The Church of Christ Postal Mission

P.O. BOX 503 m KtMBERLEV, CAPC a

FEB j

Dear Chrisiian Friends;

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appfcvcduntq-Cod.*

xhe Chilstmas-New Years rush Is finally over and we are

\J/^^^"able to sit down and write you all once again. It was really one
Mi.tionofi*.
KobOH 5. Mill*

of the nicest seasons that we ha?e had all things considered. A y, jjgyg before Christmas we had the Christmas Pary for the Sun-

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day school children of the location. There were well over a

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hundred there for the popcorn balls, candy, cake, baloons and
School ptogram and Carols=by-Candelight programs at the White

cool drinks. If noise was any basis for judging whether they had

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SERVICES:

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a good time or not, they had a wonderful tirael Our own Sunday
chuTch Were also very well received and we enjoyed doing xhem,.

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Christmas Day here at the house started at about 5i00

when the children got up to see what they had gotten. They were ch.rcKs^rvic. thrilled with everything. We had gotten the older two a little

wind up train and Kathy expressed her appreciation when she breathlessly said,"Its Jolly Nice!" The younger two liked their wading pool and of course they ail had to go for a splash as soon as we would

let them go out in the sun. We kept them out as long as possible as the after noon sun is terribly hot, but they did get a good splash and ev^en had their supper in their swim suits. We had cold sandwiches, and watermelon out on
the lawn. I am afraid our
to keep as cool as possible.

dinner might sound odd, but. it was just the

thing for here. Roast turkey soundsterribly out of place when everyone is trying
We do want to thank you all for your many lovely cards and parcels. Some of them are still arriving. This year we got many cards, including many from our
South African friends and some from my students by mail. Several of our neigh
bors sent cards this year.

We got the new year off to a good start at the S.S., not so much in over
all attendance, but in that one of our passengers brought along her littie bro thers and sisters for the firs'c time. If they continue to come, we shall have

trouble wedging them all in. We had only fourteen this week but two of our other passengers were away to the coast for holiday. They will soon be back. We do pray that we shall be able to remedy this by buying a small car. We find that so far we can not hope to buy the Volkswagen we had wanted or the Thames bus, but we
do hope that we can get a small Fiat Multipla. I have asked a friend who manages

a local garage to hold a good used Dne he has on hand till I can see if we can spare the down payment, ($325) The Lord willing, I will drive it to the location for the first S.S. and pick up the passengers that direction. Phyllis will bring
the others when she comes from home in the Chevrolet. She would have eight pass

engers, and I would have from five to eight depending on whether these new ones

keep coming or not. Their parents have not been any too cooperative, but they
have allowed Yevonne to come so long as we fetch her.

The Gospel Light continues to thrive. There would have been about 600
new addresses this month had we printed enough copies. We ran short though and were able to send only about'450 of the new ones. The others will have to wait till February. We had three new ones for England and two for Germany this time. The German ones were pen-pals of a Ghana student. The Lord's message goes many

places we could never hope to go in person. A set of lessons on my desk was done by a student in prison in the cape. This convict has brought several of his fellow prisoners to read the Gospel Light and now several of them are on the mailing list. We pray the the Gospel May have an effect in their lives and possibly
change them for the better.
Yours in Christ Jesus,

Yo^ Missionary tp Africa,

FEB

3 71960

^ The Church of Christ Postal Mission

p. 0. 80 X 503 KIMBERLEY. CAPE SOUTH AFRICA

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No. I - I960

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Robpt S. Mills

Phyllis J. MilU
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& Sci*tary
Mobel S. Midi

309 E. Donle! S.

Champoign, lilinoii

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Robert setting type for the "Gospel Light"

The printing of the Gospel Light has only started when the material masters from which the actual printing will be done. These masters must be typed on the electric typewriter which gives a and a very black copy from the carbon ribbon. This step is made far more difficult by the fact that it is almost impossible to make an erasure 01 even minor correction on the roughened metal plates that are used. The erial must be absolutely right the first typing. At the same time the right hand margin must also be made straight. In order to do this it is neLssary to type the copy several times and to count the left over spacer which must be scattered ihroughout the line of tp. It is

has been edited. There still remains the difficult task of tping up the

that there are not more errors in the Gospel Light than there are w y consider that Robert has never had a day of typing lessons m "is lite an that he does all his typing at considerable speed, but with about three 0
four fingers.

NOTE: ( Please post this bulletin on your church bulletin-board before you
file it away for future mission study use.)

