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'orm & ary
Dungan
ApdOo
Postal
#741
Published
Quarterly
January 1970
VJHAT
IN HEAVEN
NAIffi ARE YOU
DOING THERE?
How d o
you go about
winning
a city of
120^000 people
to
Christ?
In the States t here
are
ways# You begin with referrals
-
hrist
ians
who
have
moved to your cityo
You
place a notice
in Standard» o ne
in
the
local
newspapero
You
put
up
a
sign
in
front
of
your new meeting
placeo
You
ask neighbori ng
congregations
to help
in calling•
But
what
do you d o if
you're
a foreigner, if there are
no
Christ-
lana
wiLlUri 200
Mlesri^r^hy'^iir^^tioh tthe entXre state),
f̂
ou can't
s e t u p a
s i g n t h a t w o n ' t
be d e f a c e d o v e r n i g h t , a n d if
99^
of t h e
p e o p l e
have
been
taught that
you're
evil?
You can buy
radio
ti me wherever
you can
find
a station
that
will
accept your programo I n some states
you'll
find one station willingr
in
others n o n e : -
in others,
if
you're lucky, eight. Then
you
hope
that
some
of the
120,000
people
in
your city
will
listen
to
your program.
You can di stribute lit erature on street corners to passers-by,
hoping they'll read it.
You can of fer Bible correspond ence courses by mail
for
those who
fear to be seen
publicly studyi ng the Bible,
You
can open the doors of the
meeting
place
and hope
that
word
o f
mouth will bring the
curious
to study.
You can of f er English classes, hoping to create interest also
i n
spiritual
things.
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begin
a
do or-to-door, perso^
tyo
You
make
friends,
talk
b u t e t r a c t s -
n y t h i n g
t o l o i c
to-person
c a m p a i g n
to
c o v e r
the
e n t i r e
ci -
teach,
sell or g i v e a v j a y Bibles, distri-
ing people to a decision
for
Christ®
yo
u o i f you're i n Queretaro, Mexico,
and
p e o p l e ®
You
don't get discouraged
because
His
Word
will not
return to
Him void®
Yo u
N U E V A S "
/ B w a y n j -
' • g o o d
news,"
o f
course®
I t
words
for -news®" One word
tion one
hears on
the radio
used
to refer to the gospel
These
are
the things
trying
to
reach her
120,000
y o u
r e a d
G o d ' s p r o m i s e s
t h a j b
r e j o i c e t h a t in
t w o
w e e k s y o u ' v e c o v e r e d
f o u r
s t r e e t s ,
s o l d t w o
d o z e n
New
Testaments, distributed
ing
the
Bible with
you
i n
th
i t O O
tracts, and have five new
people
study-
eir
homes®
And
you
pray®
^ I R I T U A L
SPANISH
us New-wave-us/® What i s the gospel? Why
is
'good"
- happy, wonderful, b e n e f i c i a l (
And i t
i s ' " n e w s " - nformation or notices® Spanish, however,
has
two
(noticias) i s used to
refer to the
informa—
or TV or
reads i n
the newspaper® The
word
though, (nuevas)
i s entirely
d i f f e r e n t ®
I t
m e a n s
- n e w
t h i n g s ® " So
t h e
' g o o d n e w s " in
M e x i c o is
s t i l l
^ ' g o o d , " but
it's also " n « ? w "
-
unique, T i r i T T r i t a t e d , — u p = t o = d a t f i _ i n _ e v e r y generaW.©^
The g o o d news is that " ' i n C l b r i s t aU hings are made new®"
UNCUSSIFIEDS
Eight radio stations
a i r
Momentos" (Sweet Moments)
e
ow
carrying
our radio program,
weekly®
The
Dungan family will b
2
and
vfe
would like
to
s
the California-Arizona
around
Illinois,
Kentucky
ly in
the
Texas-Oklahoma
i n
y o \ i r
congregation,
W |
It's V. Bo So planning
materials, we have the
e
i ti
•Dulces
n
the States from September 2
to
October
tart arranging our s c h e d u l e ® We'll
be
in
area
first
(for about a week)i then in and
, n d
T e n n e s s e e
( a n o t h e r
w e e k ) ' a n d
f i n a l -
section®
I f
you'd
like to
have
us
speak
n't you
v / r i t e requesting
a date.
me
again® I f
you're looking for mission
[ i
ollovdng
available
a ® M e x i c o d i s p l a y m a t e r i a l s ( a v a i l a b l e
M a r c h
1)
b o M i s s i o n s t o r y p a c k e t w i t h
5
l e s s o n s
a n d
a c t i v i t i e s ( a v a i l a b l e
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FINANCIAL REPORT
Receiptsg
October
1,
1969
-
December
31j 1969
Merrill
Dungan
and Christi ne, Garden
Grove, Calo $250o00
First
Christian
Church,
Phoenix, Arizona 226ol7
First Christi an Church, Yuma,
Arizona
750oOO
Yuma
Congregation
and Friends Living
Memorials
f o r
Mrso
Anna Hackman
(mother of MrSo Anne Iserman)
20o00
MTo
John
L« Killer (f ather o f
Mrs®
Barbara
Green)
20o00
Clara
Totton,
Danville,
111.
