CHRIST FOR THE AMAZON VALLEYMR. AND MRS, DA VID M. BA YLESS, Missionaries

BELEM. PARA. BRAZIL

SPONSORED BY

RIDGECREST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

January 25» 1961

OTHTER I960

Dear Friends in Christ:

The Lord has done great things for us thru you dear peoplewho have stood with us in this work of the Lord in BrMil.constant prayers and generous support have made possible our be^in Brazil this past year. Vfe hap-«eCT^i^^o much more thanwe can report on paper or coimy^J»JniBSrs7 Rec^xa two-week*s Meeting in Brasi^

NEWS LETTER —» REPORT

Forwardino Agent for Funds

AND Correspondence

J FRED BAYLESS

1901 Anderson Place. S.e.

ALBUQUERQUE. NEW MEXICO

ASSOCIATED WITH

CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES

IN THE AMAZON VALLEY

Even as the Lord spoke much about moneythe spiritual especially, we feel that we shou

Balance in Bank on January 1, I960Offerings and Gifts received in I960Proceeds from Sale of Chevrolet PickupBank Loan for Purchase of Willys Station Wagon

Total Money in Bank in I960Living Link (Salary) to MissionaryHouse Rent and UtilitiesTravel Expense (Bus, Plane, Gasoline, etc;Publishing, News Letters, Receipting, PostagePees paid to Language TeacherMiscl Equipment and Other Miscl Items ^Social Security (1959)Support to Belem Bible Seminary and EducationHelp to Agulha Church and School ^Help on 0 RChurch Bldg (less repaid amount 8445.55;Labor to workers in the churchesCost of Willys Station WagonRepaid Loan to Albuquerque Bank jInterest on Bank Loans

Total Disbursements in 1960-Bank Balance, December 31, I960 8 151.11

helped withwith 23 baptisms.

materii ^ _iey applied toreport \o supporters.Lsa

S^srfi^s iirerSrif necessity brief, condensed Zt

out^Lt te identical on this postage rate), but we will send this by request.567.34

8,846.211,200.002.500.00

e 13,113.55

« 3: 600.00

355.19304,02292.6820.68

120.0947.55

326.22186.80

1,154.32166.30

• 3,787.00, 2,500.00- 101-398 12,962.44

•some of you may have hea^ thatin December. Yes, we did, but so ^ch we are now well,remain, ;fith the Lord's blessing. A the churchesSo we are back at work of preach^^ contS^Sl^sri^^^^ and support,and other missionaries. ^.961 to replace afew that are not able

Faithfully yours in Chnst,

Do write to us; mail to ourForwarding Agent or send to"Caixa Postal 926, Belem, Para, Brazil .Air Mail postage is 100 each t ounce.Please send all gifts to Forwarding Agent.

David M, Bayless

CHRIST FOR THS AMAZON VALLEY

Mr & Mrs David M Bayless, Missionaries

Caixa Postal 926

Bel^, Para, Brazil

BRAZtl

Ten Stories about Brazil and our Kissiozi Work.

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CHRIST FOR THE AMAZON VALLEY OP BRAZIL

Mr & Mrs David M Bayless, Miasionaries

Presenting Ten Stories about Brazil andOur Mssion WorkWe will appreciate your interest, prayers, and support

Story 1

This is a big country — even bigger than the UnitedStates was before Alaska was added. Did you know how bigBrazil is? It is so big that every other country in .SouthAmerica except two border on it! Nearly half of SouthAmerica is taken up by Brazil, and almost half the peoplein South America are Brazilians. Brazil is a lot like the

other countries in many ways, and also it is different inmany ways.

If you speak only English, you couldn't talk to verymany people here. The Brazilians speak Portuguese. Doesthat sound like a strange language? It is really so muchlike Spanish that a lot of people here can understand it.More people speak Portuguese in South America than Spanish, because there are so many Indians in the rest of thecountries who don't speak Spanish.

Brazil is becoming modem very fast. Still it will takeyears fctrthis country to be as modem as many others. Youhave all heard of Brasilia, the new capital of Brazil. InPortuguese it is called "Brah-ZBE-lee-ah", and Brazil iscalled "Brah-ZEEL". The new capital is built to look likea bird or airplane. Most of the streets are veiy wide andthere aren't any comers: roads go over and under instead.Five years ago there wasn't ai^thing where Brasilia isnowexcept grass and trees. Today it is a huge, modem city.Everything is new. There wasn't even a settler's shack 5years ago. There were only wild animals, creeks, trees,and hills. What a change now!

In some ways Brazil is like the other countries cfSouthAmerica. It is not yet very modem. The people are a mixture of Spanish, Portuguese, and Indian. They are darkerthan you are. Most of the people are very poor.

Bx^il also has the same religion which other countriesin South America have. The people don't know about Jesus.They worship a woman (the Virgin Mary). Mostly women and

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children follbw the religion, and thie men dbh*'Vhave muchto do j^rith-a.chwch^ !Ih^ is why we have to have mission-axies jtieTei to teach about Christ, and the .true religion,according to God* s hook, the Bibie.

On November 8, 19591 Beverly and I (David writing) comedown here. We flew to Washington, D, C., and then went toNevr York City by bus. There we got on a big ship whichDrought us dov/n here. Our beds <miiie ship had rails alongthe sides. We didn*t think-v/e needed the rails. Until wegot out in the ocean,and the ship started to rock so muchit nearly rocked us out of bed. The food was really good,but at first the ship rolled around so much that we didn'tfeel much like eating! We did later though; enjoyed it!

