The Church of Christ Postal Mission

p. 0. BOX 503 KIMBERLEY, CAPE

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SOUTH AFRICA

31st. January, 1965

*5tudv'to show thyself

approved unto/Cod."

Dear Christian Friends;

Timothy 2:15
MISSIONARIES;

We praise God for His answer to prayerI As you know,

Robert S. Mills

we had set February as the date by which we hoped to pay off the debt on the A.B. Dick printer. The funds are now all on hand for' this payment. We thank God for His provision through His church for this need. One congregation in par
ticular has made a very substantial contribution for this
purpose.

Phyllis J, Mills
SPONSORED BY:
Webber Street Church of Christ

You have probably noticed that we made use of the

Urbana, Illinois
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Varityper in the Gospel Light paper this month. This being our first attempt, the margins are not yet perfect, but even so the improvement will be apparent. We retained the larger type for the benefit of African readers who have poor eyesight
and no glasses though this is variable to suit the need at
hand as well.

Mabel S. Mills
Box 134

At last, we have finished the Life of Christ Visualized

books, with the exception of a few flawed books we will do

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and dispose of at reduced cost probably. I have turned 1000 copies over to brother Stanley and will be sending the others at the first opportunity. We shall be starting another larger project shortly now.

At the last business meeting we asked the Kimberley Church of Christ to please
relieve us of the responsibility of the ministry there and suggested that they call
brother Joseph full time, which they were willing to do. From the end of this month he will assume the responsibility for the Kimberley work and we shall return to the Bantu side of the work and printing work. I have already contacted most of the chur

ches of this area asking that I may visit them before conference in April. After conference is over, I hope to set up a schedule of visitation whereby I shall be ble to spend a week or so at each church and lead in a preaching and teaching
program. We are especially interested in a training program for the church leaders. Please be with us as we lay plans for these meetings.

We have had many visitors in our home this month. The Wendel Freeman family stopped with us on their way to the preaching rally in Capetown and I accompanied them on from here. We had a most wonderful fellowship at the Rally as well as a good meeting with the missionaries. Ruth and Wendel stopped with us as we returned, of
course and the LeMay family as well. Lester and Donna were back with us a short time

brother and sister Berry Kennedy arrived on their way to Capetown to meet an arriving family. They will be back for this coming Lord's Day, the Lord willing.
We feel that the tent meeting was a great success though there were no immediate responses. Brother Roland preached some very challenging messages. My part was the provision of the daily song sheets, tracts, and the making of the arrangements, tent erection, etc. The average attendance was about 100 with at least 50 being there nearly every night. We rejoice in having had nine additions to the church family
earlier in the month, four by baptism, the others by transfer.
in Christ Jesus,
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later to help with the tent revival at Square Hill Park. They were still here when

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Fron Forwardiag Agent For Job Printing Done Befund froa Trek Airways Gasoline refund for trips Beviral collection at Joburg.
Sale of Books and Bibles Refund froa Consulate General

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Box 134

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Printing Supplies (Paper & Envelopes) Office Supplies and Equipaent Auto Bxpences and Travel
Telephone rental

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Insurances

(3rd party and office equipaent)

Building Perait
Books and Bibles

Designated Birthday gift for Kothy Passport renewal fees

Post Office Box Rental Check book

On Rand Deceaber 31st.

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R 3012.70

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The Church of Christ Postal Mission

P. 0. BOX 503 KIMBERLEY, CAPE SOUTH AFRICA
February, 1965

'Studv to show approved unto^'God!^**

MISSIONARIES:
Robert S, Mills

mtiiMiliy 2:15

Friends;

ksis^

Ph)[rlllis J. MiHs
SPONSORED BY:
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I had been busy doing lay(|tt% for p^iqting wh|n^I ran olt^'of s^teik walked up the hiiCfb the s^|| for mo|:|^ Now it. ksqi^ened that'i^had been there a few days #alier American \risitqr4S:T|rom Rh^^t^ia, a^ the shop^|eper astif me
somethingI ui1 Of course, i^^lSiought, ^'Oh, Oh, m^ tell you

A few days a|pEF^a rather interestWg thing happened

over, and as she'iSook hei^^nger ujd^ my nigt% she said, "Let

I replied,, "yes'^cfjhd imme(5,^ely a ffdy stan#inf nearby, joshed

if I "wasi also an American fflnce she^^d recognized their accent.

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h^tel" It developed that she had tofiied the while back and ttorwardinG AGENT^8PP'^^"^ly there. Of coy|;se we dd iPs well, but it
to be done here. We praise Ulm that He has aliWed us to have a part in it, and we truly r|foice a|_W(^ see thj|^xesponses
At the presehife^j^time we are workiInQ" to make ready for the

goes." but then she con^i^ued, "Y|>.ware craz^, living here, espec^ially

is hot just a mafclS^ of

and dlsJ^kes, t^^|.ord has a work

Mabel S. Mills
Box 134

West SaXem, Illinois

62476

Banttt chttrcfres before ^al^^e. Alirea^ t h^^?gone-oirtto-oiie of the near by farms and in the weeks tfiP'^me I hhfi to be able to visit many more of
the communities near by.

annual conference again. I hope to |^.|ible to visit many of the

able to plan longer visits and farther, ^wey. I hs|g)planne<feit> series w^evangelistic

We are also laying plans for after %dlff3ference^when it lj,my hope^hf^t we shall be

Since we simply can not just now spare^]^ Comme/^&r thes4^1i?ips, it has been necessary to purchase a special auto for them. Kefp^ng th^ahdition of the ro^r^in mind, and the distances as well, I have looked about very care|j|ljy and='fi^th& finally bought a u^ed Fargo pickup truck. This will be used aimq^st excteively ^r.^these tt^^ to the country
projiector can be powered by the Fargo bjgery, an|J-|all plan some sort of camping^ or
away a week at a time, the Lord willing.

used each evening after the message to^im^ress fiaBtJber the basic teaim^ftigs of th^church.

and teaching sermons and am also planni^^a series^of film strip les^i^ which can be

and we hope also to conference. I have gotten a special prl^cection bulb so that the slide

sleeping arrangement probably of the pickup campefe^a^ trailer sort since I plan to stay
The other three weeks of the month will be gi^ifft over to the printing and lessons.

