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THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE 3
MAY 2018
Teens serve the
Soul-winning’ evangelist Phillips dies at 86
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BY ERIK TRYGGESTAD | THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
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hungry as their
teachers strike
TULSA, Okla. — Marvin Phillips, a minis-
ter known for his ever-present smile, a
missionary who raised money to buy
Bibles for Africa and the driving force
behind the Tulsa Workshop died April
18 after a long illness. He was 86.
Phillips was pulpit minister for the
Garnett Church of Christ in Tulsa
for 26 years, retiring in 1996. He
had served with the church since its
beginnings in a school gym in 1970.
He oversaw the International Soul
Winning Workshop, which brought
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His students — some in their 20s,
other more “advanced in years” them-
selves, dutifully scribble down notes,
pencil on paper.
“See, don’t get close to God, as you
are, and when you get old you get away
from God,” Xoshe warns the students.
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‘Well be
back on
Wednesday!”
they chanted.
About five
miles away,
on South
Harvey
Street, a
beige van
drove slowly
through the
inner-city neighborhood
of Capitol Hill, a mostly
Spanish-speaking commu-
nity of small houses, muffler
shops and gas stations with
barred windows.
Four teenagers darted
back and forth from the van,
knocking on doors, handing
out white, shoebox-size
to-go meals and running
back to reload.
“We know that this
walkout has affected a lot
of people, including people
who are less privileged,”
said George Hartman, one
of the teens, “so giving them
lunches, which they usually
would get at school, is a
great way to help.”
The teens worship with the
Memorial Road Church of
Christ on the north side of
town, just outside the affluent
Oklahoma City suburb of
Edmond. I’m a deacon there,
and interviewing these kids
was surreal. I had just seen
many of them perform skits
and puppet shows at the
See STRIKE, Page 4
OKLAHOMA CITY
A ■ ews helicopters circled
I the Oklahoma State
Capitol on a Tuesday
I w afternoon as thou-
sands of teachers squeezed
into the rotunda, demanding
more money for their over-
crowded, dilapidated schools.
Inside Story
ERIKTRYGGESTAD
Zonge Xoshe teaches NationsUniversity material, designed for the internet, in Pretoria.
What a great friend!”
He launched ministries to support
evangelism overseas and hosted a
weekly TV show. He also had a well-
developed sense of humor, friends
said — including the ability to imitate
a Coke bottle opening, a referee’s
whistle and an electric drill. One book
he authored is titled “Never Lick a
Moving Blender: Humorous Insights
that Motivate and Encourage.”
describing the final days of King
David. “It shows you that, with the
experience he has and the older he
gets, the closer he gets to God. Do
you realize that? But with Saul, once
he assumed the position, only for two
years he stayed with God, and then ...
humility made way for arrogance.”
PRETORIA, South Africa
his isn’t Wakanda, the dazzling,
high-tech African kingdom
depicted in the blockbuster film
“Black Panther.”
But Pretoria is, nonetheless,
an ever-modernizing metropolis,
the seat of power for the Republic
of South Africa’s executive branch,
home to nearly a million souls.
On a Friday afternoon, the city’s
businesspeople rush into cafes and
buffets and squeeze into minibus
taxis. Nowadays, more
and more of them use
their smartphones to
summon rides from
Uber and a local ser-
vice called Zebra Cabs.
Amidst the techno-
logical waves crashing
across the continent,
something decidedly
low-tech is going on in the basement
of the Downtown Church of Christ.
With the distinctive tap, tap, tap of
chalk on chalkboard, preacher Zonge
Xoshe writes out Bible verses from the
Old Testament book of 1 Kings.
“Some translations use the words
‘advanced in years,”’ Xoshe says,
thousands of attendees from Churches
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V Fairgrounds annually.
The free gathering,
later shortened to “the
Tulsa Workshop,” ran
for 40 years.
Terry Rush, minister
for the Memorial Drive
Church of Christ in
P Tulsa and longtime
co-director of the workshop, said of
Phillips, “This man made a difference.
DESPITE RAPID MODERNIZATION, the internet remains out of reach in many parts of
Africa. So Christians are taking a web-based university back into the classroom.
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