CARL FISH PAfGLY -

I?JDONESIA

The Carl Fish family went to Indonesia

in June, 1963#

They are now in their second

teriii*

They established a printing ministry

in Bandung, Indonesia, printing Christian lit

eratturo and t',w Dible correspondence coiirses

in the national Indonesian language and the

Javanese hh dialect. Follow-up of these have

resulted in the establishing of Bible schools

in Central and East Java as well as reaching

donorainatioiial cliurchcs in U'est Java One

studQiit is attending Kerunore Chricitian College,

Brisbane, Australia. Plans are being laid for

a new phase of ovc,ngelisin throu,^h puppetSo

Dennis and hyim. Fi-ee of Box l(t3, vThitosburg,

Georgia are recruits to the Isles of the Pacific

Ctiristiaii Missioii and hope to join the Fish

family in Eaat Java in tho fall of 197^ to

begin "wcrl;; in a IcaclojL ship traiiiing program

with tliom. Tho Fish family nou licwe NEV/ spon

sors who have Just corapleted all requirements

with the Indonesian government for sponsoring

new missionaries into that coiAntry# hcaiy frag

mented denominationa groups arc seriously inqui

ring about the New Testament Church but trained

national leaders are urgently needed to fill all

the requests coming to us. The
isla

pondence work has reached into six

nds* in Indonesia besides Java and also into

CARL FISH FAMILY

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Malaysia (&ast)
Monica Fish if? a student at Cinciimati

Bible Seminary, majoring in Christian educa*

tioni* Sh was married to David Roberson of

Paducah* Ky., also at CBS, on August 23, 197^*

Philip Carl Fish is a high school student, studying via correspondence from the Uni^r# of Nebraska, and resides with his parents in Indo
nesia* His tentative plans are to attend CBS

after finishing; hi.^h school,

i^aymond Carl Fish was born Jano 5, 1925 in Pennsylvania. He was graduated from high

school at Keadville, Pa.

He received training

at Atlanta Christian College, .Atlanta, Goai^gia, Minnesota Uible College, Minneapolis, Minn, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Carl sor^ved as youth minister in l0T4ra in
19^3 and as orGache"*- in Florida and California.

Carl and his family i^-ere raissi onari.es in Oki

nawa 1951-1959, in Japan 1062-196?.

Mrs. Grace Arelia Herget Fish was bom

Nov. 22,

in 3-affalo, New York,

Tl-ey have

two children, Mrs. Monica Grace Fish Rofeerson

born Aug. 2, 1952 and Philip CarJ. Fifih born

Aug. 27, 1957o

Their forwarding agent is Mra Leonard

Wilfong, 58 East Main Street, Greenwich, Ohio

44837. Their field address is: Carl and MrSf

Grace Fish, P O* Box #3, Batu, Malang, (Jatira)

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SEPTEMBER 1975

Praise the Lord for Dennis & Lynn Free') our fellow-

missionaries now on the field^and working with us in E. Java. Their arrival has been a great blessing
to us a l l and we are sure the Lord will use them

mightily because of their wonderful spirit of Christ ian love, dedication and eagerness to do His will.

Within a month and 3 days after their arrival Lynn gave birth to their first child, Brian_^ith, who is presently a 17h lb., 5 month old boy and the very im age of his daddy. Needless to say, he is the center
of attraction at home, in the market and wherever the
Frees take him.

So many events have taken place over these past months that we can only relate them
briefly. In addition to the arrival of the

Frees,the birth of their son, and opening a new work in Rogojampi, we were blessed by
the brief ~vIsXt._of Bro^ C.onlen. Sllsby, a

former professor of Carl's at Minnesota Bible College, now the Director of "The Traveling Christian College", Seattle, Wash. His arrival coincided with the quarter ly missionary meeting so he told us of the plans of the college to visit Indonesia in the spring of 1977. Carl

& Handojo guided Bro. Silsby on a trip to the island of Bali for further investigations into cultural studies for the college and saw him "off" to Australia from there. After returning home Carl & Dennis got to work immediately on getting their ocean freight cleared through customs in far-away Jakarta (600 miles from here), transported to Batu by truck, locating a house for the Frees, plus dozens of trips made to immigrations, police, the dept^ of religion, and to town and village offices to complete Frees' legal registrations. This consumed weeks and months of TIME! The house rented by the Frees is located in Batu, 5 kilometers from our home in the village of Punten (just outside of Batu). They are happily settled and busily engaged in language study. .In July we had the joy of hosting the annual gathering of our missionari'es from across Indonesia. This threeday time of fellowship, prayer and discussions
was a tremendous blessing and all seemed to enjoy the cool mountain weather, the outdoor bar-

bgue and song-fest around the campfire, plus the hot-springs baths. All the children ate apples and enjoyed games of volleyball, ping pong, badminton and playing with our German Shep herd dog. Those attending were: John & Shirley Truscott (Australian missionaries) from Ban dung, and the following....all from Salatiga in Central Java....Lew & Vida Cass family. Bob & Diane^^gafoose family, Robert & Janice MacLean family, John Dorothy Harper, and Misses Jean Con^r and Linda Joyner The Wineqarner, Furnas and Ritchey families are presently in

the U.S. on furlough.

