Bemo Alan Janet 1976 Taiwan

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TAIWAN TALK J

ADDRESS:

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Box 223S4

Taiwan

100 R.O.C.

FORMOSA

CHRISTIAN MISSION

Feb. 14th 1976

FORWARDING

AGENT:

Miss

Margaret McGinn

Box 183,

Maspeth

N.Y. 11

wo

ew

ears

as we as t e

rstmas

eason ave com e

one and

it is high

time

I

wrote another letter.

I

have just wri

my 36th radio

script

for the book of Acts

and

am only half-way t

the book, which I had not yet started

when

I wrote last. But the A

program will not go on the air until March. - - -

It was on Nov. 29th that all of us missionaries of the Form

Christian Mission converged on Lotung and had a big Thanksgiv

dinner with the Ted Skiles family at the new orphanage God's

H

of Love. There were the Alan Bemos, (6) the Sam Hazkwoods

the Chuck Johnsons (6), myself and Sue Rhodes and another fam

the

Chris

Quains (4) - in

addition

to the Skiles family of 7 S

with 11 adults and 19 children - it was some week-end. Our arri

and

departures

-

from Friday thru

Sun. -

were staggered,

so

except

for

Sat. noon, we were never all

there

at the same time.

we were all glad to see the

orphanage and

the

19

children liv

happily in

it and a new road

built

to it, plus a telephone - w

cost a small fortune to install - and the building indebtedness to

building

fund

- of over 2600.00 - all paid off. What thrilled us

even

more,

however, was the witnessing

of

the baptism, that

Sun

Two

blind Christian

radio listeners

^ orphan

boys and

the 3 Chinese nurses who take car

d feed the children.

The three

nurses

had

been sprinkled

but,

after

seeing

two of the

orphan

boys bapt

week before, had begun to ask

questions

and

decided

to follow their example.

.

December

is

always

a busy

month for

everyone

and we were no exception.

It is

also an expensive m

not only because

of

Christmas but because we always pay

six

months' rent in advance. (And, of

cou

have always saved up in

advance,

in

order to

do

so.)

This

year, however, our landlady

raised

the

52 70 per month,

making

our rent, now, 237.16 per month. It seems

exorbitant

to us for just

but if

we

could find

one

cheaper it

would

have

to be

way

out

of

town and

not

on

the gro

with

nowhere to play for

the children

except on

the

street.

And we do have an excellent

office

sp

So we've paid 3 months rent and will decide later what to do.

At Christmas

time,

this

year,

we decided to have some of our

radio

audience and

others

we have

are blind and crippled

come to our home for

a

big Christmas party. The church

members had

the

name, age and

sex of one child from the Lotung orphanage

and

bought and wrapped a

special

r his particular

one.

And in addition the church

gave

them a

Christmas

gift

of money

for their holid

Alan had been teaching in

crippled

Bro. Yoh's

home

and in the home of the Tsais (She is blind

and

h

and we

had

other listeners come as well.

Two

blind girls are Christians and one read the L

ccount of Jesus' birth from memory and the other sang 2 carols from memory for our party.

My own Bible

class

women gave quite large money gifts to the Church

through

me and we used th

these handicapped folks new pu

kais (heavy

cotton wadded

blankets with satin covers) for Christm


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One

of

those

attending this and church services in

December

was a radio listener

who

had written

ss Chang

wrote

that she had

never

heard about Christ before but was convinced, by listening to

Bible Story Time every

day,

that Jesus

had

died for

her and

she

wanted to accept Him.

So

as baptized on the first Sunday in January.

Somehow,

these conversions - one in

Nov. and this one

-

have given us

fresh

hope.

And other

listen

become

the deep concern

of

Alan's, so that

he

spends

two

full days each week teaching and help

blind

and

crippled Christians in so

many

ways.

He

is now making tapes

for

them in

several

languag

d using

them for

helping to

keep

these handicapped

people interested, during their long

days.

In fact,

beginning to

copy our

Japanese programs

for

their relatives, too

And

today,

Alan

told me that cripp

Yoh

copies

my program every

morning and

plays it

back

at least 1

times

each day (As I am tell

stories all

the

way

through the Bible,

he will

become quite

well-informed about the

Book

even thou

cannot read.) And it gives me joy to help make

this possible. But

Alan's

truly concerned

and

lov

makes

al l

the difference.

