From Gary & Joyce

FORWARDING AGENTS:

Mr.

& Mrs. Eldon Wymore

97355

400 Hillview Drive

Lebanon, OR
Phone:

258-2865

January,
Dear Christian Family,

1976

1975 in Review Tonight while Hong Kong Rr..Jio reviews the year's news, we want to review our
1975 in Hong Kong.

In late December of '74 a Chinese typewriter was purchased.

was started.

Since then,

over 200 stencils have been typed on it, and a monthly Christian Chinese paper In March, we witnessed our first Chinese wedding, when our co-worker, Wong Yan Wing, married Conita Yeung. We have enjoyed working with them and watching
them both grow in faith and ability.
his appendectomy in March.

We also filled in for Bill Rees when he had

In April, Joyce and I announced our plans to stay here ten more months.

(The

Lord willing, we'll return to the States in

concise schedule as soon as it is confirmed.)
led to some fruitful contacts.

We'll publish a
Also this month, the Easter revival

We moved to a larger apartment in May. We also tried three evangelistic approaches: 1) reaching our neighbors, 2) some new Christian booklets, and 3) new

area Bible studies. None of these produced visible results. But on the bright side, the.Christian elementary school sold enough property to pay off all existing
debts.

Danny and Janet Thurston returned to the States, and Ben and Karen Rees

arrived here in June.

Also, we finished our language studies.

Since then, I've

been speaking publicly two or three times each week in Cantonese.

In July, Bill and Melba Rees went on furlough, while here at Mong Kok we
helped with Bible Summer School.

After a packed, exciting weekend of Summer Youth Canp, Sandy was born into
our family on August 7th. Mom Wymore helped out for three weeks at this time.
Two other births in the church here followed soon after.

In September, we began a three-month, profitable experiment in newspaper evangelism. Not only were over 50 witnessing contacts made, but we gained val
uable experience for the future-

The Hong Kong Billy Graham Crusade and School of Evangelism held our atten
tion during most of November.

December Victory
Since mid-November, nine people from the three congregations have been

baptized and twenty more will probably be baptized shortly.

This is undoubtedly

the most victorious time this fellowship of Christians has experienced. We saw similar growth about 17 months ago, but not as big as this. When we came here in September, '73, I guessed that each Sunday about 75 different people attended a service in one of these churches. Right now, I think that about 130 different people attend a service each Sunday; that's almost 75% growth in 28 months! What's more, about 200 people attended the three separate
Christmas services. This is a very promising beginning.

from Gary and Joyce

I would be a scoundrel if I boasted in this.

^AGE 2
Joyce and I only had a small

part in this harvest; yet we want to report it to the glory of God. Praise the

Lord' and at the same time humbly pray that God will work even more mightely because it still seems so very small compared to the more than 3,500,000 in Hong

Kong alone who have no faith in God, not counting the 800,000,000 more in China.
God has let us taste a little of His might; so now we have "great expectations"
Rescue

of how much more He can do.

The Sunday after Christmas we took one new believer to the beach to be bap tized, because he said, "It's more natural that way." The water was cool and
the wind brisk, but several Christian went.

day of the annual, mid-winter, swimming race.

We didn't know that this was the

started our service. Before the baptism was over, Ben was already assisting one rescued swimmer. For the next two hours we helped revive more than five swimmers. Most were freezing and cramp victims. At least one serious drowning victim.

The race started just before we

Fortunately, no lives were lost as far as we know.

Thank God for leading us to

that time and place where we could be of valuable help.

Live Option
If someone cane to your door and asked you to follow Buddha, his request

would probably fall on deaf ears, because you don't have the slightest interest
in Buddha. His offer is a "dead option" to you, because it isn't relevant to

you. You don't know the slightest thing about Buddha.

accepting him, nor disadvantages in rejecting him.

Buddhism; it's a heathen religion, it's "un-American" and it's too radical. That is exactly how the average Chinese adult feels about Christ. To them, Christ is a-dead option- What's more, they don't even have to decide. They
can just ignore the 'issue.

You see no advantages in Besides, you rather dislike

How to make Christ a living option is a complicated but crusial problem, whether we are discussing Chinese, Indians, Zulus or your next-door neighbor.

Oversimplified answers won't help, but one valuable principle is: that the more living an option is, the more it demands an immediate decision between absolute choices. For example, when I'm in the bay, I face two absolute choices: sink'or
swim. I can't put off the decision too long.