l OoOO
Friends 65-00
Floyce
Haas,
Garden
Grove,
Cal« 25-GO
Sam Hopson, Cadiz,
Ky-,
Christmas
gift
50«00
Mto
&
Mrso
Wmo K. Jamiso n, Odessa, Texo 75-00
Parker Heights Christian Church, Od essa, Texas
I860OO
Second
Church
of Christ, Danville, Illi nois 150oOO
Second
Church
of
Christ, Danville, Illi noi s,
Fifth Grade girls Christmas offering for
Heather
6081
Wallonia Christian Church, Cobb,
Ky» 60«00
Wallonia Christi an Church
Missionary Society, Cobb,
Kyo 15-00
Mr®
& r s i ^ i i i v
i i . « Sanders,"Cadiz^ Ky- 2O0OO
Westwood
Christian
Church, Mad i son,
Wisconsin
AOoOO
First Federal Savings & L oan, Yuma, Interest earned 1969 17-13
Disbursements $1,986oil
Dungan*s salary, three months
$848^02
Convention
expenses, Sabinas, Coahuila,
Octo
7»
S, 9
Gas $60o00
Food $8o00
680OO
Christmas gift 50-00
Memorial gifts
for Spanish
language Christian
literature 40-00
Check Charges,
First National
Bank,
Y x a m a
-80
1 , 0 1 6 - 8 2
a H R I S ' n - i A S PROGRAMS The Christmas
plays
went well-
We
had a number o f
v i s i t o r s at b o t h
p e r f o r m a n c e s
(one in
A p a s e o el A l t o , o n e
in
Q u e r e t a r o ) -
Nearly 100 children were at Apaseo
- we
barely had enough
treat bags f or
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FAMILY
AFFAIRS, by Mary
Santa
Glaus
brought
a
special
package
via American Ai rlines
this
Christmas
-
my Mom and
Bad
(Mr^ and
Mrso
F < . F , Grif fi th, Danville,
1 1 1 . ) -
They left Chicago i n
a
terrific snowstorm
and v j e r e
pleasantly surprised
at
our
70+®
weather
here» 'All i n all,
our
holidays
were much merrier
because of
their
week'^s
presence,
I
Heather enjoyed
her
first "real" Christmas
this year,
too,
I donH
k n o w h o w
m u c h
s h e
l i k e d t h e
j g i f t s , b u t s h e r e a l l y e n j o y e d t e a r i n g o f f
the paper. She wanted to
open
everyone^s gifts.
With the
return
of
P o l c J
Huitron from his s t u d i e s a n d
the
addition
of the Thomas
de la
Cruz family to the work. No rm's travels have been
c u t d o w n . H e n o w t r a v e l s ' t o S a n M i g u e l d e A l l e n d e ( a b o u t 4 5 m i l e s )
t v r i . c e
a
week,
but the
rest
o f his ti me i s spent here i n Queretaro, Al
though I
don't see
any more
bf him, at least I know
we're
in the same
city.
W e
w i l l
b e
m a k i n g
o u r
s L m i - a n n u a l
t r i p
t o
t h e b o r d e r n e x t m o n t h
( F e b r u a r y ) , l i / h i l e
t h e r e N o i r m
p l a n s
t o
h a v e a b u t a n e
t a n k
i n s t a l l e d
in
" t . h e truck; With: all t h e "
traveling he do es t 2 ^ 5 , 0 O C r i i d : l e s
i n ? aonthstv
gas expenses really
mount up.
Butane will cut these costs by about
2/3,
I am
still
plugging a v r a . y at school, hoping that the childrei
l e a r n i n g
a
l i t t l e
E n g l i s h ,
j [ t h i n k
I ' m
l e a r n i n g
m o r e
S p a n i s h
t h ^
are
English, however.
the^
-0
A s y o u
p l a n y o u r
v a c a t i b n t h i s s um m e r , th i n k o f
u s . W e w i u l d ' ' b 6 ( ^
happy
to
have you
visit, and,
even do
some work. We plan
to be hd
s u m m e r (with
t h i e
e x c e p t i o n of a q u i c k
b o r d e r
t r i p
in
J u l y , s o
c o n s i d e r
this
your personal
invitation
to
visit
Mexico, We
make
only
one
re-
quest
- please
let
us
know
when
you plan to come, _
_
—
fWn
rfom
Mission to Mexico
c/o
Mr, & Mrs,
Joe
L, Green
645 9th
Avenue
Yuma, Arizona 85364
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7"^ om
Norm & ary Dungan
ApdOo Postal #7A1
Queretaro, Queretaro
Mexico
Published Quarterly
April 1970
"GOD IS
DEAD"
,IN MEXICO
W h e n
you
t h i n k
of • • E a s t e r , " what
p i c t t i r e d o y o u a s s o c i a t e
w i t h
it?
