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Honor

New Territories, Hong Kong.

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JANUARY, 1982

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DAN REES INJURED

On December 30th, Dan Rees, our fellow-missionary here in Hong Kong, was severely injured in an accident. At the time, he was riding the train to the Compass of Truth recording studio to record that week's radio programs as usual. However, when he went to get off the train, it had already started moving. He fell under the train and was dragged several yards. He lost his right leg above the knee. His pelvis
was crushed, several ribs were broken, his left ankle was severely strained, and there were numerous other cuts and bruises. Emergency surgery lasted some five hours, and

he has taken some 27 units of blood.

traction.

He has to look forward to about three months in

I

Yet, one week later, he is off I.V.s and some stitches have been taken out.

just visited with him a couple of hours ago, and he is handling the situation admirably.
We are all glad that the Lord has pulled him through this much already.
Garden, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

But he still

has a long road ahead, wh're he will need much help from the Lord and encouragement from the Lord's people. You might want to write him at 146 Argle Street, 3-B Hon
This is a painful reminder that although the goals and ministries of missionaries may be "other-worldly," we do indeed dwell in this weak and imperfect world, God

does not somehow exempt missionaries from the sufferings that generally befall people
else how would we be able to sympathize with fellow-humans and minister to them?
people.

Just

like our Lord, his ministers must be tried and tested in all the same ways as other

KINDERGARTEN BID
In applying to operate the kindergarten we mentioned in the last letter, we had to

$53,000 cash in order to be competitive.

bank loan.

submit a secret bid.

We estimated that we would have to submit a bid of around

Since we didn't have that much, we sought a

We heard

However, quite a bit of legal tangles had to be unraveled first.

lawyers and bank managers say. "I've never encountered a situation like this before," and "It will take at least a month to work it out." Well, after much prayer, ten phone calls to the States, and lots of leg-work, it was all worked out in a week only to be
turned down by the banks for a loan: religious work is just not considered a sound

investment.
that bid...

So, several of us missionaries scrapped together $18,700 and submitted

Although we have reason to believe we were among the final people considered, we
just received notice this week that we did not get the bid.
Frankly, I did not know what the Lord's will would be in this. I believe he

expected us to give it our best effort.

Should such an opportunity ever arise again, we plan to try again, the Lord willing,

Now, I'm relieved just to know the outcome.

NEWS IN BRIEF
...While Dan is recovering, Archie Fairbrother and I are learning how to record
the radio programs so that Archie can fill in.

...On Christmas Sunday, 52 people attended the Christmas program in our home. ...34 missionaries and children got together for a Christmas party at our home on
^ : r/; * 28th.

...On December 31st, we took a dozen children who would like to but can't attend Sunday School on an outing.

...Dwain and Becky Anderson, Archie and Marguerite Fairbrother start language
school January 11th.

...Kindergarten seats for Sara Anderson now and for our David in the fall have
been found.

...Dwain and Becky also found a babysitter for their two-year-old Mark. ...Ng Fui, my coworker, is now in China for a week visiting relatives, so I'm
grading correspondence courses,

FURLOUGH PLANS
The past three years have sure been busy. Days off and vacation time hasn't come as often as hoped. Having mine and Ng Fui's office in our home, as well as the

congregation, adds to the strain. Besides these, we have hosted nearly fifteen-hundred other mouths at meal-time this year, and had people staying overnight
over one-fourth of the year. The trouble is, after a while at that pace, our effectiveness begins to decrease it's not so much a matter of being tired. We're not
tired. We just lose our freshness and inventiveness...

