Dorothy Eunson

Ghana Christian College

Box 5722

Accra N, Ghana 6 January 1989

FOR THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dear Friends in Christ,

To re-read the November letter just now made me smile a little, I

was uncomfortable with malaria when I wrote it, and things went

steadily downhill! That third occurrence did not respond to our

most common treatment nor to one of the newer ones that helped

David Couch and Christian Adjei last year. By the 26th, I could barely drag myself to my friend's car to return to the doctor. I was so glad her car had a reclining front seat. I was even more glad that she is a nurse, when after two more blood tests, the doctor decided I should go to the hospital. Anna Marie stayed right with me until I was finally settled in a ward for officer's wives at the Military hospital. Then she went home to Inform those here at the college where I was. Everyone responded with loving concern. Mensah Ganyo prepared food for me and brought it to the hospital three times a day. I love Ghanaian food, but not when I'm so sick I don't want to eat at all.Many others visited, and prayed, made trips to the lab, shopped for medicine, etc. I was on drips for 3 1/2 days and
responded rapidly to the drug the doctors there used. The nurses

and ray roommates were all kind and helpful. The doctor was very friendly and always ready to explain things and answer questions. Thursday, December 1st, the doctor said I could go home the next day if I would be careful about personal hygiene, as a lab test showed I had also picked up typhoid someplace. So I came home on the 2nd, still very weak, took the new medicine for 14 days, and slowly by steadily regained strength. The doctor said I should rest the whole month. As I felt like it, I started working on lesson plans for second term, but rested whenever I needed to. Since conventions are strenuous, I didn't go to the Christmas convention at Sunyani where Hostetters are. Fifty-four people went from Abeka alone, and the reports from the convention were very favorable. One big improvement was the separation of each workshop into four language groups, each with its own teacher. Enoch said it greatly increased participation and
interest.

While nearly the whole church was at the convention, I at least enjoyed going to a missionary pot luck dinner and carol
sing.

Everybody came home on the 19th, and Hostetters also came down to Accra in preparation for leaving for furlough the very next night. I went to the airport with them, taking a lawn chair to sit on as there are seats for scarcely a dozen people. The next day we had faculty meeting- my first in more than a month. The rest of the week I worked pretty hard to finish my lesson plans and type the stencils so I could go on a "holiday"
the next week with a clear conscience.

After church on Christmas Day, I just rested in the house and ate with the Ganyos on a nicely set table out-of-doors. It was a quiet day and that suited me very well. From the 26th to January 2nd, Anna Marie and I were at Busua

Beach like last year - swimming, taking walks, cooking on a kerosene burner, and lots of reading and resting. By the end of the week, I could tell that I was even stronger than before. We resumed classes the 4th, and I am teaching all my classes. Since I missed finals week, I'm trying to give them
during these first two weeks.

I thank the Lord for His presence and His healing strength, and I thank Him for the kindly care and concern shown by Ghanaian Christians. A few Americans and Europeans who learned about it in
time also visited.

Thank you for your prayers, even though you didn't know all that was going on. Now we are praying and preparing for Kalbs' arrival as soon as possible. Thank you for your support which enables us to continue with our Bible teaching and now to
undertake the renovations on the house Kalbs will live in.

In Christ, Dorothy

Dorothy Eunson

Ghana Christian College

Box 5722

Accra North, Ghana 5 February, 1989

FOR THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dear Friends,

doing everything that I usually do. The only difference perhaps is that I still eat a lot of meals relaxed in the yellow recliner in my bedroom. Mensah probably does more of the fresh vegetable and fruit shopping than he
used to. The hospital doctor was satisfied with my progress and just told
me to come back in three months for a checkup.

How moving it has been to receive so many expressions of concern for my health, assurance of prayers and get well cards. By the Lord's grace, I am

Classes and faculty committee meetings continue in the college as usual.

The library work is still waiting...

The renovations on what will be the Kalbs' house are in full swing. The
new roof is on and sealed, with only the ridge cap yet undone. The

reflooring, plastering, and patching is virtually done. The last big jobs
(besides clean up!) are painting, bathroom floor covering and the water
tank and tower.

The overseas mail service seems to have improved since Christmas. We

finally got Kalbs' papers and applied for their quota space in early
January. It could take two months or a year, so please take this matter to

the Lord in prayer. The Kalbs are trying on their side to be ready by April
15. To get some necessary information from Kalbs, we purchased one of the new electronic telephone cards and direct-dialed them from a "pay" booth. The human element is still involved, because I had to wait in a queue for
my turn, but once through, big improvement for Ghana. the connection was as clear as if next door. A

The twenty-year-old son of one of our church families died last week

after a sudden illness. He was baptized five years ago as a faithful Sunday School youth, but had not participated for several years. The family asked the church to conduct the wake-keeping and the funeral. Friday evening, we
hired a commercial passenger truck and used mine and Enoch's to take
members to the house. The whole end of the street was blocked off to provide more seating for the mourners. Our two hour service was

occasionally interrupted by bizarrely-dressed youth who express their mourning by singing, dancing, shouting and parading up and down. They were very much in evidence at the funeral and at the cemetery on Saturday, too. Since the father's family is Ewe, the Mother's family is Twi, and Accra is a Ga city, our church leaders used their own language for their part of the service. Christian Adjei and the elders are Ga, Joseph Nsiah is Twi,
and Encoh is Ewe. When I led hymns I used English. So everybody heard
something!

