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Forwarding Agent
Christian Church DEAN F. REMPEL

P.O. Box 306

P.O. Box 45250

Florence, Oregon

97439

Nairobi, Kenya

February 1973
Dear Friends:

The East Africa Christian Mission joins me in sending their greetings at

the start of what we pray will be a great
your prayers that an impact is being

yea^

for

the
homes

Lord's

work in East

Africa. We thank all of you for remembering us in your prayers.

Eiade in many

It is through
tribes with the

Gospel message and many new doors are opening for Christ.

We had a wonderful Christmas service at Maguga Green.

had gone home for the two weeks vacation period

Many of our people

large crowd on Chnstmas day.

Since then three new families have been attending

but in spite of this we had a

quite regularly.

New Year's was a fine day also,-as prayers, testimonies, guest speakers and
refreshments all were a part of a spiritually very rewarding day.
So far in 1973 six adults have been baptized. The foundations of the work were laid in 1971; the church was established as a program of work set in motion

in 1972; now in 1973 we are putting on the final touches and are starting to

spread out, and a wonderful year is in prospect for the church. People are be ginning to attend without even being called on or being given a special invita tion as the reputation of the E. A. C. M. spreads through many areas.. More

invitations to work in other areas

the people of Kenya.

have come in than we can possibly accept at

I con

this time while we are strengthening the center of the work in Nairobi.

tinue to praise the lord for all He has done in helping us to spread the Word to
Thank you for remembering the E. A. C. M. with special gifts. We have really needed these extras due to the rapid expansion of the work. I would especially like to thank the following for their gifts during the Christmas
season.

Dora Emmerson, California

$ 10.00

iViVI Ross, Oregon

Nada Schweyer, Ohio The Swings, Canada Erna Voss, Canada Grande Prairie Church of Christ

25.00
25.00 20.00 10.00 95.00

Special thanks to M/ii Hood, M/iff Schudder and

Mrs. Poll for their

M/M Replogle, Missouri U/m Marshall, Nebraska

Dorcas Ladies, Florence, Ore.

100.00 50.00
10.00

steadfast support throughout the year. They have really boost

ed the work of the Lord

here in Kenya.

rar OPFIGE AM) CENTER We have rented two rooms in the center of Nairobi on

Gulszar Street which will serve as a center for Bible study in the city. Many of our people have expressed a wish to have a place such as this so that during
the day they could come and read and study the Word of God, The Center is an
especially busy spot during the tea and lunch breaJcs.

NEEDS We are receiving $435.00 a month for Mission Development. All of our work is being done on this limited budget. It has reached a point where

additional support is badly needed. Please join us in prayer that this need will be met. It is interesting to note that the Baptists, who have a Center and

work in Nairobi not

do.

fax from Maguga Green,

are operating on a bxidget

of
we

$2,500,00 a month and they have less people and conduct fewer classes than

Several have -asked-for a-listing of specific needs and the-foilowing are items most urgently needed: Audio-visual equipment (both a 16 mm projector and an overhead projector would greatly enhance our efforts - and both are easily

a sewing machine for the ladies' group.

REBdPEL SENIORS TO JOIN THE WOEK

obtainable in Kenya), Bibles, hymn books, tracts and materials for classes, and
Also, travel funds for my first fur
lough. and $280.00 to complete the original auto load.

Plans for my parents, Frank and Marie Rempel, to join me in Nairobi in March have suffered a delay due to the necessity for a series of radiation

treatments for Prank. He and my Mom are in Edmonton, Alberta enjoying the hospitality of Dad's sister and brother-in-law, the Henry Ungers, while he visits the W. W, Cross Cancer Hospital daily as an outpatient. They expect to return to Grande Prairie about mid-Pebruaxy, and after allowing for a few weeks
of recuperation will be "on the road" seeking support
enterprise for Christ.

for

their

East Africa

They are very anxious to get

here and of course

our foUcs

here and I are

equally anxious to have their fellowship and help. Congregations or groups who would like to support them or to join with others for their living-link support
should contact the;

Florence Christian Church

P,0. Box 306

Florence, Oregon

97439

They will be available

The African Christians

for

consultations
say:

and for a presentation of the

send our greetings to the

Kenya work at your convenience.

often

"Please

brothers and sisters in your country," So once again I join with them in expressing to you our wholehearted affection for you and in sending our very
best wishes for a truly blessed year of 1973!
Love in Christ,
Dean Rempel

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Forwarding Agent
DEAN P. REMPEI

Christian Church P.O. Box 306

P.O. Box 45250

Florence, Oregon

97439

Nairobi, Kenya

April 1973
Dear Friends;

With the last minute meetings, election of our new the many conversions we've really got a lot to tell.

