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NEWS OF RALPH "BUD" HARTER, MISSIONARY

BIBLE BOOK STORE

3/83, VISHNUPURI

KANPUR 208002,

INDIA

RALPH BACK IN KANPUR

According to a telegram received

in Clinton from New Delhi,

Ralph

reached New Delhi safely on December

6th from San Francisco after brief

stops at Honolulu, Hong Kong and

Singapore. The last ten days of his
American tour took him to Texas,
Colorado,

Idaho,

ington State.

Oregon

and

Wash

We are most grateful

that the seven month visit was free

of any illness or injury and that

all appointments were met.

The year

was marked by;

Transition of Forwarding Agents;

Preparations for receiving of
Social Security Benefits;

In connection with his studies,

Ralph will spend parts of January
and

February

the

graduation

students.
come up

early to

months

but

report what

the

first

im

pression is that things went well

enough if not perfectly.
A video tape of the work in
Kanpur was shown at Clinton on
Sunday evening Nov. 19th.
It did
not come up to expectations and so
we are not advertising it but anyone

interested can

contact Mr.

Downs.

It does show some things of Kanpur

that you have not seen before.

It

is hoped that something better can

be produced within a year.

As it turned out, Ralph's last

sermon

at

Clinton

was

not

at

the

home church but at the community

Thanksgiving service where he spoke
on Cor. 9:15, "Thanks be to God for

His indescribable gift!"

^ ^In summing up,

visited,
besides

in April.

at

21 states were

California and Hawaii.

airports

in

six flights

were made within the U.S.

An article by Ralph, "Jesus my

about Sadhu Sundar Singh may soon

appear in the RESTORATION REVIEW.

of

exams

his

again
this

is very severe in grading papers.

Slipping away from the American

shores, i t was a matter of

Think of all the friends you met

profuse

thanks

to

all

third article, "India Today" is in

limbo, while "Only Two Ways About

of

those who provided hospitality and

transportation to and from bus stops
and airports, and special thanks to
Chuck and Mary Knopf at Clinton for
all of their help.

Of

the

offerings

from

Daily

Vacation Bile Schools, $300 each was

sent to three Christian workers in
Kanpur for the purchase of motor
scooters.
it turned out that $300
was not sufficient and so $250
additional has been sent to each
one.
One of the recipients, Arvind
Azad,
continues
to
suffer
some
weakness and pain from tuberculosis.

The people of Kanpur were happy

to have Mary Muppet back with them

along with her new sister Phyllis.

Both of them were rotten spoiled by
all of their American friends.

as to what

Ralph took back with him.

Headset cassette player from his
sister

Cassettes, mostly classical and

religious
New clothes

Guru" appeared in the Nov. 5th issue

of CHRISTIAN STANDARD. Another item

It" is on the anvil.

His

You might be curious

mostly by Greyhound bus,

stops

some

There is someone in the system who

Our

transpired in Kanpur during the past

seven

of

year
will
be
on
Old
Testament
Prophets and Greek,
and "Secular
Movements
in
India
since
1947".

football for Denison Univ.;

is ^ too

southwestern

all the food you et and

all the beds you slept.

Birth of a new grand-nephew in

It

the

He may also attend

Examinations will

Watching a grand-nephew play

Arkansas.

in

city of Pune.

Various hardto-get food items

Pair of warm slippers
Paintings from two nieces
Gifts from others
Twenty pounds of extra fat.

FINANCIAL REPORT GOT & NOV 1989

BEGINNING BALANCE

Please note that perhaps all of

659.69

CONTRIBUTIONS

IL

Flora Church

250 .00

IN

Barbara Buckles
Osgood Church
Garrett Church

10 .00
130 .00
476 .00

Harold Shellenberger

402 .00
25 .00

MI

Lewis J.

200 .00

MO

Liberty Sunday School

Capital City Church

Domke

86 .00
765 .73

Edith Ashburn
OH

15 .00

Fowlers Mills Church

Sherman Church

256 .00
15 .00

Clinton Church
200 .00
Nursery/Beg. Class Clinton 10 .51
Indianola Church
50 .00

Loyal D. Class Bladensberg 40 .00

Mrs.

Ruth Handwerk

242

335 .00
5 .00
100 .00

Philip Winland
Linden Church

50 .00
300 .00

Homebuilders Cl. Linden

100 .00

Sebring Church

PA

TN
TX
WA
WV

25 .00

Branch Hill Church

120 .00

Mrs.

500 .00

L.

