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January. 1991Dear Fr iends and Co-Workers:Pra is e to our God for the visit of brother Larry Carpenter who has been pulling his talent to workdaily at the printing press! I had gotten so far behitid with printing that I despaired to ever being able tocatch up as I can only print between customers and essential bookstore related jobs and the handlingof the correspondence lessons and local church related tasks. In these few weeks he has rolledstreams of paper and printing plates through the press, and finished work is filling all the boxes in thestorage area ready for distribution. I have just ordered supplies yet again! {The third presshas been rolling out a continuous stream of tracts and booklets in various languages. Next month. IwillInclude a sutnmalion of all his printing compiled frotri the daily log. Larry has been a fine example ofwhat a person can do for the Lord in his "retiremenl years." FrofTi here Ue is going almost directly to aCaribbean Island to teach for a time in a Minister s Training School.Our praises too for each and every one of you all who have made possible our labours here thisyear and for your continual lifting up in prayer when titiies were not the easiest. South Africa andAlberton in particular, have been through trying times these past few months. We pray for a better yearahead, God willing.Our grandson Shannon completed his Matriculation (graduation exams) high school successfullyand is working full time at a local Supermarket. He will either stay there until he leaves for his requiredmilitary training in July, or will enroll in a Computer Programmer's course if his past teacher issuccessful in getting him accepted. The school normallyaccepts a trainee only after the military trainingis completed as they are paid by the student 's future employer only when they have placed him in ajob. His mother. Kathy, has not yet received the results of her matriculation make-up exams.The Bright family has moved to their own apartjnent nearby. Though the building has only fourapartments, two of the families seem to be heavy drinkers and very difficult neighbors, the plumbingblocked totally, (now repaired at their own expense.) and they are having problems adjusting to thenoise of heavy traffic just outside the window and a cafe that stays open until very late at night justunderneath the bedroom windows. A neighbor has a derelict car in their garage and they have alreadypainted the kitchen out as the owner refuses to do anything at all to maintain the building. The kitchenwas beyond being cleaned by simple scouring powder.We have also painted one of our bedrooms for Larry. Other rooms are still wailing. Wilh so much extrawork, we have just been too exhausted to consider painting at night.We had a wonderful Christmas with the local family all present for Chris tmas Eve. There were 18 at thetable. Cameron had gone away to the coast with a friend and his family. He returned yesterday, but wehave not seem him as yet. Kimberley Road's Cliristmas morning services surpassed the precedingSunday services in attendance, It was a lovely programme as was the Cantata prepared and presentedby the joint Kimberley Road and Berea Christian Church choirs.May God richly bless the new year ahead to His glory.Yours in Jesus Christ,

'O/rp-'-June and Raymond Anderson, F/A706 East Washington StreetUrbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.

Go ye Into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptizedshall besaved; bu t he ttint bnli evet h not stiall bndnmned (CHRISI) - Mark 16:16The lord gavo the Word: great woro the company ol those IhnI published it. Psalms 68:11