An e m p t y t o m b , m o s t
l i k e l y :
o r
p e r h a p s a n
a n g e l
a p p e a r i n g t o
w o m e n a n d
announcing, * ' H e is
risen "
For
Christians in
the
U o So,
Easter means
resurrection,
lif e, and,
therefore,
joyo
Not
so
in
Mexicoo
Here
the
accent
i s
almost entirely
on
death,
L e n t i s o b s e r v e d m o r e
o r l e s s
s t r i c t l y ( m a n y
m e a t m a r k e t s
s^ply c l o s e
their doors during the
40
d a y s ) ® Then comes Holy
Week,
which brings
s p e c i a l s e r v i c e s ? a
T h u r s d a y n i g h t
c o m m u n i o n s e r v i c e a n d a r i t u a l
f o o t -
washing by t h e p r i e s t s , a n d a Friday
ni^t
P r o c e s s i o n of S i l e n c e i
The
Procession
of Silence is most c u r i o u s o At about 6s30 p o
m®,
all
Roman
Catholic
faithful
gather
at
one
of
the
largest
temples®
From
t h e r e
t h e y b e g i n a " f u n e r a l
m a r c h "
f o r J e s u s - - a m a r c h t h a t t a k e s t h e m
all
o v e r t h e c i t y ® In t h e
l e a d
a r e d r u m m e r s w h o b e a t out
a
f u n e r a l
d i r g e ®
B e h i n d
th^
c o m e
m e n
o f
a l l a g e s ,
a l l d r e s s e d i n r o b e s a n d
h o o d s ( j u s t l i k e t h o s e o f t h e K u
K l u x
K l a n ) , a l l w i t h
f e e t
b o u n d w i t h
c h a i n s , a n d a l l c a r i y i n g l a r g e w o o d e n c r o s s e s ® I n t e r s p e r s e d a m o n g
t h e
c r o s s — c a r r i e r s are c o u n t l e s s women and girls, d r e s s e d i n mourning b l a c k ®
T h e y
a r e
c l u s t e r e d
a r o u n d f o u r
i m a g e s ® T h r e e
a r e
o f J e s u s — t w o o n
t h e
c r o s s ,
a n d o n e
in
a
g l a s s e d - i n
c a s k e t , w r a p p e d
in
h i s
g r a v e
c l o t h e s ®
The f o u r t h
is
of Mary,
r a i s e d
on
hi^,
r e s s e d
in
royal
c o l o r s ,
w i t h a
h a l o s h i n i n g a r o u n d h e r h e a d ® W o m e n c a r r y
t h i s
i m a g e ,
a n d
t h e m a j o r i t y
of the "inourners" surround
and
follow i t®
A s M a r y
a n d I w a t c h e d
i t
f o r
t h e
f i r s t t i m e
h e r e in Q u e r e t a r o ,
it
s e e m e d
a
m o r b i d ,
d e p r e s s i n g
p e r f o r m a n c e ® F o r
most,
h o w e v e r ,
it
w a s
a
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The
only time
there
was real reverence
v ; a s
when'
Mary's
image passed,
:l3
'-y
The
death
of
Christ
it is
not the
whole story-
taro» The climax
of
Easter
not
His resurrectiono In
t h e
g r e a t m a j o r i t y o f
p e r s < j )
this
not a strange way to
from Paul's proclamations
is
risen
from the deado"
part
of
the Easter st ory,
of
the
Gtospel;
r shouldn't beo But it was here in Quere-
t feek was
the
remembrance of Christ's death—
fact. Holy
Week ended
on
Saturday
here f o r
: i s » Sunday received
little
attention®
I ls
slebrate
the Resurrection season? How
far
^ ' ' B u t
the
certain faet
is that
Christ Jesus
:
Corinthians 15s20®
NEWS IN BRIEF
We have
had
the p r i v i j A e g e
of
baptizing 7 persons into Christ i n
the past iionth—A
from Apaaso el
Alto, 2 rom Celaya,
and
1 fro m Quere-
taro® Most of these were wp ;
taneous
evangelism, we feel
of dependence o n "the prof e3
n by native
Christian
families
This spon-
indicates real strength and a healthy lack
sionals®"
T h e
T h i r d
Annual
M i s s i p :
March®
Brother
Woodrow
P
iiremendous series of challen
and Ideas
n
f p : : *
e ask your
prayers
ed
in
Monterrey®
There
i p
t i o i i ® But
politics
are
a n o t h e r m o n t h
at l e a s t
b e f ( j > :
stc
We
also ask your concpp
ister the "KLnos de Mexico"
had typhoid
and
hepatitis,
pneiomonis,
and rheumatic
$ 4 j > 0 0 0 ® The normal
orphans
week the home
was without W)
raise nearly $2,000 to
help
ren in the U .S. Would you
er? And
if
you feel led
n
and mail i t to us
here
we i l l
ary
Reunion
was
held the second week of
i i i l l i p s o f San Jose
Bible College
brought a
ges,
really iielpiftg us evaluate our
methods
Bro® Pablo
Pacheco,
who
has
bePn
impris on-
absolutely
no
justif ication
for his
deten-
ong,
and Lo nnie
Pacheco
tells us
it
will be
te
his
father will be "quietly" released®
or the Merlyn Beeman family, who admin-
orphanage i n
Mexico
City® Bro®
Beeman has
and
one
of the children now has hepatitis,
ever®
Medical bills now
amotint
to
over
g e operating fund has been
depleted®
For a
uter
and
lights® The L or d has helped us to
in this crisis—much of it
from
our
breth-
li ft up the Beemans and their
work in
pray-
s e n d an o f f e r i n g ,
m a k e it
o u t to
Merl^
take it personally
to
the orphanage®
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FINANCIAL REPORT
Receipts;
January 1, 1970- arch 31» 1970
Central Christi an Church, Bakersfield ,
Cal« $
4»10
Friends
800,00
Minnie
C.