THE

MILLS NEWSLETTER

P.O. Box 503

Kimberley, Cape. South Africa

1st February, 1960
FORWARDING AGENT;

Mabel S Mills 309 East Daniel St,

Champaign, Illinois
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

As we found that we did not have enough funds to buy the much needed Volks

wagen Micro-bus, or even to pay the down payment on it, v/e scraped together what we could and managed to pay the down payment on a 1 11ip1a, The monthly

payments on this will be $30 for the next two year's .-The'Ti^t" is mucH smaller

than the Micro-bus, but its rear seat will fold down for hauling station wagon style and extra passengers nan put hphinrf roar soa-t go it coti-ld-possibly

carry nine crowded children^ This, along with the Chevrolet, will make it pos sible to carry all who wish to go to Sunday School and church services. Already, its first Sunday, we carried sixteen in the two cars and this during the holiday season when two of our regular riders were away at the coast. Five new children have ridden with us since we started using it We praise God for His provision of
this needo

The Mills family took their first holiday in two years, when we drove down to visit the Stanleys for a week in Port Shepstone this month. We drove all night through

going down and arrived there in time for a late breakfast, This was possible as
Nick Qwemesha rode with us and this made us three drivers for rotation. It was a

difficult trip made harder by fog in the mountains, but was far coo]er than a day time trip would have been. While Mrs Mills and the children stayed in town and visited. I went with Lynn to the school site and we worked each day on the Native Minister s training school buildings. We were able to finish the pouring of the cement footings, to lay some blocks and to haul several wagon loads of blocks to the actual building site. There was little real holiday in it for me as we had only one day that v\fe went to the beach and that for about two hours. The change was very good however, and we did get a lot done on the buildings Our return

trip was a slow one as we v\fere carrying a huge trunk on top of the car. It was a long hot day and a happy car load of tired travellers that pulled into Kimberley
about nine thirty that evening,

. We bought two stalks of banannas and perhaps a bushel of pineapples which we brought back in the trunk. The banannas are still ripening gradually, but the pineappleas had to be used, given away and canned immediately we got home. Our

pineapples cost us about 60^ and the banannas about 90^,

As soon as we were able to locate enough printing paper here in Kimberley

after our return, we started on the printing of the Gospel Light for this month. We increased the number printed since we ran out last month and we certainly hope we have enough now. There have been a number of new addresses again. In all. our

printing log shows that we have printed nearly 25.000 impressions in the last ten days. It is no vjonder that I have a tired, slightly sore right arm. Those had to
be hand fed a sheet at a time' There are now tvjo huge piles of paper sitting here

in front of me waiting to be folded and addressed for mailing. We are a little late this month, mostly because we had that trouble finding paper to print on.
The Summer holiday is now over and the children have all started back to school. We still have only two older ones in school of our own, but there are

three neighbor children who ride with me. I take them in the morning at 7:30,
return for the younger ones at 12::00 and the older ones at 1;20.

send for the Kimberley whit^'TKur^H','*''^ ^dly _iieed a few more. We have about a

If any of you have a few Favorite Hymns (brown) song books you would like to.

dozen but need perhaps two dozen more.'^he^g^'^h'duld be mailed book-rate to save

postage, to "The Church of Christ, PcO,. Box 503, Kimberley, Union of South Africa,"
No customs declaration should be necessary but they must be labled "USED BOOKS"
Please do NOT send to our forwarding agent, but send direct to Kimberley,
Yours in Christ's Service,

Yoj^fl^issiojiary ^tp Africa,

TBE MILLS NEWSLETTER P.O. Box 503

Kimberley, Cape, South Africa

-JRWASDING AGEOT Mabel S. Mills

309 East Daniel St

Champaign, Illinois
Dear Christian Friends,

This past month brought the start of the Mills hjxth^teys and they will

ell be past in a short time. Both Donna and I hayiurlhilays l^February. Mine
ivould have passed unnoticed except that we decided at the last minute to call d iriond who lives near by and to have coffie and cake after supper Donna felt that she wanted a full party, so we invited in the neighborhood children and Mrs Rees and their two daughters as well as Mrs Thomson and Bradly. They brought her lots of small toys, but her favorite seems to be the rag doll that we got her We knew how they all love dolls. Ruth's birthday will come the 17 th of this month and we were fortunate to find a used junoir bicycle at the second-hand store. We have painted it and are fixing it 'dp for her. I had to buy two new tires, but it is still quite cheap. Kathy's birthday is the 17th of next month so we plan right away to start watching the want-ads to see if we can find
a used 24 inch bike for her.

It is only a few weeks to conference time now so this morning I bought the small bottle gas burner and light to use while camping. We still have to get
one more camp cot and we shall be almost, ready to go. The Stanleys and we shall

be tenting this year, and truly we are expecting to freeze. Even now the nights
have been cool here.

We had planned to have the Gospel Light all on the way by this time, but again we have hit a snag this month. This time it was the fact that our printing plate has not arrived from Bloemfontein, which is the nearest place we can have them prepared. After it arrives, we shall still have one day of printing and all the
folding, etc. to do.

