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BUiCH NHfJSLSTTER March, 1977

God is so good I We just can'^'t thank Him enough.

Our Holiday Season was wonderful. I-fy father enjoyed his visit and his presenceadded a new dimension to our lives and those of the many Brazilians in whose homeswe visited while he was with us. Dad is not yet a Christian but he is open andsearching. His time with us provided opportunity for some great housr of Biblestudy^ soul searching and prayer. Pray with us that he will soon 'get it alltogether- with The Lord.

Vve have hardly quit traveling since the first of the year. We drove to Belem, onthe Ainazon^ for the Missionary Conference and were all blessed by the revealingmessages of Ben Ale:{ander and Raimundo Nate, both former Spiritxst Mediums, TneConference even included a very interesting boat cruise on the Amazon which everyone enjcyed,

I completed my study entitled^ 'Spiritism-A Brazilian Catholic Perspective ' ^ shortlybefore the Conference. The research paper revealed that the Brazxlain Catholicposition in regards to Spiritism is much the same as our own. They see it as adefinite threat to Christianity and condemned by scripture. Though there are afew Catholics who believe there can be reconciliation between various forms ofBrazilian Spiritism and the Brazilian Catholic Church;; the majority opinion^can ••be summed up in the following quotation from a Catholic authority on BrazilianSpiritism^ Dr, Boaventura Kloppenburgs 'New revealers or messengers brought tyspirits from bej'-ond are not needed. We have the 'Vordi His message is sufficent.There is only one Master, Christ, 'I am The Way and The Truth and The Lifes noone comes to The Father except thru Me (John l^s6)'.

Follox-ri-ug the Conference we took advantage of our location to visit Sao Luis .wherewe were entertained by our freinds Perrin and Carlota from Uberlandia, who werevisiting relatives there, and by a beautiful white sandy beach and the warm Atlantic Ocean.

We returned by vray of Araguarina, crossing about 3^0 miles of dirt road. The Lordidpriwcd and gave us a dry day for we could have never made it in the heavy rains-we-had been-having^- As n fact f—thira" has--been--the -Ki-m3:est-year that—«anyoue hci-o rotiiomber, I guess you know where your rain wenti

Steve-'s brotlT^rg^Sdl-iloreland ..an^ his family had driven to Belem on a wing and aprayer and four flat'tires, in their old WJ bug. In Belem they bought tires andgot the oil leaks stopped. Their return trip had gone fine until they xrere just70 miles of their home in Araguarina, A truck, from Uberlandia, tamed to theleft in front of them just as they T«7ere attempting to pass, unable to stop, theyhit the truck behind its rear wheels, hitting sq^iare on the big spare tire whichpushed its way up to the base of the windshield. The top was smashed down on thepossniitjcr side and Jan with har new baby on her lap, was thrown forward againstthe dash, breaking some ribs and knocking the baby unconcious for over one hour,Bill-s face hit where the windshield had been and his face was badly cut. But—thanks to The Lord, they and their children all, survived the crash, and vrere up

• limping around when we arrived. Had they hit anyvrhere else on the truck, it isdoubtful they would have made it.

P-^idxity on our arrival home was to begin the process towards receiving ourexemption of .'now' $1.23.Q head deposit .nece3.s.ary tq_leaye thie country. We thankyou for your prayers that helped imiueasurably in accomplishing "the" necessary mountain of paper work and the three separata trips to Brasilia and one to Belo Hori-zonte. , - -

SOUTH LilCSSHORS CHRISTIAN CmRCH

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On the second trip to Brasilia; when- I turr^li in ray application for exemptionswe were greeted vrith bad news^ '̂-^ill i'iet^s 9'Veteran iiissionarys was staying withBrace and June Colson while- tendihE^'to paper work in the Capital. He had beenfeeling sick for several days and went to a local hospital where he was refusedadmission because they were full; but was given some tests. Before the results ofthe tests were available he x-fas hospitalized in Anopolisg then moved to' Goianawhen it x-jas discovered he had Ji^hpid .F§ver combined with^lialaria. He died fromcomplications of the Typhoids his white blood cells being almost completely xd.pedout; at age h-0. The .sad thi^", is that he had received tests in Sao Paulo the weekbefore and they had shoxTO no sign of either disease, iledical care is normallypretty good here but the x-rheels turn so slowly at times a life can be lost beforethe correct action is taken. Ife will miss Bill and his contribution to the Brazilian work. The Lord is already using his death to unite Missionaries and BrazilianNationals in an effort to carry on the work of Evangelism,

