From the Director

Dear Friends,

People keep telling me I have aged considerably in the past four years. Am I really worrying night and day about how we are ever going to pay for this campus? Yes. . . and no.

NO: The amazing and wonderful events in this special issue could never have happened this past year had I only worried about getting people to give $15. 95!

YES: I really do feel a burden sometimes. Why?

People often tell me we should give up our pledge not to compete with mission agencies for funds.

Some people say we should have never gotten into debt in the first place. But of course buying a car or a house or a campus on time simply means you lose the house if if you don't make the payments.

Others wonder if U . S. evangelicals need any one property this big to focus attention on the 16,750 remaining untouched fields. (Ask the 40 or so agencies that have located their personnel here.)

ALAS, most of all I personally struggle with the fact that we are not catching up very fast on our quarterly payments of $175,000. We have only paid $50,000 on our December 1st payment. Why would God allow this?

You (who have read this far) are undoubtedly a person who has already tried to help us, with at least your own one time gift or more. But neither you nor I can solve this problem with our own funds alone. You can help me carry this burden if you will join us in 1981 in ever more serious prayer for the final mission fields and for this project.

After you enjoy the array of wonderful events described in this issue, please, please take a serious look at page 15. That page will tell you the most challenging of all ways for us to catch up. God wants us to "expect great things." Let's make the attempt!