I printed 500 re-prints of the tract that appeared in last month's Gospel Light and have mailed them to the Native Ministers for use in their own work. This was hardly enough, so next time I think I shall print a thousand. That would give ea|L of them twenty tracts. Next month we also expect to have a similar tract of Mr Eandall'^s and I have prepared a second one to print on its reverse side. I pJan to take five hundred to conference for the men to distribute during their street meetings and will also do some for them to use at home.

for one tt4p"to the farm and have used it regularly for going to the location to
the Sunday School and preaching services. Mrs Mills drives it to Women's meetings, and we have used it regularly to carry the young people to the European Sunday

Th&^J)ia^has proved it's usefulness over and over this month. I used it

School, We have been astounded by its economy of operation. It has reguXarly__given us to the gallon here in town as . compared to dossibisevejiteen for~ the "Chevrolet. It would prove very firing for long trips though as I found on the farm

trip that 45 miles to the hour is absolute t^qjp speed.

Thg mltilith has been busy again this month. We have printed seventeen t-ljnUj^.aja^Jmptessipns^ m it. Four thousand, seven hundred and thirty one Gospel Lights were mailed out, not counting those sent to America. Twelve .tiLa..iifiarje5> missionarx^^ Eighteen copies of the New
Testament Dbctrines Workbo'dfs were mailed and fifteen certificates issued for lessons correctly done. Incidentally, we now have less than two hundred copies of

the workbook left from the first printing. It will soon be necessary to think of

having it re-done. This will cost about $150, but it is a printing job that we do not have the equipment to do properly. Even if we did, it would not save as the
plates would cost nearly that much not mentioning the paper, etc.

Jill-yo-^ot remember tts~daily""lii y^r prayers even as w^pray for you ail
that the Lord may bless your for your remembrance if His work here in Africa.
Yours in Christ's Service, Your Mi$siojfiary to Africa

Robert afl^S^Phyliis Mills

THE MILLS NEWSLETTER

P.O. Box 503

Kimberley, Cape, South Africa

forwarding AGEm-.
Mabel S. Mills

./j
1st April I960

309 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois

Dear Christian Friends;

there, damage to the church there, and unrest .in general, it harberiJeJefsarr
been able'to stop ali Lh-nunisters and their families from leaving ""P for chere, Sinne such a bio
familv'win r"'been injiterl

the mission was to have been held this year, but oweing to recent deln^ratLns

We should have gone already to Worcester where the annual conference of

gathering is out of the question, we have rather, made plans to call together I hLl will have to meet here in Kimberlev. Sinee I live here
will of course stay on the location, Ronaldsvlei.

n.. coZiMee committee -h-

"o

preparations. The Stanley ' Randall, Kernan and Zimmerman have

The African members of

Mrs Mills and I prepared the Gospel Light for mai]Jna auite earlv )a<^t

D?aL plans for ^r those. tho f I will preparation probably mail for them conference, out to the but men I will now. have to make other

som^traM pHnUnff^ relieves as of that burden Just now. IVe had also done

they had church house. It certainly needed in years The^'olinterh'th "een done uir? ^ P^^nted both the walls and the roof and had done the inside not It L a^h?fri.'v They also replaced broken windows.' etc. finnln by an early afternoon service preaching the night and a morning followed to give those before wr^a^rfrord tan service " rm
litt ittle TdisLs^- discuss-.-Dn at~home as f \o i^at to do with it, but lja-0-,aX.. finally a.goat. roasred We steaks had a

^n ' "3 open toLr?onnw"' house following 'I'.""" their^re^a_ijit]inj3,.j;ii.e.lr

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900d cooked this way For one

^ t we were not going to get to camp out in tents at conference but this helcs ho[di-nrrR-M'^ i-hyllis has been having while something new the for church them. She has been holding a Bible class on Saturday morning I am at cleaninn for

Srsta r' are to come, it will be fine. They were at first "ut. a since Larry aL Debbie Stanley little unhannv

'-hildren have been rejoicing now that their school holiday has started

Sinday School She and s:ndav"sL'::r '"d her

brother Peter have gone to the church on Sundays ^reminder :rshe' with ^oves

work among the white people is so very discouraging thateven1hr.sUnh est such

ourne^fhhor oui neighbor ladies to study her Bible, and ^^t. have We lent have her been books encouraging from time one to of time " beginning to question things shesrart once an took completely for granted. We are hopeful later that we several shall be able to eienang adult study group here in the house and she things they would attend The

a1 ic"rb':dw'n::d:
white people here!

'^''"ches. There are so pathetically few truly Christian

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Yours in Chrlst^s Service You;:l Missionarv to Afr.ica

wo^k Luih

shortly moxe-stories-for- this W/Ill hbe similar to those to^eiid of last some year,

Rober/and Phyllis Mills

THE MILLS NEWSLETTER

P.O. Box 503

Kimberley, Cape, South Africa

May, i960
ForiA'arding A^erit:
Mabel S. Mills

309 East Daniel Street.

Champaign, Illinois
Dear Christian B'riends,

The native minister of the local church left us early in the month for hi s new worlcwith ih^ fc'reacher Training-SchooLjn, Natalj_We jniss hi^

fellowship, but have been gladdened at the soon arrival of the new minister
and his family from llpington. Brother Mahlinza is doing wel] with the
K'in)ber](^y Native churches.