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There are times when our HANDS ARE TIED! This has certainly been the case with getting the large ATF Offset Printing Press into In donesia! The very same month we arrived in~Indonesia from our furlough, the govt. passed a law regarding the import of some major items, including printing presses and equipment. The new law levied a 100% to 150% duty on such imports! We've been trying to find a way to avoid paying that high rate, but have found it impossible! Having

paid $3400 for the press (used price) in the U.S. we felt we could not

y^aying another $3400 to $5100 on top of the purchase price to get it

^ into Indonesia....in spite of the great need we have for this machine. Thus, our HANDS ARE TIED by govt. regulations and we must NOW SELL the press in the U.S. A company in Ohio has already agreed to purchase i t for

exactly the same price we paid for it.__NOW we must do our best to repair the small tabletop A.B. Dick press we have here in Indonesia and m^e_ it
do for all our printing needs. We are truly grateful to all our many

friends who helped us purchase the large ATF press for Indonesia, and if they do not object,
we'll use these gifts to repair our small press and print more Bible correspondence materials
and New Testament Christian literature.
guage.
needs.

Bible Correspondence Lessons soon. They have already been translated into the Indonesian Ian- J
Yes, we feel some discouragement in not being able to get our large press into the

We are hoping to begin a new "visualized" series of

country, but we know the Lord can and will work it out regarding the fulfilling of our printing

Although we have not been able time being, still we have been

resujne our "Leadership Training School" for the

by starting the following

our son, Philip & Bro. Hanfor 10 schoolteachers,
Jr. Hi students. Weds. P.M.

to reach others in our coimunity with the Gospel classes: Sunday A.M.Sunday School (taught by dojo, Monday P.M.-Bible study s English
Tuesday P.M.-Bible study & English for

- Bible study & English for High School

Bible study for all interested non-Christour regular worship hour with the Lord's
CLASSES AND between 60 and 80 in these classes. Bro.

students, Thurs. evening -

ians, and Sunday evening

Supper. We are reaching
Handojo travels six hours

to conduct Bible study and

This new work is on the we try to have a missionCHALLENGING OPPORTUNITIES

by bus every other weekend to. Rogojampi worship services with the Lord's Supper
extreme eastern end of the island. Also, ary prayer service once a week for the
families.

Fish, Free and Handojo

DOORS HAVE BEEN OPENING

RAPIDLY for opportunities to reach out

into both eastern and westwe had MORE TRAINED WORKERS

ern sections of East Java and we only wish

to enter these areas. Last week we were

invited to investigate an area with half a dozen villages where NO GOSPEL was being proclaimed and NO CHURCH of any kind started and where more than 100,000 people need evangelizing! JUST
TODAY (as I write this newsletter) two more villages near the Rogojampi church have opened up and we've been asked to begin preaching and teaching Christ there/ A widow is willing to give a piece of land for a church house in one of these places and the head of a village wants to
sell one of his two houses for a church in the other place. CERTAINLY, WE NEED YOUR CONTINUED
PRAYERS AND GIFTS to help us reach these unevangelized souls for Christ! PRAY that we shall

have the wisdom, physical strength, and financial means to take advantage of these OPPORTUNITIES before they pass us by! Again, a denominational preacher from Rogojampi says he will be leaving his denomination together with the entire congregation he serves and will become a New Testament

^ Church of Christ, even though this means giving up their house of worship and seeking a new
. place to worship in that village. ment and spiritual help. He came to our house today asking for our prayers, encourage

gr^ce. will not be writing "Grace Notes" in this issue because she has broken
i her left wrist, for the second time in. four jiK>nths! She is wearing an alumin um, splint-cast until the first week in October. Her first break was from a fall down the back steps and the second from trying to hold our large dog when he attacked our neighbor's dog, upsetting Grace and throwing her weight on that left wrist again. Pray for her speedy and complete recovery.

Philip celebrated his^ 18th birthday on August 27th.

The month of

August is a special time in our house as so many anniversaries take place. Aug. 2nd is Monica's birthday, Aug. 7th is, our wedding anni versary, the 23rd is Monica's and David's wedding anniversary and the 27th, Philip's birthday. Since Bro, Handojo's birthday is just one day later (28th) and two of Philip's boyfriends had birthdays in Aug., we invited them all to share a meal with us and special treats of angel food cake, home-made ice cream and barbequed rabbit!

_Phil^ has grown taller than either his Mom or Dad. He appears at "the right with his German Shepherd dog (given to him by an Austra
lian family returning homel named, "Aiu".

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