On Dec. 23rd,

all our

missionary group travelled to

Chung

Li, where Chuck and

Molly

Johnston

in a very active campus ministry

and where

Chuck

teaches

many

classes

in a Christian Univers

This, however,

was

our

Christmas

dinner

and party

day

together.

And after an absolutely scrumptio

nnerwe had the tree.

Each child had

drawn a child s name and

each

adult had

drawn

an adult s so it w

to

watch

each

one,

in turn, open

his

gift of the day. But afterward,

we

had an even more precious

ev

hen we went over to the chapel of the college and

Alan

baptized Becky - the 2nd of their children

cept Chr is t and be born aga in .

New Year s Eve, according to our solar calendar, was a long night of seeing the new year in with

ristian brethren - and I ended up by going home with my friend Kathleen Langton-Smith for the res

night. She is Supt. of the Gladys Aylward Children's Home, here in Taipei, and, being a

long

time orph

rself, is almost like one of our family and has been for

several

years.

But in the Orient, there is always a far more important lunar New Year's Day. It was on Jan. 31st, t

ar, and up to that time everyone

works double

and over time. And after it, for two

weeks,

to all inte

d purposes, no one works. It is a grand national holiday when everyone visits friends and relatives and h

new

clothes. This is the last day of that holiday and tonight the children will all carry lanterns

e the season out.

So before we all settle back into the groove again, I am happy to have had lanterns out into

around us and

shall

try - along

with you

and your lamp -

to

keep

them trimmed and burning

un

r Bridegroom

arrives.

Your China Missionary, Isabel M. Dittemore

P. S. I plan now to

wait

until the

end

of this

year

to

go home for

furlough.

And

may

God

bless

our

year

I

Lef t

My

Wednesday

morning

B ib le C l as s

Righ t Radio

l is tener

Miss


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Desir Fr iends ,

rA n GAXT

ma xAUG i t

April

to June, 1976

Miss ionar i es j

Alan

Ja4^

Bemo

> 1

Lane

Hsin Sheng South

Road,

Tedpei 106,

Taiwan

Sec t i on

1

Forwarding Agents

Mrs.

S an di G an t

R.R.I ,

Box

333

Ft .G ibson ,Okla .

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2

At the close of our last letter I mentioned that

we

were thinking about

the possibility

of

being

back

in the States this

summer,

I wish I could tell you in detail the way the

Lord

has

been leading us through His

Word

and circumstances in the last few weeks, I would be glad to

communicate to any of you by

letter

or cassette tape if you axe interested. All together we

have sent out fifteen copies of the tape I mentioned in our last issue concerning the book

AGAINST

THE

TIDE about the

l i fe of

Watchman Nee and the restoration movement here.

Fea r

We were th inking

of

r etu rn in g t o

the States - for 2ui indef in i te

per iod

o f

t im e b ec au se

d id no t

seem

t ha t

much

was

being

accomplished

here

and we thought

that

we should

possibly go back to re-apply

for

a

visa to

Tha i l and ,

That d id no t

mean

t h a t

there was

not

a lo t of

important

wark to be done

here.

The

thing

tha t

bothered

me

the most was

t h a t I

hated to s t a r t anything

t h a t

-I cou ldn t

be

sure would be car r i ed

through

to

completion. With my own

unsureness of how

long

I would be

here

and the seeming fa i lures I had

seen

in

th e past I was l i t era l ly

a f r a id to

launch

ou t on any new

ventures . These

needs

and,

suijcord-

ingly,

f ee li ng s o f

fear

kept grow

ing

until

on

th e

morning of

May

4 th I knew a

f ina l

decis ion

had to

be

made.

As I went in to our bed

room to prayer

the Lord taught

me

lesson

number

one, I prayed, Lord, I know there is much to be done but I am afraid. . , .

s I said the word afraid thewords Iwas afraid and hid your talent in the ground. (Matt,

