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J.
V
Dlaku
ministering at
Tsomo died week
before last .
ewas one who was
when
we
came
to South Africa.
Just
the end of
last
month he had turned
is work over to Brian Ngaca who was in school
las t
year.
May God r ic hl y b le ss and
keep
you.
FORWARDING AGENT:
Mrs
R i ch a r d
Hanson
16642 Gannon
Ave .
W
Rosemount Minn. 55068
NEWS WITH THE NICHOLSONS
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A l
NEWS WITH
THE
NICHOLSONS
VOL 18
NO.
2
April
1977
Dear Chr is t i an Fr iends
Thula benani
is the Zulu way of saying
Peace
be With You
(plural) .
As we wri te
th i s
le t te r for you th is month, th is is our prayer.
We
have
been
back
in
South
Africa
over
a
month
now
and
much
of
this
time has been
spent
in get t ing
th ings
ready
to ro l l
once
again.
I have spent qui te a few
hours
a t Zobolos helping them to get t he i r house f inished so they
could
move in
In fac t they
moved
in
before a l l
the work
was
done fo r thei r bedroom
on
the old house began to fal l down. When
they
moved in
the
house was finished
except
for
having
two windows in and
par t
of the
ridging
on the roof and
painting.
Our problem with
th e rid gin g was
tha t
fo r s ev era l
weeks
we
could not
get any in th is area.
How
wonderful
it
i s
to see them in a home where
you
know tha t
they
are not going to get
wet
or
it
wil l
not
f a l l down on them, _ ^
When
they have
concrete
f lo ors h ere , they
put
a
hard
surface
over
the
base
f loor . They
ask me
to buy
red, yellow, green and b lack color ing which
they
put on and
mixed
into the
cement
so it was colored. They have
worked it
so they
have
a di f fe ren t design in every
room. Their
big job
now
inside
wil l be
that of
painting. They also have qui te a b i t of
finishing
work
to
do
out sid e but th is can be
done
as
they
are able. We also want to
make
built in
cupboards
for the house.
The oldest son of
the
Zobolos, A lpheus, has gone back
to
school
a t
the University of
Zulu-
land. The
school
has been closed
since
June of l a s t year. He is a second yea r s tudent
there. The
second
son, Jethro, who was
unable to
find a
place in
a high
school las t year,
i s going to
school
a t
Amanzimtoti near Durban, The
s choo l h as
no dormitory,
so he
and
th re e o th er boys have a room a t a
house
tog eth er . Jeth ro had a good jo b in Johannesburg
l a s t
year, but he gave
it
up to
complete his
schooling.
We
have
visit
in t h r e e o f
t h e
chu r ch e s
s i n c e
we
have been ba ck
We
were
i n v i t e d to
t h e
fourth,
but it was the same day
that
we had been
invited
to another place. One
of
the
churches gave
us com, madumbes and pumpkins to
eat .
1
have been very
thankful for the
pumpkins
because
th ey h elp
me
to
take
off
the
extra pounds
1
picked
up
in the Sta tes ,
We
have learned to
enjoy
pumpkin as a vegetable,
1 have put a rebui l t
shor t
assembly in the
VW
1 had not planned to do
it myself,
but the
gas tank began to leak and the moto rs were much
cheaper
in Durban.
I t
i s s t i l l giving qui t
a
lo t
of trouble. We are
taking
i t i f i t will
get
there, to Durban to be checked tomorrow
We pray tha t it
can
be
f ixed
so
tha t we wil l
have
a good working vehicle .
We
need
it so
badly.
Parl iament i s
in
s es si on h er e and they have certainly given it
to the
tax
payer
in
the new
budgets;
25
percent t ax i nc re as e
on
most
items
outside
of
food,
railway
t a r i f f s
have
been
increased--we are
sure
of the same
for
postal
and telephone,
gasoline
i s already
almost
30 cents a liter and this in American money so you can see what
i t
is a gallon, the cost
of electr ici ty has
more than
doubled,
IVhere we
were paying
$10 we
are
now
paying 20.
Conference
has
been
se t for
the
24th
through the
28th o f August a t Kimberley. The
date
was se t ahead for
about
th ree weeks
th is year
because Bob Mills , who
i s Treasurer ,
i s
going overseas
at
the beginning of September. Thus, he
can
be present to give h is re po rt.
