MISSION TIDINGS

GIFTS RECEIVED FOR MISSIONS IN FEBRUARY, 1978

CLASSIS EAST SOURCE AMOUNT

Franklin Lakes Calendars 150.00

CLASSIS MID WEST

Bradford Calendars 24.00

Bradford Christmas

Collection 262.90

Bradford Sunday Sch. Collection 21.59

Bradford Catechism Collection 14.74

In Bradford Col. Gift 40.00

Bradford pennies

Ch. V.D.W. Gift 23.61

Friend in So. Holland Gift 20.00

A friend in G.R. Gift 100.00

Friend in Michigan Gift 125.00

Friend in G.R. Gift 100.00

CLASSIS WEST

Sheboygan Calendars 87.00

Friend in Manhattan Gift 300.00

Rebecca Circle Calendars 30.00

CLASSIS FARWEST

Chilliwack Calendars 315.00

Sunnyside Mis. Guild Sale 1561.10

TOTAL: $3174.94

Dear friends,

In the first place we want to thank you all for your kind gifts for the mission during the month of February. May the Lord bless you and your gifts. The mission board met on Feb. 14, 1978, at Waupun, Wisconsin. We were asked on this meeting to write a piece on behalf of the organization that has the name of “Come over and help us.” This Society was formed about 4 years ago and it is active to bring financial and other help to Christians behind the iron curtain. Many Bibles have been sent out with other good literature in the Romainian, Hungarian, and the Russian languages. The cost to work in this way behind the iron curtain is very high. The mission committee has decided to take a part in the support of this worthy and very important work. You will realize that this will incur additional expense for the mission. We were asked to draw this to your attention, as the more money that we may receive the more we can help in places where the need is great. Possibly our congregations could have an extra collection for the mission. May the Lord give love for our mission workers but also for the Christians that are in great difficulties behind the iron curtain. It is the Lord’s command in Matt. 28:19, “Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” We also include a letter from Annie Vreugdenhil. The Lord willing, Rev. Verhoef and William VanVoorst hope to go to The Netherlands to attend a meeting with the Holland Mission Board and also to attend the Mission Day activities in Holland, which is to be held on Monday, May 1, 1978. We hope they may have a safe and beneficial trip. In behalf of the Mission Committee.

American General Mission Fund Netherlands Reformed Congregations of United States and Canada

John Spaans, Treasurer

Plankinton Box 17, RR3

South Dakota 57368

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”

Proverbs 1:7

NEWS FROM IGEDE

Ikachi, Feb. 11, 1978

Dear Friends,

Although we usually correspond with different women societies, this time I want to write to all of you via this medium to thank you for your help rendered to us and the people of Igede.

From time to time you made us glad with those packages neatly packed with clothes, plaster, toothpaste, bandages, toys, etc. Last year I had to write you to stop sending the boxes. The custom duties have risen so much, sometimes more than 100% , often more than the value of the products.

After that you sent us books, which we appreciate very much, and which are also duty free.

At the end of 1977 we received via Mr. Spaans, your treasurer, a gift of $6000 to use for the work here.

We thought that you would agree with us in dividing the money between the different institutions.

The orphanage, where we look after more than 100 motherless babies, bought powdered milk with the money allotted them.

The new Bible and Agriculture school at Obobu, which is about 5 km from the clinic, has a beautiful well which gives much water. There we wanted to buy and install a pump, and so we did. We still want to extend a pipe so that the students can have water in their quarters. This will save our students much time and energy.

The building of the new hospital is progressing. The floors are nearly ready, and the boxes which contain the ‘prefab’ hospital are waiting in Port Harcourt. The window and doorframes are being made by our carpenters in the workshop.

For a long time we wanted to buy a radial arm saw machine. So we spent the money alloted to the workshop for this machine. It will help the carpenters to make the frames and furniture for the health centers and hospital.

Our carpenters are very grateful indeed with the new machine. The picture below shows you James Ogoji, one of the carpenters, with the new saw machine.

At the moment we are in the middle of the dry season. Last year it had been very dry. In Dec. ‘77 the water in the streams had dried up already. By now, people have to walk long distances to find and fetch some water.

The dam is almost finished. Everywhere on the compound labourers are digging for the pipes. The soil is terribly hard. But it will not take too long any more or we have running water from the taps.

From the Macedonian Mission Society, I regularly receive the booklets, ‘Words of Wisdom’, the Bible history written by my father. Some of our workers and some school boys from Ikachi and Ibilla are very interested and are following this course. If they have given me the answers in the morning they will come in the evening already to ask if I have corrected them.

After the first correction they have to find out the right answers before they get the next booklet.

In this way we encourage them to study the Bible. And we all know that the Lord will especially work through his Word in the hearts of mankind. Of ourselves we will never ask for God, but we love Him, because He first loved us.

Will you continue to pray if the Lord will use all your and our work for the extension of His Kingdom, also in Igede?

Bethesda Clinic

P.O. Box 96, Otukpo

Benne State

Nigeria

With kind regards, Yours, Annie Vreugdenhil

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