Jan - Feb 1991

Dear Friends & Brethren;

Another year gone and this new one rushing through. We are kept busy here with our works and thus never seem to get too bored at any one given time. In review:

WBS OUTREACH WORK
1. Wrote and printed (2500) a preliminary course called "Foundation For Faith".
2. Reprinted Introductory Lesson (3500).
3. Reprinted basic booklets in a narrow format to meet mailing
restrictions: Red Book (2000); Yellow Book (2000); Green Book (1000).
4. Number of current active students (PNG): Introductory Lessons-747; Books-707.
5. Three students have completed the whole range of lessons we offer at the present time.
6. 14 baptisms have resulted as a direct result of the WBS work in Papua New Guinea.
7. TRIPS
          A. April- to Papua New Guinea to talk with follow up workers with the WBS and to visit with churches we had previously worked with.
         B. October - to Vanuatu to advertise WBS courses and to visit with current students. Stopped over in Fiji and talked with workers we have there.

HIGHLIGHTS
Due to a continuing drop off of support for our labors and the upward spiral of living costs, Kathy continues to work as secretary for the South Pacific Bible College and my printing shop has been taking in more and more commercial printing. All monthly support now being provided is used in the Outreach Work.
* In June the College St church in Lebanon Tenn. agreed to act as our sponsoring congregation in the outreach work.
* In August, Dan Martin a Christian brother was hired full time in the print shop as a paste-up artist and printing press operator.
* Jab and Becky Mesa left the work in Goroka PNG and moved to Lae PNG due to continued break-ins of their house. He began doing follow-up work with WBS students.
* Began a program to get the Mesa family into Vanuatu to follow-up the WBS by 1991. (They became available for this assignment after support from their US churches was not renewed.)
* Taught in a local series called "Mega Man". Lessons by men, for men about men.
* Began putting together lessons for a Biblical Extension Training Program to be used for WBS students and members of the church who want to learn more about the Bible but cannot attend an organized Bible Training School.

FAMILY HIGHLIGHTS
Tobey: Still trying to figure out how to get 27.75 hours out of each day. Balancing a full-time commercial printshop with extensive involvement of the World Bible School Program in Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Vanuatu.

* Kathy: Her golf game improved to a 27 handicap and two trophies won. One being most improved Saturday player. Busy as secretary with the Bible College five days a week.

* Terasa: Continues on the Dean's list at Harding University with a 3.65 GPA. Totalled her (daddy's) car on a trip back to Joplin over Christmas. Decided she had found a young lad her father might allow her to marry and announced wedding plans for 1991.

* Jason: Working at Foodtown in meat department. Most money going to keep his car (1971 Austin Mini Clubman) on the road with a blaring music system. Graduated from High School in December. Took his SAT test and accepted for the fall semester at Harding University.

CURRENT AFFAIRS
Since moving to New Zealand in 1986 I had been on the committee of the South Pacific Focus Program which is a program of the local congregation with help of sister congregations in the USA. This program is designed to reach out into the South Pacific with the same emphasis as a program we proposed in our move to New Zealand. We have combined our efforts and the program is now working in the following areas: Fiji, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Papamoa (20kms) from Tauranga. We have been asked by a congregation in California to become involved actively with a work they have been overseeing for 20 years in Tonga. This we will be doing in April. The work in Fiji is very extensive and we have over 3500 WBS students and three full-time fully support follow up workers for WBS. We are planning WBS Seminars in Fiji later this year to consolidate and benefit from the extensive WBS work which has gone on and continues to proceed there.

Jab and Becky arrived in Vanuatu in January and have been busy teaching WBS students and the group called Vanuatu Christian fellowship. Jab has also met up with brethren in the village of Eton who have ties with Bro Ed Crookshank who helped start the Lord's church in Vanuatu. There are now 76 students on WBS in Vanuatu. Jab is making an effort to introduce the brethren at Eton with the students on WBS courses.

As mentioned in past reports the Otumoetai congregation through the South Pacific Focus Program are overseeing the Mesa's work. Part of this support is raised each Sunday in a "Coins For Christ" appeal. After the sermon and before the final prayer the children circulate throughout the congregation gathering coins (and bills) which is deposited in buckets at the front. The children are very enthusiastic and learn a good lesson about giving. Our congregation of 120 members averages $75 per week in just coins. I share this with you to show another way in which your congregation can become involved in a small way with the large task of reaching the lost for Christ. This "Coins For Christ" could be marked for Bibles which we are very much in need of at the present time. At present we have requests for over 200 Bibles from WBS students which we cannot provide. WILL YOU GIVE IT A GO?

We appreciate your valued support. Please pray for the students who are studying and the workers who are following up.

God will bless you!

In Christ,

the Huffs