1 am back
a t teaching a t
the
Bible Training
Schoo l, h av ing
the classes
o f Romans and
Life
o f
Chr i s t
There a re 16
s t uden t s
s ix o f
whom
are men. There a re
still
some o ther men,
who
hope to
come
l a t e r this year .
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found
that the
camp grounds we used for the
African
camp
does
not meet government
regulations
requiring
that they build
some new buildings
so
they do
not
know i f i t
will
be
a va il ab le f or
th is year. So pray with us tha t if we
cannot
use it we can
work
out
something
tha t
wi l l
s t i l l
be a challenge to
the
yoimg people.
appreciate your
prayers and help.
y God bless
and guide yo u a l l
Yours
i n C h r i s t
Alvin
V e m i t a Nichol son
FORWARDING
AGENT:
Mrs Richa rd Hanson
16642
G an no n A ve . W
Rosemount Minn. 55068
NEWS
W ITH T HE N IC HOL SO NS
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Church
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NEWS WITH THE NICHOLSONS
Dear Ch r i s t i a n
F r i e nd s :
waited for Easter to pass before writing our News Letter and the whole month got by
drove to East London on the 7th of
April to
stay with the John Kemans. With
the
coming of Independence to Transkei, we now have to drive north to get south. First we go
north so
that we
come
into
the Border post
from
that
side
at
Umzimkulu
and
we
go out the
South Border
post north of East
London. have
applied for permission to
go through
at
uncontrolled Border crossings as South African and Transkei citizens
are
allowed to do. To
go
to
East
London
and back now,
we
go an extra 120 miles.
Friday morning, John
and
Heather Kernan took Vernita
and
I to Dimbaza for their Good
Friday services. I brought the
morning
message and John the one in the afternoon.
The
chu rch was f u l l bu t
n o t
crowded.
Saturday noon
John
Kernan Vernita and I were back for the Dedication Service. I spoke
-
fo r
t h e
Ded ica t i on s e rv i ce and
Rober t
flU Geldenhuys of
Cradock
brought the
exhor
ta t ion. All the people then le f t
th e
- church and
the
doors were
closed
and
I f.
locked and w
walked around the build-
minist r from imbaza
to
r pr s nt
t
people
there
and an
elder
from a
vis i t
Marching around th e new bui ld ing
a t
the
ing
church.
P
Marching around the
new
building at the ing church,
dedication
services on Apri l
9th.
Saturday night th e church had
got
ten the use of a nearby factory for their meeting as the church building would not hold
all the people present. It is at this service that those
visiting
bring their monies as
well as the local people. This offering
amounted
to 485.11. It took three sheep and two
oxen
to feed this great
group
of
people.
Sunday morning
Vernita
and
I
were
present
with them
for
the church ser
vice. I have never seen a building
packed
like this one was. They
brought short benches from the i r
homes
5
f i l l ed
even the cen te r a i s l e
and
jus t
no place was
le f t .
The
only
small children present in the;bialdr ^
ing
were
those who needed
to
be
with v-^ ^
their
mothers.
More
than 400 people
W.f
were present for that service. ^
The
weekend of
April 23rd
24th
we were
present
at Mqanduli
church
fo r
se rv ices .
A leader in the loca l
Method i s t
chu r ch
was bu r i e d on
S a t u r
day
so
we
had
no
services
on
tha t
night. We
had
a
very good
service on
v--;teEg jr
y ^ ^
Group at the dedicat ion of the new churc
bui ld ing
a t
Dimbaza.
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nday morning, blessed as the Africans say, by a heavy rain right
after that.
While we
eating, one
of the men said,
I will plow tomorrow
with the
minis ter' s r ain (meaning
The rains did
not come
as
they
should have last November and December so their
a re ve ry poo r .
I t is defini te
that
we shal l not be
able
to
use
the camp a t Oribi th is year. We
per
ps could use a Conference center which has been built up over the years and has been
rchased by one of the Missions, but the
cost
is 3.50
per
day and
our
Africans cannot
that.
It is truly a nice place for we missionaries have had a meeting there and
enjoyed i t .
So
now
we
are
making
plans
for
the camp
to
be
at
Lftnzumbe
Bible
Insti
have purchased two used
top
end pieces for the
tent at
a cost of 1160.00. This is
than we paid
for the
tent
i tself
in
1973. These pieces are
in very
good condition;
new ones would have
cost
us
3480.00.
