Bomili par Bafwasendo

Le-feter Number 7

Via Stanleyville

Republic of the Congo

Pebruar:s
1964

Dear Christian Friendss

PRAYER

NEWS

We had a fine missionary meeting at the

We thank you for your faithfulness in
prayer. Prom the general tenor of our work
end of December and were able to get a lot
we know the Lord is helping and "blessing us, accomplished. We were glad that the Doggetts
and we trust your prayers power our progress, had arrived at Bukavu just a few days before5
OUR PRAYER MEEDSs

1. Mamhati and Bafwangelc, The preacher of

these churches reports that they are con
tinuing well as in our lant report< We
will not include them in our next letter.

2. Doggetts.

Larry was able to attend with Howard. Larry

was very thorou^ly initiated into the Congo
on their return trip to Bukavu for they had
endless trouble.

They had to make a two-

day detour over fifteen-mile-per-hour roads

The panel truck blew both radiator hoses in

The Doggetbs received their visasthe middle of nowhere, and they had to use

and arrived on the field in time for

considerable ingenuity and patience to ar

Christmar^. They had much trouble and

delays before reaching herej the Lord
surely intervened on their behalf. They

rive at all.

Rain, detour, truck breakdcfwns

and collapsing bridges combined to form a

typical welcome to the Congo.

are now settled v/ith the new v/ork at

Bukavu.

The second week of January Cliff Schaub,

Johnny
and I went to Bukavu to take scane of
3* Jean Ibago. Please continue to pray for
the
Doggetts*
belongings which had arrived
Jean's eyes. He is out of medicine, and
from
the
States.
We went in Cliff's pick-^p
the last time we tried to purchase it for
truck,
and
I
planned
to bring back the panel
him none of the druggists in Stan had it*
which
Howard
had
taken
shortly before. The
As a result, his eyes have grovm worse

again. Pray that the needed medicine will

ooniiition to he driven, and

heoome available.

4. Uon Moduma.

There still has been no res-

ponse to our prayers for L^n^ We know

that he is working at a plantation about

30 kilometers from here.

We want to con

tinue our prayer for him.

Missionary recruits.

The Lord is

More and more each

day we see a greater need for workers

here.

With so many young people coming

out of our Bible colleges, the Lord v/ill

Consequently,

a trip that was to take about ten days

wound up consuming about four weeks. I sent

Betty a telegram about our delay, but it

arrived at Bomili ..sixiJKe^ks latar -

aft^r,

our return. Not having heard anything from

us for so long, Betty became concerned and
went to Stanleyville hoping to get word about us from there.

The American Consul

surely burden the hearts of some for this

helped her, and throu^ contacting the Amer

work if we just continue earnestly in

ican Consul in Bukavu had several mission

stations and all soldiers in the northeastern

prayer.

6. The discontent among the preachers has

been relieved somewhat.

We met with them

at length and discussed majiy problems and

seem to have been able to reach satis
factory agreements with them.
7* Christian. Christian was one of the

preachers that left this area to help be

gin the new work in Bukavu.

When Ronald

and John came back they brought him with

one thing was repaired sometWng

else came to our attention.

them. He has a serious heaxt condition.

We regret this because Howard said he was
doingjsffill and had. won the hearts of the

people there.

We ask that you pray for

his health,

8. Concentrated church prograjn. Ronald is

explaining the new church program he and
Ron Butler will be carrying out the next
few months. Pray earnestly for the Lord
to bless this effort. The Christians need

to be encouraged and founded more firmly

in the faith.

If you are praying with us daily will

you please notify us either at our address
the Congo as app^.ars at the head of this

letter or at Mr. ..^nd^Mrs

L. Harshe,

1908 Eurch Avenu^..-.Lim a, Ohio.

part of the Congo on the loctoout for Johnny

and me. By that time, however, Johnny and
I were nearly home, completely oblivious of
the disturbance we were causing. We are
trying to get radio communication among the
stations. If we are able to, 'his sort of
thing vd.ll be eliminated.
Eight of the students in the Bible In

stitute have gone out to begin their mini

stries. They were those who had been in the

school earlier.

This helps very much, for

several churches were without ministei^s.

all the j^xty-five churches.

