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January. February, March, 1980
March 21, 1980

Forwarding Agents-

M/M Bob Pruitt

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GrantsSo.Pass,
97526
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us exaltHisHispraise
name together,".
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34:1&35
We would0 like
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sible His work,in.this country. How we praise Hln also for each
of you who
have"let
has bless;d
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possible. The above Psalm goes on to tell- of how'God

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and die certainly
has done
that
for n/and
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know has
it for for
each those
of you,.who Hay
be praised
for His mighty
works!

the

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work of the Cagayan Valley Children's Home. At

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Children in the Home. Si,nce then one, Sharon, 9mos.,

21 chllWSi presently l"the Hcime." We

fits us all in our house, but He does, and I praise Him for it.

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comingOnoftheBrian,
of
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the hurt
other
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Brian

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^he is 22 yrs. old and a widow, without anyone
a*""""?
answer
her prayers,
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Lt S^ed
that we h^,
only we did not know it at the time.
Shortly
after herbutcominZl
plied'the eSra
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^ y^' ^o without our knowing it," the Lord siip-

Sr SfeS V ^he is :a.believer in the Lord and the Lord answered her prayers by iJkihg

the
Lrd wS^n Ihe 1^"
We nraise rK,i a +k
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"onderful it has been to see

these children.. When Arnold came he was very-sad^ arid lonely,

the way the children took him in and made him their special prdiect

his project, helping him arid loving him. aIIZLIZlith us

She

^'^ returned.to visit him and to take him to visit his father

Zfc -i i;id Ihe M^rlw fr

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^hy

he said he said he. did not w4nt to come

"thing about it. Acouple weeks later,

coml"badk Z he hI/k
smiles, ,with his grandmother, saying that AmolTd wanted'to
sZint hele^ has-been very happy since. He loves our devotion time, and alwayi-Is

--<!K fd helping ..and being a good boy. Amboli came to us almost more dead than aiive

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grandmother.

erasing the bad and filling them with His love.

^her children in the family, but

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mother wasied
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saysf "pfthlr tl the falwl

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to another place to live. Psalm 68:5,6a
the Cagayan
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to the
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one of His
promises.
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in I God
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widows...GodHome
gives
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For those who gave money for the children's Christmas, we have used ahm.t half

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silverware
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problem receiving our

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Joy Collins, another hlessing sent from the Lord to meet a need I did not know I had at
the timei has been very busy taking-in, letting-out, and making over clothes to keep the
'21 children properly dressed. She works hard at it, and is a great help. Thank you to
all of you who have sent clothes for the children. We really appreciate that they have all
been very usable clothes.

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Praise the Lord.that over 200 students were l)aptized in our two High Schools, this school
year. Please keep these students in your prayers, and also the teachers as they are the
light of the Gospel to the s.tudents,

At the Seminary commencement this year, the last of February, eight students graduated,
and they, plus many other students are bus^'' in evangelism this summer. Some already have

a church where they are serving, while others are traveling in evangelism.'

The summer activities are aboii't to get under way. i/e have a basketball-evengelistic
team out again this summer, and we pray that they will be as fruitful for the Lord as they
were last year, We will also be having our LYLS Clinic - with many young women going out
and teaching hundreds of children the Word of God. There are three weeks of camp sched
uled, plus the other rallies and conventions of the churches in the Cagayan Valley and
surrounding areas.

We ask you to keep these activities" in your prayers, that the Word of

God will be spread and will not return unto Him void, but that there will be a great

harvest of souls.

March 3 oharles and Poberta Selby left for the States for their furlough. We really miss
having them here.

Please remember then in your prayers also, as Roberta's health is not

good, and for.safety as they travel.

W hope that any of you who have an opportunity to

hear thorn will do so,

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We are glad to have Harvey.and Helen Beard coming to join the missionary staff while the
Selbys are gone,
Beard will be teaching in the Seminary and
Beard will teach
piano, help in music^ and also will be Carolyn Boudreaux's school teacher. We praise God
for sending them to help,^

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Aga:in I want t,9 "thank.each of ybu for your :part in -the Lord'"s work, here and around the
world. .Lhose Who pray for uS, we thank..the Lord for you, becs.use we certainly need your

prayers.^ Thos^ who give financially'or in other ways, we. than'- the Lord for you also,

as that is also important to keep the Lord's work going,

I know the Lord blesses each one

o"f you for your faith in Him, to supply your needs as you give to held in the'spreading of
His Word. Anyone interested in'sending help for any ]:ihase of the work may do so by sending
your check to the forwarding agents.

