Dear Friends and Loved Ones, Charles C. Luttrell Family 1713 Tenth Avenue Honolulu, Hawaii 96816 April, 196^ Greetings, in the name of our Lord! "Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ• Praise God for His goodness, and for the response to this goodness that wells up in the hearts of men. The lady who has been attending our services for months and for whom many have been praying, responded to the invitation at prayer meeting on April 3, and "put on" Christ as she was baptized the "same hour of the night," This was truly a time of rejoicing. For while we have been able to encourage many young people to yield their lives to Christ, Mrs. Taguma is our first adult convert here. We are thankful for the prayers of the saints that made possible a spiri tual revival in the hearts of many in our congregation during the week of March 22-29- The theme of cur meeting was "Power in the Blood" and I illus trated this each night by a chemical demonstration that was tied into the ser mon. My messages were based on Christ*s seven utterances from the cross. Our song services were ably lead by Brother Julio Lubag, associate minister of the Kalihi Church of Christ (it is almost 8 miles from us), who has a great love for the Lord and a strong, rich voice. The feature which perhaps attracted the greatest interest was the drawing of a chalk picture each evening by Mrs. Pearl Nicholson, who is also associated with the work of the Kalihi Church. Interest and attention was good in every service. As you can imagine, in our regular services sometimes there is considerable confusion, because most of the children attend without their parents, and often sit together in class groups. During the Revival there was a spirit of reverence and worship, and since the service included many things "to see" even the little ones listened well. We were especially pleased with the attendance. Since our weekly night services are not well attended, we wondered about the response to a service every night, but many attended every night. Our Sunday morning attendance has averaged 6l this year, and this includes Sh on Easter, while our Revival attendance^ averaged 51- The lowest attendance was 32, and the highest was 70 on fill-a- pew night. If you had stepped into cur chapel during one of our services, you probably would have thought that you were attending a youth meeting of some kind. Indu ing the evangelistic party there were seldom more than dozen persons above high school age. We feel a grave responsibility in teaching and leading these young people since we are having opportunity to do so at a time while their lives are —still. molj3able_. __ _ _ . We are now engaged in the same activity that you probably are--preparing for Vacation Bible School, which we will have June 15-26. The children of our community are usually engaged in so many daytime summer activities that our VBS attendance is quite small. A neighboring church has been having a success ful VBS at night, so we are going to follow their example. Our pupils seem interested, and we already have more registration cards returned in than we had on the first day of VBS last year. The last week in May we are expecting to have a summer worker. Jennings Barnett, a Junior student in Cincinnati Bible Seminary, has volunteered to help us throup:h this busiest time of the year. He will render valuable assistance in Vacation Bible Schools and in the camp sessions. If you would like to see a short s-lide program with a taped commentary describing the place where we live and work, please contact Miss Opal Harvey, 1925 South Courtland Avenue, Kokomo, Indiana 46902. We hope that she will have a more ccraprehensive set of slides in a few months.