1 - Christian and Missionary Alliance

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PRESSTIME PARAGRAPHS for your INFORMATION and INTERCESSION
Mission to Have New Facilities in INDONESIA Capital: Development of a new headquarters
property for the Indoncsia Mission of the C W is under way. Residences
for the field chairman and the director of the Inter-Mission Business Office are
going up first, with the construction of a guesthousc to follow.
INDONESIA Evangelism Is Making Gains: A tent team headed by
Evangelist Jarkasih is seeing significant results, a spokesman
from Indonesia says. But that project, as well as evangelism
efforts in Central and West Java by Toraja Bible school stu-
dents, is not receiving financial backing from the churches.
Church Members Gradually Returning to Jolo in Southern PHILIPPINES: Pastor Zacha-
rias Fronda and at least thirty families of the two hundred who fled the fire that
devastated Jolo earlier this year (see 3/13 issue) have returned. An unburned
building has been partitioned to provide temporary housing. Reconstruction of the
church awaits clearance from the military. Because Jolo is to be a "planned" city,
all proposed construction projects are receiving careiul scrutiny.
GABON Mission-Church Agreement Is Signed: Dr. Louis L. King,
Vice-President/Overseas Ministries, reports a successful
meeting with Gabonese church leaders in late June at Bongolo.
A five-year working agreement was forged and signed.
"Great Divide" Partitions MALI and UPPER VOLTA Mission: It is now official: the
Mali and Upper Volta Mission has been divided. Logistic - and uolitical considerations
prompted the move, which was finalized at the recent field conference. With
delegates from the Mali and Upper Volta churches sitting as observers, the missionaries
determined details of the separation. The Hali Mission, with Rev. S. Thomas
Burns as its chairman, will be headquartered at Koutiala. The Upper Volta Mission,
led by Rev. D. L. Kennedy, will have its offices at Bobo-Dioulasso. Dr. Charles A.
Epperson, Orlando, Fla., pastor, ministered at the final combined conference,
bringing Bible messages which the delegates found helpful. The need for more missionaries
remains critical. "Vast areas go unrcached for lack of missionaries,"
a field source reported. "Out of 400 church groups, only 200 have pastors."
KIWR REPUBLIC Missionaries Find It Hard to "Keep Track": The
number of new congregations in Greater Phnom Penh is multiply-
ing so rapidly that the overworked missionaries find it virtu-
ally impossible to keep up with them all. "It's hard to keep
track," comments Rev. A. Eugene Hall, now Board representative,
noting that eighty-two new believers from four congregations
were baptized in just one week's time. Son Sonne, national
church treasurer, began a Bible study at a housc on the road to
his home. Attendance jumped from thirteen to a hundred to well
over two hundred. In two weeks 532 had prayed to receive Jesus
Christ. Mr. Hall also observed an increase again in the rocket
attacks on the city and an alarming amount of student unrest.