Also, we feel the need to renew our friendship with you. Finally, my grandmother and Joyce's are both holding family reunions in the Midwest this summer. And a joint reunion of both our immediate families is planned for Christmas in Oregon. We'd love to see them all. So we are planning to go on furlough. We could feasibly take a furlough
from July through December, but I'd rather not, because:

First, I don't feel at all good about leaving the work here for such a long time.
Although the radio and correspondence course ministries usually don't need our attention, the congregation and many of the members' faith are still in their infancy.
Second, competition in the school system here is extreme. I'm afraid that if our children attend an American school for the fall term, it would set them back too much to be able to retain their present seats. Third, the bulk of the people we want to see if the States are so centralized, that I can't justify the cost of such a long furlough. It would be almost as cheap to take a three-month furlough in the summer, return to Hong Kong in the fall, and then fly back to Oregon for a three-week vacation at Christmas time. In fact, we're going to lay aside a little money from our salary each month and see if we can do just that.

So, we are tentatively planning a furlough from about June 6th to about September 8, 1982. Below is a suggested itinerary:
June 6-10
June 11-18 June 19-25

Washington Oregon
No. California So. California & Arizona
Idaho Nebraska

June July July July July July

25-July 6-13 14-18 19-25 26-30 31-Sept.

Wisconsin & Minnesota

N.A.C.C. in Kansas City Eastview Christian Church (with two exceptions on weekdays: 3 days and 2 nights in Missouri and 3 days and 2 nights in
Cincinnati)

This schedule gives us 6 weekends at Eastview, our sponsoring church and main source of support, and 7 weeks elsewhere. Because of the amount of time needed to plan a furlough, if you would like us to share with your congregation, write us as soon as you can or call.

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Gary and Joyce Anderson

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New Territories, Hong Kong.

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STEVIE HOSPITALIZED
Yesterday, while we were making final preparations for today's church services in our home, our three children were outside playing. Stevie apparently fell from a smal] tree. He broke his right leg above the knee and suffered a minor concussion. It was a clean break. The doctors set his leg, but they did not put it in a cast because such a cast would be far too heavy for him and being in it so long would cause his joints to be come stiff. Instead, a steel pin was put through the heel bone and mounted in plaster; a pulley and weights were attached to this. This will hopefully keep his bone in place, {Stevie took it all bravely with little fuss.) He will be in the hospital inthis trac tion for about six weeks if his bone heals properly; longer if there are any problems. The doctors will watch him carefully to make sure it is healing properly and that one
leg is not becoming longer than the other.

Stevie can sit up, but this will be a very difficult time for him since he is a

very active 3 1/2-year-old boy (which is why he was climbing a tree).

children's ward, but there are only 5 Chinese children in there now.
did. And he is near the color TV.

Heisin a 16-bed
The girl next to

him is from Sandi's school, and had her leg set just like his about two hours before he We wanted either Joyce or I to stay with him most of the time at first, but the'
hosp ital wouldn't allow it.
weeks.

So one of us will try to be with him every day during vis

iting hours (4:00 to 6:00 p.m.), but David and Sandi won't be able to see him these 6
The hospital is a 1/2 hour drive or a 1 hour bus ride from our house. I was in the process of selling our van when this happened because it urgently needs repairs which
cost more than its worth. Now, we'll have to' reconsider either getting it repaired or trading it for a new one that costs around $6,000. I believe Steven's medical expenses will be virtually free. Itwill only cost us about $1.00 per day for him to stay in the
hospital.

FURLOUGH CHANGES
In order to better fit in with Eastview Christian Church's schedule, we've revised
our furlough June 6 July 13 July 18 a.m. July 20 to the below tentative schedule: Eastview Christian Church, Bloomington, Illinois July 13 July 20 - Nebraska Bartley, Nebraska July 25 - Minnesota and Wisconsin

July 26 July 31 Aug. 9 Aug.15 Aug. 16 Aug. 23 Aug. 2

July 30

Aug. 8 Aug. 15
Aug. 22 Sept. 2 Aug. 7

NACC, Kansas City Oregon

No. California Rinconada Hills Christian Church So. California Arizona and Idaho

Washington

DAN REES
Dan now goes down to the hospital's gym every afternoon for an hour of exercise be tween the parallel bars to build up his muscles and coordination. Things are progreS' sing steadily but it may take longer in the hospital than he expected.
Below is our 1981 Financial report.