It looks now as though our next big job will be the-re-printing of the lesson book i|i English. This will be the third printing of this book. Ihe present st&eJc is veryJtow:
agaeitt.' - ^

We thought you might be interested in the scripture for framing we hav^ on the back
this month. I am doing these especially for conference since thiis is the themfe of fhe

women's messages, lliey are being done in 5 languages. I will have frames available at^;, cost ^ a_nd then the scripture separate. I had also printed ear Her this month', fiteJc i6i:l6,

and I ifhess. 5:17. We think these should prjoye very popular for their homes, and we

may investigate seeing if bookstores would lik6 to handle them as well.

in Christ Jesus

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The Church of Christ Postal Mission

p. 0. BOX 503 KIMBERLEY, CAPE SOUTH AFRICA

1st. April, 1965

'Study to show thvself

approved untolSod/ XllTimothy 2:15

Dear Christian Friends,

We have spent most of the month of March with the

visitation of the Bantu churches. Some of these have not

MISSIONARIES:

Robert S, Mills

Phyllis J, Mills
SPONSORED BY:
Webber Street Church of Christ

been visited in about ten years or more. I can remember having been to one of them only once and another not at all, since we came to Kimberley. It was a delight to be able to visit them and to see how their work is progressing and to become acquainted with the brothers. On the 7th. I visited Campbell, Douglas, and Hopetown where I was very
well received. There were excellent attendances in all three

places. On the I4th. I called at Schmidtsdrift, Griquatown,

and Postmasburg. I have visited Postmasburg, but only sev eral years ago. I can not remember ever having been to

Urbana Illinois
FORWARDING AGENT: Mabel S, Mills
Box 134

Griquatown for worship services. There was an excellent gather ing in all three places, and I was pleasantly supprised to find
that the church at Postmasburg has built themselves an

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adequate, though temporary building since I was there last. A new location has been built there, so we must plan to build a new building there shortly, the Lord leading. On the 21st. I went in the opposite direction to visit the churches at

Delport*s Hope and Warrenton. I had some trouble in finding the way to Delport*s Hope
since they have recently closed the old road there and built a new one. They had probably
the best attendance there that I have ever seen in that building. Warrenton too, had a

very good gathering, however, I was very disappointed to find that they have not done any work on their new building since brother Nicholson was there to leadthem in it.

The building needs only plastered inside and out, the glass installed, and the floor finished to be completed, yet they are meeting in the minister's home rather than work at completing iti On the 28th. three of the girls and ^ made the long trip to Johannesburg, We stopped at Potchefstroom where I last visited probably ten years ago with brother
Stanley. These Christians also meet in a home. While we were there, we also visited
with Mrs Lehman and her son Qwentin. Qwentin is a New Testament Christian having been

baptized in Port Shepstone. Mrs Lehman is a Baptist, but both meet for the Lord's
Table, prayer and Bible Study each Lord's Day afternoon. Qwentin went with me to the loc ation and promised the Native church that he would try to come and help them with their Sunday School each week. He is in his latter years of high school now. We arrived in Johannesburg just in time to go directly to Noordgesig where I preached the tentrevival some months ago. They? are beginning to hold regular services there in the home of Mr and Mrs Jones who were converted during the meeting. Quite a large group gathered for this first service. In all, it has been a rather expensive month for petrol (gasoline) but a very rewarding month in travels ofteni
While we were in Johannesburg, we bought a used pick-up-camper cheaply, and also

a quanity of printing supplies which have to be ordered from there in any case. The
camper has now been thoroughly cleaned inside and out, and has been painted. We also

made some alterations to it in preparation for taking it to conference in April. Later we hope to make more changes, chiefly to add space and to make it a bit more "stream lined" in an attempt to help the petrol consumption. The Lord willing, I hope in May to start to make longer visits to the churches for the purpose of teaching and evangelism.
I will definitely make good use of it then.
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all seems to have been well and she seems to be much better now, though the Dr. has Cents been very concerned, apparently, that she is under weight. He may possibly

and later was entered into the hospital to have them out. We thank the Lord that

Our youngest daughter, Becky, had a bout with bad tonsils early in the month

65.80 67.20 four languages fluently, including two Bantu more as time passes. He speaks

other letters from him 62.20 1.60 since then and have sent him a number of tracts, the lesson book which he 6promises to translate into Afrikaans for me, and another 63.0

minister and would 56.0 be delighted to help us in any way that he could. He had been recently added to57.40 the 58.80 mailing list of the "Gospel Light" paper. I had several

46.20 47.6interesting One result of the "Gospel Light" this month, is that early in the 0 month, we49.0 had a letter from the location Superintendent at Postmasburg, to tell me that he 50.40is also a minister of the Baptist church there and that he is very 51.80 3.20 dissatisfied 5with their position and would like to be simply 'a New Testament 54.60
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The Church of Christ Postal Mission

p. 0. BOX 503 KIMBERLEY, CAPE
1st. Hay, 1965
SOUTH AFRICA

"Study to show thyself

approved unto/God."
Ill Timothy 2:15
MISSIONARIES:
Robert S, Mills

Dear Christian Friends;

The big event of this month, of course, has been the

annual conference of the Bantu churches. It is their annual

holiday, and it was the first conference for which I had the

real responsibility. Being new, I was afraid that I might forget something. We had about 200 Bantu people there for
the five days, and I am sure that they all enjoyed a mnder-

Phyllis J. Mills
SPONSORED BY;
Webber Street Church of Christ

ful fellowship together. They come from all parts of South Africa, some of them more than a thousand miles. Host arrive by train, but there are always a few who come in their own
cars. One such car caused us some concern when they were

very late. They finally arrived by train, having had a break

down en-route. At least they had not met with an accident,
and we were all relieved.

