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SMAAGE NEWSLETTER - JUNE - 1971 "But ye shall receive power, after that the HolyGhost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in allJudea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." (Acts 1:8)

Dear Friends in Christ,

This scripture comes to my mind when I think of the many times I have found myself inthe "uttermost part of the earth". It does not bother me that I have been so far frointhe white man s civilization as I have always loved the outdoors and I can get alongquite well in the bush. Thanks no doubt here is due to Boy Scout troop #23, Brookfield,Illinois, and a great Scout master that took Scouting quite seriouslyl What does botherme though is the realization that here I am the sole representative of the New TestamentChurch and the Apostle's Doctrine and the Holy Spirit has such a poor stick like mefor His use! Yet at the same time I am keenly aware of the fact that a poor stick isbetter than no stick at all! I'm not sure but I think it was D.L. Moody who used to saywhen he was criticized for his methods, "It just shows how straight God can strike witha crooked stick". Let's hope the same is true with us today as we try to represent ourSaviour to the lost!

Well, anyway, three sticks (Gordon Nelson, Sandy Sinclair and myself) went to Botswanalast week to represent our Lord and Saviour. We came away encouraged that a good workcould be done in this impoverished country just North of South Africa, bordered byRhodesia on the East, Zambia to its North and Angola and South West Africa to the Northand West. The great and famous Kalahari Desert makes up the vast interior of Botswana,homeof the rapidly vanishing Bushmen, a nomadic people and the only people able tosurvive in the inhospitable, waterless desert. The majority of the population thereforelive along the Eastern Border along the old "Missionary trail"that Livingstone and otherearly missionaries pioneered between Kuruman, South Africa and Victoria Falls in Northern Rhodesia now called Zambia. The railway now follows this same route and presentday Botswanians spend their time in making and selling curios to the train passengers asthe train makes its many stops on the route.

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There are few other occupations available outside of Governnient service or a position onthe railroad for the average Botswanian. Some find work as Safari work boys and guidesin the large European Safari companies and others find work as servants in the relatively few European homes in Botswana but most are unemployed and as a result there is agood amount of drunkenness and prostitution. The largest city, Gaberones, is the Capitol with several new store buildings housing dry-goods, curios, chemist, food and merchandise stores surrounding a large central dirt square. There is a modern hotel andconcrete sidewalks and asphalt paved streets as well. A large building complex abouttwo miles from the central business center houses the Government offices and the Parliament which meets twice a year during which time the cabinet ministers and members of theopposition party hurl abuses at one another in the best of British Parliament tradition.There is a gallery for spectators to view the proceedings also, but they are not allowedto join in the debates.

The airport at Gaberones is quite good with a strong Radio Direction beacon. Gordon andI came in on final approach in 3895C just two hours and five minutes after taking offfrom Kimberley. The trip by car takes a good day. We had left Kimberley at 10 a.m.after clearing customs right at the Kimberley airport for Botswana. Since Gaberones wasonly a fuel and customs stop we only spent two hours there. We had lunch at the hoteland then took the only Taxi in all of Botswana for a tour of the Government buildingswhere a guide escorted us to the Gallery of Parliament. Unfortunately Parliament wasnot in session at the time but I did get some pictures.

After filing our flight plan (flight plans are mandatory in Botswana as a means of survival in case you are forced down in the Kalahari. Two fellows came down in the Kala-

il? light plane. They had no water with them and had not filed aflight plan. , They died in the desert. Had they filed a flight plan search partieswould have gone out looking for them and they probably would have been saved) we tookoff for Francistown 256 air miles further ud the old "Missionary trail". Our engineoverheated on climb out in the hot desert air (I had closed the cowl flaps too soon) andfor a few minutes it looked like we would have to turn back and land at Gaberones Wewere able to correct the overheating through the use of cowl flaps and reduced power sowe decided to continue on to Francistown. One hour and fifty five minutes later afterpacing over "far away places with strange sounding names" such as "Mochudi", Mosomane,Mahalapye, Palapye, Serowe, Tautswe, Motloutse and Shashi, we landed at Francistown.