Funerals are a

very important part of the culture here.

The church

members responded well. It was somewhat like a social outing as well as

being an act of love and concern for the bereaved family. There is nothing
solemn about 35 people scrambling for places in the tro-tro (truck), but
the events helped to bind us together as a family. Thank you for your continued love and support.
In Christ, Dorothy

Dorothy Eunson Ghana Christian College

Box 5722

Accra North, Ghana 5 March, 1989

FOR THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dear Friends,

Praise the Lord for the approval of Kalbs by the Ghana Quota Committee to occupy a space on the college's quota. This is the first and biggest hurdle. The approval letter was signed on March 3. Approval from Immigration should not be too difficult. The Lord willing, the Kalbs will be leaving the U.S. on April 16. Their house is freshly painted, inside and out. Bathroom flooring, the water tank and tower and insect extermination still remain. Thank you all for contributing so that these preparations
could be made.

College classes are going fine. We missed one day when the government declared a holiday for district elections and used our campus for a polling station. Three of our first year students are having trouble making the grade, so they may not be able to come back next year. We have two weeks of classes left this term. The day after exams are finished, the Accra Regional Christian Church Easter convention begins on campus.
Church affairs continue to occupy much of my time. In February I drove Christian to visit one of the village churches that has no preacher. Abeka is going to consider helping by paying someone's transportation to go there on weekends, at least. The church committee here is becoming more aware of the need to get involved in missions. They have asked the

Evangelism/Shepherding Committee to add this to their responsibilities. We will do our best and hope that someday it will be a separate committee.
They have instituted the use of Ga as one of the languages used in morning worship. A newly-reconstituted Worship committee is working very hard, and the general church committee is also presently working on guidelines for a
much-needed Benevolence stable and consistent. Committee. That should make our benevolence more

Some of our original voluntary shepherds have not been faithful, so this
month the whole program will be evaluated and changes made to make
effective for the Lord.

it more

Both Seth Crowffie and Kwame Afakule, former Abeka deacons, have left for their fields of evangelism and church planting. Seth and his wife are in the far west of Ghana, and Kwame and his wife have moved to Togo, the country to our east.Both men took Jeff Hostetter's Practical Evangelism

Program for a year after they graduated from Ghana Christian College. They will both be supported by Harvest Fields, a mission based in North Carolina. The Abeka congregation supports them with prayer, and we hope to visit them sometime. They are both in difficult areas spiritually, and Togo is more difficult economically than Ghana.

Yesterday one of our young women came to me with an amazing story. Her
father had been pronounced dead at one hospital and sent to the mortuary.

On the way, he opened his eyes and was admitted to the hospital near the mortuary. It was only the next day that the family learned he was alive
after all. No visitors are allowed at present. What a shock to have deep

grief and joy follow so closely. The two daughters in our church are
thanking God for sparing their father.

Continue to pray for the health and strength of ALL of the faculty and staff. Everyone is overworked, and the hottest season is now upon us. Thank
you for your loving care expressed in so many ways. In Christ, Dorothy

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Dear Christian Friends,

Many of you have not heard from me since last August. But the college and related ministries are still here, occupying our time fully. We thank God for your continued interest and prayers, even when the communication gap is wide.
Our best news is that the.Ghana Quota Committee has approved the David Kalb family to occupy a place on the college quota. The Immigration department has said they should come on a visitors' visa and then apply for their residence

permit when they arrive. The Lord willing, the Kalbs will leave the States April 16, arriving here on the 21st. Kofi 14, and Seth 11, will be a couple
weeks late for third term at Ghana International School, but their father will

be on time for our third term which begins April 24. to this renewed partnership with the Kalbs.

We are looking forward

Brian Jennings, of the British Churches of Christ, will be in the U. S. in April under the auspices of Christian Missionary Fellowship, raising some support to supplement that given by the British churches. He expects to be here by September and will live in my house while I'm on furlough. (It isn't "my" house.)

With Couches gone, we tried to maintain as much of the college and church work as we could. John Dadzie was designated Treasurer, but because he started night classes five nights a week in September, and because he was busy with the renovations on the staff units at the new hostel site, he didn't actually take over until January. This meant that Joseph Nsiah, new Academic Dean, still carried the financial responsibilities for everyone except me. Since I type, I try to help him by doing my own. Manue] also helps Joseph a lot in regard to planning schedules, ordering and distributing textbooks, etc. Christian Adjei usually goes to town twice a week on administrative business as principal, plus teaching a full load.