Urbaxia, Illinois
FORWARDING AGENT:
Mabel S. Mills
Box 134

All of the missionaries stayed at the Caravan camp this year. (Trailer camp). We had the camper on the pick up, the
Kernans had borrowed a caravan, amd the others rented them near by. In all we had a wonderful fellowship together as

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62476

the camp manager gave us one whole corner of the camp to our
selves. Later in the week the Randalls, from Zambia, came

alWg ana~3^ned Tnt^the fellowship.'It was good to see them

again after their long absence from South Africa. Brother Hax preached our Easter morning sermon for us. We found our camper to be excellent for our trip. The children rode in the back, and Phyllis, and the dog and I in the front. We had to take "Peaches**, the Hamilton's dog, as she was expecting puppies at any moment. They were born on the Saturday night much to the delight of Kathy, as it was her birthday, and the re&t of the campers since they were born under our bed and in the middle of the night! We now
have five sturdy Pekingese puppies.

Some interesting figures came out of conference this year. There were 649 baptisms reported during 1964, but more relevant really is that while there were 7254 members reported in the churches at the beginning of the year, there were 7456 reported at the
end. The growth, after losses, was 202 souls. The baptisms do not take into account those who are lost to the church as well. These people come from 246 preaching points,
served by 35 ministers.

Conference closed with it being agreed that we would have the next one in Kimberley in September of 1966. All the missionary officers were returned to their jobs without a single dissenting vote, which means that I have the task of leading them another year and the responsibility of helping make local preparations for conference next year, the Lord permitting. We feel the weight of the responsibility and would ask that you please continue to pray for and with us that God may use us to lead His people forward in
South Africa.

I look forward to greater travel among them this year, and have been making prep arations in various ways. We recently purchased two sets of doctrinal film strips which
we have found to be very good. One uses negro actors, and we think will be a great suc

cess with them. I hope to have the script tape recorded in th.Ban^ languages for this.
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TRAIN UP A CHI LD The annual Church of Christ conference was held at Worcester during the Easter week

end. A large crown of native Christians gathered there with the missionaries to sing praises, to preach, to learn and to have fellowship with those of like faith. Many
of the natives had to travel long distances, some as far as a thousand miles. Most

came by train, some by bus, a few in their own cars Mr, Mills and his family had to go over 500 miles to get there. They drove a small truck with a camper on the back.

All four of their girls rode in the camper and thought it great fun. Mrs. Mills had charge of the afternoon sessions with the women, the subject for the three days being,"Train up a child in the way he should go."After several of the

missionary women had spoken some of the African women told of their experiences in try
ing to train their children.

When the scripture "Even a child is known by his doings," was put before the
women, one mother told of this experience. "Several neighbor children were in our yard playing with my small son.

I keep by

the water tap a large tin cup, the kind many families use for beer, but we use it for
water. The neighbor boys saw the cup and recognized it as like the ones their parents used for beer. They filled it with water. *Come,'they called,'Let us play being drunk.* They all set down in a circle and passed the cup around untill all of the water was gone. 'Now we are drunk,*the neighbor boys said,'We must fight, for drunk people also fight.' So the boys got up, staggered around and started to play fighting. They made so much
noise I went to see what was wrong. My son explained to me what they were playing but then asked.'What is being drunk? We drink water from that cup al the time and it does not make us walk funny or want to fight.' So 1 had to explain it to my child. But it is" true. You can tell by what the child does or playes what kind of a family he has and how he is going to grow up."

In another lesson, the importance of the mother's role in training the children
was stressed. One of the African mothers told this story of her attemps to teach her
children the evils of bad language.

"I heard m y children swearing one day so I told them they should not say such words for it made God angry. 'What will He do?' they chorus. Ah, I thought, now I can really
teach them not to swear. 'God will hit you will stones from heaven,' I told them.

'With stones from heaven?' they answered in awe. 'Then what will happen?' 'You will die,' I told them hoping they were learning their leason not to swear. They were very careful not to use any bad words after that. At that time we had a little dog. It was a very naughty dog. One day as he Jumped this way and that he knocked over a pot of food. As I struck at him I uttered one small swear word, but the children heard. 'Oh, Mother,'they cried, 'God is going to killl you with stones from heaven. Oh, Mother, what are we going to do?' I realized then the folly of my teaching for it had
come back upon my own head, but I did not want to admit this to the children so I

thought quickly and said,'Let us pray. Maybe God will forgive me this sin.' But I could not pray for I knew what I had taught my children was wrong. That God would not punish us so. But as the day passed a storm blew up and it started to hail. I found my children under the bed, their eyes ready to pop. 'God is still cross with
mother,' I heard them say. 'He has sent the stones from heaven.'
that it was a hail storm and I would not die.

They would not believe

It

I have learnt one thing. always comes back to you."

You can not teach a truth by telling an untruth.

Phyllis Mills

The Church of Christ Postal Mission

P.O. 10X 503 KIMBERLEY, CAPE SOUTH AFRICA
1st. June, 1965

'Studv to show thyself

approved unto/God.*

Dear Christian Friends;

niTimq^hy 2:15

A shortage of working funds has cut out all unnecessary travel from this month's schedule, but we have been busy here

MISSIONARIES:

Robert S. Mills

Phyllis J. Mills
SPONSORED BY:
Webber Street Church of Christ

at home and have things set up for some travel during June and July. We have added nearly enough books to enable us to call the camper a mobile bookroom, though we don't really consider it a shop yet. We will carry Bibles, Testaments and hymnbooks in each language, and baptismal certificates and coomiunion supplies as
well as the Visualized books in Xhosa and Zulu, with us on all our travels among the churches. All are sold at cost.

Urbana, Illinois
FORWARDING AGENT:

We have been really active in printing work this month. This month's Gospel Light emphasizes the addresses of the Randalls in Zambia, the British Mission in Mawlai, and my father-in-law, Mr Nichols, in Ghana. These three countries represent about 3000 addresses on our mailing list, mostly in Ghana. We particularly wanted these people to be able to find
the church in their country.

