INGINO CHRIST TO ALL IN DARKNESS Afrtcan M (!t!|nstian^ Vol. 8-No. 1 Belgian Congo, Africa First Quarter, 1955 Harshe's Accept the Challenge "WE ARE READY TO GO BRETHREN, WILL YOU SEND US"? Wretched, pitiable, comfortless, hopeless, sinful and Christless are a few adjectives which aptly describe the Belgian Congo's 12 million black tenants. In body they endure a miserable existence. In mind they are ignorant of even the saving gospel of Christ. In spirit they are without God. Their culture permits adultery, lying, hatred, laziness and thievery. Their pagan superstitions breed " " witchcraft, exorcising of evil spirits, revel- ^||||||||||[^^ and godless- '1|H ness. Thus there can be drawn only one conclusion — millions > 1 e of neverdying souls f fe in the Congo are doomed to a Christ- on : % J|H|^ the The M waste ma- fP! and money by Sk , the the World War as a when we gaze the loss of God in the bounds of that ; jungle land. -a My be- is God's that we devote our " m». and mhs. hi lives to planting and watering among these people so that He can grant an increase. We do not presume to expect God to help us do it, rather we are asking the Lord to let us help Him harvest those precious souls. We feel much as Jeremiah did when he declared there was a burning fire shut up in his bones; for there is a compulsion to go, make disciples, baptize and teach. God loves them as dearly as He loves the civilized American. We cannot face Him if we have respect to persons and Ignore the fact that they are fellow-humans also made in God's image with every spiritual capability which we have. We are ready now to go, brethren. Will you send us? We would like to visit you and tell you or show you by slides of the need of the natives, the present Christian labors among them and our plans to there serve God. Reprinted from the AFRICAN Quarterly Magazine of the African Christian Mission. Please send, all correspondence and contributions to Ronald Harshe, MR. AND MRS. HARSHE AND FAMILY RECRUITS ARE WELL PREPARED AND HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Harshe and their three children have prepared themselves over a period of several years to go to the Belgian Congo with the Gospel of redemption In Jesus Christ. They have carefully studied the field and know personally the Humphreys, Crowls and Miss Brown, who are already on the field. -r- • ?I Personal recom- j mendations have come from many sources — Ministers, Elders, Bible College Professors and other Christian brethren. Harshe's met Trustees of ^ :-MgL J'he African Christian Mission, February 1,' 1955 for a discussion of their hopes and plans. After a I thorough understand- been Doctors' I examination records had been studied, the Trustees unanimously called the young couple for service in V > ; the Belgian Congo. ^ESr^>—- ,\ Both Mr. and Mrs. wmr were born i AND famIiy" •• ' ' 1928 near Lima, Ohio and received their public school education in the same schools in Allen County. They were married in 1946, and now have three children—Johnny, 4%; Eddie, 2; and Jeanette, 3 months. Soon after becoming Christians in 1948 in the Rousculp Church of Christ near Lima, they enrolled in the Cincinnati Bible Seminary. Mr. Harshe graduated from that school in 1952. During the past six years Mr. Harshe served first as minister of the Garfield Church of Christ and then as minister of the Rousculp Church of Christ, both near Lima. For the last nine months of 1954 he worked near Battle Creek, Michigan, in a church planting venture. Soon after the Mission Trustees had accepted them, the Lationia Chris tian Church, Covington, Ky., where Joseph D. Hill ministers, invited them to visit the congregation. The Church, upon hearing Brother Harshe, voted to accept him as their living link and also to give SI.000.00 toward the pur chase of a new Chevrolet Suburban Carryall for mission use. The Harshes are now working to raise the rest of the necessary living- link, travel and outfitting expenses. They are available to churches to present the work of the Mission in the Belgian Congo. Mr. Harshe is equipped to frhow slides of the work being done by Guy Humphreys and his co-workers. For speaking engagements write Ronald Harshe. P. O. Box 6, Station C.