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NOW
IS TIME
TO
COME TO THE
ID
OF
THE
G
B M
Now is th e
time
fo r al l good
men
and
women to
come
to the
aid
of
th e
Gospel
Broadcasting
Mission.
Step up,
fall
in.
shoulder
a pen, a car or a sneak ing tour.
Much prayer
an d
help needed
The
founders have
ha d
to
fall
back,
not
out,
but for
the
present
ar e limping
along.
Because of Mrs. Colde
(Mainie)
no t
being so up an d coming as sh e wants
tc , M r. Coble
(Walte r) h as to
fall back
somewhat
to keep
th e household duties
from ill
repute,
to
see that
Mainie stays
on h er stri ct diet, take care of more of
th e
correspondence, mai ling list,
and the
money you send in
fo r GBM.
KEEP HIM
B USY w ith th is
more
and
mor e. H e d oe sn 't
mind
banking big gobs of
it
if only we
could. So
much
to be done, so little time.
Also, he
must
edit and tape and
keep
up the
Puerto
Rico
broadcast , tape
songs
for o ther s, retape some for others, keep
up his own equipme.nt for tape recording,
then
proof
read Listen after
Mainie
does
to find errors she missed, if any. Then he
must disti'ibute Listen out to about
twenty
of o ur ch urch
members
e ac h tim e
with
300 to 400 names
to each on e
to
ad
dress.
Then gather it al l up
again
in two
or thre e day s
if
th e
workers
don't have
a way to r et urn t he Listens to
us .
Then
look at
each Lis ten
as
they
come in, tic
them up properly as a former postal clerk
would, then mail them. In about a day
we begin receiving returns for wrong ad
dress
at 10c per
aadress. This
is a full
time
job
correcting addresses. But when
it comes to paying
cut
10c of t he Lor d' s
money
it is tragic. So please
send your
l at es t add re ss , now if you have not.
if you kn ow
of
some
good
persons
who
love the Lord who w ou ld lik e to rece ive
Listen
please send their names and ad
dresses.
I t will help
in
this t ime of crisis
fo r us if
you
would. It is one
way you
ca n
help.
A mission work or worker
depends
on
th e
c on ta ct s t he y
can
make
fo r finan
cial support. Now that we cannot get out
an d
go
an d
s ee people and
personally
pr e
sent the work
to
as
great
an extent
as
formerly
(for
a
t ime
at
least)
we
nec
al l of
your
help
in
many w ay s. Th is is
way you
ca n help.
The
Gospel
Broadcasting
Mission fuhds
are very low We had to wait until beiii
ning of
ugust
until funds increased
s
that
we
could
pay some of the broadcast
in g bills. This is
dangerous
to
th e
gooc
credit
we
have a lway s main ta in ed . It
is
s er ious and could lead to
losing
a good pr o
gram and b roadcast ing
spot that could
never b e r eg ain ed . There
are
those
with
ready money
wai ti ng f or such spots.
The ques ti on now is what will th e
s it ua ti on b e
Sept.
1 wh en all
b il ls s houl d
be paid,
or rather
Aug.
31? At that date
also cur note is du e
of
500 that we bor
rowed at the ba nk (responsibility ours) to
pay
th e
bills of
broadcasting
for M arch.
At
t ha t
t ime
a lo t
of folks
don t
wan t to
touch
their bank accounts in
order
to
pay
their b ig ta xe s. Bu t
big
taxes m ean big
money they tell us . We wouldn't know.
But
now
is a
good
t ime to
give
th e
money saved at that time when you didn't
have to draw on your bank
account
to pay
taxes.
Thank
you,
th e
G.B.M.
appreciates
tha t .
We are making th e following APPEAL
fo r you to help the Gospel
Broadcasting
Mission in this t ime o f cris is and pray
that it will be enough of a bo ost to carry
on an d go
forward.
One
tenth
of a
day's
pay
to the Gospel
Broadcasting Mission this pa y
day
or one-
tenth
of a day's s ell in g o f a
crop
or
tenth of the sale of m ercha nd is e, o r
tenth of what ever your average earn
is for one day.
In the name of
Jesus
w e th an k you
pray God's richest blessings
upon
yo
THE
B UGHM NS
WRITE
FROM WES
FRIC
MISSION
We have
yust
re ceiv ed the Gospe
i rk in Efic and have on orde r th e sec
chapi te r-of Ac ts
in
Eng li sh , Yor ub a, E
Ibo,
an d Hausa
With
t hi s o ff er on Matt
we hope to establish th e extent
of terri
t he p ro gr am
covers.
I
am
enclosing p ic tu re s t ak en dur in
session of
taping
SEARCH THE
SCR
TURES. There a re
tw o
of Don a t
microphone Husse in
Momodu, ministe
th e Ba ri ga chu rc h, is the announcer
Mr. Adeyerno is t he t ec hn ic ia n
a t
NBC
studio
station.
Th e program is
he
at 10 a .m . ove r the
Western Nigeria
Br
casting System (WNES) each Sunday m
ing.