1981 ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT

AVAILABLE FUNDS EXPENDITURES

Balance starting 1981 Gifts given to us directly Designated gifts for building fund
Drawn on gifts sent directly to our forwarding agent Interest on savings

790.46

LIVING EXPENSES: Salary $9,040.34 Taxes & Social Security $1,938.55

Rent & Utilities MISSION EXPENSES: $3,846.88

$14,825.77

1,653.17

$ 3,208.20

1,710.00

Publicity & Furlough

Business Travel
Books, Office,

$1 ,273.17
$1,047.65

Postage & Telephone

27,003.47

887.38
$14,568.11

OUTREACH EXPENSES:
709.27

Building Fund
Benevolence &

$6,255.83
$1,380.03 $4,928.08 $2,004.17
$32,602.08

Joyce's wages for tutoring

TOTAL FUNDS

788.21

$32,654.58

Hospitality Church Planting Evangelizing China

TOTAL EXPENDITURE

BALANCE STARTING-r982"-$ -

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STEVIE'S HOME
Oh how glad we all were when Stevie finally came home yesterday after 58 days in the hospital. The daily visits took one of us 3 to 4 hours each day and chalked up over
1,600 miles travel.

Since medicine in Hong Kong is socialized, the treatment cost us nothing and the hospital stay only cost 50<t a day. However, we had to provide all toiletries, snacks and

toys he needed.

Daily pilfering cost us over $60 to replace ^

of his toys that "just

disappeared." I don't know why I thought it was a 16-bed ward.

It was really a 60-bed ward.

Some days, the nurses were taxed to the limit.

So Stevie wasn't always fed enough (he

lost some weight) and he had to be kept in diapers. We didn't sell the van nor really repair it, but just kept driving it throughout his hospitalizationwell, almost. One day as Joyce was driving to the hospital, a pebble shattered the windshield, but we were able to get it replaced within 48 hours with money we were saving to repair other appliances. That was the only day no one visited Stevie. Normally, during visiting hours, we

would feed him supper, which was always rice, meat, vegetables and orange juice. On the bright side, Stevie's ability to speak Cantonese really blossomed while he was in the
still quite tender. He just hobbles around. It may take 2 to 4 months before he will be fully recovered. Since we plan to start furlough on June 3rd,
we trust that the Lord will protect. hospital. Stevie's leg is

DAN REES
The doctors are battling strong, very resistant infection in Dan's wound,
This

infection must be gotten under control before he can be fitted with an artificial leg.

DID YOU CATCH IT?

Danny and Janet Thurston, friends and former missionaries in Hong Kong, sent a
check and told us to take all the missionaries out to dinner. So we booked a small room

at a restaurant for all 36 of us (less Dan, Stevie and Sheryl Jew at college) and had a
great time, which is rare with us all usually scattered in different directions. The next day, Dwain Anderson called to tell me he had the mumps. everybody who had been at the dinner, but I don't think anybody got them. So I told

Three weeks later, I picked up five little girls for Sunday School, all from the same family, and they told me the middle one was to take medicine at 10:30. Fine. It was

pouring down rain. She Then somebody asked her Mumps innoculations mumps in a room full of
start the service.

took her medicine while everyone was visiting before church. what the medicine was for. "Oh, I've got the mumps." #!?@! are seldom given in Hong Kong, and here was a little girl with people who hadn't had them, and I knew a family with little You've got to go home. Ng Fui, go ahead and
On the way to the car, we met the

babies was on their way to church.

I said, "You can't stay here, girls.

family with little babies.

I'll be back by sermon time."

"You walk around that side of the car," I said.

"We're going

around this side."