Mrs. Eghagha is Public Relations Officer in addition to being a teacher.

main campus.

She

also walks a mile and a half in the hot sun twice a day since she lives off campus with her husband. The rest of us live within a hundred yards of the
Enoch Nyador is the Dean of Students, full time teacher, and F.A.M.E.'s repre sentative in Ghana. He supervised the building of their first rural clinic in his home village. He is also supervising a F.A.M.E. New Fields project involv ing three evangelists in the northern Volta region. He visits the clinic at least once a month and the three evangelists once a month.

Then there's me. In light of what others are doing, I should be able to manage some library work in addition to my teaching but I haven't. What with the bits of administrative work I pick up from other areas and the church work which aJJ_
of us are heavily involved in, I just don't get to it.

We began the school year with twelve first year students, making a total of 49.
One dropped out after three weeks. There are three other freshmen who are not doiny well. We are now in our last week of classes for second term. We will squeeze exams into thTee days and A/acate^in~irtTTre~for stutfeTits tor rush home for the beginning of Easter conventions the following evening. Abeka Christian Church will host the convention for the greater Accra region.

At last November's board meeting, the new constitution begun three years ago was finally approved after the last corrections. Many of the provisions have already
been implemented.

From 31 March to 14 April, the students will be serving as interns in a church or ministry of their own choosing. Sunday Ude, a Nigerian student from the min istry of Bob Sheffler, will be working in the Abeka Church.

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Every term a few students come to school late with various excuses; some are

flimsy and others are highly unusual. area.

Last September two students were delayed

because a tribal war with real shooting was going on over farmland in their

The Ghana army came in to impose peace and declared a curfew that required

people to stay in their houses 24 hours a day for several days. These two stu dents tried to sneak out of town to come to school but were arrested and fined. A few days later the curfew was lifted and they came on to school. After Christmas, Sunday Ude was more than a week late because the harmattan, the air
current that brings dry, dusty air down to the coast, was so severe over Accra

that the planes from Nigeria could not. see well enough to land.

During that pre-Christmas period, the Hostetters enjoyed the presence and help of Eddie Hancuff, senior student at Roanoke Bible College. He came on a visitor's vjjia_jthe_jiiiddljejDf_jLu.gustajuLAvas--able-to- stay-4:ia4_mid-Novenvber-, hel-ped-4n the Sunyani church, directed the V.B.S. and visited a school for the disabled, including the hearing impaired, to see if his skill in sign language could be
used by the Lord in Ghana.
work.

Pray for Eddie and his final decision about his life

In September I enjoyed a quick weekend trip to Abidjand Ivory Coast to visit the Bob Shefflers and the George Pickens. We women worked on plans for workshops with
a family orientation for the Missionary Seminar to be held there this June. Since then, we have worked through correspondence, and the mail service to Ghana before Christmas was poor and frustrating. It looks as if the airfare to West Africa is just too much formany of the other Christian Church missionaries in Africa.
Even for

There will be some American visitors, however, we will just have to rearrange
or combine our workshops to best meet the needs of those who do come.
visit us here in Ghana either before or after the Seminar.

all the West African missionaries (less than 15 of us) to meet in one place will be an exciting development. The Wayne Shaws from Lincoln Christian College will

Also in September, Christian, Joseph, and I took part in the first graduation of the Koforidua extension taught by.Patrick Mensah. There were six graduates who had been in night classes for two years. It is a different program from

the resident school here, but lavs a very gond fminHat.Inn. flnp of thncp graHuates is now the preacher for the Akim Manso church, and it is growing. Since the changing exchange rate has given the college more cedis, we gave the Koforidua extension a lump sum to use for this academic year.

Last August, we researched and made plans for a consumer shop in the college where faculty and staff can buy food and other, commodities for a small percentage of
actual cost.

raising their taxes.

This is an acceptable way in Ghana of helping employees without

She buys wholesale, so we come home with cartons of

Mrs. Nsiah is the shopkeeper, and I do the driving for the

once a month shopping.

tomato paste, mackerel, soap powder, bath soap, etc., and 100 pound sacks of sugar and rice. We tried flour and corn, but they got buggy before we could use them up. I'm still buying buggy corn to make dog food. Ben doesn't mind.
In August, some church leaders finally met to work on restructure plans for the brotherhood. These ideas were presented to the pastors, elders and deacons at

a leadership retreat.

They gave their reactions and ideas, and the first group

met again at Sunyani in October. These plans were then presented to the Christmas convention at Sunyani. The most notable change is a means for churches in the same geographical area to work cooperatively in evangelism and benevolence. We already meet regionally for Easter conventions. The churches liked this idea

and agreed that national officers be chosen out of these regional groupings. The biggest disappointment to some of us was that the people did not agree that the national chairman should have just a four year term, although eligible for re-election as a sign of disapproval. Well, things don't change very fast or
very easily, so we keep working and praying.