To hold live options is to hold an important key to soul-winning.^ I pray that God will help us all to act and speak that Christ will become a live option
to the people around us.
In His Love,

Gary & Joyce Anderson 1-C, Broadway, 19/Floor

Mei Foo Sun Chuen Kowloon, Hong Kong Phone: 3-718279

P.S. from Sandy

I think I've got Mommy and Daddy trained now. If I giggle, I can make Mommy laugh and if I grab Daddy's glasses, he looks very excited.

ANDERSON' MISSION TO THE CHINESE Financial Statement, 1975

Anderson's Statement

1974 ending balance

1975 Income

97.02

Drawn on Mission Account

11,167.50

Cash gifts directlv sent

478.60
$12,387.52

Reimbursement on proiects (locally) 644.40 (locally) S12,387.52

1975 Expenditures
Personal Salary

Home Rental
Mission

$5,212.32 2,884.94
654.00

Language School

Newspaper Evangelism
H.K. Graham Crusade Church proiects

$1,847.86
125.74 326.51 349.82
72.00

Office supplies
Secretary

Miscellaneous

267.94

33,643.87
3,643.87 $11,741.13 -11,741.13 $ 646.39

ending
balance

carried forx'/ard to 1976

FORWARDING AGENT'S STATEMENT

1974 ending balance

1975 Income

$1,599.91

$1,599.91

Churches (19) Individuals (30)

8,884.89
2,664.76 $11,549.65
$11,549.65

$13,149.56
1975 Expenditures

Money dravm by Anderson

Postage and VJiring Printing
Pictures and Misc.

$11,167.60
156.76 57.00 99.15

$11,480.41

-11,480.41

$ 1,669.15

balance on
hand

Church Develonment Fund (Savings) $3,67

$3,670.54
+ 1,789.19

1975 Deposits
Interest earned

$1,511.17
278,02
$1,789.19

35,459.73

FORWARDING AGENTS:

From Gary & Joyce

Mr. & Mrs. Eldon Wymore

400 Hillview Drive Lebanon, OR 97355
Phone: 258-2865

February, 1976

Dear Christian Friends,

The validity of the Bible and Christian faith are my teaching and preaching themes right now. One of die great proofs of scripture is the living miracles that we can see everytime Christ fulfilled an Old Testament prophecy. There are hundreds of them. I started compiling a complete list of the prophecied
items and their fulfillments in Chinese. Also, each fulfillment is rated on a Thank God for the substance

9-point scale of credibility.

of hope.

Another great thrill was the discovery of 14 types

of evidence that demand Christ's real resurrection.

My BA degree was in pastoral care not cairpentry, but I spent a week remaking a portable baptistry. It still leaks a lot, but I'm still trying and hoping.

Joyce is doing better than I. Besides taking care of Sandy, she's busy keeping house, entertaining guests, planning packing, making clothes, baptismal robes, choir capes and baptistry curtains. (I think her mother set a good example.)

Mong Kok church started a fellowship on February first. The Christians are fully in charge. They want to learn how to express themselves concerning Christ and
how to handle more responsibilities since we are leaving.

Chinese New Year is always exciting and fun with homemade goodies. But since it is shrouded in superstitions, it is also a big religious holiday; so on New Year's day, I visited the largest temple. I was the only nonChinese eimong thousands of people in the courtyard. What surprised me most was not the rituals, but the atmosphere: no joy, no adoration, no praise just suffocating tenseness.
Also, I recently bought a Chinese-English copy of "Quotations from Chairman

Mao." After reading this and visiting the temple, I more greatly admire Christ. I was raised in church, and I often took God's message for granted, but now I say
with real meaning, "No man ever spoke like Jesus! No man ever"lived like Christ!"

A new Mandarin-speaking church will start soon, the Lord willing. Mr. Lau, a preacher and co-worker, feels a burden to more fully egress himself in this way.
We desire your prayers on his behalf.

Don & Raquel Ma:)ot stayed with us on their way to Indonesia as new missionaries.

We enjoyed the^rich spiritual sharing with close friends' in Christ.