Mabel S. Mills
Box 134

West Salem, Illinois

We had a big task in the re-printing of the "New Testament Doctrines** workbooks. This is the third printing of the English 62476 version of this book, and we printed a thousand copies this tine. ^bey-ar-now^ complete and^ady fur use.^ The Bantu ministers depleted our stocks of Baptismal certificate books at conf erence, so the first job on arriving home was the printing of a new stock of these. I printed 2500 certificates which I bound into books of fifty each. They printed up very attractively this time, better than the previously, commercially printed ones. We also ran out of envelopes for the local building funds as I had only a thousand of these at conference, so I have since printed another thousand. Nearly all the churches are using these envelopes to raise funds for their local building funds. I provide the envelopes free of charge to encourage them to raise funds for their own buildings.
The church at Dpington asked for plans similar to the building pictured on the envelopes, so I prepared these for them and they have submitted them for the approval
as I have planned a trip to Dpington for early in July and I would like to take a cement block making machine over and to encourage them to start making blocks for their own building. The new church building for the Kimberley location church has been started and the walls are nearing their height already. The windows are all in place and the building is looking very fine indeed. They plan to use the roof structures from the old building as they are in very good condition yet. The new building at Natalspruit is also progressing very well, and the one at Tarkastad is ready for the roof. They
have written for funds for the roof materials.

of the Dpington municipality. We sincerely hope that they will be approved imm^iately

While brother Joseph, minister of the coloured congregation here, was away at Johannesburg for a revival this past week, I have been supplying for him in the pulpit. He has just returned and we are laying plans for our own DVBS and revival to be held early in July. Brother Nelson, of Capetown, is to be our evangelist. Mrs Nelson will help with the DVBS.
Sine

Yours in Christ,

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The Church of
p. 0. BOX 503
5

Postal Mission
SOUTH AFRICA
1st. July, 1965

KIMBERLEY, CAPE

show thyself
ed unto^od.*

Dear Christian Friends;

llTiinoihy 2:15
MISSIONARIES:

We have been called upon to make far more trips this month than our budget could really afford, hence we ended up the
month in the red for about the first time. We did have some

very interesting experiences, however.

Robert S. Mills

Phyllis J. Mills
SPONSORED BY:
Webber Street

It was a most enjoyable Pentecost Sunday which we spent with the young congregation at Jacobsdal. This young con-

^egation still meets in a home. It is a very small room and

is usually filled to just a bit beyond its capacity. One day,
the Lord willing, we hope that they can have their own house of worship. They are very interested in the new building at
Kimberley and are looking forward to coming to the dedication.

Church of Christ

Urbaxia, Illinois
FORWARDING AGENT:

One week end, Saturday and Sunday, was spent in going to

Vryburg to investigate the situation there. This work has been very badly neglected since their elderly minister died. We

Mabel S. Mills
Box 134

have very few Tswana speaking ministers. The result is that the man who had been responsible for the work did not visit it
at all, and by the time a new man was sent and I took him with

me, it appears that the work has cooqpletely scattered. There West Salem, Illinois are a few Christians, but the building has been torn down and 62476 probably-our-^ease is lap^d-oiithe-si-te-r~Brother Setumisho did what he could on this visit to set things in order and left conmunion materials with the "elder", who is to be responsible to see that there are services. Probably only time will tell if the work can be saved. Without the camper, I would have been at a great handicap on this trip, but I was able to park in a deserted football field which

is in the center of the town. There was a water tap and were primitive toilets. It just
happened to be beside the town's main street and Saturday night traffic. I would not have

dreamed Vryburg could have such traffic! On our return, we stopped for services with the
brothers of the Vaal Harts irrigation area. Services were on a farm so our church was

the farmer's garage. There were about sixty bags of wheat, some of which served as pews, an oil drum served as a pulpit and communion table, and the decorations were made up tff two beds which hung from the ceiling, a scales, several old tires, etc. We had a very fine congregation of about fifty or more Christians, however, and a very good service
together. Again the camper was very convenient as I prepared all our meals that Sanday myself. It took but a few minutes with my "pantry** prepared ahead just in case. I was
even able to have a short rest before the services began.

The third trip was to Riverton Station where brother Kwamongwe was turning over one of his preaching points to brother Solane. This farm was only about 25 miles from Kim

berley so I have been there several times before. It was good to meet the brothers again and worship with them. Their home is far too small so services were held on the open pattio. Probably sixty or more people gathered here. At the close of the services they
caught a young bantam hen and gave it to the minister as a gift. I made certain that he
got it when we were home as I would hate to be left with a bantam hen!

At each of these services we found the brothers eager to purchase Bibles, Testaaents, and hymn books. At the Vaal Harts we were kept busy handing out Bibles and we sold out of stock in some languages completely. More have been ordered from the Bible Society.
Yours

SERVICES: -Th Gospel Ll^" 'Now Tostom^DoctrinM' - Tracts

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Church of Christ in the Republic.

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Hopetovn (Calrert)

B Chievelty (Gaabi) a

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Middelburg (Galdaahuya)

Kokstad (Noaasala), \/vmzumbi . ^

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Nelson - Zimmertnan

Cradock (Fuphi) Qumbu (Raoati)Mi^vutshini (Songo) Cofimbaba (ISahliaaa) ^ ^ Lusikis iki (Mqungatko)

DordrTcht (MTana)

(Soeoni, Nyaaaniy 2pGciZio (Zobolo)

^rldutyva (Tyatyaxa)
(Fazzi)

aagushcni(Kwatakobi, ftikvla)

Cape Town (Mdladlana)

Mosse

\ Stutterheim (Fani)
Kernan

East London (Maroago)

Mdanesane
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Port Elizabeth (Leve)

The Church of Christ Postal Mission

P.O. BOX 503 KIMBERLEY, CAPE SOUTH AFRICA
Ist. August, 1965

'5iu3v to show tjjysclf

approved unto/Ood."

Dear Friend,

mi imq^hy 2:15

We have had a most thrilling month,in the Lord's work. The first highlight was our annual evangelistic meeting at
the local church and the Vactaion Bibl^ School at the same

MISSIONARIES:
Blobert S, Mills

Phyllis J. Mills
SPONSORED BY:

time. Brother Nelson, of Capetown, was our evangelist and Mrs Nelson helped us with the DV.B.S. each day. Brother LeMay from Johannesburg, was present part of the week to help with the music, and all the other missionaries also came t& Kinberley
and attended the services with us. We had only two baptisms,

Webber Street^
Church of Christ

but another couple , who had grown very lax in attendance, has started to take a very active part onc^ again, and there is a much improved spirit in the work again. We feel that the meeting
has been a very good success.