We bounced and lurched twenty miles out to Shashi the next morning in Sandy's 4-wheeldrive Chevvie pickup. Shashi is just South of Francistown and marks the spot where ourfirst New Testament church has been started in Botswana. It was started by a retiredAfrican Elder named Joseph July who had been a member and elder of the Church in Jacobs-dahl near Kimberley, S.A. He had been asking us to come and visit him for a long time.We had written and told him we were coming on this date and all the Christians (therewere about 60) had been expecting us. The only problem was we had never been there anddidn't know where the Christians were meeting and none of the native Christian thoughtto send anyone out to the road to meet us. So for two hours we drove and bounced overthe different roads that lead in and our of Shashi asking everyone"we met where we couldfind Joseph July. As Joseph had not been long in Shashi no one knew who he was. Neithercould they tell us where we could find the Church of Christ. We eventually arrived atJoseph's house out in the bush where we were very warmly greeted by all the brothers andsisters who had been looking for us all morningl It never occurred to them apparentlythat we did not know where to find theml

Gordon and Sandy both preached good sermons to the brothers and Sisters at Shashi. Hadthere been more time I would have also preached but since the cooks had prepared themeal for us and it was now quite late (we had finally reached Jospeh's house just beforenoon) we decided that two sermons were enoughl The people were overjoyed that we hadcome and Joseph was especially happy. Everyone went out of their way to make us feelmost welcome. A goat had been freshly slaughtered to provide our noon meal which wasenjoyed by everyone, including missionaries, along with rice, gravy, bread and tea. Wehad a bit of language problem as Gordon speaks some Afrikaans, Sandy speaks Afrikaansand Tonga and I speak some Afrikaans and some Xhosa but the language of Botswana isTswana. We did have one African who was quite good in English so he acted as our interpreter for the sermons and for our conversations with the people.

We left Shashi in the late afternoon after bidding goodbye to our new found brothers andsisters in Christ promising them that we would come back and visit them again for moreteaching and preaching. On our next trip Gaberones too will be more than just a fuelstop as we learned from Bro. July that a small group of Christians had started meetingthere. It was very encouraging to realize that the Native Christians had begun meetingboth in Shashi and Gaberones and that we actually had two New Testament churches inBotswana! This surely does mark a good beginning of what we hope will be a good work forChrist in this land. We bounced and lurched back to Dodge City, I mean Francistown, asthe blazing desert sun slipped below the Kalahari horizon. "Dodge" was just as wild asthe night before and the bars going full swing again. We didn't se "Kitty" though andwondered if she had found her way to the London Missionary Society Church that morning.The three of us had a lot of thoughts concerning opportunities in Botswana and we allwere fimly convinced that we would definitely come back to explore those opportunitiesfor Christ and His church in this far away forgotten land where elephants trumpet andlions roar and souls cry out in their need of a saviour. Our Saviour Jesus Christ, ourLord.

In His service

(rry, Dozpia, Cheryl, Kevin & Linda

Smaage

WE RECEIVED THIS "URGENT NEED FOR FUNDS" LETTER AFTER WE HAD PRINTED THEPAPER, BUT THOUGHT THAT IT WAS SO IMPORTANT THAT WE BACK PRINTED THE INSERTS. Since they were already cut we printed on half-sheets so pleaseexcuse the poor registration.(The letter is edited.)

FROM: Fred W. Crawford TO: Supporting Churches and Friends

I ask that you do not lay this letter dowm without reading it and offeringa prayer for Derry and Donna. They are in need of a financial lift andprayers at this time.

The move to S. Africa, finding a home, purchasing furniture, receivingand assembling the airplane along with the higher than anticipated livingcosts, leaves their funds depleted. In fact, they have used about $2500of their personal funds to meet expenses since they returned to the field.

Derry has been using the Cessna plane to travel into remote areas, butthis takes money. Gordon Nelson and Sandy Sinclair have been working withhim part of the time.

In addition,they learned shortly after returning, that Donna was withchild. The baby is almost due now.

Here are some of the items which need IMMEDIATE attention:

$1,600 note due to S. African Bank for down payment on a house.520 overdue for assembly of the Cessna airplane at the port.900 to Richard Kliefoth in St. Louis for the radio in the plane.100 past due Doctor bill in S. Africa.139 past due Doctor bill in the States.

50 fuel bill for the plane now overdue.34 hanger bill for the plane overdue.