My parents, Mr. s Mrs. Carl Anderson, plan to be here for the first half of May
at the end of a 3-month mission trip, thanks to the kindness of Pantano Church of Christ. We are looking forward to their visit!
TENTATIVE TRAVEL SCHEDULE

May 16 - leave Hong Kong and arrive in U.S.A.

May 20-30 - San Francisco Bay Area May 21 - San Jose Bible College chapel
22-23 -

(get a house in the L.A, area)

; -

Rinconada Hills Christian Church

28 - San Jose Bible College Graduation M^ 31-Jurm.lO - Oregon,, Mi^-Wili.aiagte. Valley

June 2 - Lebanon High School Graduation

June 14-July 23 - Att^ding Pacific Christian College Summer School

We welcome your invitations to speak at the appropriate times.
In Christ,

Gary & Joyce Anderson

1-C, Broadway, 19/Floor

Mei Foo Sun Chuan

P.S. from Sandy

Kowloon,
Phone:

HONG KONG
3-718279

After a short spell of saying "Abba" (Hebrew), I've settled down to

"Baba" (Cantonese), but I don't know why Mommy is so insistent that I say
"Mama." I can't see why one word won't do for both of them!

(l_ duJjMm
FORWARDING AGENTS:

Mr. & Mrs, Eldon Wyraore

400 Hillview Drive

Lebanon, OR
Phone:

97355

503-258-2865

March, 1976
Dear Friends

The enclosed brochure will give you all a general idea of what we're up to. I wish we had room to say a lot lot more; yet I hope what we did say won't bore you. When I looked over the brochure we used before we came to Hong Kong, I was amazed at
how out-of-date the facts were, and hov7 naive our vieVpoint was. years in Hong Kong should have cured that. These last three

After thinking over our.furlough plans. we've decided noi to make speaking dates

the major emphasis.

Instead, w^hope to focus ^

'

valuable study, Te^liin^ experience

and contact with Chinese in Los Angeles,

But this doesn't mean we're not going to speak with anyone who's interested. We've already written the churches who have shown interest in this work. If you want us to share with your group, then give this brochure and letter to the leaders and urge them to contact us. When they write, we'll do the best we can to come and be
with you.

We'd be glad to speak to your group through one of these messages u-' 1. The Mission Scene. This sermon aims at helping Christians a) sympathetically understand the complexity of world evangelism, and b) become aware of the wide range
of opportunities available to them to get involved. 2. The Call of the Lost. This sermon aims at moving Christians to direct in

volvement in world evangelism,

(There may be potential missionaries in your congre

gation. ) 3. The Call of China. This sermon presses home the facts and needs of China. 4. Hong Kong slide show, 20-minutes long. 5. Hong Kong display, A table-top display.
I would enjoy sharing any of these with your group. I think these messages would help any group of Christians, teenage and up. However, if you use the display, I suggest not using the slide show. Slide shows are better at night. Displays are better with small groups.
We will be here:

during this timg

But

this

time i s booked:

San Francisco Bay Area San Jose Bible College chapel ~

Rinconada Hills Chr. Rinconada Hills Chr. Church Church -

May 16-30
-

San Jose Bible College- - - - - - -

May 31-June 7
June 8-10

-Fir. -Sat. -Sun. -Fri.

morning. May aft. & eve,, morning. May evening. May

21, May 22 23. 28.

Oregon (esp. Willamette Valley)

North-Central California
Central-Southern California

Trip through America

June 11-July 3 July 3-Aug, 1

(Ariz., S.W, states, Okla,,

Tenn., Ohio, Wis., Neb,, Colo., Ariz,) Living in Southern California

Aug. 2 on

The Lord willing, this schedule will not suffer many major changes, but dates are filling up fast. If you want us to come, then suggest a time and the type of

program that you need.

Part of July will be our first, full vacation, but that doesn't
I like talking almost as much as a vacation.

mean we won't be speaking.

from Gary and Joyce

page 2

We enjoyed a visit and gospel concert from the Rostvit twins this month.

1/

Yes

terday, we had a brief visit with my father, who stopped for 22 hours on his way to teach and preach in India. Joyce said, "It was too short. I felt like I didn't get to say everything I wanted to." "Maybe," I said, "But I thought it was great. Our conversation was the best compact seminar'in practical theology that I've had in ages."
Dad, Mom and Grandma Anderson will all be with us for two weeks before we leave Hong Kong.

in H^andarin
When he had lunch with Mr. Lau and his family, the last thing he said was, "Please ask the American Christians to pray for our work."
Mr. Lau is a Mandarin-speaking preacher who preaches regularly for us.
own initiative he plans to start a Mandarin service in his home soon.