25 25 came to mind, I couldn't

remember

exactly

where

this passage was sostopped and looked

i t up

and

read

the whole parable in which this statement is found Matthew 25il4-30, Even

though I had read i t many times before and heard sermons preached on i t this passage

seemed

very new and fresh to me. It told me that

it

is very wrong for any servant of God to be afraid

to use any possession

God

has given to

him

because

God

would

not have given

i t

unless the

servant

first already had the ability (vs.15) to use i t . I decided that I would try to never

again let

fear

stop

me

from doing or trying to do anything. Right then, if I were to take on

some

of

the things that needed to be done I need^ to have a Chinese co-worker, I had been

afraid to because others I had worked with had

hot

only l e f t

working

for the

Lord but had

become unfai thfu l in Church attendance afterthey quitworking with me, when before

they

had been

faithful

members of the Church, I wondered i f I had lost the Lord s precious property and had

been afraid

to touch any

more. Now,

I knew, there

was one young man who

had attended our Bible

Institute

and

was

interested in serving the

Lord

full time, I got up

from my

knees

right

then

and went over to the place where he was working and a^ked him if he was interested in working

witTrme-ln-the Lord s work, sure that the Lord would not

entrust

His property to me unless I

Farmer Gau wi th tw o sons

i n

farm h ou se

not ice

family a l t e r


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Ti ability

to invest it

wisely.

e prontptly

\ J

i/j-lf-tl

said that

he had been praying about this very

j

f A matter and

wan^sA^to,

That being so I went

on

to

I -H explain what the work would involve and at the sane

Wlftflfll^'''''''''''WKK/BmM^ time committed myself

for some time to the work

iJr^ I 15 here. This young man's name

i ^Galyin

Lai and he .

p| ^ ^ J

started

working with me the following

Monday

May;

5.'. 4 The main project

we

have been working on

since

then

I is a

correspondence

course. Chuck

Johnston and

I

V--1. had been

talking about

working together on

it for

\

., q.uite some time^but

this

fear had

kept

me

from

went to

Chung

Li

where the

Johnstons l ive to

real ly

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^%PBi

get the ball to rolling

in working

with

Chuck. Now

4^ we have read the proof on and are just printing

3',.0GO copies

o f lesson one,

the

f i rs t

in a

series

~~

of ;^v^ lessons.

This course

was originallr

^ written' in Spanish and has been used with great

response by Ed Holt in Chile,

I t

was t ranslated

Calvin

and Joyce working in th e office

into English

and now Chuck and some of his student

f r iends

a t

the college

where

he

teaches

have

t rans

lated i t into

Chinese, Calvin and I go over

i t

too and then each

lesson is

checked

carefully

by a brother here Homer Liu, whom we worked with when we first came to Taiwan and who is a

very good advisor since he

is

a secretary to the President of the Republic of China, After

this

we are taking the manuscript to the printer along with the

art

work which has been

re-drawn by an ar t student in the Church, I wish lesson one was finished printing so I could

put a picture of i t in this report maybe next time. We are planning on advertising this

^course by daily

newspapers

as has been

done

in Chile

and

we believe that the response will

good. The course is

called

THE COWASS

OF

TRUTH,S

good. The

course is called THE COI;H^ASS OF TRUTH,

Mor e

l e s s on s

On

May

13th I

was

asked to preach

at

the leprosarium the following Sunday, the l6th. I did

and had selected

for my

text

Matthew

1502-38. The

thought,that when the

disciples were abso

lutely

at

a

loss

to

ful l f i l l

the

needs

of ^,000

hungry people

Jesus

could and only

then

could

He

provide

in

a miraculous

way?had really moved

me, I had been at..my end

when

I

felt

that Jesus started taking oyer the work here. That was lesson number two. However, I had

come upon a problem i t

seemed

that I could very eas ily get too

many

jobs to

do

i f I

didn t

have the

excuse

of fear with which

to

say no. I had just said

no

to

a

very

big oppor tunity

to preach the gospel because, I said,

I

just don t have time to do i t Then as I preached

to the leper^ that

morning

I learned lesson numberJihre : _

You

don't say no

when

you don't

have enough because Jesus will bless what you

do

have, I read the words of Jesus in

this

story, what do you have?

i t

really hit me. Instead of trying to do everything myself I

on the road to th e fa rmers

putt ing

my

hand

to

the

plow

Taiwan

cowboy

I J

m

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should present what I

do

have (time,

talent, money other

Christians) to Jesus and

let Him

bless i t I decided to

try

to do this and so far i t has worked

beautiful ly. For

example,

have

written

th e f i r s t three

of

a planned twenty radio scr ipts to go along with tne

corres

pondence course, Calvin has

translated

them

into

Chinese, and

then

we have

given

them

to

a

group of

Christian

professionals in this

field

Overseas Radio and Television

Inc.

