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JANUARY 2011
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from the whole German speaking part of
Europe,” said Ivan Voser, a missionary in
Thun, Switzerland.
“Though the unity of German-speaking
churches is growing, I am disturbed over
the kind of issues that still start off quar-
rels and split churches,” Voser said.
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Alan and Rachel Howell with daughters Katie
Joy, Abbyand Ellie.
Born again in Borneo
Tuai Rumah Sunok smiles as he emerges from a river in Sarawak, a state of Malaysia on the island of
Borneo. Sunok, 82, is the headman of a rural village called Kg Nanga Stamang. He studied the Bible
with Ong Chee Yong, a church member in the city of Johor Bahru, Malaysia, just north of Singapore.
Ong leads regular mission trips to Sarawak.
"Brother Sunok's baptism has paved the way for more from the village to follow,"Ong said.
"Remarkably... on the very night we preached to him, he made a swift decision to be baptized."
GAMBIA
BANJUL — “Finishing the unfinished task”
was the theme of the annual joint worship
service for Churches of Christ in this tiny
West African nation.
Appropriately enough, the 223
attendees worshiped in the unfinished
building of the Kanifing Church of Christ,
said minister Isaac Daye. The minister
challenged his fellow Christians to raise
funds to complete the 300-seat facility, for
which the church broke ground in 2008.
Daye seeks funds to complete the
facility. For more information, contact
the Center Street Church of Christ in
Fayetteville, Ark., at (479) 442-8752.
NIGERIA
KURA — In this northern Nigerian town,
a bus driven by church members struck
a young Muslim boy who was carrying a
heavy load of sugar cane and walked into
the highway.
GERMANY
NECKARZIMMERN — About 80 church
members attended a recent men’s retreat
in this southern German town.
“The retreat helps me to stay in contact
with preachers and leading members
BRAZIL
RECIFE — Missionary Randy Short
conducted his 11th two-and-a-half-hour
study of theology with students at the
School of Bible in Boa Viagem, a neigh-
borhood in Recife.
“What a sheer blessing it has been to
be with these folks hungry to learn the
Gospel,” Short said. The class presented
Short and his wife, Kathy, with gifts.
The best gifts came later, when six of the
students were baptized, Randy Short said.
AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY — Matt and Tish Harris met
with seven church-planting teams from
Australia and New Zealand at a recent
Christian conference in Sydney.
“One of the most significant messages
we heard during the conference was the
struggle that Australian churches experi-
ence regarding training and maintaining
leadership,” Matt Harris said. “Although
we do not have all the answers, one of our
main desires and challenges in Australia
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funds for the work. For more information,
see www.teamipswichaustralia.com.
in Mozambique
MONTEPUEZ, Mozambique — Alan Howell
spent a recent Saturday sitting on his
front porch with church leaders as they
quoted Titus to each other.
Howell and his wife, Rachel, serve
on a mission team in Montepuez. The
Donelson Church of Christ in Nashville,
Tenn., sponsors the couple.
The Howells hosted a get-together for
10 Mozambican church leaders from six
villages. The leaders ate rice and goat
meat and talked about the apostle Paul’s
letter to Titus, which discusses require-
ments for church elders.
“These men committed to memorize
the book of Titus together — most... in
Portuguese but some using Makua-Metto
or Swahili,” Alan Howell said.
The missionary described the meeting
in a recent blog post detailing a week in
his family’s life. He also wrote about treks
to rural villages — to meet with young
congregations and visit the ill.
He dealt with a few unexpected prob-
lems during the week. A guard dog
owned by the team chewed through a
bamboo fence and ate a neighbor’s duck.
Alan Howell and a guard who works
for the team met with the neighbor and
negotiated compensation. The conversa-
tion turned to spiritual matters.
“She asked us why the churches we
worship with don’t require payment and
a huge meal for burial services,” he said.
“We talked about how the book of James
says that true religion is to care for
orphans and widows in their distress ....
“Walking back ... the guard and I talked
about how amazing God is — that he can
turn something bad and inconvenient,
like a dog eating a neighbor’s duck, into
an open door for someone to see the
Kingdom of God come near.”
JAPAN
TOMOBE — Members of the Tomobe
church said goodbye to Kimiko Usami,
who died recently after a five-year battle
with cancer. Usami was a leader among
the women of the church and was
active in Hitachi Christian Camp, said
missionary Marlin Ray.
“She helped everyone she could, espe-
cially foreigners,” the missionary said.
“She was a Christian as Paul described.
Her husband, who is not a Christian, was
surprised to see so many people at her
funeral (about 200). About three-fourths
of the people there were Christians.”
The church members were returning
to Igarra from Kano, where minister
Sylvester Imogoh spoke at a youth rally.
The boy’s left ankle was fractured, and
i the church members paid
for his treatment, Imogoh
Ki said.
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I helped the Igarra church
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u authorities.
I I “We were neither
imnnnh touched nor harassed,”
" Imogoh said. “Both our
brethren and Muslims in that area
attested to the fact that God was with us.'
UNITED KINGDOM
BRISTOL — Members of the Bedminster
Church of Christ gathered in a hall near
their outskirts of this British city to plot
their “20/20 Vision” — a plan for the next
10 years.
Church members addressed the
congregation’s strengths, weaknesses,
and vision for the church in 2020,
member Geoff Daniell said.
“Everyone contributed their thoughts,”
Daniell said. “No ambition was consid-
ered too wild.”
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