We rejoice at the word which has come to u from the school that one ot our postal contacts has enrolled with the school and appears to be very
school after his first contact with the church through the mail. Just this month 1 have also written three more m.en who have made enquiries about the

promising as material for the ministry. This is the third man to enroll at th>:
pray that they shall attend the school and perhaps take the Message back to their peoplec Two of them ;come from the Very mountainous land of:Basutoland
and one from the Orange Free State, a section of South Africa where we have
only a few farm preaching points.

school. As they come from areas we have hardly touched with the Gospel, we do

I have myself preached several times this month at the No. 'I church and Greenpoint, as well as at Warren Street, and ior Pentecost went ro Warrenton where a large gathering of the Warrenton and Christiana brethern came togethe..
We had a most enjoyable day there. This roming Lord's Day, I look forward to traveling in the opposite direction aboui sixty-five miles lo visit Schmidts drift and Campbell, The little Flat took us the fifty miles to Warrenton in just an hour, but this will be a slower journey as it is nlJ gravel and very
rough.

The highpoint of our month came with the arrival of the Hamilton family from America. They came to take over the Chinese work so that the Rees wilJ be able to leave shortly for furlough, but they shall also be doing many oth.:

things. Brother Hamilton has already made the trip to Warrenton with me and plans to go also to Schmidtsdrift and Campbell. He will also be preaching
find the place and time to work it in.

our regular minister of that work releasing me for more African work and perhaps

us at Warren Street this week, and we are hopeful that he will consent to beco i. a Coloured work that we have always wanted to start here, but never been able vo

We are hopeful that you all had very successful DVBSchools. Our plans arr i mow being made for a DVBS to be held during the winter holiday, three weeks a

Phyllis will help in the teaching. Because it comes at the same time as the Gospel Light must be prepared for the mail, I have no official part though 1 may find the time to help some days in the assembly service.^^ ^ 1CtmbgTl:e3r"iis aT~the mbnfent ih the midst ol a Smallpox fright and there ai
over a dozen cases in isolation. Nearly sixty thousand people have received
re-vaccinated as we were vaccinated just before our last furlough.

the end of June. Brother Hatnilton is to be the director, and Mrs Hamilton and

:innoculations in the past week, however the clinic tells us that we need not

Yo^syiKthe^er's Service,
Mills

THE

vULLS newsletter P,0, Box 503

KIMBERLEY

1st July, 1960

FORWARDING AGENT Mabel S. Mills 309 East Daniel St

Champaign, Illinois
Dear Christian Friends^

This coming month will be a month of moving for the South African Missionaries. The Nicholsons are expected to arrive from America during the month and the Rees family and Randalls are to leave for America by way of Britain. I am particularly
anxious for Brother Nicholson to arrive as he is to be the permanent Superintendent

of the mission and will be taking over the legal phases of my work and the building
prQjgram_af__the churches-.

At the business meeting of the Kimberley Church of Christ, we agreed that Bro,
Hamilton be asked to take over that work as an entirety. He and I both felt that he

ytfas not being given very mu-'h to do in the Chinese work alone, and since I have more f.han I can adequately care for well, we decided it best to make a division of work.

Our own printing program grows each month, and we shall continue to teach our Sunday

School classes at the churr-h and on the Location. I have also announced a new Saturday class to commence after the school holiday. We are hopeful, the Lord willing, that we

ma> shortly be able to start a Coloured work among the nearly fifteen thousand Coloureds
vlills and I went to Galeshwe Village here in Kimberley, and Mr Hamilton and I went to Warrenton for Pentecost. We also visited Schmidtsdrift and Campbell one Lord s Day. It

who make their home here in Kimberley. They must be considered separately from the Native.

I have preached somewhere in a Native Service each Sunday this past month. Twice, Mrs

As you enter, you. ^an see few homes, but there is a long low, dusty trading tost which contains a hotels a grocer-general store a petrel Station and the Post Office. It TS the shopping center ail of There is also a very ancient church house which was supposed to hjive been built by Da^. id Livingston. It is a National Monument. The Lord willing, we hope to be able to visit the church at Delports Hope this month.

i? always a joy to go to Campbell. The people come to church well and the town is unique.