Urbana, Illinois

Our cars took a bit of a beating during the week and have

FORWARDING AGENT: a heavy schedule of garaging for repairs again ahead now. Mrs Mills drove just under two hundred miles carrying people to the various services, and I may have come near three hundred with the Mabel S. Mills
Box 134

West Salem, Illinois

62476

times we had several over twenty in the Commer van! Our hom^also

bus as I had far longer runs and more of them than she did.^At

gate

suffered with a broken window, a broken toilet stool and front ^nteen14^?4ng with us during the week andsever-al-ext^ virsi^ors most afternoons. It all took a toll, some of vdiich has been taken care of now and some

which still remains. The grocery account came in today to make one last blow! Also the
plumber's account.

Immediately after the meeting Brother Stanley and I made a very interesting and

rewarding trip to l^ington to visit the work there and see the new church sit^. There
are well over a hundred miles of sandy desert road on this trip so I was a bit anxious

about how the camper would handle on it, but I need not have been concerned. It went very well indeed, even when I was crowded off the road into an eighteen inch sand drift. I was travelling slowly, and though the car swayed badly, there was no real danger of it tipping over or losing the camper off. Neither did we stick in the drift, though the wheels sounded full of sand for a while. We spent the first night in Postmasburg viiere a

Mr Venter had expressed an interest in the New Testament position. After a long visit, he
invited us to stay the night with him, so we were able to show him one of our more

interesting film strips on the New Testament church as well and to talk a bit more before we had to go to bed. I do not know what will come of it, but it was a most interesting
visit and I am sure that he learned very much he had not known, though he has evidently

made a considerable study of various religions and churches. At the present time, he is a
Baptist lay-minister.

At Upington, we had another interesting meeting. I parked the camper on the main street and immediately attracted the attention of a very large man who asked to see in it if he might. He evidently had a conventional house trailer. Another man also stopped and asked to see inside. He was a street-preacher, as he termed himself. The camper at first attracted his attention, but he wanted to talk so he invited us to "tea**. The discussion revealed that he was fairly accurate on the basic doctrines of the plan of salvation at least, but he was a fanatic on various phases of prophecy. This was a most interesting discussion, and was really what sparked off the material we have in the Gospel Light this month. We met with him both mornings we were in town there and left SERVICES: "Th Gopl Light" "Now T$tamcnt Dpctrines" - Tracts "Doily BibU Roding Guid* Church Ralwmce Swvic

him with a copy of Sharp's New Testament Church, and various tracts we had with us. He also has my address so I shall probably hear from Kr van der Westhuisen again, I had been thinking of it for some time, but after this trip, I have decided that I will add a sign or two to the camper, lliere are very few people along its route of travel, who do no''t give it a very searching examination as it passes. It catches every

eye. .

We spent some very rewarding hours visiting in the Upington locations, both with
the minister and with one of his elders. We examined the church site which they have

assigned to us there and find it to be excellent and very large. The eider in particular is very enthusiastic about their starting to build. He, himself, is a builder so under stands the process of going about it better than the others,perhaps. We used the negro

version of the Cottage filmstrips there, and had a filled house the second evening! The choir sang some lovely hymns for me to record on tape, and we put the Bibles out so they could buy what they needed. For a while they really kept me busy selling Bibles and Testaments. I have had to order again to re-stock my supply. This time I am adding some

new languages and types. Our Bible sales are self-financing as the prices are set by
Bible Society so as we gain a little we add a new type or language to the supply. I carry English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Tswana, Zulu, languages now and hope to add the Sotho
and a-parallel language English-Afrikaans Testament later.

Our return from Upington was uneventful except that I think we must have brought back a plentiful sample of dust from all along the road. I had to scrub and clean the camper thoroughly and to bring in everything washable for a thorough cleaning. Before I do out again I hope to add an air deflector to see if we can not help that dust
problem a bit.

Shortly after we returned to Kimberley, the Stanleys left for Johannesburg and the start of their furlough trip to America and things settled down again to a bit more like our normal schedule, except for the accumulated work in the drawers of the desk. Within a few days, 1 was called to Warrenton to preach the funeral of Hrs Charles Setumisho, the wife of our minister there. She died very suddenly and he was and is
still very shocked about it all.

Brother Joseph was ill in bed with the flu the week end just past, so I filled the
pulpit for him as well.

The church building on the location here is approaching its final stages so I have '
had to make several trips to check on progress and have had visits from the builder as well. The brothers are using the building ncrw but there is still some to be done on it.

We hope that it will be finished this week, Mrs Hills and 1 have been spending many hours this week in developing' a new set of
flash-card lessons which will be printed in six languages when they are completed. These are on-this Steps of Salvation, including Steadfastness. This last step is a weakness with many of our Africans so we are including it as well. It will be a big set, so this
is no small task. There are really several lessons in the series, and are five or more cards to each lesson. ^

Youps^i^ Christ J^mus,

Your Missionary to Africa
Robert S. Mills ^

The Church of Christ Postal Mission

p. 0. BOX 503 KIMBERLEY, CAPE SOUTH AFRICA

1st. September, 1965 'Studv to show thyself

approved unto/Cod/
nitimmhy 2:15
MISSIONARIES:

Dear Christian Friends,

After our very heavy schedule last month, we did not plan
any long trips this month at all. Rather we concentrated on

catching up on accumulated work here at home and in the office.

Our chief project was the finishing of the flash card set

Robert S. Mills

Phyllis J Mills
SPONSORED BY;
Webber Street Church of Christ

which ended up with thirty four separate cards., some of them printed in two colors and all of them with the text printed in
six languages on the reverse side. This month's letter to the

ministers and a part of the mailing of the Gospel Light will

contain sheets to see if we can dispose of them promptly. If'

we can we shall then re-print again immediately.

Urbana, Illinois
FORWARDING AGENT:

The trip to Upington revealed several shortcomings of the

camper so we have been correcting these during the month as well.