Be sure and design-r.te what area of the work. - The

cost Oi. operating the 'Children's Home is figured at -335^00

child per month. We now have
eight of the children partially or fully "adopted", ^nyone interested in "adopting" a
child may get more information by writing to me or to the forwar^in.g agents. There are
children "unadopted",

v/e pife.ise the Lord that even though prices have" been soar-

Ing^higher, we have been able to not only continue the pre.geut work, but to expand also.

Praise Him for giving all. we need to operate on,. We praise the Lord for supply from His
uncountable riches, His riches in glory in Ohrist Jesus. Thank "you all again very much,
May the Lord be praised 'and glorified as His Word goes out and as we are all His light
in this world.

In Christ's love and Service,

Mary Pruitt & Joy Collins

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MESSAGE FROM MARY

Mary Pruitr
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Forwarding Agents

PHILIPPINE MISSION CHURCHES OF CHRIST

Aparri, Cagayan 1118

Philippines

April - May-June-July, 1980

M/M Bob Pruitt

2784 So. River Rd.

Grants Pass, OR 97526

AUG 2 7 19S0
Dear Family in Christ,
Praise the Lord! It has finally happenedwe are now living in our new home in LaMo! How we

praise and thank the Lord for making it possible for us to move into this beautiful spacious building. We
praise and thank Him for each of you who have given so much and prayed so faithfully for this event to

come about. We moved June 7th and it was an exciting day for everyone. The big boys went to Lallo with the first truck load of furniture and started cleaning so that it would be ready for everyone
that afternoon. Mrs. Boudreaux was a great help by talcing ail of the middle-sized children to her house
so the other aunties could finish the last minute packing and organizing and watch the babies. That night we
all sang praises to the Lord and thanked

here will come many wonderful, strong

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Christians. Please join us in this praise

and prayer.

This was a growing summer for the Home, as we increased by four and lost one. We are sorry that
Cora, one of the Megrito girls, decided she did not want to continue her education and decided to re
turn to her home. Becau.se of no school in her area and financial problems of her family we were helping her.

Cora bRcanie a baptilzed_ believer while living with u.s and we are thankful thaj_although she is away

from us,'~s1ie IS still in t"Ee Lord. .Jason joined us the last of March at the age 6r"S' mos. 'irie was a JM?'
sad sight because of neglect and abuse, but now, as he is celebrating his first birthday we are thankful for the growth and happiness evident in him. We are thankful that we are also able to have contact
with his mother and pray that she will learn to love and trust in Jesus. Twelve year old Marino joined
us in April, and was one who was baptized during camp. We praise the Lord th.at we could help Ma-

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rioo and also that because of this Home he was able to come to know Christ and accept Him as His Savior,

May 30th two-month-old Romy was brought by his mother, who did not want him. His body was covered with

sore.s and he suffered from lack of attention. Praise the Lord that through His grace and medicine Romy's sores

soon disappeared. When his father came a few days later (he was gone for a long time on his job) he
found that hi.s wife had given us the babj*. Me came to see Romy and when he saw his excellent con
dition and the good home, he asked if it would be possible for him to bring his almost-two-year-old son

also, because now he had no one to care for him. When Roger arrived June 0 he weighed 12 lbs., could hardly
sit by himself and could not Iiold

of 38 baptism.s. W'e praise the Lord

that among those baptized were

BACK ROW:

two from the

Jjater an-

Left to Right Felix. Josy, Brian, Charito, Romy, Sherry Ann,

other of our boj'S and Julia, one

of the workers, were baptized.

Jessie, Mila, Marino, Roger, Ariel, Jason,

FRONT ROW: Michael. JoAnn. Amboli. Roberta, Manuel, Joy,

Home.

Praise the Lord for their new life

Rene, Olive, Arnold, Jody.

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elementary besides five in kindergarten. Tessie, one of the workers,

is also our kindergarten teacher. One of our older girls, who is too slow
yet to be able to go to regular school, is the helper ia the kinder, and

is thus being taught. She is making good progress and may be able to

join the others in elementary next year.