Dungan, Tulare,
Cal, 100,00
First Christian Church,
luma, Arizona
750,00
First Chtarch
of
Christ, Covington, Ind, 17#50
Friends 50.00
Parker
Heists
Christi an Church, Odessa,
Tex. 186.00
Second
Church.of
Christ,
Danville,
111.
108,00
V / a l l o n i a Christi an Church, Cobb, Ky, 60,00
Wallonia Christian Church Missionary Society, Cobb,
Ky, 15#00
Mr, and Mrs, E, E,
Sanders,
Cadiz, ky.
15.00
Westwood Christian Church, Madison,
Wisconsin
20,00
Interest earned 1969>
First
Federal Savings & oa n, Yuma 14.52
T , -
u
4 . $2,150,12
Disbursements;
9̂̂
Dungan's salary, three months 1,006.89
Christmas
gift.
Heather ( 5 " t h Grade
Girls,
Danville 6,81
- O f f i c e
supplies and expense,
Yuma
1 6 . 8 9 -
Recorder, two microphones
212,00
San Antonio, c o n v e r t
t r u c k to
b u t a n e gas,
g a r a g e bill 356,00
Gas and butane expense, trip
to
San Antonio
52,00
Microphone *57.00
50 Tapes
101,00
Tape cleaning e q u i j a n e n t , leader tape, Spanish hymn records 21,00
Merlyn Beeman, Ninos de Mexico,
Mexico
City 500,00
Bank charges
(Printed
checks 6.88, check expense ,90) 7,7S
$2,337.37
EXCERPTS
FROM
NORM'S
L E T T E R S : * ' C o r r e s p o n d e n c e
requests
continue to come
i n
well.
We
distributed
another
800
cards yesterday
i n
Queretaro,
I'm
getting behind
i n
the
correspondence
- iling, grading, mailing o f ma
terial,
.Tomorrow
I preach
for a
Mobile
Home caravan stopped i n
Que
retaro. Be
strange
to speak
to
an
English-speaking congregation again
,,,,,,.Good
news.
Folks will be in Queretaro
this
simimer
to help
us
start
an o r p h j ^ n a . g e the area. N e e d is t r e m e n d o u s . Will start
with
^
aximum
o f 25. Add
this
need
to your prayer list, would you? God be
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-
ontinued
Our
di splay materials are now available from MRS*
Wo
Ko
J A M I S O N , ^
3000
IAUREL5
ODESSA, TEXASo
Please
write
her
for
bookingo
The boxes,
2
id entical ones,
contain
a'variety o f objects® Also available
i s an
entirely new program booklet for
VoBoS®
and missions emphasis® I t con
tains
10 stories about the
work
here,
workers, etc® This booklet
may
be u s e d with the display or a l o n e ® Please write for a
sample
of
this
nevf kit®
Several
speaking dates
are
still
open
for our fall trip to the
States, September 2 to October
2 ®
Write us HERE f or
dates, airmail®
'
•
I
FAMILY AFFAIRS, by Mary
A week's vacation from
school fo r the
Easter holidays was
a
wel
come breather
f or
me®
Heather also
benefitted
because
I
finally
had
time
to
make
her some
much
needed clothes® She's
grovJing rapidly now®
Back in school,
we
are
busy
planning a
Mother's
Day p r o g r a m ®
This
i s
quite an occasion in Mexico®
Heather
continues
to amaze
us
with new
things. She is
accumulat
ing quite a vocabulary—including a
few
Spanish words®
She
also loves
to play
with
other children n o v r and squeals
at
the
top o f her lungs
with delight®
One
thing
keeps
us
puzzled,
though® We
can't
figure
out
why she
puts
her
finger
i n
her
ear
when
she
says ^ ' H e l l o ® ' '
Norm continues to be busy with
a
variety of
activities;
and
I spend
most
o f
our time
saying goodbye
to
h i i Q ®
The
t e r e s t a m o n g
p e o p l e in
t h i s a r e a
i n
l e a r n i r ^
a b o u t
C h r i s t ,
how^^r, V
more than compensates for
his
being g o i ^ s o i ^ u A c h y ^ ' . v
g r o w i n f e ^
o
n
Mission to
Mexico
c/o Mr®
& rs®
Joe
L .
615 9th Avenue
Yuma,
Arizona 85361
Green
:::yuma.
