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Bruce Edison Cumming 1921 - 2014 ! ! Missionary to! Venezuela ! ! was the one who identified most with the !Venezuelan people.” Bruce, with his wife Rhoda, gave spirit, soul and body to evangelize the state of Falcon, on the north-western coast of that country, and to build assemblies according to the pattern laid down in the New Testament. It took pressing circumstances, or strong persuasion by his fellow workers, to convince him to interrupt his labours where his heart was. ! He visited the humblest of homes, far from populated areas; preached publicly the Word of God in his down-to-earth, earnest way; Upon hearing that Bruce Cumming was to leave sponsored literature distribution in every hamlet; Venezuela after sixty years of service there, a constructed many gospel halls; and counselled a Christian in Caracas who had known the people who respected him for what he was as assemblies of God's people since the 1940s, said, well as what he did. Bruce Cumming was born "Well, of all the foreigners who have come to in Squamish, near Vancouver, Canada, on July this country to serve the Lord, Bruce Cumming 11, 1921, into a family of six boys and three FALL - WINTER, 2013/14 ISSUE 163 ! !! www.horizons.homeip.net girls, and grew up in Vancouver during the Great a house and a gospel hall in Cumarebo, Those Depression. His father was killed in a train buildings are icons to the present day. Bruce and accident when Bruce was eleven-years-old. Rhoda later relocated to a more adequate ! residence in nearby Tocopero. At age nineteen he had a desire to be right with ! God. Alone, he knelt down by a cattle trough While it is true, many centres in Falcon are and prayed, "O God, I am no good at all." There prosperous, large areas of that part of Venezuela came to mind what he had learned in the are scorching hot, dry and cruel to man and Woodland Drive Gospel Hall: "The blood of beast, and to God's people. But many in Falcon Jesus Christ his Son cleanses from all sin.” He responded to the Gospel, and some leaders in believed that great declaration from Holy New Testament churches in other parts of the Scripture. His soul was saved and his cigarettes country trace their spiritual heritage to what they were destroyed as a sign of new life. learned in an inauspicious childhood when "Don ! Bruce" arrived in the jeep. Friends persuaded him to join the Canadian ! army as a noncombatant, and he was engaged as Bruce's health failed when the couple was in a code breaker for four years. In England, before Vancouver in 2007. He suffered frequent falls being sent across the Channel, he longed to hear and was admitted to a care facility where he the Scriptures preached and to know God's remained quietly with his Bible, books and people. Bruce found an assembly of believers prayer, until his decease. Or was he there? and was baptized among them. Visiting David Rather, he was reliving unstinting service for the Livingstone's birthplace, he was challenged by Lord Jesus Christ in a certain corner of the vast Isaiah 6:8: "Who will go?" There he dedicated field, which is the world that is crying for the himself to the spread of the gospel. gospel. ! Donald R. Alves As World War II was ending, he was severely ! burned in Germany while rescuing a group of people from a burning building. Treatment HORIZONS required months of hospitalization in London. At Home and Abroad! ! www.horizons.homeip.net The promise that the Lord gave Jacob before he ! left Bethel, "I am with thee and will keep thee in You can view this issue, along with photos that accompany some reports, by requesting all places,” was the assurance that he received a pdf - [email protected] or on line: when returning to Canada in 1946. He was ! received into the fellowship of Christians in the HORIZONS PUBLISHING POLICY Fairview assembly, where his mother and sister, HORIZONS is mailed free of charge, to any assembly, Anna Jean, were members. The following year, in bulk quantities. It is usually published quarterly Bruce was joined in matrimony with Miss and its production is supported entirely by the freewill offerings of the Lord's people. Readers are Rhoda Alves. asked to notify us of changes of address and keep ! the number of magazines under review. Those Commended to full-time service in the Lord's wishing to have fellowship with the publication of HORIZONS may communicate with us directly. If a work, they arrived in Venezuela late in 1947 and tax-deductible receipt is desired for Canadian soon were engaged, along with others, in the residents, for fellowship sent to either HORIZONS or arduous project of constructing the rudiments of any of the LORD'S SERVANTS, please make cheque out to: HORIZONS !2 ! GOSPEL PERPETUATING FOUNDATION South Africa, Newsletter January, 2014! Kerrisdale Professional Centre David & Helen McKillen ———————— 10! 