There are four

teen stu^^^^^ii^Sl2S^ol.
Ron Butler and I are going to try someling new this year in church visitation.

ITe are each picking a church with which we

'will work several days a month for a few

months. By concentrating on one church we
want to train elders, call with the minister
and some of the leaders to show them how to

call effectively, hold youth meetings, have

classes for the v;omrn and in general preach
and serve like their own minister should.
)pe for self-reliant churches.

Prayerfully,

We

only lack now about three preachers to fill

MISSIONARIES:

ADDRESS IN AMERICA :

Miss Zola L. Brown

P. O. BOX 996

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Butler

Cincinnati I, Ohio, USA

Mr, and Mrs. Howard A. Crowl

ADDRESSES IN CONGO:

Bomili Post: Bomili par

Bafwaseode via Stanleyville'

Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Doggett

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Harsbe

Bukavu Post i

Miss Pbyliis J. Rine

B.P. 1359, Bukavu

Mr. and Mrs. CliRbrd W. Schaub

Olina Post:

itfi liim I irtiiimTriii

Miss Nancy C. Shcwmakcr

Nia-Nia via Stanleyville

Republique du Congo, BOMILI^ par B(sende via Stan.

^
March 24, I964

Dear Friends in Christ,

Tha "big news around here is everyone's expectancy of the soon-to-arrive hahy
of the Butlerso

They are presently at a mission hospital ahout 350 miles from

here Hon has said that he vrJ.ll send ua a telegram when their ^boy** arrives,
"but it oould reviuirc a couple weeks for the wire to reaoh us. We mil probably
not know until they return.

There has been sora trouble at Olinao

Mr Sohauh brought some used clothes

with him from the States and brought (iuite a bit to Olina to sell to the Africans

there at very low prices in order to help them. They Mrere stored in the guest
house there, and someone seemingly broke in euid stole several articles.

Word

has just arrived now that the chief there has imprisoned three of the mission
workiuen claiming tliat they are the culprits. I will have to try to settle the
matter when I go over next week.

Rather than scatter our efforts so thin anong the 65 churchfs Son Butler and I
have decided to each pick a promising church and concentrate our efforts on it
in an attempt to get it on its feet and really able to continue on with less
missionary supervision req.uired.

I have selected the church at Baf^'amboku for

first project. Miss Brown, Miss Shewmaker and Betty and the children are
going with me each Lord's Day that I am able to go there. 'Jhe ladies have

Bible School classes for the children and women So far the church is responding
very well. There is great interest, and the attendance is steadily increasing
from visit to visit.

I will soon l>e able to spend one week a month in their

village holding services, calling and taaining the local eldars and preacher.
The Africans have many ways that are often exasperating to us, hut they are
annising when you watch them as they happen to others.

The other day I witnessed

a genuine comedy from my office window. Michel, a grouchy workman, bawled out
a oouple children only three or four years old for playing with a ^leelbarrow.
He very loudly and dramatically rebuked them and ordered them to put the vehicle
in the carpenter shop. They did not move. They just stood dead-still and looked
at him. Again Michel went through his performance^ I'vlth eq..ial success. And again.

Finally, wearying, he gave one last order and stalked off leaving the impression
he expected it carried out as soon as he left.

lessly as he disappeared out of sight.

The children watched bim motion

Then,one of the little tots grandly waved

his arm to the other indicating the opposite direction from that which Michel

had flo fruitlessly fought for. The junior partner lifted the heavy homemade
wheelbarrow, and off they went where they were going to go anyway before that
grouchy man came along and delayed "tiSBak We missionaries have the same level of

success often with the sidults.

I saw myself many times over

Thank you for your blessing on the work of preaching the gospel in Congo. We
need your prayers and support and interest, and we trust you are being blessed
as well in giving them.
AFRICAN CHRIPTIAS MISSION
Ronald Harshe

Bomili par Bafwasende

Via Stanleyville
Republic of the Congo

April 6, 1964

Dear Brethrens
PRAYER

mm

riot my will, but thine, be done."

Jesus prayed. So in evangelizing in a for-_
eign country we want most of-all to carry out
His wishes rather than to try to enlist Him
in helping us to succeed in our program. We
thank you for praying with us in these mat-^
ters and helping us to determine and carry
out His will in the Congo.

little maji, and we all love him dearly..