~ and

they are

recording

them for us. We

will

pay them fo r their expenses fo r rewriting our scripts

(not changing content) for radio and then recording. There is st i l l the

call

to go to Thai

land and th e need of a Chinese primer for

those

who have just accepted the Lord and need

training, I

can t

go

to

Thailand r ight now bu t I can work on

the

primer so that

we or

someone

e lse

can use t l a t e r Since then

I

have not said

no

to any opportuni t ies and

these

opportun

i t i e s

have e i the r

been taken o r

not rea l ly

material ized

Cabbages

Oh yes, I started back to language school in the midst

of

a ll this to try to learn the Taiwan

es e dia lec t of

Chinese,

the mother

tongue

of 80 percent

of

th e

people here, which is

the only language

many

of the

country

people understand.

The reason T s tar ted doing

th is i s our recent

work

with the farming community.on the mountains around Taipei ,

A

s tory

in a r ecen t newsle t t e r from Tha il an d a bo ut p eo pl e becoming Chr is t ians a f t e r th e seed o f th e

gospel

had

been sown

in

the ir hearts

te n

years prior rea l ly touched me too, I

had

become

discouraged working with

people

who

had heard the

gospel many

t imes,

come

to

Church and even

become

Christ ians, and yet were

dull

o f h earin g.

This

story rekindled in

me the

origina l

purpose

of

coming

to

Taiwan

in

the f i r s t

place

tha t

of

t e l l i ng

the Good News to

those

who

ha d n ev er h ea rd t before As I r ead

th i s

s t o ry I

immediately thought

of

some farm people we

had met

while the children and I were mountain climbing one jBk

Saturday, I had gone back several times since then M.

on a

f ri end ly bas is and

Mr, Gau had

been to

our house W

a couple

of

times, I

had given

him some

t racts and

given

a Bible

to

him

sometime

back.

But

now I

deter-

mined to try to rea l ly communicate the gospel s tory

to him, his family and his neighbors. One statement

9

*

by

the

man who became a Christ ian in Thailand af t e r 1 r

ten

years real ly guided me in how

to

do

thisi He

said, I

after he had asked for

more

teaching I

can still

1 ^

remember most of

the story

of Jesus t ha t the lady

missionary

told

and

I

can

remember

exactly

the

way

th e

^

pictures looked, (she had used a flannelgraph) I f -

packed an overnight bag and

took

some colored pictures i'-

of

Jesus

death,

bur ia l ,

and

resurrection

and went to

see Mr, Gau. I got

there

abou t 6 i30 in the evening and found them in th e field s t i l l

planting

cabbages. Much

to their embarrasment,

a t f i r s t I took off my

shoes

and started helping them.

We f in i shed a t about

8 |00

P,H,

well

a f t e r dark That

nigh t

I shared th e s to ry o f Jesus with

them

~

the f i r s t

t ime he

and

h is mot he r a nd fa ther had

heard

t

His t h ree younger s i s t e r s

said that

they had

studied i t in

school

(l

can imagine) but they

listened

too, I found,

however,

that

everything I said Mr, Gau had

to

t ranslate into Taiwanese because his

parents

hardly understood one work

of

Mandarin, That

i s

when I started thinking about studying Taiwan

ese. I spent the night s leep ing on th e

hard floor

of a lof t room with th e men

folk.

The next

day I helped them plant about 2,000 cabbages just fo r the fun

of

i t In the

process

I learned

to

plow

with

a

water

buffalo,

Toma t o s

The next time

I

went

I

took

a

s l ide program of actual people act ing out the

c ru cif ix io n o f

and resurrect ion

o f Jesus and what t means.

This

program

had been prepared by other Christ

ians here

and had an explanation on

cassette tape

in

Taiwanese,

I showed this to them,

spent

the

night and

then worked

with

them ano ther day . The next

night

we went down the

road to

a

neighbor s house and showed i t this time Brother Lwo a Taiwanese

minister,

going with me.

Then j us t th is

past

Tuesday

we

went

again

Calvin,

Mr.

Lwo

and myself.

We

go t

there

about

noon, and, after

eating

with them, went

into

the

fields

and helped them get

the day s

work

done

early

this

time

tying

up tomato vines.

Then

we got

things set up

to show

a movie

in

their cemented threshing f loor fr on t yard. Old Mr, auwent

to

invite

the

neighbors and after

supper

at

8j00

we

showed

this

movie with Taiwanese sound. This movie was about a

man who was


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Mark

with

the Lwo brothers in outdoor cafe

a Buddhi st f armer

l ike

them who accepted

Chr i s t

t was f ilme d h er e in

Taiwan

by a missionary

group.

