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AFRICAN EV NGELIST
CYRIL C.
SIMKINS
Missionary
RHODESIA AFRICA
P/Bag
56 Zaka Rodesia Africa
Forwarding Agent: Robert L. Mize Route 4 Admiral Drive
Concord Tennessee
Vol 1
August 1965
Professor AlderAt Mashoko
SThe
stu ents
of
an
ose
i
le College
Cal i forn ia
sent
Professor George Alder to v i s i t
t h e mis s ion f i e l d in
Rhode s i a
He
arr ived in July
and
spent
three weeks
teaching in the
Bi
ble
College.
Teacher
Training
School and
th e
church
The
Bi
ble
College students f e l l in
lo v e w ith Mr. Al d e r and a sked
him to re turn. The
highlight of
h i s
v t was a one week r e v i v a l
Both
th e a t t e n d a n c e and th e
GEORGE LDER - TE CHING singing
indicated
the in teres t
th e
Af r i c a n s
had in t h i s meet
ing.
We
wil l remember
for
a long
time
th i s revival and
the
weeks of
t ra in ing
which
were so
thoughtful ly
provided
by
the students
of
San
Jose. God is blessing us in so many ways. Everything that we do
at
Mashoko has an
evangel i s t ic
emphasis. The
v i s i t
of Brother Alder
gave
us an added push fo r evange
l i sm in th e a r e a J u s t be fo r e
Pro fe s so r
Alde r
was to
l eave he
contacted malaria . Consequently
he
has seen
both
the good
and
bad o f Rhode s i a b u t God i s
h e a l
ing him from h is i l lne s s
and
we
know he w i l l
soon
be back
t e a ch
ing
and
preaching
the
Gospel
of
Ch r i s t
18th N TION L i
j MISSION RY CONVENTION |
I
September
-October 1 |
I
JOPLIN SSOUR
BAPTISM DURING
REVIVAL
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The
Church
At Umtali
to
ground
th i s
church
in
sound
doct r ine and in New MEETING PL CE OF UMT LI
CHURCH
Testament
Christ iani ty . e
spent several
days
in Umtali talking
with the
congregation
and teaching the Gospel of Chris t . Brother
Dick Hostetter has
now
arrived
from
the
States
to
take
charge
of
th i s
work. Our
experiences with th i s African
congregation has
taught us a
lo t . We are convinced
tha t we
can
s t a r t churches
in
every
city as
well
as the
villages.
The church
is
spreading in
Rhodesia and
congregations
l ike the one at Umtali make the future
look
br ight
fo r
the cause of Chri s t .
African Funeral iViissionary Young People
- The
f a t - h e r - o f
a - n u r s e
t the
Mashoko
Hospital passed
away
and A C
the
family
asked for
some boards
V -.T* jBt
to
build
the coffin This
is ^ wjj^ a
ra re
th i s
country as
no em-
balming
is
ever done. At the 8
k ra a l a rea
where
hut s o f th e
family are
s i tua ted the coff in
was
wrapped black c lo th and
placed in the
main
hut.
They
VBHII
t h en c a r r i e d t h e
c o f f i n ou t
and
started
down
a path toward the Although most of our time
is
d i s t an t mountains
while
we a l l spent w ith
th e
Africans we are
followed.
s
we walked
along
the
Ot unmindful of
the
needs of
women
sang
hymns
in Shona.
children
of
the missionaries.
At the grave site they asked Dr. e held special
services
for
Pruett
to give the message and I them in Fort Victoria and later
gave the prayer. s everything took them to
Zimbabwe
bove is
is so very dry they did not have ^ picture of some of the mission-
f lowers. After
the
coff in was ^ 7
young
people.
They a re
l e f t
lowered
into
the ground, all of to right: Larry
Van
Dyke, Mary
the men present took turns shov- Simkins, Darrell
Pruett
Pamela
eling
in the dir t .
When level
and Mark
Pemberton. Cyril
Sim-
with
the ground the
men laid
on
kins Steve
Van Dyke, Mark
John
large
rocks. For the
return tr ip
son and Eddie Cooper. David
the
headmen walked in
single Pruett
took
the picture
f i l e then
the women in single
f i l e
followed by
the other
men.