The last Sunday in October, two truckloads of people from here went to Enoch's hometown for the dedication of the new clinic. Hundreds of people were there,
including many people from that area who have since moved to Accra to work. The president of the Bank of Ghana is one such, and served as the Master of

Ceremonies. The Secretary of Health commissioned the clinic, and I was privi leged to unveil a dedicatory plaque. It was a happy, festive day, although I
felt unusually exhausted after taking one of the elders home after we reached Accra. Sherrie Hostetter, Eddie Hancuff, and Sherries mother who had spent the month of October with them, had gone with us and were staying in Couches'
house.

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The next morning I didn't feel well, so stayed home from church.

That was the

first of three attacks of malaria that month. The third one did not respond to any of the usual medicines, and I ended up in the military hospital for six days. An /\merican Mennonite nurse was with me the day I was admitted, but from then on the visits, food, bills and errands and prayers were all taken care of by Ghanaian Christians. Mensah, my house helper, prepared and brought food to me three times a day. I didn't feel like eating Ghanaian food, although usually I like it very

much. The drug the doctor used was very effective, but it gave me "rubber" legs, therefore, all locomotion was by wheelchair for a few days. By the sixth day the
blood tests had been free of malaria parasites for three days and I was scheduled for release the next day. Then an outside lab test came back indicating I had
typhoid fever. The doctor said I could either be transferred to the infectious

diseases ward for two more weeks, or go home and be extra careful about personal -hygiene. I opted for home! I took the prescribed-medicine everyday f^r tKe next two weeks, and Mensah did his best to stuff me full of food. I gradually
gained strength and began to write letters or work on lesson plans when I felt like it. I had missed first term finals and the school Christmas party. I did not go to the Christmas convention in Sunyani because it takes a lot of physical,
spriritual and emotional energy.
Hostetters came down the day after the convention ended and flew out the next evening for furlough. I went to the airport and sat in a lawn chair, as the ter minal is woefully short of seating. After church Christmas Day, I rested in the house until Mensah told me dinner was ready at their house. We had shared some

of the fixings, but Happy did all the work.

rice and fried chicken.

Dinner was delicious curry-flavored

The next day Anna Marie, the Mennonite nurse, and I went to Busua beach for a week. We cooked our own meals on a kerosene burner, swam, walked, rested and

read.

It was a week that definitely added to my strength.

When school reopened

on January 3, I was ready to go.

In January, we started the renovations on. the house Kalbs will use: a new roof, some masonry work, new water tank and tower, extermination, and painting. I'm -glad__we_sta^rted when we did, because it all takes time. I gave Mensah two weeks off without pay so he could take the painting contract. He is very neat and we value that trait highly. He was able to get 'two professional painters who are friends of his to help him. All the work is done except the water tower. The latter is half done but I'm sure we'll meet the deadline. I'm only sorry the Couches could not enjoy all this when they were here.

Before Christmas, Dadzie had completed his own staff apartment enough for the family to move into. Because of busyness, he kept delaying the move, so while he was at the Christmas convention, his wife moved the family herself. After Kalbs are settled, renovation on the second staff aprtment can resume.
The church here in Abeka is working hard to move out and forward for the Lord. Some of our original shepherds have not been faithful, and next weekend an evalua

tion will be held to improve it. A newly-reconstituted worship committee is also bringing some change and improvement. Last night I taught a song-leading class, the first in two years, for new people. A current series of Sunday morning teach

ings (instead of sermons) is planned to give members a better grasp of the content
of Scriptural witnessing.

The g'enera 1 church committee is also struggling to prepare guidelines for a bene volent committee. One needs to be a cultural expert to apply Christian principles -well. Whom to help and how to help in time of death is a difficult question. We participated recently in the funeral of the son of church members. Although the young man had been baptized about five years ago, he had not been participating for at least the last three. After spending more than a week's full offering to
pay for members to go for the wake-keeping and funeral, we realized we wouldn't

be able to do that in future for non-participating members.

That wake-keeping was a good example of our linguistic challenges here in the capi tal city. The husband's first language was Ewe, the mother's Twi. Accra is a Ga city by origin. Each church leader used his own language; Christian Adjei and the

elders are Ga, Joseph Nsiah is Twi, and Enoch is Ewe, and I led in some English
hymns, too.

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Some of our former Abeka members are moving out for the Lord.

Bro. Seth Crowffie

and his wife moved to the far western region to plant churches among the Nzimas.
Bro. Kwame Afakuee and wife Del a have moved to Togo, where they face enormous challenges of poverty, traditional worship, and government regulation of churches.

Please pray for them in these new endeavors.

Both Seth and Kwame will be supported I drove

by Harvest Fields, a mission based in North Carolina.