On his

Although Cantonese is the local dialect, Mandarin is the national language of China; so many people are attracted to Mandarin meetings, and some people only speak Mandarin. Such people are never really at home in a Cantonese congretation. So this group's needs should be met, as Mr. Lau hopes to do. Please pray that God will give the Laus wisdom and character equal to the challenge they have accepted, and that God in His mercy will bless them as they plant
the Word.

Also pray for the Mong Kok fellowship group started the first of February. I believe God's hand is molding them, but it has meant some testing. Pray that they might be kept from the evil one and that they might grow to full maturity in Christ.
In His Love,

Gary and Joyce Anderson

1-C, Broadway, 19/Floor,

Mei Foo Sun Chuen, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Phone: 3-718279

RS. from Sandy

It sure was fun watching all the tourists arrive when we went to the airport

to get Grandpa.

He was a stranger to me, but we're pretty good friends now.

April, 1976

Back to School
Joyce, Sandy and I will be in the States before some of you read this. Fuller School of World Missions officially accepted me both

for their correspondence course and as a "research associate" (graduate student). Joyce has been accepted at Pacific Christian
College and will begin June 7th. If you want to personally get in touch with us, please note on our "Tentative Travel Schedule" when we will be near you. If you'd like us to share with your Christian group, please note what dates are

already full and contact us quickly. If neither of the above inter est you, then don't waste your time reading the travel schedule.
Our newsletter will come out bi-monthly at least while we're away

from Hong Kong; so the next letter you get should be dated June.

Growing Pains
Interest in the church has jumped since the Christians started manag

ing their own fellowship in February. Worship and evening attendance is striking over 30 regularly. That's a first! Especially since
now is our traditional annual-slump time.

The attendance growth is mainly among college-age and young-adult workers instead of high school students, thus indicating a more ma

turing group as well. However, this also means that their .questions are also more complexed and mature. Sometimes I'm really exhausted
after a serious discussion with them.

This Easter's programs will be the last big efforts

I will be involved in before we leave.

that Joyce and

Several non-Christians have

not yet yielded to Christ,

for these young adults.

If I had one personal wish from God, it

Please pray

would be that they would accept Christ before we leave.

The Christians must soon rise to the task of managing all of their

own church life. So, some of the young men are planning to preach; some of the ladies are planning to be translators for the Mandarin-

speaking preacher; and we're simplifying several hymns for our ama teur pianists. Please pray also for these as they rise to sufficiency
in Christ.

Finally, pray for guidance and an opening to start a Mandarin congre gation. And pray for the safety of my father, mother and grandmother
as they travel here, and for us as we return to the States.

from Gary and Joyce, page 2

Thanks so much for all of your constant prayers and support thus far.
In His love.

Gary^and Joy^ ^^derson

P.S. from Sandv

I don't know why Daddy got so upset when he stuck his finger in
wi mouth. What did he think those two teeth were for if not for

biting?

I get the biggest bang out of rolling and sliding all over

the living room floor.

TENTATIVE TRAVEL SCHEDULE

At this time:

We will be here:

This time i s filled:

May 16-30

San Francisco Bay Area

Rinconada Hills Chr. - Church:.

San Jose Bible College

Rinconada Hills Chr.
Rinconada Hills Chr.

Church
Church

Thu. May 20, eve. Fri. May 21, mom. Sat. May 22, aft.& eve.
Sun
Tue

Los Gatos Christian Church

San Jose Bible College

San Rafael Christian Church

Fri
Sun

May May May May

23, 25, 28, 30,

morn. eve. eve. all day

May 31-Je. 6
Je. 7-Jl. 2

Oregon (esp. Willamette Valley)

Southside Ch. of Christ

Sun. June 6, all day

South-Central Calif,

(weekends)

Pacific Chr. Col.

July 3-10 July 10-20
Colorado

(Joyce)
Conv.

June 7-July 2 July 6-9

Sun. July 18, mom.
Aug. 8-14

North American Chr. North-Central U.S.A.

