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Vol. I No. 1
AFRICAN MISSION EVANGELISM February, 1975
Today is Monday
Feb. 3, 1975
Dear Friends in Christ,
By the time you receive this I will be preaching in
Johannesburg, South Africa and working with our native
pastors there. I am writing this in joe Seggelke's print shop
here in Lincoln. Donna and the children are already in Des
Plaines, 111. I will join them there tomorrow night (1:21
a.m.). Tomorrow (Tuesday) I am flying the mission airplane
down to New Orleans where it will be crated for ocean
shipment to Durban, South Africa. Tomorrow night I fly
back to O'Hare field in Chicago on Delta airlines flight
#394. Donna will pick me up then. We will then be at my
folk's house in Des Plaines until Friday when we leave for
South Africa at 3:00 p.m. on TWA flight #900 to New York
and then Sabena airlines to Johannesburg via Brussels. We
will have about 8 hours in Brussels on Saturday then we
leave Saturday night on Sabena and arrive in Johannesburg
Sunday morning 6:15 a.m.
Gene and Judy Landis will meet us at Jan Smuts airport
in Johannesburg. We will be staying with them in Carleton-
ville (a small town 40 miles west of Johannesburg) until we
find a house to rent in the Johansburg area.
The Landis family and our family will be involved in
preparing TEE (Theological Education by Extension)
materials for our native African pastors. We are looking
forward to this new venture very much and ask for your
prayers as we labor in this field for Christ. Our 1st effort in
TEE will be a programmed instruction course for native
pastors on I & II Timothy and Titus (the Pastoral Epistles).
This PI course on the Pastoralswill take a great deal of effort
but we believe that good results can be expected. We will
be doing other PI courses on other books of the Bible as
well. The first TEE courses will be on the Pastorals, Galatians,
Acts, the Life of Christ, with others to follow.
Please accept our sincere thanks for making this
ministry possible. Please continue to pray for us. We still are
in need of additional funds at this writing but we know God
will supply that need. We praise the Lord for your help and
your interest in the African people to whom we minister.
Our next newsletter will be written from Africa. I am look
ing forward to writing to you and telling you all the news
from Africa.
FORWARDING AGENT:
Mr. Fred Crawford ^
P.O. Box 24 ^ "
Columbia, Mo. 65201
Yours in Christ,
Derry, Donna, Cheryl,
Kevin, Linda, and Darin
Smaage
Vol. 1 No. 2 AFRICAN MISSION EVANGELISM
KLERKSDORP AFRICAN CHURCHMorning
Worship Service. D. L. Smaage preaching.
Dear Friends,
Greetings in Christ from sunny South Africa where winter has just begun.
There was definitely frost and chilly wind this morning as Cheryl and Kevin
bundled up in their winter school uniforms as I defrosted the car. In a few
minutes after a hurried breakfast we were off for the 2-mile drive to school.
Second term started today after a 3-week vacation. As usual Cheryl and Kevin
were not anxious to return to classes.
Linda & Darin meet children of a different color and
culture Eldorado Park Coloured Church,
lohannesburg.
^fie news in Brief here is~tBat we are locked in combat with the cultural
changes that threaten domestic tranquility and the problems of moving 10,000
miles across the great Atlantic Ocean:
^Suitcases Still!
As I write this we are still waiting for our shipment of household goods. It has
been difficult to livefor more than 3 months now with only the clothes we were
able to pack in our suitcases when we left Lincoln. Donna finally bought a dress
yesterday. The whole family was delighted with the purchase. Linda (age 5) also
got a new dress yesterday and was absolutely thrilled with her purchase.
The European Christians here have helped out greatly and have loaned us
dishes, pots, pans, cups, and even some furniture until our things arrive. We
didn't ship any furniture so wehave been busy getting furniture at the second
hand stores here. I bought a double bed that decided to sag in the middle and
produce morning backache without fail every morning. Every morning I decide
to buy another bed but then I look at our checkbook balance and decide to
wait until our shipment comes and use one of the sides from the plywood
crates for a bed board to fix the bed. Then I call Durban and find out our ship
ment has been further delayed. Something about the ship being behind
schedule for some reason or other. The day wears on, the press of other things
to do and I forget about the bed until its too late to buy another one. Every
night Donna and I hold on to the edge of the mattress until sleep comes. In the
morning we pull ourselves from the middle of the bed and over the side and as
I try to straighten my aching back, I decide to buy another bed!
*TEE & ELT
We have been engaged in Theological Education by Extension here. The mis
sionaries in Southern Africa (Rhodesia, South Africa) however, have decided to
call this new type of training program by another name Evangelical
Leadership Training (ELT). This was felt to be a better and more descriptive
name for the same type of programmed instruction training that we are doing
here. Every Wednesday night, I travel 60 miles.^to...the Klerksdorp African
Church for ELT classes. Presently ( am conducting an ELT course at Klerksdorp
for the leaders there in Bible Survey. Tonight we will be surveying the books of
Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy.
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AFRICAN COLD MINERS CHURCH ON ONE OF GOLD MINES NEAR CARLETONVILLE.
I have about 30 in this class each Wednesday at Klerksdorp. I will be starting
this same Bible Survey course at-ldorado Park Coloured Church and be going
there on Thursday nights. "
The missionaries involved in ELT will be meeting in Fort Victoria, Rhodesia,
June 21-23 for discussion on progress and methods of our respective ELT
classes. We have great hopes for ELT here in Africa and will be telling you more
about it as time goes by. I will be starting other ELT classes as well in more dis
tant locations when the airplane gets hec^JH^efu[[y yye should have the air-'
plane and our household goods by the time you read this letter.