Lile

Old Stone Miss. Newark

Oak Grove Church

80 .00
246 .00

Mrs. LaVerne Romesburg

40 .00

^ r r y Clemmer

20 .00

Violet Nichols
L. A. Nicholson
Embreeville Church

25 .00
40 .00
75 .00

Dr. D. F. Peel
Wapato Church
Hooverson Church

100 .00
120 .00
65 .00

Final Transf.from Joplin Acct 115 .87

TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS

$5635.11

EXPENSES

U.S.

Travel

399.29

U.S. Postage & Bank Charges

97.49

INDIA Vehicles

750.00

INDIA Building Construction 1000.00

TOTAL EXPENSES
$2246.78
ENDING BALANCE

K.D.

Dear Mr. Harter's Contributors,

Christian Village

$3388.33

on

August 18th.
I told Mr. Harter I
thought it would be wise to select a
new Forwarding Agent while he was
here in the States,
I
do miss

receiving your letters for 35 years

as you seemed part of my family.
I
appreciated the letters, notes and

Christmas
Thanking

Greetings
you
all

from
for

you.
your

thoughtfulness and prayers.

forward

your

Downs,

My

Please

contributions
the

Lord

to

Ken

continue

to

Bless you as you support the "India

Mission".

.00

M/M Stephen Handwerk

M/M Jerry Nettle
M/M Warren Steiner

W.

problem should be corrected by

the next newsletter.

Spring River

New Ross Church

Dr. Thomas Omer

NC

This

I resigned from Ozark Christian

College after 24 years and moved to

Dale Strock
Lawrence Balliet
Charles Davis
Stan Vincent
KY

the

faithful contributors may not be

listed from the Garrett, IN Church.

Florence Douglas

We
special

would

like

greetings

to
to

send

all

along

who

will

read this at this time of year.

As I think of all of the Christian
brothers
and
sisters
we
have
throughout this world who will be

remembering our Savior's birth, it

is humbling to be a part of such a
family.
Sometimes
we
Americans
think that only we know how to
celebrate Christian Holidays the
right way.
Our traditions are the
only
come

ones in the whole world that

close to showing God that we

are truly worshiping Him the way He

wants to be worshiped,
I hope that
you have not fallen into that trap.
How thankful I

am that our God sees

into the heart of man to

find his

true spirit of worship.

And how
wonderful that He accepts such a
wide
variety
of
languages
and
customs as we attempt to praise Him.
I

am

also

most

thankful

for

missionaries like brother Ralph who

look to make

disciples of Christ,

not "New American Christians".

So

birth of

however

you

Christ, we

celebrate

the

wish

all

you

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Ken, Mary,

Beth and Joe Downs

HARTER THROBS
INDIA MISSIONARY NEWS

NON-PROFIT

RALPH "bud" harter

FIRST CHURfcH OF CHRIST
2545 W.

U.S.

PAID

COMET RD.

CLINTON, OH

CLINTON,

44216

FORWARDING AGENT'
KEN DOWNS
13876 BLUFFTON ST. NW

CANAL FULTON, OH 44614

ORG.

POSTAGE

OHIO

PERMIT 7

Horizons

f.-O. Box 2427

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NEWS OF RALPH "BUD" HARTER, MISSIONARY

BIBLE eOOK STORE

3/83, VISHNUPURI

The bookstore has been settling

down very nicely in its new quarters
basement

of

the new church

building. Several pieces of furni

ture still need to go over there but
the access-way going into there has
been all dug up for the laying of a
sewer. The room in Vishnupuri that
formerly

housed

the

INDIA

of cottage meetings and I do not ex

BOOKSTORE IS RELOCATED

(Excerpts from Bud's letters)

in the

KANPUR 208002,

bookstore has
I

been turned back to the landlord.

have been spending my mornings at

the new location (Swarupnagar), and
the rest of the time here in Vishnu

puri. ^ Eventually an apartment will

be built for me in Swarapnagar above

pect that this year will be any dif

ferent. Through the years, these
meetings have helped to make me
fairly well known throughout the
city of Kanpur.
As usual I
expect to spend most
of May and June in the mountains at
the Sat Tal Christian Ashram where I
preach and teach as a member of the

staff.

preached

at

New Year's Day and at

28th.

On

Easter

Kulpahar on
Pune

Sunday

preach at^ Lalitpur, a

on Jan.

will

new name for

you.
Lalitpur is at the southern
tip of the state about 100 miles

from the "gas city" of Bhopal.

the bookstore.

Exams are about

month

awayv

This year I am "writing two papers".

During January, I

spent

two

weeks

attending seminars at the Union Bib

lical Seminary in Pune. At the same

time, I also enjoyed a visit to the
mission work our Australian mission

aries. I happened to be
when the "Godman" Swami
died of a heart

in Pune
Rajneesh

attack on the other

side of town.

