Chiengkam, Chiengrai, Thailand

January 1, 1976

Dear Friends,

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^ Pua, Province. people came from Laos to Many of at them had Nan fought against These the communists before the colthe coKcuiiists. refugees

-haUand, but there are many opportunities for service each day. In

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There are 10,000 refugees in Pua alone, most of them their large grassed roof chapel, with bamboo poles for benches,
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with

communion cups. The Lord was present as we remembered His death

htlped Miss Doris Whitelock of the Overseas Missionary Fellow-

precious experience to partake of communion,

little time to sit and visit with the refugees, since many of them were
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William."

working among the Meo for about 20 years. She is living in Imogene
'^ck. There were three Meo medics also working among the sick and

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Starved, other work had to be put aside. Doris spent full

" n furlough.

With the influx of thousands of refugees,

completely dependent on food provided by the United Nations (mainly

organizations. This will be very hard on their morale. Perhaps

centers in N.E. Thailand too. In the near future the refugees at Pua "fettlement camp of Paglang, but they are to be in a barbwire allowed in and out with permits. They will not be allowed to

roofed imfirmaries. Now a husband and wife doctor team, clinic in Pua to care for these refugees. Bible lessons for publication, and making refugees at Pua and in other areas. There are sev-

hoDw offered offprcH^K^^rK thru Him, the love shown by Christians and the nopw by Christ, many situation will come and to know

ueees ugees in Pua. Pna"^ ""ti^ This ar.a has than no the shade little and will bamboo be shacks unbearable built in and the paid hot for season. by the ref

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advance-long buildings with metal roofs, 6 rooms on to a family. Here too, the refugees will be to be'y the Thai. Rumor is that certain until they arrive. These

Chiengkam and is to be opened in a month or so,

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program

school tajQ their mid-term exam had been changed to Dec, 26! Satan

camp-out Dec, 25-27. The same night the students

students and then an evening friends on Dec. 26. On December 22, the boys

answers to prayer for the student Christmas

let her attend ^^"Pt^d the Lord about six months ago, but her family won't nl^hf Christian meetings. The students prayed earnestly for her, and tLt a Yao Student"h 'f dinner and program, and spent the night. San Luang, Quite rfe^n^n Ch' ^ holidays, was in charge ofthe program^ 4 te a few non-Ui..at,an students came and everyone seemed to have a wonderful time!

who wanted

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PRL''TFrSoRn"''Th"'^ teachers at both schools. They agreed to change their

another problem; a girl from a non-Christian home

meeting! So, the Christian students prayed, and the

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The next day Sai) Luai"ig Wcnc to Pua to visit the refugees and witness among them before
returning to Bible school, in Bangkok on January 6.

Last night 5 Christian gi:is from the dorm went to the night school New Year's party and shared their faith with others by including tracts in their gifts and also witnessing to others about the Lord, Today is a holiday and they have gone out to visit
and witness in homes. PRAISE TKE LORD!

brought in after having drunk water that contained insecticide poison, put there to
kill hei father Fortuna tic l,y she had just finished her breakfast and had a full stomach,
We trust she will have no late effects We prayed for her and washed h-^r stomach out.

Monday we saw Satan's work at the leprosy village.

A 13 year old girl was

from it.

Yesterday alteriioon I called a meeting of all the villagers and taught on the

sin of Cain and Ccd'o tion to hiui, to not let sin gain the victory in his life. 1 stressed the need for vtai cfcpr-nt.ance in the hearts of many before God's judgment comes upon them, V/e are ptaying that the Lord will bring conviction in the heart of the women

involved in the poison attempt, or if she has hardened her heart against Him, that He
will remove her in such a way that rr-any others will be convicted of sin and will turn
to the Lord before it is too late.

Wilawan, the nurse x^/ho can-.*! to work in clinic in September, left Dec, 31 to re turn to her home in tfie south, tc help care for her mother who is ill. We were sorry to see her go as she was a real help in clinic and in teaching the Meo boys. Pray with me that the Lord will stnd somtione else. Our really busy time in clinic is from February thru June, 1 am looking forward to the return of Callaways from furlough
sometime in February.

five Muslims,
south.