The first time the ship stopped and we got off we hadgotten used to walking on the ship, and for awhile we weredizzy because the ground wasn't rocking like the ship hadbeen! We stopped at an island called Aruba,and at anotherisland called Trinidad. They were very pretty places,especially Trinidad, where we spent a whole day.

On Sunday morning, two weeks after we left New York,our ship sailed up the Amazon River to BbIcti, where we gotoff. Belem is a very big city, and is the capital of thestate we live in. Para. Can you pronounce it — Beh-LENG?It is on the south side of the Amazon River, which is thebiggest river in the wrld. It is so big that it takes aboat three days to get across it! An airplane takes overan hour to fly over. From one side to the other is over200 miles. There is an island in the middle of the riverwhich is bigger than Switzerland

Would you like to see tlus country, and know what Itoazilis really like? There are big cities, jungles, huge rivers,v;ildanimals, uncivilized Indians, modem factories, river

steamers, and super highways! Vflaat a mixture Brazilis IWhen you come down here, be sure to ccxne see us!

Your friends in Brazil^

David and Beverly

Our Forwarding Agent for ^fts and correspondence: 'J Fred Bayless, 1901 Anderson Place S E ' '

Albuquerque, New Mexico' ^

. (SRIST .m m imZON VAIIiE^ . story 2 . .

Kiese stories aVout Brazil are being written by DavidBayless in Biazll^ in a little town named Icoaraci, whichis pronounced "ee-coa-rah-GBE". See if you can say:it!

About 2 mileiEi. from Icoaraci is a children* s home, wherea lot of little Brazilian children live. Most of them arenot orphans, because they have a mother or father livirg,but in their homes they didn't have enough to eat, or anyone to take care of them. Now about 45 children live there.Just like yoii would, most of them cry a while when theyfirst go to live there, but you couldn't get thCTi to leavenow; they have so much fun there, and have such a nice home.

Out at the Children's Home there is a big house whereEd 5; Edna Bartlebaiigh live. In one part of this big houseall the girls live. There are about 15 girls, big ones andlittle ones. One little girl looks just like an Indian,and probably is. Her name is Selma.

The little boys live in a big long house with doors inthe middle and on the end. There are about 20 of them.The bigger boyS: live in a new wooden house with a ChristianfamiH^. The man of the family, Gaudencio, works for thehome, and preaches most of the time in the church, aboutthree blocks from the home. He is a very nice ni«n thateveryone likes. Last year he t|i#ilt the house that hisfamily and the older boys live in.

All the children eat in their big dining room, which isin front of the Bartlebaugh* s house. Before they go in; toeat each meal they sing songs in front of the dining hall &then have prayer to thank God for the food. The childrenalso have their own school at the home. It is the onlywchool anywhere around, and about 100 children attend it,including the ones from the home. School is every afternoon, Monday through Friday, from 5S00 to 5:00. The schoolyear begins in March and ends December l,with July out forvacation.

Every Sunday morning the children go to Church about 3blocks from the home. The singing and preaching and theLord's Supper are first, and the Sunday school classes last.About 80 people are at church every week, meeting in a newbrick building, which is very nice beca\ise it has 4 class

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rooms in it. The old church house had only one room andwas almost too small for evexyone to get into. Also eachWednesday night the children go to prayer meeting.

Every morning the diildren work around the home. Everyone has a job. But they don't work sill morning, and theyhave plenty of time to play. The girls play a game whichis about like "jacks", except there is no ball — justrocks! The boys love to play football, but it isn't likeour American football. It is all played with the feet —they aren't allowed to touch the ball with their hands.

Whenever one of the children has a birthday, Edna Bar-tlebau^ makes a big supper at her house, and the one whohas a birthday can invite three or four friends to supper.They really love that! The girls also like to come to ourhouse to help Beverly clean the floors and wax them, orjust anything to get to come in, so they can eat with us.;They like American food, and also are good workers.

Even though the children who live at the home have lotsof fun, and plenty to eat, and a school, and lots of otherthings most Brazilian children don't have, they still don'thave all that you have who live in the lAiited States. Beglad that God has blessed your country so much. Somedaymaybe, you will come doirni here and see this country. Whenyou do, come see us!

Your friends in ^azil,,

David and Beverly

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CHRIST FOR THS AMAZOK VALLEY Stoiy 3.Icoaraci, where we live, is a little town about 13 miles

fr<m Bel^. We try to go to town (Bel^) once a week, butusually have to go more often. The road toBelem (Beh-LESTC)goes thru the Belem air base. Early in 1961 the commanderof the base closed the road, so now we have to go on adirt road which is 5 miles farther, but it is so bad thatit takes 15 minutes longer. Part of the road has beenpainted with as^alt, so when it rains it doesn't get iauddy.You would like to see how the men paint a road! They iisebig brushes. But this kind of road doesn't last long, andsoon the road is just a lunch of big holes vdth sharp edges ,and we have to travel this 20 miles to Belem.

The last part of the road into. Bel6n is part of thehighway which goes to Brasilia, the new capital. Brasiliais about 1200 miles avxay,and the road isn't finished yet.It goes throxigh jungles and crosses huge rivers. It isver^r he.rd to build the road. But the part of it near Belemis paved. This is the part we go on (5 miles of it).

In Bel^ there are, so many things to dothat we usi^!J.ydon't get them all done. We have to go to at least 2 storesto buy food, but • have to go to five to get ever^rthingvre need. There isn't any such thing as a super-market,v/hen you go into a stor.o to buy anything, you first go tothe counter and wait for a clerk. Sometimes this takes al0;.ig time. You tell the clerk vjhat you vrant and he getsit for you. About half of what you want he doesn't have,so you h:ve to go to another stor:;. After the clerk getseverything, he writes up a ticket with everything and theprice. You talce the ticket to the cashier, who takes yourmoney and gives you part of the ticket bade. The clerktakes what you bought to a counter where someone i-nraps upeverything, even if you don't v;ant it wrapped. You givethe piece of ticket to him and he gives you the package.All this takes a long time. This is the way we buy food,and everjiihing else we have to have.