In February I enjoyed my first visit in a long time to a village church. started the church left and joined the Jehovah's Witnesses.
to help others.

Christian to visit a group that has no permanent leader since the pastor who

Abeka church is going

to find a way to help send someone to teach and lead. The village church will feed and house him on the weekends. We realize we must start reaching out more Although we miss the Couches, we rejoice that they are all well. Deb had a mis carriage at four months after they went home, but is fine now. David is doing substitute teaching in the public school system before deciding on a more per manent course. This enables Jeremiah to be in a very good school for the hearing impaired. He now has an aid in each ear. Faith is very happy in her new school. Another building has been...of-fered-for sale, and we need more space for staff, library, offices, etc. So far I haven't had enough faith to even go look at it!

/
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The way things look now, I'll be coming to the U. S. at the end of August. I'll spend a few weeks with my mother in Pennsylvania, buy a car, and get appropriate
clothing. After that IMI attend the National Missionary Convention the last
Then I'll head for Florida for most of the week of September in Cincinnati.

winter months.

I'll travel in the north in the spring.

Let me hear from you abou;

x.speaking and reporting and sharing.

Many, many thanks for'SlT"ybur love and caring.

Your beautiful cards and letters

and assurances of prayer when you heard about my illness were very comforting.
May God bless you as you grow in your loving service.
In Christian love,
* ' ' f

Dorothy

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Dorothy Eunson

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Box 5722

Accra North, Ghana 4 April, 1989 Dear Friends,

FOR THE CONTRIBUTORS

Praise the Lord again! The Lord willing, the Kalbs will arrive here on the morning of April 21, three days before registration for third term. At

their cabled instructions, we have ordered a double cab pickup truck like
mine, and a shipment is due this week. If they are cleared in the third

week, it will be a great convenience to all of us for Kalbs to have their own vehicle from the beginning.

We have learned that fresh cement floors need to dry a long time before they are painted. Mensah and the three helpers scrubbed the sticky paint
from the two new floors in Kalbs' house. In the future when the floors are

really dry, the Kalbs can go away for a weekend while we try again. The plumber promises to finish installing the water storage tank this week. Then we can begin to unstore furnishings and finish getting ready!
As scheduled, we squeezed exams into the first three days of Easter week and then began the conventions the following evening. Here at Abeka, there were basically just three congregations. One other preacher came, and a few individuals from two other congregations came on Easter Sunday. Our theme was evangelism and I saw firsthand the functioning of teaching workshops by language. Some groups met in rooms, and some met outside where they could find a shady spot. Besides being more interesting to the participants, some
local members who have never taught before did so at this convention.

Experienced people prepared the outlines and new people studied them. I really thank the Lord for this improvement and progress. There was no English class, but I attended all the worship sessions and the dawn prayer meetings, sold Bibles, and coordinated (and helped) clean the chapel twice a day. On Friday after the morning session, three young men went with me in the truck to a nearby store and rented 25 extra benches. Sunday morning was a grand celebration with a very full chapel. The line for dancing was so
long that they circled out of one door and in the other to make room for

everyone. Sunday evening, the youth from one of the village churches put on a play and then we had potluck dinner, with extra food prepared by Abeka women. To me, it is almost unbearable mass confusion, but everybody else loved it. The fellowship was really good, and I have hopes that the next few years will see even more progress in our ability to work together. Bro. I.K. Owusu from Sunyani said that the fellowship they had at Yeji was
wonderful, and he was very impressed with the real desire of Christians

there to know the will of God from scripture. Bro. Enoch Nyador helped the regional convention in the Ada area, and he said it also went very well. The Koforldua churches met in a town where they hope to establish a new
church.

Since Easter the faculty and staff has officially been on a vacation for one week. I have noticed several people tending to one responsibility or
another, but at least we are free from scheduled college meetings.

Tomorrow we have faculty meeting, grades are due, etc., etc. The man who revived on the way to the mortuary died two days later. The
funeral will be held this weekend in the man's hometown about 80 miles from

here. Six of the youth will go for the wake-keeping and funeral

in loving

sympathy for their two Christian sisters who have suffered the loss.

God bless you as you serve him at home and here through your support of the
college.

In Christ, Dorothy

Dorothy Eunson Ghana Christian College

Bok 5722

Accra North, Ghana 19 May, 1989

FOR THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dear Friends,

This is

two weeks late.

It has been

a very busy

time. Getting

Kalbs' house ready took extra time (even though I didn't do the work myself), and then helping them get settled after they arrived took extra time, too. But we are very thankful to have
them here. The two older boys are in school, and little Jonathan Is already at home In our Interlocking compounds, playing at the various houses. Kalbs got their truck about 2 1/2 weeks after

they arrived. They are trying to get used to the heavy traffic, the tedious money exchange system, the hot weather (although the rains have started), and Ghanaian English. David has already made
a visit to a village church he helped start years ago.