Wc hope you both are well
an d
pros
in g in th e Lord. He
is
b le ss in g u s
d
Don was f la t on his back fo r three we
awhile back and although he is no t
hi s
back is well eno ug h fo r
him
to c
on .
It has been diegnosed' as a - 'w
back .
Many b le ss ings to you bot h.
In Chris tian love,
Marianne an d Don.^ld Baugh
Wes t A fr ic a C hr is tia n
Mission
B r ot he r Hus se in Momodu
is
th e a nn ou nc er fo r Search The
Scriptures broadcast eery
Sunday
morning at 10 a. m. over
WNBS. This program is taped at th e studio in Lagos.
Don Baughman at th e
microphone.
We
are presently offe
th e Gospel of Matthew in Eng li sh a nd
will
folow
this
with
Gospel
of
Mark in
Efic.
On order is th e 2nd
Chap ter of A cts
Eng li sh Yo ru ba ,
Hausa ,
Efic
an d Ibo
in b oo kl et f orm. Sea
The Scriptures is heard
al l
over N ige ria, and we h av e recei
le t ters
f ro m li ste ne rs
in Ghana and
th e
Cmeroonas .
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JULY
- AUGUST, 1964 ISSUE No.
43
LUXEMB
THE GOSPEL BROADCASTING MISSION MR.
MRS. WALTER COBLE, Founders,
Garreit
Indiana
k
work of faith depending on offerings from God's
pie for missionary radio broadcasting
costs
and promoH
expenses.
Listen-0, Isles unto
me;
and hearken ye
people from
afar Isaiah 49:1.
Poland
The rope-like line, the iron curtain, dividing Continental Europe for many miles. The
darkest shaded map is the concentration of German speaking people. The lighter shades arebi-lingual, German and other native tongues. The English language is also spoken by a
great
percentage over the entire area and millions in British Isles and Europe.
Three Search the Scripture programs over this area, two over Radio Luxembourgh, one
in the Polish language over Transworld Radio to thousands of Polish language people.
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The Christian Mission, Vol. 8,
No. 8,
August,
1964
Page 23
WEST
AFRICA CHRISTIAN
MISSION
Donald and Marianne Baughman are the
only
personnel. There are four phases to our
work: the establishing
of churches,
the
train
ing
of
native
ministers,
the
Search
the
Scrip
tures program,
and the medical program.
Since 9 6 te n
congregations have been
started
and
the evangelists to serve them
have
b e e n t r a i n e d
S P I R I T
O F P O W E R
The Power of the Spirit is
constantly
pro
ven
in
Nigeria. One example
took p lac e in
the vi llage of Appiapum. In t he words
of
evange li s t Lawrence
Ebak:
Appiapum is
my
home
town.
It
is
in
Ob-
ubra Distr ic t , Eastern
Nigeria.
The
village
i s o n th e b a n k o f th e
C r o s s
R i v e r
T h e
i n h a
bitants are mostly farmers. They grow yams,
corn, plantain, sugar cane, oranges, r ice,
cocoa, cassava , beans,
okra, etc. Most of
the people are not Christians.
My visit home
was
only
for two weeks.
Tha t mean t
only
two
Sundays
to be present in the village. The
f irst Sunday I attended a
worship
service in
the Presbyterian church.
This
helped many
people who
never knew
I was
in th e village
to
know that I was there with them. After they
knew that I had successfully
gone
through
my
cou rs e a s a preacher, they never thought of
me
as
an
ordina ry member
of
th e Church
of
Chris t
but as a
preacher . The next
Sunday
I
was
given
an
invitation paper which
reques
te d me to preach them
a
sermon.
I
accepted.
I went to the
church
with my
sermon, Sin:
Adultery
and
Fornication.
After th e
service
was over, everywhere
in the
village
people
commented
on my ser
m o n T h i s w as s o b ec au se I
m a d e
a c h o i c e
on one
o f the
commonest
sins
in the village.
Those
who came to see
me
began to question
me
how and why I
managed
to
become
a
preacher in th e
chu rch o f Christ .
Then they
said
to
me,
Would
you
like to
be a preacher
in the Presby ter i an Church?
Friends,
this was as possible
as having
a child reject his
parents.
This was
not
what
I wanted. They never knew I was seeking
for
a way to have t hem bap ti zed into
Christ .
We know what generally is the reaction
of
men
if one
doe s not
do wha t they wan t him
to
do . There
was
a
great opposition
that I
w o u l d
n o t h a ve t h e
c h u r c
o f C h r i s t s t ar t ed
i n
my village. I
went
to
the
Head
Chief
and
he
was
friendly. He is a member in th e
East
House of Assembly
and
has
four wives. It
was h i s
d e s i r e
to have m o r e churches in th
village.
I
told
him Christ ianity was
no t
a
m a t t e r o f
the number o f churches
one h a s
a
place, but
the Christian way
of l ife.
Th
I said, No one
will
call a man that has mo
than
one wife
a
Christ ian, even i f
he has a
church
right inside his
house.
At th e first
worship se rv ice there
wer
66. As t ime
wen t on
the
opposition
increa
sed,
so the
a ttendance dropped to 40 . I
knew it was not something I was going to d
alone without earnestly asking
th e Spirit
o
ro to give me a
helping
hand in the work.