On the way to the girls' home I began feeling sorry for them.
worked long hours and they were often left just to roam around.
"Is your mother home?"
"No."

I knew their folks

"Do you have a key to the apartment."

"No."

"Alright," I said, "You go play by the door of your apartment, and I'll go to your
mother at work and get the key. Is there anything at home to eat?" "Crackers and a cup of soybean milk."
After I left them off,
washer. "Where's Mrs. Jiu?"

I went to the restaurant where their mother was a dish

"She was fired for being late to work." Back at the girls 1 asked, "Where is the new place your mother works?"
"We don't know." "What are her work hours?"

"She leaves at 8:00 in the morning.

comes back at midnight.

She comes back at 2:00, and leaves at 5:00 and

Dad will be home at 6:30."

"Look, here is some money, go buy yourselves something to eat, and then play in
the hallway of the building. Don't go outside and get wet. I'll check on you later." '
Please I wish neglected children was an isolated problem in Hong Kong, but it isn't. pray for the countless neglected children of Hong Kong.

FURLOUGH FIX
June 2 - Leaving Hong Kong
The Lord willing, the below dates are definitely on the furlough schedule:

Aug. 2-7 - Winema Week of Missions, OR

Aug. 8 a.m. - Lebanon, OR

June 13-18 - VBS at Eastview, Bloomington, IL

July 14 p.m. - Cape Girardeau, MO July 18 a.m. - Bartley, NE July 27-30 - NACC, Kansas City, MO

Sept. 5 all day - Puyallup, WA

p.m. - Scappoose, OR Aug. 15 all day - Los Gates, CA

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1982

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AT EASTVIEW
We left Hong Kong June 3 and arrived in Bloomington, Illinois, some 32 hours later. We expccted to sleep on somebody's floor or in their spare bedroom, but the folks at Eastview Christian Church outdid themselves. They furnished a nice home for our stay,

and provided cars. GARY and JANET YORK graciously loaned us their Chevy Vega for over 3,000 miles of travel. We joked about the Vega, but it was a life-saver, and a daily
symbol of their generosity and trust.

For five weeks, we got to know many Eastview folk by having dinner with different

families each night. They also got to know us through sermons, business meetings, Sunday school presentations, and Vacation Bible School, (The children gave 30,000
pennies during VBS!) I was even interviewed by WJBC radio.

FAMILY REUNIONS
June 29, wo lunched with ROGER and JOAN HOLTZ in Indianapolis. Then MASON and SANDI SEEVERS hosted us that night in Miamitown, Ohio so that I could report to

the board of Christian Education Association of the Orient (CEAO) on their work in Hong Kong. Although HANK KWAN resigned as principal, the kindergarten will continue under direct supervision of the school board and Miss Fung, the longest-serving, most-capable employon of the school. CEAO will try to open more kindergartens in Hong Kong and continue sending $450 a month to the Compass of Truth Radio Ministry and even provide
corporate responsibility for it if that will help its non-profit status. We also shared

deeply with DANNY anri JANET TH13RSTON, who plan to return to mission work in Hong They need your prayerful support to raise the Kong after an eight year absence. $30,000 a year needed for their family of five to live in Hong Kong. Then, Joyce's Undo LEONARD and Aunt THELMA hosted us for two days in Cincinnati. So we got to know them and their children better. 1 also enjoyed "talking
shop" and got to better appreciate their, ministries.

July 13-15,
Girardeau, Mo.

my Uncle CLAYTON and Aunt ELEANOR KINSEY hosted us in

Cape

so that we could report to DWAIN and BECKY ANDERSON'S folks and

home church on how they were doing. I was so glad to see my Grandmother ANDERSON there in good health. July 15, BRUCE and JAN BURDICK, strangers to us but dear
brethren in Christ, put us up.

July 16-20, Joyce's Grandmother TETER put us up in Bartley, Neb. Here, we saw Joyce's folks for the first time. The Teter Picnic was fun. "Thanks, JIM TETER for

letting me ride with you on the combine as you harvested wheat."

the Christians there on our ministry.

