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

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Manta The Open Bible Stan dard Mission of River Cess started to be hewn out of the bush fjunglej in 1947 under the leader ship of Rev. O. Ralph Is bill and was completed Hale by succeeding mission- Hametc WS Sha, aries. Woods PESIIITIHH Kelis Pfadeljhauer kers. and Evelyn Welch L ee Chase At the present time they have two Ethel Bmnhaver mission homes, a school, clinic, church, boys' and girls' dormitories, a garage workshop, and four Liberian style homes used for native helpers and clinic patients A sizable clinic continues year after p t year and the elementary school for young l' people averages one hundred and fifteen There are a number of churches 1n out lying districts which have been estab lished over the years Plans are now being put into practice for a Bible Training School for the native wor

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404 L. and M' Miles Stems, Harold POW Reeves One of our alumni, EVELYN THIEDERMAN, has faithfully served as a missionary in Java for several years. The mission station is lo- cated about an hour and one-half from the city of Surabaia, an ideal spot for their Bibl S e chool. Most of the students in the Bible School are from the is- l and of Sumatra, others are Chinese and M anaden- ese. Miss Thiederrnan teaches in the Bible School d an also helps the new missionaries to learn the language. Evelyn Thiederman had to return to the U ' nited States a few months ago because of poor health. She needs our prayers that she might be strengthened of God to once again serve in the capacity to which she has been called. 38

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, Bob I Mxxlet r hltlefy nneih bbgtf.. S ' Ke' Etheiu ' Gofaon 1 aylot p 05.55.64 LOIS GRACE VEIT is our only Open Bible missionary in the Philippines. She went there in September, 1951 and began work for the Far Eastern Broad- Xxmet. casting Company. There she is responsible for such programs as Youth in Action, Teachers' Clinic and Songs with a Smile. The Philippines are about as large as the New England States combined with New York. They have a population of 2.0, 000, 000. The English language is widely used among the younger gen- eration, however, there is a move under way to make the Tagalog, one of the major dialects the national lan- guage of the Philippines. The station at which Lois works broadcasts in thirty- three of the eight-seven dialects spoken there.