Using

th is i s s t i l l another

answer

to the

question of

What do you

have?

when I can t ,

After

e ight people

watched th is thirty-minute

story

Mr,

Lwo

preached to

them

fo r tha t much

longer. Afterward

no one was

anxious

to leave

and

on e of the

neighbors

where we had

shown

the

s l i d e s came ove r and

asked i

we would

show th e

f ilm

a t

h is

house,

I want everyone

in

my home

to

see th is

he said .

Providing

the

weather

i s good

we plan to teach a t his

house

next Tuesday,

Jus t th i s morning Brother Lwo,

Calvin

and I went

to make more con tac t s

fo r

showing t h i s fi lm and

preaching in

out-of-the-way

places. We

found a

l i t t l e

s et tl ement o f

s ix ty people a l l r e l a

t ives

l iv ing on a mountainside. They

have

neve

heard the gospel either so we

se t

things up to g

there

next week.

We hope to t e l l the

basic

gospe

to.as many as we can where it

has here-to-fore

H not been proclaimed. Where th e

seed fal ls

on goo

ground i t

will

grow and the Lord of th e harvest

wi l l

prepare

r eape r s

In a l l

of

these

projects I am

t rying

to

keep

others very much involved (using what I have) so

it cun be

carr ied

on

i f

and when we are not here

Pauline ta lk ed to Janet s students

Birthdays

since we wrote l a s t have been Beth s

now

9) on April 18th and

Janet s now

31) on Ma

2'+th,

Jonnie s

is comming up in a few days he will be six on July30th, e is thrilled that on

of his baby teeth is about to come out, Nathan who will be two on August l6th, is

really

start

ing to add to his vocabulary. We have boxight a family membership at a pool an hours bus ride

away

and

now

Janet

is

taking the children

swimming five

days a

week

to attend

swimming

lessons.

I t

is hard work for her but she and th e

children

are becoming

quite

accomplished swimmers,

. Another baby

Now fo r a special announoementj Though not planned and though we're not exactly sure when we ar

happily expecting a new baby.

The baby is

scheduled to arrive

around

the end of October or begin

ning of November

s

the years

and

children increase Janet

is getting more

and

more beautiful.

We

enjoyed the fellowship of Mark Pauline

Maxey

who

stopped here

for

a couple of days on their

way to a convention

in

the Philippines, Also George

Morgan of

Oregon and Bill Turner visited.

I t has been a

real

joy for me to

s i t

down and write this to you. I hope and pray that i t has bee

a blessing to you as well.

May

God bless you as you serve

Him

I m sure you

can

think

of

someone

you have met by chance somewhere around you

who

has not heard the

gospel

to whom you

could

go

and tel l

the

simple

story

which is t he power

of God

unto salvation, Preach

the

Gospell

Yours In Chr i s t

NON-55-PROFIT

H/M NORMAN

MAIM ORGANIZATION

2710 Huntington

La s

Cruces ,

New Mexico

88001

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f iAx r

August

to

Septein ber, 1976

Dear

Go-Workers Fr i end s ,

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M is s i on a r i e s J

Al a n J a n e t

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5-1 Lane

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Hsin Sheng South

Road, Section

1

Taipei 106, Taiwan R.O.G.

Forwarding

Agent;

Mrs.

Linda Goerke V

R.R. 2

King

City, Mo

64463

Though we do not

pray

as we should we do thank God

for you

and

remember

many of

you by

name

when we come before God. I t

i s

a joy

to

write th is l e t t e r

to

you

and my prayer with it i s

tha t

you

wil l rece ive a blessing

by

reading it

Please notice that

havrg a/new

forwarding agei^^jÎiê

thank the Lord for the

good

work

Mrs

Sandi Gant has done as~ fOTwa^ding-ag5nt F6r''ê

last

eight

years.

This job, however,

has become to

much as

her r esponcib i l i t i es

have,

increased in

the l a s t months. Now Mil lard

and

Linda Goerke have t a k e n

ove r .

The Goerkes live on

a

fa rm i n Nor t h e rn Mis s ou r i

and

have

s ix

boys,

two of which pre t ty wel l dominate

the

l oca l foo tba l l team. In Linda s l a s t

l e t t e r she

sa id ,

Even

though

I

don t

understand

footba l l

I

enjoy

watching

my

boys

play .

I hope

to

be ab le

to

put a

p ic tu re

of

th e Goerkes in our next

CRUSADER.

