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Story of Dorothy and Eldon Miner, missionaries with UIM International

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  • 1UIM International, by Gods providential and purposeful grace, is blessed to have so many who have given their lives to the task of reaching people with the Gospel of our risen Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. For over five decades, since its humble beginnings in 1956, God has raised up choice servants to proclaim His Gospel of grace to North America. This booklet provides a glimpse into the lives of one of those faithful missionary couples. Eldon and Dorothy Miner responded to Gods call and have faithfully served through seasons of joy and sorrow, elation and disappointment, but always experiencing Gods faithful hand of particular blessing. In many ways their story is unique, while at the same time it conveys a common theme and experience of other faithful servants of the Lord. I also draw attention to the fact that this story is the product of UIMs commitment to inspire more faithful servants to serve the Lord. Through UIMs internship ministry, Emily Barto of Carlisle, PA, a stu-dent at Lancaster Bible College, spent her summer in ministry with UIM International. Her presence and ministry spirit have served UIM well and been a source of encouragement, reinforcing the fact that God has His hand on a new, young generation of servants that He is preparing for His purposes and glory. Young or older, we trust this story of lives well lived will inspire you to pray for missions, to faithfully support your missionaries, and, as the Lord may yet lead, give of yourself to the work of the Lord as He builds His church. No life or ministry is ever in vain in the Lord. Having this focus on life and ministry, we do not lose heart. I wish to express my personal gratitude to Eldon and Dorothy for their example of humble faithfulness. I also express my personal appre-ciation to Emily Barto and other interns who step out and seek opportu-nities to serve the Lord. Their life story as well may be told in decades to come. Might they be additional examples of Gods faithfulness and lives well lived for His glory.

    In Christ Jesus,

    Daniel P. Fredericks, Executive DirectorUIM International

  • 2To Eldon and Dorothy - I hope this isnt dressed up at all. Thanks for sharing your story and your wisdom.

    Thanks to Juanita Fike, for all her help editing, envisioning, and encouraging.

  • 3After sitting down for our meeting, the first thing Eldon Miner said was, Can we go now? He laughed. His wife, Dorothy, pulled out her crochet hooks and promptly got to work, not wanting to waste valuable time.

    I was here to interview them for an article about their lives and min-istrya new experience for both of us. As the air conditioning rumbles in the background, drowning out the sounds of the Phoenix street outside the window, they begin telling me their story. Lets start with your family, I say. I ask them about their growing up years. Eldon replies, I never grew up! Dorothy laughs, and then they turn serious again. They start, somewhat re-luctantly. One can tell they feel my time better spent on other things, their time and energy better spent serving others. Nevertheless, they begin

    Eldon was born in the year 1929 in Marshfield, Wisconsin. Im a cheeseh-ead! he says, straight-faced. He was always made to go to Sunday school and churchI didnt learn anything, but they made me go, he admits. It was during a Vacation Bible School that he trusted Jesus as his Savior. As an eight-year-old boy, he understood his need for salvation, but that was about it. Then they didnt tell me anything else! he says. In 1944, he moved to Glendale, Arizona, and started going to church in earnest. He did not understand the born again terminology he knew that he had accepted Christ as Savior, though! He was baptized and became involved in the youth group. Eldon recalls that the youth leader would play the accordion, and the whole group would sing and pass out tracts in the Glendale Park. One day, they were passing out tracts in front of a Mexican church. The Mexican priest came out and they gave him a tract. Turns out, he read it, looked up an evangelical pastor, and got saved! When Eldon heard it, the Lord got a hold of his heart and he thought maybe he should be involved in missions to Spanish-speaking peoples.

    Eldon pauses, and smiles. Meanwhile, I met this gal, and I never forgot her

  • 4Dorothys family was from Kansas Get it? Dorothy from Kansas? quips Eldon. Dorothy giggles and turns to look at him; that look was like a glimpse of what these two were like when they were young vivacious, sparkling, in love. He looks back at her and though the years have changed many things, they are still so in love with each other. Dorothy continues. When she was nine years old, her family moved to Glendale, Arizona, for her health. You wouldnt know it now Im fine now, but I guess I was a sickly little girl, she says. Her family started going to the Free Methodist Church, then switched to the First Baptist Church. Dorothy recalls that in her junior girls Sunday school class, they were studying the life of Christ. It was Easter time when the pastor got the junior department together and spoke to them about the need to be saved. Fittingly, it was there, in the time of new births and new beginnings, that Dorothy accepted the Lord as her personal Savior. She was baptized in the fall, when she was about 10 years old.