Mabel S. Mills
Box 134

I added an air deflector over the door to help eliminate the dust problem, a louvered window in the front for better light and ventilation, a small dome light from an old junked car to
give instant light at night and eliminate the search for matches

West Salem, Illinois

62476

and fumbling to light the gas lights and, last of all^painted the
signs I mentioned in last month's letter. Each side now carries

the masl-head ofthe Gosp-el-Light, including Jthe ^emblem;- thenables, -front and rear, the

namet^hurch of Christ* and the door, a list of materials vdiich we either publish or dis

tribute; Bibles, Testaments, hymnbooks, calendars, tracts, scripture scrolls, or the like. Two separate service station attendents have already asked about the ministerial training
school or books when we have stopped for service on it.

Last Sunday, I went to Skanskoppie, a farm near Kimberley. We had a large group for a very fine open air service. I came home with a badly sunburned face and "top of head**, but it was a very enjoyable day in any case. I recorded two Tswana hymns during the service,
You will recall that I mentioned the beating which the cars took during the meeting last month. Well, when I got a listing of the things which needed to be done to our personal car, a ten year old Austin sedan, I found it to be so much that rather than

repair it, I put it on the market for sale. The cost of living has so sky-rocketed that
we can not afford a car anyway^ so we were delighted when it sold within a week and at

a reasonable price as well. I took the money to a men's clothing store where I bought a new suit to replace the one I previously had which had given out weeks before and could

be darned no more. We now drive the church bus on any essential trips about town. Apart from the flash cards, we have printed eleven different tract titles, stationery for two of the missionaries, and service leaflets for the Capetown church as well as the
Gospel Light this month, 40 thousand 293 impressions in all.
Yours in Christ Jesus.
Robert and Phyllis Mills

'Th Gospel Light" 'New Testament Doctrines* Tracts

*Doily Bible Reoding Guid* - Church Reference Service

Robert and Phyllis Mills

P.O.Box 503, Kimberley, Cape, South Africa

Spontortd by:
White rhino :nore the

Forwarding Agent
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Church

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UrbtOB, Illinoia

Mibel S. Mills. Box 134, West Salei 111inoi s , 6 2476

1st. October, 1965 Dear Christian Friends;

We had a nasty shock ealier this nonth when our forwarding agent wrote us that, for the first time in thirteen years on the miss^ion field, there are not sufficient funds on hand to pay both our Living Link and working funds for October. Apparently the checks for September overdrew our account,
unless there has been an error at the bank. This is an urgent matter for prayer as we have been very close in our budget for some time, due to rising costs. Please keep our need in your prayers.

I have been ill with flu for a few days, but seem to be making a hasty
recovery and am out of bed at back at the desk now. Our church is so filled

with illness that 1 have been taking a great deal of local responsibility again. Brother Joseph has missed two Sundays this month and I have preached both theie week end's with very short notice. In fact, this last week there
no notice at all actuaUy,I just guessed-4^dt he would not be there when

he was not at choir practice on Saturday night. He has a lingering case of

severe tonsilitis.

The printing machine has been busy during the month. We printed over thirty seven thousand impressions including three thousand double tracts,

(two languages, or two tracts in one), and five hundred single tracts. These were to re-stock our own supplies for the requests which come from the Gospel
Light, the lessons, or the ministers and they do not include the Tract of the Month printif>g which was delayed by my illness. 1 will print three thousand for that mailing alone later in the month when the Gospel Light is safely, in

the mail. We are pleased that our Bantu ministers are starting to make a much better use of tracts in their work. Especially, those in the city areas are asking for them; some nearly every month, and some several languages as well.
1 am currently writing a second lesson workbook. This time it is in com* bination with a leadership training handbook for church leaders. It can be either used in a class or by correspondence, but it will be much more advanced than our first introductory book is. We plan to put it into the hands of every

minister of the church as soon as it is off the press and will send it also to as many of the church leaders as can use an english copy.
Unfortunately we have had to cut back our travel as well as other expenses
and our plans are being made accordingly for the coming month. May God bless you all, and do keep us in your prayers, please.
SUS,

Robert Se rviee s :

The Gospel Light, New Testssient Doctrines ( 4 IsBgnsges),

Eaglish Tracts ( 26 titles), NatiTe Idion Tracts ( 10 laagqages}

Tract of The Month Club, and other pvblication.

ORANGE FREE STATE CHURCHES

I
..'k

On a

Farm

Jacobsdal

Bordershoek

A wedding at
Bull Hill

A "Scotch Cart"

A wedding in
the Free State.

Preaching at Port Shepstone

On the road to

Upington.

THUMB-NAIL SKETCH FOR HORIZONS P/ease complete and mail to Harrold McFarland, Box 14656, Long Beach, California 90814

OCT. - M965

Name

ilobfirt 5^. ulills

Forwarding Agent's Name

Address >^0X 134

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Address P.0 Box j03

CityKiiiiberlpy state Cane

NationiL:_L_iili^ty

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SCHOOLING

High School.

riry W. Saleiii.
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State Illionois
Illinois (.Gradusted)
State

College nriyprgitv of Illinois

City Urbarc.
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Seminary or Graduate wortf

Degrees and Dates

i^lT^Cnln BiblO I"gt3t{Jte

State,

Illinois

When and Where RapriypH? hpfI Sclpm

rify Illinois

State,

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FAMILY FACTS: MarriedSingle

Children
Name

Spouse's Name I'hyllis Joy (^.ichols) iills

Month

Place of Birth

Day

Year

R";ithryn Gsil
Kulli Ellen

Lincoln.

Illinois

>:pri 1
..larch

.incoln, Illinois

JL. IT,
M, 2,

1952

1953
1935
1956

Donna iviay

k^indhopk, South West ^frico

February

Rebecca Joy

Kimberley, Kepublic of South africa

.H<iy

CHRISTIAN SERVICE
Where? What? When?

Dalton City.

Ill.

Student ivlinister

1951 -1952 1953- 1955

1955 -

Windhoek, S.W.A,

Missionary Missionary

Kiiviberley, S. Africa

(Over)

List of terms of missionary service:

Starting Hafp iHav . 1903

iiiarck, 19G5

Furlough Harp
F^b. 1957

.Mission inrafinn 'ifindhoek, SU/;

Kiinberley, S. Alrica

Second term 'Harch. 196G

Furlough Hare Novpiiiber, 1962

Mis^inn ic^rarmn Kimbffrley, S. j-ifrica

Third term'^^^V 196o

Fourth Fifth rerm i

Furlough date
Furlough Hare Furlough Hare

Mission Inrarinn 'vimbgrley, S. Africa

Mission Irtrarinn ^<issif^n lorarinn

Additional Information. This information is of great value in preparing your news for publication in Horizons. Keep second copy for your own reference.