We are all fine. Cheryl had the mumps over the school holiday but is over
them now. We expected all the children to come down with mumps but only
Cheryl was affected. Please remember us in your prayers. We thank you for
your concern on our behalf and your Christian love.
FORWARDING AGENT: Yours in His Service,
Mr. Fred Crawford
P. O. Box 24 Derry Donna,
Columbia, Mo. 65201
and Linda Smaage
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Vol. 1 No. 2 AFRICAN MISSION EVANGELISM November, 1975
Dear Friends,
We have just finished an evangelistic meeting in Eldorado Park which Is a
coloured suburb of Johannesburg where Brother Roland Joseph is the minister.
Since we have no building at present in Eldorado Park we used a big tent for
this two-week meeting which was held September 28 to October 12.
Our meeting was very successful as we had a total of 37 decisions for Christ
with decisions almost every night of the meeting. I preached most of the ser
mons with Brother Joseph also preaching two nights. Brothers Bob Mills and
Stuart Cook also preached one night each.
The meeting was well attended with attendance running about 60-100 for
each service. The local church provided special music. Frank Damon and Bill
Parkins, members of the church, led the singing and exhorted people to accept
Jesus at every service.
Several young men who are members of the Kimberley Church also traveled
to Eldorado Park for these services and assisted with erection of the tent and
giving testimonies.
Saturday, Sept. 27A very strong wind made tent erection extremely difficult.
Mabel Joseph (preacher's daughter), Linda, and Bro. Bill Parkins playing gospel music over the
Darin Smaage helping with (he tent. (Every hand P.A. system before evening service begins. Bro.
was needed in the strong wind.) Hendry looking on.
Some early arrivers 1st nite of services making Bro. Hendryour organist for meeting,
sure to get front row seats.
It was indeed a very good meeting and the Eldorado Park Church is now busy
teaching the new converts there.
/ This meeting grew out of my TEE (Theological Education by Extension) classes
f at Eldorado Park. We had been studying how to bring people to Jesus and so
H the church decided to have this meeting in an effort to bring people to Jesus.
j Thirty-seven came to Jesus. We praise the Lord and anticipate that even more
\ will soon be making this decision.
Eldorado Park Church now hopes to be
given a government site on which to build a
church house. We believe this would be
good for the church and help it to win
others to Christ. Your prayers would be ap
preciated behalf of of this congregation
and the new converts recently brought to
Christ through their efforts.
D.S.L. preaching inside tent during Eldorado Park
revival meeting 28 Sept.-12 Oct., 1975. Thirty-
seven decisions for Christ during meeting. Ser
mons preached were on the deity of Christ.
TEEa continuing effort
I am still continuing my TEE classes in two locations: Eldorado Park and
Klerksdorp. Last night Kevin and Itraveled again to Klerksdorp for our TEE class
there on "Bringing People to Jesus." We are now in our seventh week of this
series. Each series lasts for ten weeks. The TEE Program is a very effective way to
communicate Biblical truths as the students must do daily lessons which are
then checked each week by the TEE leader.
We have about seventeen students in each of my two TEE centers at present.
The weekly TEE seminar meeting is not only a time to check student's P.I.
(programmed instruction) books, but it is also a time of fellowship and sharing
in their daily witness for Christ.
At Klerksdorp we begin with supper each week at the minister's home at
about 6:30 p.m. Last night we had rice, cabbage, potatoes and sheep. During
supper Brother Tsatseng (the minister) and I discussed our plans to fly to Sishen
on the 15th and 16th of November for preaching and teaching services with
Brother Moroe's church there. Brother Tsatseng and 1also discussed plans for
preaching at Krugersdorp this weekOctober 26 and Ventersdorp on the 1st
and 2nd of November.
After supper at about 7:30, we have our TEE meeting in the one room church
building by lantern light as the church building has no electricity or plumbing.
The students sit on simple wooden benches. 1get a chair, being the TEE leader.
Classes are conducted in English with Brother Tstatseng translating into the
TSWANA language. We start and end classes with a song and prayer. Class lasts
about one and a half hours.
Then Kevin and I drive another hour and a half from Klerksdorp to
Carletonville. Kevin goes along as my assistant and is supposed to help me stay
awake driving home. He usually falls asleep himself, however, about the time
we get to Potchefstroom which is half way home. We usually get home about
10:30 p.m. We are quite tired but the weekly trips to Eldorado Park and
Klerksdorp are very good and result in positive growth of the churches in these
places. I go to Klerksdorp every Tuesday night and Eldorado Park every
Wednesday night for TEE. Saturdays and Sundays 1travel to other churches for
regular preaching and teaching.
MISSION AIRPLANE ARRIVAL
I have already mentioned Ina previous newsletter about mytrip to Durban to
get the mission airplane. I won't repeat here but thought you would like to see
some pictures of that trip.
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Mission airplane alongside of ocean freighter Airplane being loaded on to truck at docks for
"Letitia Lykes"which carried it from NewOrleans delivery to Durban Virginia Airport for
across Atlantic to Durban, South Africa. reassembly.
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D.L,S., Paul Stamm (Floyd's son), Harry Brown
(Beech mechanic), and Bantu helper with 5268C
reassembly, Durban Virginia Airport.
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