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HonKong

yrdhj 6Gary and Joyce Anderson

2 Castle Peak Court 1 /F., ISVs miles Cas tle Peak Road,New Territories, Hong Kong. jei; 0-804774

February , 1985

S PONSORED BY:EASTVIEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH1 70 5 T ow a nd a AvenueBloomington, Illinois 61701

F ORWARD ING AGENT S:MR . & M RS . E LD ON W YM OR E4 0 0 H IL LV IE W D R IV ELEBANON, OREGON 97355PHONE : 503 - 258 - 2865

DECEMBER: BUSY BUT ENJOYABLEDecember 2:A Community Fair was held with l ive performances and 18 game booths just belowTuen Mun Christian Church's chapel. A couple thousand people attended. Bothth e church and the Res iden ts ' Assoc ia tion in that building operated booths.The residents' booth won f i r s t prize. The church's booth i nt roduced the stepsto sa lv ation and Christian l i terature was passed out to some 400 people whopat roni zed the booth.December 15 and 20:On both days, Joyce provided the wedding cakes , r ecep ti on supp l ies and ourr ing bea re rs for the weddings of two Christian couples we have knownoys as

f o r someDecember 23:

t ime .

Gary baptized Andrew Tsanq> a high school senior, and a nea rby chu rch used thechurch's bapt is t ry , too.December 24:A new attendance record was se t when about 75 people a t t ended the church's

Christmas program. About 10 people were standing and there was vir tual ly noroom le f t , which means that i f the church hopes to grow, special programs thatmight have that large a crowd wil l have to be given twice. And l as t week, 29people attended Kid's Club. A year ago, 29 would have been the total attendance over the church's th re e re gu la r s er vic es . I t is my prayer t h a t thechurch will soon reach a total attendance of 80 over th e three regular services , and average tha t number by the end of the year.

December 26:A Church Barbecue: I t had been almost a year s ince the church had had a goodchance to share together, so several families took a boat to a campsite on oneof the big islands.

December 30:The movie "Where th e Waters Run" was shown as a special movie night.TWELVE YEARS AND F IVE MONTH S

REMEMBER: China will resume sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997.

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FURLOUGH: SUMMER 1985Please write directly to us i f you want to see us. Here a re p resent plans:June 25-28 Oregon State ConventionJuly 3-12 Southern California and NACCJuly 16-21 Lebanon> OregonAug. 18-Sept. 15 Eastview Christian, Bloomington, IL

FINANCIAL REPORT FOR JAN. 1 TO DEC, 31, 1984Balance starting 1984 4,471.36 MonthlyIncome During 1984: Averages

1. From Eastview Chris t ian Church 29,805.00 2,483.752. From 11 other churches 8,188.39 682.373. From 25 indiv iduals 6,308.00 525.674. From Joyce's babysitting 1 ,353.63 112.80Tota l Income: +45,655.02 -^3,804.59

1984 Total Available Funds: 50,126.38 4,177.20Expenditures:A. Salary (see note) .1. Household 14,593.12 1,216.092. Tax & Social Security 3,613.41 302.623. Housing &Utili t ies 5,310.95 442.58

Total Salary: 23,535.48 1,961.29B. Miss ion

1. Office & Travel 606.00 50.502. Purchased Elec. Typewri ter 627.49 52.293. Purchased Furlough Car 2,020.45 168.37Tot al Mis si on : 3,253.94 271.16C. Projec ts1. Tuen Mun Christian Church 17,677.20 1,473.102. San Jose Bible College 400.00 33.333. Miscellaneous Projects 258.14 21.51Total Projects: 18,335.34 1,527.94Total Expenditur es : -45,124 .76 -3,760.39Balance Beginning 1985: 5,002.02Note: Salary does not include tithes and offerings which are included under"Projects." Salary also does not include $50 each month which Eastview

Chris t ian Church se t s as ide in a r e t i r emen t fund.

EastvIew CkRisTiAN CkuRch1705 Towa n d a Ave. Bioommgton . Ill 61701 309 - 662 -9376Lord ' s Reapers1111 M. MainJoplin, HO 64$01

Sincere ly,

Gary D. Anderson

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hirO aJ ^Gary and Joyce Anderson

2 Cas tl e Peak Court 1/F., 18'/z mi le s Cas tl e Peak Road,New Ter iit or ie s, Hong Kong. Tel: 0-804774

APRIL. 1985

SPONSORED BY:EAS TV IEW CHR IS TI AN CHURCH1 70 5 T ow an da Avenu eBloomington, Illinois 61701

THE "GOOD" LIFE

F ORWARD IN G AG EN TS :MR . 4 M RS . E LD ON W YM ORE400 H ILLV IEVV DR I V EL EBANON . O R EGON 97355PHON E ; 5 0 3 - 2 5 8 - 2 8 6 5

People often erroneously believe that a more px'osperous life is synonymous with acloser walk with God. But that 's not always true as recently released statistics aboutHong Kong indicate. People here are much better off than they were ten years ago.However, widespread petty theft and robbery have only been replaced by more"upper-class" crimes l ike rapidly increasing immorality and ARMED robbery.Moreover, the increase in church membership has not even kept pace with thebirthrate. That is to say. if Christians would just lead their own children to Christ,church membership should be inc reas ing faster than it is.Such slow growth is ver^/ alarming because information on how churches grow hasmultiplied over the past ten years. Moreover, church membership seems to be growingmuch faster under the antireligious government of China than in Hong Kong's free

society.TUEN MUN CHRISTIAN CHURCH

At this year's annual meeting, besides elect ing board members, the chu rch electedfo ur ju nio r deacons for the first time.Two years ago the church had five Caucasian and five Chinese members. Now ithas three Caucasian members and thirteen Chinese (160% more Chinese than then).

