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Volume

ssue 1

WEDDING BELLS Am OTHER SURPISES

'riTiewl What a year this has been! But praise the Lord that it has been a constructive and

Chinee Literature.
China
then.

She has also studied

but there has been some

surprising one. Certainly, the biggest sur prise many of my readers already know about.
What many of you thought would never happen, but some of you hoped and even prayed might happen, did. That's right...on February 6, 1993, I was officially married to Fong Yuk Chi (Light). ["Chi" as in GEE in gee-whiz!] I first met Light about seven years ago when she briefly came to work for the Bible College as a translator for the radio pro gram. She maintained contact with the col lege, studying Greek, helping with the field evangelism work, babysitting for the Polings and etc. But our getting together was a gradual matter over the past couple years.
Since we are both so much alike and shared

and tatight English and Mandarin. We do not presently, have plans to relocate to northern
afrer 1997,

discussion \about

activity in China

before

Light, like me, was born in the year of

the Ox and ha& six older brothers (the 2nd

eldest died four years ago) and two younger

sisters.

Her parents are both still living.

her

Although we_have^p3ved-~tQthe address above,

we hope to move to her paretrts house in July

in-order to allow Yuk Chi to care for

ther.
149 Java Road, Flat 223 North Point, Hong Kong Hong Kong phone (852) 561-8459

After we move, our addr^s will be:

V-y
along with 10
semin
churches

the same desire to remain single to better serve the Lord, the decision to get married was a long and difficult one for each of us. That is one reason why the decision appeared to be so sudden to so many, since we told no
one until we ourselves were certain.

Beforethexu-'^ May 25, ary,

weeks

o thers tudents and teachers from her

to work with some of the

we will be going to Maylasia for three

A few of you recently received a letter from my forwarding agents giving some back ground on Light. Almost all of it was right but a couple items need correction. Light has an undergraduate degree in Classical

there. Through contact with one of my stu dents in Hong Kong, I was invited by a par ticular church there to come and provide some teaching and preaching.

mother and her children through contact with

the (Ben Rees) Philippine congregation. It was this mother's young boy who was the 4th youngster to be baptized. There is a grow ing increase in emphasis on evangelizing the

older set, especially the parents of all the young people who have entered Christ. This
is difficult and is a matter that needs much

prayer. Meanwhile, we continue to crowd our new premises after only a little more than a
year,

College & Student News

According to our records, we had 68 dif ferent students taking classes with us in the past two semesters, again, many for the
first time. Word of mouth continues to be

The Malaysian missionary team

As to married life and what I think of

our greatest advertising agent! Our teach ing staff continues to be mostly foreign missionaries (Jim Mollette, Ben Rees, and
myself, with D. Poling doing the lion's share) with only one or two local people sharing the load. However, this is S-L-O-WL-Y changing. Our former secretary, Tsoi Hang (Agnes), who resigned in March to bet ter help her church, has volunteered to take over the beginning Greek classes. Also, Kwong Shing Chung, while studying Greek, Hebrew, Latin (!), and German with us, has graduated from the Missionary Alliance col lege. They have a Greek language exam which all students who want to study there, but
who are not of their churches, first have to

it, I have proved to be true what I always said: "I have barely enough time NOW to get everything done. If I get married, where will I find time to finish?" Let's just say that the extra couple inches I was carrying around ny middle are not there anymore, but have been replaced by the appearance of
"panda eyes" (dark circles under the eyes). Ve had tentatively thought about coming to the States in the Fall, but have since
reconsidered. Two of the reasons have to do

with interrupting Light's graduation sche dule (5/94), and yet another surpise which you will not have heard about: sometime this Fall by God's grace, Light should give birth to the first ever MohnFong! So far all tests and monitoring indicate a perfectly normal baby, I ask your prayers for Light, who has been suffering quite a bit of Sciatic pain. If present plans go through, we hope to be
able aybe to visit the States in the summer, or fall, of '94.

