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CHIIC'S
O M N C e
o r
CHRIST
A
R O D G E R L I N D A
P R O N G
C a s i l l a 1 3 8 7 1 *
C o r r e o 21
S a n t i a g o , Chile
C O R R ES P O N D IN G A G EN T
P E G
L E S N I E W I C Z
Rt .
4,
Bo x
100- A
W au seo n ,
O h i o 43567
J a n u a r y
3 0 ,
1 9 7 8
FORWARDING
A G E N T
KEVIN K A N E
Rt. 1,
Bo x
113-A
Delfa, Ohi o
43515
M P R S S S t O N S
The p l a n e t r i p wa s u ne ve n tfu l, th e
s t o p o v e r s J u s t
t h e
r i g h t l e n g t h ,
and
o u r
'v lugga ge was a l l
here
when we a r r i v e d In
\ San
Jose, Costa
Rlcal
There
was even some
lone
at
the airport to greet us, squeeze
y
a ll
our luggage in his tiny car and whisk
\
u s
t o
th e
p l a c e
we
w o u l d
c a l l
home
f o r
t h e
n e x t
e i g h t
months.
T h in g s
c o u l d n t
have
lieen g o i n g b e t t e r . We
oould
s e e G-od s
hand
a t
work e v e r y w h e r e . The house
o u r
f r i e n d s
i n
t h e
s t a t e s had b e e n p r a y i n g
f d r was l a r g e s p a c i o u s and even ha d
h o t
'
w ater i n th e s how er only) What luxury
G od
had
p r o v i d e d compared t o t h e crampe d,
r u n
d o w n q u a r t e r s
we
h3,d
b r a c e d o u r s e l v e s
for
B u t
it was n o t l o n g
b e f o r e
we
had no
^doubts we were
l i v i n g i n
a f o r e i g n
country,
h e re
i s
s o m e t h i n g
a b o u t
l i v i n g
t h r o u g h
two e a r t h q u a k e s
o n e
v o l c a n o
e r u p t i o n
three
cases
of i l l n e s s
and a power
failure
i n
tw o
weeks to make
yo u
s u s p e c t t h a t
t h i s
I s
n o t going t o be an y th in g l i k e
th e
s m a l l
t o w n yo u
left
i n O h i o
Then you go
out
to buy loaf
of
bread and the cashier looks a t you
l i k e
you
re
crazy
a f t e r you ve
used
your best,
and
o nl y S pa ni sh ,
He then
proceeds to
f i r e
back
a few l i n es of
very
rapid
and
completely
u n i n t e l l i g i b l e
Spanish (which you have
no
hope of understanding) and
a t l as t
very slowly
repeats
th e
p r i c e o f the
bread and something
else
you h a v e n t q u i t e figured
o u t .
At
t h i s
p o i n t
yo u
a r e
t u r n i n g
p urp le w ith
embarassment
and
hold
o u t
some money
only
the Lord and
t h a t
c a s h i e r know
what
i t s
worth).
As the
man
p i c k s o u t
a
fe w o f th e c o i n s ,
yo u a re d es pe ra te ly
hoping
he i s
honest
as both you and he realize
a t
this point that you wouldn^t
know
the differenie
i f
he d id
ta ke a
little
e x t r a .
A t t h i s
p o i n t
you
b e g i n
to s u s p e e t
t h a t
a d a p t i n g
to a f o r e i g n c u l t u r e
m i g h t
j u s t b e a little m o r e d i f f i c u l t t h a n
you
ha d f i r s t
a n t i c i p a t e d . You a l s o r e j o i c e
t h a t
God c a n do ll t h i n g s
a s
yo u a re a bs ol u te ly p o s i t i v e
t h i s
i s one t h i n g you have no hope
o f
e v e r
b e i n g
a b l e to h a n d l e o n y o u r own.
B u t l e a r n i n g t h e l a n g u a g e and
a d a p t i n g t o t h e
c u l t u r e o f
L a t i n
A m e r i c a
a r e j u s t
w h a t t h e s e
e i g h t
m ont hs
i n t h e S p a n i s h Lan g u ag e
I n s t i t u t e a r e
ll
a b o u t .
T h e r e
i s so
much
l e a r n i n g t h a t n ^ e d s to b e d o n e b e f o r e we c a n
even
begin
communicating
the gospel to the
people
o f
Chile
wWn we
a r r i v e
t h e r e i n A u g u s t ,
B u t
we
have
b eg u n and we
know
t h a t w i t h t h e h e l p o f
Our LOPI and th e
p r a y e r s
o f o u r f r i e n d s we w i l l be read y l
I ca n do a l l t h i n g s through Him who s t r e n g t h e n s me.
P h l l l l p p i a n s
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i i^PRESSIONS
I
LOVE Tm MOUNTAINS that surround us. . .
Blushing
rosey
pink
with
the sun d first warming touch
Ifezy
blue
through
a
vei l
of mist
Singing l ife in a
soft, lovely green
frock
Black si lhouettes against crimson
. . . showing my MASTER'S AMAZING
CREATIVITY
ILOVE
THE
M N
that come
to worship,..