    The following year, there was a church split. It was February of 1941, and it made quite an impression on young Dorothy. While her mother had been a Christian since she was about 12, her father was new Christian so neither of them really understood what the split was all about. As it turns out, Dorothys older brother actually made the choice of where to go. To a child, the choice was simplehe went where his Sunday school teachers were! Dorothy chuckles, the memory tinged with humor for her. Her family then attended what was Glendale Baptist Tabernacle on Grand Avenue. The new group constructed the building in about one weeks time. They held services that first week with only dirt floors beneath their feet. The church eventually picked up the building frame and moved over to Glendale Av-enue.

    It was there, on Glendale Avenue, that Dorothy and Eldon met. In 1944, Eldons family moved to Glendale, to a house three doors down from the church. His family did not attend a Baptist church back in Wisconsin, but since the church was so close, that is where they came to Sunday school. Thats where I met my husband, Dorothy remembers with a smile. She was a freshman in high school, and he was a sophomore. They went to high school together for a year before Dorothy switched schools to move with her family to South Phoenix.

  • Eldon and Dorothy always joke that she got him through Algebra; in actual-ity, she used to sit behind him so that he could not look at her paper! After Dorothys family moved to South Phoenix, sometimes Eldon would come along with a group that used to visit the family, but he never did so regularly. In 1946, Eldon went into the Marine Corps, and Dorothy thought it was the last she would see of him.

    Eldon, however, had other plans! In November of 1947, Dorothy received a letter from him; he wrote that he wanted to come and see her. She agreed, but the first time he made a date, he stood her up! The Marine Corps had a little something to do with that, he mumbles. Later in November, they made a second date. Eldon showed up for this one. Not only did he show up, he proposed! Dorothy accepted, and on their first date they were en-gaged. She was a senior; he was still in the Marine Corps.

    Dorothy had always felt a call to missions, but there was no specific place on which she could put her finger. When she was in junior high, she attended a girls club; they used to read missionary biographies, and they had retreats with missionary speakers. This was where she first felt the tug on heart. She always had her eyes towards missions, she just was not sure how or what. When she learned Eldon was called to Spanish missions, she decided that was clear direction enough for her!

    Eldon came to visit as often as he could. Sometimes, when they went out walking, Dorothys twelve-year-old brother would get on his bike and follow them. Her parents would give him chores to do to keep him busy, but the pull of spying on the couple was too strong. He would rush through his chores, race to his bike, and trail along behind them!

    On one occasion Eldon wanted to rent a motor scooter to come visit Dorothy, but he did not have a drivers licenseso his best friend loaned him his drivers license! They had made their way up Phoenixs South Mountain without incident, but on the way back down, Eldon was showing off. He makes some zig-zag motions with his hand, and adds some vroom sound effects to make the picture complete.

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  • He lost control of the scooter, and they went off the edge of the road and slid down the embankment. When they stopped moving, Eldon found he was clutching onto a rag. He thought he had pulled off one of Dorothys pigtails! What did Dorothy think of that? Well, I was sorta scared, but I couldnt figure out why he was holding that rag up! she laughs. Thankfully, no one was hurt and the authorities did not punish Eldon.

    Dorothy spent the summer after her graduation with her aunt and uncle in Flagstaff, working at their mission to the Hopis. Eldon was dis-charged on September 4, and they were married on the 11th, 1948. Dorothy smiles at the time frame We were married on a Saturday, went to church on Sunday, and moved to Oakland, California, on Monday so he could start Bible school. Apparently they married so quickly because the Bible school would not let currently enrolled students get married during the school yearit was then or wait for another two years!

    They started their marriage with enthusiasm and hope, but they were young; Dorothy was 18, and Eldon was 19. They lived on the $105 a month that they got from the GI bill. The first few months, they were not receiving the checks, so they lived on the $600 Eldon had saved while he was in the Marines. They used the first $300 to live, and then spent their last $300 on a car to go home for Christmas. Looking back, Dorothy recalls We were just young kids; if we had money, we spent it! When they returned from Christmas, the checks were there. They are both thankful for the Lords intervention in their lives, even back then.