' :

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Phyllia Mills

Kathy - 4/17/52
Our 'wanderer', loves animals,

Ruth - 3/17/53

The 'lively* one.

insects: anything that creeps

or- crawls.

Donna - 2/24/55
Our 'studious' one.

Becky - 2/5/56 The 'talker'; even with a

atitch, she could still out-talk everyone else
p resent.

bitten tongue requiring a

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Ticcui^letten.
Robert and Phyllis Mills P.O.Box 503, Kimberley, Cape, South Africa
Sponsored by:
Webber St. Church of Christ Ur bene, Illinois

Forwarding Agent:
Mabel S. Mills, Box 13i, West Sales, Illiooia, 6 2476

1st. November, 1965

Dear Christian Friends,

Our shortage of funds at the start of last month led us to cancel a planned trip to Kuruman which is far out near the Kalahari desert and brought down upon our heads the displeasure of the minister there who reminded me that he had to

borrow the few cents for the stamp on his letter even. Unfortunately, he did not
cover the point of how I could justify such a trip which would have cost at least $30 to make,even if there were no trouble with the car,for one service and when

funds were too short. We had borrowed money to meet the current accounts already.
I would prefer to go later and to be able to stay a bit longer there, the Lord willing, in any case.
The best laid intentions of economy sometime fail, however, so it was this month that when Mrs Mills went to women's meeting in the location some of the passengers fell and broke out a window of the van. No one was hurt, but the window had to be replaced, and the same week the muffler and tail-pipe and one
window crank gave out and had to be replaced as well.

Our printing log shows some 33,200 impressions printed this month and, the
Lord willing, we have a much busier month ahead. I have just posted a fairly large order for tracts to one of the Rhodesian missionaries and will have to re-print some of these; then too, we have finished the layout of the new lesson

handbook, "A Handbook of Christian Leadership". The paper has been ordered and as soon as it arrives, I shall start printing this fifty page work-book and handbook combination. The negatives are all finished and some of the plates are ready. Two pages are printed on the back of this letter to give an idea of w^iat it will be like. I plan to send copies to all elders, deacons and ministers of the churches when it is ready.(You may notice that the two pages printed at the back are not in the right sequence, they are in the assembled book.)
We rejoice with one of our ministers this month in his report of eleven persons who were baptized and of ten who came by transfer to his congregation. Another brother reported that he had opened a new preaching point in his circuit and that

he was very happy with the response there. Unfortunately, there were also a few letters speaking of problems in the churches and between ministers. Please keep us in prayer, both in rejoicing and for strength to meet these things.
Kimberley has been suffering a real old fashioned dust-storm with high winds and red skies. Everything is gritty and covered with sandy dust. We still have had no rains and sprinklers are going full time in some yards. We have not as yet, had the water rationing that Johannesburg is having, but it is very unpleasant. The

Johannesburg paper even ran a cartoon crediting Kimberley with being South Africa's
driest city.(16,3 inches of rain a year.)

Services:

The Gospel Light, New Testanent Doctrines ( 4 languages), English Trsets ( 26 titles), Natire Idioa Tracts ( 10 langvages)
Tract of The Month Club, and other publications.

3. Is the more experienced and better trained

Ihe scriptures say in Ephesians 5:23, 'Christ

is the head of the church: and He is the saviour

evangelist worthy of a better salary? Yes - No

4. What is the address of the Bible Training
School in South Afri nn?

of the body. ' It is the head which controls the

body. No body has two heads and no body is effect

ive without a head. It is the head idiich conttiiins

the controlling nerve center for the entire body. Likewise the church of our Lord can not have two heads, an earthly one and a heavenly one. It
can not be a denominational organization and be

5. Can a man train for the work of evangelist by

ruled by a bishop, a superintendent, a president or a committee and still be ruled by Christ Jesus.
The Lord Jesus is the one head of the church. His

post?

Yes - No

church is responsible to Him as head.

LESSON yil THE FINANCES OF THE CHURCH.

The body is made up of many parts with each having an effective work to be done. 'The body is not one member, but many.' (I Corinthians 12:14)* 'Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in
particular.' (I Corinthians 12:27). The members of

1* Hie way in which a Christian uses his Boney is

iMportant.
Ihe Christian is described in the New Testam ent as a steward. This means that what we have is

not our own. All that we have belongs to God and

He expects that we shall use it in a way that will glorify His name. (Luke 16:1-8, 19:11-28). The
Christian can never, then, bring a part of his

a physical body are each designed to accomplish a particular task and they do not function unless they are all directed by the head. Likewise, we as members of the body of the Lord,were also meant to do a particular work for Him and we can not do that work well unless we are willing to be dir ected by Him. We are all to be under the direction
of the Lord Jesus.

earnings to the Lord and have the rest to use as he pleases. Even we ourselves are the property of God who paid the price of Christ Jesus for us. We
can not use what remains after we have taken to

The church then is more than an organization.

It is not just a gathering of people in the same

community under the leadership of a minister. It is not the building in which we gather for wor ship. The church IS any group of people who have
accepted Jesus as saviour and Lord and have been

the church, for example, for liquor. We can not

use it for tobacco. We can not use it for gambling or for any other sinful purpose. It is also God's
but He allows us to use i t for the needs of our

families to provide food, clothing and shelter. We are to do all things to the glory of God.
From the very beginning of time, rirht through the Mosaic age and into the Christian age, the Bible has taught that one tenth of all that we
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obedient to Him, and who assemble in worship of Him under His divine leadership. We may worship in a building, but the people of the congregation are
the church.

Questions:
1. Who is the head of the church?.

