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Show / • • I t t ' ,', 'i * July 22, 1986 • < > - f MISSION TABLOID. Paotingfu, China. IN OUR MIDST. "The Reign of GrOd sight of it; no one will say •u i s not coming as J.Here i t is" Reign of (Jod is now in your midst you hope to catch or :There it is1 for Moffat Translation* i • •; A •' m Mountain hamletAt called "Tea Leaves Village" contacts of Christians a A snoa*. 2 -- Of ade ago when administering famine believers after follow up work of 2 or f * dec Friendly relief* years group an Ooen opposition led chiefly ~# ~ « --o --- .-• - . _ «A4«« /*«* oooasion for a campaign to build a new shrine^to local g » » « i « dei-t i e a . Shrine was feiiS.lt and images prepared and put •***$»•»•£»? the formal opening or dedication. Then the woman She saw vividly the shrine heside the main path into the JOS b* had come dreamed» to * *? figure approached robed in white. The - thru the open doorway chief im- " I t is the village* Suddenly a w __ a^e inside leaned forward and peered ._*.... ^ Jelusf" the image exclaimed, then as^the figure pas**« f ** a path "He is entering our village". The woman awoke, with ™°^lea heart, iftel all was not Jesus the i ^ S ^ ^ H ^ J ? 5 h & n » f ^ She pondered and her heart consented. She t o J * ^ ~ J « " 0 ^ ; ???. some years now she has been one of the live Christians of oar 1 i t - t i e i*-i- -. -~.,~*.~«m««fl. +.hA ^oi i A xr»i*n members of a l l DUU 3 years church, 4 families of the cated nor has incense " • • • ' "' or ow sne nas Deen uae ux vuw u»« ^ «* * « ~ *^~~ -- - which now counts among the believers members of village, The little shrine has not been aedi-been burned before its images « • : • , • W # CHANGED A MSN 4- On request I went to the town of 0hang Family Pond to ex- - mem"*b'e•• ' I found a larger group applying "i*"***-*- • • • h (flMf> * * ^ Vi^i**^ ^** ^» ^B* "^", ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - than y in'any other center visited tha past season - j * ^ f r o m o t h er villages, but about 25 men and older boyw who had been in *he instruction class. ^ inward thought was that asked to wait. been Mv inward thought was that some would need to be only one was aeld back. Seldom have I questioned a group who have scorned so well instructed ana so sure of an esseo-t i a l Christian experience. The*-^ - arA + , n ^^ma W*+H Chang Yli-p'u, about 35 years of age, formerly about 10 years with the army where he reached the rank of captaincy. He confesses to Ufo of rotten habits there. But he heard the gospel, confessed Jesus in a hearty surrender, searched the planation? Their leader is Mr. a and set his light on a candle scriptures, home town. In the district organize* ion he has an off ice as deacon. Ho gives his in the slack winter months teaching these who gather in, largely won by his life and open testimony. The district evangelist helps Mr. Chang must carry most of the teaching. own changed him some but / \& .*> .- i . . J I ** PERIPATETIC RSI About a bicycle seat. ties. An LITSRATUR3 seat r A. ^only His readers are , our librarian, Wang polishes is scattered in abqat a dozen coun more ing You average of leg power and distribu I ^ Q _a tyf CJ* JT vw mm Wm9 w* 1*» ^m +** **m y aF ^ ^ ^^ «» ^^ ^^ "™* T*- * 5 ' trip around takes ibout 3 weeks *nd 300 miles or * N travel, with scores of stops thrown in, collect-of books, and keeping all records up in shape ask how he can handle enuf books by bike to make the service wirth while? Nearly all his stock are of the ordinary Chinese publications style,- printing on light thin paper, paper covers. And he specializes |n a well chosen selection for raral readers, and a large percent of these "" -^-* U--A* ~ *****• *»***r**m brochures. His are boxes built carry around 150 books, nest Christian ing to short, hardly more pamphle on behind sort of saddle-bag style can is the right man for the job:- ear-in folks/not afraid of leg action, will- "rough it". So this library travels to good purpose Wang rested CORPS OF SPECIALISTS * .» *^.. - - A '" 500 With it we we nave recently received (U.S.) to n m help at ^^g fl |^^^ ^^^M J K.-M f ^H^ -'^ A 4mm^k^mkmmw W ^ f 9^^f ^B"^ ^fc^Wik "aBB " ( ^ ^ ^ ^ ™ W ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^ ^ ^ ^^^^T ^^^ *^>" W^M back our whole progawn of rural mission work, >. r expect to employ 3 specialists, par -"'",J,-••, tion man accepts our invitation for Sept, 1st. f of a suitable public health ',i",,* for two months trial this Iff* n, autumn. religious educa 1st. We are not yet sure are 3&st negotiating for a ma Our "livelihood" man is to be but shared with our Middle School, as oar fund woaid fall short of full support for three men. Mr, Yao, for this position, is to be here Aug, 1st,- a man trained in agriculture and cooperatives, < . • • ' " • " . ' a ': J • < \ •-- . •• \ I "X r "N / i. & y \ .-'..• tjA^ *.*0 t a. . x < • • ' o |