When I went to buy my train tic

ket for Pune, I was surprised to get

a 25% discount for "old age". How
ever, train travel too seems to get
more and more difficult. On the way
down there, some trouble with pass
engers who occupied our reserved
seats before we got there. On the
way back I found myself in the mid
dle of a wedding party of some twen
ty persons who only had ten reserva

tions.
a

"Neelu" Jas,

bookstore some

who

worked in our

years

back, and his

brother, Anoop, were married to sis

ters in a
ruary.

double

wedding

in

Feb

There father died on Christ

mas night

just

as

the

family was

preparing to move into a

on the edge of town.

new house

has about half moved there.

years ^ago we allowed him to
it has taken

him a

situation

Many
camp
and

litle while to

make alternative arrangements.

am

At least for the time being, I

not

pursuing

sevefll

of

the

preaching points where I^was preach

ing monthly before my Surlough as

they

seem to

without me.

be

doiri^ very well

It is increasingly dif

ficult for me to go here ,and therein

all kinds of

weather.

The

relaxed

schedule has allowed me to give more

time to the Swarupnagar Church. The
weeks before Easter are dsually full

crowd.

Several times this winter, temp

eratures got down near freezing, but
there is no record that i t ever

has

snowed here. My guess is that the

ground is always warmer than the
winter air with the result that when

it is cold

Sani has also built a small

house on theoutskirts of town and

here in an emergency

They were not offensive, but

crowd is a

enough

heavy fog instead.

to

snow, we get

Summer begins to

advance after March 1st.

Joel, who graduated

from

Bible

College last year, is now doing ev

angelistic work among students. An
other student whom we supported,
Narendra Singh, is engaged to marry
the daughter of a well known radio
preacher, Anand Chaudharii
I am in

vited to the May wedding in the city

of Jaipur but probably will not go.
Since January first I am being
par'^ly supported by Social Security
payments with a supplement from the
Clinton Church.

At the

moment I am

not sure just how this is working

out. The name-plate on my gate now
reads

"R.

Barter, Retired",

which

has had good effect; also when I

tell people that I am now retired.

Yet, still

very

busy in the Lord's

work.

We are getting along O.K., I

guess.
Two nights ago a lady fed me
some stuff that was terribly spiced
and my stomach is having difficulty
getting

back

REPORT; DEC'89,JAN,FEB,MAR90

Beginning Balance:

to

normal.

We

just come through one of our

"trials", the Hindu

CA

Jerilee Nickerson

lA

Lorretta Huntington

50 .00

IL
IN

1st Church, Flora

1st Church, Garrett

120 .00

have

annual

My cook

festival called

isn't coming back

to work tomorrox^ either because of a

Muslim festival.
Ford is also tak

ing off several days

to

go to some

from Bombay.

The

110 .00

Harold Shellenberger

(20)

Stan Vincent

(80)

Lawrence Balliet

(10)
20 .00
70 .00

500 .00

Singles/Doubles Class
(W.Walnut Ch, Portland)

100 .00

M/M Kenneth Eade

180 .00

KY

East Union Bible School

112 .38

MO
NC

Liberty Sunday School

Capital City Church

NY

Margaret W,

OH

Mrs. Henry P. Guay

Mrs, Leona Blythe
Sebring Church

convention.

We ordered some

150 .00

M/M Frank Reas

Osgood Church
Smithville Church

"Holi". It is a dirty festival and

so we stay indoors. This year it
fell on Sunday and so we had our
Sunday morning service on Saturday

evening.

$4048.02

Receipts;

communion trays
fellow then wrote

96 .00

1609 .16

Dunne

25 .00
20 .00

20 .00
40 .00

Clinton Church

400 .00

us to pick them up from Patna, so we

Loyal Daughters, Bladnsbg

sent a boy down

M/M Stephen Handwerk

545 .00

Mrs.

330 .00

there, but when the

boy got there he

man

from

them

found out that the

Bombay

by

had

parcel.

already sent

So

he

Ruth Handwerk

Old Stone Missionary

caused us

80 .00

155 .00

A. B. Slough
M/M Warren Steinfer

100 .00

the cost to the price of the mer

chandise which makes it less sale

Edward Chamberlin
Sherman Church
Linden Church

100 .00

able.

Homebuilders, Linden

quite a bit of
reason.

extra expense for no

The trouble

is that we add

200 .00
30 .00
300 .00
100 .00

Indianola Church(B, Deem)

Exams come up in about two weeks

(about the time of this writing). In

the meantime I preach many evenings.
OUR BUDGET

M/M paul Winland

OR

Key Communications

PA

Oak Grove Church

L. A. Nicholson

30 .00

LaVerne Romesburg

80 .00

TN

Embreeville Church

expensive than before.