2025 West 42nd Avenue, #360 Current Address: 191 Moorfields Road, Kells, ! Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6M 2B5! BT42 3EF, Northern Ireland, U.K.! Phone (604) 266-5677 Fax: (604) 266-4359! Tel: +44 07756 084 003 ! E-mail: [email protected] ! E-mail: [email protected]! www.gpfcanada.org! ! ! Santa Maria, BRAZIL ————————— 12 CONTENTS! ISSUE No. 163 John & Christine McCann ! ! E-mail: [email protected]! TRIBUTE! Bruce Edison Cumming ———————— 1 ! ! SPECIAL PRAYER REQUEST Special Prayer Request! David R. Alves David R. Alves! Puerto Vallarta, Mexico ————————— 3! Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! James & Nelly Dyck ————————- 3! ! James & Nelly Dyck, and their six children E-mail: [email protected] ! (Levi, Simon, Andrew, Natalia, Maquela, and Burleigh Heads, AUSTRALIA! Josiah), have been a source of much joy to us for John & Olive McDowell ———————— 4 ! several years in the work of the Lord in Mexico. P.O. Box 55, Burleigh Heads, QLD 422! They are presently in Canada, as Nelly needs rest Phone: 07 55202734! and some medical tests done. !If no reply 0738701730 Mobile 0418757023! ! Lutsk, UKRAINE! Their youngest child, Josiah, two-years-and- Timothy & Rhoda Sloan ———————— 5! eight-months, has just been diagnosed with 7 Oaklands Drive, Newtownabbey,! leukaemia. Further tests are underway. Doctors Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, BT37 0XE! have told James & Nelly that he will require a !Phone: +44 (0) 28 2568 5312 few weeks of hospitalization, and some years of Moshi, TANZANIA! treatment. James & Nelly would cherish your Ron & Maria Cunningham ———————-6 ! prayers. PO Box 1015, Moshi, Tanzania, East Africa ! ! !E-mail: [email protected]! James & Nelly Dyck & Family ! ANGOLAN Literature Work! ! Samuel & Elizabeth Simonyi-Gindele ——-7! We came back to Ontario on December 20th, due P.O. Box 50 Chavuma, NW Province, Zambia to Nelly's health. She is needing blood-work E-mail: [email protected]! done and so will advise when we know more. ! ! Alhambra, CALIFORNIA ! In December, Josiah slipped on a couple of steps Thomas & Nelly Baker —————————-9! 1508 S. Sierra Vista Ave,Alhambra, CA, 91801 ! and has been complaining about sore bones ever E-mail: tnbaker71@gmail,com! since. I took him into emergency at the ! Woodstock hospital and they did some X-rays of Grande Prairie, ALBERTA! his legs and hips to try and determine Josiah's Gordon & Doreen Williams ———————10! problem. After not finding anything overly 10701 Lexington ST Grande Prairie, AB! T8X 0G4! outstanding, the doctor decided to take some E-mail: [email protected]! blood tests to see if there was anything out of the HORIZONS !3 the present and privileged to spread the Gospel !to millions of souls.” We have managed, with the Lord's help, to continue to display Gospel verses on over sixty sites in the main cities: Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, for millions of people to read and there have been some interesting responses. ! Although we are very restricted presently with shortness of breath and needing oxygen most of the time, we cannot do what once we did, so do thank God for young men raised up to continue ordinary. Upon seeing the test, he immediately to preach the Gospel and here, at Burleigh sent us to London Children's hospital for Josiah Heads, to take responsibility in the assembly. We to see a specialist. After some more blood tests, look to the Lord to preserve them. The brethren the doctor came back and gave us the unwanted have just had the permit renewed for twelve news that Josiah has leukaemia. At this time they months, for permission to hold two open-air still do not know what kind that he has, but have Gospel meetings each week in the park opposite told us that he will need to be hospitalized for a the shops. For this we praise God. few weeks to begin treatment and then continue ! with ongoing treatment over the next two to Our brother Clive Barber has kept busy in the three years. NOTE: There are still many Gospel and recently he and Bryan Stewart, from variables that could change the treatment plan. Northern Ireland, (who settled in South Also, the doctor told us that Josiah has under Australia), had Gospel meetings in Adelaide, half the blood in his body that he should have, so with good interest and blessing in salvation. they are currently giving him more blood. This is Clive has gone over to New Zealand this month, all we know for now. We cherish your prayers. to have meetings and follow up on previous ! !contacts there. Burleigh Heads, AUSTRALIA! Measureless distance the Saviour came, John & Olive McDowell! To rescue men from sin and shame.