Because of the added children and the added work we need to hire more

staff. We are praying for the Lord to send us the staff that can best fill

the need and do his work, and we know that as He has supplied before,
again. We also trust Him to provide the added finances

needed with more staff, more children, and rising costs. We know that He
along,
the 33
i^iease join
us infor
prayer
andvears
praisethat
for

those things.

We praise the Lord that as our Seminary ha.s opened we have almost 80 students enrolled. We are
thankful that there are over 1,000 students enrolled in our two High Schools and that the schools are
becoming more self-supporting.
We hope to have the water tower, wind mill, wash-house, and store room going up soon. The House
is still very bare of furniture and a few ot.iier tilings, but they will come with'time. But there are some

things we noyd if anyone would like a project or something special to do. Because of the never ending
job of clothing 24 children, in which Joy Collins play.s a large part, we could u.se such things as but
tons, zipper-s, ricrac, lace, etc. for the sewing and

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ply your needs also. Please keep all of us, as

well as Mr. and Mrs. Selbj' (who are on fur-

Kindergarten
Kindergarten Class
Class

lough) in your prayers.

In Christ's service,

Mary Pruitt
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P. 0. Box ^9
Aparri,' Cagayan 1118

Philippines

j'lESSAGE PROM MARY

Philippine Mission Churches Of Christ
August, September, October, 198O

Forwarding. Ageiitss
M/M Bob Pruitt
278^ So, River Rd,

Grants Pass, OR 97526

Dear Friends in Christ,

These last three months have been filled with many blessings from the Loird, and we praise
.Him for each one. We praise Him and thank Him for each one of you, who because of your
love and faith in the Lord, have given so much and so faithfully, and have prayed for.,us,
so that this work is able to gc on. May the Lord continue to bless each one of you for

your faith and love for Him.

The Seminary;-has just started its second semester, with 73 students enrolled. Ibis has
been a good-year in the seminary and ail of the students seem very dedicated and full of
desire.to leam to teach and preach God's Word, We praise the Lord that we have not had
any problem students and that He has sent us those whom He wants to study here, as we
have prayed,

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-^--praise the-iord for the -victorious^ Week'df^Evangelism that"t7a^Tieia^ Oct7n5*-fp^^W'^^

two high schools.

There were 16^ students who accepted Christ as their Savior and were

baptized in the two high schools. Please continue to pray for these schools as they

reach many with the Word of God, as it is taught everyday to about 1,000 ybung people.
Pray that these new Christians will qTow strong in their love and service to our Lord,

Our oldest girl in the Cagayan Valley Children's Home, Minda, is a 2nd year student at
our Southern Isabela High School, She has placed 5th in her class, and is working hard

^ be first. She also has won the 2nd place in the essay contest held before the Week of
^angelism,^ How we praise.the Lord for making it possible for Minda to attend this

Christian high school and for the spiritual growth that has taken place in her as a re
sult, We pray for the day that we have a high school on our property in Lal-lo so that
all of our children will be able to benefit from a Christian hipb school education (most
all of the other high schools are Catholic),

The family in the Children's Home has grovm and shrunk since, the last newsletter. In

Au^st our little Roberta left us to live with her aunt and uncle. We really miss her,
after having-her for ^ years, but we are very thankful that she is being raised in a
hristian home, and that ohere will be pcsoibilities of seeing her again. Just this
month we have grown by three. On the 9th of 0-3tober two little boys joined our family.

Amor will be 3 yrs. old'in December and his brother, Gloridel, was 4 months old. Their
mother died when Gloridel was born and the father was unable to take care of the child-

ren. They lived pn an island and 't

twu --^ays vr lk frcm thoir plaoo to the shores

to catch the boat that would bring them to rhe mainland where they could buy their, needs,
ISO the father could not do his farming because of having to care for the children, and
thus had no subsistence, Gloridel.only weighed 7-2- lbs. when he arrived, and vr.s a sad,
skinny sight. We have many more boys than girls in the Home and have been hoping that
we would get a girl. On the l4th little Merma Leah joined us, and how happy we are for
this pretty little giil of 3 weeks. She is an illegitimate child and we praise the Lord

that we are able to give her a good Christian home.

At this time we had 27 children.