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Robert and Phyllis Mills P.O.Box 503, Kimberley, Cape, South Africa
Sponsortd by:
Vbbr St. Church of Christ Urbaaa, Illinois

Forwarding Agent:
Mabtl S. Mill*. Box 134, Wost SaloB, IlliDois, 62476

1st. December, 1965

Dear Christian Friends,

We had hoped that after last month's repairs, the bus would be well until it became necessary to replace a smooth tire, but how wrong we werel It all
began when we started to have troubles with the gears early in the month. It

seemed that nothing they did would make the gear shift stay in adjustment.
This continued until I took the car to be serviced and while it was on the grease rack we discovered that there are three massive breaks in the front

cross member of the chassis.. The engine and the wheels are actually parting company! A phone call revealed that the cost of the replacement part is $150,
not including the labour at all which is still usually the lion's share of a repair, even here. Needless to say, we decided that it must be welded rather

than to get a new part and it is now at the repair shop and will be for at
least two more weeks. Roland is making repeated trips with his father's car to get people to church and we are getting about everywhere by means of the camper. We expect the repair bill about New Years time as a "belated Christmas gift". I made several interesting trips out to the country this month. The church

at Bull Hill invited us so I took the girls who have been asking to go with me again. The church people were delighted to see them as they had not met the

family. It was a very warm day and services were in their own place so it was
plenty warm. Their house has practically no windows and a very low tin roof, which is about three inches above my head when I stand. It had been recently
re-plastered with cow dung so there were thousands of flies everyvAere.

Another short trip, but probably the one which brought the immediate damage to the bus, was when I was called for a funeral at Skanskoppie, a farm near by. The old man of the churct^ died and they called for John and myself to come for
the funeral. It had to be delayed several days since John could not. get time off from work and they insisted upon his being there. Eventually they phoned
that it was urgent that we could not delay any longer so John took off from work and we went out. A group of "massive" native ladies went along with us and the

roads at the other end were simply "undescribable". I finally parked and would
go .no farther when the path led through some thorn trees only about three feet
apart.

My third trip was to Driefontein (three-springs) where there was a bit of church trouble brought on by the threatened resignation of the elder vto felt

that he should be paid for his work there, even though we do not even pay the ministers. (He had been pocketing the church collections in any case already.)

It was a long trip and a terrible day. Kimberley had a red dust storm and high
winds. I knew before I got there that I was going to have gasoline troubles as

I had not passed a gasoline station and the gasoline was more than half gone. To make matters more disagreeable, it began to rain there and the clay roads
turned to a slippery slime. The camper was sidewise almost as much as forward. Fortunately I knew of a turn off which, while it added several miles to the

country roads, led me past some service stations which would tie .open. I took tliat way and arrived at Barkly West with an empty tank, but thankful to be there. From there the roads are paved and I only had the dust and the wind to
contend with, for Kimberley still had its dust storm in full force. We rejoice again this month with another brother who has written to tell

us that he has had fifteen baptisms at Prieska. He also wrote to ask for tracts and lessons in English and in Xhosa. Brother Leve, from Port Elizabeth writes that they are havirtg an evangelistic meeting presently and that they have had ten baptisms thus &r. Brother Leve also makes good use of printed materials. All our printing was pushed towards the end of the month by the late arrival of the printing paper from Johannesburg. It took 23 days to get the shipment delivered" the mere 300 miles by train. It sieems that the trains become
less and less reliable all the time. After it came, however, We were able to

print and finish the new handbooks, "A Handbook for Christian Leadership**. I now have 350 copies of this ready to post to thci ministerSf for them to distribute
to the leaders of their congregations.

With other printing as well we have printed thirty s^V6n thousand impressions
this month.

It hardly seems possible that it can be nearing the Christmas season already,

but^ it clearly is. We do want, especially now, to thank you for your continued
remembrance of us in your prayers and to wish you God's richest blessings in the
coming year.
Yours in Christ Jesus,

ijOtL <jooJitiJiiujS
LUl.tO

Services: The "Gospel Light') ''New Testanent DoctriaeVX 4 laaga ages) ,

Tract of The Month Club, and other poblieationa.

English Tracts ( 26 titles), Natire Idioa Traets ( 10 laagvages)

^TB'WA.R.D^IilF

January 1st,

December 31st, 1965

January 1

On Hand
From the USA

375.73^
3277.06

Borrowed to meet accounts due.

400.00

Printing done for others. Designated for location bldg.

South African Donations From W. Street church on tent. From location church for fees to
build.

130.80H 65.00
24.70'^ 11.00
10.95

Deposits returned on tent meeting

Equipment

20.00
838.30 660.00

Deposit and payments on Fargo.

Postage Printing supplies, paper & envelopes. Repayment of loan.

607.52 599.52
400.00 516.39 355.75 73.77 63.80 51.35 46.00 22.63 31.00 5.00 5.00

Auto m^ntenance an^. operation. Purchase and improvements to Camper. Location Building. Office Supplies Insurance on equipment and vehicles. Auto licences (Fargo and Commer Bus) Telephone rental.
Tent Meeting.
P 0 Box rental.

Postage Meter Servicing. Typewriter Repairs. Camping Fees for Conference.

6.00 4.20

Help in preparing envelopes to mail.

4315.25Ji
4288.24}4

2.01J4
4288.24H

December 31 On Hand.

27.01

PFINTING DONE DURI\'G 1965

343,568

Impressions printed.

Over 65,000 copies of the Gospel Light.

25,000 copies of double or bi-lingual tracts.
1,R00 copies of single tracts.

500 copies of the hook,Handbook of Christian Leadership.

1,000 copies of the book, New Testament Doctrines,

100 copies of the booklet, Directory of the Ministry. Building Fund Envelopes, Stewardship Cards, Ifaptismal Certificates, Cradle? Kol I Certificates, Flash Card Sets, Scripture Text Scrolls (5 languages).
COPDESPONDENCE LESSORS DVniNG 1965
166 New Testament Doctrines Books mailed out.
5 in Xhosa 4 in Zulu

5 in Tswana

The balance in English.

88 Certificates issued for work completed.

9 in Xhosa

11

in Zulu

The balance in English.

BOOK SALES

We now carry a selection of books with us in the camper on all trips to the farms and rural churches in particular.

These books are mostly Bibles, New Testaments, hymnbooks, and similar, and are available in five languages in stock.