From the end of June unti l the
end
of July,
e tent
will
be used every
single
weekend and l ikely
for
both
the camp
at school and
the
in Pondoland. I f we had
to
hire a tent commercially for this time,
i t
would cost us
most what we have paid fo r these parts. have rented the tent some for weddings and
gatherings
and
in th is way have two thirds of th e money
needed
now on hand.
Wha t
I would
like to
have
is fif ty
copies
of
Don't Divorce The Holy
Spiri t
by Knofel
Thank you
for
praying and
caring
for us.
AGENT:
Richa rd Hanson
G anno n A ve . W.
Minn. 55068
WITH THE NICHOLSONS
and mailed by . . .
Pa rk
Ch r i s t i a n
Church
15
No r t h
25 t h
treet
I l l i n o i s 62301
In Chr i s t s grea t
love,
A
The
Nicho l son s
Non-Prof it Organ i
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LVIN
ND VERNIT
NI HOL
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B I O G R P H I C L S K E T C H
Brethren, we are encouraged with the work and h v many plans
we
would like to se e c a rr ie d f o rwa r d .
But
above al l we want to d o
God s will,for He knowswhat
best. So pleasepray for us.
Alvin and Verni ta Nicholson wrote th e above as they reflected on
21 years of miss ionary service in South Africa. At
that
t ime they
were
embarking
on
their
fifth
term
there.
In
th e
2-1/2
years since
the statement was written, they have continued to witness growth,
both numerically
and
spiritually.
Alvin Nicholson was
bo rn Augu st 1 2, 1 920,
in Holabird, South
Dakota. He became a Christian in Blunt, South Dakota, at
the
age of
15. During his t een years he became int eres ted in missionary work
largely through the influence
of
Tibbs Maxey, who
at t ha t
time was
ministering to the congrega tion in Blun t. Tibbs s
mother
Maude
Maxey
made
her home with him dur ing part
of
his ministry there.
Alvin was present in their home numerous t imes when Mrs. Maxey
received letters from her daughter Isabel (Dittemore), missionary in
China. This, plus exposure to various guest missionary speakers at
church and in Chris tian service camps, helped Alvin realize
the
great
need for overseas evangelis ts . He
committed
himself to help fill that
need.
To prepa re himself fo r Christian work Alvin
enrolled
in Minnesota
Bible College in 1940, graduating in 1944 with a B.A.degree. While
in college he became acquainted with
Vernita
Howard. Vernita, born
August
21,
1922, was also from South
Dakota.
Sh e had become a
Christian in 1940 at a Chris tian service camp in Black Hills, South
Dakota. She,
too,
was interested in missionary work. Alvin and Ver-
nita s friendship developed into a desire to join their
liv s
in service
to God ; t he y were married September 6, 1942.
The Nicholsons served churches in Faribault and Litchfield, Min
nesota, and Sutherland, Iowa, until
they
resigned to prepare for the
work in South Africa. In December, 1953, they arrived
at
their des
t inat ion
One
o f t he ir goals was to learn to communicate in
at
least one
of
the tribal languages. For nearly two years they struggled to learn the
Zulu language, a difficult language to master because it contains a
complex series of clicks. However, they were finally able
to
locate a
retired
Swedish missionary
to
teach them. Within
a
few months they
were abl e to
teach
in Zulu from a written text, and short ly
thereafter
they
wer e abl e to
carry on conversa tions without
th e help of
inter
preters .
Their wo rk has
included
much traveling
to assist th e national
churches.
As
they
began their fifth term
they
reported
that
there
were 21 ministers an d 1 38 preaching
points with
which
they were
in
volved. In addition to helping t he churches and leaders with build
ing, evangelism,
and
preaching,
th e
Nicholsons have since
1960 been
involved with th e Umzumbe Bible Inst i tu te. They
have
been respon
sible,
with th e
help
of
Nic Qwemesha,
fo r th e
operation
of
th e Insti
tute
during
th e
furloughs
of th e Lynn Stanley family.
Verni ta has con tr ibuted to her husband s minis try by teaching
Sunday school classes
among both the Europeans and
th e
Africans.
When th e
need
arose sh e t augh t a t Umzumbe Bible I ns ti tu te . She has
also taught
sewing, prepared
Bible lessons, helped
with music, typed,
e t c
Th e Nicholsons
ar e th e parents of
four
children.