The very morning Kalbs arrived, we had some unwelcome excitement. They were taking naps In their house, and I was getting our lunch
at mine. We heard some unusual noise outside so rushed out to

see. One of the young men who Is very close to us but who has had
mental trouble before had smashed two of the truck's side windows and the driver's side of the windshield. He shouted that I had

been trying to kill him. He later said the same thing about Enoch, but Enoch's vehicle was not at home. The young man was taken to the mental hospital the same day, but has since slipped out. We pray for peace In his mind, as such twisted thoughts must
make him miserable. It took many hours to get all the windows

replaced; we got the last two lefthand side windows In the country, I believe. We also are praying It doesn't happen again.
D-r-4rngtheholidays we held early entrance exams for the

September class. We accepted ten or eleven, although we never know how many will actually come. Late entrance exams will be held In August. Since we will graduate twenty In July, we are really praying for more students. We have finished four weeks of
third term.

Christian, Joseph

and

had

about four

working

sessions

to

prepare next academic year's budget in time for the semi-annual board meeting. I missed the very last session because I spent the morning at the bank with John Dadzle waiting, waiting, waiting
for cash dollars In order to get the best exchange rates at

foreign exchange bureaus outside. I suggested that the next

we should take our lunch, and sit and play monopoly
wait.

time

while we

The Christian Education students of the college and I are leading

a teacher training course for the Abeka church. It is a required project and good experience for the students and is preparing
some new teachers for ones, we hope. the church as well as reviving the old

I'm sorry that I've been unable to answer the many notes and cards that have still been coming after my illness. Thank you for

those special expressions of love as well as your faithful caring every month. Please pray as I begin to make furlough plans.
I will remain after graduation and try to get some work done in

the library before

will have

coming home at the

I

end of August. My
attend
week of

mother

moved to a small house, and after spending a few weeks

with

her

in

Bloomsburg, Pa.,

hope to

the National
September

Missionary Convention in

Cincinnati the last

before

heading south. The Lord willing,

I should be in Orlando,

Florida before October

15. Mrs. Betty Hughes is opening her home

to me, and First Christian, my living link church, has graciously agreed to provide office space. It won't be long now.
In Christ, Dorothy

Dorothy Eunson

Ghana Christian College

Box 5722

Accra North, Ghana 18 June, 1989

FOR THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dear Friends in Christ,

May the Lord bless you as you love and serve him during your summer. We pray that vacation times do not bring you the
discouraging summer slumps.

We are enjoying

our rainy

season. Everything

is beautiful

and

green, and grass, neighbor children from a neem tree unfinished house
plans to take

trees, and shrubs need frequent trimming. Some were happy when some sizeable branches were cut in my front yard. They fell into the yard of an where they play, and they immediately made
is speeding along: only three more weeks of

it to their parents for firewood.

The

college year

classes, then exams. This year we will have an extra week between exams and graduation. We did this in order to hire an outside

hall to accommodate the

year's twenty graduates.

big crowd we expect to rejoice with this

The Christian Education students and I completed our five Saturday evenings of teacher training for Abeka Christian Church.

The last

and learning activities. The most drawing and coloring of a rainbow.

evening was a demonstration of different teaching aids popular was the freehand

Abeka Christian Church committed itself this morning to support their own missionary/evangelist in a farming region about an hour's drive from here. We have been making the preparations for
a long time. A young man trained in the extension classes in

Koforidua is willing to go there and farm and help the young church at Honi and visit other groups of converts in nearby villages. On the 4th June the young man and some Abeka leaders visited the Honi church to see if they were willing to accept the preacher and help look after him. We were pleased to learn that
they already had a room ready for him! Most of the members are young men or women, some of whom are married. They had been busy

witnessing of Christ
small river at the

and thirty-four people

close of the service.

were baptized in
That doubles

their

membership! This morning, the Abeka church voted to give Bro. Lartey, the young preacher, a small salary each month for a year, plus a cash grant to help him get started farming. We praise the Lord for this step forward in missions, especially since Abeka is
looking for someone to hire for their own fuHtime minister. will be a big step in financial faith for us. It

This

past

week the

government

here

banned the

Mormons,

the

Jehovah's Witnesses, and two indigenous churches that are rather bizarre. The missionaries working with these groups have been
given one week to leave the country. Church buildings have been locked and vehicles seized. We have prayed that God will silence false teachers in Ghana, but we also know what happens to some
can happen to
Strong

others.
free

Please orav
here.

that the

Lord^s church will

remain

The last month has shown me that I have not recovered my full strength since my December illness after all.Several other things now seem to be wrong. f9]r mv health, please, and mv wisdom
in balancing work and rest.

Renovations are going on as rapidly as possible on second staff apartment at the new property. It had been on hold while we got Kalbs' house ready. We are still maintaining our building fund for much needed work on the whole campus. My English students came up with the phrase "our dear dilapidated campus." Thank you
who help carry on our teaching work and those who have helped the building fund.