I would prefer that it were only for a service, but there are problems at Delports Hope

two women, taking turns with them. I do not think he is married to either by Christian standards, so of course this must be dealt with quickly. Now that the Hamiltons are here and can carry on at Warren Street, I can visit churches when they ask. I praise God for
r.he freedom to go when needed.

as is often the case, A man who was formerly an elder, a widower^ has been living-Jitb_- -

a second thousand to be printed. There are minor corrections to be made in these but they are nearly as before. The printing bill will be for about $150, but I would not have been able to do them any more cheaply mgiself and these will be done right. Do keep this need
before the Lord in prayer with us.

Our New Testament Doctrines workbooks are nearly all gone. I have placed an order for

Again we plan a training class to be held at the Native church building on Saturday
afternoons. We shall meet two hours each week for the next ten weeks and there will be,
'^^houi.d finish up shortlx before Christmas with the two classps.

the class meriting it of course, a second class to follow this one for ten more weeks. We
Brother Hamilton is leading the D.V.B.S. of the Kimberley Church of Christ and is

being assisted by Mrs Hamilton, FhyLlis, Betty Ho Yee -nd Annette Ho Yann. Maurine Ho Chung and myself may be called upon to help during this coming week. Several of the
now in the area and some are already ill. It promises to be a very successful Bible
School if there is not too much illness before it is over.
Yours in Christ's Service,

children of the neighborhood have been attending but both measles and whooping cough are

Your Missionary to Afrnca,

- --.y](r'U'iyL

Robert and PaylTis Mill

THE CHIJRCH OF CHRIST POSTAL MISSION P.O. Box 503

Kimberley, Cape, South Africa Forwarding AgentMrs Mabel Mi'lls 309 East Daniel St.

September 1st,1960
1:: joeo

Champaign, Illinois
Dear Christian Friends;

Spring has come to South Africa, and along with it the grass is growing
and all the fruit trees are a mass of blossoms Also "Spring.houSBclean-VRf^fe^

came to-the Warren Street ch.ur.cJi housej' It has been a big Job for a' few", and is
far from complete'7'Tur'we''dd''have the ceiling painted white and the walls of
the auditorium and entry finished. They are a blue-gray and pale green. The

trim must still be painted white and the back rooms ha^e not yet been touched. We had hoped to have ii professionally done, bu; the quotation was so high thai
we decided to do it ourse)ves and try to do a little more. Perhaps we can afford

a carpet runner for the aisle and something for the entry this way,,
Hamilton and I took one day off from the paint brushes last week and

went to Postmasburg^ where we wanted to see about_ buying a hou^ of .,wor^hi^

-''the Nativd'brei.liern. Ad iv. v.urns out we are not at all sure that we shall be

allowed to buy r bu.. wp hav:-j i.o.-d them thai we want it if the town clerk will

approve it being used as a i-huf''h house, Ti: seems that i-: is legally a school even though it has been used on Sundays for a church for some years by our people.
Brother Harai uon drov,- his Volkswagen Kombi on that 280 mile trip. I plan to take the F.iat: this Lord' Day as we drive *o Boetsap for a visit with that small cong

regation, It had appeared that we would not have an interpreter, but brother
Solane. who was to have been ou* of iown, decided to come back early just to help

me. AM, of the congregation at Boetsap are Chuana speaking only.

With the coming of (he Spring School holiday and the Committee Meeting at
the end of this mon^h, we ar-^ reminded that Christmas is not too far away. Last

^oxes we,received f.z:ojTi.jS.meili^^

year the post office

as,..OLUi:..hirthday boxes came right on

mu'::h trouble over the Christmas

the fair of them. For thai reason, we suggest that if your group had planned to send a box this year and were going to go oui and buy things to put in it, you

rather send the monex ^nd sugge,st what you would like us.,to get with it. Our

;>

shops aTe^tiTled with goods these days and we can now buy practically anything

that could be bought in America. The prices are higher, but probably not so much higher that they would not be cheaper than the cost of them there plus postage

and customs. If you plan to send used clothing or to make things, be certain to

xag that you TVave to attach at the post office before mai/ing^ This is important
, $10. No_one_j3arcel should.be wortii maire .than^.lO incidentally. We do appreciate

ark them "unsQl^ci..Qi.ft&l and that they are used, on the customs Z.-\

as w^,cp^uid._ba^ine4 a.s much, as $30 for parcels with out this and worth more than

the lovely "gifts, but ir is simpler to do the actual shopping here.