Sandra Novem
ber 14, 1943) gr adua ted fr om Minnesota Bible College and is now
married to Richard Hanson. They live in
Rosemount,
Minnesota,
where Sandra remains involved in th e South African work by serving
as her parents forwarding agent. Steven (February 17, 1945) and his
wife Rosal ie s erve
at
th e
Church of
Christ in C le ar L ak e, Iowa . L ike
his sister, Steven is a Minnesota Bible College graduate.
John
May
2 0, 1 94 8 attended M.B.C.
also.
He an d his
wife
Cheri
no w
live in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. James December
13 ,
1954
attended M.B.C.
and
Rochester
Community College. He was
recently
December,
1976 married to t he former Maria Miller of Crown
Point,
Indiana.
They live in Rochester
where
Maria is completing
her
senior year
at
M.B.C. James is employed at th e Mayo Clinic
there.
Address : Alvin
and Vernita
Nicholson,
Box
219, Port
Shepstone,
4240, Natal,
South
Africa.
Forwarding
agent: South Africa Church
of
Christ Mission, Mrs. Richard
Hanson,
16642 Gannon
Avenue
West,
Rosemount,
MN 55068.
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Vol, 18
No.
3
NEWS
WITH THE NICHOLSONS
JUNE, 1977
D e a r
C h r i s t i a n
F r i e n d s
This
i s a beaut i ful Lord s Day morning, We both woke early and so are working a
l i t t l e
on l e t t e r
writing, I m sure the Lord wil l forgive
us when
i t
i s
His work
we
are doing I Yesterday was
such
a beautiful
day. We
took a walk towards
evening and
j u s t
thoroughly enjoyed God s
lovely
day, I t
i s
cool
in
the
evenings but
during
the
day can be
hot
but
most
of the
time
i s
j u s t
r i g h t
Tuesday, was Ascension Day and a holi day here. The church at Gcilima had asked
m to
speak
for their
women s meeting
in the afternoon so w
drove
out about
noon
Of course, my
t a l k
was on the Ascension and I used some flannelgraph
materia l .
Afterwards Mrs, Zobolo came t o
me,
she
i s
th e
m i n i s t e r s
wife,
and s a id You
preached very w ell today . We
wil l
go out
there
again t h i s
morning
fo r
services ,
Mrs, Zobolo asked me
to
buy
sheer c urta in s f or
her l iving room windows so I
took
those out and we
measured
and cut and hung them,
I t
made the rooms
look
so much
b e t t e r . She i s using the drapes from
the
old house and needs another panel to sup
plement the
ones
she
has, that
i s
for
each window I
hope
to
match
i t
but wonder
i f I can
find
a f t e r such a long time, These windows in the new house
are
much
larger
than the old
one
Today, we w i l l
take out the
outs ide
a i r b r i c k and
window s i l l s Alvin
a l s o
got
some
paint for
them
so they can get
more work done on
t h e i r
new house,
I t i s look
ing b e t t e r
a l l the t ime, Twala,
the twin
son, t a l k e d
with me a
long
t ime on Tues,
(in English) and
said
how anxious he was to get
the
l iving room
painted
before h is
o ld er b ro th er s came home and t h e i r friends came t o v i s i t
They
need though to have
extra
money
before they
can go much further,
Caring for
nine
children and building
a new home
i s
an expensive
busines.
Many
have helped
them
though.
5^5
have
gotten
the
two end
pieces
for the tent,
They
will
be
used
by two
of th e
c h u r c h e s
h e r e
f o r P e n t e c o s t
a n d t h e n
we
w i l l t a k e
t h e
t e n t t o G r a a f f R e i n e t
f o r
t h e
d e d i c a t i o n
o f
t h e
c h u r c h
a t
Kroonvale on
t h e 4 t h
o f
J u n e
This week,
we had a camp
meeting
to work out the
classes , We
wish the men in
Pondoland
had had
a
meeting
as well to work out t h e i r plans ,
We
had
a l e t t e r l a s t week from a young man, who
i s
doing h is
l a s t
year
a t
high
school . He
w i l l be coming to
study a t Umzumbe
next year. Pray
with
us t h a t
God
s h a l l
help him t h a t he i s not h in de re d
from
coming and t h a t other workers shal l
be
ra ised up for
His
vineyard.