Sincerely, Dorothy

Dorothy Eunson

Ghana Christian College

Box 5722

Accra North, Ghana 16 July, 1989

Dear Friends in Christ,
the church in Ghana

We request serious and sustained prayer for

from the time vou read this until further notice. The government is requiring all churches to register, or to re-register if they
have done so before, as the Christian Churches have. Their standards for acceptance in this current exercise have risen considerably, including permanent buildings and adequate financial records. They do not seem to favor churches that are break-offs from other churches. The applications of thirteen
denominations have been turned down so far. The leaders of the

Christian Churches will be meeting on August 5 to pray and plan. Please support them in prayer.
The immigration quota committee told Christian Adjei that Bible colleges must wait until the church registration is complete before they can have new expatriates approved. This may delay the coming of Brian Jennings from England. Please pray for Brian personally and that the government may allow him to come in early September. The college has finished classes and exams and we are ready for our "free" week. I have one more day of project marking and preparing of grades. Three or four of us will spend a morning recording those, and then we have various tasks in preparation for graduation. After graduation, I'll get to the library and also spend some time with Kalbs "handing over" and discussing future plans.
The Kalbs' shipment finally made it to their house after seven

weeks of bureaucracy. They did a marvelous job of getting it put

away in just a week. It took me months to do mine!

On June 9, I had a breast lump removed under local anesthetic and came home two hours later. I didn't inform you last month because the report wasn't back yet. The diagnosis was cystic fibrosis no sign of malignancy. Praise the Lord! Perhaps some of the other problems I mentioned last month were related because they are gradually clearing up. Thank you for your prayers.

The last two weeks of June were busy with visitors and the Missionary Seminar in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Ziden Nutt, of Good

News Productions, and his son-in-law who is a missionary in Kenya and a younger brother were here over a weekend. They spent two days in Sunyani, too.
The Seminar lasted four and a half days. There were twenty-one of
us as opposed to the eighty or so in Zimbabwe two years ago.

The distance and cost were

just too much for those

in East and

Southern Africa. It was a good time of inspiration, self-

examination and fellowship. One strange aspect is that seven people, including me, came down with what I suspect was a virus. There was a wide variation in severity: mine lasted only one
evening. Others were very ill for two or three days. We heard that two more people came down with it after the conference.

Dr. and Mrs. Wayne Shaw of Lincoln Christian Seminary spent the weekend with us after the conference. Besides preaching twice, they accompanied Christians to a wake-keeping Friday night for a couple hours. Barbara Kalb and I take turns preparing meals for
V is i tors.

Just recently I realized that the Florida Christian Convention is October 5 and 6 in Orlando, so I will try my best to be there for
i t.

Please continue to uphold us with prayers. In His service, Dorothy

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Mrs. Judy Tobin 2565 E. Kaley Avenue Orlando, FL 32806

Vol. 5, No. 8
DOROTHY EUNSON NEWSLETTER

4th September, 1989

Dear Christian Friends,

On August 29, the Lord brought me safely back to the U. S. for a year's furlough. After attending the National Missionary Convention in Cincinnati from Sept. 23 to 27, I will drive to Orlando, Florida by October 4 in time for the Florida Christian Convention. I will remain in Florida through February, at least to report on the wcHPk i^i^-Ghafla-and-t-^rve-^nd encothrage-wherever^-eaniiMrs-sBefety-Hu)^ of First Christian in Orlando has graciously offered to share her home with me, and First Christian will provide office space. The Lord willing, I will visit support ing churches and other interested groups north of Florida from March through May,
1990.

The most current concern for serious prayer for the work in Ghana is the govern ment requirement that all churches register or re-register. The present stand ards for approval seem to be stiffer, with great interest in what the churches are doing to help develop the nation, meaning economic development. The original end-of-August deadline has been postponed till the middle of November. The
Christian churches brotherhood have made their initial application and are now waiting for government response. In June the government banned the Mormons, the
Johovah's Witnesses and two bizarre local churches. The missionaries of those

groups were given one week to leave Ghana. No one is certain how the law will be interpreted and enforced, so we ask you to intercede for the Church of Christ in Ghana that it stand strong and free. The relationship of the law to Bible colleges is one of the areas surrounded by uncertainty. It has caused a delay in the approval of a college quota space for Brian Jennings of the British Churches of Christ. The other teachers will take 4iis classes for first term and we pray that he will be able to go to Ghanasoon. The delay will be difficult for him, so pray for him too.
The David Kalb family arrived in Ghana on April 21. We welcomed them with great joy and very hot, humid weather. Within two hours of their arrival in Abeka, a young man with mental trouble came to my house and smashed the two left windows in the pickup and made a big hole in the windshield. This was disturbing to folks newly arrived and to the rest of us too. It also complicated transporta tion for several days while we worked to get the windows replaced. We got the last two lefthand windows in Ghana at that time but had to settle for a locally made windshield. The latter shattered all by itself two months later when the

truck was sitting on the carport.

