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Christian Mission

P.O. OX 41, Cebu City, 6000 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

FEBRUARY

16, 1989

EETINGS FROM THE PHILIPPINES

On Septennber 24,

1988, I

t

Cebu fo r

Honolulu to have

medica l work done . I went

t my son Larry s suggestion.

My

t rouble was Cataracts .

to ld mc about the Hawaiian

e Clinic t h a t had t r ea t ed

pa t i en t s from around the

Since

surgery I can see very well. Be

tha t

I

could

hardly see

to

read

the

to

play piano or

organ

for church or a t

in th e Seminary. I had

to

use a large

glass to sing the hymns or to read

things except a

newspaper.

Larry suggested my going

to

Honolulu, be

a

friend

of his in Cebu had surgery on

oth eyes and los t the s ight in one eye.

On

January 14

I came to C al if orn ia for a

vi s i t

with my family members and

to

my l iving l ink

church.

Every year

Cincinnati Bible Seminary

a few people from the i r

graduates

for

e

ANCHOR AWARDS.

Four

people were

chosen

this year:

W.C. Burr i s

Class o f 1929

William

S. Boic e, C la ss

of 1939

Imogene

and

Ray Carlson,

Class

of 1937

foJ kJvTing art icle about

in

the

Col lege paper :

and me was

1988

Ancho r Awa rd s

Imogene and Hay Carlson

Class o f 1937

Alvin Ray Carlson was

born

Sep tember 15, 1914, in

t. Louis , Missouri .

He

beqan h is

Chris t ian

service as

a

leader in 1932. He was

sent

to C in cin na ti B ible

by

th e Metropolitan

Church

o f Chr is t (Chicago,

I l l inois and he became a student preacher in 1934.

graduated from CBS in 1937, and he took

graduate

wo

Phillipps

University (Enid, Oklahoma . He preached

I l l inois

Nebraska , Oklahona , and th e

Philippines.

Mrs. Carlson Imogene Paulson) was born March 2,

in

Cherokee,

Iowa. She met Ray

a t

CBS, where sh e

also

ceived

the

degree. The Carlsons three sons ar e

Robin, Lawrence Ray, and Theodore Emi1.

The Ray Carl son fami ly arrived in Cebu City,

Ph

pines,

on March 24 , 1941. They had planned

to

do mi

v/ork on

th e Chinese Tibet an borde r,

but they could no

| )flssports

from the

State Department.

The

Japanese

inv

th e Phil ippines in

December of

1941,

an d

th e

C ar ls on

long with

o ther missiona r ie s , were

interned in prison

ca

They, were l iberated on February 23, 1945.

Ih c

Carlsons

established Cebu

Bible

Seminary

in

There are

now more

than f i f ty churches in the Ce

Philipnines, establ ished with

the

aid of many Fili

leaders. About 200 people have been baptized each ye

Mr. Carlson died on August

31 ,

1984. He

is

surv

by his w ife, t hr ee sons, and six grandchildren. The

Seattle

Cliristian

Church spearheaded a

drive

to ere

field house

on

the

campus of Cebu

Bible Seminary

in

honor .

llie Anclior

Award

fo r the

Carlsons

was

accepte

Noral A. Campbell,

former

missionary)

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NEWS FROM THE MISSION F IELD

I have

r ece ived

word

from

Cebu

conce

th e

con t i nued

use o f

tw o r en t ed room

o f

Cebu

Coll lseum

fo r

a miss ion of f i ce and

church that was

established

by Ray abou

year

before

he

died. The

c on tra ct f or

rooms is up the end of

March,

and the man

has

again

decided to in crea se the rent .

decided

t h a t even

with th e

increase

we w

keep

the rooms.

This year of 989 will be the begin

of

the 80th

year of

the Church

o f C hris t

the

Phil ippines.

I t

was s tar ted on

the

Isl

of Luzon by early missi onar ie s o f our chu

The church has grown and spread

out

to

Islands of this island

republic.

The

work

was s t a r t ed

in

1941.

We have

71 Seminary

Students and

s

interns , who will

graduate

in May of t

y e a r .

Brother and Sis ter Diego Romulo are

to

t each Chr is t i an Journa l ism and Chr is

Education to

the

interns.

They

will

here fo r one month.

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