Conditions are vecy tense in South Thailand just now, because of the killing of

There are some: wiio would like to set up a separate Muslim state in the

Also there are strikes in Bangkok over the government's decision to raise the

price of rice, so that farmers will have a better income. Many think this will only help the middle-men and spark more inflation^ Change and unrest abound, but in the midst of it all we see God at work, so continue to pray for open doors in Thailand
and for the strengthening of the Thai church.

Thanks to many who have sent special offerings of cards and letters. Lord richly bless you ail in 1976,. Continue to pray for us.
Yours in His Service,

May the

Chiengkatn, Chiengrai, Thailand May, 1976

Dear Friends

February was a red letter month for me as I went to Bangkok to meet Violette Uhlig, my sister-in-law, who has been my financial agent
since I came to Thailand in 1951 Violette

also assists First Christian Church, Klamath F-alls, -regon-with" foxwarding-agent duties,, My brother, Harold, and his wife, Florence,

came also; the chree of them having a month's visit in Thailand^ We had a few days* sight
seeing in Bangkok followed by a visit to Pua to meet the de los Santos family, Meo hostel

students, Christians, and refugees.

Dorothy and Violfett<

We didn't

asked Violette to share a bit of her imppressions of Thailand. Seeing it for the first time, she could give it from a fresh viewpoint. It may have to be at a later date, since she had surgery on April 8, a little over a month after returning to the U.Sc The visi tors had a few days of sightseeing in Chiengmai, the old northern Thai capitolo We enjoyed a picnic with all our missionaries in Chiengmai and only wish that there had been more time to get better acquaintedo From there we journeyed to Chiengkam and everyone
pitched in to work for the next two weeks^

get to see Imogene Williams, who is on fur lough in the States,, So many different sights and sounds, smells, different customs and atmospheres assailed the visitors from every side that they were almost reeling. I have

Praise the Lord for answered prayer--Wilawan returned on F-b, 14, just a few hours

before we all arrived^ She worked in clinic for 5 months, but had to go home the first of January to care for her mother who is very ill Many of you must have prayed, for her mother quickly improved and insisted that Wilawan come back, (Pray for her mother, for
she is not a Christian^) The next week was hectic even with her here^ We had from 100

to 150 patients a day in clinic^ Violette and Florence fixed the evening meals, painted, sewed and did alot of odd jobs while Harold fixed sticking windows and doors, installed an automatic float switch in the water tank, did wiring and carpentry--a jack of all trades, who took care of alot of little frustrating things^ Also, each of them shared through an interpreter (me) in the Bible classes for students^ at the leprosy village and in the church services. How good it was to have them here sharing with the Christians and me, and having a wonderful time together in the Lord, The last of February Ron Parrish, who, several years ago, spent 6 months in Chiengkam, and a cousin, Kathleen Keifer, spent a night with usc All my company left on Feb 29 so it was rather lonely around here,
but how good of the Lord to have sent them

It is wonderful the way the Lord opens doors--after clinic was over on Saturday,

I hired a little bus to take our guests to a waterfall for a picnic and then visited a Meo village, where some of the hostel students live. On our way home we stopped at the new refugee village.. There were signs up saying ,"no admittance," so we went over to the administration buildings A large group of officials were around, waiting for some
refugees to arrive by bus. As we walked over, one of the men hailed Wilawan and welcomed her like a long lost friend She introduced us to him and we found he was

from World Vision checking up on the needs of the refugees^ Wilawan had met him at the bus station in Bangkok and they enjoyed Christian fellowship on the long bus trip

to Chiengrai^ As a result of his warm welcome to us, the officials offered to take us around the camp. The young official who showed us around was very much surprised

that we had gotten in without a passo They did tell us when we left that we must get a permit if we wanted to visit again. After our company left, we did get a permit^ We