The location S.School has come along wonderfully the past several weeks

%^switehed-.tOL..the time just before the afternoon preaching service and the 'esuit has been a big increase in numbers and also that they now stay for the
preaching service too. Last week we started wirh far more children than adults
in that service but soon there were others who came and we ended up with about

__SCL~p.Ee&ant. I have been scheduled to preach every other Sunday for the rest of
the year^ On the other Sundays I can make the trips out like the one this week to Boetsap. or go to Greenpoint services, or if T wish, visi t No^ 2.
We have now started to use the New Testament Doctrines lesson books

which came from the printers a few weeks ago. This means that we have now distribuxed ov;ex...a thousand and are starting on the second thousand.
Yours in Christ's Service, Your Missionary to Africa,
ODert

THE CHI'RCH OF CHRIST POSTAL MISSION

P.O. Box 503

Kimber.le>'

Cape, S.. Africa

Forivarding Agent:
Mrs Mabel Mills

309 East Daniel St,

September, 1960

Champaign, Illinois
Dear Christian Friends,

This i'itter will be sent a few days before the end of the month because I must leave the first of October to go to Craff-Reinet for the Conference planning ^ommitte^ mtJting, There shalJ be six of us going from chis direction, including four Native men

chings

It has been a month in which we have made many trips out and done many On the 4th,, brother Hamilton and I drove to Boetsap for a meeting

with the brethern there, buit found when we had arrived, that there

Were forty five at Boetsap

and sixty-one at Drie
fontein. six miles farther

up the road, so we held first an open air meeting at Boetsap

and th-^n returned to Driefontein for an indoor

meeting with the

brethern there. It was a fine

fenow,ship with
the cht;r.:h and
ruman

Taungs, Pro
Boetsa

school

site

isltors.

includ
On the

ing the chief.

11 th. , we were
invited to hold

Christiana
Warrenton

at a dairy near Kimberley.

Mr and Mrs Davison, the farmers, have buiit a lovely church building on their farm
for their workers. both a We had fine service there Sr-hmidtsdrif t
uatow
arm

mberley

Greenpo

;/
150 mi]e Radius,

good hospitality with the

family who also attended the services

It is planned that we shall return later and show slides some evening for their
DeODle. Two ladies came forward at the invitation and will be baptized by the
""-'.iiie minister or elder,.

On thi-i J3th,, we drove to Vryburg to investigate the Municipality's complaint

,haL. ou- '-hu^i-h house is in bad need of repair This is a churr-h that has long been s;adly negJe-'ted because we havrt a shortage of Cbuana speaking ministers. The same is irv-t of. Mafeking on beyond V^ybu'^g We found the building to be nothing but s .OoCv:>:ing shci l of brick, Tht- Lord willing, something must be done both about the house of. worship and the leadr^>*ship of the church. On the way back we we^e botn thriMed at the opportunitie.'? of that, area for Chuana churches as there are miles ana miles oi Jieariiy popuiateo "reserv^~~nT~tiTar area "served by borh tarred roads
"n'1 rai!i

Brother Hamilton and I are both of the opinion that, the Lord willing, we must do something to strengthen ou^* Chuana work. A Native minister's training school lo'^ated at Taungs could solvr both the need for ministers and couid serN^^e as a -nt-^r 0^' evangelism for the area Our onl.v training school at the present is loc
ated at Port Shtr-pstone over 600 miles away from the need there. It gives no instr-

' tion in Chuona at all so can not reaily help these people. At the present time,

w,:j havtt only a half dozen elderly ministers serving about fifteen churches among these people. One of them is semi-retired and very ill. We have already worked out a proposed curriculum for a three year course operating ten months of the year, and also an estimated cost of operation. We hope that it might be possible to rent a property with a few rondovals. but could use pre-fabricated rondovals on rented property or build permanent ones on our own land cheaply. The Gospel Light is an important part of the plan since it could bring in new students after the school was once in operation. I have also written to the T'niversity of South Africa at Pretoria about a correspondence lesson in Chuana
which I have read that they offer. Even if the school never became a reality.

Chuana would never be a loss to us in this part of the Union. On the 22nd, we were called away by telegram to come to Delportshope. Strong winds have completely torn the roof and some of the timbers off o| the church, house there.. It will take considerable ^ivorJc, and some money to repair the damage. All that we could do that day was to take thir big pant^is aparc and

put the sheets of roofing inside where they would not be stolen before we could replace them. This little task will be waiting us when we get back from the
committee meeting next week"
God blessed us this month in the work at Warren Street and we ail had

reason to rejoice when three new Christians were added to th:^ hu'^'h Ou^* own daughter, Kathy, was among them, She had asked for more than a year to be allowed to become a Christian. We pray for them that they may all grow strong
in the faith.

I have included a map this month because of the many places we w^nr All of the churches on the map are Chuana speaking except possibly Klerksdorp.
There are also two additional ones some distan'^e to the left. Thes^ a^e ail

located within a 150 mile radius of Taungs. This matttrir of our weakness among

the Chuana speaking tribes has long con'^erned us. but only now ha-e we seen a possible answer. Do pray with us for them that the Lord may guide and if it be His will, provide.
Yours in Christ Jesus, Your Missionary to Africa,
R<3wf ifil

THE MILLS NEWSLETTER P.O. Box, 503

Kimbe^-iey

Africa

Forwarding Agent .
Mrs Mabel S. Mills

Champaign, Illinois
Dear Christian Friends.