    Eldon attended school for the first semester; Dorothy joined him for the second semester. While Eldon continued on with his schooling there, the birth of their first child, Elda, necessitated that Dorothy take Moody Correspondence courses. Their second daughter, Carol, was born in April 1951; Eldon graduated in May. After that, the Miners moved back to Phoe-nix, where Eldon got an electrical job and Dorothy attended Arizona Bible Institute, eventually graduating with her Evangelical Teachers Training Certificate. In July of 1953, they moved to Flagstaff. They both rush through this part, focusing on dates and places, wanting to get to the good part, the part where they can actually serve.

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  • Early Years

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    David, Eldon, Arthur, and Norman - Miner boys shortly after arriving in Glendale, 1944.

    Miner family with older brother home on leave, 1945. Eldon back row, first on left.

    Dorothy, approximately 2 1/2 years old

    Dorothy, 4th grade school picture. This was the year she was saved.

    Camp on the canal bank, first home in Arizona. Dorothy is just in front of Mom.

  • Girls in Dorothys dorm at a confer-ence, summer of 1948.

    Eldon on motor scooter, April 1947.

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    Dorothy, just before the move from Glendale to South Phoenix.

    Dorothys high school graduation, May 1948.

    Eldon in Marine uniform, circa 1947.

  • First Years Together

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    Newly engaged, 1947.

    Newlyweds- Mom shot photo afternoon after the wedding, when we went to pick up our trunks. No one had flash for wedding pic-tures.

    1948-Photo taken outside the windows of our first apartment, in our wedding clothes.

    Home for Christmas in our first car!

  • When Eldon was in Bible school in California, he had applied for missions work in South America, but he received disappointing news. They told him to try serving in a U.S. field first to see if he could learn the language. You see, Eldon is deaf in one ear, and they did not believe he could learn to speak a second language. Schooling complete, off to Flagstaff they went to work in a camp that served the Hopi people. Eldon earned his living working in the ammunitions department for the military while they both ministered to the Hopis. It was while they were there in Flagstaff that someone asked them to minister to the Navajo people, so they did, traveling north to Shonto to start a church in a hogan, the traditional Navajo dwelling. Ministering among the Navajos was a challenge, for their traditional religion is highly animistic.

    After Eldons job was transferred to Illinois, and then to Texas, he de-cided it was time to resign. Two years after they left Flagstaff they returned to the Reservation, moving to Shonto. 1962 marked the beginning of seven years of work with Arizona Indian Mission. They recall that this was a dif-ficult time for Eldonthe mission made some decisions that they could not agree with, and it caused great internal turmoil. However, at just about the time they felt their work there was coming to a conclusion, an old friend of theirs, the United Indian Missions (UIM) Mexico field director approached them. He asked if they would be willing to go to Mexico. Eldon and Dorothy had the pleasure of seeing the Lords plan come to fruition, seeing His faith-fulness to complete the desires of their hearts that He had given them years before.

    Dorothy and Eldon prayerfully considered it and accepted the offer. In 1969, Eldon, Dorothy, and their four younger children moved to Texas to start language school and begin the arduous task of learning to speak Span-ish. They both admit that learning languages is hard; Eldon says, If the Lord wasnt leading us that way, I would never have learned! Dorothy recalls with a laugh, I got better grades in school, but he learned to speak it faster!

    After completing language school, they were assigned to the Tar-ascan Indian Tribe in the mountainous region of the Mexican state of Mi-choacn. While there, they did mostly discipleship work and teaching,

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  • helping to establish some churches. Transparently, Dorothy says, the evangelism work frustrated us. The re-ligion practiced in the area was predominantly Roman Catholicism, but it was not the Roman Catholicism that Westerners are used to. Rather, it was a mixture of the Indian belief system with Catholicism, making it an even more difficult field.

    During their seven years with the Tarascan Indians, Dorothy and Eldon lived in four different towns around the area. Dorothy was home-schooling during this time, but Eldon did a lot of traveling. He tells a story about a time when he narrowly escaped death. We went to a town; we were going to show a film he begins. Dorothy had been planning to come with the kids, but she was detained by extreme pain and could not go. So Eldon returned home and got the kids; consequently, he was late for the meeting, but it turned out to be a good thing! People had been waiting by the road for the Miners to arrive, so they could stone them! Eventually, they gave up, because Eldon was late. After he got to the meeting place with the kids, the men knocked on the door to summon him to the town hall. There, the leaders of the town told him to leave, telling him, If you want to come back, be sure to bring your own coffin with you! Eldon laughs. If the Min-ers had been on time, they could have been dead. It was the grace of God that we were saved, concludes Eldon in his understated way.