have been going out on Saturday afternoons since then to help care for the medical needs of the refugees^ We were just in time to help treat children suffering from a severe
measles epidemic^ Many of them had developed pneumonia and there had been 2 deaths that daye Among the Gui tribe it seemed that most of the adults were sick too--with malaria, coughs, boils, vitamin deficiency, etc^ We ran out of medicine and had to return the next day to finish offc Last week there was an epidemic of diarrhea. We have found

that some of the people read and x-Trite Laotian, so we have gospels of Mark and Luke availablec The older children have been especially eager to get these^ Three of the men, who are refugees, have started teaching the children Thai, English and Matho
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are hoping that eventually we will have more time to teach and tell these people about the Lord Jesus. There is one Christian family among the Yao, and others will be moving to
the village soon.

The Laotian script and Thai script is somewhat similar, so maybe before long, some of will be able to read Thai tracts and the Bible Society's story books for New Readerso are many different language groups present in the refugee villageYao, Meo, Lao, Lu, ^yellow Lahu) and Khamuu We have to have some of the men act as interpreters for uso

them There Gui We

told them I was sorry I didn't understand what that was, so one of the fellows gave me the Thai word for Biblee I had only a gospel of Luke left, so I gave it to one of the men and promised to get a Laotian New Testament for each familyo (They said the commu nists burned their Bibles and pictures of Mary and took over the church building for other
and they said no<, The children could sing, but \?ere too shy to do so until I sang a couple of choruses for them and then they sang .2 for me. They said they'd like to have
regular services so I will try to go out at least twice a month.
will attend too.

among the Khamu who are Catholics^

other groups^ She received a warm welcome from the Christian family, I found 6 families
The first thing they asked me for was a "Pum." I

On Sunday, I took a Yao Christian woman out to visit the Yao while I went to visit

purposes^

That was why they fled to Thailand,)

I asked if they had services on Sunday

Perhaps other villagers

We are looking forward to the annual family camp April 26-30, Callaways returned from furlough in February and have helped with arrangements for this. After the conference, I 11 take a few days off in Chiengmai to try and catch up on correspondence, etc,
A National election was held on April 14. There is hope that the new government will
be more stabie--able to take a firm stand with students and dissidents and restore order to

Thailand. Pray for the government. The Christians and for us. May the gospel of Christ go forth in increasing power and may hearts and lives be transformed by the Living Christ,
Yours in Christ,

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

PO Box 1840

Non-Profit Organization U,Sc Postage Paid

Klamath Falls, Oregon

Phone 884-5432

97601

Permit Noo

12

Klamath Falls, Oregon

97601

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED Return Postage Guaranteed

Richard L. Bourne Mission Services

Bo.x 177

Kempton, In

46049

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Chiengkara, Chiengrai
Thailand

June, 1976

Dear Friends,

in April than ever before. We had expected the attendance to be down this year, but"instead of the high fluctuations as in previous years, the attendance wast sustained with 450-500 _^esent for th^ noonj>meal; about 300 fpr_breakfast and evening mealc There was no serious'

Praise the Lord for answered prayer. There were more young people at thk family camp^
The attention, was good. There were

Problem with water" shortage as in the past years.

threats of violence from a market gang and attempts to lure some of the girls away but the Lord protected and kept all from harm. Seven young people were baptized the last day of the conference. One of these was a brother of a teacher baptized at the youth conference

earlier in the month. She went home and started praying for her brother who was on drugs. He not only came to the conference, but accepted Christ, Praise the Lor^* _
Wan, a young fellow from the Leprosy village of Sope Waan, has gone to the Bible

College at Phayao, He has wanted to go for the past 3 years, but the church was not willing to help send him. We have prayed much about it. I talked to Wan and told him if he was willing to work and earn part of the money, I would help him. He showed his faith fulness in this and came to work full time for over Two months. Many of the Christians wanted to help him, so we started taking an offering at the Wednesday Bible study. Enallv "p" the leaders of the church saw his determination to go to Bible school. They decided to
C contribute half of his tuition and board and room. Praise the Lord. This church is

learning to share and prepare young people to go out and witness for the Lord.
Two families moved away from Kapok village. One of these has gone back to Buddhism,

The other family is meeting with Christians in the village where they moved. The three families left in Kapok village, and one family in Kai village, continue to meet and are growing in the Lord, Mang, the teenage boy who was in jail on trumped up charges of steal ing hot peppers, finished the 4th . His father is letting him go on to school. (Education
is compulsory only to the 4th grade.)