We also reported to

July 20, we lunched with MARK and KATHY CHU

in Grand Island, Neb.

Mark is studying to be a doctor, so that he can support them in

Hong Kong while ministering there.

July 21,22, my Grandmother GETTER put us up in Viroqua, Wis. We saw my folks for the first time there. Grandpa GETTER, 89 years old, had a stroke earlier this year,
so we visited him in the nursing home.
I reported to the congregation there, too.

It was a time of both joy and unashamed tears.

July 22-26, DALE and KATHY LINDQUIST took care of us in Minneapolis, so that we could attend the Anderson family reunion. 102 of us were at the family picnic, and quite a few at the home church in Forest Lake on Sunday. What a joy it was for faithful
Sunday school teachers to see that their labors had not been in vain.

Monday, July 26, we drove to Omaha, where Joyce and the kids joined her folks in

their motor home for the trip back to Oregon while I drove on to Kansas City to man our booth at the NACC. Thousands of Christian workers were there. Many priceless
contacts were made for the good of Chinese evangelism.

After I reported on the Compass of Truth radio ministry at the board meeting of
Gospel Broadcasting Mission, GBM committed themselves to support this work with $200 a

month from now on.

They also revealed a way this ministry might be able to expand

tremendously and literally plant churches by radio! My workshop on missions strategies among the Chinese was well received. J. Russell Morse' presence kept the workshop in
realistic, historic perspective, since he first went to China in the 1920s. Besides these: ~1. Arrangements" Were made to pass "on our contacts with Vietnamese to a new center for their evangelism.

2.
3:

I discussed with North Thailand missionaries how to cooperate in literature

I attended tearful, eye-witness accounts of the Cambodia holocosts, and met an

work.

amazing Cambodian.

He was one of the few out of 50,000 in one extermination camp

to survive. He was instrumental in leading some 23,000 Cambodians to Christ in the refugee camps of Thailand. 4. I heard LAVERN MORSE and the HMONG people of Laos and Southwest China tell about the spread of the faith among their people.

Finally, God forbid that I should fail to mention the closing session of the NACC.

have heard sincere, dedicated men preach before, and I have studied great speeches, but
I never heard a man speak who was so in touch with God that I wondered whether the

Apostle Paul would have done any differently than what KNOFEL STATON did that night if he himself had been there. How good it was to receive those words of truthweeping freely as they purified my soul. I would that the spirit that night might spread like a
brush fire through all who claim Christ as Lord.

Saturday, July 31, I flew to be with Joyce's family in Lebanon, Oregon.

"Oregon, and visiled with the folks over lunch.

What a joy
-

it was on the trip to make new friends out of casual acquaintances and even total strangers. Sunday, we had charge of Sunday School and the morning sermon at Eimira, On Monday, we arrived at Camp Winema on the Oregon coast for the Week of

Missions.

I wasn't on the program but spent good time "talking shop" with several

concered about the kingdom.

Sunday, August 8, we had charge of Sunday School and worship at Southside Church of Christ in Lebanon, and then shared that evening with Scappoose
Congregational Church. Our furlough is nearing an end! All that's left is California, Arizona,. Id/iho, and Washington. We hope to be back in Hong Kong about September 8.

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Furlough Finale
Everywhere we went, the spirit of America, especially of the Christians thrilled us. Sincerity, longings for deeper faith, warm conversations, and the ties of families and

friends were more evident this trip than I remember them. I met people everywhere who manifest the belief that with God's help and real effort we can solve many of our prob lems. Fourth of July hymns brought tears to my eyes. Those kinds of songs can't be
sung about other countries. I had forgotten.