OEC ^ 4

October.

1960

Early this month we attended the committee meeting at Graaf-Reinet for

the purpose of planning the 1961 conference It was decided that we would have the conference at MiddeIb^^'g. Cape which will be con<'enient for us as it is not
so very long a drive. We plan to used the same program as was planned for last year so that was quickly taken care of and we were all back home a day sooner than we had expected when we left. As soon as we could get to it, brother Hamilton and I went about the work of putting the roof back on the Delport Hop>- church house. It took several days of hard hot work, interrupted one day but the worst dust and rain storm we have ever seen at Kimberley. Several ntr-ighbors called thei^* husbands and made them come home from work ihey were so frightened TWe were on th.-i road in the VW microbus.) The job is done now though with the e<ception of a few hours of tidying

up and paying the account for materials^?iboi-^t 570.

from Vryburq informing

It seemed that we hardly had that buiding usable again when word came

that the shell of a bu.i Iding that we saw there on our

last trip, has fallen down. I presume that it win have to be built from the ground up. It should have been anyway. Added to this is the information that the house of worship at Campbell, which is a very good building, will havtr to be torn
down and a new one built of brick because it is to go that way. is in the path of the new road that

Mrs Mills and I went to visit the chu'-ches at Campbell and at Schmidtsdrift on the 23rd. There was a very fine attendance at both places. I counted about 75 at the Schmidtsdrift building and estimated that there were at least 150 at Campbell We left brother Mahlinza at Campbell where he plans to conduct a week long evangel istic meeting. Following that he plans to do thf^ same at a near by farm and again at
Schmidtsdrift, then he will come back to Kimberl-y.

Along with th Hamiltons, we showed ;oloured slides at the dairy farm, and at Greenpoint Location and one of the Chinese homes, this month.
On the 30th, I used them again for the occasion of the graduation exercises of my Saturday Afternoon classes. Eleven students received their certificates and credit for their work will b'^ re-'orded~with the school at Port Bhepstone. I was amazed at the turnout for the program since not much mention had been made of it.

It was probably the largest gathering we hav-i had for a graduation program. There
were well over a hundred there. Several told me how much they enjoyed it, which is really very unusual. They predict that we shall have a number of new students to
enroll in the new class as a result of it. All of our last term students have come
back.

We have gone on this month in making hagj^, py^paratfnns for a full Tswana, and English language Training School in this area. It can not be in Kimberley, because the government requires that Native Schools be located near the Native
Reserves ^a^her th-ui in the ':ities. Brother Stanley and I are pJanning to go to Pretoria to mak? enquiries about the Government permission as soon as possible, probably in -lani-tary. In the meantime, I har'- drawn up r brochure presenting the kind of school we would like to offer, classes to be given, cost^:, etc. and am lookinvj about for a possible site for it. We would prefer a site near Taungs as there is excellent transportation there to the very heart of.the Reserves and as we should have churches there, bur. are also looking into Schmidtsdrift which is only half the distancio avjay, but which does not hav-^ good transportation aad is iiut large a Do |jra> wtTfnrs tha-t-Tne Lura nray lead and m:ide uui' - '
decision. It may be that He will n.ot., i.:iad us to undertake this work at all. We

do know that it is a very ambitious project and that it will take much time and
money if it is to be done right.

Our most sincere Christmas Greetings to you all.

Yours in Christ

Ser-''ice,
11s

1961 T K MYP
'THE MILLS INl'liVSLETTER
P.O. Box 503

Kimberley, Cape.
November, 1960

Dear" Chri-iian Friends;

Our Christmas issue of t!ie Gospel Light, which you received last riofith, was distributed to over six thousand peopJe including about 350 in

Ain-!"ica. The new issur- enclosed in this letter is to be mailed here early ui lanuary so as not to i-.rowcl the mails during the Christmas rush We hope vo have noticed the new improved look of the paper. This was made possible 'o\ a special donation. I'.sing photographically produced plates made it possible to include far more mdt.eri'al, oweing to" sma I Ter printV to use
more illustrations, type styles etc. It also cur. printing time in third!

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Mi.'-h to our supprise too. it cost far ma less thdn we had expected. We_,. "TTTii ttiaT" 11 wi I ( a"dd only about $12 a month to our budget. This copy is
expected to reach abouc 6000 addresses here in Ah:.ic^ alone.

With the continual inc'-ease in the circi'ation, we are again looking about for a possible ele'-r.^-ic folding machine Ou" Mi-itilith agent has offered us a traded in model very reasonably and we are thinking of asking '0 use it for a month's folding to see if it is in good working <'.onditi9n.
All the missionaries here in Kimberley ar- ihriiied with the new
hnby boy born to ou'.' t-o-workers, Mr and Mrs Albe- t HamiJton. He was born on

the 30th of November and weighed 9 lb 1 oz. at birth They are alL doing
well, including the father'! Mrs Hamilton's close frir-nd. Madonna Burget, a
nurse from the hospital in Rhodesia, came down to bn present fo^ the birth. She was allowed to be present in the delivery room and Anette was aLLowed

to go home far earlie'- than u-ual because she wy> h.-r^. Miss Bu^gVt stayed
tvith us a few days and Mr Hamilton spent considei'aPl- time here as well.

