Dungan Norman Mary 1973 Mexico

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quereIaro QRO.

MEXICO

PUBLISHED

QU RTERLY

M Y 978

FROM DE TH

im

Recently I joined

two

o f

the

Mexican evangelists and we went

out

to a ranch

c a l l e d

ViborlUas

( L i t t l e

Snakes)

i n

the

s t a t e

o f

Guanajuato,

where

they

had been

teaching

for

several weekSo The

n i t i a l contact had

come

hrou gh

o n e

man

who

ad

heard the

radio program

and had

requested

the

Bible

correspondence coursOo As a

result o f personal

teaching,

this man came o

accept

Christ

as

Lord and to

begin

to

share

h i s

new-found f a i t h

with o t h e r s

Margarito^s

testimony was

a

owerful

one,

for

he had been a murderer and his

enemies were

many But

Christ

had changed

him,

and

to prove t

he

put

away

h i s arms. On a Sunday a f t e r n o o n

early

i n A p r i l ,

he

was murdered

M a r g a r i t o ^ s d e a t h b r o u g h t fear and c o n f u s i o n ,

as

w e l l

as

sorrow, to t h e e n t i r e

ranch, for most o f i t s r e s i d e n t s were r e l a t i v e s Some

o l k s

were saying t h a t Mar-

g a r i t o ^ ' s new f a i t h

had been r e s p o n s i b l e for h i s d e a t h And

s i n c e

Margarito had be en

the

leader

o f

the ranch, we wondered what our reception would

b e after

his death

However, we

found

a

ood

group awaiting us, a l l desiring

to hear

the Word As

Pablo,

one o f M a r g a r i t o ^ s b r o t h e r s ,

put t t h a t

d a y , We

re

l o s t j s u r e l y

t h i s Book

w i l l g i v e

us

d i r e c t i o n

So

we

preached

and prayed, and

f e l t

t h a t

new

s t r e n g t h

came

to

them

The n e x t week we r e t u r n e d and had a n o t h e r

good

meeting, i n

s p i t e

o f

several

o b s t a c l e s

p l a c e d i n

our way by S a t a n A f t e r t h e

p r e a c h i n g ,

Pablo asked t o

r e t u r n

w i t h

u s On

h e way, he

a c c e p t e d

Jesus

as

h i s

S a v i o u r

and was b^tized i n a road=

s i d e

l a k e We r a i s e G o d f o r

t h i s

new b e g i n n i n g and

hope

t h a t Pablo w i l l be t h e

s t a r t

o f

an

e n t i r e

ranches

coming

to

C h r i s t

By

h e w a y ,

t h i s

r a n c h l i e s

t h r e e

h o u r s

w a l k i n g

d i s t a n c e

from t h e n e a r e s t t o w n s

we have

been much concerned

a b o u t

what might be done

t o provide a d e q u a t e

trans=

p o r t a t i o n f o r t h e M e x i c a n e v a n g e l i s t s t o r e a c h s u c h remote l o c a t i o n s Would y o u

pray that we m i g h t make o d - l e d decisions


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OUR NEWEST ADDITION

On April 2, 1973, Dulces

Mementos**

was heard for

the

f i r s t time

on

station

XEDV

n

Real

del

Oro, Mexico

state.

This

new t a t i o n was

added

to

f i l l

a

gap

i n

listening

area

i n the

states

o f Hidalgo and

Mexico, Brother

Bill

Hoff has

taken on,

at

least

temporarily,

the burden

of financial underwriting of this 5-day-a-week

programming.

I t

is obvious

from the

mail r esponse

already

that there

are thuse

interested

in hearing

the

Gospel in that area.

B i l l ,

who s doing a l l

the copy

production

now,

says that with

the aid

o f

the

new

tape

duplicators

he is able

to

make

a l l

of

the monthly

tapes

in about 8 hoursa

t a s k th^

o o k b e t t e r

t h a n 40

hours i n our p r e - d u p l i c a t o r d a y s . Praise b e i

ABOUT

THE

HOME

As o f

this

writing,

approximately

125,00

i n

designated funds for Bob Wright

and the Children's Home here has been repoi-ted

to us.