Warm,
dark
ebony
faces
rich
with-lVory smiles
Gleaming,
glowing Oriental gold ^
Shining sapphires
placed
in
rich settings of pearl
Bright
burnished
oo,pper reflecting Ithe l ight
V .i.showing my SAVIOUR S M RV LOUS
. . LOVE
PROGRESS ions
God answers our
.prayers
There are
many
of
you who have
been
praying
for us. fa i thful ly and we*d
l ike
to
share
with you some of the
w.onderful
ways
God
has answered
your prayers.
1.
We
are here complete with lugc^age nnd no outstanding
bl l l s l
2. Our Big Brother .and
Sister
got-us a house about two weeks before
. we,
l e f t
the s t a t e s . We
. love I t i
'
3- Things ..continue to move in a raarvelous way in
Chile.
4,
GTint'^s
schooling
has worked
out perfectly
and he
will
be starting
the
f i r s t grade in May.
5. We have s tar ted
our s tudies
and
are beginning to be
able to
comin-unicate with, some of
the
Spanish people here.
There are
s t i l l
many
things
we would
l ike
to have you pray for.
1 . We have no
Churches o f
C h r i s t i n
Cos ta Rica. . .
We
bel ievfe t h i s
i s
a
mat ter t h a t
n^eds
your
prayers ' .
2.
We wil l
continue
to need your
prayers
fo r
f inanc ia l support .
One thing we would especially
l ike to
have your
help with
is
.
pray ing t h a t God w i l l he lp us find '
a
work
to do
fo r
Him' whi le
we a re here . This I s^espec ia l ly d i f f i c u l t
with
the
language
: f
barr ie r .
*
: . .
4.
.Please be
praying tha t
God wil l continue to give
us st rength
Iri
eve ry phase o f our ad jus tm en t here . Many
miss iona r i e s
have
developed
emotional and menta l
problems
due
to
the
pre ssure s
of adjustment.
Some
have
even gone home s ince
we've
been
here .
j :
We
thank a l l
those
who have
cared
enough
about us
and
the
people
we are
goin^
to try to reach with the very best news a man could
have,
t h e
n ews that
God
l o v e s us
NEW
ADDRESS
Rodger and Linda
PRONG
Apar tado 10240
San
J o s e
Cos ta Rica
entral
A m e r i c a
REJ0I3
IN THE LORD ALWAYS,- AGAIN I SAY REJOICE
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S a n t i a g o C h i l e
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WauBeon Ohio
43567 Delta.
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HERS
IK CHILE
A.T
lAST
~
last I We arrived the second of August, and
the whole trip was just an amazing example of Ood^s provision and
S^f*
thank
you with all
our
hearts for
your prayers
for
our
trip,
the preparation
of
our papers, our support, and Sod s prepara
tion of a work for us here. Sod has answered a l l those prayers in
v e r y s p e c i a l ways .
Everything worked
out
just perfectly with our visas and a l l the
other
papers
we
needed to have In
order
to leave as
we
had
planned
on the thirtieth of July. We arrived a t the
airport
two hours before
the scheduled departure time to discover that
a ll other
TACA
flights
t ^ t
day had been cancelled as the planes
were
being held
up
in
E1 Sa^v dor__by._astrike
there.Allo- ^herf-l-i-ghteuo
Panama(-w^iere
we were
to catch
our
plane to Chile)
were full,
of
course.
If
you
have y6r planned and prepared to go someplace for nearly two years
you will know exactly how we fel t . There was a
oossibility
that,we
might get out that night, though.
TACA
was going to borrow a plane
from COPA and
see
If they couldn t sneak the ir f light on through
*
f
This,
of
course,
was
going
to
take a l i t t l e
extra
time.
u - ^ f
hour set-back
from
the
scheduled departure time and they were s t i l l not certain they could
actually
do
i t .
In the
meantime
God
did a very
interesting
thing.
One
of the young Costa Rlcan
women
fi^m the
church
we
attended
had
come to the airport to see us off.
Now this
may not
seem
especially
surprising
unti l
you
know we hardly
knew each other.
As
the time
passed sne of those
who
had come to see us off had to leave, and
by a combination
of circumstances,
Linda found
herself
alone with
this woman for nearly an hour. What God did in thla hour
was
amazing
-.2
vom rx had been a Christian nearly three years,
out. r e i t like she and most of
the
other young
adults
weren t
doing
aything
for
the Lord. What followed was a
discussion of
how each
Christian
has his
own task
and
how he
must seek God s
wil l
to find
out what that task i s . They talked of how a person can find God s
will,
prayer, and
a l l
the
possibilities there really are
for service*
She
became
so
excited
and
a t
l a s t
said
that
she
knew God had
sent
her to
the
airpor t to
ta lk with
Linda.
She
d i d n t
know what the
Lord
would have for her
to
do,
but
she
did know
she wanted
to
begin by
telling the
other
young people
in
the church about the things she
had
learned.
Our
plane finally did come
and we sighed
In
relief
and f o r
Joy
as we began our
Journey
to Chile.