Prasit(Success) has come to work in clinic as registrar and to help follow up those who are interested in the gospel. He will be sharing in the witnessing in clinic and in the community. His wife is wordking for the Callaways and proving a very efficient worker in the home. Wilawan, the nurse who has been helping in clinic, is planning to be married and go to the UcS, in August, if this is the Lord's will. Pray for her in this regard and for
another helper in clinic if she leaves.

needs o^'these people on Saturday afternoons quite well in spite of the problem of four --4^ferenJ; J^piguage groups. There was usually someone who could interpret for the Yao or
to come in the near future,
earn some money,

refugee village near Chiengkam had 1000 people.

We were able to minister to the

Lahu who didfi*^t understand Thai, The first of June, JLpO(^more Yao arrived and 2000 more are
Saturday, Yao Awn and his wife (house parents at the Yao

students hostel at Callaways') went out to distribute embroidery to the women so they could
Mr.. Callaway got permission from the officials to hold services on

Sunday for the Yao.

There are quite a few Christians in the group,

I have held services

a couple of Sundays for those understanding Thai.

Three of us from clinic with Mrs,

Callaway went to treat patients,

Mrs. Callaway wrote down the symptoms for all the Yao
medicine. Next week we will take one instructions on how to take the With so many more people, I don't is in the village to care for people,

patients. All we had to do was diagnose and give out of the Yao students with us to interpret Yao and give medication. We will have to work out a good system. know how we can take care, of ^them all. A local_medic

He doesn't, however, have mu<^ training, medicine or motivation, which leaves the medical
^ The Yao Christians say the other refugees wouldn't let them have Christian services on Sunday, We went out on Saturday and the non-Christians saw that it was the Christian Clinic, Christian Missionaries, Christian Yao who were helping everyone, so they quit opposing it. Sunday afternoon, Callaways and Yao Awn and his wife, went out and held a service for the Yao. Things were-pretty noisy as there were lots of kids. Next weel:

needs mostly unmet.

/c^

they'll probably take along some young people to teach the kids at one end of the b-Jsiiding,
while the adults have a service at the other end. Pray for the Christians in their r- '.ation ship with the others. The non-Christians don't want them living in the same long ho;:5vrs with them since Christians don't sacrifice to the evil spirits. The non-Christians are afraid something will happen and the spirits will be displeased and bring sickness rn them. May the Lord help the Christians to live in peace and quietness, and to share theii faith and love with others. Pray for us too, as we seek to minister to the physical and spiri tual needs of all these people -- Yao, Lahu, Khamu and Lu,

Dorothy Uhlig
June letter

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Praise the Lord for

answered prayer for Violette Uhlig, ..liiy financial agent.

She had

^surgery in April and is continuing with chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer. She is improving and praising the Lord for the many ways in which He has undertaken and mani

fested His love Continue to pray for her. (If you have not received letters or acknow ledgement for gifts sent, please forgive the delay.)
Yours in Christ's service.

FIRfff-GiiRISTIAN CHURCH 1201 SO ALAMEDA PO BOX 1840

Non-Profit Organi^ion~ U. S, Postage Paid

Permit No. 12 Klamath Falls OR
97601

KLAMATH FALLS OR
Phone 884-5432

97601

Mission Services Association

Box 177

Kempton, Ind.

46049

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D. Uhlig, Doris Whitelock (OMF translator), Lee Jong her Meo assistant. Pua refugee camp.