He

is the thirteenth child among onr twenty-simember mission family.

Some very unlovely things have ha"op';nc.

also.

Shortly after Ron and Carolyn Butler

caine home with Greg a woman across xhe 3"oad

OUR PRAYlilR im-DSi

l" Congo., turmoil.

Lots of nice things have happened aron-i'

here lately, but probably the nicest is the
arrival of Gregory Alan Butler. He is a r* ;

Once again the Congo is

on the verge of chaosi

This time commu'-

became missing. About four days later h.?r

body was found in the forest, mutilated.
I t is said that she and her husband had a

nist rebels are attempting by force to

seize strategic areas. So far, they have
had little success| but there are indica
tions that the movement is widely-scatter-

bitter fight. The local government agent

insisted that Ronald and Ron Butler go to
Bafwasende at 9^00 P.M. to get -bhe terri

ed throughout the nation.

The men spent the whole ni^t driving and

sleeping on the road, and all for nothing.
Anyone could tell by seeing the knife wound

Everything is

calm in the Bomili area, and

Prayer is needed to keep the
and open to the preaching of
If the communists succeed in

we are we11a
Congo free
the gospel.
winning the

country we know what that vdll mean to

torial medical agent to perform an autopsy^

what caused her death.

the gospel in this country and to the

Christians v;ho love i t .

2# Move to Olina.

At a mission-'Adde mission

You seldom hearof

murder here. It was very frightening and

sobering to our people.
The family just returned from Olina

where Ronald was holding area church meet

ings. While he was busy visiting churches,

ary meeting v/e have decided to move from

Nancy Shewmake|?, Zola' Brown and I conducted

Bomili to the Olina mission station about

a short Vacatrbn Bible School program for

110 miles away. Since I96I Olina has

been abandoned, and we have been travel

the village"children at Olina,

The children

ing to the area to maintain the v/ork.

had never done anything like it before, and

they seemed to enjoy and appreciate it mucho

The Lord willing, we wiii move tnere^^wath^

in a year. Since it has become apparent

broke into the house and stole some clothing

that we cannot have missionaries at both

Olina and Bomili v/e have chosen Olina as

given out to the people later on.

the most efficient post from which to

was a

carry on the Lord's work.

just a short while earlier We were very

disappointed that his gratitude had givu...
place to greed. This often happens among
the people v/e try to helpo This confirms
our conviction that physical comforting
cannot be neglected, but spiritual streng
thening is the all-important thing in mission

I t is more

centrallylocated for our work and future

expansion,and it is much more accessible

than Bomili,

We are trying to get the

deed to this land which we have held un

til now under temporary contract. Pray

for His continued guidance in moving and
for the granting of the deed.
3* Jean IbagOo one of our preachers v/ho has
glaucoma, is still having trouble getting
medicine for his eyes.
4e) Leon Modumaq

a former Christian and mis

JSt before we" arrived ax uiina someone

that Clifford Schaub had left there to be

The thief

man to whom Cliff had sold clothes

work.

One of our biggest joys was the success

of our Easter services. The day before

Easter some of the Bomili Christians gather

ed at the church and went out in teams to

sion employee who has taken a second wife,

still shows no signs of repenting.

deliver papers announcing our special ser

vices that were to begin that very evening,

Mlg6ionary~recruit-s- are needed to seize

Ai; the first service^~S^aturday evening, the

all the many opportunities. May the Lord

call those of His choosing,
60 Concentrated church program. We have be

filmstrip on the death of Christ was shown.

The next morning we had sunrise services,

then later we had our regular worship ser

gun to work with the Bafwamboku church.

vices at which time we decorated a

The preacher is Pabien. Betty, Zola

Brown, Nancy Shev-raaker, the children and

with glowers. Sunday evening we had a

filmstrip on the resurrection. All the ser

I have gone on several Lord's Bays and

had Bible School as well as worship serviees. Attendance has grown from 80 to
154- The response is excellent and we

vices were splendidly attended^ the highest

being 550 on Saturday eveningc Through
these services the Christians net cr.ly ijpoka

hope to continue with this church for a

few months to establish it firmly as a

model to the others nearby.
Prayerfully,
onald Harshe

cross

forth their faith in Christ, but their onthusiasm was greatly increased b/
sue goes
of their efforts. All praise be to God for
these blessingso
In Christian love,
Betty Hars'hc