I wish I could describe all the amazing people we met. For example, while my Uncle John was showing us where he works, he said, "Our offices were built by a couple who were on the Titanic. In fact, the lady still stops by sometimes. Let me show you the boss' hobby room." We walked down a fine wood, gilded and mirrored staircase under

fabulous chandeliers to a room where we were met by a great brown bear.

Inside, every

conceivable big-game animal was stuffed or mounted, over twenty in all. Another day, we sat in a farm yard as a friend in his fifties told about the notso-good 'good ole days', One winter, their skin looked yellow because aU they had to eat was squash. In the swamps they trapped what meat they ate. They checked the traps on the way to school. Some days skunks were in the traps, so they weren't allowed in school. Other days, they hunted squirrels. It was a disgrace not to get them on the

first shot.
of all

"We got so good," he said, "that I'd sit here with an empty .22-long between
and another 10 in various stages of

my fingers, and my brother'd stand over there and shot it out." The old field was now a runway. And instead of tractors, the bams were full of private airplanesat least 10

different kinds in running condition,

development. He had taken other men's wrecks and reworked them into an amazing success story. "One time," he said, "I wanted to enter an air show that was only 30 days away, but I didn't have the right kind of plane. So I decided to put one together.
And I did. I even had time for a week's vacation."

So much more happened. Everywhere, we wished we could have spent a few more days. But the last couple of weeks, our children were praying at each meal, "Dear Lord, please help us get to Hong Kong."

Back In The Saddle

...And He did, too, but none too soon.

September 6, at Seattle, Airport, we met Archie, Marguerite and Zana Fairbrother returning from Hong Kong, and them Mom and Day Wymore and Leon, Leanne, Maria and Heather Berg saw us off. We arrived in Hong Kong, September 7. September 9, our kids were all back in school, and I dismantled our recording studio

because we no longer had access to that building. Bill McClure of Gospel Broadcasting Mission also arrived that day on his way to India, so we met with Him September 10.

September 11, Bob Ballenger of Mt. Shasta, California, flew in on his way to Delhi
and Katmandu.

September 19, Bob's son, Craig Ballenger, flew in and stayed a week. Craig is a professional mountain climber, who had some amazing tales to tell of places he'd been and mountains he'd climbed that had never been climbed before. He was on his way to the Himalyayas. In fact, acquaintances of his were suppose to reach the summit of Mt.
Everest on October 1.

That day, my coworker, Ng Fui, resigned to find something better able to support himself with. The Lord willing, Miss Luk should take most of his responsibilities begin
ning October 4.

Redeeming The Time

The news here each day reminds us how precious the time we have here is. China has clearly stated that she wants Hong Kong back, perhaps within the next 15 years.
England is equivocal. The Hong Kong people do not want to return to China's rule, because they believe that no matter what China appears to do, her basic intention is still

to_see Hong Kong dev_elop into a communist,

materialistic society.

Hong Kong's 5.25

million people are 98% Chinese, of which only 4.2% are Christians. And besides Hong Kong, the Philippines have about 550,000 ethnic Chinese of which only about 2.9% are believers. Ethnic Chinese in America exceeds 800,000 of which over 55% were born outside of America. And Vancouver, British Columbia alone has about
100,000 Chinese.

Balancing The Scales

Some folks think that missionaries put an overemphasis on foreign missions. I hope that's not true. I firmly believe that every American ought to have just as much oppor tunity to respond to the gospel as anybody else. A learned student of missions shared
this with me:

Fact one: Fact two:

English is the mother tongue of 9% of the world's population. 94% of trained Christian workers (including many missionaries in foreign lands) are working only with those whose mother tongue in English. Fact three: 90% of all funds collected by Christians around the world (including much of what we send abroad as foreign missions) is devoted to ministering to people whose mother tongue is English.

The Jokes On Me
At the Anderson family reunion this summer, each of the men was given a nice ball

cap with "The Andersons" across the front of it.