Although most
of our
time
is
spent
with
th e Africans we are
no t
unmind f u l
o f th e
need s
o f
th e
ch i l d ren of th e
mis s i ona r i e s .
We held special serv ices for
them
in
F o r t V i c to ri a and later
t ook
them
to Zimbabwe. Above i s
a pic ture o f some
of the mission
ary
young people. They a re l e f t
to
right:
Larry
Van Dyke, Mary
Simkins Darrel l
Pruet t Pamela
and Mark
Pemberton Cyri l
Sim
kins
Steve Van Dyke Mark John
son
and
Eddie Cooper.
David
Pruet t
took the
pic ture .
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Mashoko ible College Teacher Training
The s tudents
of
the col lege
a re
t ra in ing fo r th e m in istry
in
Rhodesia
and
we already have
preachers
in Umtal i
Fort
Vic
to r ia ,
Chiredzi .
Bulawayo. and
other places.
Since
coming to
Rhodes ia to t r a i n Af r i c an
evan
ge l i s t s . I have been impressed
with the
in teres t
of these
young
men They are not on as high an
academic l eve l as comparable
c olle ge s tu de nts
in
the
U.S. but
i t is a del ight to
teach them.
They have a good grasp of
the
English
language as well as
an
even bet ter knowledge of the i r
n a t i v e
Shona . Amer i c an s t u d e n t s
often
try to do as
l i t t l e
study
ing as possible but
here i t
i s
qui te the opposite . They are
very anxious to l ea rn and want
the
education. e desire your
prayers
for these
young men
They have
many
obstacles to
overcome
and
many
temptat ions to
r s st b u t
th e
Lo r d s work need s
them as
well
as many more
to
preach the Gospel of Chr i s t .
Three
of
them are preachiftg reg
ularly on
Sundays. Often
i t
i s not only necessary
to
t r a in
the
preacher
but to begin the
church where the preacher is to
preach.
This is also a par t of
the t ra in ing
they rece ive . The
door is
wide
open
in Rhodesia.
e
are try ing
hard
to
enter
while i t i s st ll open. Occas
ionally we have someone
fa l l
by
the
wayside
but
fo r the most
par t ,
there has
been
a very re
warding
success in the
t ra in ing
o f
m i n i st e r s
h e r e .
iL j
lui
In
July
we began a s ix
month
teaching program fo r the African
Churches. Teachers preachers
and
church
l e a d e r s wi l l
come
to
Mashoko
once
a
month
fo r
i n t en
sive t ra in ing in Christ ian Doc
t r ine.
Stewardship and the New
Testament
Church.
plan to
educate them more thoroughly
in
the Gospel of
Chri s t
and
in
New
Testament Christ iani ty . Several
o f th e m is s io n a r ie s wi l l be
part ic ipat ing
in
this program.
At the same
time
we
are taking
the
program
in to
For t
Victor ia
and
Ch i r e d z i .
Th i s
w i l l
mean
t h a t a t
l e a s t
t h r e e weekends
every month
we
wi l l
draw
in our
church
leaders for t rain ing. I t
is hoped that this program of
intensive
training will greatly
s t r eng then
the church
in
the
en
t r a r e a . The
l e s sons w i l l be
t ranslated
into the
Shona lang
uage .
God Called Them Home
Our beloved
f r i end and mis
sionary toBelgium DonCaste le in .
passed away a few weeks ago. Don
had a most unusual abil i ty to
include in
every
conversation
some
r e f e r e n c e to
th e
Lord
J e s u s
Chris t . He could not
keep from
ta lking about Him. Now he
has
gone to be
with
Him Your pray
ers are needed for his
family
and
for
the work
in Belgium.
Short ly
a f t e r
the
news of Don
Cas t e l e i n s
d ea th , an othe r
t e l e
gram arr ived
bearing
the message
t h a t Mrs. S imk in s mothe r
had
d i ed . Funera l s e rv i c e s
were
be
ing held about the
same
hour the
telegram f inal ly reached
us.