$3,343

I might say that as forwarding agent for the Smaage Family, I feel theyhave been living on less than we should expect them to. During theirfirst term they drew only $500 per month plus expenses for travel, officesupplies, etc. They now draw $600 which is still far to little.

PS: This letter does a poor job of explaining everything, so if any ofyou have specific questions, do not hesitate to write or call.

AFRICAN MISSION EVANGELISM, INC. Fred W. CrawfordP.O. Box 24 1-314-474-5351

Columbia, Missouri 65201

Francistown reminds one of Dodge City on "Gunsmoke". I really don't think we wouldmuch surprised to see Matt Dillon, Doc or Festus come walking down main street

which was about four blocks long running right along side of the railroad. There are twohotels in town each having a bar. These establishments were the only places having anyactivity Saturday night but I can assure you there was plenty of activityI After Gordonand I had supper at the hotel there wasn't much to do exceot sit out in front of thehotel and watch all the people go by while we waited for Sandy Sinclair to join us.Sandy was driving down from Livingstone, Zambia in his 4-wheel drive truck. We had justsolved the world's problems when a big game hunting Safari expedition rooled up to thehotel in a big 10 ton truck followed by a 4-wheel drive Land Rover pulling a two wheeltrailer. The big truck was loaded with 50 Gallon drums of Petrol (Gasoline) and assorted other paraphernalia. The Land Rover and trailer were also loaded down with all sortsof gear. Three Europeans (Whites) got out of the Land Rover. They were just the sortyou would imagine when you think of African Big game hunters complete with beards andsuntanned faces that showed they were not strangers to the African bush. They disappeared into the hotel bar leaving their six African work boys and drivers outside tolook after the vehicles and to find their own accomodations for the night.

Gordon and I had resumed our conversation after speculating as to what kind of Game theSafari men would come across the next day. Botswana is one of the few remaining BigGame hunting areas of Africa. It is rich with Lions, Leopards. Elephants. Buffalo. Kuduand a host of other wild game animals. Elephants, of course, are the most dangerous tohunt, followed by lions and the other large cats. You don't fool around when huntingthis kind of game as an elephant or lion that is only wounded will turn on the hunterand tear him to shreds in a matter of a few seconds. Since both the Elephant and lionare Taster than the human being (the lion's final burst of speed before he captures hisprey has been clocked at over 60 MPH!) The hunter must be an excellent marksman and he

will kill as there is often no chance for a secondshot. All of a sudden Kitty" appeared. Well it really wasn't "Kitty" of Gunsmokefame but she did come out of the bar and the first thing she said to Gordon and I was.k * 0"^°^ come inside and have a drink?" She was black, not unattractive andabout 19 - 20 years old. Well. Gordon and I were both embarrassed and a bit red in the

face I suppose. When the initial shock wore off I told her then we didn't drink becausewe were Christians. Then I as|<ed her if she was a Christian. She said "Oh yes. I goto the church on Sunday but I come here (to the bar) on Saturday nightl That kind ofreminded me of some folks I knew back in the States that said they were Christians butalso Tound their way to the bar on Saturday night! Then Gordon asked her when shelast attended church services. Well, she couldn't quite remember when! So for thenext half hour or so we talked to her about the Lord and the Church. I'm sorry toreport we weren't too successful in our witnessing but we did try and perhaps our blackAfrican "Kitty" will find her way back to Christ if she begins to think about what wesaid. She did promise that she would start going to church services again.

I had given up on Sandy and figured we would have to go on to Shashi the next day forpreaching without him. Gordon decided to stay up and wait a little longer. I had justfinished reading a few passages of Scripture when I heard Gordon say, "Smaage we gotcompany. Sandy came klumping and limping into the room followed by Gordon. Sandy hadbroken his foot six weeks earlier and was still wearing his cast that went up to theknee. The doctor was supposed to remove it that day but Sandy ran out of time and didntget to the doctor's office He just barely made it to the Botswana border. They hadactually closed for the night but finally decided to let Sandy through even though itwas after hours. So we sat up and solved all the world's problems and our missionproblems all over again with Sandy. Sandy told uSr a. few of his experiences with wildgame in the Zambian bush. Last year he brought down an elephant with his rifle and, ofcourse, one bullet.