We are always thankful that we are able to help the children physically as well as spirit

ually, Sometimes they come to us in very bad condition, and we give them love and food,

and pray that the Lord will make them well and strong.

Such was the case with little

loridel. He was in very bad shape with 3rd degree malnutrition. Everyday we prayed for

his health and strength. He ate well, but still was very weak.

Just one week after

arriving in our home Gloridel went to be .'itl our Heavenly Father. We were surprised
by his sudden death and of course saddened by the loss of one we loved, but we know that
the Lo:^ had His hand in this because of our continued prayer for His working in Gloridel.
we praise God for the assurance we have through Jesus Christ that Gloridel is with Him

in hea.yen and that he is not in pain or hunger anymore. We praise tjod for His love that
possible
for us
to spend
eternity
of the forgiving
of
Godj through
the blood
of Jesus
Christ.
Ourwith
God'sHim,
lovebecause
is so great,
that He waspower
willing
to give His son for us s.inners. And the love of Christ is also beyond understanding, that

He was willing to give His life for us. May we all bring glory and honor to His name,
as we serve Kim.

We all praised the Lord on the 19th of September when our Home was hooked up to the elec

tricity and our whole house was lighted up. What a blessing this is, as it is so much
easier to do the work, have devotions, care for the children, when you have light. It
will cost us more in dollars, but we praise God that He is supplying all that for us.
through you who love Him,

The water tower and windmill are still in the process of being built. We praise God for
the great gifts that have come in to help with this project, and we pray for quick com
pletion, Our rainy season is coming upon us, and in some ways makes it easier to carry
water, but in other ways makes it moife difficult. Our real problem during the rainy
season is getting all the diapers and clothes dry.

those babies.

It takes a lot of diapers for all

We have three in the training process, but that is still a lot of laundry,

as they are not yet trained.

What we really need is a dryer.

The kids are all growing so fast that Joy Collins never lacks for something to do in
fitting, mending, and making over clothes. But Joy will be going on a short furlough,
beginning the middle of November until Kiarch. We will miss her while she is gone, and I
am sure the kids will learn to appreciate her more, as they will be waiting anxiously-

for her return, Joy is busy now finishing up making pajamas for e-veryone and getting
them all sufficiently out-fitted before she leaves, I want to say a great big THANK YOU
to all who have given us so many beautiful clothes. There have been very few things that
were no good and unable to be used.

Some things are made over or made into something

else, but they are all used. Thank yoii also to all who have sent us toys and other needed
items for the Home. We praise and thank the Lord for you and your love for Him, shown
through your generosity,

I am also working on my furlough plans.

As of now I am planning on leaving the last part

of April or the first part of May, but I am not yet planning any speaking dates before
June in case I am not able to leave as early as planned. You may contact my forwarding
agents to set up dates.

Part of the uncertainty of my furlough pl^ns stems from our need to acquire a perma.nani'
license for the Home before I leave.

Before this can be done the Mission must be

changed from a corporation to a foundation.

Pray that all this may be accomplished sgcti.

Also we are waiting for those who will be covering for me while I am gone. We praico
the Lord that Mrs. Shirley Toledo, from Lynnwood, Washington, is coming to work in the
office in Aparri, which will free me to spend all my time with the work in the Home in

Lal-lo,

Mrs. Toledo is now raising her support and will come as soon as she has it, (we

wish she were already here).

If anyone is interested in helping fbrs. Toledo they may

contact her at: Shirley Toledo, 5220 176th S. W. Sp. 83, Eynmjocd, A 98036-

We arc also waiting for someone to take over the directorship of the Home while I am gone.
There is a couple coming for a 2 year term, who may be able to do this work. They are
also still in the process of fund-raising (living-link) so pray for their quick access
to funds that they may soon be here with us to serve the Lord in this place.

Thank you all so much for your love and prayers and your faithful and generous giving.
How I praise the Lord, for each one of you and your love for the Lord. Without you, this
work would not be possible, This work is yours as much as our, I praise the Lord for
sending me here to work for Him, and for the joy of my work, I pray that each of you

find joy in your part, in the prayer and support of the work here in the Philippines,
and in other places around the world.

Let us pray for the peace of this world, and do

as much as possible to bring the peace of our Lord Jesus Christ to all.
In Christ's service,

Mary Pruitt