I t
is
only
af te r
this
experience
tha t we
real ized
how many of the
mi s s i o n a r i e s have l o s t a l oved
one while they were on
the mis
sion
f ie ld . One thing we want
to say. Her
l i fe
was an inspir
a t i on to a l l o f
us .
She no t
only
showed
us the way to God
bu t she walked wi th u s .
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Reeves Reflections
On
Rhodesia
Robert
Reeves,
Minis te r
of
th e F i r s t Chr i s t i an
Church,
Fair
f ie ld
I l l i no i s
is
S ecretary to
th e
Mis s i on s
Commi t t ee
in th e U-
n i t e d S t a t e s .
He has been as so
c i a t e d wi t h t h e work in Rhodes ia
from the
beginning.
He
vis i ted
in Rhodes ia this summer and th e
following
l e t t e r was writ ten on
his re turn voyage.
After spending
a month
v i s i t
ing many of
our mission s tat ions
i n
s ou t h e r n Af r i c a I am conv i n c
ed t h a t wha t t h e Ch r i s t i a n Chu r
ches
do
in the
next
ten
years in
Rhodesia could very well deter
mine the future
of
th i s aggres
sive
young nation. I t is impos
sible
to
conc e i v e o f wha t cou l d
be
done or what
i s
being done
without
seeing the Centra l Af
r ica
Mission in
person.
The h e a r t
o f
chu r ch and
o f
a
f o r th e chu r ch i s
m inis try . Cyril
an
indigenous
hopeful future
in an
educ a t e d
Simkins, John
Pemberton,
and t h e i r
as soc i a t e s
are
providing
the kind of
aca
demic oppor tuni t ies tha t
the
young
preacher s tudents of Rho
de s i a need .
They also have great
plans
fo r a
progressive
and
expanding
min is te ri al tr ai ni ng program.
Those of
you who
support
th is
work
can
be conf ident tha t your
trust
in th e s e men
is
we l l
placed.
(signed)
Robe r t E.
Reeves
M in i st e r
irst Ch r i s t i a n Church
Fa i r f i e l d I l l i no i s
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the
Central
iSfrica
iRiaisd on
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FRIC N
EV NGELIST
CYRIL 0 SIMKINS Missionary
RHODESI
FRIC
P/Bag 56 Zaka Rodesia Africa
Forwarding Agent; Robert L Mize Route 4 Admiral Drive
Concord Tennessee
V o l .
1
N ov em be r 1 96 5 N o . 4
Gutu
ivaagelism
Pkmei
a re undertaking an e v a n g e l i s t i c
pro
gram in Gutu.
Ou r f i r s t
p r o j e c t in
t hi s
campaign
wil l
be to
erec t
a church
b u i l d
ing.
I
have
promised t h r e e
thousand f o r
th is p r o j e c t and
we know
t h a t th e
Lord
wil l
provide
i t I t
is
p o s s i b l e t h a t more
t han t h i s a m o u n t wi l l b e needed
Beginning
with
1966
we
are
opening
a
s eco n d ary
sc h o o l in
Gutu
w ith Doug and
F r a n c e s Johnson in
c h a r g e .
When we en te r
th is
area
f o r ed u catio n we want
to
begin
an evangel is t ic campaign
along
with i t
in ten d
to
promote th e
e v a n g e l i s t i c work
w h ile they are
doing th e e du ca tio na l
work.
Our
work
in
Gutu has come primarily
th r o u g h
th e
work o f
one man John Kurebwa
o u r
p reach er in this a r e a . Although b l i n d
he
has done
an
e xc el le nt jo b o f p l a n t i n g th e
New
Testament Church in
Gutu.
I t
is l a r g e l y through h is ef for t s t h a t
we
have been g ran ted
the secondary school. The church has no building and no money but
t h e y m eet u n d e r
th e
t r e e s I n
orde r
to g iv e an impetus to
h is
work
an d
sca t t e r
i t throughout
th e a rea we
need to erec t one church
b u i l d i n g
I
have
unde r t aken t h i s
t a s k f o r 1 9 6 6
an d th e
people
a re planning fo r i t
Mr Kurebwa
is
v e r y opt imis t ic and
bel ieves tha t
th e Gospel
can
be
preached th rou gho ut the
whole
a r e a .
hope that before
the
year is over
s o m e o n e e l s e
wi l l
b e in th e G u t u
a r e a
looking a f te r th e e v a n g e l i s t i c
work.