They have been

suppor te r s o f

the work

here

fo r

years now and have wr i t t en to

us

r egu la r ly ll

the

t ime we

have known them.

All offer ings

should be sen t

through

them

now.

Also,

i f

you want s l ides

o r d isp la y m ate ria l p le ase c on ta ct them.

During July

and

August I had to be away _from home for two

weeks

once__for

the family to

attend

a missionary conference

in T5i -chung , and once

when I went to Chung-li to work with

Brother Chuck

Johnston

in a Summer English Seminar which

Chuck

worked with fo r four weeks

and

because

of

which

two people were bapt ised.

Because

of

being gone

I

d ec id ed n ot

to

study Taiwanese dur ing those two months. Now I am taking 6 hours a week

again,

I'm having

a

d i f f i cu l t time w ith it r igh t

now

but

my

teacher says

I am

going

through the

most c r i t i c a l

part

of

learning

Taiwanese

right now

E^ch word has one of seven tones and, to

make i t

worse,

a lmost every

word

i s

sub jec t to

change

to

another

tone

when

used

in

a

sentence .

Since

I

wrote

to

you l a s t

I

t h a t s i de o f th e moun ta in . How-

s ec on d h ou se b e c a u s e t h e

h u s -

ee shouse n go on to

the

^

down a sm a ll ro ad and t h en went

on by foot to the next farm- Playing table soccer with English Bus Tour kids

house. When we go t

there

we


8/12

found

moininy

and

four c hi ld re n i n f ro nt of the house

cleaning some bamboo shoots. I asked

her i f

they

would be

i nt er es te d i n

seeing some color s l ides

about

Jesus th t

evening in the i r home. She

told

^HRK

me

quite frankly

that

they were

not interested.

' j A ' ^

After talking for

a few minutes I

asked the

name

HjK'^ ^ IfW-j y j

the

people who lived back

behind

their house

and

J directions to get there. She said the name was

R>'\ xVAmI 4fc SF pointed to a

path and

we started

off.

^

I -il

walking for

about

15 minutes I realised we

\3 n jg

h d

t ken awrong turn somewhere ec use the p th

^

]b

decided

to

try

to

find

the

p th

y

w lking

cross

pHIBW B a field instead of backtracking. As I

stepped from

'

tion f th ir house but

tol

me th t they

w

not

see my choo-choo

train

cake home today. He wondered

why I,^a

foreigner,

would

be out

here

looking fo r th e Ghengs. I told him I

was trying to go

to everyone s

jiouse

in

t he ar ea

to te l l them all about

Jesust

Are you the one who has been

to the

Gau 's house so

often?

he asked. My

name

is

Ldb

and I ve been wanting to

make

your aquaintance

for

a long time.

I live in the house just not to

far

from the Gau's. (the house we had just passed by as

a lost cause Is that right I said. I've been wanting to

meet

you

for^a long

time

too.

Why

don't I

come

over to your

house

tonight

and

tell you

about Jesus?I

He

agreed

so we walked up the mountain together toward his house, passing by

where

Calvin was on

the way. Before we got to where the motorcycle

was

parked i t

started

to rain but we

were not bothered by

i t

at all. Calvin and I praised God loudly as

we

rode from there

to Mr. Lde s house. We

showed

th e slides, talked a while, and

lef t

a Gospel of John

with

them and le f t with th e good feeling

that

th e seed_had been planted in some more

soil.

We

spent the night in the loft room of farmer Gau and I went to sleep wondering

what kind of

soil

the

Lefes

wouli^ turn out to be. Probably roadside soil but hopefully

the good. Just yesterday

Mr.

Gau came to our house and asked me to help

him

find a job

in th e

i ty

during th e winter

season.

see my

choo-choo

t r in

cake

wm i w ff

iii

Church

meeting

when Ronnie

Hoffman (3^d from

left) was

here

/


9/12

newsletter should look a lot better this time -

we are typing

It

on

a

new typwriter

which has

a

carbon ribbon

that

makes type look like

its

printed. ow

if I

can only

learn

to

type

and

spell This typwriter actually belongs to the bookstore. We

reprint

the cookbook,

Tips N

Treats,

when the

printer

told

us it should be

retyped

because

the

former printing was

too

poor to

photograph

for

offset. Having

someone else type

it

on

a

proper

machine would

cost more

that

700 and

typsetting would

be

even more

so

we

decided

to

buy

this typwriter for 450 and type it

ourselves. Hopefully,

it will be an

investment tha

will

pay off

much in the

years to come.