We get our mail at the post office in Bel^. It surelyis nice to get a letter from the United States. Some ofour mail comes in our bos at the post office and scmie ofit ccHnes to-a desk wh^re we go ask for it. All mail whichcomes to Belem directly from a foreign country goes tothis desk — to keep someone from being able to steal the

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mail "before we get it from the box.

In Bel^ most of the streets are made of cobblestones.These are very rough streets, but some of them have streetcar tracks in them. Since there aren*t any streetcarsnow, everyone drives on the tracks — because this givesa very smooth ride. Our car exactly fits the tracks, sowe have a good smooth ride on some of the cobblestonestreets. Many of the streets are so narrow that a truc?xcc?n't turn a comer without driving on the sidewalk and"bacldLng up two or three times. Sometimes we have to dothis too. If a truck stops on one of these streets, no onecan get by until the truck moves on. The only way to parkis to drive onto the sidewallc, but the sidewalk is so narroiJthat wheels of only one side can go on. Then all the peopleliave to walk out into the street to get around the cars.

There are a lot of new stores, and new tall buildingsin Belem^ where some of the streets are wide and pretty.The main street in Belem has trees along the sides, andmodem stores, so it is very nice. About half the storesare very old, and aren't well lighted. But the city isbecoming more modem fast. We can buy about anything inBelem, if we have the money. Some things are very expen-"sive, and others very cheap. However, it costs about asmuch to live here as in the United States.

We can't buy anything without money, and we can't useour American money here, so we have to change it for theBrazilian money, called cruzeiros (cru-ZAY-roos). We don'ta?-ways get the same price for our dollars. One day we got286 cmzeiros for each dollar (and as few as 180). A q\xartof milk costs 40 cruzeiros, and agallon of gasoline aboutSS cruzeiros. A candy bar is 15 cruzeiros. It takes about5 cruzeiros to make one cent in American money(April 1961).If you had ^4000 you could get a million cruzeiros for it^but that isn't even enough to bay a car here.

At the end of a day of shopping in Belem we are usuallytired. It takes us 45 minutes just to get back home, as15 of the 20 miles are over rough roads. And it surely isnice to get home! Our house is big enough to keep you ityou come to visit us. „ « . , .

Your friends in Brazil!

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CHRIST FOR THE AMA20N VALLET Stoiy 4If you like animals, you'd like Brazil. We have pigs,

cows, diickens, ducks, sheep, and goats in our yard andrunning in the streets. Besides these there are about amillion dogs and cats around our town. We had a cute dognamed George, but he got sick and died. It surely is easyto get sick down here, and not so easy to get well.

If you like bugs you'd be overjoyed to live here! Rightnow I'm tiying to get two ant bites to stop hurting. Wehave all kinds of ants. The kind that bother us the mostare so small a person hardly can see them, but they biteus a lot, and we surely don't like them. They are not quitered, but more orange: but that's probably becatise they'reso small. We have black ants about the size of Americanants, which carry things off. One ni^t we were invadedby red ants, and on our kitchen floor we killed about 350,You should have seen the little black ants come carry offdead ants! One day we saw a huge bug going up the wail,but he was dead! We looked closer at him and found about10 little black ants carrying him. If people worked likeants, we surely would get a lot done!

We have one kind of ant here called the "sail ant", ashe cuts off a piece of leaf about 5 times as big as himself and Carrie# it on his back —it looks like a sail ona sailboat. Vflien these ants attack a bnsh they send asquad of workers up to the top of the bush, and they startcutting off pieces of the top leaves and work down. Otherspick up the pieces & go scurrying off, just like sailboats.

The ant which is the worst, tut which we don' t see verymuch, is about the size of a wasp and is black. These antsbuild houses about 4 or 5 feet tall out of clay. A stingfrom one of them is about like getting stung by a bumble bee.. - We have some snails down here which would surprise you.they have shells about as big as a man's fist, I can'tfigure out how they move along — they just move! Theydon't seem to have any legs. They also have feelers, andif you touch a feeler, it just disappears into his head.

Did you ever see a fish as big as a man? In the markethere in Icoaraci (can you still pronounce it?), there arefish as big as people. They still look like fish though!Men go out into the ocean in sailboats to catch them. Theyalso catch alligators and sell them in the market. Somepeople eat them.

How many know what an anteater eats? He has a nose 2^et long, and a tongue about a ycrd long — he eats antscf course. When he finds an ant hill he really has a feast.He has a big long tail which is so bushy it looks like a

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flag, and some of them are chlled flag ah'teaters. He isabout 6 feet long when full grown. It^s a gdod thing heis so much bigger than the ants, because he surely can'trun veiy fast, but I guess an ant couldn't catch him, tobite him! liftien an anteater runs he sways from side to sideand from front to back — really a funny si^t!

In the jungle there are lots of animals which we don'tsee. There aren't any lions, tigers, or elephants, butstill there are mai^ animals. Jaguars, wild pigs, deer,tapirs, monkeys, and lots and lots of other animals livein the jungle. Also there are huge snakes, some of them20 feet long. In the rivers there are alligators, and lotsof small fish, which" can. eat animals. Sometimes they doeat a cow or horse if it falls in the river where the fishare. These fish have sharp teeth, but aren't very large.They seem to be mostly less th^ a foot long.