I got a green one and immediately put

my name on it. I was so proud of it, that our first Sunday back in Hong Kong, I got it for everyone to see after church. But everyone started laughing, "The preacher's wearing a green hat, ha, ha, ha!" Only then was I reminded that in Chinese "To wear a green hat" means that ones wife is going out with other men. Well, would anyone like a
green hatcheap?

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EASTVIEW CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1705 Towanda Avenue

MRS. ELDON WYMORE

DRIVE

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Bloomington, Illinois 61701

LEBANON. OREGON 973SS

PHONE: 503-25e-2B65

AT THIS TIME WHEN THE WORLD REMEMBERS OUR SAVIOR'S BIRTH, WE WISH THAT GOD WOULD BLESS YOU JUST AS YOU HAVE BLESSED US WITH YOUR PRAYERS, LOVE
AND SUPPORT.

Love,

Gary, Joyce, Sandi, Stevie and David

Buying A Building
Five years ago, we moved to Tuen Mun because Hong Kong intended to develop it Into a large, industrial city. It has grown from less than 50,000 people then to over 200,000 now and will keep growing by over 1,000 a week until it reaches its goal of
500,000.

Right off, I bought blueprints of the city^s planned development, and decided that
eventually a meeting place in the block at the very heart of the city would be best. It's

bounded by the only two roads in or out of Tuen Mun. It's across the highway from the largest apartment complex and the city's civic auditorium. It's one block from the city's hospital. And since public transportation is so readily available here, we don't have to
take parking into consideration much.

mile.

Now, all of the high-rises in that block are built. 100,000 people Uve within a half Property prices are over 25% lower than last year. And the U.S. dollar is worth
I've looked over all the buildings in that block and picked what I believe is the best

more Hong Kong dollars this year than ever before.

buy for the money.

It's a corner space on the second floor of a two-floor shopping mall

under a 28-floor apartment building containing 216 homes. There is a playground available to us on the mall's roof and our shop faces onto a public garden.
Buying the shop means buying our fraction of the 15-year lease on the land under

the building, and 667 square feet of floor space of which 420 square feet are actually usable at a meeting hall with a feasible seating capacity of 65. I felt that it was better to get a small, prime site that would be used more fully than to buy a larger, remote site
that might only be filled one hour a week.

The price we have agreed on is about $60,450 U.S.

possession of it, we will need about:

In order to actually take

$12,100 for the 20% down payment, 750 for the first monthly mortgate payment (ten years at 14%), 700 to incorporate the church to hold property,
600 for lawyer's fees on the sale,

250 for deposits on utilities, building management, etc.

$14,400 Total, Our building fund now stands at $13,425, but we believe that we can get the additional $975 before someone else, since several spaces are not yet sold and no
businesses have started moving in yet.

Once we've got the place, we will need about $4,000 more to remodel and furnish it for our activities. Then, over one year later, we will need an additional $600 for the

sales tax (1% stamp duty) and $1,200 to finish up the writing of the mortgage.
makes the total cost of the place about $102 per square foot.

This

She Can Talk Chinese!

How surprised we were when Sandl showed us the below clipping from one of Hong Kong's daily newspapers, so please bear with a little parental bragging. Sandi's school picked her and another girl to represent their 160 second-graders at the colony-wide
speech contests. Although Sandi was the only foreign child in the regional contest, she placed second against 85 other second-graders for her recitation of a Chinese poem. The judge pointed out that she failed to place first because she was missing her two

front, teeth and so couldn't say "syuhn" correctly.

This week, she placed first in her

division for an English poem recitation. We are grateful to dedicated teachers who have shown sensitive attention to developing the talents God has given each child.
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Coming Along
Dwain and Becky Anderson and Jean Montgomery who came to work with us during the past year, are all making remarkable progress in the language. Dwain started giving
the weekly communion meditations in Chinese on October 31. Jean gives her personal testimony in Chinese, November 28, and Becky has been playing the piano in Chinese for
our services all along, (ha)

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