Elim Bible Institute - Oasis Yearbook (Lima, NY)

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LEFT: Missionary Convention finds Costa Deir in African attire praising the Lord with his tambourine. BELOW: Guest Speaker Bill Wilson joins with Evelyn Connor, who is shortly to go overseas. BOTTOM: Milburn Sickler invites Brother Felix of Ghana to share about his country. OPPOSITE PAGE, TOP: Costa Deir, Foreign Missions Secretary. BOTTOM LEFT: Saied Adour, Home Secretary. BOTTOM RIGHT: Office Staff: Sherri Willman, Hayden Bennett, Thelma MacLane, Sarah Bright, Eva Leisups. Love Constrains God’s Ambassadors As Bud Sickler — missionary to Kenya, Africa — portrayed the glo¬ rious vision of reaching the whole world with the gospel, God’s love began to constrain students and visitors alike at the Missionary Convention to encompass all nations in prayer and in service. Emphasis rested on evangelizing and discipling the world in this generation. If people can travel as quickly as they do, communicate efficiently through complex forms of wires and mass media available to all, and expand their private enterprises with the wealth of this nation, it is also possible to reach ev¬ ery person in the world for Jesus Christ. Missionaries today are entering into other men’s labors and are harvesting what others have sown. George Lindsay, Bill Wilson, Costa Deir, and others including fac¬ ulty shared their experiences in laboring with God on the mission field. With stretched-out hands the entire audience prayed for God’s ambassa¬ dors located in many countries. Costa Deir spoke of God’s need for three types of men: Those who will exercise authority over spiritual forces; Those who will intercede; Those who will boldly preach the Word. Bill Wilson concluded the convention with the word from Isaiah 41:10: “Fear not,... I will strengthen thee, I will help thee.” God’s right hand enables His servants to go make disciples, teaching all nations. Lining the tabernacle walls were colorful and graphic displays of each of the six student prayer groups. Maps of construction paper “stretched across miles” from the lighted factual chart on Africa to the slides and pictures of the Pacific Islands, to the curios and costumed mannequins of Latin America. 1 |

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Elim Fellowship Serves Prospective Leaders Kinshasa, Tauranga, Barranca-ber- meja, St. Louis — these and many more are names that recur in the Elim Fellowship office — our Mis¬ sions Office on campus. Accurate rec¬ ords and receipting processes, trips to counsel with and encourage pas¬ tors and pioneer workers, preparing packages for mailing overseas, semi¬ nars for missionaries and national pastors overseas are among the con¬ tinuing responsibilities of “Elim Fel¬ lowship — a Christ-centered world¬ wide revival fellowship.” Preparation for leadership is not all concluded within the confines of Bible School life. The individuals in¬ volved — and they are deeply in¬ volved — in the ministry through Elim Fellowship stand ready to as¬ sist in whatever way possible the continued “leadership development” to which God calls His ministers. 32

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Jesus Christ is the “Pioneer of our salvation” (Heb. 2:10, Moffatt), made perfect through sufferings, even tasting death for every man. No one but the very Son of God could have pioneered in this area of our sal¬ vation, for He alone could satisfy the Father’s heart. But the day of pioneers is still with us, and the young missionary recruit looks to the Pioneer of all pio¬ neers for his example. The question arises: Is my con¬ cept of pioneering, God’s concept? Can I, too, delight to do God’s will no matter where it takes me, no matter what the cost, with the one thought of a mission com¬ pleted and accepted in His sight? Eva Butler, sister of President Carlton Spencer, is such a pioneer. It all began in 1960 when God started dealing with her about going to the nomadic Masai tribesmen of west¬ ern Kenya. The Masai are noted for their diet of milk and blood, and for warring over cattle, which are their livelihood. The young men live by themselves near the rivers and eat the cattle they steal. After five years of patient waiting, God’s time ar¬ rived to see the beginning of fulfillment of her vision for the Masai. Having spied out the land with other missionaries on a safari into Masai country, Eva Butler settled into a 13x15 foot wood frame, metal roof house at Mashuuru. In the past seven years on the field, many churches have been established in the villages stretch¬ ing for hundreds of miles across western Kenya. The Lord opened a way into the hearts of the youth of the Masai tribe, the “Morani”. In seeking rapport with these fierce warriors, Eva declares: “God is my strength and my fear is gone. I am truly safe among them with His protection.’ i nr The Day of Pioneers is Still With Us!