MISSION TIDINGS

GIFTS RECEIVED FOR MISSIONS IN MARCH 1977

CLASSIS MIDWEST SOURCE AMOUNT

Friend in G.R. Gift $ 100.00

Friend in Chicago Hts. Gift 100.00

Friend in Michigan Gift 125.00

Friend in G.R. Gift 5.00

Friend in G.R. Gift 15.00

Friend in G.R. Gift 250.00 CLASSIS WEST

Friend in Maurice, IA Gift 5.00

Corsica Rebecca Jr. Gift 75.00

Corsica Mission Sale Gift 1500.00

Friends in New Zealand Gift 12.00

Friends in Australia Gift 109.62

Friend in Sheboygan Gift 100.00 CLASSIS FARWEST

Ft. Macleod Mission Sale Gift 1400.00

Total: $3796.62

Dear Friends,

How the time doth fly as upon eagles wings. It is the end of the month before we realize it. Again we want to thank all of you very much for your generous gifts for the spreading out of God’s Holy Word. It is in the first place by the council of the Lord, that we may have in cooperation with Holland, so many people working on various mission fields. But in the second place it is also made possible by those who love the work of the mission and therefor are faithfully supporting the mission fund. We hope that all our American and Canadian friends will continue with their support of the American General Mission Fund which we know most of you have been doing. We wish you all the blessings of the Lord. What we are trying to say is that the American and Holland Board are strictly opposed to any organizations or persons supporting particular persons on the various mission fields. You may ask why? We can answer, because all these people receive salaries and many other things direct from our mission boards. A budget is set up for each mission field, this is the only way things can be done fairly and in order, otherwise it creates jealousy amongst our mission workers. Through the fall of Adam our nature became so deceitful that it even says in the Bible, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. I Corinthians 1:12. So you can realize that it is best to support the mission fund. We don’t like to write about these things and we have laid this report aside for a whole week because sometimes we don’t know how to express ourselves or what to write. I hope it will be accepted without hard feelings because sometimes we have to pray, Lord give us wisdom how to do it, as we are such an ignorant person. We were asked to write about this and hope it will not be necessary to write about it again. We have just commemorated the suffering, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and it is a blessing to commemorate it, but it would be a greater blessing if we may experience something of it. It is only through Him that the Word of God can bear fruit on the mission field but also in our hearts at home. We have sinned it away and are not worthy that the Lord should remember us, but as that mighty prince He conquered over Satan, sin and the world and also our deceitful self. Oh that it may be more the cry, “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Hearty greetings to all of you in behalf of the Mission Committee.

American General Mission Fund Netherland Reformed Churches of the United States and Canada

John Spaans, Treasurer

Plankinton Box 17 RR3

South Dakota 57368

OD’S WARNINGS

If we look around us, and the Lord gives eyes to see, we can notice that the punishments of the Lord are coming over the world more and more. And He will not keep them from the USA and Canada.

How much cold snow and storms there were in the East! How cold and dry it was in the Mid-west! How warm and very dry it already is for a long time in Washington, and especially in California! How little snow has fallen in the mountains between Alberta and British Columbia! Do we hear His voice? Do we see His signs?

There might come a cry, not in the first place about all the miseries, but about all that “we have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.”

May we also as church members learn to ask Him humbly: “Turn Thou me, and I shall be turned.”

But if it remains: “They have refused to return,” Jer. 5:3b, then it shall be: “Verily I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city”. Matt. 10:15.

A MARTYR

It is as glorious a thing to be a martyr
for bearing testimony against the public sins
of an age —
as in bearing testimony unto any truth
of the gospel whatsoever.

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