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Mom
'70
"FYI
FFG
"On BEiwe A New
Testament
Christian]"
(cONTfNUEO FROM LAST WEEK)
The Catholic Priest
who
pressured the Station mana
ger INTO TAKING NoRM
DuNGAN'S
PROGRAM
OFF
THE
AIR
also
PRINTED^HIS
i n
THE PAPER :
"The Station manager couldn't resist the temptation
EVERY PENNY
HE COULD
SO, REPRESSING
HIS OWN
CONSCIENCE AND DENYING
THE
TOWN
OF ITS
MOST
HOLY
POSSESSION,
ITS FAITH, HE TRAN SMITS EVERY SuNDA Y A
Protestant program that
no
one should be
allowed
to hear. We
Catholics
SHOULD not
allow
THEM TO CONTINUE WITH THAT
SORT
OF TRASH, WHICH
HURTS
OUR
EARS
AND OFFENDS
OUR
DIGNITY AS CHRISTIANS,"
Norman
reports
the Station manager
has received
threats
on his
life
and
AN anonymous letter THREATENED HIS
WIFE
TO
BE "SLIT
OPEN
LIKE A PIG" IF
SHE
WERE
IN
Agreement
with her husband.
He
has been forced to carry a
PISTOL FOR PROTECTION OF HIS LIFE,
ThE
MANAGER
WROTE
NORMAN
"ThE
LYING
FATHER HAS
STIRRED
U P
THE WHOLE TOWN,
I
WOULD
BE
READY TO FIGHT HIM,
BUT
HE HAS
DIABETES
AND I F
ANYTHING
HAPPENED
TO HIM
AND
HE
DIED,
WE'D
SURELY
HAVE THE WHOLE POPULATION
UPON
US."
FvFR WnripgR_WHAT IT WOULD
BE
LIKE I N
USA
I F
ROMAN
CATHOLICS WERE IN THE
MAJORITY?' •
PRAYER
REQUESTS
L akeview: Cindy Maid en,
medical, Mrs.
Paul Cook, surgical.
St.
Elizabeth: Abbie Forker. Bill Ricketts. & Bill Hacker, medical.
CoNNtE MlDDLETON. Mt. Verhon,
PAUL
CooK.
WA, A T
HOME:
Art
Harkhess.
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scott. Mary Hosch.
Ruby
Helton.
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BAJIO
CHRISTIAN hISSION FACT
SHEET
WHO
?
WHERE ?
WHAT ?
Norman,
Mary,
and
Heather Dimgan,
Queretaro, Qro.,
Mexico
Clinton and
Melba
Looney, Quertaro (moving to Micheacan)
Mrs, Hazel Rathbern, San Miguel de
Allende
Polo
and Glenna Huitron, Celaya
Tomas and Elba
de
la Cruz, Native
Preacher,
Queretaro
Robert and Beverly
Vlright
(announced coming to Queretaro
i n August)
1.
2.
3.
5.
6.
5
Congregations
(l established this
year);
lA
baptisms
since October
5 Regular preaching
points (no
baptized believers, but
many prospects)
Visitation
in over 15
other
cities, towns, and villages.
Includes
Bible
correspondence
card
distribution. Over
5000
pieces
of literature have been personally distributed
in
2
months.
Since January,
1970, a
weekly l5-minute radio broad
cast "Dulces
Mementos," has been
made
and
i s now on
lA stations,
Tomas
d e
la
Cruz
i s
the sp eaker.
Bible Correspondence
courses;
in
connection with the
broadcasts.
Over A O O
students are
currently
enrolled
from
50
cities in 10
states.
Several excellent prospects are
contacted, but workers are desparatelj'" needed to culti
vate these contacts.
Christian Service Camp began July 6th, We have over
100 campers
this first
year. Over one third of
them
are non-Christians,
7, Orphanage
work to begin
in Qugust, v;ith
the Bob Wrights
directing.
HOW
MUCH
NEEDED ?
$25.00 wil l buy a month of radio time on
one
station
$25»00
will send out
1,000
Bible Correspondence Courses
$25.00
will buy and
send out lOj^OOO
tracts
$175.00 monthly will support Tomas de
la
Cruz, native preacher,
and thus keep the radio work going
$150»00
monthly will provide the remainder
of the
Living
Link
" needs for the Dungan family
WHY ?
BECAUSE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
OF
PEOPLE IN THIS /iREA /iRE
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7?
om
Norm
&
ary
Dungan
Apdoo
Postal #741
Queretaro , Queretaro
Mexico
Published
Quarterly
Summer
1970
ME
GET
LETTERS
I want to share with you portions o f
just
a f w letters we have
received
recently
from our radio listeners—letters that
request the
Bible correspo ndence courses which we
offer#
I
hope
that
you'll
be
able to
catch
some
of the sense
of
longing to
know the
Word
of
G o d
vMch these letters reveal;
greatly desi re the opportunity
to read the Bible# •
#
so
that
I
ight
be
able
to get out
of
the
darkness
in
which
I
ive# < >
#1 am
from
Central
America; I ave
no
family here# Only Christ "visits"
me#
Please
come
and
teach
me#"
(Queretaro prison)
^'Please
send
me
the second co urse#
I
am
enclosing the
f irst
one
completed# I studied
it
thoroughly, and it has been a real bless
ing#"
(Queretaro)
'1
greatly enjoy
your program,
and I
thank you
for
sending
the
course I
equested.