The

correspondence

course

is

still

going slow.

We

have

yet

to

get lesson

one

printed,

even

though we are having type

set for

the

third time

now. After having

redone

it the second

time we

gave

it to a non-Christian girl to look at. Her

reaction

was_that it was terd to r^

as she

could

tell

it

had

been

translated

from

English.

It was

English-Chinese instead of

good smooth

Chinese.

Back

to the drawing board. This

time I

think we

have

found

someone

who can do the writing

job

WITHOUT LOOKING T THE ENGLISH but former translations. The

printer was due to give us a copy to proofread

today. We

are

al l

really pleased with he

corresponding

radio scripts I have finished writing eight now

and

am doing two a week till

all

26

in

this

series are finished^

Overseas Radio

and Televishioni Inc.

is

producing

them

in

Mandarin

as

fast

as

we get the scripts

written

o f which

I mentioned

i n th e Dec

1975

to

March, 197^ issue One

attends the congregation

where

for'jonnie 10 other little Indians

brother Lwo

preaches

One

has

not

^ t v .

yet

been

emmersed but we

hope

with teaching that she will be. One blind girl,M.


10/12

Special

days: Jonnie was s ix on July

30 th.

He*s in

the f i r s t grade

now

and

his teacher

says

he

i s one of

the

best

readers

in class but has a hard time w ith other

things

espec

i al ly s it ti ng s t i l l0 He s taking

af te r

his dad in tha t par t

I m

afraid

Nathan

turned

two

on August l6th and Janet and I

celebrated

our 12 wedding anniversary the next day, Beth

has gone

into

the fourth grade

(that s

hard

for

even me to believe) and

Becky

the 2nd. You

will

probably

be getting another newsletter very soon concerning our next . .arrival, ^

Visi tors : Graig and Kathy Moore , in ternes

from

Ozark Bible

College,were

here

fo r most

of

the summer

working

with Chuck

Johnston, Also

Wendy

Coll ins and

Joyce Graham

were here

working

with

the

summer

English

seminar.

We

enjoyed

entertaining

Imogen

Wil li ams and

her

daughter Tina when they stopped off for a few days on

the i r

way back to

Thailand,

We

especially valued her testimony to the

brethren

here.

In

August Ronnie Hoffman, missionary

to the Philippines, stopped

by for a few days on

his

way

to Korea.

At

the

same time

Bi l l

McClure of Dallas Christ ian College, also on his way to

Korea,

was

here.

He gave

us

some

real encouragement in our new radio work. In September we were p rivi leged to

again

be

visited by Mr Norman Noble, a

businessman

from Bellevue, Washington

His

being in our

small meeting showed our

four

young businessmen

that

God's work

should

be more

important

than business or

pleasure.

You

can t

really call them visitors bu t Steven and Carol?)rn Taylo

arrived on September

20th

with their

four-month-old

son to spend a year working with the

Skileses. They

are

studying Mandarin two hours a day and also helping some with the

book s t o r e

God

answers

prayers. KEEP

ON

PRAYING I

Yours in Christ, -Cmtr Alan Bemo

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rAP t

GAX t

masAue i i t l

M i s s io n a r i e s :

Alan

J a n e t Bemo

5-1

Lane l6 l

Hsin

Sheng

South Road, Section 1

Taipei

106,

Taiwan R.O.G,

Forwarding

Agents

October,

November, December, 1976

Written

on

Jan.5>

1977

Mrs. Linda

Goerke

R.

R.

2

King

City,

Mo 64^3

Dear Fr i ends ,

We have a new baby I Janet gave

birth

to a

healthy gir l

on December

6th.

She

weighed 9 pounds, 5 ounces and

was

23i inches long: I

We

named

her

Sarah Lanet . Janet has always l iked the name Sarah and

Lanet i s a combination of

the

l a s t par t of our

f i r s t

names Alan

Janet. I t seemed that we had to wait a long time for her because we '

were not

sure

of the due date

but once Janet

started

having

pains ^

Sarah

only

took two hours to arrive.

Mommy

baby came

home in three

days and

are

both doing

fine.

Sarah

is

gaining

weight

and

Janet

is

The Church has rented an assembly hall not too far

from

our

house 1

^

where as befo re th ey

were meeting in our

basement.