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Feb ruary, 1991Dear Co-Workers in th e Lord.We praise the Lord for the visit of brother Larry Carpenter. During the few weeks he was with us both he and I were very busyIn the press room. I, in addition to minding the normal business of the Bible shop, typesetting, and correspondence lessons,also did a lot of extra work in the dark room and printing plate preparation areas and helping with the collation andassembly of the printed sheets into books, while he worked mostly at the printing press and at collating books.Hundreds of negatives and printing plates were prepared from which were printed 18.500 tracts. (6500 in Zulu, 3500 inXhosa, 6000 in English, and 2500 in Tswana), and 10.262 booklets. (1409 in Xhosa, 995 in SwazI, 1461 In Zulu,982 in Venda. 4920 in English, and 475 in Afrikaans). These actually involved printing 158,600 impressions in all.The materials bill is a bit staggering, but we are pleased with the final total of nearly twenty nine thousand "messengersof the Word" representing seven different South African languages! Our brothers in the Lord all say a resounding 'ThankYou" to brother Carpenter and those who made possible his trip to South Africa!Brother Larry also preached three times and taught a Sunday School class for the Kimberley Road church on severaloccasions. He deserves a well earned rest before going on to Haiti for his next project shortly.On the home front, our equipment has somewhat suffered casualties these past weeks. The "back-up computer" has gonecompletely "berserk" in spite of expensive repairs, through a shop that has "moved" giving no forwarding address otherthan an answering machine to which they do not respond. Its dot-matrix printer is also faulty and Is not worth tfie repaircosts so must be scrapped. The desk jet also quit In mid-sentence and has just returned after a sizeable C.O.D. bill. We havea firm offer of a trade in value of more than the dot-matrix printer's original new cost price on a new Sharp Laser printerand I am seriously considering accepting it as the Laser is what Desk Top Publishing really needs, and it would print itscopy at six sheets a minute. We give praise to the Lord that both printers held on until we finished the typesetting weurgently needed during Larry's visit Three new books are already in the process of preparation. two of them at theproof-reader stage.Phyllis and I join in a heart-felt "Thank You" to those who sent tetters, cards and packets at Christmas. Some are onlynow arriving, but are just as welcome as they would have l)een In December! As we gave several items to Kathy when shemoved to her apartment we have ordered a small t>ed-couch for the study and plan to get twin beds for the guest roomshortly. These will help to furnish those two rather empty rooms in time for the visitors expected at the time of theMinister's Retreat planned for AII}erton In March. The program has now lieen finalized for that gathering and I amscheduled to bring the opening night sennon, preaching on "The Lordship of Christ" Matthew 16:13-20. Please join us Inprayer for peace to prevail in Kathlehong township that week. (March 7-10), and for a good week itself. "Storm clouds"are hovering, so we need your prayers! This is a very cmcial gathering this year.We had an attempted burglary at the shop a few weeks ago and I only covered the broken window with a board. The presentheavy rains are coming In. I must do something about it It is the third time that particular window has been broken andthey have never managed to get through as it also has two sets of heavy bars. (Clearly visible through thePhyllis has i>een selected as Chair Lady of the Alberton Christian Women's Club for this year. She is even more busy. Shehas been on the executive of this club for a few years, but this is the first time to be chair lady, unfortunately sSIl doingsome of her prior tasks as there are unfilled vacancies on the committee. Too many ladies are working and not available.About fifty ladies attend most months. The fact that they have had to change meeting places several times this year has nothelped, but they hope that they have this problem taken care of now. (I find it funny that they are not permitted to meet inchurch buildings, so they have met at hotels, a country club, a horse race track, the library and now are meeting at theCricket Club.) The Ubrary was very nice but unfortunately the city has a rule that it is not available for religious meetings,if you could call the club meeting that

Christ June and Raymond Anderson f/a706 East Washington Street

Boband Phyllis Mills Urbana, IL 61601. U.S.A.Go ye into alt the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptizedshall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. (CHRIST) - Mark 16:18The Lord gave the Word: grea t were the company of those that published It. - Psalms 68:11

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March, 1991Dear Co-Workers in the Lord,We praise God dally for you all and for your and our answered prayersiIn the short time since brother Larry returned home, we have managed to print and assemble two more booklets and thethird has been typeset and returned for proofreading. As the Bible shop grows more busy. It Is also more demanding of time,nevertheless, I managed to get 200 sets of returned lessons sent back to various prisons this week , while another Fifty or soare ready to send as well as a t)ox of unmarked copies ttiat cry for attenHonI At the same time, I absolutely must completethis news letter today; prepare a sennon for opening night at the Minister's retreat Wednesday, and mow our quarter acre ofovergrown lawn. Our guests arrive, probably tomorrow, and the week's schedule will be totally "shot down".Our daughter, Kathy, was served with en eviction notice from her apartment and for a while it looked like we would haveto spend one Saturday moving her back to our house, but she was able to get a month's extension of time since they hadneglected to serve notice before the beginning of February. I do anticipate that we will be moving them back to our house atthe end of March, however. It Is not going to be easy as t>oth families accumulated furnishings since they moved out and wehope not to put them into the house itself when they return. Wehave looked at several possible alternatives such as buying alarger house, or a church building which has space for a very large apartment above and behind the separate hail whichcould also house the prirrt shop and Bible shop, but a money and time shortages are just against us. Neither does Phyllis likethe Mea of sharing even a roomy apartment that is spread over three floors and has very thin partitions with seven people:also at the present time, no bathrooms or toilets at alll Pray that God will work it all out for the best In the long run. Wehave every confidence that He will. If we are to put Biem in our old print shop again, I shall have to first Install a newceiling as the former one collapsed this week. With my back and neck problems, I do hate to start nailing up a new cellingiThe twehre year old car had to have all replacement re-treads this month as well as other work done. Car bills, not countinggasoline came to more than (%00; still it needs the suspension redone as there was too much play for the wheels to bere-aligned. It has reached the stage that one major thing after another has to be urgently attended to. We have not evenstarted on transmission or engine repairslWe did purchase the Sharp laser printer which turned out superb copy for the last two booklets In quick fime. Folkmingthose, there was a problem with headlines and captions not printing correctly, which I hope Is a cable problem since it hasalso cropped up on the desk Jet at the same time. I worked on the cable yesterday evening, but have not used It since. I hadto do the end-of the month financial print outs for the shop and today will be non-stop. Even this evening Is heavilybooked as I drive the teenagers to a skaHng party In Johannesburg, then come home and go back later for them. There willprobably be eight or nine of us in the van. The back has no seals end they bounce about an awfully lot, even though theyInsist they ar e no tEarlier In the month. I had a bad bout with a sinus infection. After a terrible day and two nights. I got a doctor'sattention with penicillin, the usual concoctton to put on hot water and breathe the fumes, and pain killers. I am not surethat it te really cleared up completely as all my teeth fillings are still very touchy of heat or cold, but at least the swollenglands, stiff neck and throbbing head are recovered. A cough hangs onl

