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Volume I, Number 2
June, 1969

Shane Alan 2 weeks old! Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Greetings to you again in the name of the One who gives us life eternally, Jesus Christ. May we continue to trust in Him to fulfill His promises to we who are His
children as we show forth His will in our lives.

On Friday, May 2nd, I left for Mt. Au burn, Indiana, to the church where Gene Carey preaches. Virginia had not had the baby yet and was not able to travel such a great distance. Although I missed her very much. I was thrilled with the new acquaintances I made with more of the

Lord's people. On May 4th I preached in the morning service and then presented
our work in the evening service. They will be considering us for possible future
support.

side. As my grandmother just lives a few miles from St. James in Rolla, I spent
the weekend with her.

I returned home and the following Wed

nesday, May 6th, went to Cherryvale, Kan

sas. A couple of good friends of ours, Steve and Virginia Grimes, and several
other members of the new church in In

The next week was a busy time in pack ing and careing for "little britches" (nick name given to Shane Alan by Grandma and Grandpa Franklin). As many of you know, you can't get things done quite as
fast with a little one around as you can under normal circumstances. Ah well, looks like these are going to be normal circumstances from now on so I guess we'll just have to get used to it!

dependence, Kansas, were also present.

The next weekend I went to Morrow-

ville, Kansas, just a few miles from the

Nebraska border, where Melvin Radney, a student at Manhattan Bible College, is

ministering. A fine young couple from this congregation has promised to give us $20 a month toward our support. Praise
the Lord! This brings us to within $65 of our goal of $620 monthly support. The

Lord's people have been so good to us.

I arrived home on Monday, May 12th. The next day Virginia and I experienced one of the happiest moments of our life together. At 8:20 p.m. on May 13th the Lord gave us a 7 pound 15Vo ounce baby boy. I was so thankful that with my busy

speaking schedule away from home the

Lord allowed me the privilege of being
at home when Shane Alan was born. We

are really proud of him and thank the Lord that he was born a fine, healthy baby. We also thank the Lord for en trusting the life and soul of this little one to us. Pray for us that we might raise him to be born into the kingdom.
The next Sunday I journeyed on to St. James, Missouri, where I presented our
work to the First Christian Church in the

Back on the road together again!

We finally left Muskogee on Saturday morning. May 24th. We arrived in Salem, Illinois, late that night where we stayed with our good friends, Harvey and Maurine Collett. Harvey ministers to Young's Chapel Christian Church where we spoke that Sunday morning. Sunday evening we spoke to the Jennings Church in St. Louis where Dennis Armstrong is the preacher. From there we went home to stay with Virginia's folks for a couple of weeks.

evening service. I met many relatives there that I didn't realize I had, most of
them on mv Grandmother Hazlewood's

During this time I spoke to Virginia's

home church, the Bushton Christian
Church.

sion by telling the young people about Taiwan by means of Mortimer. Mortimer
is a dummy that Virginia is using to tell the boys and girls about the work we

plan to do in Taiwan.
Mortimer.

They really like

Bushton Christian Church

Virginia and I were involved in Vacation

Bible School here at the Bushton church

for a one week period. I led the song ser

Jr. Class taught by Sam & Virginia

vices and gave the opening devotion. Vir ginia and I taught one of the Junior class
es and Virginia closed each morning's ses

Next month we will be telling you about the Vacation Bible School in Wellington, Texas, and about the Linguistic course I

will be taking at the University of Okla

homa. Our address for this summer (un til August 21st) will be: 524 Sooner Dr., Norman, Oklahoma. 73069. We would ap preciate hearing from you.

Please continue to pray for us. We are still in need of $65 monthly support as well as a few appliances, a mimeograph machine, and about $800 for our travel fund. We know that God will supply our every NEED! Thank each of you for your prayers and support and for everything YOU have done as Gods' children to help us to prepare to take the gospel to Tai wan with its millions in darkness. May the Lord bless you richly.
Yours in the precious name of Jesus,

Virginia and her friend, Mortimer!

Sam, Virginia & Shane "Little Britches"

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Volume I, Number 3

MISSIONARIES:
SAM & V(RGINIA HAZLEWOOD

October, 1969

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

fine, growing congregation on the out

skirts of Tulsa.

Greetings to you in the name of the One

who created us and continues to sustain

our lives each day, Jesus Christ. We finally made it. We're on our way.

During the summer, when we did not have a speaking engagement on the Lord's Day, we attended the young, but fast growing University Christian Church
in Norman. Charles Gibson is the minister.