This

move has

been very good

for

them in that i t has given them independence. I t

Sarah

Lanet

has

also

given

them

added responsibi l i t ies.

For

example

they

are

having to pay times as

much

rent. The main joy is

that

since October,

when

they made

the

move the

Chinese have been doing nearly all the preaching. I preached once

in November

and

scheduled to preach once this month.

We

have three brothers who do a very capable job and

nother who

is preaching

his

f i rs t

sermon

this

month. Also,

Brother

Larry Yang, one of the

capable preacher boys has taken on the responsibility of leading the Children's Sunday Scho

which 20 chi ldren are attending. Tuesday evening Bible

s tudies a re

inspiring.

We

just studie

II Kings 6 7 last

night. By

th e

way

we

had 82

in

attendence th e

second Sunday

we

met

in

ou

new place ~ we had sent out 1200

invitations

to

English

Bus Tour

members with

whom we have

been working for eight months now. About 20 had to

stand

at that meeting, Usually

we

have

a r ound

20

a t t e n d e n c e .

oliday act ivi t ies included Thanksgiving a t the Johnstons in Chung

Li,

and for Christmas:

th e

blind put on a program

for

Mrs. Dittemore* s women's class on December 22nd and for

the

hurch on

Christmas

night, my English Bible class had a party

the

evening of

the

23rd and a l l

the missionaries

went

to

the

Skiles house

in

Lwo Tung on December 30 ^ 31st fo r a

la te

Christmas dinner and g et t og eth er .

Mom

(Mrs,

Dittemore) l e f t for furlough the

next

day - -

New Yea rs day. She

wil l

be

in

the

S ta te s fo r

about

a year .

We

a l l

f ee l

there i s something missing now tha t she i s

gon e .

The

b l ind have

been meeting

fo r over

three

months now

Ik meetings

in a l l . For the

two months we averaged 11

a t

each meeting but

th i s

included s ighted

people. Even though

these Monday morning meetings have not

been

going

on

v ery lo ng

we have already had

prob

lems. Watchman

Nee

once

s a id , I

make t

a

practice

to

never

accept offerings from unbe

l i eve r s .

I

don t

want th em

to

f e e l

t h a t

the

ord

is beholding

to them. I

think th is

m

Bemos

Mrs.Dit temore in f r on t of new meeting place


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very wise. We

started

the meetings

for

the blind in

vacant house of a

non-Christian

man whose blind daugh-

r

is

a Christian.

This man also made contributions

d before long he started trying to run things. We had

trouble for a while but the Lord has worked

a l l

out. Now attendance

has improved

to

an average

of

blind a t each

meeting. At

our

l as t meeting we

d a year

old

man speak

to

us

who

was a professor

psychology

until las t

year

when

he

became blind. He

my

physical eyes

hadn't become blind my

spir

eyes woudn't have been opened. He is a member of |

L i t t l e Flock

b re th re n o f whom

I

have

spoken

in

e past. His

message

was the best we ve had yetl j

Bus Tours have been taking more and more time

work. We went on one

tour in

Dec. on which we took

people

to

a park an hour's

drive

from

Taipei.

As

we

sang

Christian

songs,

played

games which

re

the

use of

English,

and had a devotional. We

had a E.B.T. Christmas banquet on Dec.

18th

which

0 members

attended.

Membership

has

grown

to

nearly

now.

We are

having

three

tours

in January.

I have

d

to

s t a r t ano ther Engl ish

Bible class

because my

night class was

running

over ^ each week.

Tom

from Dallas

Christian

College i s coming

to

work

a year exclusively with English

Bus Tours.

We hope

can

be

here

by

the

end

of this

month . I

will

be

relieved when he arrives. He will be doing

regular

work

plus running

an

English Correspon

n ce C o urs e.

e Chinese correspondence course,

THE

COMPASS OF

TRUTH,

really getting

done now,

8,000 copies of lesson

one

ve been

printed

at

a

cost

of U.S.$445 almost the

amount received from a s p ec ia l o ff er ing from a

in

th e

Western

United

Sta tes . We received

the

just a few days

af ter th e

bi l l

for lesson

one

taken care

of.

Now we

are

ready for lesson 2it i s

the printer . The Lord 's po li cy i s

pay

as you

go.

here goes another year. 1976 was

the hardest

yet

r

me.

May

God

guide

a l l

of us in

His f ut ur e s er vi ce .

Jesus,

Alan

Bemo

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