Bartley Nebraska church

S. Ari2'. Senior Camp

FORWARDING AGENTS;

Mr,
400

& Mrs.
OR

Eldon Wymore
97355

Hillview Drive
258-2865

Lebanon,
Phone:

June, 1976
Dear Christian Family, It could only happen in America. In nearly three years in Hong Kong, we never

contracted any of the diseases associated with foreign countries, but after only a few days back in the States, I had all the symptoms of dysentery: vomiting
and diarrhea. Fortunately, it was short-lived.

Our last few weeks in Hong Kong were pretty hectic with packing, finishing up

our part in the church work and doing final sight-seeing with our family. I'm afraid some things that should have been done didn't get done. 1 almost believe that moving one's home across international lines is the supxeme test of^^-istian patJ,^ce_and--Gha-raoter. There were government release and entry papers,

1rRviT. clearance papers, shipping company deadlines and contracts, itemized

custom tax lists, plane tickets, and figuring out what to do with the thousands of things we couldn't take with us. In contrast, crossing the international barrier of death should be a pleasure as long as our "visas" are in order. Our most moving and encouraging experience in Hong Kong wa^a^j^prise farewell ^

party by the Chinese Christians and friends of the church.

their lives?"

We'11 Temember their

gesture of love for a long time. 1 feel that the party was also a gentle rebuke from my Savior, saying, "Oh, Gary of little faith, why did you doubt My power in
Even at the airport, nearly 30 Christians came to say "Good-bye" the Sunday that we left. Finally, we had to urge them to go back to church. We had a comfort able 15^ hour flight to Oakland via Anchorage. Upon arriving, we had lunch with friends and family, and then attended the evening service at Rinconada Hills

Christian Church (RHCC). _Finallv. we got to ^ed (36 hours after we got up) at
my sister's home. Rod and Linda Peterson. ^

I renewed my^driver's license^without a mishap.

I haven'eyen_ forgotten to

drive on therightside"of the road.

us ofl__gi^rd.
"^^nTen into place as if we never left.

But-=:^ll_admit_tha<jAlcuLture sho^^aught

Everything about America shocked us at first," butnow it has all

We attended 18 meetings, speaking at 13 of them and traveled over 500 miles

during our two weeks in California.

Between meetings, we visited with our family

Now, we're spending a week with

and several other families at mealtimes.

fA

'Grandpa and Grandma' Wymore in Oregon, organizing the mission office work. We'll be speaking at Southside Church-of Christ in Lebanon, Oregon this weekend. The Wymore's gave us th^lr second car td use for the whole year that we are in the States'. But just after we brought it up here, it got bent up in^an_
accident; so it's out of commission for a few days. Today at the barber shop, I overheard two old fellows discover that they had

been friends way back before 1941. Over the years, fate parted their ways until now they didn't recognize each other. You know, nowadays this world is so helterskelter that^^the^^ediscovery of old friends happens all too seldom. Change is

constantly tearing ^ople from familiar moorings.

The old paths are gone,

The

faces we're used to can't be seen in the crowd. The landmarks just aren't there. Joyce and I are p.axtcularly sensitive to this after just- leaving

buy hearts in Hbhg^Kong, and because our schedule forces-to _leaye r^

before we're done visiting.

We know we must press on, but it's sure reassuring

Some old friends I like to meet

to meet old friends again even in new places.

are the crosses on church buildings, the Bible and familiar hymns, and the spirit of hospitality in the family of God, and I especially enjoy those quiet times each day with my dearest Friend of all. Today, spend some time with old friends,
reading the Bible and praying. And be a good friend, too.

Would you help us with this work?

we need your prayers.

We believe that it is part of God's will, but

Fi^st, this year w^wa^ to gain knowledge and skills ^essential for later use

on the field."^Pray that~~Gdd will lead us to the right sources and help
us benefit from them.

Second, we want to^<^cruit at lea^V three couples for the field and three others
for world-wide evangelism in general. Pray that God will move their hearts.^ ThJ^d, pray that we ca:n start a healthy, Chinese^ Christian fellowship in Los
Ang,eles metropolitan.
Four

upon returning to Hong Kong, we plan to start one new group of believers

each jviear in~a new urbah"^grstrict. ie.- Pray that God will prepare peoples' hearts to hear the gospel.
Pray that technical problems will be resolved.
Pray that Chinese leaders will be cultivated.

Above all, pray for God's mercy on the Chinese who've not yet heard.
In His love.