"All African Board" and

been in Kenya we are registered with the government as a recognized body. Prior to this we had been associated with the non-instrument group. We are now
officially registered as "The Independent Church of Christ."

CHURCH EEGXSTEATION;

For the first time since the

Christian Churches have

growth, a plot of land, seventeen Bible study groups, two

ministries,

FIEST ELDERS AND DEACONS:

After two and one-half years

deacons. I have turned over the entire leadership to these men. I am acting as advisor" to them. The church operation has been divided into three departments:
A. Department of Christian Education: This department covers all

congregations and around 600 members, we have elected elders and

self-supporting

of

continuous

Bible studies,
conventions.

the women's work,

leadership

training

and

B. Department of Visitation; This department covers all the calling, visiting and inviting of people and the special Bible study groups
that introduce Christ and the church to newcomers.
C.

Department of Sunday School:

responsibility of this department.

Classes

for all ages

are the

Our elders are:

Pius Martin Waffulla - Chairman of the Church Conmittee, Elisha Ojera - Secretary
Christian Education.

for

the

church

and

department

head

of

B. Masonye - Head of the Sunday School Department. Jeol Mbuya - Treasurer and Head of the Department of Visitation.
Our deacons are:

Dismas Jacob - The first man to work assistant secretary to the church.

with

me.

Dismas also acts

as

Ernest Mullokotta - Ernest was the second man to work with us. He is coordinator for all three departments and assistant to the chairman,
Mr. Waffulla. '

key man among the Kikuya and the work in Hyeri.

assistant

Director of Visitation and our

sports. Along with his wife, who acts as my secretary, they have the youth involved in maoiy things!

Rubin liiaji - Rubin teaches many of our classes and is head of ovir
contest department.

actx^re xn teaching classes, visiting people and oLrying on thf chuicfp'grS"

money needed for a building on this property.

elders and deacons meet with me every Monday to discuss new programs, classes, s^gest unprovements and conduct a general prayer meeting. They are all

build Duild. We

have been able5 toNairobi raise, has from given among us our three ownacres people, of about land on half which of tVif^ to

peopxe, aDout half of the

m-th^^mnionaire xenyan, to help in orgaM.ing this non-prof^

acres acres

TEMS-AJEICM trade and development CORPORATION:

Tt was jcy privilege a-'onr

?heif'w peSle SL t!e

or this land for a "7. future T church site.

t %^'

businesses, doing'trade ITllTelZlr^ help'tSf

money once a year by

^ appropriated four

the

J.llTol ?y.%T
the walk

?, r""

COMMITTEE:

The city of Nairobi has asked me to serve on

f ^
1

feprt ^ poor in Kenya. more to sponsor a walker. reed the many hungry and

H^dreds of people join in

The money is used to

40 milL away. "^Over a

Tisvls^frL^Prt^S thP Etoon^l "

Canada while in Mombasa on the Kenya coast.

^^ surprise recently when I met Mr. and Mrs. When they heard discovered that they are friends of my relatives in

contSued comjinuea

'7er

THms to Dr. &Mrs. Whittaker of Florence for paying off the remaininterest, prayers and support.

aronndSI^th"?M aro^d the 18th of May on an East leaving African Nairobi Airways -the charter city in-the flight. sun- for I will the U.S.be
Angeles and speaking in Oregon and California to raise funds for
present this ministry please con-

WeSt T Oregon andNorth northern California speaking West^^na! dates and the West Covina Church of Christ, 705 Lark Ellen Aveme, California 91791 for southern California speaking dates.

one fLf^fcLsrtfgf?
prayeLr

finishing my higher degree - I have only

fo^ard to being with you again. We remember you always in our

Love in Christ,
Dean Eempel

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^l!AjtrLcauirisiriaiiA\lt^ion
THE REMPEL REPORT

Frank & Marie Renqpel Nairobi^ Kenya Forwarding Agent

Central Christian Churdi 6oix 6

Clovis^ Neir Mexico

88101

November, 1973

Into All Iho World"

WE THOUGHT YOU'D LIKE TO KNOW:

Our travels in pursuit of financial support have taken us quite a few thousands
We've

of miles, as is all too common with new recruits to the mission field.

visited friends and former supporting churches from the west coast to as far east as Akron, Ohio, and have found the same warm fellowship that our long experience has taught us is characteristic. Thank you one and alii
* Marie and I have proposed to western Canadian churches a plan for our support which we believe is right and good, and which we hope and pray may establish a
partnership in the Gospel which heretofore has not been possible. We propose to them that th^ organize themselves into a voluntary "sending" group which will have both advisory and supervisory authority over us, as well as raising among themselves a good portion of the support we need for our proposed teaching ministry in East Africa. This, we envision, will help them to do what the small size of the average^ western Canadian does not permit it to do alone: send to the field and there support financially their own evangelists]

* The medical reports on Frank's condition, following radiation treatments, that we'd been waiting for came, and is entirely satisfactory. The way it looks to us now is that God in His wisdom brou^t us back from India to Alberta, where the
facilities for such treatment, are second to none and where they are available at no expense to us, specifically to have this matter taken care of. Now that it has

been. He is sending us out on a mission for Him once again.

very wise He isj

How very good and how

* The Central Christian Church of Clovis, New Mexico, which had a very important partnership with us during quite a number of the years of our India service, has again ass\jmed a "living link" relationship to us. They will also, do our U. S.
forwarding for us. It would be hard to overstate our feelings of appreciation toward this group of dedicated and concerned Christians and we are especially thank ful to Mary Hecht and Beth Brian for daring to undertake the duties connected with this responsibility.

* Anyone who has any knowledge of our "Direct-support" missionary method knows how important the services of a forwarding_agent are to 1^e__aiicpess. of the J3rk__on the field. Properly performed, it is no easy task. But it is the vital link be tween the senders and the sent in our system of missionary suppoi*t.
The new forwarding address is: Central Christian Church
P. 0. Box 8

Clovis, New Mexico

88101

We are of course very grateful to the Florence, Oregon Christian Church, more specifically there to Mrs. Virgil Shaw, for performing this function so ably and
well for us in the interim.

Present plans, subject to the leading of God and our success in raising the

necessary support by that time, are to fly to Nairobi, Kenya, during December.

No date has been set but we hope that it may be toward the first part of the month. I'&ike this a part of your prayers to God for us, will you?

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* Dean, in company with three African fellow-workers, recently spent nearly a month on this continent. The necessity for being in Africa for the opening of the new school opportunity at Karatina, north of Nairobi, made it impossible for him to visit all his supporting churches. Pressure on the field has made it necessary to forego the school work which Dean had hoped to finish while home.

* The East Africa Christian Mission is now the managing agency of a Secondary School of some three hundred students at Karatina in Nyeri, in Kikuyu tribal country. The students are mostly "boarding students" and many are married. The school is supported from tuitions paid by them, with deficits in the operation made up from government grants. The mission is to have a free hand in establishing a religious education course - not as a part of the regular curriculum of course serving only students who wish to participate in it.

Out of the $1000 pledged monthly support that we need, we have perhaps $400.00
The \argent need for the remainder forces us to make a very direct

assured now.

appeal to you folks who are on our general mailing list to put us into your mission budgets. This may not be possible for you to do until the new budgets for 1974 are drawn up, but won't you write to tell us that you are considering doing so? * Travel funds, amounting for the two of us to about $1000.00 are needed now so that we can start making travel plans. As indicated earlier we hope to be in Kenya by mid-Deceniber at latest and need to be working on the details of packing
and departure.

* Some additional funds for equipment are needed. An overhead projector to be used in the teaching ministry we propose to undertake, and I.B.M. typewriter for doing "layouts" for offset printing are essential. Both of the items are available
in Nairobi.

* If you send funds to our foiwarding agents, it is helpful if you designate the need toward which they are to be directed, viz:
Travel Funds

Overhead Projector I.B.M. Typewriter

'

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REMEMBER:

the forwarding agents and addresses are:

In the U.S.A. Mrs. Mary Hecht
Central Christian Church

In Canada

Mrs. L. Kuykendall
P.O. Box 455

Grand Prairie, Alberta

T8V 3A7

P.O. Box B

Clovis, New Mexico

88101

Frank & Marie's address will be Bpx 45250

Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa.

Frank Rempel
Central Christian Church
Box 8

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