At t endance i s abou t 100% above t h e n .The church owns about 225% more property and its facilities are about 44% larger

now than two years ago .

The church' s present self-support of about $640 per month is about 390% largerthan two years ago.Finally, two years ago the church provided four weekly group meetings or Bibleclasses. Although th e English worship service has just been suspended , there are nowEIGHT weekly meetings or Bible group s in th e c hu rc h.

COMPUTER LANDImprovement in the church's ability to support itself was helped most by a recentagreement between the church and a computer training school to rent our chapel fromMondays through Fridays, During the week they set up twenty computer terminals inth e chapel and teach about 200 elementary children how to operate computers. Please

pray that this a rr angemen t c an continue smoothly.SPRINGBOARD TO THAILAND

Our f ormer fe ll ow-worke rs i n Tuen Mun, DWAIN ANDERSON and family stayed withus from February 17th to 26th on their way to begin their new service in Thailand.SEMINARS

DR. WILLIAM VAIL, the senior minister with Rinconada Hills Chris tia n Chu rc h,Campbell, California, stayed with us from February 22nd to March 6th.His SPIRITUAL MOT IVAT IONAL ANALYSIS SEMINAR held a t th e chu rch onFebruary 24th was attended by 25 people from six different congregations, and hisCHURCH LEADERS' CONFLICTS SEMINAR on March 3rd was attended by ten people fromfour dif ferent congregat ions. The attenders were citizens of four different countr iesliving in Hong Kong. Those who attended appreciated both seminars.

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IN CHINAOn February 25th, LIU YUK LAN from Ih- luirch took DR. VAIL, JOYCE and meand another friend into China via the Shumchun and Lowu checkpoints. We knew i t wascrowded bu t not until we read the newspaper did we know how crowded. The SOUTH

CHINA MORNING POST repor ted:Chinese immigra tion off ic ia ls will remember February 25, the sixth day in

L u n a r New Ye a r .That was when they shouldered thei r heaviest v^orkload of the past 35 years .Accord ing to a d ispa tch r el ea sed yesterday by the Canton branch of the ChinaNews Service, there were 101,311 passengers leaving and entering China viaShumchun and Lowu checkpoints on that day.

DANNY THURSTON (fellow Hong Kong missionary) joined up with us once wearrived. We found China to be le ss r es tr ic ti ve than we expected. We had interestingconversat ions and visits with folks and would have been glad for more. Facilities werereasonably comfortable and cost about $100 each for four days. Our thanks to JEANMONTGOMERY fo r watc hin g our children durin g th at time.

THE CHAPEL'S BUILDINGA central ized burg la r alarm system lo r 112 of the 2Utt honies above the church andclosed-circuit monitor of the main gate viewable in al l the homes is being installed abovethe church. The residents and shopkeepers will be meeting soon in the chapel todiscuss improvements in the quality of life for the building. Please pray that I might

a c t a s Ch r i s t wou ld h av e me in t h e i r mids t .

CHURCH PLANTINGOn March 17th, I accepted the invitation to be chairman of the board of d ir ec to rs o f

th e CHRIST IAN RESTORATION CHINESE EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION, whi ch has beennewly established under the driving force of DANNY THURSTON solely to establish localChristian churches. It is only one of several methods of church planting being usedhere. Their firs t new chu rch p lanting project is in the city of Sheung Shui. A 1,800sq . ft. premises was rented for $1,025 per month, and MR. YIP MOWN V/AI has acceptedthe invitation to be the planting evangelist . He says the premises will need about$10,000 remodeling before it is fully usable. However, he has already begunevangelizing the area. People wishing to designate money to the above a ssoc ia ti onshould thus state . Only money clearly designated to the above association can beexpec ted to reach i t s in tended dest inat ion.

FURLOUGH: SUMMER '85Please write DIRECTLY TO US if you want to see us . PLANS HAVE CHANGED!They can be changed again if need be. Here are present plans:

July 2 Leave Hong KongJuly 3 Hono lu l uJuly 4 A rriv e in Anaheim, Cal i forniaJuly 7 a .m. El Rio, Oxna rd , CaliforniaJuly 9-12 Nor t h Amer i c an Ch r i s t i a n Conven t i o nJuly 14 Rinconada Hills Christian Church , Campbell, Ca l i fo rn i aJuly 17 arrive in Lebanon, OregonJuly 21 Southside, Lebanon, OregonJuly 28 Scappoose, OregonJuly 31 Leave Lebanon, Oregon, driving to Tucson, Ar i z on aAugust 4 a .m. P an ta no , T u cs on , ArizonaAugust 5-9 Driving from Tucson to Bloomington, IllinoisAug. 9 - Sept. 15 Eastview, Bloomington, IllinoisSeptember 16 Manha tt an , K a ns asSeptember 17 Hart ley , NebraskaSeptember 20-24 Boise , IdahoSeptember 27 Fly out of States for Hong KongSeptember 29 Arrive in Hong Kong

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