Another man,
who i s working
in Johannesburg has
s t a r t e d a new work a t
h i s
home
in
Transkei , I
met him awhile ago
a t
a funeral
i n Umtata, That
i s Alvin did , I
was n o t
w i t h
h i m .
The
o l d e r
man,
who i s
a t
school , got work
on t h e
9th t h a t
one o f
h is daughters
had
died. The one c a l l i n g
did
not know
which
one;
he
has
four, We took him
t h a t
night t o Kokst ad which i s about 90 miles
away
so t h a t he could g e t
a bus from t h e r e
the next
morning,
and
perhaps get
home much quicker t h a t way.
There
were two missionary
meetings
t h i s month, The one
f o r
t h i s a r e a
was on
th e
7th,
The
man
spoke
on the
youth work
t h a t
he
i s
doing i n
Transkei ,
This
was very
i n t e r e s t i n g
and
we
received
some new ideas ,
The
one f o r the whole
o f Natal
was
held on
th e
11th because o f Ascension
day com
ing a t the
time
i s usual ly held, I t
was
also one day t h i s year r a t h e r
than
two,
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They had too many speakers so i t was hard to retain all that we heard, The
speak
ers a l l
did very w ell,
One
weekend,
Zobolo
and Alvin
went
toward
Durban
to meet with
some men who cal l
themselves ministers and would l ike
to
work
with
us
and get
suppl ies
for t he i r
use
as
well.
The problem
is that
they have no people nor
plan to
work I want to
in
vite
one of
the men to mp
so he can
vis i t
with th e
others and
see how
some of
the
work
i s done.
All
are rea l ly
too
old to come to
school.
Sincere ly
in
Chris t
FORWARDING AGENT:
Mrs, Richa rd Hanson
16642 Gannon Ave, W
Rosemount,
Minn, 55068
NEWS-^WITH^THE
NICHOLSONS
Printed
and
maiTe d
by
Madi son Pa rk
Ch r i s t i a n Church
5
No r t h
5 th Street
Quincy,
I l l ino i s
62301
Alv in
Vern i t a Nicho l son
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Vo l 18 No
3
NEWS WI TH THE
NICHOLSONS
JULY,
1977
Dea r
hristianF r i e n d s :
Greetings in Christ our Sav iour . We
know tha t
the
4th
has
given you or
many
of you the
opportuni ty
to
go vis i t ing
re joice
that God ha s given us a very good youth camp
There
were 146 young people
gathered a t mzumbe Bible Ins t i tu te for
a week
of study, fun and fel lowship.
I f we ha d 30 s tudents
a t
schoo l we would feel t ha t we had a l l
t h a t
we had
room fo rso
how did these young
people
manage to
find
places to
sleep? In
some
of
the rooms
the beds
were
moved out and grass
matts
la id on the f loor . At
nigh t the n,
there
were wall
to
wal
sleepers, except for th e place for suitcases
Several
other rooms
that
are used for
othe
purposes
were
made
sleeping
rooms for this week
James Mabaso
stayed
an
extra week
a t
school to teach
a class
and h elp w ith the t rans
l a t ing Enock Zobolo s second son took h is
turn
a t teaching
th i s
year . As
well ,
Bong
(praise)
Mhlango,
the
daughter
of
one
of
Brother
Qwemesha s
e ld ers, a lso
taught.
y in ter
pre ter
for the class on the
Li fe of Paul was
a
young
man
from
the
church minis te red to by
Barnabas Songo.
Visito rs to
the
camp
were
Mr
and Mrs.
Gcuda
and four young
women
from
Mbumbulu
Th
young women had a wonderful time
and even
a
l aughable expe ri ence
for
one.
She
fe l l
into
the water h ole
a t
th e garden while ge t t ing water for
camp.
^ vale
of
only
did
have
the
we t h e
\ ne c e s s a r y
benches
We
started
this
week on
\ Thursday
night
by redr i l l ing some
holes tha t
had been
put in
the
wrong place . On
Friday,
we rea l ly
got
down
to
work and
assembled
V benche s
Each
one
o f
them
had
6
bol ts plus 33 screws
and
a
few
nails The s c rew s w ere th e
h a r d
work and l e f t many hands
with
iMlEltoB b l i s t e r s
on
them.
A
Colou red Con gre ga tio n h as
The Tent a t Graaff Reinet
done
very well and has
a
very
n ice
looking
bui ld ing which had
been painted both
ins ide
and
out.