In the jungle there are also Indians, Some are inildand some are pretty much civilized. The wild ones shootat people with blow guns and with boys and arrows. Somedon't even wear clothes. They don't speak Portuguese; eachtribe has its own language. One istorani ( Gwah-rah'-HIilEiAnother tribe is called Caraja (Cah-rah-JAH). If you thinkthese are fumy names, those Indians probably think yourname is funny too. The government of Brazil is trying toteach Indians to live peacefully. Many tribes learning to read and write; sane are tau^t by missionaries.

Don't you think it would be intoresting to work in aplace like this, teaching people who never have heard aboutChrist? You would have to leam to speak Portuguese,, andmaybe some other language also. You would have to livewith bugs and animals and lots of other things, but youwould be able to help people to know God. Anyone ,who doesnot know God certainly can't obey Him, And ^Jesus wantseveryone to know about Him, That's i^^hy He said to go intoall the world to preach the gospel — to everyone.

Your friends in Brazil,

David and Beverly

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CHRIST PGR THE MAZON VALLEY Story 5

The first of the churches of Christ here in the Amfly-CTiValley was begun near our town of Icoaraci, It is about amile outside town, about2 bloctefrom the Children's Home.At first, when the missionaries couldn't speak Portuguesevery well, about ten years ago, the children were a bighelp in the singing, and made a good crowd, so the fil?stchxirch was begun near their home. The church used alittlewooden house about 10 feet wide and25 feet long. It waslocated on a road going to Outeiro Island, so the churchis called the Outeiro (O-tay-ro) Road Church. For 7 yearsthe church used this little house. In the last two yearsthe sidesstarted to fall off, and the vrood was so rottenthe sides wouldn't stay on any more, even if nailed back.The wooden windows wouldn't stay closed. The boards whichhold the tiles for the roof got very rotten, and parts ofthe roof started to fall in. The floor was dangerous, andthe church had grown so much that at times everyone couldnot get inside for the meetings.

About a year and a half ago the church started a newbuilding, and began to use it the first week of 1961. Itis built of brick, which is very cheap here, and has acement floor and tile roof. Besides a big autidorium, ithas four class rooms. The people are really happy to havetheir new building. Our Service Link fund helped in thisbuilding. It is large enough for big crowds, includingthe children from the Home.

On Sunday morning in the Outeiro Road church we havesinging, the Lord's Supper, the offering, and preaching-first, followed lyBible School classes, of which there arefive. About 80 people usually attend on Sunday morning.Each class has a memory verse, vxhich they call the "keyverse", and one person from each class is selected to goto the front to recite after the classes are over.

®ie Outeiro Road church has some very unusual windows.They don't open or close, but they're always open. Thepeople promised the money for the windows, one person givingthe money for each window, which was about $2.50, but quitea lot for them. These windows are made with pieces of concrete so spaced that the wind may blow through. Since itnever gets cold here, they are very nice windows.

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Another church in idle edge of Icoaraoi. is called theAgulha (AH-gool-yah) church, The name Agulha means .!'needle"in Portugese, this is a part of Icoaraci, Last year'theAbulha church started a new building right around the oldmud house they had been using. liWien they got up. to theroof they tore down theold house, and carried it out thedoors — so they always had a place to meet. Some of ificiother churches also have dbne that, It*s a pretty good,idea. About four or five of the churches have new buildings in construction. We've been helping in the wiring ofthree of them. It's very interesting, and we enjoy doingit. Three of ihe churches are located in places where justtliree years ago they had no electricity. We are glad tohave electricity, for many reasons.

On this side of the Amazon River there are five churchesof Christ (or Christian Churches), The oldest is OutieroRoad Church, which was begun in 1954. The rest are prettynew. The.Christians need a lot of teaching, to live asChrist wants them to. Some of them make a lot of mistakes.Many of them want to preach, and lead in the church, andseveral young men in the churches want to study to laiowthe Bible better, and asked the missionaries to start aBible college. We'll tell more about it another day.

Your friends in Brazil

David and Beverly

Our Mailing Address in Brazil is:Mr & Mrs David M BaylessCaixa Postal 926Bel^, Par^, Brazil

Letters by Air Mail cost 100 each -J* ounce.We will appreciate hearing from you.

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CmST KJR m jfimON VAL;^^ story 6 ;

You would enjoy our Chilstian Service Camp in July, ifyou like Camp, and if you like beans. The camp is held onthe grounds of the Beldm Bible Seminary, about 10 milesfrom Bellm. About 40 children were present for I960 Camp,

Of course, if you came to our Camp,you'd have to spealcPortuguese in order to understand anything! Each morningthere are 4 classes and chapel time whan we sing and heara short message. Most of Ihe children at Chmp haven't knownmuch about the Bible, as most of you have; so we have toexplain a lot of things to them, which they would know ifthey had beon in Sunday School all their lives. Insteadof dividing the children into classes according to theirages, we divide them according to how far they have gonein school. I remember one .group of Campers in which we hada boy of 13 who was in hi^ school, and another boy of 20who had gone only as far as the second grade.

In the morning the Campers don't have much to eat forbreakfast, as the Brazilians don'tijsually have big brealc-fasts. But in the middle of the morning they all have asnack, ndiich is about as big as breakfast. Usually theyhave some kind of hot cereal, such as rice or commeal.Por. dinner the children have beans and rice, and for supperthey have rice and beans! This is the same as they haveat home. At Camp th^have some meat with the beans thou^,and other things to eat. But for sure, each day they havebeans and rice for t\'JO meals!

