The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 40, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 1, 1983 Page: 15 of 15
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Christian Chronicle
Oklahoma Christian College
Route 1. Box 141
Oklahoma City. OK 73111
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Hatillo Growth Statistics
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less
members
80
6
36
50
1980
61%
130
7
57
80
1981
60%
227*
5
96*
130
1982
90%
421
baptized
converts
forts m personal evangelism training and m youth
evaapoftmo. They too are involved in teadertoup
training.
The Jam Garda fscnfly. veteran nusmwnries in
Bohns and Nicaragua. are rvrwhu-w on public
and rmyeprtimil magrhmi Joan apearteacte all
the csmpsipn efforts The Garcias ateo wort m
new
total
percent
62%
The Rear Barnas family coacentrates their full
tane m door-to-door evangelism Thar first day on
the team project they knocked M doors m one block
■nd had M Bible stadten. They have been successful
thousands of bebevers who by their own economic
strength can support and send out nasaonanes to
plant all over the csmdry and even foreign nations
where an American cannot go
AS the members of the hmm are devout students of
the Word and are effective to teaching home Bibte
stuher Each fanriy. in addMtan. is concentrating
their intents on an arm of ferial service.
The MrOonp are focusing their time on Christian
marriage retotams became a anted home in this
"matte" society is rare. They are atoa woridng for
coagregatenal development. They ateo wort with the
HstiBs Lmderatap Training lartttute which attempts
to encourage teadertoap among nationals.
The PM Laenta. rrpiriim nd in Guatemalan and
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in winning many to Christ
The Kirk McAfee family is working with the Bible
correspondence program.
The Karl King family is working with the Ba mos in
door-to-door evangeitom
Joyce Harris, a Christian widow from Arkansas. is
working with special projects for abandoned women
and in training women.
Most of 1MB was spend on Team Training and
visas Still, the Lard has been Verified by souls who
surrendered to Jeans. Nearly IM converts were made
m one year. A new facility. winch wM seat MO people
and win serve as the center of the training for the
famflifo which the congregation erierto to send out,
was built in 1MB. Attendance at worship services
grew to Ml. The team ateo trained three AIM
students and sent them on to work hi Columbia
hum he exciting story of Hatilto seems to illustrate
again the power of the gospel to reach lives
which have not found meaning in the typical
search for the "good life” of jobs and often life Peo-
ple. it seems, are meat open Io Christ when their
dreams turn out to be empty and fnrttess
The Hatillo Urban Eva^eltom Teton is evidence
that the chtldren of God need to leak for the open
doors. Ours is a world of growing cittas, and we must
work there to roach men and women who need God.
BAILEY MtOMDX
| THE CHRISTIAN
Projected growth in 1983
1983_________221_________205__________5
•In 1982 the team trained and the building was built
Church attendance Dec. 1982 : 280 Dec. 1983 (projected): 900
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X Bawdy poprtntod dtp. Me Mrtuss.
Vte The paste rate for Me ctameta in Hatilto tans
measdedM percent far sate of Me past throe yearn
The rapid grouM la a sprwwhng often eomonatoity
to an emrttag coataart to Me oarty ml efforts to
Couto Him. The Bon MrCtaag tamffy had taegm Meir
^rtm tffarta to Me n*r mm dtatrirt. tart had not
food Me nual peoples receptive.
The McCtaepsdM art wart to teaveCortn Rica, for
t to a Latte American artton with ffiMBty and aa-
ttenal tape. Ondn Men hm never had an army or a
wnr «d taa Me Mtfnrt teuei of edKrtten of Ccrtral
America. B taa ataays bam proud of its democratic.
poputorlyufaetodgavuremcrts and of the personal
la MM Me MeCta* moved to Sen Jem to toady
receptivity to Me often coonmmrty. I o eking at
donomtartfanol March growth. Me receptivity of dif-
farart ascM/eeommec terete of Me Coats Riem
esdtare, and puveramert comas, they fixed oo
Hatton. an arm of tatonaive gmramrwt homExg pro-
jects. In Mis neighborhood. MUNI people Mve in s
om-mtoe radtae of concentrated waB-tawall teasing
Hatton tad tarn proved receptive by the work of
the fastert-puoteg deaendnatMaal group in the no-
tion. They bought a tot in the neighborhood. set m •
tort* in flue yeses grew to a memtertoup of MM. sad
la MM Me MrTtaegi moved ntoo the arm to test
Moir theory of iu.optii1ty They set m a tert ■
Hatton A gilirttog Ml tames m a tert ptat. they
dtoeaveredMrt me art of every three tamm had the
dear open to a tame Stole study It was nsponable
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Norton, Howard W. & McBride, Bailey. The Christian Chronicle (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 40, No. 6, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 1, 1983, newspaper, June 1, 1983; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1308112/m1/15/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.