We have been working with the Hamilton? in preparing taped narration with a musical background to go with a set of film strips on the f.hurch. It is planned to use this sec of tiims to help in th-- siarting of a Coloured
'rtii>rk here in Kimberley, the Lord willing. Arrangements have been made to

hire a Coloured Theatre for Sunday afternoon services at first. The company
must still give final, approval for the rental, A place of meeting has been first big problem It is hoped to start this work early in the new year, "" i"io keep it on your lips in prayer. It will be the first real effort in all of Southern Africa by our people to really reach the Coloured (mixed race)
eople.

So far there has been little promise in our seach for a site on which
to start a Tswana school. Two real estate agents have not bothered even to

'>5ply to my letters. Private ^-nqiuries have been equally unresponsive. The Native Commissioner at Taungs wrote to me, but mostly to say that he did not

Inflow of anything available and that we would likely have difficulty in finding
nidging for our students on his reserves. Brother Stanley has written to P'H'toria on behalf of the Mission about the possibility of such a school so I
hHV". been waiting a reply to his letter before going further than these basic man . He too. has gotten no replies.

In th^ mean time our local classes for credit at Port Shepstone are
ont. li'iiij.; ''ery Well. In a few 'Weeks the eleven students enrolled will have

omplctdCi r.heir woric, however we are planning to have the graduation program ihte in .h-inuary and hope that brother 'Stanley can be present. Th^mk yoi aiJ so mu:h for your special remembrances and greetings
the Christmas season.

Yours in the Master's Service,

youir wrssioTiary tiTTlfrica;

'

Robert and Phvllis Mills

The CHRISTIAN MISSION - VOL, IV, NO, 4260 - DECEMBER 1960

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CHURCH OF CHRIST POSTAL MISSION

Robert and Phyllis Mills

P, O. Box 503

Forwarding agent:
Mabel S, Mills 309 E Daniel St,

Kimberley, Cape
South Africa

Champaign, Illinois

The Church of Christ Postal Mission works in very close sooperation with the South

African Church of Christ Mission though it is completely independent financially and as an organization, Mr. and Mrs. Mills and family first came to southern African in early 1953 when they settled at Windhoek, Southwest Africa, Later they moved to Kimberley to assist the Stanleys with the teaching in their Ministerial Training School, This relationship was maintained until their furlough during 1957 and until the school was finally moved to its
present site at Port Shepstone, Natal about 600 miles from Kimberley.

The postal portion of the work is in reference to the introductory correspondence

Bible lesson workbooks and the tracts which are circulated in large numbers throughout

Africa by post, and to the monthly paper called the "Gospel Light". These materials are self printed on the mission's small Multilith duplicator and more than six thousand "Gospel Lights" are distributed each month. The present goal is to reach ten thousand a month.
A person does not see great numbers of converts for this type of work because they are widely scattered, sometimes in distant lands. There have, however, been seventy five who have this year asked where they may find a Church of Christ, and who have been sent
to one of our missionaries or ministers near them. In South Africa, we send them all to

local ministers of the church. Thus far, we have referred all who want to study for the ministry to the training school at Port Shepstcne, Natal. In Kimberley we have seen sev eral responses and we have thoroughly enjoyed preaching for the local native churches and teaching a Bible school class for them. The adult training class has been a great sue-

In our visits to the near by churches, Brother Hamilton and I have continously come across the great need for a separate training school for the Tswana speaking ministers of this part of the Northern Cape. They are poor, very far from the Port Shepstone school, and their language is not spoken there at all. The result is that we have discussed it with Brother Stanley and have been given his permission to try to establish a second training
school here in the Northern Cape. Financially we believe, the Lord willing, such a small school here could be built and equipped for about $3000. We have prepared a curriculum for a full three year course, laid plans for building and equipping, and would like to open the first class of the "Gospel Light Bible Seminary" on the first of June, 1961. The three primary barriers at the present are (1) financial, (2) permission of the government to op erate such a school, (3) and land for the rondavel classrooms and dormitories we have in mind. We ask your prayers in this matter. With our present Tswana speaking ministers, their churches, and the many contacts with English speaking men through the "Gospel Light" we should have no trouble in finding students. Brothers Hamilton and Mills would likely cooperate in teaching the classes once the need for two teachers was established.

Robert and Phyllis Mills - Becky in back, Kathy and Ruth in center, Donna in front.

Albert and Annette Hamilton, Frances Marie (previous page)