TX

Dr.

WA

1st Church, Mathis

Wapato Church

next several years, we will be

per month;

25 .00
100 .00
350 .00

100 .00

budget", but i t is now a little more

operating on a budget of about $1335

-WV

D.

F.

75 .00

Peel

200 .00

Hooverson Hts.

100 .00
240 .00
340 .00

Church

Total Receipts:

$500 for church building constr.

$170 for benevolence

INDIA Misc. Expenses

Clinton Church directly, not through

the mission account.)

935 .00

Building Funds

$170 for staff salaries

(Mr. Barter's salary is paid by the

24^2 .16

Salaries

$170 for preacher training

special projects.

7i62 .54

Expenses:

$170 for the Bible Bookstore

$155 for scholarships and other

10 .00
100 .00

Nathan Black
Branch Hill Church

The mission work in Kanpur has

been famous for its "shoestring
During the

50 .00

Missionary Guild, Rittman

U.S.

6ipo ,00

Scholarships
Office Supplies
Books (to India)

285 .00
15 .95
320 .69

Postage

24

Subscriptions
Total Expenses:

Ending Balance:

$1211 .33

HARTER THROBS

INDIA MISSIONARY NEWS

NON-PROFIT ORG.

RALPH "bud" HARTER

U.S.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST

2545 W.

44216

CANAL FULTON, QH 44614

OHIO

PERMIT 7

FORWARDING AGENT'
KEN DOWNS
13876 BLUFFTON ST. NW

POSTAGE
PAID

CLINTON,

COMET RD.

CLINTON, OH

Horizons Magazine

r-.u. Box 2427

Knoxville, TN 37901

.43

35 .00
10199 .23

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TT"^^ NEWS OF RALPH "BUD" HARTER, MISSIONARY

BIBLE BOOK STORE

3/83, VISHNUPURI

SOME

KANPUR 208002,

I do not expect to provide

INDIA ACCOUNTS FROZEN

scooters
Ralph says the "babies" are hav

ing some problems.

Since

the

INDIA

mis

for anyone.

time, I have sold

sion work was divided into three in

ten enough.
6/7ths

tax people

Now the

have their

Indian

eyes on

The account of the

Kal-

mission a refund

pay

on the money

the
that

has previously been paid as taxes.

used

the

improvements

here in the bookstore, and to buy

the rug (for the bookstore floor).
HARTER THWARTS A THIEF

(Ralph's own account from 8-20-90)

I

just had some excitement

Ralph's own income tax problems

are seemingly being resolved by his
attorney. A payment to the approp

riate person should clear things up.

that

I do not need. I was sitting here in

my corner writing letters when a kid

came in and
drawer.

opened Amarjeet's

cash

He thought that I would not

hear him and that I was

with

(It's probably best not

many questions.)

sold him

have

the

says the attorney assures them that

the tax people will not be able to

and should

We

sales proceeds to make

isiya Sahayak Sanstha has been froz

en by the tax department but Ralph

keep^ anything

I have really

of i t .

assets of these branches of the mis

sion work.

my own scooter to

Amarjeet although I still use it of

dividual sections, each has its own

separate bookkeeping and directors
(at least on paper - Ralph still ov
ersees everything).

any more

In the mean

typing

but

preoccupied

somehow

I got up

just in time to see his hand go into

the drawer.
I do not think that he
got anything but I will not know un

til

Amarjeet comes.

I did not beat

to ask too

the kid up but I did order him off

the premises.
I know the kid and I
know where to find him if I want to.

The Swarupnagar Church Building

Fund has been asked to present an

We have helped this boy in the past

and just yesterday we had decided to
give him something each month. We
may still help the family but it de
pends on whether or not anything is

Income

Tax

Exemption

Certificate

which they do not have.

has

not yet

This

money

been frozen, but could

be, depending on the attitude of the

tax people,

missing

drawer
Ralph will be
October.

attending the an

convention

of India in

It is held in Bilaspur and

considered to be

their "North Amer

ican". Brant Lee Doty of Great Lake

Bible College is the guest speaker,
Ralph writes:

"I

am not

unlocked

that is

illegal and dan

least the second one is

using his scooter in good fashion

although I expect he will soon ap
proach us for a

buses

have

The

other

excitement

is that

bulldozers

structions

demolishing

which people

on sidewalks.