Gary and Joyce

P.S. from Sandy

I've decided to open my own business, "Sandra Jane, Private Investigator."
I've inspected scores of living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms from the bottom up. I've looked carefully under beds, sofas and chairs. I've tested floor surfaces, peaked under carpets and tasted shag rugs. Boy, some of the secrets
I-could tell . . v'

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Make Checks Payable To
" ANDERSON MISSION TO THE CHINESE

SPONSORED BY:
RINCONADA HILLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH
1975 POLURD ROAD

LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA 95030

FORWARDING AGENTS:
MR. & MRS. FLDON WYMORE

400 HILLVIEW DRIVE

LEBANON. OREGON 97355

July-August, 1976
Dear Christian Friends,

PHONE: 503-258-2865

ed.

(June 25th) I'd better start this letter now or I'll forget all that's happenRemember, this letter is bi-monthly while we're on furlough.

We planned to spend the first week in June with Dad and Mom Wymore in Oregon. They had given us their second car to use this year, but it was hit the day after we got there. So it spent eight days and $390.00 in the repair shop.

Joyce, however had to start summer school in Los Angeles before the car could
be fixed! It seemed best to let Joyce fly down and stay at my Uncle Jim's home until I drove down. Joyce, being a faithful student, called the school as soon
as she arrived.

What summer school?

Most of the classes she planned to take had been

cancelled.

Now, she can't possibly get her BA this year.

After weighing the

possibilities, she flew right back so that we could be with Dad Wymore through
his liernia surgery (all's well).
ing most of the time.

Unfortunately, Oregon's rye grass kept me sneez

On our way, we spoke at Green Valley Christian

June 18th we left for L.A.

Church in San Jose and visited with friends in El Rio.

(July 27th) Since I would be going to school in Pasadena, we thought it best for Joyce to attend some college in Pasadena rather than commuting 35 miles to Pacific Christian College, but five days of house-hunting in summer's heat made
me wonder if this was the Lord's will. Then, we found a nice apartment close to Pasadena City College and Fuller Theological Seminary.

Our new home address is at the bottom of this letter.

As soon as we'd rented,

our car was hit again from the rear.

last accident.

So back to the shop just 20 days after the

Insurance covered both accidents.

I'm glad we're not commuting!

July 5th we went to Denver for the North American Christian Convention and then on to Minneapolis and a few.days with my grandparents in Wisconsin where we

spoke.

From there, we went to speak in Amherst and Hartley, Nebraska, where Joyce's
We picked our car up from the shop and spent some time with Chinese

relatives were having their annual reunion, and we were back home via Denver on

July 20th.

friends from our church in Hong Kong.

Most recently, we spoke at Westminister Christian Church in L.A. Before we start school in September, we'll be in Arizona for a week of camp and two churches,
and then sharing in El Rio, California for a weekend.

Visiting our relatives was a spiritual blessing and a lesson.

We saw that

those which were founded on Christian principles half a century ago have reproduced

that light many times over through their descendants in many areas of society and
the world.

Would you intercede to God with me on behalf of these needs?

1. 2.
3.

That mercy be granted to this generation of 800 million Chinese who

haven't heard the gospel.

That God would raise up three more couples or individuals to work with
the Chinese.

That God would bring into being a Chinese church in the L.A. area.
May God Bless,

Gary & Joyce Anderson

160 so. Michigan, Apt. #103 Pasadena, California 91106

Tel: 213-793-6375

P.S. from Sandy

It sure is good to be home and get the same bed every night. I was just be ginning to get tired of all that variety. Trouble is, Mom and Dad are the only ones to play with, and I need to teach them how before they're much good.

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from Gary and Joyce

Make Checks Payable To ANDERSON MISSION TO THE CHINESE

SPONSORED BY:
RINCONADA HILLS CHRISTIAN CHURCH

1975 POLLARD ROAD

LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA 95030

September-October, 197o
Dear Daddies and 1-ionindeSj

FORV/ARDING AGENTS:
400 HILLVIEW DRIVE

j, ^,^5. eldon wymore

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I Can walk now, and it sure is fun. I'm too sophisticated to crawl. It's \mcouth especially at the park. I just hate to get that sand all over my hands.
After all, I'm a lady nor-r.