Your's in Jesus Christ, June and fteymond Anderson F/A/} 706 East Washington Street

l\J 0 ^ Urbana, IL 61801, U.S.A.Bob and Phyllis Mills

Go yo into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that belleveth and Isbaptized shall besaved; but he that believeth not shall bedamned. (CHRIST) - Mark 16:16The Lord gave the Word: great were the company of those that published IL - Psalms 68:11


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April, 1991Dear Co-Workers In the Lord,Thank God for the strength He gives through your faithful remembrance in your prayersiI have four new booklets either In the dark room for attention or on my desk just now as well as a great stack of markedbooklets to prepare for the post and another of addressed envelopes. Those should be "unearthed" as the outside room comesavailable for use again after replacing the deling in the adjoining room. These should go into the post this week to beat theannual postage rise on "April Fool's Day". Unfortunately. this is not going to be possible.The Bright family must vacate their apartment this Easter week-end and we have to take advantage of their being off workto assist Brother Gladstone just phoned to ask me to take the Sunday morning sermon. I was sony to have to ask him tomake ottier plans. I have been working at every spare moment after work In the evenings to get the knotty pine ceiling upin the outside room that they will be using since the old cieling collapsed along with a pile of sand and cobwel>3. It was afilthy mess, complicated by heavy daily rain storms which came in under the door and also made it Impossible to takeanything out into the garden to gain working space. However, I do believe we shall make it, with the exception of thevarnish and wall paint Now I am trying to find space to expand our warehousing in the garage. I have to build moreshelvesi My neck, back are hyatus hemla are letting me know they are not happy with thlslIt is saddening that when the Brights move back, it is likely to mean the break up of their close family ties. Katfiy hasdecided that she simply has to send the children to boarding schools, so Cameron and Michelle will go to one school andRhonda to another according to present plans, while Shannon Is working and simply wailing for his military call up inJune. He can make pennanent plans for his life only after that is out of the way. Kathy has applied for welfare assistanceto help financlaly as her three years absent husband has contributed nothing at all to their needs and she simply can nolonger manage on her own as a staff nurse. Her constant night duty was a problem as she had to be gone a full 12 hours atnight and to sleep days so the children were not supervised in the apartment most of the time.The Minister's Week gathering went well and I was pleased with the opening night sermon, ail praise to our Lord. We held"Open House" at the shop on their "Day Out" Phyllis was at an important Women 's Club Meeting, but Lynn and LucilleStanley were a great help in that they took over the tea um for me. I was absolutely swamped by our guests desire to buy thisor that Hem. 1 could not gel away from the cash register. There were probably about fifty people and practically none ofthem have accessto a Bible Shop where they live. I would guess that most of them had never even seen one; particularly onethat had their own language materials! I heard comments like, "These Zulu men are going wild to find so much in theZulu language." Brother Qwemesha told me la ter that he had not dreamed of the kind of shop we have. He was mostimpressed to find so much available. Unfortunately his eyesight is almost gone, and incurably so, not cateracts.Marie, the estate agent who has exclusive listing of the church building mentioned last month still keeps in contact She sowants us to beable to buy it as she Is a member there and does not want to see the buildings used by a Muslim business manas a warehouse, or another man as a night club and that is the type of offers she is getting. She has offered to forfeit hercommission (R30,000) thus cutHng the price over $10,000 if we can take It We both feel that the Lord has not kept thatbuilding available for over year for no reason when It Is so very suited to His work's needs. We have only a tiny fraction ofthe price, but I seem to remember that it was brother teroy Trulock who once said, "If God is your partner, plan bigl" Iagree. We need that building, not only for a place of meeting for the local Christians, but also to house the print shop, thewarehousing, the bookstore, and a training centre for urban-based integrated preacher training. That Implies more staff! Ican personally only copewith the Bible shop, the printshop and the con-espondence coutBes. There are rush tfmes when Ifind even that is too much and fail behind.My chesty cough of last month still lingers as we are apparently on the brink ofan early winter. Either evening chill air ortoo much heat set It off. Keep looking up. Our God is great Pray His will bedone for His work in South Africa

