What’s Happening

Payment Crisis Averted

The October 1st campus payment crisis was just about the worst yet. We were a full month late in paying our July payment. That meant we had only two months to save up the $300,000 for October 1st.

We could see disaster corning and asked the college (in view of the upcoming "Last Thousand" campaign) to allow us to pay only the interest, meaning about $150,000).

What a cliff hanger, their decision, and had it been otherwise I don't know what would have happened. They said, yes, and we scraped by one week late.

God does not want this to happen. We sure don't. You don't.

But there are not yet enough people who have discovered us and who can see the high priority of this project! Or we haven't been able to convince them of the crucial need for this vast program.

We'll keep trying.

Is the Last Thousand" campaign helping? Yes. Some may now be heartened to help us with current paymenial But it is hindering, too, we think. Some may be giving to that instead of our regular payments.

Anyhow, don't give up.

You are joined by 10,000 additional readers this month (Maybe you are one of them?) See page 20.
Our radio stations are up in 130 now.
The new United Methodist Mission Board in Atlanta, a tine evangelical group working within the Methodist world, has just now taken up the Frontier Fellowship's Global Prayer Digest
Some wonderful new plans are unfolding with our University.
More excitement next time.
USCWM Receives Reports of Progress in Church Mission Programs
USCWM staff recently learned that the Methodist Church in Angola is growing at a 10 percent annual growth rate.
The head of missions of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod said that in 1980, the 3¬million member church voted to triple its mission force by 1990 and enter 10 new fields. By 1986, they have already entered 18 new fields.
The Foursquare Church voted in 1980 to begin work among tOO new peoples by 1990; so far, they have entered 125!
A member of the Baptist General Conference joyously reported an upsurge of mission involvement in that denomination. "Eighteen missionaries were commissioned for the foreign field this year," he said. "Last year there were 12. Near to that there was an avenge of only 3 or 4 per year."
Xenos Christian Fellowship in Columbus, Ohio reports having a regular Frontier Fellowship meeting with over 2400 people in attendance!