was lengthened to em-
brace the whole world.
Appalled by the world's need
for Christ and the church’s ap-
parently dormant mission pro-
gram, many Christians, upon
discharge from the military ser-
vice, began to prepare themselves
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