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PRAISE TO THE LORDI Tfta Souffi A^ioan Broadcasting Corporation , is assisting the Bibio Society with dmty film clipsand commercials which will be followed t}y an all day, TV "Bibliathon" on Ascension Day for the purpose of raisingmoney to sponsor the printing of a million Bibles in all South African ianguagesi Most of the time In the poast the BibleSociety has not been able to le leaving lor his military cali-up. Theyoungest are the farthest away from home. (150 miles + -) Actually Rhonda la. home this vi/eek as the school phoned toask that she be picked up. The Doctor had signed her off sick and they did not want her alone in the hostel. All tttechildren have made new friends at school and seem to be adiusting, though Ihey naturally miss their mother.Brother NtonI, who retired from the ministry this past year, died a few days ago. He lived at King William's Tovm, rightacross the country from us. I dont think any of the missionaries are going from here. We are all heavily scheduled for thenext week or tv) and It would be difficult to get away, not to mention expensive. This year's conference gathering Ispractically at the same place In only four months time.We are delighted that our only daughter who lives away from Alberton will be coming from Dallas, Texas to visit shortly.Donna plans to arrive here on the 17th of this month. Jim decided not to accompany her this time. She will be here threeweeks. I don't know If she planned It that way or not, but she v^ll leave on the 4lh of June, the day after our weddinganniversary to go back Her coming gave ms the oppoitunity lo order a couple of small items to besent to her for use in ourwork.

I am sure that you will have heard of the more tharj sixty deaths in Soweto and Alexandria clashes these past few days,perhaps more by now. Those were probably politically and hibally Inspired as a result of the assassination of tiie Mayor ofMeadowlands a few days before. They serve to highlight the current state of affairs in the world as a whole. We arepersonally in no more danger than usual, but let us do be praying for one another In the Lord's woric There Is great need,and most certainly little time.

Your's In Jesus Christ, Raymond and June Anderson F/A706 East Washington StreetUrbana. IL 61801, U.S.A.

Go ye Into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that bellevoth and Isbaptized shall besaved; but he that belleveth not shall be damned. (CHRIST) - Mark 16:16The Lord gave the Word: great were the company of those that published IL - Psalms 68:11


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Pubtlêis and printets of mfffhns of B/b/e Sbjdy boofcfots and enacts fbr /IfiicaDear Co-Worfcere, June, 1991We thank the Lord that the specfal push to raise funds by the Broadcasting Corporation for the South Africa Bible Society wasso successful! In anticipation to that end they evidently ordered a great many reprints in advance, and All, of our backorders for nearly two years back are suddenly being filledl We now have Bibles in ail languages, and the choice of severalbindingslYesterday, after having accepted that the church complex In Aiberton North was probably already sold, Meule phoned to saythat they had decided to rent or sell on deed-of-sale. (The latter means simply that they would sell on terms with transferand payment to betaken at an arranged date in the future.) I was not really surprised to hear that the church was askingR3000 a month, (a little over $1000). Unfortunately, that is unreachable on our prBSftnt hiiriqftt and we are already wellInto the red having borrowed to pay current accounts.Not only that, but the car which is absolutely vital with our present worship arrangements being half way across the city, ismaking Increasingly urgent noises from the differential, bearings, and/or brakes at the rear, and at the same time has abroken driver's seat back and Is leaking pools of crank case oil on the garags fJoor. It is half way around the spômeter forthe second time, of very liard use. so the poor thing "should be allowed to retire gracefully. It is using somuch on petrol andrepairs alone that they would go a long way toward payments on a much smaller replacement Please pray with us aboutthis."The Bible van is not much better. With the onset of cold weather, its battery has "d/ed" and I have been walking to theBible shop and on to the post office and back, several kilometers each morning, then home again in the evening for most oft he p as t month.We were called to come to the Bible Training Institute to chair the School Committee meeting on Memorial Day weekend. That is "Rûbfh Day" In this country. We push started the van here and it worked well in the kinder weather on theSouth Coast, but as soon as we returned. It again refused to start! That trip has taken a lot from both of us as it representsnine hours of holiday traffic, each direction. We are exhausted. We were asked to bring brother Mkundlu, minister of thelocal township church, though he Is not a member of the committee, and Shannon accompanied us as well. That Is toomany for a small Japanese pickup. The van averaged less than seven kilometers/liter, so the trip cost a shocking amountIt was more of a shock to me, that we found there was not a quonim. hence it has to be repeated again before September. Iwould not want to assure success the next time either as there is a move to boycott the present school and only one Africanbrother of the committee was presentBrother Bhukula died rather suddenly this month, also retired minister, brother Ntoni last month and one of the minister'swives. Brother Bhukula's funeral was on Memorial Day Saturday, however I elected not to attend since I did not have aval id re-entry visa for South Africa should it be requested at the border. The others spent the day at the funeral in Transkeiwhile I relaxed with a walk on the beach and a restful day following the long meetings of the day before.Our daughters, Kathy, Donna, and Becky, with Chris and Gordon, hosted Phyllis and me at a local restaurant on theevening of our 4l8t wedding anniversary. Most of our group had a salad from the huge salad bar followed with spare ribs,while Donna had othenwise. Mine was a rolled steak, filled with cheese and breaded. It was delicious. Instead of salad,Kathy and Gordon elected to have snails In gariic butler. Donna's vacation ended the next day and she flew back to Texas./e shall miss her. It was lovely to see her again. I believe Kathy said it had been seven years since she had seen her sister.In addition to hundreds of lessons being handled, mostly to convicts, we also printed 3 new SwazI booklets. 1 new Englishone. and 1 new English tract during the month. Negatives are on hand for three more and I am presenUy setting type for 3new translations. 1 in SwazI. and 2 in Norihem Sotho. (S^jedt). We are urgently needing more space to display thesematerials as they become available to the public. At the moment, we have over 400 different titles that we keep in printThey represent 19 languages, and are almost 100% evangelistic in nature and strongly Bible based. "Go ye untoALL nations," Jesus said. - Thank you for your prayers. IMay God receive the praise!Your's in Jesus Christ

