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13th Novembei% 1976.

Dear Christian Friends,

Time has been flying- but I must take time for a short note to you. There has

been much coming and going here in Fort Victoria. Fight now every one seems
to have gone.

Since the fi.vst of July, the missionaries ^rom Nuanetsi and

Mashoko have come to Fort Victoria and stayed long enough to get their work
reorganized and their belonging packed up. The Mashoko staff stayed with me
for a iew v/eeks. Both of these mission stations are running under African
staiJ:' at the present time. The Chiredzi missionaries are flying in for visits.
I am trying to be some help on the mail which comes tlirough Fort Victoria and

redirect what needs be and answer some of the inquires from customs and many
applications for places to train at Mashoko School of Nursing which has been
discontinued for the present. And in other ways that I maybe needed.

Njodzi, a spastic boy, that has lived at Mashoko Hospital for many years came to
Fort Victoria on November Uth and went on by bus to the Jairus Jiri center for

the

disabled in Bulawayo the following day. With a lot of help from others,

I took care of him while he was here.

A new school term started in September and I started teaching Scripture classes
on Monday and Friday mornings at the Helen McGhie School.

This is the local

school for the Coloured children. Xhave 1st and 2nd grade students. I am also
teaching Scripture class on Thursday mornings at the European school, attend
a womens meeting on Wednesday mornings and teach a Sunday School class.

This term at the Bible college I have taught 10 hours a week -- the subjects are
Growing as a Christian and Survey of the Life of Christ. The end of our school

year is approaching so we must get the exams ready to take. The teaching has

been good lor me as I have spent more hours in study this year than in past years.
Starting with the JanuaiT, 1977, issue of the Central Africa Story, I am to be
the editor. Mrs. Raymah Grover, the present editor, and her husband are
returning to the^USA in December.

When^Mildred Goldthwaite, from Mashoko, left for the States I decided to buy
her car rather than the new one that I had planned to buy. It is a 1974 Renault R4.
In June I applied to have a phone moved to the Haines' house where I am now

livnig. I moved here the end of July and the phone arrived October 25th.

Haines are planning to return December 8th which is earlier than I expected
them. I am looking for a place that will be suitable as both a house and an office.

I hope to get my phone moved much sooner next time. In this area of town they
had a shortage of cable space.

Novembe^lOth marked 13 years since I entered Rhodesia. I pray that many lives
have been changed because of these years that you have helped me come and
work here. If it had not been for your faithful support and prayers it would not
have been possible. I count it a priviledge to be your representative here to
serve in God's Kingdom.

Because of Christ,

Marcia Kay Thomson.

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