Christian Chronicle (Nashville, Tenn.), Vol. 30, No. [13], Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 19, 1973 Page: 3 of 7
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Box 722
Cleburne, Texas
(817) 645-8897
Presently Located At:
105 W. 130th Street New York, N. Y. 10027
CHRISTIANS NEED YOUR HELP TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL
(one-half million dollar project)
>uth, Nashville, Tenn.
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Home Office Box 40289
Nashville, Tennessee 37204
(615) 383-2313
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HERE’S HOW YOU CAN HELP:
1. MAKE A PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION ($1.00 to $500,000.00)
2. MAKE A CONGREGATIONAL CONTRIBUTION ($1.00 to $500,000)
3. MAKE A PERSONAL MONTHLY CONTRIBUTION
4. MAKE A CONGREGATIONAL CONTRIBUTION
5. PUT THIS EFFORT IN YOUR WILL
6. MAKE A FIFTH SUNDAY CONTRIBUTION
ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE AND CHECKS
SHOULD BE MADE PAYABLE TO: CHURCH OF CHRIST FUND,
105 WEST 130th STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10027.
a church of Christ out of the
leaders did not like this. Pray
especially for those wanting to
do God’s will.
Kyle Holt and I made a
trip into Hungary and Rom-
ania from April 5th - 13th cover-
ing some 2,500 miles by car.
We drove first to Budapest,
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we did not find at home. Our
most interesting visit was with
a medical doctor and his wi e.
We have known them for years
and hope some day to lead them
to Christ. The next day we
journeyed southward to Pecs
to visit with a group who call
; “First Century
Christians. We believe that
we can help her and her fam-
ily and we will continue to
visit her. From Pecs we headed
for the border to cross into
Romania. It was very late at
allowed night when we reached the
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Our next stop was Bilovec,
where we have our largest con-
questiou gregation. There are 13 mem-
vices to relievf bers there now. One of our
members, who is the most
and daughters active in all of Czechoslovakia,
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seven months of military train-
ing and wanted to get back
to the Black Sea to check on
guards really put us through his job. He accompanied us
on the rest of the trip. Our
next goal was Sibiu where we
have many good contacts.
While there we were able to
baptize a young lady into
Christ and what a thrill it
was. She was our first con-
vert in the nation of Romania.
The next day we headed for
Bucharest to make some visits.
After spending a few hours
in that city we continued our
journey toward the Black Sea.
Our baptist friend wanted to
check on his job and he was
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the mill. After finding several
Bibles in our suitcases they
became suspicious and made
us take everything out of the
car and searched the car very
thoroughly. They even took
Kyle into a private room and
searched him. They found the
names and addresses of people
we planned to visit and copied
them. After one hour of search-
ing they finally let us go on
our way. In the next town we
found a hotel and got a few
hours sleep before driving on
to Arad. In this town we have
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mouth disease which is wide- several contacts and among
spread in Hungary, Romania them a baptist family. Their
We met with the family sev-
eral hours each day while in
Moscow and on Sunday we
had the Lord’s supper with
our new sister in Christ. After
four days in Moscow we flew
to Leningrad. Our main pur- Hungary where we visited sev-
pose in going was to help an
American student studying
there but much to our dis-
appointment he had already
lost his faith. We believe that
we did help him some.
After leaving Leningrad we
flew to Warsaw, Poland to
visit some contacts and also
the brethren. After our arrival themselves
we learned that we could not
stay and had to catch the
next plane to Vienna. We are
presently on the black list but
this is not the first time. We
later learned that sister Daw-
id ow from Sopot was t "
to make a trip to Alma Ata,
contacts in this area. Russia but her husband was was closed due to a hoof and
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us were border crossing was about 100 but he was home getting some
miles away and we had to dental work done. We found
detour a total of 200 miles in out that he had just completed
all. It was two o’clock in the
morning when we reached the
second border crossing and the
r this training kept us busy day and night
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refused permission. She wrote
that our visit in December had
caused a revolution in the Bap- and several other countries in- son, we thought, was working
tp ., , - tist church in Alma Ata. Most eluding Austria. The next as a guide near the Black Sea
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Bratislava wc xuui by plane to Moscow and Len- and were trying to bring about
lady in Moscow, who had Baptist group and naturally th<
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Tatra mountains. We had al- about wanting to obey her Lord
ready experienced some snow
but here we ran into some
two feet of it. In Stola we
have a brother and he has
been working with a small
group called the Church of
God, but very different from
other groups wearing this
name. There are about 24 of
them and we met with them
one night. The only difference
we have found thus far is that
vho are sick, ® they use instrumental music.
We next visited Poprad, which
is close to Stola where we
have a family of three as mem-
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Junel9 1973 CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE Pfcge 3
Baptisms in Czechoslovakia, Russia and Romania
By Bob Hare One man was baptized and
During the last week of Feb- many others seemed to be
urary Kyle Holt, Tom Watson- "almost persuaded.” One other
and I spent five days in Ozec- has since beefr baptized.
jjOSlovakia. We visited mem-
bers and contacts in four areas.
In Bratislave we visited four
3 the Red, Ye]]C5 do not realize how fortu-
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, illiea withft tbere we drove to Stola in the written us a few weeks before
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