In
Panama we
were to catch
a
non-stop f l i g h t to Chile. We w i l l
always remember Panama. I t was
there
we learned
they
were going to
charge us ^^1,500.00
for
our luggage
and that, by
the
way,
they
had
ove rbook^ our
f l ight and
the plane
would
not
be
taking
on
anyone in
Panama. Now to
get
the ful l
impact
of
this
you
must
know
that i t
was
three
o
clock
in
the
morning,
and no
one
had
yet
been
to
sleep.Well , we
f i n a l l y
decided t h a t
t h e
tord had decided we needed a
v a c a t i o n .
We spent two days i n a
beaut i ful
hotel w ith a l l
expenses
paid i n the
n i c e s t
par t
of Panama
City.
During
t h i s
time
Lan Chile, the a i r l i n e
t h a t had overbooked t h e i r f l i g h t
was having
t h e i r
own
problems. They
couldn t find
a
space for us
on
any
of t he ir f li gh ts .
They
finally
put us on a Branlff fl ight to Lima, Peru af ter
scheduling
us for
^ -.-l ht that flew to Chl.e
via
Ar^gen.tina (whl sh ^
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V/e
s tayed ove rn ight
In Lima
and
a t last
arrived
In Santiago
the
second
of
August (two
days
la te)
to find
no
one waiting fo r us a t
* * ^^^1^ V w * A V* Vl U W '
they had
changed
their
telephone
number
(we
tried to call to get
someone
to come
ge t
us)
and had
met every
plane
coming
In from
we
f i na l ly
got
here
to
di scove r
God's o t h e r answers .
Q^od works
th ings
ou t j
PRAXER LIST
Tha t
God
wi l l
work In th e hea r t s
of these people and conver t them.
That
a Church may be establ i shed
hore In th i s area by Chris tmas.
t dod wil l
supply,
through
o
t lg. gHILDHgN*3
CORMER
Only a Boy
Like Oavld
Clint was
a
bright
s ix-year
old
with
suxiny yellow hair and two tee th missing
r ight In front . His family had moved from
the ir
home In
Ohio
to far-away Costa Rica,
where
his parents
were
new
miss ionar ies ,
Clint bad f e l t sad
leaving
his friends and
grandparen t s ,
bu t he t r i ed to
be brave
because he knew other boys and gi r l s
needed
someone to tell them
abou t
Je su s too l
Clint was In
the
f i r s t
grade
a t his
new
s choo l
In
Costa Rica
and C l i n t
had
a
problem# One day he ran In to the
house
crying
What 's
th e
mat te r Glin t? asked h is
mother
se t t ing down the needle and thread
0b
been
using
to sew on one of
hla
b u t t o n s ,
I
don't
want to go to school anymore^
Mother,* said Clint, as he wiped a big fat
t e a r
o f f
h is cheek
and
blew h is nose
hard
Into the handkerchief she
had gl1?en
hlm>
I thought you
l iked
your new teacher
and being In
f i r s t
grade,
said
Mother
putt lnj j
a
comforting
arm around him.
T do, but 1
don t
have any f r iends here
like
I did at my old School. All the boys
and gljrls here speak Spanish. When
they
t a lk , I c a n t understand them#
ho ^
ILZ
Mother
thoughtfully^
that
airport.
We
found
this
strange,
Is
a
big
problem
Do
you
remember
the
as we had sent four telegrams
keep-
Bible |story we
read
sometimes
of
another
them Informed
as to
what was boy
with
a giant problem?
hfiippenlng.
We
later found out that Xus,. that^s the story of David and
Qollath,
i t s one
of my
favourites#
'That^s
right,
answered Mother,
he
bad
a big problem too,
just
l ike you do Hs
only f ive l i t t l e
stones to use; but he
?^ma
Blnce Monday.
Because'of the had something much
more
Imi^ortant, too
? ^lPjione number they
He
bad Qod^s help. I think
maybe
he was
ot
vry
telegram late, and never afraid, too* but he asked
Ood
to help him
^ ^iylng In and Ood
did
aod wants to help
you
too.
rom
Peru. Well,
we
decided our Glint looked up Into Mother's face Do
22 ^ really thlxik I could be
like David???
e
wero the only passengers left from he asked hopefully.
If surrouned
by
Xes, (Hint, I do. Let's ask (Jod'to help
oinnirf drivers
left
at the you now. Together Clint and his mother
airport
(which
were really quite a asked God to help hlra
be
brave
like
David.
^re
through with t h e i r prayer ,
OentQr was.
We
mother smiled and
said, Now you will
need
ftnS looking through five stones, your five stones can be
five
ur briefcases uhat all the mission-. Bible verses you've learned about how Ood
mailing addresses
on loves and
cares
for you.
When
you feel sad
rf At las t we found about not knowing what the other
children
another missionary s leaflet
that
are saying. Just take out one of your
h^d pv
Rddrese
on^lt.After that ' stones^-arsl remember (3^ Is^^plng
you
make
friends
and
leam
Spanish.
Then
try
your
bes t to be f r iendly and kind cjod
' , ^ .w i l l help
you.
He
provided us with a per-
The
next day Clint
came
running into the
I
a \^ ohurch
touse with a great big grin
on
his face.
n
the
neighborhood In which
we are Ybu :