I
spent
most of
my
time in prayer
and call
The people
said,
The
Presbyterian churc
is
the
mother church,
any other
church
coming into the vil lage
must
take
permissi
from the Presbyterian church before any
work
is begun.
One o f the e l d e r s said , ou h av e
come
to divide the vil lage by bringing in a differ
en t
church. Well, I d id not agree with th
I told t h e m I w a s not a f t e r t h e m o t h e r c h u r
o r the father church,
nei ther
came I
to
divide th e v illage, but what
I knew
was to
preach
th e Gospel.
Since i t w as th e w il l o f God t h a t h is v il
lage
of
mine should receive
th e
Gospel
message, the re were those who
asked
me
to remain
and
t each them. I stayed in
th e
village
for t ii ree months .
After this
th e
attendance increased; the opposition was
coming
to an
end,
and the headmaster of
the school gave me an invitation
to
deliver
a
lecture. My subject on that day was
Immorality: It s affects on educational,
socia l, cu ltu ra l field of l i f e We had
some men who
had
many
wives
who wanted
t o b e c o m e m e m b e r s o f
th e c h u r c h
w i t h
tiieir
wives.
They
were
t old to
live
with
the
f ir st m a rr ie d
one,
and then
have noth
ing to do
with
th e
r e s t of t he wives .
Some
said,
No, I
find
i t very diff icul t to
becom
a
C l i ri s ti a n b e c a u s e
I
wil l
not l i ke to
l e a v e
my
wives
I have married. I loved th em be
f o r e I m a r r i e d t h e m How c a n I le av e t he
w h i l e
I
s t i l l l o v e
t h e m ?
Well,
th is is a
problem
to one
who doe
not
know
th e
value
of
becoming
a
Christian
The
Head Chief said,
But we
read
about
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The
Christian
Mission, Vol. 8 No. 8 August 1964
(continued from previous page)
people who had
multiple
wives in the
Bible.'
This opened a way of explaining
the
Gtospel
to him. I
read
to him a scripture
from
Matt.
19:3-9. Finally he said,
'Let
us forge t
about
that
and
talk of something else. '
Th er e w e re those
who
were f ai th fu l and
were willing
to do anything
that
they were
told
to do in
o r de r
to
become a Chr i s t i an
Not all of the people had difficulties,
bu t
they
needed
to be
taught the Gospel
and
let them
know
their
own
responsibilities
i n l if e.
If
they are taught
the
Gospel and that as a Chris
tian
everyone
ha s
a
responsibility,
they
may
improve to
be
better men when once
t hey be
c ome Chr i s t i a n s
This
was in
August, 1962. In May 1963
the
present
evangelist,
James
Adu
reported
that he had baptized 20 in the vil lage
of
Ap-
piapum and that a
nearby village asked
him
to come and preach to
them. Such
is th e
Power of
the
Spirit
GOALS
The
Ekuri congregat ion in the Eastern
region of
Nigeria has
begun
gathering rocks
for the const ruc tion of the Maternity Home
buildings. There
is
a
perpetually overcrowded
hospital
at Obubra, 38 miles away. Not
many
of the
sick
of Ekuri
ge t
there. Most of them
do
no t
have money
fo r transportation
and
many
of them a re
st i l l
convinced of the
abil i t ies
of
the i r own
nat ive
doc tors
In the o the r
direction is a new Presbjd^erian
hospital.
It,
too, is always full, and again, our
people
canno t make i t t h e r e
This
maternity
home would
no t
only
serve
Ekuri, second
largest
town in Obubra division,
but would serve
many other
villages
lying
adjacent to it. It would be difficult fo r
me
to
tell you what it
would mean to
the people of
th i s
a r e a
A s so on a s
we
r e ce iv e a s su r a n ce
from a doctor or a qualified
nurse
that they
will assume
this
responsibility,
we will
make
an appea l
fo r
funds
fo r building construction
and operation cos ts
NEEDS
We are
in
need of a
battery
operated t ran
sistor Tape
recorder.
About $98
Two
bicycles are needed for
evangelists-
$58.80
each.
$6000 is needed to purchase
land
in Ebute
Metta and
$6000
is
needed to purchase
land
in
Bariga.
Sunday
school literature, particularly
children's papers with pictures to
see
and
a r t i c l e s to co lo r
Our MOST IMPORTANT concern and need
is mor e missionaries to help us evangelize
Africa 's most heavily
populated
coimtry.
Our second to ur o f
four
years ends in J an .
1966.
At
th e
present time there
is
no one
to replace us. There
is
housing available
for two families and t he re mu st b e some on e
to mainta in the mission property and pro
vide supervision to the
evangelists.
If
you are
interested
in coming to
the
mission
f ield, write to us.
Donald
and
Marianne Baughman
Box
46
Otta,
Niger ia , Wes t
Africa
Forwarding
Agent:
Mrs. Carol Scarbrough
3546
S.
Ewing
Ave.
Dallas
16, Texas