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T LION'S

See

th e

Lion of the tribe of

Judah

. . . has

triumphed

I

BOB

DAWN

BAIRD

Elizabeth Rachel

Joshua

September

1986

...Iwas a stranger

and

you invited me in...

IN

Z I

FR

Our

furlough is

just

about

over

as I am

writing this

Newsletter

to

you. We wanted this

to

be

full of

pictures so

that you could

get

some

of

th e

feel of

what

it

has been

like

to

be here fo r this

year.

This pic ture had to

be

the first

one

because in

this year this

is

wha t we did more than anything

e ls e. We figur e

that

with

all

the

mission related

traveling

and

personal trips our

furlough used up

right at 60 000 miles. As

we pulled up

to

your

house or

into

t he Church

parking

lot,

and

as

we headed out

again

this was your first and last

view

of the

Bairds.

To some of you

we

were not

strangers

but

you

all invited

us

in,

into your

lives

and

into

your hear ts and into


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M

I

Helios a nd Go od b ye s to Family an d Friends

Conventions oard Meetings Linguistic Institutes V S Programs Teaching and Preaching


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NAMES

AND

ADDRESSESTO

REMEMBER

On Augus t 14th we

will fly

out

of

Chicago on

our way

back to

Bafwasende

Zaire . In fact ,

when

you

receive this

letter we will at

least

be

in

Zaire,

if

not

in fact

back

to o ur home village. Since some

things have

changed while

we

have been on f ur lough we wou ld

just

like to

reiterate some new

names

and addresses

to you.

Our new Forwarding Agents a re

ack and L o u Warner o f

Davenport,

Iowa.

Their address

f o r POT i s ioneer B i b l e

Translators,

Box 571, Bettendorf,

lA

52722. The y are handling

all

our financial work and

being

assisted in

these

matters

by

Mike

and Ruth Senneff. So when

you

get

a

receipt

back

you m ight

have

e ith er o n e o f

t ho s e

n am es on it

Whi le in

Zai re ou r add re s s

will

be the sam e;

Bairds, Box 53435

(ACM

Bukavu),

Nairobi,

Kenya,

Afr i ca

A

big

change

for

us

this

next

term

is

that Rachel

is

going to

Boarding School . The name

of her

school is

Rethy Academy

and It is

l o c a t ed in

Za i r e S he will b e a t

s choo l

fo r

m on th s a nd h om e fo r

one

month. All of hertraveling will

be by plane and

Rethy

is

about 1.5

hours away

from

Bafwasende. If

y ou wou ld

like

to

write

t o Rache l,

and she

would

like to

receive

your

let ters, he r

address

is Rache l

Baird,

c/o

Rethy Academy,

P.O.

Box

21285, Nairobi, Kenya,

Af r i c a

Learning

to

Dribble a Basketball,

ABC s, and

American

Cu

The Pr incess

a t Dan ce

Recital

and Top Honors at

Piano

Re

Packing and

Unpacking Again

and

Again


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S pecial O l ym p ics

an d Eighth G r a de G r ad u at io n

F O R W A R D I N G A G E N T S :

J a ck

and E l v a

L o u Warne r

Box

5 7 1

Be t t e n d o r f , lA

5 2 7 2 2

FIELD ADDRESS :

T h e

Bai rd s

Box 53435 ACM-Bukavu)

Nairobi, Kenya,

Africa

FURLOUGH ADDRESS:

Box 5

Rapids City,

IL

61278

Before

you move please send tfie mailing label below along with a

copy

of

yournew

address to

MISSION

SERVICES ASSOCIATION,

P.O.

Bo x

2427,

Knoxville, TN

37901-2427.

M is s ion S e r v i c e s

PC B ox 2 42 7

Knoxvi l l e,

TN

3 7 9 0 1 - 2 4 2 7

A D DR E SS C O RR E CT IO N R EQ UE ST ED

N on PfO it

U S Pos t

P A I D

K n ox vi ll e ,

37901-24

Pe rmi t B

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