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He gave his promise to come, but failed to appear on the night he prom ised.’ The next night, however, he came and brought his wife, and they both continued to come throughout the series’ of meetings. We soon began Bible studies with them in their home. By the next Harvest Ingather ing time both ‘he and his wife were baptized members of our church, and were out working in the interests of Harvest Ingathering themselves. A short time after this family began studying, this man’s older brother and family moved to Sapporo, and they were brought to our serv ices. Being very much interested in what they heard, they began studying the Bible, with us, and we hope they will soon be ready for baptism. Even though this older brother is not yet baptized, he asked the priv ilege, as a home missionary society member, to sell our Jicho here in Sapporo. He ordered 500 copies this month, and has sold more than half of them already. He feels especially impressed to make a thorough house to house canvass with the paper. It warmed all our hearts to hear him tell his experiences of the week at our last prayer meeting, for he had found a family who were hungry to learn of the truth, and who asked if they could come to our meetings. While he is working with our papers and having these good visits with others, his own faith is being built up as it could be in no other way. His wife is joining him in this litera ture work. The first brother won is our home missionary society leader, and his eyes beamed with joy as he told of his experiences with our paper at our last home missionary meeting. It does not take much time to hand a paper or tract to someone at your door or to someone who may be sit ting beside you in the street car, but oh, how much it pays! By GEORGE C. NICKLE EVERYWHERE we go we hear the people say there is a terrible financial crisis in Colombia, but our colpor teurs are so busy they can’t pay any attention to such cries. Brethren Steeves and Brower have just held an institute in Cali,and since it was the holiday season, they decided to have the colporteurs work the city of Cali before going to their various terri tories, thinking it would be possible for them to make their expenses, at least, for a few weeks. There are seven of the boys, and they have worked two days now, in the last week of December, and have sold ninety five copies of “Our Day in the Light of Prophecy.” Included in the accompanying group picture are our union and local field secretaries, representatives of two of our prominent colleges. Brother Steeves came from Walla Walla College eight years ago as a self-supporting colporteur, obtaining his first experience in Colombia. Since that time he has worked in Ven ezuela, and is now serving both fields as a union man. Brother Brower came from Pacific Union College, and also worked as a self-supporting canvasser for two years, during which time he gained an experience which our col leges cannot furnish and which has qualified him as a leader of colpor teurs. Brother Reimer is from Germany, and received the third angel’s message in Colombia from C. G. Christiansen, an American colporteur now working in an adjoining mission. I had the pleasure of baptizing Brother Reimer and starting him in the Lord’s work. This experience has always seemed unique to me, as we were both sol diers in the World War in France, but on opposing sides. He has ren dered the mission excellent service for nearly two years now, and is also developing into a leader. Jarence Nickle, our latest foreign recruit, arrived from California with his family nearly a year ago, and al though he did not have the language before coming to Colombia, within a few weeks he was doing successful work in the field. He and Brother Reimer are preparing for an extended trip of several months into one of the most remote and difficult districts. Brother Zephirine comes to us from Europe. He received his education in our school in France, has canvassed in many European countries as well as in Haiti and Cuba, and is now doing service in Colombia. The four Colombian young men are working hard this year to earn scholarships ,in order that they may attend our school in Costa Rica, and we believe they are going to reach their objective. During 1929, Central Colombia Mission colporteurs sold $18,025 worth of literature, and now that we have the additional help of the union field secretary, we have every reason to look forward with confidence to a still more successful year in this field. Central Colombia Mission Colporteur Force From left to right: C. R. Nickle, F. A. Brower (field secretary), Marco E. Parra, Arturo Hernandez, Kurt Reimer, Romualdo Sanchez, F. W.Steeves (union field secretary), Medardo Gomez, and J. T. Zephirin.
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Silver Spring Advent Review and Sabbath Herald
Silver Spring, Maryland, US
Thu, Mar 20, 1930
Page 19
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