They have put
a cei l ing
in and by hooking
in to the
s t r ee t l igh t system they also have e l ec t r i c
l igh t s
This
i s only
a t
night
though
when the
l igh ts a re on.
Buses b rought p eopl e from
Cradock
and Middelburg and there were many people present from
Port Eliszabeth. Sunday morning
there
were
more than 300
people present
fo r
the
service .
C
Koeberg,
who wil l be 90
a t
h is next
bir thday,
was present He has been a member o
the
church
in Graaff
Reinet
for
55
years .
Eight
of
h is
sons were present
fo r
the
service
on Sunday
morning.
On Thursday, he had baked 32 loaves of
bread
for
the meeting.
These
had been baked i n
an
ou t d o o r oven made of b r i c k s He a l s o made t h e b r e a d
f o r
t h e commu
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nion
service on
Sunday
Morning.
On
the 3rd of June stepped into
a
hole in the sidewalk in
town and
sprained
he
an^le. I t happened
in
front of the post office so men working there helped
her
to th
^doctor and
to the
hospital for an
x ray
and back
They also
took her car from
the
parkin
meter so she would
not
have
to
pay a fine. Fortunately i t was only^a
bad
sprain whi
responded
well t o t re atme nt . I t
was good that
she
had fh e l i t t le
car
which is an automati
for
she could s t i l l
drive
herse l f
and
get about.
While
the fourth of
July
v^ras
a
holiday
for
you
Lynn
Stanley
ha d
a
hernia operation
i
Durban-i He
is
getting
along
fine but expects to
be out
of
actibii
for
most
of this
month
a
l e a s t .
Nic Qwemesha
and
I are planning to go
to
Dimbaza for a weekend camp from the 15 to th
17th. We
wil l
s ta r t camp on
Friday
night and have classes morning afternoon and evenin
of Saturday and Sunday. Monday when we return home we shal l b rin g the students back
fo
s c hoo l .
July
22
23 and 24th I am to be
at
Esc ourt w ith the tent for the i r camp and
specia
preachingservices
Tnly
tn ^nth
we will go
to
the heart
of
Zulula^
at
Nongoma fo
the
Dedication
of
the
church b ui ld in g t he re .
We are
laying vinyl sheet flooring
over
our
concrete f loors. This
was a b i t
o f
a
jo
in the hal lway because there are
5 doorways
to contend with. Since these floors
had
bee
painted black before it has made
the
rooms
much
l igh te r and the f loors
so much
eas ie r
t
c a r e f o r
CqELference meets a t Kimberley from
the
24th
to the 28th
of
August. Please keep
thi
meeting in
your
prayers.
May God r ichly
bless
you each one.
FORWARDING AGENT:
Mrs.
Richard
Hanson
16642
Gannon
Ave .
W
Rosemount Minn. 55068
NEWS WITH
TH E
NICHOLSONS
Prin ted
and mailed
by . . .
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Pa rk Ch r i s t i a n Church
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Chr i s t
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Vol . 18 NEWS WITH THE NICHOLSONS NO 7
Dear
Ch r i s t i a n
F r i e n d s
Greetings
from
South Africa.
The
big
meeting
l as t
month was
the
Annual
Meeting of th
churches at Kimberley from the 24th
to
the 28th of August To be there on time witIV th
tent I left on the
22nd and
drove to
Bethlehem and
then from there to
Kimberley
the nex
day.
I
took
the
road
to
Bloomfontein
that
l eads along
the
edge
of
Lesotho.
I
arrived
a
Kimberley about 3 P on the
23rd
and went direct ly to the church
in
the locationu Sinc
there
were
a number
of
church men already on hand we se t up the
t en t
a t once.
The
missionaries
stayed
at Riverton about
20
miles
from town
This is
a holiday plac
built
on
th e
Vaal
river at the
place
where Kimberley
gets i ts
water. Thus
i t allowed
u
to get
together
at night
and
vis i t
and was much
cheaper than staying i n hote ls .
Attendance
a t this
years
meeting was very
good.
Kimberley church is
one
of
our
la rge
buildings and visi tors fi l led
a l l
of thei r
seats .
So i t was a full house at most a l l ser
vices in the building during the
day
and overflow
crowds
at night
I was
most i nt er es ted i n
the sermon
preached
by one of
our
elder men He is
well int
his
seventies.