ADDRESS IN AMERICA:

MJSSIONARJES:

P. O. BOX 996

Miss Zola L. BrowD

Cincinnati I, Ohio, USA

Mr. aod Mrs. Rooald C. Butlor

ADDRESSES IN CONGO:

Mr. aad Mrs. Howard A. Crowl

Bomili Post:

Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Doggett

Bomili per

Bafwasende via Stanleyville

Mr. and Mrs. RooaJd D. Harshe

Bukavu Post:

Miss Phyllis J. Rinc

Mr. and Mrs. CUfTord W. Scbaub

Olina Post:

Miss Nancy C. Shewmakcr

Nib-Nia via Stanleyville

B.P. J559, Bukavu

Ripublique du Conga BOMILIy par Bjsende via Stan.

^
April 18, 1964

Dear Friends in Chris-t,

The Butlers have arrived haok at Boiaili with a "baby boy, Gregory Allen" He makes
the 26th member of the mission family} thirteen of them are children# He does not
do much direct missionary work yetj but he is contributing his bit by raising the

generp-l level of morale.

Bach evening at prayer meeting there is a contest to see

who gsts to hold himj this is usually among the Harshe children.

There vras a tragedy here at Boniili Just across the road from the iiission not even

a good stone*s throw away A woman was murdered and imitilated not too nicely.
After a fight with her husbajid, she was reported missing. After about three days
she was discovered in the jangle, dead.

Son Butler and I had to go in the night

to Bafwasende to ^-et a couple medical agents to perform an autospyo This proved

to be unnecessary as it was apparent what had happendd There was a lot of fear
and trembling around here as everyone expected a traokload of soldiers any minute
to arrive and beat everyone up in the area. This is often coimon praotitfe. The
assistant administrator came out and finally tocS the family of the dead woman and
several witnesses to Bafwasende. The husband is accused of the murder. Outright

murders are rare here. The people usually rely on spells and v/itchcraft to get
rid of those they hate. There are many, many trials of persons accused of killing

someone by witchcraft.

If found guilty, they are Jailed for several months is allo

We had a grand service Saster at the Bomili church. More than the fins attendsuice
was the willingness of the Christiand to work for the services. The day before
Easter many of the Christians met at the churchy there they accepted in teams of
two little printsd papers advertising the special services.
certain areas in and around Bomili to cover.

We assigned them

They were to leave one paper at

every home and invite the people to church. They distributed nearly 4OO papers,
and about as many had no territory to be sent to as that did. Those who had no

place to go we gave one paper to and told them to go into the streets and stop
everyone they saw, show them the paper and tell them about tiae servioss. Sunday
morning there were 288 in the service which is Just about double the normal
attendance. We had, in all, four services including sunrise services. The

highest attendance was 350 at an evening slide projector presentation of the

death of Christ. Everyone was thrilled and waiting for another opportunity to do
the samso The student preachers formed five teams and called on those who had
backslidden. Nearly every team reported that at least one person they called on
came to the services^

We were especially glad because of the encouragement which

it gives them to do this type of work.

Xjjfchi a sort of thing,

We give

They have no idea iow to go about doing

and we hope to help them in this wayo

thsinks to the Lord for your continued help in bringing His message to

Congolese who need it so veiy much.

There only hope spiritually is in what you

are helping us to do.

AFBICAK CHHI3TIAB MISSIOH .
flonald Harshe

Bomili par Eafv/ase.iie

"Via Stanleyville

Letter

Republic of the Congo

June 4, 1964

Bear Priendss
PEAYER

EBWS

Join with us at this time in earnest

prayer for the unhindered progress of the

Lord's work here in the Congo.

These are

troubled times | hut we trust that '*What-

soever ye shall ask the Father in my name,

He ^11 give it you,**
Congo turmoil.

'*Wars and rumors of wsti's"

; are all around. Here at Bomili things

have been pea.ceful and are expected to
remain so. There are many distasteful
rumors circulating in Stan, though.

Bukavu has been undergoing the most

stress.