Bob and Phyllis Mills

J un e and (Uiymond Anderson F/A706 East Washington StreetUrbana. IL 61801. U.S.A

Go yo into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and isbaptized shall besaved; but he that believeth not shall bedamned. (CHRIST) - Mark 16:16The Lord gave theWord: great were the company of those that published iL - Psalms 68:11


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OeorCo-WorR^r:1(?e are fortunate today. ]u(y Isexpected to be the coldest month of the ivlnter, but today there Is no uindandI amable totvorh, only about five feet from the open shop door tn relative comfort. This shop IsSouth facing andgets no sun at all Inwinter so ItIs usu^ybitterly cold and I have to êep the heater on and the door closed.I have just finished ptepaitny 148 sets of lessons to be returned to some of our filble students Inprison, and probably twicethatmany catalogs of our puHtcatlons for former customers. They are ready for the mall and u>Ul go out even before thistetter. This month sau> the printing of those catalogues which list more than 400 Items we now print ourselves, a newOChosa boofc,, (vol. 4 of *"li/omen of the Bible"), and half the worfe, on another rather large Xhosa second edition,("'Questions and Înswers on the Bike"). Two Sepedl trankatlons ("Know your Bible" and "What Must 1 do to beSaved?") are ready for the camera and two new Su^ tran^tlons, iA corrected "proof' just came bach In the morningmall. Our translators are keeping me busy!Our grandson, Shannon, celebrated his 18th birthday this week and now leaves for his year's reîulred military duty withthe :Alr Force on the 10th of this month. He will probably be assigned to ll^t duties as he Is blind tn one eye and has aproblem with astigmatism In the other. He Is to be stationed only about thUty miles away from home so we hope to see himoften. His mother spent a lot time and money this past weekend shopping for oil the Items thathe has to tahe withhim, even right down to "soch lochs'' to prevent the theft of his washing! She told him that If they rejected him after thephysical, these were to be his start Inhis own place. If that happens, she plans to send him to stay at oftlethela ChristianCentre, from which he con go to the Computer Programming school that has already agreed to tahe him after his military iscompleted.The local blach youth camp Is scheduled for the 10th to the 13th of this month. I Just heard that I have a class to teach. Ihave also been Invited to preach at the Eldorado Parh Christian Church, where theWebers minister, on the 14th. Since thatIs during the school winter holidays, we will probably tahe the entire family with us. Phyllis will want to go and thatmeans all the passengers will have to go as well. It will probably be a shoch to the attendance atXlmbetley Road, but It IsBring a friend Day'' atEldorado Parh and they are planning a covered dish lunch afterwards.The school committee has been called for a second attempt to hold Its meeting now scheduled for the 9th and 10th ofatugust. als the Ben Pennlngton family Is expected to arrive here on the 6th, on their way bach to Zimbabwe and he wantsto pUh up a carat the Toyota factory InBut^n, we may mahe a plan to travel down together. Perhaps he will phone bôrehe departs from the States, alt the present time, 1am planning to go by over nl^t bus.Our Bible shop has a regular customer vMo Is a denominational blach minister who comes In very regularly to buy a dozen ormore copies of some of our own Bible Lesson studies for use In the night classes he teaches. -At the present time he Is buyingTswana, Sotho, and English. He travels out from sAlberton to teach small groups several times a weeh. He has even beenbuying baptismal certificates for his students, so we hnow the Lord Is blessing his worh. It always does me good to seesomeone mahlng good use of or worh In that way. He heeps ashing for the same boohs In Sotho, but unfortunately, wedon't have aperson to translate to that as yet. We proy that the Lord wdl provide as He has done In all the other languages.lAs our BlHe shop desperately needs more display space, I have just made enquiries about the cost of materials and thecomparative cost of having the job professionally done, to have proper modular shelves built which will properly display whatwe have available. People need to see the entire cover of a booh and not Just two Inches of the top. We also need more thaneight or ten copies on the shelf ata time, which Is our present limit. Men llhe the minister I Just mentioned have to mahea second trip so that I can bring more copies from home now. al missionary from the adjoining country, Swaziland,recently not only had to wait for me to return from the Bible Society where 1had gone for Bibles, but also again for me to gohome and get additional copl^ to fill a large order he made for his shop there.We praise God for your constant remembrance of His worh here In your prayers. May He bless you In your worh there aswell.

