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

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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.

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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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wzddawl Return visas to India re fused! Jean and Kaare Wil- helmsen had spent a full term learning the language of India and working among those people. Should all that ex- perience and knowledge now be lost? HOW Could God turn this to good? The Island of Trini- dad, just off the coast of South America pre- Ioy M Batfo ' 0X3 U ne Bel. ' ggfen Be ' tty itchell R sented a challenge to the Expansion Program of Open Bible Stan- dard Missions in the Caribbean Area. On the same street of this polyglot island you may see an East Indian woman in a sari with a ring in her nose, Hindus in traditional dress, Portuguese, Af- Kaare and Jean Wihelmsen with their sons, Bryant and Hubert. ricans, and the sharp businessmen- the Chinese. Here on an island 50 miles long and 40 miles wide are 700, 000 people. One third of them are East Indians! Here are typical bazaars and Hindu Temples. Here the ministry of the Wilhelmsens in Hindu and English can best be utilized for the Glory of God. In one short year a large group of bloodwashed ones has been wrested by prayer and fortitude from the grip of the enemy of our souls. Today this group is helping repair and repaint the building which will house the mis- sionaries and be the home of the Open Bible Institute of Trinidad. God's benediction upon this beginning be- tokens a future with numerous churches pastors, and evangelists. 41