He started
so slowly
that
I
thought
he
was
only going
to
give
the
peopl
some scriptures and then s i t down but
once
he got star ted he really went. His two< inter
preters could hard ly find time to get in thei r t ranslat ions. His message was
excellent
This service was
held in the tent
on
Thursday morning.
So many
of the African folks
came by
cars
and
pickups
this year that every
day we
ha
a parking problem at the church. We are glad tha t more of the people have vehicles t
t r avel
in
fo r
t
cuts
down
on
t he i r t ime
on the
road by many
hours.
I am not sure there were seven or
e ig ht c ho ir s.
Each time they got a chance:
to s in
they
would
usually sing three or
four
numbers
so sometimes the
singing went on for a lon
time.
The
African brethren
enjoy
singing
butvseveral sa id they
would have to work
out
different program
next
year. The church choir
at
Krugersdorp had only seven members
bu
they were by far
the
best singing group
Next years meeting
wil l
be held
a t Invutshin i
here near Port
Shepstone.
At the end
of July Vemita
and I
took
the
t ent
and drove to Eshowe where we; vis i te
Thursday night
with
the Sincla i r s and
Floyd
Stamm Friday morning we men went to Khumalo
home near Nongoma
for
the church dedicat ion. Because
of
th e number of people present
the feeding
of
the people the
tent
was set up near Khumalo s home. The
40
by 40
tent
wa
fu l l every night .
Saturday
morning and afternoon
classes
were
held
for
men and for women
Because Mrs. Nicholson and Mrs. Sinclai r
did
not
arr ive unt i l
nearly noon> I too
the women in a question and answer per iod. They
s ta r ted
slowly but when t wasi time t
eat it was
difficult
to get
them
to stop Mrs. Sinclair and Mrs. Nicholson took this
par
i n th e
a f t e r n oon
Because
many wanted to leave early on Sunday
morning
to get back to Johannesburg an
Swaziland
they
had
an a l l night service on
Saturday
n ig ht w ith
communion
service
a t abou
10
PM .
Sunday morning af te r
breakfas t we
had
a shor t
serv ice in
the t en t ^ d then
walked
th
half mile
or
so to the church for the Dedication service. Even with many
of
the
peopl
already on the i r way home we
had
more people than could get into the building. Only th
women sat down as they had carried mats with them After a short talk at the door an
another
a f t e r we were ins ide I thought we would dismiss . But when the amount of money wa
given
t was R106.90. I gave
them
10
cents
to make th i s R107. Then with
Sandy
Sinc la i r
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we made
i t RllO.
Some people then
said they
wanted
to
give some mor e
gave a to ta l of R130.00
plus
they also gave th e
missionaries
R15 for
tea.
In
the
end
they
Vernita and
Charlotte
left
after dinner. After
the tent was down and Sandy had his
load
of
people
we also left fo r Eshowe Vernita and I spent Sunday night
relaxing with
the
Sinclairs before
coming on home.
Wilson
Berne who
ministered
in
Soweto
waj^killed.J^
two men
as he
returned
home
one
night from church toward the end
of
June. His wife managed to escape. He was the 4th
man
to
be ki l led by these men tha t night.
have completely covered
our
concrete floors with v inyl f loor ing.
And
what a
great
change
i t
makes. I was a b it hesitant when I started
the
work. But
everything
worked
out
very
n ice ly .
I t appears that the number of men coming to school
next
year
could
be much larger than
th is . Pray
with
us that
this
shal l
be
so. There
is
much more
in terest among our folks
in
Irea-mi-ng-
Brother A1 Zimmerman has had a commentary on the book of Hebrews t ranslated into Xhosa
and
Afrikaans.
Many
people
bought
i t
at
Kimberley.
Brother
Qwemesha
has asked
for
some
to
use
with the class he is teaching at school. He says
they
are
very
good.
Present
also at Conference was a growing number of people with cassette recorders.
They record t he message and the
singing
and then play them for t he people at home Brother
C^ emesha had borrowed one from one of his church men but was not able to
get
a good re
cording.
He
said his
people were
very disappointed
I have
three
tapes by Ketcherside
which I know our men will g re atly enjoy.
May God
r ichly bless you
a l l .
