Open Bible College - Onward Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Quia! Rev. and Mrs. Dewey Hale were located at Saboba where there is a mission station and a clinic, for about eight months. Then they began to build a new G'-ice Weid station at Yakajia, which is 16 Glwia H 'nbfich miles from Saboba. This new all- Bi1IChif:Zothea Calnpb location had been untouched by e' Je-'fy Dbnhell' the missionary located at Sa- am boba. They moved into their new station about the first of the year Bro. Hale does general missionary work and Naomi establishes a clinic.The Hales have not been at their new station very long but we know that God shall bless and use them in even a greater way than He did when they were at Saboba. Dewey and Naomi Hale WX

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Qzeacd guinea On January 28, 1954, O. Ralph Isbill, Missionary Secretary of Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc. , was in Bouake, Ivory Coast, French West Africa and received special permission to enter Lower Guinea, an 6 . ' Palbyewbefgv an area of 10, OOO square miles Wilma Tarvm- with a population of one mil- Ray Gowmg lion souls . In March of 1954 Rev. Grant Moore and his family settled in Kindia, first center of Open Bible Standard Mis sions in French Guinea. Rev. Verl Stearns, Jr. , and his family joined the Moores in the fall of 1954. These two families are now laboring in French Guinea. This area was assigned to Open Bible Standard Churches so they are the only Protestant missionaries there. The entire Foreign Missions Fellowship has bought some fur- niture for the home of the Moore family. l , i X. i, UI:-I .V , 1, H frm 1 f ' Sally, Wilma, Anne, Tommy and Grant Moore 34 Shirley and Verl Stems, Jr

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nd Gib lk and Yula 3 0 Martha Y ahnviiclmef ' In response to a radio broadcast from St. Peters- burg, Florida, a letter came from Jamaica ask- ing for help. An evangel- istic team composed of Rev. Harvey Klapstein, Edmund Outhouse and Charles M. Learning went there for several months of meetings Soon after that regular Open Bible Standard mis- sionaries arrived. Five years ago, Ivan and Kay Morton, the first Open Bible Standard mission- aries appointed to the is- land, found five Christians faithfully awaiting their coming. From this small beginning, the work has prospered and expanded. The church in Montego Bay has a Sunday School attendance of five hun- dred. Besides this headquarters church there is now another central area opened at Newport. Also, nine country churches have been started These begin as special bamboo churches, but as the number of Chris- tians grows and their special offerings are saved they are able to build a stone church in four or five years. One of the most important phases of the work has just been opened this year, the Jamaican Open Bible Institute, located at Newport. The first class consists of four- teen students. An orphanage has also been started in Newport. Besides the workers pictured on this page, Curtis and Martha Ruby and Dorothy Cummings will soon be doing missionary work in Jamaica. Ivan, Jean Ann and Kath erine Morton. Lowell, Wllda, Ronald and Mary Ellen Chandler, Mabel Nelson, Thelma and Trenton Staton, Elizabeth and A. W. Henderson.