WiV lots O' lUV,

Sandy
P. S. from Gar^^ and Joyce,

We noticed that some people read the "P. 3. from Sand^*" first, and that some don't even read the rest. So we thought it vras time the tables were turned.

MAO'S DEATH - OPEN DOOR?

Recently a few people asked me if Chairman tiao's death might lead to great changes in China. Almost four years ago I quoted one observer as saying 'political overthrow

at his death is a serious possibility' (Ja., 73 newsletter). Since then, I have been praying that that change would come vrithin three to five ;/ears. i-Ii 1li.ons of other believers have been praying also that China's doors -would open to the gospel. More than ever before, I believe that opening is close at hand. Here's why.
1)1 don't believe that our Heavenly Father in His mercy will neglect this genera
tion of mainland Chinese who have never heard the gospel.

2) God is, bj' His promises, not slov? to answer the persistent, urgent prayers of his
people

3) God is already raising i/p an amy of dedicated Chinese believers throughout the

world. Just today, a missionaiy from the Philippines bold me that Chinese and Koreans are the only two Asian groups that are . eally turning to the Lord right now. It is hard to document, but I believe that there may be more Chinese-speaking be lievers througho'at th? world today than ever before in human history. From them
must rise the laborers to work in China.

ii) bince the early 19oO's, l-jao's regime has been falling from favor -fd.th the masses

a quiet prodrrtive life where they can raise their faxiilies.

use the Cultural Revolution to break this resistance.

of mainland Chinese.

The regime wants perpetual revolution, but the people want

ilao's iTife tried to

Maiy good, just citizens

died needlessly.

Ihey became martyrs for a just cause.

Through it all, Chow Sn Lai

who TTas sensitive to the people's needs kept friction dovni, but when he died
tensions amazingly rose to the surface against rlao.

5) Mao's govemr^nt has never been fiiianciall/ strong. These last great earthQualces may have put a great strain on the strength of his government. V/ill they
be ^le to feed and clothe those that were -made homeless? If not, vjill they be able

to resist the impatient demands of hungry,'" people who are now bet"Der educated? Chinese can see that throughout the free world peoples i*ush to the needs of other oaooles caught in disasters. Vliat itill they think of their own government that re
fused such aid?

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6) Sarthquakes are a bad omen.

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To the old Chinese mind, great earthquakes foretell

governmental coll^se because the heavens are not pleased viith the rulers and is at war against them. At least one and maybe several of China *s great dynasties

collapsed following earthquakes. Do old Chinese today remember and believe these signs? Is God using them for his own purposes? If so, then the people are not anxious to support a government that even heaven opposes.

Sun Xat Sen who will ^^akfor the deep spiritual needs of the people. Itore than
ever before our eyes should be focused on God's action in China. 1-fcre than ever before we ought to dedicate ourselves to the evangelization of these people in
prayer and personal committment.

Today*s China needs a^^gb^^accept a Christian leader like its founding father.

IT&n and women must dedicate themselves to Chinese evangelism. As a whole, the GhrlstianrCharches "are seriously lacking in~i5his^arear ^In^ August. we sent letters to churches in the Los Angeles area to find out how much interest there was in starting a Chinese church in Los Angeles county. SaxDy, to date, we have

not heard of one single Chinese-American Christian despite the fact that nearly 100,000 Chinese live in the L.A. area. Are we really concerned about reaching
the \mreached?

About Ourselves
Before we left Hong Kong, we sorted out our belongings and decided to ship only those things we essentially needed. They were to arrive June 7th, in Los Angeles. After several letters, extra money and the help of friends, they finally arrived in late August in Seattle! The VJymores arran^-:ed to get them as far as San Jose, where we picked them up. We sure were glad for that.
Recent and Tentative speaking dates are as follows;

Sept. 16 Oct.
Nov.

First Christian Church, Qlendale, Calif.

Golden VJest Christian Church, Los Angeles

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7

Oct. 22-21;Nov.
Dec.

Los Gatos Christian Church, Los Gates, Calif.

First Chui-ch of Christ, San Fernando, Calif.

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19

First Christian Chiirch, Casa Granda, Ariz.

Oregon

TSs let^ter^is already long, so we'll save other things for another time.
In Christ,

Gary and Joyce Anderson 160 S. Michigan, Apt.

Pasadena, CA
I!. S. A.

91106

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THE WHOLE STORY

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son."