Raymondand JuneAndersonP/A706EastWashington StreetUthana, IL61801, U.S.A.

Go ye Into alt the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that belleveth and Is baptizedshallbe saved; buthethat belleveth notshall be damned. (CHRIST) - Marh 16:16The Lord gave the Word: great were the company of those thatpublished It. - Psalms 68:11


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PuSttsheisand/nt^ ofnUfflonsofl6leStudyBookletsandtmctsforAfiicaÂugust, 1991

Sear Co-Wor^rs:We completed the printingof theQuestion and Ânswer booR. on theNew Testament In Xhosathismonth. As that one hassomani)pages, It toob, doagi togetIt hand collated (assembled), bound, and trimmed. I donot alwaystrim boob^ ofa jewpages, ^ If there are fifty or more. Itmust be donel Dags have been spent In setting tgpe and correcting the manuscriptsafter the proof reader has finished wording uith them, then running ê copg for the camera and printing. "Studies InChristian Lea^rshlp'' In Swazl finished out at 26 pages, and uill be ready for the camera by this evening, the LordwlUlng. If It Isnot too bltteiiy cold, I hope todo thedarkroom u>or6. tonight.I decided to order modular fixtures made by an experienced shopfltter for the shop. Hehasthe advantage ofhaving properequipment, experienced u>orfeers, and getting materials tt>ho(esale. These u>lll holdfifty to a hundred copies In eachslotofour booRiets, or five hundred trocts displayed full fadng and protected by plexiglass. I ordered seven modules this timeandwill probably order the balance when these are delivered If I am completiky satisfied and funds permit, t plan to put ourpresent greeting cardrac^ bcuk to back to form an Island display forthesln^ copies ofEnglish and Ajtiiuums paper backbooks from other publishers. TheBibles and hymnals will be displayed with the respective language sections. I particularlyordered modular displays as our lease expires In February here and provided the Lord blesses wUh sufficient turnover toafford the new and larger shop we have been offered then, we shall certainly make a move at that time. The newôpoêrs half again as much space, with Indoor ûmblng, a small meeting room, and best of all. Is slated opposite themini-bus depot adjacent to the main shopping street. That depot has upto fifty mini-busses working from there much ofthe day on most days, and each one carrl^ up to twenty passengers! Unfortunately the rent will be In the vldnlty of $900 amonth.As Itworked out, Xwent alone to Eldorado Park andPhyllis tau^t my dassand took the family to JClmberley Road toworship on the 14th. ofjuly.Two ofourfamily were at a youth camp and others hodother octlvltles that daysoshewasable to cope with thecar alone, t really enjoyed preaching for an absolutely filled house again, and the fellowship of thecongregation at Eldorado Park. That Isthework ofBUI andVema Weber. IJouth camp also worked outvery well. AVL themlsslonarUs taught thesame daysowe were able to travel together. Theblock ministers taught theother days.DVBS turned out to be a great success. Phyllis took a load from Îberton every day after first delivering a load to anotherteacher who also lives In AlhexUm, With the two of them carrying, sAlberton accounted for a very large portion of theenrollment.Shannon phones home regularly from the AU Force Base where he Is In training. Parents day Is this week end so probablywe will be going to visit himas they have an open house that day. He Isto go Into hospital for minor surgery Friday.Apparently he has a small tumor on the breast and the air force wants It removed to be safe. We were amu^ tvhen hecomplained bitterly thathisgroup hadbeen given ten minutes topick up the fallen leaves from their area, andas they failedto finish In time, they were again scattered and they hadto do It over. That time they completed It In the time allowed!Naturally, he also complains about the food! This week, he told of having difficulties with hisglasses during calisthenics.They fallo^ andhedares notreach uptoreplace them.I am presently planning to leave on the 8th to go to the second try for an official school committee meeting at UmzumblBlHe Institute. 1 hope to drop off a large order of books at a book store InEstcourt which dUectiy onmy way. I had thebrakes adjusted and the timing set for the van In the hopes of getting better mileage this time. Ijesterday the battery wentdead again. HopûUy we can make this trip without having to replace Itfirst however.