A FEW SHORT NOTES

* Since our last newsletter reporting the incident with the African policeman here inKimberley, many have written and asked if Gprdon had to go to Jail. I am glad to re-oirt that he didn't (He has an honest face)policeman since the incident.

and that we haven't seen the African

* The Botswana report in this issue is only half the story. I think the queen of Shebasaid something like that). If you can wait until next month I'll try to fill you inon our fishing trip into the Okavongo swamp with our African canoe paddler named"Smash" who once killed a lion with nothing more in his hand than a hunting knife.He came to the rescue of a white hunter who had wounded a lion with his first shot,became terrified, threw down his rifle and tried to outrun tlie lion I The lion wonthe race and would have torn the hunter to bits if it had not been for Smash whokilled the lion with his knife. The hunter was severely mauled but lived to tell thetale. For his part Smash was rewarded with an all expense paid trip to the U.S. by avery grateful Safari companyI

* Our Cessna 180 (3895C) is proving herself to be a great airplane for our work. Manymany thanks again and again to the Chattanooga church and all who have made it possible for us to use this good ship in the Lord's service here in South Africa.

* Bills are piling up. It takes money to go with the Gospel. We depend upon you tohelp us preach by your faithful support and prayers. Mission funds are very low nowdue to moving expenses and other costs. Once again we have had to borrow in order toget here with the Bospel. We have two notes coming due at the bank, One note is for$600 and the other for $900. At this writing I don't know where the money will comefrom but I believe that it will come. Perhaps there are those reading this newsletter that would like to help us over this financial hurdle and keep us in the Kingsbusiness. We surely would appreciate your help very much at this time. Please sendyour check to Fred so he can start getting some sleep! Even a small gift is a bighelp in time of needi

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Columbia, Missouri 6S201Derrence & Donna Smaage, Missionaries Fred M. Crawford, Forwarding AgentBox 503, Kimberley, Cape, South Africa Box 2li, Columbia, Missouri 65201

AUaUST 1971 RECEIPT LETTER 7

This letter preparedon September 1, 1971

TO:^sift of received on about August

X KLease accept our thanks for your1971« All gifts were credited to theLiving Link account and used to defray salaiy and^apusual expenses for the Smaage family.

This letter is being Trritten at Tulsa, Okl^oma, during a business trip here in connection with ny work. It is now about 10:30 pm. I just returned from a visit to the OralRoberts University Campus. Although I do agree with all of the Oral Roberts theology,I must admit that the architects have don^a wonderful job in making the campus beautifulas well as apparently functional. If ar^ of you are ever near Tulsa, I recommend that youvisit it. /

I regret being so late with this/receipt and report but I have been working mary sparehours in getting our campus houses ^ady. These are two houses recently pxirchased by giftsfrom congregations and individuals for use in our campus ministry. These houses provideliving quarters for about 18 students and a meeting place for Christian studies, led mostly by Roy Weece, the canpus minister.

Another newsletter from Derry and Donna has been fonrarded to Vfestwood at Madison forprinting and mailing. This should be reat^ and in the mail shortly. The gifts from congregations and individuals ^have been a real help in relieving the over-due bill situation.Things are not completely/out of the woods yet, but it seems that mary of the real pressingaccounts have been settled or payments made to satisfy the creditor.

In the newsletteiy^iow being published. Deny announces a set of slides regarding theirwork. These will be .Available to any congregation or group upon request-first come-firstserved. liVrite to '̂m? if you care to use them.INCOitai;-July 1971

Rachael Dawe, C. Falls, Wise. s?5»00m/M Fred Miller 10,001st CO, Racine, 'Wise. 88.85Harlem Rd. CC, Rkfd., HI. (2 Cks) 188,^U/h T. J. Ball 10.00CoC, Albert Lea, Minn. (2 Cks) 20.001st CO, La(^smith, Wise. U?*00Philathea Class, Lacfysmith, Wise. 15»00CC, Zion, HI. 63.30CoC, Storm Lake, la. 100.00GoO, 0, Falls, i/isc, 39.101st CC, Carnegie, Pa. (2 Cks) U6.00CO, Richland Center, Wise. 35.00Hillcrest CC, Hazelcrest, HI. (2 Cks) hT.OUTheresa Reynolds 20.00Calvary Co0, Rockford, Hi* 10.00Mrs. L. Ramsey 10.00v/ifani Class, Maplewood, Terra Haute 26.00Winnequah CC, Madison, Wise. 150.00CrestvTOod C^, St. Louis, Mo. 11.10Westwood CC, Madison, V/isc. 130.00Hickoiy Valley CC, Chattanooga, Term. 250.00M/m George Springer 15.00CC, Putnam, HI. h5.001st CC, Worthington, Ind. 153.28

