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Pastors' Conference WMIJ Convention Houston Texas, 1968 Addresses: Pastors' Conference WMIJ Convention PASTORS’ CONFERENCE For Release After 9:00 a.m., Monday, June 3 are unashamed of the Gospel of Christ and its implications, it is Good News. Home Bible fellowships are Good News. The renewal James N elson is a regional missionary to the Navaho Indians, of the church beyond the walls of the building is Good News. stationed in Shiprock, N. M. Serving under the Southern Bap­ When Southern Baptists live out the Christian experience, it is tist Home Mission Board, Nelson emphasizes development of Good News. Acts 8:4 tells the experience of Christians moving out Navaho Indian leadership and establishment of new missions in his work. of a defined area of operation. The reason for the move is beside the point. They moved! Just the fact that they moved out was not Good News. But the fact that they went everywhere preaching the Word was Good News. This is expressed in verse eight where it was said, “and there was great joy in that city”. Good News To Missions America Now come fly with me over rugged Navaholand, and take a look at some Good News in Missions America. By Jimmy Nelson Here is Good News for Missions America. God is taking people where they are and redeeming them. He is making new creatures to Tom Shortbrother is the name. Two Gray Hills Chapter area is walk in a new way. Look at Wallace Costello at a sheep camp. A his home. A little mud and rock one room building is his house. A Navaho Christian witnessed to him of Jesus’ power to save. God wife, three boys and four girls make up his family. saved Wallace. This man began a study program in the word of The Problem: The father is unemployed. They can’t get on wel­ God. Going away to Kansas, he lived with a section gang on the fare. One child is mongoloid. The children have inadequate clothes; railroad and bore his testimony. Three months later, Wallace had and at times are hungry. School attendance is irregular. The parents six new Christian brothers. Today he is a lay preacher with a steady are both alcoholics. The minimum principles of sanitation go unob­ secular job supporting his family and singing, “Amazing Grace, how served. And the entire family unit is without motivation. There is sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me.” Here is Good News no Good News in this home! Why such a condition in these United for Missions America. States of America? God is taking redeemed men and calling them into Christian lead­ We took from the Navaho Indians what was rightfully theirs; their ership among their people. Kenneth Norton was saved in Blanding, country, their initiative, their pride. We destroyed their natural way Utah, married a young Christian woman and moved to Shiprock. of life and waited too long to try to give them a real sense of His wife Alice was given a beating with barbed wire by her father direction. the night she was saved. He objected to Christianity. God has Progress has been made; public schools, Public Health Service, called this young man and young woman to minister. He serves as the B1A have all made good contributions. In it ail, however, there Navaho preacher to the Navaho congregation in Shiprock. He also has been the destructive spirit of paternalism. Almost every move goes to various preaching points, and “there if great joy in that was made in such a way as to tell the Navaho Indian that he “didn’t city.” Kenneth is studying and preparing for a wider ministry— have it”. So we said to him, “We’ll give it to you.” even now as he supports his family by painting. Here is Good News We sent to him alcoholics. We sent to him materialists. We sent for Missions America. some immoral people to him. Often we sent to him men who wanted God is calling together little groups of Christians across the res­ a good deal for themselves, with little or no concern for the per­ ervation to form mission type churches. Take Whitehorse for exam­ sons with whom they were working. ple. Just 16 or 17 believers, but a fellowship in Christ. The Home Finally, we rejected the pleas of every major tribal leader, and Mission Board made a $240 gift for materials; the believers used it legalized alcohol for Indians. Until that time, there were few al­ and today they have a lovely little building that they can maintain, coholics. Today, fourteen years later, 40,000 Navahos are affected and a program carried on by their mission leader. These Christians by alcoholism or problem drinking. are growing in the grace and knowledge of their Lord Jesus Christ. We told them to become industrious and make a living. About “And there was great joy in that place.” Here is Good News for 8,000 managed to live on 30,000 square miles in the late 1900’s. Missions America. Today 120,000 live in this area. Seven inches of moisture per year God is demonstrating His ability to take men in the power of the doesn’t grow much grass. Sheep herding is rather poor picking in Holy Spirit and doing what He intended to do all the time—develop this day. leadership. God calls Navahos to preach to Navahos. The Navaho The country has a sort of gutted beauty with the mesas, canyons, preacher knows the culture, the way of life, the distinctive traditions, arroyos and splotches of mountains. But beauty alone won’t feed the superstitions, the deep hurts, the tribal longings, the inner yearn­ families. Amidst all this beauty and marks of progress, we are still ing for a better way for his people. His people can understand him. ministering to one of the neediest mission fields, not just of Amer­ They can see what God has done for one of their own. This does ica, but of the world. There is 60% illiteracy; superstitution; folks away with the middle man. This brings us back to the precious doc­ still dying at the chant of the medicine man; $66 annual income per trine of believer’s priesthood. head of family; the old way failing—the new confusing. God can take these men, prepare these men, motivate these men, You don’t believe it! You don’t want to believe it. This is your use these men, and the New Testament experience is that “they precious, prosperous, progressive, peaceful country. You’ll go to the went everywhere preaching the Word . .” and there is great joy in Holy Land, but you don’t want to spend a week in a desert of those places. Good News—Missions America. human need. That is why you won’t believe it. The question is raised. Let’s be careful that these movements don’t This is a small segment of Missions America. Where is the Good get out of our hands. May the Lord help us to see the need of the News? In the Lord Jesus Christ—that’s where it is. movements staying out of our hands and in God’s hand! Souls are being saved, men are being born again. God is calling Of course, guidance is necessary. For this reason, across the res­ out native leadership, and little mission groups are being formed ervation the regional missionary makes a continuing effort to instruct across our land. That is Good News. and guide—in word but more emphatically by demonstrating the When, without restraint, we enter open doors anywhere God opens love of Jesus in his actions among the people to whom he ministers. them, it is Good News. When we meet man with the Gospel of the Thank you, pastors. God bless you for your efforts. Your churches Lord Jesus Christ, where he is, by any means, to bring him to God, gave us educational opportunity, financial support, and leadership it is Good News. When we trust the Holy Spirit to work with all through the Home Mission Board. cultural or language groups in our land, it is Good News. When we Good News to Missions America can be extended endlessly if all of us will permit God to use us. We plead understanding and pa­ resist no longer the Holy Spirit. She yielded by faith to the Son of tience. Let us be flexible. You sent us out. We are the product of God. Now she is a dedicated Christian mother. your churches. Trust us to follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit. There is the retired baseball umpire from the Southern Associa­ To be sure, crossing language, provincial, and cultural barriers is tion. He was lost to God’s Kingdom cause. Touched by the warmth frustrating and difficult. We come away from Tom Shortbrother say­ of an evangelistic church he made his way back to God . found ing, “Oh God, what can we do!” Then we see our Lord calling out pardon for years of wandering and is now a faithful and enthusi­ leadership who can communicate with Shortbrother. Then we see astic leader of men in his church. the Holy Spirit leading this Navaho leader. We see as a result the Again there is the brilliant young professor with a Ph.D. in Psy­ new birth, the new life, the new purpose, the new hope. And we chology. His life has not really counted for God until recent days. can say, “Thank you, God, for the Good News to Missions America.” One of our churches was used of God to stir his spirit and now he is a leader and winner of the souls of young people in that great city where he lives.
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