Some of

con

have built
them are two

This is changing

the

ap

pearance of the city.

first one

was injured in an accident when they

were riding three on a scooter,
At

and

the city authorities are going about

stories.

something

injured

been damaged. (There is no greviance against the buses, but it just

their way of getting attention.)

the second went badly in debt while

the third still hasn't purchased his

gerous.

know

are committing violence, some people

have been

with

The

people

There is other excitement in

Kanpur.
A section of the students

them decided
on more
expensive
scooters than I was willing to profor them. One managed all right but
(7-23-90).

when

There is

leaves that

happy

with the outcome of the three scoot

ers which we gifted. All three of

scooter

drawer.

why Amarjeet

that he keeps money in it.

NEWS AND NOTES

nual church

from the

no reason

gasoline allowance.

One of the papers Ralph submit

ted for his correspondence course

received a failing mark (quite unus

ual

for

Mr. Harter).

looking forward to taking

He

is

over again but i t seems that

no choice.

not

the paper
he has

FINANCIAL REPORT -

MAY thru SEPT*90

FORWARDING AGENT PLANS INDIA TRIP

Beginning Balance 5-1-90

$1,165.90

Contributions;
IA

Howard Bond

25.00

Hampton Church

20.00

IL

First Church, Flora

195.00

IN

Osgood Church

120.00

First Church, Garrett

145.00

(H.Shellenberger
(L. Balliet

to obtain instructions and

West Walnut Church

KS

KY

40.00
102.50

Melvin Hank
Dr. Thomas Omer

NC

Liberty Sunday School

Capital City Church

OH

Leona Blythe

forms to

apply for a visa and preliminary in

quiries have been made as to the air
fare and other expenses involved.

50.00

If the Lord wills, the trip will

152.53

be for two weeks in late January and

80.00

1,829.47
100.00

Sherman Church
Clinton Church

1,600.00

Sebring Church

45.00

early February. Ralph expects the

weather will be quite comfortable

for an Ohioan at that time of year.

90.00

Ralph too is

his visitor.

Loyal Daughters' Class

100.00

opportunities to

502.00

and

Ruth Handwerk

715.00
200.00

making

plans

There should be

Mrs.

M/M Stephen Handwerk

M/M Warren Steiner

homes and

for

ample

speak in

services

perhaps to

dedicate

the new bookstore.

There will be
plenty to see and do as well as to

Linden Church

300.00

learn first hand of the operation of

Mrs.

200.00

this work of the Clinton Church.

W.

Lile

Old Stone Missionary

PA

Indian

25.00

East Union Bible School

MO

sent to the

Embassy in Washington, D.C. in order

100.00)

(L. Morrical)
Singles/Doubles Class

a U.S. Passport has been obtained, a

letter has been

25.00)
20.00)

(S. Vincent

Plans are being laid to send Ken

Downs to Kanpur in 1991. So far,
only tentative plans have been dis
cussed, but some of the first steps
have been taken. An application for

80.00

has

become

increasingly

It

important

Branch Hill Church

Homebuilders Class

100.00

that someone from Clinton

100.00

understand in detail the workings of

know

and

Oak Grove Church

125.00

the Mission.

Mrs. Laverne Romesburg

100.00

Since no one knows the

L.A.Nicholson
Embreeville Church

30.00

future but God alone, we must make

every effort to be ready for what

75.00

ever He has in store for us.

TX

Helen Burford
Dr. D.F.Peel

50.00
250.00

WA

Wapato Church

240.00

wv

Hooverson Hts Church

500.00

TN

Total Contributions:

8,286.50

The Elders

at

Clinton

that it is long past

one to visit the

decided

time for some

field and

as for

warding agent and missions chairman,

Ken is the logical choice as repres
entative.

Expenses:

INDIA

Scholarships

194.00

Salaries

815.00

Miscellaneous

825.00

U.S

Building Funds
Book Society
Postage & Supplies

U.K

Books

4,000.00
1,500.00
61.45
20.20

Total Expenses

7,415.65

Ending Balance 9-31-90

$2,036.75

NOTE

FROM KEN

As you have just learned,

I am
at least making preparations for a
visit to India.

With all the unrest

in so many parts of the world, it is

easy to just

stay at home

but

one

day Bud will leave India for good

and we must know how best to keep
the work in India going. I pray the
Lord will

benefit

bless

of the

this trip

Indian

for the

people

and

that you will pray for me as well.

K.D.

HARTER THROBS
INDIA MISSIONARY NEWS

NON-PROFIT

RALPH "bud" HARTER

U.S.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST

2545 W. COMET RD.

CLINTON,

CLINTON, OH

44216

ORQ.

POSTAGE
PAID

OHIO

PERMIT 7

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