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M/M Enos Matson ^5.35M/M James L. Jacobs 10.00Orchard St. CC, vU Allis, Wise. 51.00Prosf'. CC, Prosp. Hts., 111.(2 Ck)305.00m/M Janes DeVries 10.00Westside cC, Columbia, Mo. 25.00Ima Dorothy 25.00Dana Crawford v6.00Boone Co. Bank-Int on Sav. Acct. .18

EXPEHDITUKSS-July 1971D. L. Smaage ^,300.00PostmastervPostage l8.50Boone Co. Nat. Bank-Car Psyt. 200.00Fred Crawford-Reimb. Air Fare lliO.OOUnited of Omaha-Smaage Ins. 16.17Dir. of Ministiy-Church DirectcrieslO.OO

"TMINe mUMS"SMAAGE NEWSLETTER - SEPTEMBER - 1971

MEET OUR NEWEST AND OUR OTHERS

Darin (born June 15, 1971)

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Cheryl, Kevin and Lind(Note school uniforms

NEW SLIDE SET AVAILABLE - ON SOUTH AFRICA AND BOTSWANA:

One of the things we have just finished is our first slide program since returning to South Africa. This set is available on first-come, first servevasis for any church or group interested. The program (tape narrative) rurfor approximately 2] minutes and alides are all new. A good insight to oi.work. We believe you will enjoy the program. Available free but must be retumed immediately after use to Fred Crawford. This set is designated theset. A second slide set and program will also be available probably by tltime you receive this newsletter and will be designated the "B" set. Missiorchairmen should plan ahead and write to Fred for scheduling of these programs

Greetings again from South Africa! Quite a lot has happened since our lastletter and will try to bring everyone up to date with this epistle. I thinkeveryone knows by now of the safe arrival of the newest member of our family,Darin Mark. He is doing well and is a happy healthy baby. Linda Jean stillthinks she should be the baby though and last week she crawled into Darin's bedand sat on him! (Sisterly love). She is just a little bit jealous at times!Donna has her hands full with two little ones and the three big ones (that includes me). We have been trying to get caught up on correspondence and that isa lot of extra work 1 guess I'm like most missionaries, I do what I think ismost in^ortant, and let other things go....like correspondence and newsletters.That means I put Preaching § teaching § actual mission work here on the fieldfirst and then find myself at the end of the month with stacks of letters toanswer.

WEEKLY SCHEDULE NOTE: Since arriving in South Africa I have been teaching aseries of lessons on I Corinthians Monday and Wednesday nights at KimberlyChurch. Bro. Nelson teaches these same nights and has a series on the Old Testament. We have had excellent response from all our lessons in all the churchesAtLjLhfi_4ires.eiit-J:iiiie-_I_am al&Q-preparing~- addltional-material-on—The -eldership,I Corinthians, The Church, which we are mimeographing for use as correspondencelessons and for distribution among the churches. If time permits I hope also todo a lesson booklet on the Holy Spirit. I taught a series on the Holy Spirit inMarch at Cradock which was well received. The people are very anxious for anyand all teachings on the Scriptures. We are planning to do quite a bit of mimeograph lesson on preparation on as many subjects as possible.

U.S. DOLLAR CRISIS? Seems like we have our own little dollar crisis here everymonth I am glad to report though that due to good response from those concernedabout our work,we have been able to "weather" a financial storm that hit us andnow are on road to financial recovery. Many,many thanks to all those who pitched in in our time of need. Your response and concern on our behalf is deeplyappreciated more than words can express! We did have some questions though fromone individual who felt it was wrong for us to ask the churches to pay for expenses that should be paid for out of our salary, such as medical expenses anddoctor bills, etc. I realized after receiving this letter that there must beothers who felt this way but did not write to us about it. I would like totake this opportunity to correct a misunderstanding. We do not believe that,nor do we expect, our supporting churches should pay personal expenses. Weagree wholeheartedly that these should come out of our salary. We also believethat mission expenses should be underwritten by the churches and not come outof our personal salary which ought to be for living expense, and medical bills,retirement. This is the root of our financial difficulty:

Both mission expenses and living costs have been paid for our of our personalsalary. This total amount of income has been between $500-$600 per month. Wehave no seperate "Service Ling" but only the one check Fred sends every month.We ha\e also had additional expenses due to transportation and relocation inSouth Africa which have not,as of this date, been underwritten by the churches.These have been paid for out of our personal life savings and borrowed money,which we must pay back to the bank every month. Obviously, we have done thisbecause we believe that what we are doing is important and that we ought tocontinue our ministry even if we have to subsidize it personally. I can assureyou, that I am something like that in I Corinthians Chapter 9. Anyone who hopesto get rich in the ministry is either a "faith-healer" or very stupid! I don'tbelieve that I am in either category! In any case, a financial report will beavailable to all those interested in how we spend the money we don't have... Iwould just like to add here that our forwarding agent Fred Crawford must alsobelieve that what we are doing is pretty important as Fred himself not onlygives all his time as FA without charge but also has gone into debt personallyto keep us on the mission field....either that or to keep us out of the States,I don't know which? Seriously, Fred has been outstanding in his work as FA. Wethank God for him! He is really a vital part of the team made up of supportingchurches and individuals. Forwarding Agent, and missionary. We thank God alsofor all of you that, by your support and prayers, undergird our witness forChrist here in Africa. We will do our best to continue to faithfully teach andpreach God's word and to be worthy of your support.

ADDITIONS - There are many additions as the result of our work of teaching andpreaching".—We do not know all that are added to the Lord through Baptism dueto our work. This is because our African ministers and elders do nearly allthe baptizing. They do not wait for the missionary's visit to baptize theirconverts. Once a year, at conference time, the ministers report the numberbaptized in each of their circuits Conference this year will beSept 10 - Oct 4, at Port Elizabeth on the Indian Ocean coast of S.A. We willbe able to better analyze the results of our teaching when these reports aremade known to us. An analysis over a year's time also seemsyjfetan^to be muchbetter for an accurate estimate of effectiveness. In the y^K^^OTO^he Africanministers reported 1,008 Baptisms. There were 274 churches rod preaching pointswith a total membership of 10,570. Although this is good, it could be betterand we hope to see more added to the Lord this year than in 1970.

Your fellow servants in Africa,Derry, Donna, Cheryl, Kevin

Linda § Darin 3maage.

Many thanks to each individual, class, and congregation for your response tothe financial appeal and your prayers.

Fred

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MISSIONARY'S REPORT ON ACTIVITIES

July 1 - July S - Preaching and teaching tour with Gordon Nelson and Kevin Jon.left Kimberly 10 AM Thursday for Cradock where we held three-day camp for ICQplus African children of the Cradock, Middleburg, Tarkastad, Hofmeyer churchesat Cradock Church with African ministers, Bros. Celdenhuys and Labatala.July 4 - Afternoon preaching at Nelsport TB Sanatorium with minister Mguzulwaof the Beaufort West Circuit of churches.July 10-11 - Freaching^teaching trip to Baberones, Botswana in mission plane3985 Charlie, meeting for first time with neiv church of Christ in capitol ofBotswana. Met new brother who is ministering to church here. Brother BrightMdluli. Loaded Brother Bright's Austin engine in 3895C for overhaul in KimberlyReturned to Mafeking, S.A. to pick up Cordon Nelson who had held services thereJuly 18 - Lord"s Day Services, Kimberley. Brother Alvin Nicholson here for avisit. Kimberly celebrated Centennial on July (Donna's birthday). Bigparade in city and visit to world-famous Diamond museum here.July 19 - Entered hospital for minor surgery. Released from hospital on July 2.Fully recovered after about two weeks. Had to cancel scheduled preaching-teaching trip to Tarkastad circuit on July 24-25.August 1-29 - Special teaching emphasis at Hopetown circuit. Classes every Sun-day afternoon. Bro. Nelson teaching on "Christian Living". I am teaching aseries on the "Church revealed in the Scriptures".