Rebel attacks and rebellion

in the area south of Bukavu have kept

minds uneasy. Druriken soldiers came to
the Growl* s and Dogget* s home and demand

that everything took at independence time i

has been a steady struggle to restore Gho
churcho We have seen gradual and marked im
provement regularly, but there has been no
gre jer indication of i t than our recent
conferences held last month. There were a

total of 972 Christiajis attending the five

area meetings. The single largest attendan
was here at Bomili where we are concentrat:'.-.
cur efforts for awhile. There were 384 hor.
There were actually more Christians at the

conferences this year than were attending

"hen W3 first came to the Congo in 1956 So
rejoice to see the Lord's mighty hand at

ed entrance. After being refused and

much arguing they finally fore.a Howard
Crowl and Larry Dogget into thoir

work overcoming all His enemies

vehicle at gunpoint to be taken to their

camp. Before leaving Howard cr.lled to

dents. Most of these have now completed one

of work I they have two more years to go

June to pack up their families and go to

the American Consul in Bukavu and teli

him what was happeningo At once the

soldiers recont^idered their plans ajfid
released Howard and Lsirry, al^d vrcsentjwent their way to tlie native mr^^ricst wher.3

We can tell that the churches are defi

niteljr" on the comeback. After the tumble

tiiey-harrassed the pecplo there. Tlraes

are not expected to grow easier a:J xii:

Congolese Independence laj approach

2, Move to Olina.

In Fay Ronald and Eo:

went to Paulis to f".

further i..-*

formation about the 0?.inc, prcperty

can have clear title for t-?i Die tlic T>rioe

of pre-independence da^c=. How^. rer, the

T^e

price may be raised again in Junec

mission has been given the unj.:.mited usp>

of a concrete block machine, and we feel

the Lord is showing His vdll in the un

hindered way our plans have oeen re
gressing toward moving.-

3. Jean Ibago. Jean was able to get ir aicine again in May, but there has jeer: no
appreciable improvemtnt in his eyes.

^ l^on Moduma. We .g-h-i n

no clgns of
^tois Christian repenting of the taking
of a second wife.

5* |cruij^i We are increasing our prayer

The next term of the Bible Institute

opens next Monday, We expect fourteen stu

Defore receiving thei: certificates.

Their

minc.3 have limbered now, and most of them are

doinj acceptable work now.

Even those --/ho

are still failing are remaining in school

and von^in^ hard to get as much as they can,.

S'^verai. new prospects have been accepted for
the school for this term, but they probably
w..?l not all show-up julgdnt^ from past experitiuces.
Th

oently S

ves bf

student preacher
office with a dispute to

be PG'^tlcid. They were both new here and

seemed o be trying especially hard to be
. c. . It was qi^^te obviously very difficult
t r them, too. It seems one of them had in
vertently stepped on the baby chick of the

other one, killing it. The offender was so]?

ry and apologetic. The dispute centered on

how much should be paid for the dead chick.

The owner wanted the price of a grown chicken.
This vras out of reason.

The offender was

willing to pay a more reasonable price. If

they were in their home village it would have

probably been carried on amid much shouUng

and bitterness. I admired thsmcfor their

re^jtraint, and we were able to reach an
agreeab?.e solution. This shows v/hat influence

efforts at this time v/hen Sw many young

...le gospel does have in changing the everyday lives of those surrendering to it.

and Sille colleges that the hearts of

some may te turned to consider the har

Our family's general health seems to be

poor at the moment. We have noticed that

peoplA are graduating from high school

vest here. The Christians he_-e pray

oitSik/ for more missionaries to come.

jfe^kilikanda, one of our preachers, has

decided to leave the ministry.

His

past three ministries have been un

successful partly because of the

Chritians unconcern for his needs.

we trust the Lord will have His way with

this mans life.

In Jesus name. Amen,

usually three or four in the family will get

sick at the same time. Danny is in bed to

day and everyone else besides John has been

half-sick for several days. We usually blame

It on malaria and take additional medicines

anyway it usually goes away.