your's In Jesus Christ, ]une andRaymond Anderson, T/AyjO J ^"Vpf f/ 706 Eost Washington Street///Mo

Bob and Phylll/MlllsGo ye Into all theworld, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that belleveth and Isbaptizedsholl besaved; buthe that belleveth not shollbedamned. (CHRIST) - Mark 16:16The Lord gave theWord: great were the company ofthose thatpublished It. - Psalms 68:11


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} (xy GOSPEL T RACT C EN TR EP.O. Do* 13^71450, Aibmlon (011) 0(1/ 1533 n. Mills missioner

Pl/b/^e/s an d printers of mifffons of Bibfe ShKiy booA/ets and tracts for AfricaNovembe r , 1991

D ea r C o -W o rk er s :Both September and October have been very busy with a l o t oftedious work to be done. I have been typing t rans la t ions fo rpr in t ing and a several are ready fo r p rin tin g o r a t l eas t the desktop pub li sh in g s ta g e o f p repa r a t i on . The f i r s t d ra f t s a re done withth e word process ing sof tware then t r ans fe r red to th e publ i sh ingprogram l a t e r fo r th e se lec t ion o f type s t y l e , fo rmat , e t c .I have a lso p rin te d th re e new t r a c t s in answer to th e many reques t swe h av e f o r f r e e tracts f o r mass distribution. Thes e u s e half t h eamount o f pape r t h a t our usua l ones need. I am pu t t ing a shopadver t on these and wi l l charge them up to adver t i sement . One o fthese i s enclosed . This one explains the main reason why we takesuch shor t and i n f requen t fur loughs . We j u s t can not leave oursec t ion o f the l i ne unmanned. I f we c lo se the shop fo r a day ,people complain b i t t e r l y tha t they thought we were closed down! I fwe a re away a week, th e cor respondence work ge t s in a r r e a r s ; a fewweeks and we have a r ea l job ahead to catch up and seve ra l peoplewil l have changed addresses. Time i s too precious! At the presentt ime, we do plan a furlough fo r 1993, however, the Lord providingfo r some one to care fo r th ing s here . Vve wi l l have beenmi ss ion ar ie s t o Africa 40 years t h a t year , and though it i s not themonth of our a r r i v a l here , we plan to be the re dur ing September-Nov emb e r .The introduction of "Value Added Tax" to replace "Sales Tax" meansmore work on the bookkeeping, though a t t h i s s tage we have e lec tedn o t t o c o l l e c t VAT a s we a r e f a r below th e t u r n o v e r l e v e l thatrequires us to . What we are doing i s to se t up a bookkeeping systemtha t wil l meet the need should we decide to pass the tax alongr a t he r than pay it ourse lves as we do now. Another reason fo r t h i schange i s tha t simultaneously, the software tha t we had been usingfor our r ecords s ta rted, to act up, refusing to pr in t the type ofrepor t we understand and prefe r , so I have spent weeks typing ina l l the entr ies which will enable the use of a much more completesys tem. I may f ind t h a t I have to t ake a course on its use l a t e ron. A ha lf page form had to be f i l l ed fo r every one of our morethan 1250 items st ocked, one for every dealer from whom we buy, aswell as one for any customers we allow to buy on account, and Is t i l l have to do a spreadsheet for every month of the past year anda f ina l r epor t searching out the records the old sof tware re fusesto "cough up"! At the end of th i s month, we wil l have to do aninventory and f inancia l repor t, then enter a l l those figures intothe new system. Fortunate ly the month ends on Saturday. GREAT! Thatgives us Saturday afternoon, evening, and Sunday afternoon i f wehave to have it, to complete the switch over.

We do have an u rgen t PRAYER REQUEST t h i s month. Beforethe end of the month, I must make th e d ec is io n whetherto renew our lease on th is shop; look for another; buy