Just as in the Iftiited States, the Campers are dividedinto groups or teams, each \j±th its ovm name. Last yearthe teams were named for the tribes of the Israelites, Thechildren have a lot of fun working for their teams. Theyplan games, line up,put on talent & lots of other things,to get points for their team — much as you do.

You should see how the Campers sleep! All the beys sleepon straw mats onihe floor incne of the Seminary buildings.If they make too much noise at night they lose points fortheir teams. ^ Usually several teams lose points the firstni^t. The girls at Camp stay in a building where thereare lots of liooks for hanging up hammocks. Most Braziliansuse hammocks instead of beds, so ihe girls are ri^t athome in them. They aren't like American hammocks though:

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you have to lie almost corsswise in them, and then you areabout level. In the morning, just roll up the hammock andyour bed''is made! The boys had more work to theirs, asthey used blankets on their straw mats.

Sometimes we go swimming in the morning and sometimesin the afternoon at Camp, We don't have a swimming pool,but there is a creek which runs through the land where wehave Camp. When the tide is in from the ocean, it makesthe tide rise on the Amazon River; and when the tide is inon the river, it makes a tide on our creek. The tide comesin an ho\ir later each day than the day before, so we can'thave swimming at the same time every day, \fhen the tide isout the creek is almost dry, and when the tide is in thecreek has about six feet of v^ater in it.

One day we had swimming races between the teams. Thegirls swam like steamboats, splashing and making lots ofnoise, but barely moving along. After the races they wereable to swim fast, but during the races they always swamlilce rocks! We found out later that they were afraid tosv/im right, because that's the way boys swim! Buc'afterthe races it was all ri^t, \jhen no one was watching!

Most of the yoimg people at Camp don't know how to singvery well, and none know hov7 to play anymusical instrument ^and we don't have a piano to play if they did know how, sothere isn't much talent on talent night of Camp. But theyenjoy trying, and when stunt night comes they do fine.

Each ni^t at Camp there is a time of singing and preaching, One of the Brazilian preachers or workers usuallypreaches. They enjoy this,, and the children like to hearthem preach. This service is usually the first event onthe schedule Sunday night, at the start of the Camp weelc;and the last thing oh the schedule Friday night, as theCampers go home on Saturday.

Last year (i960) everybody liked Camp so well they wantedto have it again in January, as there isn't any school inJanuary — but there is too much rain. So Camp will beheld each year in July; and there will be lots of eageryoungsters waiting for the date to come.

Your friends in Brazil,

David and Beverly

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GHBIST ra THE AMAZON ViO^ Story 7A couple of years ago we offered to one of the young

men in the Outeiro Road church the job of teaching a classof small boys on Sunday mornings. He had been very activein the church and freq,uently led the singing. His name isJ<^o (Zhoawn), which means "John" in Portuguese. He wasglad to take the job of teaching the class» and, does very.well, A few months later John was offered a <d?ance to preachone la^t. He said he uould like to, and again did a goodjob. Pretty soon he preached again and did better. Severalmore times he preached, doing better each time. VJhen westarted a Bible class on Tuesday nights he attended aidiiasa good student. His preaching keeps getting better.

One Lord's Day morning we went to another of Uie churchesnear our home, the Agulha church, where we heard a youngman teaching the Bible school class and doing a very goodjob. Later we heard him preach. He had been studying theBible and. doing alot of thinking, and had begun to preachbecause he wanted to. He attended classes at night, tau^tby another missionary, for several months. This young man,Manoel, loves to preach, and also does it well.

Francisco is another friend of ours who lives at Icoaraciand works with the Agulha church,, usually doing the preaching, He is a pretty good preacher, and has attended ourclasses and those of another missionary, so he could learnmore of the Bible^

The man who works for the C5hildren's Home, Gaudencio,preaches most of the time in the Outeiro Road church. Hehad studied with a couple of missionaries, so he couldpreach too. Ife not only takes care of the boys at the home,but helps take care of the church. He is very interestedin preaching and working for Christ.

All of these men and some others, too, have been askingthe missionaries for quite a while to begin Bible classesfor them, in some kind Bible college. For a long timewe thought it would ^ impossible, for lots of reasons.Slnally we found a way, and have started a Bible collegehere, which is called Belem Bible Seminary. It's not avery big school, bufc the students really want to leam moreabouththe Gospel of Christ, and be better prepared to workfor Him. .

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Classes at the Bible college are only on Tuesday^ Vfed-nesday, Thursday, & Friday. This gives everyone a chanceto use Saturday through Monday for work in the churches,or for other duties. The boys who go to the Seminary, asit is called here, work every morning, and all day Monday.This helps pay for their schooling. Now they are workingto get some shelters ready for the next Camp time. Laterwe hope we can start some kind of small factory, so theycan earn some money. Maybe it will be a shoe factory. Theboys work pretty well, and a couple of them do know how tomake shoes.

Tbget to the Bible college from Icoaraci^ vrhere we live,we have to drive inihe car 23 kilometers. Dp you know howfar a kilometer is? 23 Icilometers is about 14 miles. Notlong ago the last part of the road which was dirt was paved,so we have a pretty good road to get there. Just outsideIcoaraci'jWe sometimes have a hard time getting through theroad though. In February, March, and April, the tide onthe Amazon River is higher than in the other months, andtwice every day the river rises up over the road. Sometimeswe have to go through long stretches which are under "vreiter.Once we were afraid we wouldn't make it, but finally did.