V/e render a heart-felt thank-you for

y^r interest, prayers and financial support
of what we are doing. May God bless you in

giving as He llesses us in using and serving.

a JJJir^stian^Congo,

ADDRESS IN AMERICA :

MISSIONARIES :

1528 Reid Ave.

Miss Zola L. Browji

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald C. Butler

Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. Croiri

Poste de Bukavu:

Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Doggetl

B.P. 1559, Bukavu

Mr. and Mrs, Ronald D. Marsbe

Poste de Stanleyville:

Miss Phyllis J. Rioe

B.P. 113S, Stanleyville

Mr. and Mrs. Clifford W. Scbanb

Poste de TOIina;

NiaNia via Stanleyville

Miss Nancy C. Sbewmaker

45224

ADDRESSES IN CONGO S

Republique du Congo BOMILI, par Bafwasende ^ia Stan.

June 29 1964

Pear Friends in Christy

A group of fire s-tudent pr^iaohere and I h&re just returned from an eight-day aeeting

with the ohuroh at Bafwam^Ciku

The Lord; willing^ I will meet each month with this

ohuroh and these student preaohers for tnree or four months* Our intention is to
establish this ohuroh firmly in the faith and to get it functioning smoothly that it
may be totally self-sufficient* It should serve as an inspiration and example to the
other ohurohos nearby.

V'e had two meetings da41y with the Christians; one was a short Bible Study in the
mornings, and the second was a i;roaching service and filmstrip presentation in the

evenings#

We showed them the ^Tilftrim's Progrosa'' filmstrips, and they seemed to

like sj-id got a

mon and taiight
we hope to ^5t
how to prepare
they will pick

lot of {^ood from them# V/e also met daily with a group of interested
a olass on the eldership* We have no leadership in the churches, and
one* I also taught the student preachers and the local preacher on
a sermon* They also went vith me as we went calling^ we are hoping
up the neoessaiy know-how to do this sort of woric*

The meeting began on Sunday vdth I65 present for the morning services*

Several from

neighboring ohurahes were also present* The regular attsndano is aboait 5^ or 60*
At daybreak Monday morning I learned that one of the women of the villa,e bad been
b.itten by a snake in the night* She is the second wife of as man with three ^Ivee*
We liad to dispense with the church services that morning while I brought her in to
Bomili for treatment with anti-snake venin serum* It takes about one hour oae-way*
She has now recovered*

While we were walking through the village getting ao(xuainted the nejct afternoon we
oame to the place a blind man called "horae*" >.Jis v*ife had died, and he was left to

live alone* tfe and his home was^n a pitiable condition*

I asked how he gOv his

food, and he replied that he Just ate what someone who happened to rememb&r him
might bring* At the time, he was breaking raw peanuts and eating them* He was
very thin* In reply to my (^uery about how he gets his water he said that he cets
a pan under the eavos and oatches water when i t rains.

he has no v/ater*
and I

\Vhen i t doee not rain he v^ays

The water is badly discolored when it runs off these leai* rooi^sy

would not wash in i t lot alone drink it*

Toward the end of the week a pygmy came asking me to look at his child* Their village
adjoins that of Bafwamboku* They had just oarried him in from the foreat where they
had been hunting* They wanted to know if he were dead* He was just dying, and there
was nothing I could do* He was only about eight and one of the pupils our preacher
was teaching to read and write*
At th'^ final servios a woman stood up at the close and told the oongregation that sha
had repented of an offense whioh po" one else knew about but herdelf* Someone had

stolen five francs fran her (abiut three cent&) a*id v/hen she learned about it she
cried*
money*

She told the congregation she was "soi'ry for she shot^ld not have ^rievd over
This was (^uite reiarkable*

ThanVf^iTiv-

remain yt-^ar ndGsionariee,

African 'Christian ^iwsion

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Letter #L0

Bomili par Bafv;:-se-.de

Via Stanleyville
Republic of the Gongo
July 13, 1964

Bear Brethren?
PRAYER

MS

^Orsnt, our Father, that Thy namej Thy

work and Thy people may "be kept and increased

Thy power so that heathen people may come

to Jesus#

In His name.

Con^o turmoil.

Amen."

Though there are constant

ly reports all around of incidents in

other places of the Congo, the rebels

have not done anything near enough to us
to give us any concern. The tempo seems
"bo "be indreasing, howeverj and we suspect
t-i that this unrest will go on almost in
definitely, There v/as a recent incident
in Stanleyville when the rebels entered

School's out I

At least for the Africa.i

children in the elementary school here,

think they were all glad, too, because

everyone scattered to the four winds.

