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February 1990 Newsletter
COLOMBIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION
Dale and Jeanie Meade
In the jungle and prairie of Southeastern Colombia
Volume 18, Issue 2 February, 1990
MISSIONARY VIDEOS
Videos for rent? No we have not opened up a new business. But we do have some videos to offer. In conjunction with my work as president of the 1991 National Missionary Convention I purchased several videos. Three were shown with excellent results at the Cincinnati Convention. The other is a video that is being used to promote this year's convention in Tulsa. All deal with the theme of world evangelism. Each one takes a different perspective. All are excellent. All make a very effective Sunday evening or Wednesday Bible study topic. We will send them out free of charge. Your only obligation is to return the videos immediately after presenting them, so that we can loan them to other churches.
Why not consider one of the themes for an upcoming meeting. The videos are so well done that everyone in your church who sees them will be talking about the impression they received for weeks. In fact you may have to provide a repeat viewing for the people who did not attend the first showing.
The topics are as follows:
GOD IS BUILDING A CITY, This video deals with the urban explosion in the third world. It graphically depicts the challenges presented by this phenomena. The story vividly depicts the need to reevaluate the way we do missionary work. In the process it challenges us to reach out to the world's population while this state of change makes it open to the Gospel.
THE CHALLENGE BEFORE US, Here is a video that will convince everyone in your church of the need to actively support missions NOW. The dramatic impact of a world lost and looking for a savior is convincingly portrayed. A person will finish the video with a greatly enhanced understanding of the challenge that world evangelization sets before us.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE POOR, Don't watch this video unless you are willing to come to terms with the devastating poverty that grips the majority of the world. God has charged us with a special responsibility to "preach the good news to the poor." It will be impossible to watch this saga and not have a certain sense of guilt about our failure to reach out to the world's poor with our message of hope and love.
PEACE CHILD, Our main speaker for the 1990 National Missionary Convention will be Don Richardson, well known author of the book, Peace Child. This video is a powerful portrayal of the happening chronicled in that book. It will inspire you to drop everything and leave for the mission field now? (note: this video was filmed on locating among the Sawi people of Irian Jaya. It contains brief scenes of violence and tribal nudity.)
Don't miss out on this opportunity to present a genuinely exciting missionary message to your church. Write and request the tape that most interests you. Or better yet, schedule all four videos and plan a "Missions Month" for your church in the near future. This might be the best way to kick off a registration drive for the 1990 Missionary Convention.
BETWEEN TWO TIMES
For one month now, I have been living in Chicago during the week and driving home on the weekend. By and large, this arrangement has worked out well. It does mean a lot of driving. I spend 14 hours each week on the road. But it is a whole lot cheaper and easier than moving to the Chicago area for a year. I thought about just staying up here for the semester, but I miss my family too much. So, I travel between two times. In fact, the schedule is different from a regular furlough only in that I am home on weekends and gone during the week. That is the opposite of a furlough where I speak every weekend. There is one difference though. By coming to Wheaton, I cross a time zone.
That has proved to be a difficult adjustment. Since we are an hour behind here, I find that my biological clock is off. I get hungry then it is not time to eat. I am ready to hit the sack long before my room mate. After a few days, though, my body begins to adjust. The only trouble is that just about the time it is getting adjusted, it is time to head home for the weekend. Once there, I have the opposite problem. Jeanie calls me for supper, and I am not hungry. Everyone else is ready for bed before I am. Then, just as I begin to adjust to Ohio time, it is time to return to Wheaton! Oh well, I guess that is one minor inconvenience I will have to put up with. It is for a fairly short time. But I have noticed that my "older body" does not make the adjustments as easily as it did.
SNOW
One thing I have learned about Chicago. We have a lot of wind and a lot more snow than Ohio. So far, three out of the four weekends I have traveled home, I have had to shovel my car out of a big snow drift. Yesterday alone we have 8 1/2 inches. Then with the wind, my car was completely buried. While I really like the snow and the cold weather, I must admit it gets tiring shoveling out all of the time. One advantage I have, I can walk to classes each day. That way I only have to move the car once a week. Before too long, it will be spring. (Remember, the groundhog did not see his shadow.) Fortunately, I have had to drive in a heavy snow just once. Even then I drove out of the bad roads after about four hours. Every time I drive, I'll look up and see a little plane flying overhead. That makes me wish we had our little Cessna up here. This hard seven hour drive would be an easy two and a half four flight.