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something sui table ; or close down. We do not want to do the l a t t e ras the Bible shop is f i l l ing a real need here, and we enjoy thework. Please pray thqt the Lord will .guj.4e us in making jus t ther ight decision that ^le may be glorif ied. As construction has noteven s tar ted on the building we had been hoping to get into and thebuilder 's holiday, (a month-long closedown), is in December, wehave accepted that i t can not be God's leading that we try to getin there . An even bet ter one was leased before it was evenfinished; probably before i t was started, and so i t goes.Right now, I have to have the ballast replaced in two sets of ourfluorescent ceiling l ight units, new tubes for one of them, and Imay have to replace a ceil ing panel, (4 'xl2 ' ) , myself. I t wassagging, and when an al ley ca t in the a t t i c walked across i t , thewhole thing collapsed into the shop. Praise God no one was below!An asbestos panel that size could decapitate a person i f it f e l la t an angle! Fortunately i t fe l l during the night, there was no onebelow and only the panel was shattered. The cat clawed i ts way downthe wall, and filled with adrenalin, made i t back through thecei l ing and out. The footprints contest to that . The landlord hasceftainly.net been filled with any sense of urgency to replace i tand even asks me to pay half the cost. In the meantime, I am theone who bakes from the heat on hot days as today, or freezes onwindy cool days! I will probably have to pay up, or perish.The car continues to go, but leaves a t r a i l of o il down the centerof the drive and a terrible mess in the carport. We have a goodfriend who used to ask every time he saw me, when I was going tobuy a new car. He has finally given up asking. Our grateful praiseand thanks to the Lord who keeps i t running.We have just returned from the preaching conference at Deo-gloriacampground. As usual, we travelled down through wind and rain thathad many people pulling over to wait i t out. The trip back was onlytir ing a fte r the non-stop activities of the Friday evening throughSunday services! The Bible van was well patronised. I ran out ofsome things and no one wanted others. I t is impossible to know justwhat to carry with me. I had the book-van unit to care for anddevotions on Saturday morning, and Phyllis taught two classes. Ifound the answering machine filled with phone rings when I openedthe shop this morning, but no messages! Today has been "Monday-quiet" . Friday and Saturday would have been busy had we been hereas i t was the last Saturday of the month following pay day.Youw^ Josj^ Christ. Raymond Anderson f/a

706 East Washington StreetBob and Phyllis Mills U,hana. IL 61801, U.S.A.

Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that belleveth and is baptizedshall besaved; but he that believeth not shall bedamned. (CliniST) - Mark 16: t6The Lord gave theWord: great were the company of those that published It. - Psalms 68:11


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your's In lesus Christ,

ob and Phylll/nUls

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PuBUshen andprlntetsofmUtlonsoflS(eStudyBookletsandtmctsforAfricaDecember 1991Dear Co-workers:

Snaôf"the LoTri' .TH"'' faithfulness in prayer and financialAfrica,L In me of^he worW^^ 'ê rising inflation in SouthIT US long term help. At times Ifeel stressedfhio L, breaking and Iam still am falling behind. We had amost impressive object lesson on "tens/on'the ôHtsilfT '""""P 9'' t'"' wrecking

u?. P""''' "'" " '"r free distribution. Two new study books havefrom throrisonra^nrt m, h P"^"*' ^''' ^ typesetting; piles have arrived backow the .snmaH hr . processed; and of course, Ihave been getting the figures together to workn^d fe a- n ' "'' P^P'' accounting shortly. What wecaDabmt^ tn wrf "Vthing in a print shop from typesetting to printing or theapability tohire such a person perhaps part time locally.late. The car is still, leaking oil in pools. We replaced the

continuL ?o nl '="'P"'^ accounting softwareontinues to give problems including erasing all our financial records for the past year! (Fortunately after Inpfrinht nHP""'""'' "' the entire stock list of the shop, which had required weeks of work toand soLLfm fret fi?=?f P""" "J '"" ' ' '" P''""y investigating apoint-of-sale unitcourse A='"P"ter for word processing, desk top publishing, and the Bible con-espondenceand fhoT,^?h^ ? Prsonal basis, dental work, including a root-canal, had to be scrappedby oece^he Mm rnfrtor' ^^ ?" cut the molar up and tear it out piecechem m the^nn rS 1 I f 'P" "^ "^ êpair shop yet again! TheSchMland CoiiPnoan^^ Sunday School class now covers the spectrum of Middlers-Highcnooi-and College ages; notan easy class to handle.ttie!r mfSi? '!?' '"T the Summer holidays. Kathy was shocked to hear how!hlnir I f ' "P "*' y''- She said they would be a thousand rand a term,soon^ hp rnmnM?t ** '''^^PP"'^ "^^^r that the computer course he had been promised free, aslonaerî^^rep tS l = k "^'y thousand Rands. They nonw orobab .Tr?n t f ' ' ^ n ^P^yn en t for their students. Ithink he willwamedê rnn!^,te?n '''' '^ ''"''^ '"tead though he hadanted the computer programming course to be able to help support himself at college.exSioniri rnor^ T P''""y South Africa. Phoebe is^mSThP f P''Pf'' '"aft of one of the larger books in one day at the^th fhoM^h ^Pf'="^ to work in this countiy but at Umzumbe Bible Institute rather thanin th^sSal accrnt^T 'yP"l"9 n "OPPV disks. She also taught me how to editthanks to'^lbrWaySit'";^^^^^^^ P

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