    In another Tarascan town, the men were gathering with sticks and machetes, getting ready to kill him. Eldon had to leave town quickly. Once, he went to talk to the Presidente Municipal (county president) about the state of religion in Mexico. I thought you had religious freedom here in Mexico? he asked. The official told him, We do, but you as a foreigner have no right to be involved in religious matters here!

    Eldon and Dorothy describe the culture as fairly primitive. They recall that one of the towns they visited had no men in it, just women and children. The men had fought a battle with the men of the next town over the ownership of the cultivated land. The army had to come investigate, so all the men had fled . Eldon says with a smile, Theyre very aggressive and they fight. Thats what they do!

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  • The Tarascan religion was an interesting mixture of Roman Catholi-cism and the old Indian belief system. Its syncretism, explains Eldon. At different times of the year, the people would parade through town singing weird songs. The men were religiously drunk, a bottle in one hand, a crucifix in the other. During festivals, there were processions through town, often at nighttime. The people would carry their patron saints and tall candles flick-ering in the thick night. Periodically, the music would stop and everybody would bow down to the saint.

    Even though their work was fruitful, it was difficult. Eldon admits, I would have taken a different approach with Tarascan. He would have used a pretext of teaching English classes, or something else that was not open evangelism, hoping that there would have been less opposition that way. They would have liked to address the humanitarian aspect a little more, as well; Eldon wishes they could have helped better the living standards, while still being careful not to build up a dependency or get he wrong em-phasis on prosperity versus the Gospel.

    In 1977, the Miners moved back to Arizona and started working with Hispanic people at a Mexican church in Phoenix, teaching classes and in a Christian school. In Wenden, Arizona, they taught classes, and they served in the town of Aguila, too. Many migrant workers were afraid to come to the services because they did not have papersthey were there illegally. Dorothy and Eldon did not let that deter them, however. Their solution? They visited them in their homes, sharing not only the Bible but the day-to-day struggles of life with these people who were so desperate for companionship in a land that was not their homeland. Dorothy shares, One year, for Mothers Day, a young lady gave me this beautiful embroidered tablecloth, just to thank me for visiting with her. She wasnt even a believer or a member of the church. She was just grateful that someone would visit with her. By highlighting this womans kindness, Dorothy reveals her own kindness in being willing to simply be a friend.

    During their time in the States, from 1977-1987, the Miners were frequently asked to go back to Mexico, often for conferences or training. People from the Mayo Indian Tribe regularly came to these conferences and

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  • asked the Miners to come to their tribe and teach. So, they started going down to Basconcobe, Mexico, traveling back and forth from Phoenix multiple times a year. Eldon says, We thought we might as well move down there! In 1987, they did just that, moving to the state of Sonora. They helped disciple the church and encourage growth, as well as mak-ing trips to other towns where the Mayo Indians lived. Again, their ministry was primarily teaching and discipleship, but they did some evangelism, too.

    It was during this time that Eldon and Dorothy began to see the need that was to become their focus for the next quarter of a cen-tury. The problem started out simply but developed in complexity, once culture and lifestyle were factored in. Broken down to the most basic form, the Mayo Indians needed more Bible teachers and pastors. How-ever, the seemingly simple solution to thisto send nationals to Bible school did not work in real life. Those Indians that were sent away to Bible school had a hard time coming back. They were adjusted to life in towns and cities and could not transition back to village life without great difficulty.

    The Miners saw this need and were burdened to start the Theo-logical Education by Extension program (TEE). This program trained Mayo Indian Christians to become pastors, leaders, elders, and mature Christiansright in their own homes! Under the auspices of UIM, the Miners developed their own curriculum, organizing and putting down on paper what they had been doing verbally for years in their work with previous groupsboth Navajo and Hispanic.

    The Mayos had periodic idolatrous religious pageantry, though to a lesser extent than the Tarascan Indians the Miners had previously worked with. At Easter time, men called phariseos who have made cer-tain promises for penance dress up with things around their waists that clank, shells down their legs that make noise, and grotesque masks. They carry a drum to beat. They go around town and do goofy things, explains Dorothy, trying to make sense of the culturally-rooted cus-tom. They play tricks and get people to give money to the church, for the religious festivals.