The Lord

has

blessed us

personally

in

allowing

us

to cancel our U.S.

auto

insurance, which w i l l

allow

ad

d i t i o n a l funds to

be diverted

to

the

need;

and

we

eel confident that even yet addi

tional g i f t s are being and will be sent in response to

this

Christian need. We

thank

each of

you who acrificed during *lax

month,

I

know, too, that

each

o f

you

w i l l want to express your love

and

concern i n

the

recent loss sustained

by

the

Wrights,

On

Resurrection

Sunday,

April

22,

l i t t l e

Javier ( a t 16

months

the youngest

c h i l d

i n

the Home) ied a f t e r a

two-month

i l l n e s s .

He

was

truly the Wrights'

son, having

lived with

them from

the

time he

was

t l i r e e

days

old. Their field address

is

Apartado Postal

646,

Queretaro, Q r o . , Mexico.

m

SUMMER

SCHEDULE

For

those

o f you who may be considering a

Mexico

trip

this

summer, we are

including

our away-from-home schedule

so

that we o n l :

miss

you:

June 4-8

Week f v i s i t a t i o n i n Hidalgo state

June 20- uly

20

In

the

U,

.

July

2 3-27

In

Mexico

City

for

SWIM

August

6-11

In camp

at

San Miguel de Allende

August

13-16 At Youth

Convention

i n S a l t i l l o

The

remainder

of

the

summer

we

will

be more-or-less

near

homeunless a

youth

group comes down to work

or

a

week

or so.


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A TIME

TO

SOW. TIME

TO

REAP

I n a recent

issue

o f

a ewsletter published by

the Christian

Information Com

mittee

i n

Fremont, C a l i f o r n i a ,

there appeared

an

a r t i c l e t h a t put i n t o

words what

we ave f e l t regarding portions o f the work

here.

The ollowing, then, is an ad^-

tation

of

that

article,

Even an

elementary

knowledge o f farming shows j i a t harvest never h^)pens

without lots

o f

sowing. Nothing

but

w e e d s come

up i n a

i e l d

w h e r e

n o seed is

planted.

The onverse

o f

this

is also true: i f

something

is planted i n the spring,

you can expec t harvest i n the a l l Charring neglect or calamity).

The Good

News

is

o f t e n

referred to

by

Jesus

as

seed which

m u s t

b e

planted,

m u s t u n d e r g o c h a n g e t o b e g i n g r o w t h ,

mu^

e

c a r e d f o r , a n d must e v e n t u a l l y

be

harvested

A reat portion

o f

the

work being

done here in

the

Bajio of Mexi co is sowing

work.

We

are trying

to present

the

claims

o f Christ

i n

thousands o f homes, i n

hundreds

o f c i t i e s ,

in

several states

in

Central

Mexico, Even hough

we

ave had

the

blessing o f being able

to

see some arvest come eady in the form f b^tisms

and new

c o n g r e g a t i o n s ,

much

or perhaps most)

f

t h e growth and h a r v e s t w i l l t a k e

place

some ime i n

the

future, i f the Lord

delays

His

return.

I t is

our prayerful

goal to prepare hearts for

later

c u l t i v a t i o n and harvest.

We

re sowing where we

cannot personally a t t e n d to harvest;

we are

sowing

i n

unbroken land,

where

the

seed has never

b e f o r e

been s c a t t e r e d , where

the

weeds

o f

d i s t r u s t , ignorance, and

t r a d i t i o n are

t h i c k .

We ave learned t h a t sowing

methods

must

vary

from f i e l d *

t o i e l d , For example,

i n t h e s t a t e o f

Guanajuato, l i t e r a t u r e d i s t r i b u t i o n and

evangelistic c a i i i p a i g n s

have

been

effective; in

Queretaro

state,

they have

showr.

very s l i g h t r e s u l t .

Radio has

provided good results i n every

place

i t has been

used

b u t even

i t

has

l i m i t a t i o n s . New sowing

methods are

c o n s t a n t l y

b e i n g

c o n s i d e r e d

a n d t r i e d .

We e s i t a t e

t o speak o o soon or o o l o u d l y o f t h e s e new methods,

f o r

wf

r e a l l y

dont know f t h e y

w i l l

be workable or r i g h t f o r t h e f i e l d .