To get to the Seminary, after we leave Icoaraci', we gothrough the air base. Here big airplanes land, many ofthem coming from the United States. We've been to the airport several times to welcome new missionaries ooming towork in Brazil. It is very interesting to go there. Ifyou came to visit here you would land at that airport,Jlaybe you will come down here sometime. It will be yearsand years before there voUbe enou^ workers here, to tellthese people about Jesus, the Son of Gtod, Maybe you canbe one of them. Think about it. Ask God to help you knowwhat to do to work best for Him. And please pray for us,so we can do our best too.

Your friends in Brazil,

David and Beverly

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CHRIST; FOR THE AMAZON VALLBX Story 8If you canfe to our house for a visit, y6u should have

a pretty good time. A lot of things are different though,fran what you are used to. They're different from what wewere used to, too, when we first came here to live.

About 6:30 inUie morning you mi^t wake up to hear theboy who delivers bread. He has a bicycle with a. great bigbasket which looks like straw. He rides all over towndelivering the bread. We get a loaf every morning. Itlooks like American bread, because we took a pan to thebaker and asked him to make it that way. On Sunday morningor Thursdaymorning about 7:00 o'clock, you might hear someone outside clapping his hands. This is the waypeople herelet you know they are at the door — they clap instead ofknocking on the door. Each bundle of meat is wrapped inseveral banana leaves. The meat man tells us how manyIcLlograms of meat he has brought, and we pay him. Thingshere are weighed in kilograms (a little over 2 pounds).

If you don't wake up when someone comes to deliver toyour house, you might wake up at6:30, when the electricitygoes off. If you use a fan at night to keep things cool,it will run only until 6:30 in the morning. We have electricity from 6 in the evening until 6;3Q in the morning.At 11 o'clock it comes on again and stays until 3 in theafternoon. At 11:00 we alwaystum on the water pump, topump water from our well up into a big tank high over thexfell. Even though the electricity isn't on all day, weuse an electric refrigerator, and it works fine.

If nothing else will wake you up, our washing machinecertainly will! It has a gasoline motor on it, and surelymakes plenty of noise! We get up early to wash, so wexTill have time to heat the water on the stove and getthroiagh before it rains. Nearly every day we have rain.In the rainy season it sometimes rains nearly all day, andfor two or three days at a time. In the dry season, whichis called summer, it rains only in the afternoons, and notfor very long usually. The rainy season is called winter,even though it doesn't get cold. But it doesn't get toohot either, in the dry season, for which we are thankful.Our weather is usually pretty nice.

Even if you don't speak Portuguese, you could probablydo pretty well at the market here in" Icoaraci. It is in abig building which is mostly one huge room with stalls a-round the sides & down the middle. One stall sells fruit,another vegetables,and another meat. There are several ofeach kind of stall. The Japanese have the bestvegetables,so we always buy from them. If we buy a lot of things theygive us a great big straw basket to put them in. We go to

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different, stands to buy bananas, as there ars ij icinds of.banaras; but we like best the. kind which is; sold in theUnitea Sta,tes.v ^ kind .is called "ciying banana". Soire ask for-I'cjTying bananas",. Usually the man in the boothdoesn't want to sell;, them because they're green, and hetells us they won't be gpod until tomorrow. We tell himwo want to eat them tomorrow, so he sells them.to us!

. About tvTice a month a man comes to our house sellingchi';ken3w He takes several out of his big basket to showus how fat they are. They never are, and we usually don'tbuy any unless he lowers the price a lot. We-have to feedthem plenty of com before they are fat enough to eat,

•When you come to see us, you'll hang your clothes inour hot closet. There is so much moisture in the air herethat clothes get mouldy if we don't do something to keepthem dry. So we have a closet Ydth light bulbs ip it, tokeep the air moving and dry it so the clothes don'tmould.We also have a bookcase made the same way, for books aresoon ruined vriLthout such a hot closet to keep them dry.

Our millonan has a home & cart which he uses to delivermilk. He brings us tvxo quarts every other day. We have tostrhin it to cleaii itand then pasteuiriize it, so it v/ill beiaafe to drink. We make lots of ice cream, which is alwaysa treat on a hok aftemoon,

' Every Saturday we go put to the Children's Home, about2 miles ifrom our house, where there is a workshop with apit in the floor. I grease the car there and usually getSomeone to help. Gaudencip is a good mechanic, and helpswork on the car ~ better and cheaper that at a garage, andit wastes less of our time, as they are slow at garages.

So many thin^ here are different that you would enjoyseeing all there is. Of course, many things are like theyare in the United States. No tirro coimtiles are alike. TheBrazilians a.re proud of their country, jiist as you areproud, of. youfsV Millions of these people don't know aboutJesus, and they won't unless someone tells them. That'swhy we came down here* There are a lot of things to getused toj but we don't mind them. Jesus did even more thsmthis for iis, when He came from* heaven. We want to do whatwo can- forffijtt. Maybe ypu tpo; will go to some other countrysome day, to teach people who don! t know about Jesus. Pleasepray for us and the people of Brazil!.

•Your friends in Brazil

. Bavid, and Beverly

. <?HpST FOR-THE MAZON VALLBT , • Story ^. . How would you recognize aBrazilian if you saw ohe? .ToUprobably vWouldn*t be able to, because Biaziliians. lOO^ ijustlike everyone else. But as you know, everyone else ddesn'tlook like everyone else. Some are tall, some aa^ short.The]?e are lig^Brazilians and dark ones.' S(mie are Indi.anh,some are partly Indian, some are Negroes, some look likePortxiguese; and scmie are juOt like most Americans.' The'Brazilians call people from the tMted States "Americans",and call themselves just Brazilians.

Here, in the north part of Brazil^ the pebpie are mostlyshort and dark ~ not very many Negroes, but the peopleare a mixture of Portuguese and Indian ^ mostly Indiaii'.[Etiat' s; why they*re: short. They think I'm (David) reallytall, because I*m over six feet tall, and they notice memore becaiise I have red hair. The Brazilians have blacdchair and brown eyes.'