E-at

school is not out for their teachers.

They

are all following classes with the student

preachers in the Bible Institute,

We trust

what they learn in these classes will equip

them to win their students in wo:^ly v/isdom
to being students of heavenly things. At
present there are nineteen students iii the
Bible Institute classes. Five of these are
elementary school teachers.

the police and army munitions storage

School is not out for the Harshe

and stole some arms. For about three

weeks there were twelve roadblocks on
the 215 mile span of road between

classes begun until November last year, and

here and Stanleyville,

in order that we adults could carry on our

Most are now down,

thou^i

We did not get their

they have had several two-week,

responsibilities in our work.

2. Move to Olina, The Lord has answered a

big part of our pr'iyers in this matter.

We have never had a deed to this pro

perty, having been holding it under a
rental contract. Last October we began
proceedings to buy the property and this
past month we finally received the deed
into our hands.

price raise.

There was no further

We are overjoyed at this,

now.jyre can-go on to build in per-

Laiinent materials 0 We have prayed that

the Lord would grant this property if it
were His will that we move the work to

Olina,

children, either.

This seems to be our answer,

3. Jean Ibafl^o.

It seems that Jean is going

to be afflicted with his eye trouble

permanently. At leasts we pray it will
grow no worse. At the moment, he is quite
ill in the hospital at Br.fwasende as a
result of a reaction to medicine he was
taking for another disease. He is a

vacations
This had ex

tended their classes way into the summer,.

We are all working as hard as we can, though,

in order that they can finish up and have
at least a short summer vacation.

The last week in June Ronald, along

with five student preachers, conducted an
eight-day revival meeting with the Bafwamboku church. This is the first of three
monthly meetings. The meeting began very

well with 165 present for a SundayTcrornHIg"

service The normal average Sunday morning
attendance is between 50 and 60, The planned
schedule called for a short Bible study each
morning.

Every morning there was a class for

the student preachers pertinent to the work

they were doing.

calling

Each afternoon was spent

and meeting with those men interested

in understanding and doing the work of good

elders. Each evening a message was given and
a portion of filmstrip on "Pilgrim's Progress"
was shown. The purpose of this revival program

leper, and his strength seems to be little. is to strengthen the churches and teach min

4* Leon Moduma,

Even though I spent a week

visiting a church near him, and even

though many of the Christians in his

village came to thece meetings, Leon has

still showed no signs of repenting for
the taking of a second wife,

-5 Recruits. Workers to enter the Congo's

harvest fields are needed.

May God send,

Bafwamboku church visitation. This is

the church I have chosen to concentrate
on in church visitation for the next three
months,

Betty explains elsewhere in this

letter about our first visit.

With your

prayers for the Christians, for those

studying the eldership, for the local
preacher, for the student preachers who
are using this as training for their
future ministries, this church can be
established in the faith.

isterial work to the students by participation.

The Christians and students were very enthu

sed.

The work was successful.

But Ronald

was about worn out.

The hard way of life these people have

was brought home to Ronald while calling in

the village at Bafwamboku^ They came to the
home of a blind man whose wife had died. The

home and man both were in disreputable condi

tion, The house was falling downf the man was

thin, dirty and ragged.

He said the only food

he ate was just what some villagers felt like

offering him from time to time. Many times
he went without water, because the only water
he had was the dirty, mossy water that ran
off his leaf roof when it rained.

Ronald

encouraged the Christians to help the man,,

for, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one

of the least of these my brethren, ye have

done i t unto me."

Your prayer partner-

In Christian love,

Ronald flarshe

Betty Harshe

P.O. Box U390

Kampala, Uganda

November 30, 196ij.

r,

Dear Brethren in Christ:

PRAYKR

"Vi/hatsoever ye shall ask in my naine^ that will

I doy that the Father may be glorified in the

Son."

NEWS

This is the greatest encouragement to

Vfith deep sorrow we must report the death of

our fellow-missionary, Phyllis Rine, on Nov
ember 2k' Phyllis was killed by rebel gun
fire during the rescue operation for white
people in Stan. She came to the Congo with
us when vjje returned in 1962 and worked with
us at Bomili for nearly one and one-half

a missionary cut off from the advice^ fellow

ship and moral support of the brethren.
This
is also the greatest open door of opportunity

years bejfore going to Stan to work with the

to the Stateside brethren in helping in God's

Clifford Schaub familv in January of this

work of world-wide evangelism.