Now the truck has a safety glass windshield

that doesn't quite fit...you notice when it rains.

Third term at Ghana Christian College proceeded smoothly, and the graduation of twenty students on July 22 was a very grand occasion. To accommodate guests, we hired an outside hall and a bus to transport the students. Even so, more than 100 people out of a total of over 500 had to stay outside. All the faculty and staff were proud of the graduates, but we know the difficulties and tempta tions they face. Please join us in prayer for them.
Two of the new graduates will remain very close. Brother Charles is the new preacher for Abeka Christian Church. Though he is young and inexperienced, we expect he will serve usefully in many ways as he learns and grows. The church will provide accommodation...two rooms...and pay him a salary. Brother Nelson, the second graduate, is a new employee of the college. He is already the leader of a struggling baby Christian church in another part of Accra. Now he will be accounts clerk at the college and will teach a class in African Tradi tional Religion. Since all our college housing is full, we have rented for his

family (two children with a third expected) the common two ropm accommodation.

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The renovation of the second staff apartment on the new property, occupied by the Manuel Adjei family, was completed since Kalbs came. David is in charge of Building and Maintenance in addition to his teaching duties. During vacation, some other improvement projects have been underway, including lots of painting and the stone facing of one end of the chapel. The chapel floor was also finished and it is getting a ceiling. We are so thankful for the

funds to make the campus look a little more attractive.

and classroom space are also needs.

Staff housing, library

There were at

Some good things happened in the churches since I last wrote.

least four regional conventions held at Easter. The greater Accra region gathered at the college. One of the best features was teaching workshops by language groups. No need for interpreters. The fellowship at these conven tions is one of the main elements in binding the churches together.

A new undertaking that really thrills me is the sending of an evangelist to

a rural area with a new church and the potential for several more in surround ing villages. This young man was trained in the Koforidua extension of the

college. Abeka church is giving him a small salary; the Easter convention offerings will provide a farming grant for the next season, and the young church has given him a room, a bed and some foodstuffs. We praise God for the congregation's willingness to commit themselves to this venture in faith.
On June 9, I had a breast lump removed under local anesthetic and was allowed

to come home two hours later. The report came in ten days: disease--no sign of malignancy. We thank God!

fibrocystic

At the end of June, twenty-one missionaries and visitors gathered in Abidjan,

Ivory Coast for the biennial conference of Christian Church missionaries in

Africa, Though we were small, we had good fellowship, worship and learning experiences. The college enjoyed visits from Ziden Nutt, Mike Shrage and
_hi_s bj"othe,r, and_Wayne and-Janet_Shaw iji connection with the_coaference

I remained in Ghana longer than usual after graduation for the specific pur pose of v/orking in the library. One of the students who is a typist came
back to the college and worked six days a week for three weeks with me.

Others

also helped on occasion and we got over three hundred books ready for
I was grateful for very pleasant weather.

the shelves.

Jeff and Sherrie Hostetter return to Ghana September 11 to work in Sunyani.

Since they are already on the quota, we do not anticipate any difficulty in
their re-entry. Pray for their safe return and service.

I am looking forward to seeing many of you this year. We are so thankful for your prayers, interest and support. How I wish you and our Ghanaian coworkers and Christian brothers and sisters could meet, too.
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November 21, 1989

FOR THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dear Friends

in Christ,

It has been my privilege to speak eleven times to various groups since I wrote last month. My living link church. First Christian

Church in Orlando, preceded my presentation with- a nice dinner in

my honor.

Unfortunately, my medical tests aren't finished yet. I had some minor surgery as a outpatient on Nov. 15. Those results aren't back yet, but other tests have turned out just fine.
Barbara and Jonathan Kalb are just fine, but Seth, 11, has continued dizziness and nausea. He can't read without getting sick. There is some doubt as to whether the beginning if this

was even typhoid at all. Barbara brought him home to the U.S. Nov. 10, and he is still undergoing tests, too. Please pray for
all of us with health problems.

Brian

Jennings, the

man from

Britain, should

have

arrived in

Ghana on November 17. With Barbara Kalb here,

it means that David

and Kofi Kalb, with the help of Mr. Mensah, our house helper, would be welcoming a new European teacher without the help of the
ladies! Brian will be staying in my house the first year.

Joseph Nsiah, the

not able
typho id.

Academic Dean,
One of

has written
them is

that the

student
were
from

body numbers 40. That means a few of the returning students

to come back. out recovering

One of the youth wrote that eleven churches were represented at the September youth convention. That is better than the two that
showed up last year.

I'll be spending two weeks with my mother in

the Christmas holidays, then back to
February.

Pennsylvania during
January and

Florida for

Thank you
In Christ,

for

your prayers

and

continuing financial

support.

Without them, we cannot continue.

Dorothy