But down in the sout^ein part of Brazil, ,tiie people areless Indian, and mdie Portuguese, German, and descendants ,frcan other Edropean settlers. . There are. even whole towns,in Soutliern'"Brazil where German is sppkeii, because so many:.people hav^e cbnie from Germany tb live here. There arethousands of cEapanese -. living ih Brazil. -They are stillcoming, by ithe- shiid;oad. This is siich'' a •l)ig cbtuitry with;so much lahdi and Japan is so small and has so many people,that many Japanese comie. They kiiow how to make land growcrops even where other people can't get anything to grow.Brazil is much better off because of: the Japanese here.

As^ you .can see,. Brazil, like the United States, is a'/melting pot . It is interesting to live here and learn moreabout these: people. We learn to love them, just as we growto love people wherever we are. They are friendly, andmany of thffltt try: to helpus because we are foreigners.How many of you have evbr been outside; the United' States?Maybe you know what it feels like to be a foreigner.

Since most of Ihe settlers of Brazil were fromi Portugal,a lot of the buildings resemble those of Portugal. Theyare made in a very Old-faShicwied style. In a small town,everything usually looks oldj because progress comes slowly.The streets are not paved, there are hardly any cars, andthings move slowly. There are lots of donkey carts, andox-carts. The people build their houses of rough boards

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or out of mud. The wooden ones are built on stilts, abouttwo feet off"the ground. They have tile^^ roofs^ or grassroofs;v'and of course have wooden floors. The mud housesare built bymakingawall out of poles, with spiace betweenthe poles, and then plastering mud over it all, to make asolid wall. These houses usually have dirt floors. In thesmall towns there isn't electricity usually, here in thenorth, and everyone iises little kerosene lamps made of inncans. our town, though, as we have told before, thereis electricity part of the time.

In northern Brazil, in the Amazon River Valley, themeans of transportation is by river. There are over twohundred rivers running into the Amazon, and inthese riversthere are thousands of islands. People live ontiie islands,and in many small towns and villages along the rivers.Every family has a canoe, and theyknow how to travel prettyfast in them; at least they go alot faster than we could.There are maiqr sail boats on the rivers — big ones andsmall ones. Since the river doesn't run in just one direction, but goes back and forth with the tide from theocean, the boats can wait till the .tide is goingthe waythey want to go, or wait till the wind is blowing right.

Around Belem, a large citynear us, there are some roads,and most people travel in trucks or .buses. Sometimes aboutforty or fifty people ride in the back of a truck all together. That's cheaper than riding in a bus. Many busesare just trucks with covers over the backs.

The coimtry is different, the people are different,living is different, the language is different, many otherthings are different, but C!hrist is the same; and all thepeople need Him! We have the same gospel to preach herethat we preaiched in the United States. Jesus has promisedto be with us wherever we go. We trust Him! He has provided eveiything we have needed.' Jesus said that if youwill seek first His kingdom andiighteousness. He will provide everything you need. Do you believe this? You canuse.your life for Him if you really want to.

Your friends in Brazil,

. David and Beverly

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CHRIST FOR THE MZOR VALIEI Stoiy 10let's go ^brou|^ a couple of <3^78 together^and see what

one Mssionaiy does- in Brazil. X have told you in anotherQfihese stories that our work is very much different fromwork we woUld do in the Iftiited States. It's not the sametiTo days in a row.

The day before yesterday Pi^cisco, the preacher in thechurch in Agulha, came to our house when we were eatingbreakfast and wanted me to help h^ni get some material toUse infdastering the'inside of Ihe church hoiisebeing bvdltthere.. We v/ent in the car to a limber yard about a mileaway and bou^t a dozen poles 15 feet I6ng. It took twotrips to haul th«a to the church house in the car. Nextwe went to find cement, \diich is scarce now, and hauled itto the church house in the car. It's a good thing we havethe Jeep station wagon. The churches in the Ikiited Statesbought it for us to use here.

Thatafternoon a missionaiy arrived. *from Macapa, Usuallyour cnr is transportation for the missioneiries when theycome over from the other side of ihe river for business orto see the doctor. So the next day we left home at 7:30in the momingrand after a hard day in Belem got back homeat 7:30 in the evening. That day we really were tired!A day in Belem is enough to tire out anybody!

On each of the days I have mentioned here I had classesto teach at the Belem Bible Seminary. All of us who teachthere enjoy this part of the work as much as any. Studentsthere want to leam, and enjoy being in the school*. Threedays a week I teach there, ©le classes are arranged so theboys work in the morning-when it's cool, and study in theafternoon, so all classes are in the afternoon.

This.morning I -went to the city office to pay our electric bill for last month. That took about a half hour.It seems that there isncthing fast here. Later our visiting missionary friei^ went with me to haul some tiles forthe roof of a cover over the sidewalk be'tween our houseasg^ the garage, which our landlord had built. Now we canget out to the car without get-ting wet. We put the tilesup when we got home wi-th them, then ate dinner, and, leftfor the. Seminaiy again. It -takes about half an hour toget to the Seminary,

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Tonight we will be with the Outeiro Road church, whereI mil lead grayer meeting, Dowi here most of the memberscome to pr^er meeting, instead of staying away. This isone of the reasons we enjoy working with these people.

Tomorrow we mil take our friend to the airport to flyback home. Of course there isn't a bridge across the AmazonRiver! It's too big, so he flies when he goes over. Tomorrow is a holiday;lhat means we'll have electricity allday long. Maybe we can malce enough ice to have ice cream.