Last week we made our third trip to Brasilia andj Praise The Lord; x^e-received our.exemptions. We then drove 9 hours to Belo Horizonte where we were able to accomplish in two hours what they had just assured me would take four days. The Lordprovided a man from Uberlandia in a place 01 influence and he was able to convincethe others to push our exit visa through in record time.

I have been using these trips as opportunities to take our films to the BrasiliaChurch- where they were well received. We stayed-oveV three''ddys 'in Belo and heldmeetings with the Christians there. Sunday morning I taught the young Adult'sSunday School class and at ni^ht x^e-had about ^00.p^^^l^^pack out the meeting •

^^^ouse to witness the Crucifixion and Resurrection'of Christ, and also the symbolic(l^^eath and rebirth of two who were baptized folloxvLng the film.

2>/eiy first Sunday of the'month the men here are meeting for a special' session ofprayer, fasting and Bible study. We meet at 7s30 A.M. 5 go to a secluded spot andare together until time for the afternoon meeting. The Lord is helping to uniteour men even more through these times together with Him.

scheduled to hold a two day meeting with preaching and films at the Independent" Baptist Church and then in April at the Presbyterian Church. V-Je thank Godfor these opportunities to present theNew Testament Christianity to the denom

iraple Gospel of Jesus and the challenge ofinations.

^Eray_for Bruce and I as we go. on our survey trip to^Cuiaba^--' 'Pray that the Lord _would make clear His will. We have offers to stay heref "to go to Brasilia for aterm and,, of course., the challenge of opening a new work in Cuiaba. '...not mywill but Thine..,'

'JIi-I, SANDY, MISTIE9 AI^D COREY WILL_BE ARRIVING AT SEA-TAC AIRPORT AT 7;52 P.M.

MAY 27th FRIDAY NIGIIT V/ESTERN AIRLINES — FUGHT # 386 Come and greet theraU, ...

A NOTE FROM SA'̂ TDYs . ' •

Mistie-s asking, 'How many fingers til we go on the airplane?- and Corey isstating that he x^ants to go on a little plane so that he can drive it! It soundslike the Bunches are going to take a trip. We're .up in the air, not knowing justwhen we're leaving but we do have two possibilities of chartered flights on April26th and i'lay 1st. The children, and I xj;ill fly into Portland, Oregon and stay withmy family utj;m_Jirii..arrives the last x-jeek in i-iaylwhen the 'lAjhole Bunch' will thenfly into Sea-Tac on Friday evening of Memorial Day Weekend. I have mixed feelingsas this departure date draws nearer — one feeling of e^citfraent to see family andfriends again, and another feeling of s,aduGPs upon leaving our friends here sincewe x-jon't be coming back to "[Jberlandia but moving put jbg,.Ciuis-ba, Of course we'll beable to visit, but it won't be the same -- this chapter of our lives is being completed, We have many fond memories and we've grox-m to love the Brazilians whichis easy to do since they are such a warm friendly people. It seems like as I go

with my Brazilian friend, llarcia, the question always comes up, 'Are youreally moving away from Uberlandia?' and ,I say, 'yes% and then I explain as Idid to many of my American friends vjheri we decided to work in Brazils I love ithere ano. really don't want to move but if I were to stay I'm sure that everythingwould go wrong because the Lord has been calling me to another service and if Iam sensitive to His leading then I'm going to be happy and blessed wherever Hesends me. And I have found this to be so true particularly these last three yearshere in Brazil and so even-though it hurts to leave, I'm looking forward to whatthe Lord- has -in store en up the road and I pray that you too are looking ahead withexcitement for what The Lord is planning for you.

In His Love,Jim, Sandy, idistie, and Corey