However,
I must
ask
you not to send any
more
literature
to my
home# My family
has
threatened
to d o many evil
things to me i f
I
continue
to
study the Word
o f
God." (San Mguel#
The congregation
there i s
trying to reach the young man personally.)
heard
your program
this morning,
and i t
moved me
deeply.
I was
thinking o f i t
as
I
later walked,
and
as I passed
a
temple
where
mass was
ending, a
lady asked me, 'Why are you
crying?'
And I an
swered, 'Because this morning I have heard
the
beautiful Word of Go d
preached#'
Please,
if it isn't too much trouble, send me the
co r
respondence course
you
announced." (Michoacan)
"In a n s w e r t o p r a y e r , w e h e a r d y o u r p r o g r a m
t h i s
m o r n i n g # N o w ^
wish
to a sk you to send
4
f the boo klets you mentioned#
There
are
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sells
and we
will
see if
visit
us,
it would be a wonderful thing
now
h a v e r e g u l a r
Bible
s t u d y w i t h us on
v i s i t i n g days.)
We continue to receive
now
heard
15 times a week
willing to
underwrite
the
Although I've been
you to
know that every
requestedo We thank
yo u
generosity
on behalf of
t
erated
on
and
that
' ' m O j S t M
at
the B o r n e nowo Merlynj
to assume
full
responsibi
last
word
we can buy
one,
And if you could come
to
(Celayao These 4
nmates
an
average
o f
5
letters
a day—and
we
are
on
14 stations®
Just
recently a
5000
watt
s t a t i o n w a s a d d e d ® W o u i i i y o u p r a y w i t h us
t h a t w e
m i g h t b e
a b l e
t o
find
indi viduals, Bible
School
classes and congregations
v r i i o will be
costs of these
programs?
POTPOURRI
I n
response
to
our
request
for
help,
many
of you have sent off er
ings
for
the Merljm Beemaas-either to
them
personally
or
through
us®
unable to thank
each
o f
you
personally,
I
want
offering
mailed to us has been sent o n as
all for your great outpouring
of love
and
t i i s need® As nearly
as I
an f i gure, over
$4000
in
special gifts have been sent as
a
result of the p l e a «
I'm h a p p y
t o
r e p o r t
t j i a t J a i m e (the boy w i t h c a n c e r ) h a s b e e n op-
o f
the
malignancy
was
removed®
He
is
back
is
gaini ng strength, but will not
be.
able
lity
o f
the work
f o r several months
yet®
A t
,
e
was l o o k i n g
for
s o m e o n e to help out tempor^ily, s o
that Wanda,
his
wife,
could
get a well-deserved rest.
Pancho Villa's
followers
live againX That
was
the
headline
for
us
recently,
as
an
elderly
faith
in Jesus
Christ
anc
with
Pancho Villa
in
I ^ c
" r i d e ' »
w i t h
J e s u s
C h r i s t j
time to taste the joys o f
couple, both
i n
their 90's
confessed their
were bom
gain®
Both o f these fo lks rode
rthern Mexico years
ago®
No w they want to
Our prayer i s that
they might have the
Christian
living
before their Father c a l l s ®
What was,
to my
k n o w l . e d g e ,
the first
Christian
camp
i n this part
of
Mexico
was held
in
the state of Jalisco during the second week of
J U l y ®
O v e r 1 1 5 y o u n g
| p e o p l e a n d
a d u l t s f r o m c o n g r e g a t i o n s i n 5
states were
present®
There were 6 confessions
of
faith®
I t was
a
great
week
for the
congregation i n the village
of San Luis Soyatlan,
l o c a t e d j u s t a
few k i l o n i < i t e r s from
t h e
c a m p s i t e ®
F o r , o n l y a few
there underwent severe persecution fro m the
Roman churchj finally, government
troops
had
to
be called i n to pro
tect
the property
and lives o f the Christians including
the
Looney
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FINANCIAL REPORT
A p r i l
1,
1970
- une 30,
1970
Receipts;
First
Christian
Church,
luma,
Arizona
750,00
Friends 160,00
Mr, and Mrs, W,
K,
Jamison, Od essa, Texas 50,00
Parker
Heights
Christi an Church,
Odessa,
Texas 186,00
Second
Church of Christ, D a n - v i l l e , Illinois 242,06
Wallonia
Christian Church, Cobb, Kentucky 60,00
Wallonia Christian Church Missionary
Society
15,00
Mr,
and
Mrs,
E, E,
Sanders
15,00
Westwood Christi an Church,
Madi son, Wisconsin
20,00
First
Federal
Savings
&
oan, interest January to June 29ol4
Di bur
einent
s:
.,527o20
Dungan's
salary, three
months 1,006,89
Baptist Book Store, Nashville
-
Spanish hymn records
28,65
Directory o f
Ministry 5,00
Cook Stove 175.00
Convention
Expenses, Missi onary Reunio n 3/20/70
Registration $15, Lodging $6,96, Gas $8
Songbooks $14 ' -
43,96
Second hand
Elliott Addresserette 20,00
Second hand Gestetner Dupli cator 40,00
Expenses for mission
-work,
April and May
Rad io contracts, Thomas' salary, building rent 200,00
Four
Truck Tires
206,00
Two
radio station contracts. May
40,00
Supplies -
tracts,
envelopes,
radio
tapes,
tents
for
camp
330,00
Household furniture -
ed $48,
Refrigerator $80
128,00
First and L ast Month's rent.