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  • Even the government was corrupted with this religion, in a way that the Miners describe as too complicated to explain in a few words. Religion

    and Mayo politics were freely mixed, as the tribe was allowed autono-my by the government in matters of tradition, such as raising money tax-free for tribal religious purposes. Because of the intertwined nature of the relgion and politics, one of the the leading TEE directors turned down the lucrative local governorship that he was in line to inherit, in favor of following the Lord.

    The work was hard and the landscape was hard to navigate, but the hearts of the people were not hard. They were eager to hear the word of God, and the believers longed to grow and mature. Once, Eldon and a friend were traveling to a village high in the mountains; the path was barely wide enough for a horse to get through. His horse fought to stay on the trail, often sliding off near the edge. I didnt tell her that one, Eldon looks at Dorothy and laughs with a grin. When they arrived after the treacherous journey, they were so tired they could barely stand up. It was well after ten oclock at night, but the people wanted to have a meet-ing that very night! Some of the people gathered had walked eight hours just to be there. We couldnt tell them no, Eldon admits.

    Dorothy and Eldon have always viewed their ministry as a partnership, working side by side as much as possible. There were times when Doro-thy was homeschooling their children and could not travel with Eldon, but for the most part they labored together. Often, Dorothy would sing in churches. Dorothy likes to sing; the Lord has gifted her that way says Eldon with a smile. Even their children took part in their ministry, playing the piano, teaching classes, bringing their friends to the meet-ings. Eldon often partnered with Gil Gillespie over the years. Gil and his wife came to work in an orphanage in the Michoacn area, eventually moving to the same town as the Minersfirst in Michoacn, and later, in Sonora. When asked if they struggled in their relationship with their coworkers at all, Dorothy gives a very revealing and insightful comment: We probably both struggled sometimes, but we struggled together.

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  • After ten years of work among the Mayo people, the Miners had seen their work come to fruition under a few local leaders. At the same time, they realized how sick Eldon was from the hot, humid heat that can reach upwards of 110 with 90% humidity in the summers. The land-scape is tropical; it borders the Gulf of California, and Eldons health was deteriorating.

    It was a hard decision to make, but in 1996 the Miners moved back to Arizona. They still travel occasionally to Mexico for conferences, to present diplomas and certificates, and to encourage the local churches, but not nearly as often as they once did. The TEE classes still continue, particularly under the leadership of an nationals and Mayo appointees of UIM who are still in the candidate process.

    Though it may look easy on paper, leaving Mexico marks the hardest time in their ministry for both Dorothy and Eldon. Dorothy re-calls that Eldon talked about resigning from missions at this point, but our field director kept finding stuff for us to do! They look back on this period as one of difficulty, especially in relation to some of their family members. It was hard to find the Lords leading through, says Dorothy, but as He opened doors, we walked in em, I guess. The Miners still miss ministering in Mexico; most of all, they miss the warm-hearted people! Dorothy says enthusiastically, Every place you are, you get to love the people and enjoy fellowshipping with them, too. Even when their very foundation was shaken, Eldon and Dorothy sought the Lords leadingand, more importantly, followed where He did lead! In typical understated fashion, these two servants continued to do whatever their Master asked of them.

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  • Family

    Miner family - L to R Marjory, Eldon, Lois, Dorothy, David, Carol, Janice

    Eldon, Dorothy, Marjory, Lois-January 1972Lois and friends

    Lois teaching a VBS Marjory, Eldon, Lois, Dorothy, David

    Dorothy, Lois, Eldon

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  • Navajo Ministry

    VBS at ShontoShonto Mission

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    First Navajo Church, 1960. Navajo hogan

    Shonto Christmas, 1950s

  • Tarascan Indian Ministry

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    Early prayer card

    Church meeting - the ladies side. Tarascan churches seperated the men and women.

    Eldon with a friend

  • Mayo Indian Ministry

    TEE meetings

    Traditional dancers garb, Mayo Indians

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  • Eldon preaching

    Loreto Valenzuela and wife Eufemia. Loreto was a drug addict, drunkard and unfaithful husband, but Eufemia was a believer and stayed with him; Loreto was wonderfully saved and transformed. He and Eufemia both graduated from all of the TEE programs and now direct it in the Mayo area.