At the present time we are aboard the

S.S. President Cleveland in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on our way to Tai wan. We left San Francisco on Septem ber 19th and will be arriving in Keehing

On August 10th I preached and presented our work to these good Christian folk. The

Harbor (Taiwan) on October 13th. But here I am, getting ahead of myself. Let me go back and give you a bird's eye view of what has happened during the
summer since our last newsletter in June. On June Sth we presented our work to the Christian Church in Wellington,

Texas, where Marvin Garrison is the min ister. During the next week Virginia and I
worked in Vacation Bible School in this

fine church. Virginia used Mortimer to

tell the young people about Taiwan after

I showed slides on the different areas each

day. In the evening I taught an adult class

concerning missions.

Wellington, Texas, Vacation Bible School

week following, while I was in school, Vir ginia. Mortimer and Shane helped in Va
cation Bible School in this same church.
It was their 3rd VBS of the summer.

After this we went to Norman, Oklaho

ma, where I attended Wycliffe's Summer

Institute of Linguistics for 10 weeks at the University of Oklahoma. I attended classes five days a week and we spoke at several different churches on the week
ends. The first church we spoke to was the Guthrie Christian Church in Guthrie,

On August 19th we were back in Rolla again to attend the funeral of my Grand
mother Hazlewood. She was 80 years old
and a fine Christian woman.

The last two and a half weeks of school

Oklahoma, where Duane Cowan preaches.

The following Sunday we were in Rolla, Missouri, for the funeral services of my mother who died on July 4th in Spain. The cause of her death was "walking"
pneumonia.

were filled with working with a Kiowa

Indian by the name of Charlie Redbird and

final exams. It was with a thankful heart and a tired mind that I finally finished the course. We left Norman and spent the next weekend with our close friends, Sher man and Mavis Sack and their family, in

The evening of August 3rd we traveled to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where we presented

our work to the Rolling Hills Christian Church. Bob Kerby is the minister of this

Joplin, Missouri. Sherman and Mavis are

students at Ozark Bible College. Sunday

morning we visited the Hornet Christian

Church where Virginia and I had been youth ministers for two years while in college. Sunday evening we presented our
work to the First Christian
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Church

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privilege of speaking to another of our Bible Colleges, Midwest Christian College. I also spoke to their missions class which is being taught this year by Mark Lay
man, one of the missionaries from the Kiamichi Mountains. That afternoon we

Carthage, Missouri, where Bob Lytle is

The rest of the week was spent at Vir ginia's home and we returned to Rolla on Friday evening, August 29th, where we
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loaded up our household goods into a U-Haul truck that we rented and began our journey to California.

University Church Vacation Bible School

were given a shower by our good Chris
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Virginia & Mortimer at University Church

Sunday morning. September 7th, we presented our work to the new (2-month old) church in Oberlin, Kansas. This is
the new church that was started by the
families of the Cookson Hills Christian School who are located there. Alan Crid-

Christian. I preached that Sunday eve ning and reported to the church on how
much the Lord had blessed us and what

our future plans were. This church, by the way, is our sponsoring church. Wednesday evening we went to Muskogee, Oklahoma where we presented our
work to the new Muskogee Christian Church. Here we had fellowship with many old friends.

er, one of the houseparents, is their min

ister.

After driving through the beautiful mountains of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada,

and northern California, we finally ar
rived in the San Francisco area on Thurs

The next day I had the privilege of speaking in the Chapel service at Ozark Bible College in the morning and showing
slides to the Lord's Reapers (mission ser

vice group) during their noon meeting.

Later that afternoon we traveled on to

Oklahoma City where I again had the

day morning. We spent our days that last week packing barrels and crating up ap pliances at the Home of Peace (a mission ary service agency) and our nights at my Uncle George and Aunt Alpha Barbers in Sunnyvale, not too far from Oakland.

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It will be at least 4 years before we will be able to see you again in person, but we hope that these monthly newslet ters will help you to keep informed on our
work. Please write and let us know how

you are doing and that you are remem bering us in your prayers. At present you can write us Isabel Dittemore, P. 0. Box 22384, Taipei, Taiwan. May the Lord bless you all is our prayer.
Love in Jesus,
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PRAYER LIST

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1. Safe journey to Taiwan

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5. Good health.

6. Spiritual growth of Taiwanese

Christians.

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We will be sending out a financial re port every six months. This report will be sent to those who are helping to support the work on a regular basis. If you do not receive a report and would like ons, please write to our forwarding agent and she will be glad to send you one.

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TAIWAN

MISSIONARIES: SAM A. VIRGINIA HAZLEWOOD

V olume I, Number 4

November, 1969

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Hazlewoods at Mrs. Dittemore's upon arrival to Taiwan!