Oh, what love. Half of the world lived under the shadow of Greek culture and Roman troops when Jesus came. He couldn't have come at a better time for them.
But God loved the whole world, and the other half lived under the shadow of the

great Han Dynasty of China. Jesus couldn't have come at a better time for them, either. It was
indeed "the fulness of time". Yet, you haven't heard this Christmas story before.
Jewish traders had established communities in China at least 700 years before Christ,

Since these communities had copies of the Old Testament, they managed to keep up their hope
in the coming King.

Then "After his birth, astrologers from the east arrived in Jerusculem, asking, 'Where is the child who is born to be king of the Jews? We observed the rising of his star, and we have
come to pay him homage.'" (N. E.B.)

Near that time, an astrologer reportedly disappeared from China and was gone for a long time. Was he one of the astrologers who came to pay homage to the newborn king? Had he heard the Jews tell of their hope and seen the prophecies of his star? God apparently didn't forget the
Chinese and that half of the world. He sent them a star. And, these astrologers at least didn't forget to worship God. They brought gifts to his son.

But, hove weforgotten them for whom Jesus come?

While Paul went west to the Greeks and the Ethiopian eunuch went south to the blacks,

the apostle Thomas went east. He planted churches in Syria, Persia, India and .... did he reach China; History doesn't say, but from earliest times, crosses appeared on a few Chinese tombs.
Throughout the centuries, the church in China lived. Sometimes it grew to hundreds of thousands. At other times it disappeared from view. Those oriental Christians were persecuted

by national Chinese pride, even as the Western Christians were persecuted by Catholic Rome's
spiritual pride. But they survived even to this day.
"For God so loved the world . . .," the whole world. Let's remember that the whole Christmas story was for the whole world.
WHO IS GOD CALLING TO MISSIONS TODAY?

"Facing the Divine Command" is a sermon that helps answer that question. It is the ; sermon that I've preached more than any other. If you care about the world,
take time to read it. It's free to anyone who writes and asks for it.

A traveler went to a well to draw water, but the

builders of the well warned him, "Draw as much water as

you con, but remember that you ore expected to also draw water for those who sent you, and to help deepen the well
so that more water wi 11 flow in."

This parable tells something about the School of World Missions, where I'm studying here in Pasadena. Students come not only to get for themselves, but to give and share; so they are called "research associates" instead of students. Really, though, I'm learning a lot more from them than they are learning from me. At 25 years of age, I am the second youngest of the nearly 100 research associates here. The average age is 41. These career missionaries
and mature church leaders came from-over 30 countries

such as Iceland, Sweden, France, Greece, Uganda, Nigeria, India, China, Viet Nam, Cuba, Ecuador and Sri
Lanka.

wish you a very happy Christmas"

They have averaged sixteen years experience. They are radio broadcasters, TV producers, college presidents. National evangelists, Bible translators and preachers.

They have faced witch doctors, head-hunters, kings, wars and church problems. Idi Amin tried to assassinate one associate before he left Africa, but killed a guest at his home Instead. Another as

sociate was the third most wanted Christian by South African rebels, but ^1 was recently assassinated, and ^2 just disappeared.
So why do they leave wives, children and friends to come here? They cc^e to learn "missiology' which is the science of cross-cultural communication of the Christian faith. The school has one goal:
Seeing God's church grow.. Whatever hinders people from being saved is challenged. Like Christian

doctors, we must learn to analyze, diagnose and prescribe solutions to the hindrances, trusting God
for the results.

It'spracTTcal." "Every "associate" is expecfed to ably reproduce his Christian faith in other

ports of the world. I believe that this School of World Missions is doing one of the best jobs at helping
people learn how to do that.

MORE THAN TRIPLED it's size in five years! That's the story of the Mong Kok Church of Christ. I've

just finished a 15 page analysis of the church as well as faith-promise projections for the future. It's available to anyone who will send me $1 to cover copy costs. Just ask for, "An Accurate Picture of
the Mong Kok Church of Christ." "

We need your prayers. 1) That we will use wisely the funds that God has entrusted to us. 2) That this school year will be as profitable for the Kingdom as possible. 3) Above all, China needs the Gospel. Dr. McGavran said that he regularly prays that 1,000 Christian workers, no matter what country they are now In, would take the time to learn Chinese, so that they will be ready when the
door opens.
Best Wishes,