    Pastor and TEE student

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  • What did we do from 1996-2006? Dorothy asks. Slept, Eldon gravely replies. The next phase of their ministry was characterized by transition and flexibility. Living in the Phoenix-Glendale area of Ari-zona, they took care of Eldons mom. They made lots of trips to Mexico for teaching and Bible conferences, they discipled believers and taught at a Spanish church in Phoenix, and they conducted the TEE program here in the U.S. at Faith Baptist Church in Glendale. Above all, they remained faithful to the vision that they felt called to and had pursued in all of their ministries. Our main burden was to see people have their own leadership and to lead their own people to the Lord! says Eldon.

    Interestingly enough, the first Spanish pastor at Faith Baptist in Glendale had been saved when the Miners had worked in Wenden, AZ! This is yet another example of how their past obedience had come back to bless them.

    In 2006, they moved to Florence, Arizona. There, they started an outreach into the county jail. This fruitful ministry continues even today, although it has expanded and grown from the early days. They largely work with illegal immigrants who are detained by the authori-ties, ministering to men from Honduras, Ecuador, Chile, and, primarily, Mexico. They challenge them to take the Gospel with them when they return to their homes. The possibilities are unlimited as to what the Lord can do! says Eldon.

    They also visit one of the many prisons in that area, leading Bi-ble studies for the Native Americans there. Before long, the Miners dis-covered that they knew the entire family of one man who now attends the study; their time in Shonto, on the reservation, enabled them to minister more effectively to this man, years later! However, attendance to the studies in this prison has not been very good; they might have to drop the study if they cannot get more people to come, as the prison authorities do not want anyone getting too familiar with just one or two inmates. This is a matter of great concern to the Miners, for which they ask prayer.

    On Sunday nights, Dorothy and Eldon visit yet another prison,

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  • this time with the official prison chaplain. Dorothy sings, and they lead the bilingual prayer. They have not yet gotten permission from the au-thorities to introduce the TEE program there, but they are hopeful that this will arise in the near future. Eldon has left some literature on the Old Testament for the men, and they have eagerly taken them to read. Their desire is to organize them eventually into a more formal study program.

    The hard part about prison ministry is that there are some men who have been in the discipleship program for two, even three months, new men continually come in. The Miners cannot divide the group into two, so they are faced with a dilemma. Do they start over at the beginning, or do they keep going in-depth and hope to work the basic stuff into the deeper lessons? They have not yet reached a good solution, yet they are encouraged by how attentive the prisoners are. They sit and listen and pay attention, like people nowhere else! says Eldon. He jokes, Weve got a captive audience!

    Now associates with UIM, Eldon and Dorothy near their 64th wedding anniversary in September. Parents of six, grandparents of twelve, and great-grandparents of sixteen, this dynamic couple has been com-pared to the energizer bunny by coworkers. Understandably, I hesitate when I ask about their plans for retirement. There is a slight pause be-fore their reply; Eldon says, Its down the road, probably not too far off. Dorothy nods in agreement, then laughs when Eldon quips, Im really too young, though. On a more serious note, Dorothy adds, As long as the Lord gives us a viable ministry, well keep going if the Lord opens the door, if He wants us to do it, Hell show us how. Hell enable us to do it.

    As they look to the future with the same unflappable sense of courage with which they have faced all that has been asked of them over the years, the Miners greatest desire is for people to see that the national churches need to be established with their own leadership. Eldon pas-sionately says, Thats our burdenget in, get the job done, and get out of there. Their work with the TEE program has become self-perpetuating, fulfilling their greatest desires; they want there to be no dependence on foreign missionaries.

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  • Always excusing their own opinions and wealth of experience, care-ful not to offend, Eldon quickly adds, Maybe not everybody would agree, but thats what we see.

    With that, we reach the last of my questions, and the end of the interview. As we say our thanks and goodbyes, they prepare to leavebut then, there is one parting word from Eldon. With twinkling eyes and a grin he says, Were mavericks. The interview might be over, but their story certainly is not.

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  • Today

    TEE work continuing in Jalisco

    TEE graduates in Jalisco

    US ministry to Hispanics - attending a Quinceaera.

    TEE curriculum

    Interviewing - July 2012, UIM headquarters, Glendale, AZ

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