New
Apartment
for
Dungans
192,00
Trip
to
border,
June
- Gas $40, Rooms 6 days $80 120.00
Expenses
for
mission work June
130,00
Bank charges, checks 1,30
$2,666,80
Barbara A, Green, Forwardi ng Agent
The work here in the Bajio
of
Mexico
was
carried to the North
American Christ ian Convention in the
f orm o f
a
booth
in the display
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orman,
Mary, Heather Duncan
APDO
Postal
741
Queretaro, QRO
Mexico
HELPBRING
TO
MEXICAN
B
Y:
RADIO,
LITE
teaching,
PRE
CHrjSt'
THE
HOPE OF
meXico
ACTS 26:18 I
send
you
to
open
the
r
eyes
and
turn
ai?kness To L ght —
^-August 8,
1970
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of Hiis.
.
.
. . orm
and
Mrs. Mary Dungan
report
from
Queret^rdT'Mexico t h a t t h e a d d i t i o n o f
^
^? I
a
5 , 0 0 - w a t t
s t a t i o n
n o w
h a s
t h e n - i p r e a c h i n g
t h e
G o s p e l V ' 1 5
t i m e s w e e k l y o n 1 4
s t a t i o n s ^ "
T k e t j
• a a a d
r e c e i v e a n a v e r a g e
o f
f i v e ^ ^ a i l ^ l e t t e r s ^ e q u e s t i n g a d d i t i o n a l
i n f o r m a t i o n
o r c o p i e s
of
the Bible correspondence courses. Funds are needed for
broadcast
and printing
costs.
Addressr Apdo. Postal #741, Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico. . .
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I .
Norn
& ary Dunrjan
A p c ' p o
Postal
? : 7 A 1
Cli-eretaro
Qiieretaro
k^exico ^
P\:"blished
Quarterly
Oqtober
197^
HS-UAY IT
IS ^
f
'
^
nnnber
of
people have told us they-d
like to
know
more about
our
day-to-day
a c t i v i t i e s o
There follows, then,
as
nearly
as
I can recon-
s t : i ^ u c t itj the
^month of August as
I
spent itp i a ' c h
of
a inissionary-s
life i s not very di ff erent from,your own^ and I won't include the usual
d a i l y
e v e n t s s u c h as c a r r y i n g o i r t trash, e a t i n g p s l e e p i n g j j p l a y i n g lith
Heatherp
etco;
but
you
may
rest
assured
that
I
did
plenty
df
each
First
V/eek
'Finished i r i o v i n g into n e i :
house Sent
out "Thank you"
letters to supporterso Caught up
on
correspondence
course . g r a d i n g ^ f i l -
in^p
and i u a i l i ^ i g - about 100 behind at start
o f
I ' c e k o j
Second
l e e k r .
Packed, picked up young
people,
and left for Youth
Convention i n I . d n t o r r e y o Hit
a . bull
on wayo Turned right fender i n
side o uto
Broke
headlights
N o
injuries—except
to
the
bulls
Conven-
Boys slept
Had a
flat
t ± ^ n w a s
g o o d p
b u t v e r y h o t s
. / e
t o o k 11 a r o u n d 2 5 0 in a l l ^ .
o n ^ f l o o r . I j a s c o w a r d — t o o k m o t e l r o o m w i t h 5 o t h e r m e n o|
0 1 1 * 0 on
t r i p
h p m e o
J a c k
b r o k e o Lost Ip h o u r s w o r k i n g o n i i t — r u i n e c . a
t > a i r
of p a n t s o It was d a r k " w h e n we g o t home—had
o n l y
1 e a d l i g h t s a n d -
it-nas raining, T l i N S I O N HEADACHE
Rested
a day;
w ^ o r k e d
in yard—over-
^ j i - p w n
with w - e e d s c No tools .
I
: h i r d
- . . e e k ^
H a d e m a s t e r t a p e s
f o r
r a d i o p r o g r a m— ^ w i t ^
T o m a s ,
T h e n
e r l i s e d old
p r o g r a m s
from copies
a n d r e - r e c o r d e d
with
n e w
material. Five
Webks in September—that's 75 c o p i e s , at 15
minutes
each
.is
??
h o u r s -
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F n U N C I A L
E S P p n T - J v l f 1, 1 9 7 0 t o O c t o b e r
3 1 ,
1 9 7 0
Receipts
I . ; / : :
O o
B o
A d a n i S p
Odessaj Texa
A l l e r t o n G h v . r c h o f C h r i s t y A l t l j -
I - A - S o
. i l l i e
B r i d g e S s f o r
Hoa^
C h r i s t i a n M e n - s A s s o c i a t i on i i j a
Church
of Christ W o n i e n ' s
Felic
l l i n n i e C o D u n g a n j
T \ . a a r e ^ C a 3 | *
First Cliristian Churchy C l a r k ,
First Christian
Church
C " . . F , Cl
First
Christian
Churchy l u u a a
A Friendc for
Kary
Friends (7) ,
Garden Grove Church
o f
Christ
l i / l l "A K o J a i n i s o n o O d e s s a , . Te
Northeast
Christian
Churchp S
Parkcrest Church
of Chris
L i
Second
Church
o f Christ,
Danu
i - ^ 4 l
) J e
Fo Sanders C o b b .
hallonia Christian Church..