Grass'toofed clinic and hospital at Pua refugee camp. Two missionary doctors visit two days a week. Many medics here.

Chiengkam, Chiengrai Thailand

December, 1976

Dear Friends,

Many changes have come to Thailand, and to the clinic In Chiengkam, since I last wrote. The change to a military government on October 6, seems to have brought more stability to the coun try. Most of the Thai breathed a sigh of relief when the news came of the military coup. Before that, the country seemed headed for anarchy and communism. Pray the Lord will guide in the
destiny of this country.

Wllawan, the Thai nurse who helped in the clinic, left the middle of July to be married. She is now living In the U.S. In August the older man, who has helped in the clinic for many years, became III. In spite of medical treatment in two hospitals, he died the last of October. We praise the Lord that many heard the gospel at the evening services In the home and at the funeral. We miss him in the clinic. The rest of the staff has carried on efficiently, but we still need a nurse to help. The refugees, at the Chiengkam camp, are allowed more freedom since the coup. This is not true in the Pua area where Imogene Williams is working. The Chiengkam camp has almost 3,000 people - mostly Yao. There are also some Lohu, Khamu and Lao. We have had a medical program in the camp on Saturday afternoons. There Is now a Lao doctor working three days a week. World Vision is planning to have an Australian doctor by January to help In the Chiengkam and Chiengkawng camps. There have been many among the Yao who have accepted the Lord and are being taught regularly. The Callaways have a literacy program to teach reading, so they can read the Scriptures for themselves. In the past month some land has been made available to them, so they con plant some soybeans or vegetables, to help meet their physical needs. The U.N. has started to cut down the food allowance since money Is running out. The camp of 10,000 refugees near Pua was moved three months ago. These refugees are not allowed out of the barbwire en closure. They can't plant fields or hunt for greens, or firewood In the forest. There is much malnutrition and beri-beri with paralysis. We are praying for a change in officials so that con ditions can improve. (I'm sorry we're not allowed to take pictures inside the Chiengkam camp - I have included some of the Pua camp to give you an idea of what the refugee camps are like.) Three girls, who attend government night school, have been diligently studying the Bible study course on cassettes. The day school students have also started the course and are studying each Sunday night. There will be three more Christians studying in the government night school. This will increase the Christian witness there. I have been helping oversee the kindergarten that has been started at the leprosy village of Sope Waan. Children from a neighboring village also attend and hear the gospel. One night in mid-October, when the lights went off, I was taking little kerosene lamps to the patient house, when inadvertently, I stepped on a slippery fruit seed and crashed down on my right hip. Mrs. Callaway and Gordy Byers were at my home and helped me to bed. The hip was fractured just below the joint. At first the doctors thought It would be okay without pinning. A month later the joint was disintegrating so surgery to put in a hip prosthesis was done on November 16. It will probably be a month or so before I am able to go back to work. Pray that I may know the Lord's will for me. That is to open the clinic again or go into another type of ministry. He will have to provide a nurse If the clinic Is to be operated. While recovering, I plan to study Yao so I will be more effective in talking to these people. Many of them don't know
Thai.

May the Lord bless you all at this Christmas season and in the coming year.
Rejoicing In Him

Dorothy Uhllg

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Meo schoolboys . . . live at dormitory in Chiengkam. Attend government school. We have Bible classes for

C.W. Calloway teaching Yoo refugees ot Baptismol service. Over 20 were baptised. Thai looking on
a c r o s s river.

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Imogene Williams at new location of Pua refugee village.

Administrotive offices of Chiengkam refugee camp.

Over 2,000 Yao in camp. Smaller groups of Lahu,
Khomu and Laotians.

FIRST ChiMSTIAN CI-!U:%CH

P. O. Box 1840, 1201 S. Alamec^o Klamath Falls, Oregon 97601

Klamath Falls, ure, 97w0i

Permit No. 12

Non Profit Oi^, U, S. Postage

Richard L,
Box 177

Bourne

Mission Station

Kempton, Indiana 46049