Prayer changes

things.

1.

Phyllis Rine.

Just before Paulis was evacuated~a "few ds^-s-"

ago the rebels killed lir. Joseph Tucker.

"Why God permitted her

death no one can know.

We do know that God

expects us to trust Him - beyond any limitHe is good. His ways are not our ways. He
knows the end from the beginning. Phyllis
now knows why and is satisfied; and someday
if we, too, are faithful unto death we will
learn why. Right now our prayer is for
God's peace in her loved ones' hearts, and
that her death may be used of God to further
the gospel of the Christ whom she loved.
2.

Schaub family.

are now safeJ

Thanks be to God they

Yet we need to continue much

in prayer that the scars which must surely

be there may soon be healed, i-lay little
Timmy and Mark be able to forget and never
suffer any permanent effects from their ex
perience.
May God guide them in His con-

tinuing service.
3.

_ _

Congo Christians.

Since we left Bomili

early in August we have heard not one v/ord

of what has happened at Bomili or Olina
either to the Christians or to the others.
We have learned that in Stan the rebels

killed anyone with much of an education.

We are hoping this policy was not carried

out in the brush.

Our area is s t i l l in rebel

hands, and even after the government forces

recapture i t the people will have much to
endure.
There will be as much brutality and
injustice by way of retaliation as when the
rebels were in control.
The Christians, and
especially the preachers, need divine strength
for continued faithfulness, courage and
protection.

ii.

Our future.

We face veiy difficult de

cisions and desire prayers for His guidance

in them. Betty is explaining elsevfhere what
we are planning and doing. The problem of our
children's schooling is pressing us into a
decision and speecfy settling in one place.
Will you pray vrith us that God vrill soon open
a door someplace where we can serve Him.

If you see this letter and are not receiving

it please write and tell us you will pray with
us and want us to send you the prayer-newsletter.

y/rite to:

Mr. & Mrs.

1908 &irch Avenue, Lima^ Ohio

Prayerfully, RONALD HARSHE

C. L. Harshe

U5801

After Ronald and Ron Butler got we women out

of Paulis in August the Tuckers housed them
until they could fly out.
They were return
ed missionaries of just two weeks when Paulis
fell to the rebels.

Vi/hen we left Bomili we

took with us two British missionary ladies

stationed near Bomili.
We left them at their
station in Wamba.
Now we hear the rebels

-lave killed all 50 whites in Wamba.

We pray

this is not true. We often did purchasing at

l/famba. We were there when we decided to try
to fly out from Paulis. A Greek merchant
friend offered to care for our things, and we

left two vehicles and all our belongings at

his home.

We have made application to the government of

Uganda to remain in Uganda and do missionary
Vork/ We explain this in the most recent
issue of the African. Our application, though,
has been refused. Vfe have made an appeal,
but it appears now that there is little hope
it will be granted. So we have letters of in
quiry in to the embassies in Kenya, Nigeria,
Ethopia, Nalav^i and Elizabethville in Southern
Congo seeking information both on the likeli
hood of being permitted to work in these coun
tries and on the adequacy of their school sys

tems.

With five children of school age now,

schooling has become a factor of great con

sideration in our decisions. Johnny is in the
eighth grade, and it is increasingly difficult
to provide his education at home. We have seen
a groat change in all our children since att
ending public school in Kampala.
So because
of the children's schooling and because of the
unlikelihood of our Bomili area being safe

for women and children for a long time to

come we have decided to change our field of
service..

The trustees of the African

Christian Mssion have agreed with us in do

ing this and will continue to support us in
the new field which we hope to find soon.

Ron and Carolyn Butler who recently moved to

Rwanda returned to Kampala over Thanksgiving

for a combined visit and purchasing trip.
Butlers have rented a house in Bukavu, just
across the border in the Congo. They intend
to move in there just as soon as they get
permission from the American Consul. They
hope this will be in a couple weeks.
Thankfully to you.
Betty Harshe