Well, you see how our days go. And how they fly! Itseems thatwe'11 nearer get the things done which we havebeenputting off in order to get something else done. Somethinginteresting which needs to be done is to translate helpful teaching materials into Portuguese, so the men workingin the churches can use them in teaching people about JesusChrist, We really need someone here just to do this kindof work, translating all kinds of things into Portuguese,so the churches can \ise them,

Sach week I help Beverly translate her Sunday schoollesson into Portuguese. She has started using flannelgraphlessons in her class because the members of the class can'tread orwrite, and don't understand some lessons very well.She teaches the women's class. So I translate the storyfor the lesson, and she gets ideas from it to use.

We surely hope you have enjoyed hearing about our workhere, and the country we live in, I guess you Imow whywe're down here. It's only because Jesus wants us to be.He wants everyone in the world to knovr about Him, becauseunless people know Him and obey Him, they don't have thepromise and hope which we have who do know Him. We loveChrist, and we know you love Him too; that's why you arestudying about Him. Do you want to serve Him too, in aplace like this? You will have an interesting life, butmoffb of all you vn.ll be serving Jesus, He said to go into2l11 the world. If we are going to obey Him, we have todo just that. Goodbye for now, and God bless you always!

Your friends in Brazil,

David and BeverlySponsored by;

Ridgecrest Christian Church, 5300 Eastern Avenue S EAlbuquerque. New Mexico

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Christ For The Amazon ValleyMR. & MRS. DAVID M. BAYLESS

CAIXA POSTAL 926

BCLEM, PARA, BRAZIL

Diivid and Beverly Bayless will soon have been on the mission field in Braziltwo years, having arrived there on the 8th of November, These have beenbusy years of language study (proficiency for David and beginning for Beverly, whohas made splendid progress), translation of study material to be used in the churches,helping in the erection of church buildings and improving old ones, the supervisionof Youth Camps, and helping to organize and teach in the Bible Seminary--alongwith a host of other necessary things too ntimerous to mention here, such as theencouragement given to local ministers and leaders, along with some preaching andevangelizing work. Their August News Letter is inside this folder; pictures on buck.

Christ For The Amazon ValleyMR. & MRS. DAVID M. BAYLESS

CAIXA POBTAl. 926

BELEM, PARA, BRAZIL

SPONSORED BY PORWARDINB AQENT

RIDGECREST CHRISTIAN CHURCH J FRED BAYLESSS300 EASTERN AVENUE, B. E. P. O BOX A92

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO

August 1961

Dear Friends in Christ:

This month many things have begun. In the Belem Bible Seminary classes began again after a month of vacation in July. Thisis now second semester of the Brazilian school year. Our sevenstudents are continuing their studies in the Seminary. I'm teaching Atts and Music, as before.

Several of the Seminary students have begun going out onweek-end trips to the city of Vigia, about 100 miles from Belem,preaching and teaching in homes of interested people. On the lasttrip there were sixty people present to hear the gospel, inside thehouse, and several outside. We are all hoping that a strong churchwill result from this work of the students.

During our July vacation we worked two weeks in Camp, inwhich we had forty-three registered in Junior Camp and twenty-six in Senior Camp, held at the Seminary grounds. The missionaries and church leaders worked in-the-Camp—all were happy withthe results, and we believe the young people learned a lot.

This month the leaders of the Outeiro Road church, with whichwe have been working near Icoaraci, decided that the church mightgrow more and the members take more responsibility, if the children from the Home near the church did not attend there. So wehave begun to meet separately—with good results so far. Membersare beginning to attend more regularly. One Sunday night therewere 55 present. Morning attendance is not so good and we willhave to work on this. Sunday is the main shopping day for thesepeople and most of the men have to work too.

Some people have wondered if Beverly teaches her Bible schoolclass in Portuguese or English. None of the people understand English, so it has to be in Portuguese. Her Portuguese isn't bad at all.I wish you could hear her.

The dedication of the new Outeiro Road church house was heldin July. Nearly two hundred people were present, including a busload from another church. During the week before, the men painted tiie building. It is very pretty. They built a platform and hada pulpit made. Thanks to you who have contributed to our workingfund for your help in this project. The church is repaying abouthalf of the cost, which was loaned to them—over $1000.00. It willtake several years for them to repay; then we hope they will helpother churches in other places. We will teach them toward this end.

In July we took a vacation trip after Camp, going to Salinas,on the Atlantic coast, driving there over mostly good roads, andspent three days. It was a nice trip, and we rested a lot-gettingready to start in again in the Seminary and other activities.

The Agulha church, with which we have also been working, inIcoaraci, has had five baptisms in the past few weeks: three men,a woman, and a teen-age boy. This church has a Brazilian preacher, who also studies in the Seminary; so we spend less time withit than with the other church. There are always more men presentthan women and children in the Agulha church.

This year we have had the pleasure of having missionaries visiting with us in our home for a total of about three and a half months.Sometimes it looks like a hotel here! We've learned how to getpeople into the country; how to get them out; and a lot of otherthings, helping various ones. It takes many hours of running around.

You good people who send offerings and keep us in your prayersmake this work possible. Since it is difficult adequately to expressappreciation, we just say "Thanks"! We will be happy to hear fromyou —postage rate by Air Mail for one-half'ounce is now $.15.Please continue sending all gifts to our Forwarding Agent, J FredBayless, at his new address-Box 492, Oldvis. New Mexico.

Faithfully yours in Christ,

DAVID M. BAYLESS

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Part of the boya of the Children's Home in front of Boy's Dormitory, along withtwo of the workers and a turkey pet.