A t t i m e s ,

t h e s o w i n g seems f u t i l e a s we e e

l i t t l e

s i g n

o f

a n y t h i n g b r e a k i n g

ground,

A

number

o f

m i s s i o n s - c o n s c i o u s w r i t e r s a r e u r g i n g t h e

church

to

seek

o u t t h e f i e l d s t h a t

a r e

a l r e a d y i p e

i m t o

h a r v e s t . B u t , w e wonder, what s i n v o l

v e d i n b r i n g i n g

t h e

f i e l d t o

t h e

p o i n t

o f b e i n g

h a r v e s t a b l e? s

i t

e n t i r e l y

t h e d o i n g O i

t h e S p i r i t o f t h e Lord? Or does man

h a v e

a a r t i n p r e p a r i n g t h e f i e l d ,

f o r

i n c r e a s

i n g

i t s

r e c e p t i v i t y

t o

t h e c l a i m s c f C h r i s t ?

I t

g o e s w i t h o u t s a y i n g , I t h i n k , t h a t

we

h a v e b e l i e v e d t h a t

man i s n o r m a l l y i n v o l v e d

i n o n e way o r

a n o t h e r , a l t h o u g h i t i s

G o d

and G o d alone w h o has

the power

to transform the human heart.

The

b o d y

o f

C h r i s t s h o u l d

b e

i n v o l v e d

i n

a l l

a s p e c t s

o f

t h e

f a r m i n g

o p e r a t i o n ,

from s e e d p l a n t i n g t o

h a r v e s t .

I f

i t n e g l e c t s t o s e e k

t h e h a r v e s t ,

t h e

s e e d

w i l l r o t

i n

t h e f i e l d . I f i t n e g l e c t s t h e

sowing,

i t

w i l l

e v e n t u a l l y f i n d t h a t

there

i s no har

v e s t

t o

b e b r o u g h t

i n

a n d wUl

w i n d

u p p r e a c h i n g

t o

i t s e l f a n d

d e c a y i n g .


4/4

FAMILY

AFFAIRS

What

a

onderful spiritual

feast

we

had

sharing with Bro. Carl Ketcherside

at

the

annual Mexico Miss ionary Reunion in March.

We

were grateful once

again for

the trailer which allowed

us

l l to go and stay comforta bly for very l i t t l e cost. I t

was a

ever-to-be-forgotten

experiencerefreshing

both to

body and s p i r i t .

The trailer

get

another

work-out

during the

Easter holiday.

We ook i t to

C h r i s t i a n I s l a n d

( o u r c a m p g r o u n d n e a r

S a n M i g u e l d e

A l l e n d e )

iong i t h

1 6

y o u n g

people for an

overnight

retreat. Once again we gave thanks a s we cooked a l l meals

on

the trailer stove.

We had such a reat

time playing

and sharing in

the Lord

that we

lan to

do t again in May.

Heather is in her

glory.

She

has

a

new playmate

just

her age who

moved i n

next door.

Now

hey are a s

inseparable

a s the Bobbsey

Twins.

I t does have i t s

bad

points

a s well a s good,

however,

I would never have believed how

much mi s

c h i e f t w o ^ 4 - y e a r - o l d s c a n t h i n k

o f

I f we seem

o

spend

less

time in

the

States from

now on,

you^ know

why.

We

just

discovered

that

a n

ice

cream

arlor

has

opened

in

town

with

33

elicious fla

vors.

(Who needs

Baskin-Robbins

?) Norm says t h a t i f a Dunkin'Donut shop

moves to Queretaro now, heTl be c o n t e n t t o s t a y

here forever

Life is not without

i t s problems,

however, and

we would

l i k e

to

have you

pray

for us especially now.

The

owner

of

our house has been trying to

sell

i t

for

about

six months and i t looks as

i f

he has

found

a buyer. This means well be

moving

again.

Please pr ay

with

us

hat

the

Lord

will make

lain

the

house

He

has

in

mind

for

us.

Until

that

t ime wc

re just

.

Content to

be

His,

FINANCUL

STATEMENT

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Balance

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