Yes.
God s power
is every
w h e re .
The Gospel i s th e power to
s av e
w h e r e v e r it g o e s . We
need
o n l y
to p r e a c h it
and
l e t Go d do
t h e
r st
JOHN KUREBWA
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Weekly Schedule
No d o u b t
some
f r ie n d s a re in
t e res ted in
how
the m issionary
spends his t ime.
This schedule
is sometimes
in terrupted and any
var ia t ion
from
i t
wi l l
only
add
to
it We must t ake t ime fo r
others
such
as
the nursing s tu
d e n ts o r
t e a c h e r
tr inees
Monday
Morning
4
hrs. teaching
Bib le Life of Chr i s t
C h r i s t i n e
D o c t r i n e
A f t e r n o o n f r e e f o r t h e
preparation of
lessons
Evening
language
lessons
Tuesday
Morning 5
hrs.
teaching
Bib le L i fe of C h r i s t
World o f th e New
T e s t a
ment. Apologetics.
Chapel for
Bible College
t n o o n
A f t e r n o o n 2 h r s
Gr eek
fo r th i rd yrs s tudent
Evening
English class
Wednesday
Mern4ng
3hr s teach in.g_
Bib le Li fe o f C h r i s t
Afternoon 1
h r
teaching
Bible to
missionary
c h i l d r e n
Evening Prayer
Meeting.
Thur sday
Morning
5
hrs. teaching
Bible l i f e o f C h r i s t
World
o f
New
Testament
Apologetics.
Chapel
for Bible College
t
n o o n
A f t e r n o o n
2
h r s G r e e k
for th i rd
year
student.
Evening
language lesson.
Fr i da y
Morning 3
hrs.
teaching
B i b l e and
C h r i s
Doc.
Afte rnoon
1
h r
Bi b l e
Class for missionary
children
Evening
English
Class.
Saturday Sunday
Trip for evangel is t ic
cam
paign or
s ix months
teach
ing campaign or both.
Must
f ind t ime
to
w r i t e
home.
Nyhunda Campaign
1
BIBLE COLLEGE STUDENTS
Don
Stol l and Cyri l
Simkins
are
accompanying
the
Bible
Col
lege
students
for two
days
of
extensive evangelism in
the
Ny
hunda area.
They
wil l go from
house to house inv i t ing
the
peo
ple to come to
the
Sunday
ser
vice
We
expect to cover
a l a rge
par t
of the
Nyhunda
d i s t r i c t in
t h i s way.
The
work
in
Nyhunda
i s grow
ing;
nevertheless
i t needs fur
ther sTf^ngthehihg. The Bible
College
s tudents
can be
very
helpful in th i s kind of
work.
T h i s i s th e first o f a s e r i e s
of campaigns planned for
the stu
dents
plan
to
take them
to
F or t V ic to ria and to Umta l i
as
wel l
as
to
othe r
places
The
s tudents
wil l
s tay
two
nights
w i t h C h r i s t i a n s in
th e
a r e a and
wi l l re turn
to
Mashoko fol lowing
the
church service
on
Sunday.
Color Slides Available
A s e t o f 41 c o l o r s l i d e s
has
been s e n t
to
R o b e r t Mize
fo r
warding
agent .
These
s l ides
a
long
with
a
synchronized
tape
w i l l so o n b e
a v a i l a b l e t o
t h o s e
desir ing to
use
them.
Robert
Mize can be
contac ted
by
l e t t e r
to
h is home
address Rt. 4 Ad
mira l
Drive
Concord. Tennessee .
PRAY FOR YOUR MISSIONARIES
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The
New Testament Church
Our current program
for
t r a i n i n g
the
church
leaders i s
s t i l l in pro
gress . We
have launched
a
six months
program
in
which we are grounding
t h e c h u r c h l e a d e r s i n
B i b l i c a l
d o c t r i n e . Each
week I am
i n
a
ifferent
area .