CO
e
D
r t o i i p Illo
er
st Central Illinois
v 7 s h i p p
i v c b s t e r
Cityp l o u ^ a
fo
villSp
Tenno
.arksvillep Temio
riaora
Garden
Grove.
Gal.
cas
an
Ant oni o p Texas
akeuoodp Calo
d l l e p l i l o
• J a l l o n i a C h r i s t i a n C h u r c h
N i t
h ' e s t n - o o d Christian Church,,
Parker
Heights
Church of Chr^
t
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First N a t i o n a l
B a n l c
b a l a n c e ^ July 1, I970
Used
refrigerator unavailable^ return to account
R e c e i p t s
f r o m c o n t r i b u t i o n s J u l y
t h r o u g h
O c t o b e r
i r a n s f e r r e d from s a v i n g s
for
offset d u p l i c a t o r
$5A2o01
80,00
622,01
3,051o20
350,00
i ' ,023,21
3,892,61
130,60
1 0 3 . 3 / } .
Please
send
checks,
changes o f
address^
etc,^
to the
Greens
in
Yuma, Arizona
Less total
e : - c p e n s e s
July through O ctober
First N a t i o n a l B a n l c . b a l a n c e O c t o b e r 31,
1970
First
Federal Savings
&
oan
balance
Total funds i - i i s s i o n to K e j c L c o IO/31/70
Forwarding Agents
tir,
and lOrs, Joe
L, Green
6A5
9th
Avenue
Xumaj
Arizona 8536A
.
report
above
our
' sunplAi^^^" no l o n ^ ^ e r ,
i n
f a c t , e x p e n s e s r i s h t n o w a r e $ 1 5 0
per/feonth^l^an p l e d g e d
i n S o m g
t ' o ^ e m b e r v n t h
n Imrnnrr for o n e
m o n t h ( d u r i n g t r i p ) a n d 02 2 1 . 2 3 f o r ovMKlins, c l e a n i n g , r e p l a c i n g
r o l l e r s , p a c k i n g a n d
s h i p p i n g
t h e
offset
d u p l i c a t o r ,
~ o w e v e r ,
\ i e h a v e no p l a n s
t o . u t b a c k . n n _ t h e , o r l c , _ H e
a r e _ _ t X 3 i s t i n p -
i n
G o d
a n d
in
o u r b r e t h r e n
^o
r e
l e d
by
H i m t o
s u p p l y
t h e n e e d s ,
II0T5 FROi:
I I A R Y
I ' v e l e f u
• • i u e r e t a r o
A i . i g u s t 3 1
o n
o u r
s p e a k i n g
t o u r , t r a v e l i n g 9 , 0 0 0
mles t o p o j n t s i n
A r i z o n a ,
C a l i f o r n i a , O k l a l i o m a , K e n t u c k j ^
T e m e s s e e ,
^
i e x a s , I / e
t h o r o u g h l y
e n j o y e d it all (yes, e v e n c a m p i n g
in
o h e r a i n
f o r
a
v r c e k ) .
It w a s w o n d e r f u l to
v i s i t
v j i t h o l d f r i e n d s ^ a n d
t o
m a k e s o m a n y n e w o n e s . T h e t i m e p a s s e d e n t i r e l y t o o q u i c k l y ,
l i e
h a d
a
l i t t l e
t r o u b l e g e t t i n g b a c k i n t o
K e ^ d L c o
-
h e o f f i c i a l
at
SI
P a o s a i d
w e w e r e n - t
c a r r y i n g e n o u g h
m o n e y t o
w a r r a n t a s i x - m o n t h
s
permt.
So we d r o v e t o Del
Rio,
s e v e r a l h u n d r e d
miles
f u r t h e r south.
There
v / e went
r i g l i b throu.gh, v/ithout even
a
look at the off set press,
I ' l i i a e o g r a p h machine,
and
tape
recorder we
were
carrying.
Or the
30
quilts and '3 boxes of used clothing. You can see we vfere fortunate.
We have pliinged iiimediately
back
in t o the v/ork of catching up,
and
have new plans
and
ideas, and new zeal to get to irork on
them
- ut
still have
many
n o r . l e n t s iiien v r e reflect o n the
love
and generosity
you
have
displayed
toward
us, Lay
v r e
once
again
sa^' •TH/ITK YOU ,
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rQ
( C o n t i n v i e c l f r o j n P a g e 1)
Fovxth \-eeki Frjced
tru
o r i o Delivered tapes
to
statio
—got a c k ,
home
at
2
o i H o
3
100
miles in
another
directi
Kacrn'rest of
v/eek
to prepare
s p o n d e n c e c o u r s e
g r a d i n g ^ ; f i
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