FORWARDING AGENT:
Mrs
Rich a rd Hanson
16642 Gannon Ave . W.
Rosemount
Minn
55068
NEWS
WITH
THE NICHOLSONS
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Park Chr i s t i a n
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Chr i s t
in
South
Af r i c a
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Vol. 18, No. 9
WS WITH THE NICHOLSONS
November, 1977
Dea r
Ch r i s t i a n
F r i e nd s
Greetings in
the precious
name
of
Christ our
Saviour.
Vernita had a call frpm her fpiily on the 7th of October to say that her father had
passed
away
He
died
very suddenly, though he had been receiving treatment for cancer and
had a
heart
condition
for
many
years.
Sandra and Steven were
able
to
be
present
fo r
the
f u n e r a l
Vernita has been at
Pietermaritzburg
since
the
10th of October She is to rec eiv e
l i th
ium in the place
of
the
other
medicines she was taking and they wanted her where they
could do blood t es t s unt i l it was
s tab l i zed
Most of the time she has been
fee l ing
good
so we hope
that
she
will
soon be
home again.
The 12th o f
October
we took th e s tuden ts from school to Westvi l le near Durban to
visi t
the
home of a missionary. He has planted
his
yard with
many
trees that are found
in
Israel. He gave them a very interesting
lecture
on these trees and
the place
they
played
in
Bible
times
and how they are
us ed tod ay i f
s t i l l grown.
Then we went on to the Lion
Park
near Pietermaritzburg.
We f i rs t stopped
at the picnic
area to
cook
our
meat and
eat
and
then
drove
through the park. I t
was a
cool^semi cloudy
day, so we fel t we must have seen most all of the animals
that
they
have
in the
park. I
guess our car was the only one
that
did not
see
the giraffe but even the
others
did not
ge t a
good look
a t
them.
Three
ostrichs
walked
down
the
road_^ead of our
car for
a ways and then they began to
run tha t was a
wonderful
s ight
They do not have as
many
lions
at
the park as they had formerly, we wondered i f the
cost
of meat had something
to
do
with i t
But they did have
four
young male lions
in
a
cage and we got
to see th e
end of
the period
when
the
trainer was teaching them
to get
on
th ir
s t o o l s
and
sit
The t en t has been erected
in
the Indian area of Durban cal led Chatsworth. They have
planned a two week meeting, but will go on
fo r
the
third
week i f they have good crowds or
s e e t h e
need
f o r it
Vernita
and I were in Durban
the
week end of December
9th
and I
preached for the
breth
ren
t h a t
morning.
Problems I I cleaned some rhubarb and put i t on to cook, then came in the study and for
got about i t and of course i t boiled
over.
Well happily nothing
is
hurt only
a mess to
be cleaned up . Rhubarb is not easy to come by here.
Brother
Qwemesha was telling me
of
th e
growth in his work. The people have caught a
vision of
the
Lord s work and have planned opportunities where
they
can get together for
teaching and witnessing. They have also seen the need for giving and have doubled their
g iv ing
I know that a
part of
this has come from the good work of the Qwemeshas Something
happened a few years ago
that
could have caused a big problem between the
Qwemeshas
and
one of the
families
in tho church.,; The Qwemeshas accepted
the
problem and so lived that
i t might
cast
no reflections on the Lp^ d Jesus Christ
or
his church. This
is
one of the
families
today
who are
really
working
for
Chris t .
We thank
God
for his leading. William Mguzulwa came from a Christian family
at
Cradock
He
was a good
student
and worker
at
School.
We
had
great
hopes
for
him as .he went
into
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the
ministry. However,
in
the two places
that
he
served there
were problems and he was a
part
of
those
problems. He
resigned
to go
into the police force.
This was not too easy
to except, for we so badly needed ministers, and we had given him extra help in coming to
school and in get t ing
married.
William is
now
in
the
CID (like
the
FBI).
He is
stationed
at
Port
Elizabeth.
Working
in the CID William will
have
more time off than before. h Coloured Congregation at
Galvendale have asked him
to
help
them. William hhk matured
much
in
these
past
few
years,
so
we know that he will be a
great
help
to tha t work-.
William is jus t recovering from stab wounds inf l icted by Tsotsis (hoodlums).
One of th e young women at school lost her mother a short time ago. She had worked Wed
nesday stayed hom Thursday went to the hospital Friday and died Saturday. Deborah has
only
a brother
lef t of her
immediate
family, but
does
not
know where he
is .
The
white
family, for
whom her
mother
worked,
came and got Deborah and brought her back to school
again. Thpy paiH h^r
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