Praise the Lord for His wonderful grace and watchcare! After 25 days on the high seas we finally landed on Taiwan. It was one of the greatest experiences in our life as we pulled into port, knowing that, the Lord willing, this will be our home for
many years to come.
In our last newsletter we were about to

Chinese children. He is also the preacher for the Chinese church which averages about 20 to 30 each Lord's Day. On Monday, October 13, we finally
pulled into Keelung Harbor, Taiwan. It was really a great day, one that we had

arrive in Hawaii on September 25, This was our 5th Wedding Anniversary and we

looked forward to' for some time. The Alan Bemo and Ted Skiles families along with Mrs. Dittemore were there to greet
us. They had a big red sign which said "Welcome Hazlewoods" in English and Chinese. Just before the ship docked, they
set off a whole string of Chinese firecrack
ers. We really received a "warm" wel

spent the whole day driving around the

island with another missionary family from the boat. They babysat with Shane for us that evening so that I could take

Virginia out for dinner. We had a won derful day. It will be one of our most
treasured anniversaries.
Lord for this.

come! They were just about as happy to

see us as we were to see them.

We thank the

After leaving Hawaii we arrived in Guam about 9 days later. From there we sailed on to Manila, Philippines, where we spent the day with the Ron Hoffmans. Ron
is a teacher in the Manila Bible Seminary. We also met Barton McElroy, who will be in charge of the Missions department at Ozark Bible College starting this Janu

Wednesday evening the Shih Ling Church held a welcome party and concert in our honor. We were really pleased at
the friendliness and the musical talent of

the Chinese Christians. They had several special numbers in singing and upon var ious instruments. These same people are the ones who sing and play many of the numbers on the programs that Mrs. Dit

ary. They have a real fine college for the Filopino people. Our next stop was Hong Kong, just a couple of days away. We were greeted here by Ben Rees and Paul Palmer. Ben
is a student at Ozark but has taken a year out of his studies to take care of the work

temore puts on the radio. We really felt that we were welcome to T^iiwan. Our first week here was mostly spent in looking for a house. We finally found a nice Japanese style house on Thursday and began moving in on Monday of the following week. The house rents for $112.50 per month and we had to pay 3
months in advance.

there while his parents and family are on

furlough. Paul and his wife are students

at Platte Valley Bible College and are

Our first Sunday was a new experience, too. Jim Banta, a visiting American busi
nessman who attended Minnesota Bible

spending a year internship helping Ben.

While we were there we met Wayful Jew

College, preached that morning while Pet

er Suen translated the sermon into Chi

and his family. They are helping with a

Chinese church while taking language

study for a couple of years. We also met Shu Chen Li and Philip Wong. Mr. Li is

nese. I was glad to see how it was done because they asked me to preach that next Sunday. I really enjoyed preaching
that sermon because I was finally able to

the principal of the Christian Day School

there that has an attendance of about 500

begin communicating to the Chinese peo-

pie about Christ. Jonathan Chen, a young Chinese student who has been very help
ful to us, interpreted for me that morning. The Friday evening after we moved in on Monday, we had an unexpected and
unwanted visitor at our house while we

were gone. We had spent the evening with

the Bemo's and when we returned we

Bible Study Group on board ship. Met each evening for an hour from
Haiwaii to Manila

found our back gate standing wide open. When we got inside, we found our suit cases open and ransacked. After careful investigation, we found that $5 in loose change, several of Virginia's necklaces,

and our brand new portable typewriter

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President Cleveland pulling into Keeking Harbor, Taiwan.

Shane Up on all fours!

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We are doing real fine so far. We ap preciate the prayers offered for us by
each one of you. We know that we would not even be here if it were not for you, so please keep up the good work. We start
school on November 10th and we would

especially ask your prayers concerning

this. Also, we have just purchased a mo torcycle (on time) for our transportation. Cars are really expensive here and we feel that we do not really need one right now. May the Lord bless each of you until you hear from us again is our prayer. Al ways look to Jesus for comfort and care. Keep your trust in Him and in Him alone.
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P.S.Please do not send money to us di

rectly here in Taiwan. There is too much chance of its getting lost. Our forwarding agent deposits the money in our bank in
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your local church, please make the check

out to the Formosa." Christian Mission (for
Sam Hazlewood family) so that your con tribution will be tax deductible. We would

like to hear from you. Our new address is: No. 5, Lane 418, An-Tung St. Taipei, Taiwan
PRAYER LIST

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3. Language school$185 (6 week term)

4. Rent$340

5. Motorcycle$650