On my
l a s t
t r i p to
Fort Victor ia 1 taught
concerning th e c on ditio ns
fo r e nte rin g
the
New Test>
ament Church. Not only
did the
people
l i s t e n
with g r e a t i n t e r e s t but
they would not
l e t
me go.
I had
to spend
much
t ime
answering q u e s t i o n s
concerning
the Church and
Teacher Training
These questions
were
denominationalism or
about
baptism and
the p r a c t i c e
of
sprinkling e t c . I was
encouraged
by the fact
t h a t
they were
thinking about these
th ings .
The Fort Victoria
Church
has
invited us back for a preaching cam paign and we plan to take a l l the
Bible
College
s tu de nts th er e fo r t h i s
campaign.
In a l l o ur te ac hin g we s t r e s s
the
need f o r l o y a l t y t o
the Word
o f God. T h e B i b l e m e a n s w h a t
i t ^ays . and the
meaning
i s con
tained
in the words
of
Scr ip tuK.
U n l e s s it i s
h o n o r e d
a s G o d s
Word
we
c a n n o t
h o n o r God. Un
l e s s i t i s obeyed from the h e a r t
we cannot p l e a s e Him. The
t h i n g s
which br ing us i n t o
t h e
r ig ht r ela tio ns hip
to
God through
Christ
are
indispensable to
our
s p i r i t u a l
welfare .
What
the
B i b l e
tells u s t o do we
m u s t
do
i f we are to enter the Body of
Chris t and
i n h e r i t
the
promises
o f God
Mashoko Bible College
T h e
f u t u r e o f Mashoko
B i b l e
College looks
br ight .
We are in
t h e
l st t e r m
f o r t h e
s c h o o l
year during 1965.
We have
had
ten s t u d e n t s t h i s year and ex
pect more
than
a 50 increase
for
the coming year. Thus f a r
the p o l i t i c a l
c r i s i s
in Rhodesia
h a s
n o t
a f f e c t e d
o u r
w o r k
b u t it
seems wise not
to
go ahead with
plans
to
move
Mashoko
Bible
Col
lege a t the
present
t ime. The
W TSON M BON
M i n i s t e r
F o r t V i c to r i a C h u r c h
p o l i t i c a l
s i t u a t i o n does
not
now
favor
going
in to Salisbury
or
any l a r g e c i t y where the
tens ion
i s
g r e a t e r .
At present we w i l l
r e m a i n i n M a t s a i R e s e r v e .
Since
the A frican school year
runs
from
January
to December
we w i l l b e o u t
o f
s c h o o l f o r s i x
w e e k s s o m e t i m e
i n
D e c e m b e r . I n
Janu ary our
1966
school
year
be
gins . This is summer down
here
below the
equator.
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At
Home
In Africa
The metal
house
pic tured
above i s ou r home in A f r i c a . t
i s a house
made
by
jo in ing two
s e c t i o n s o f m eta l
so
a s t o form
one
building Both the studs
and th e w a l l s a re
meta l .
The
inside walls
are
of
a loosely
FRIC N EV NGB IST
piibiished limonLhly for the
Crn t r a l
in iS0ion
Churches
o f
C h r i s t
DY
MADISON
PARK
CHRISTIAN
C H U R C H
3 1 6
Nor t h 2 S t h S t r ee t
Quincy
Il l inois
62301
Second Class Postage
Paid
Quincy I l l i n o i s
f i t t ed
beaverboard mate r i a l .
The
s ix room
house
has
f l o o r s o f
concre te
Even
though the
house
does not look imposing i t is
quite
comfortable
and
we have
learned to l ike
i t .
Perhaps the
most
discouraging
fea ture
is
the
f ac t
t h a t
th e re a re numerous
c r ev i c e s
fo r in se c ts to
come
in .
rash
of
scorpions continued
for
some time followed by large
spiders measuring
two
to three
inches
in
diameter . Our most
recent campaign
has
been
d i r ec t
ed
against worms We combat the
problem
by using insect ic ides
freely
and by
keeping
the
floors
c l ean which has
to
be done con
t inua l ly . We have
made
the
house
quite l iveable and
l ike
i t
very much
i s s i o n s
Se r v i c e
Box
963
509 Je f fa reon 3 t
Jol ia l i
I l l i no i s 60434
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