pass. None of their own students have to take the exam, nor does the college have a Greek requirement in their curriculum. Kwong was not only the only person to ever have passed the test, but made such a high score that they did not raise the question again! He will be working for one of the Bible Societies during the daytime, preparing a
new Chinese translation, and has volunteered

MongKok Church

to help teach Bible languages with us at night. Praise Jesus for these two additions. The class in Eschatology I taught last semester generated interest in my teaching a
class on the Revelation this semester. Due

We continue to grow in various ways at MongKok. In April we had another 5 baptisms consisting of one of the leader's two child ren, another leader's older daughter, still another young boy and a younger teenager.
This makes 5 new converts for each of the

to our student's varying schedules, I ended up teaching THREE classes of Revelation, in addition to TWO classes (initially) on
Cults.

last three years. We also have had the addi tion of three new babies since January! We

China, and other bothers...

lost one member to England (marriage) and one to Canada (study). But we gained a

CBS's

Since we get CNN live at night and evening news live in the morning. I

V /

watched with interest for notice to show

up

of the changes Hong Kong's final British governor was proposing shortly after coming to the colony. In view of all the commotion
that MFN and China's hxaman rights makes in

Congress and the news in the States, it was astounding that Chris Patten and his views
received NO discernable coverage until six weeks after the fact! By then, it was old

raided without warning during a meeting with about 100 people present. Five of the mem bers were singled out for severe physical abuse. According to the reported testimo nies, when some women tried to intervene, their genitals were beaten by the soldier-

policemen.
is

One of the five who were singled

that
to

out for special treatment later died from the beating he received. Now, the government

news in Hong Kong, though treated in the States as if just happening. Even though,a
Presidential election was occurring, fact that the world's largest seaport the and

imprisoning everyone they can find

was from that and nearby villages to try

control the spread of the news.

Computing

Too late!

the ing
China

third largest financial center was fac some major changes in her future with
should have deserved some comment.

Last

fall the MongKok church bought

, used '286 computer as a gift for the Bible posing are welcomed by Hong Kong's people, \college in South Africa. After a little (!) but they seem to be coming about twelve adjustment and fiddling I was able to make With the help of one of our stuyears too late. Thatcher said that the 1978 it work.
The changes Patten was (still is) pro

.propositions. If Patten were not acting with 'the port and get it shipped out.
London's consent, one could say the differ ence is that he is a politician, not a

climate

did

not allow discussion

of

such \dents & his car I managed to take it down to

diplomat.

China

has been reacting

as

if

Also, since last fall in exchange for promised repair on two crowns ($$$), I have been working on a program for a local den
tist that most of the missionaries go to.

Patten is on his own, even though Majors has said the opposite.

The

program will keep track of his patients

and their treatment history, as well as the money they owe him . But more exciting is a recent develop ment. As a wedding present, several students

purchased

a computer Bible program for

us,

called The Online Bible.

It is a shareware

put out by a couple Baptist groups in Michi gan and Canada. It has 2 Hebrew O.T.'s, 5 Greek N.T.'s, 3 English texts, and 3 Chinese versions. Additionally, it has Strong's Con
cordance and Thomson's reference notes (and The program can pro-

some special added notes supporting Calvin's

doctrine of election).

/duce

Bible

text files in any of

the

four

languages, but the Greek and Hebrew files i are phonetic equivalents, using English let
ters. To make a long story short, I was

encouraged

to

once more

try

to

decipher

' Taiwan's Chinese character file that is used

//So, now I can resume working on a Chinese

/ wordprocessing program, since I don't have to worry about also creating all the Chinese characters. Except that MY program will also be able to process Greek and Hebrew, as well as English or Chinese. And it should also
be easier to use than the present, widely

with their programsthis time with success!

The happy bride and groom

Meanwhile a front page item in one of the two largest English newspapers reported in May on an event that happened in China in
March. A house church in northern China was

used program. A number of our students have already expressed avid interest in my com pleting this program!

To the many of you who gave special wedding gift offerings, THANK YOU! Since the wedding semi-Chinese traditional, it was quite expensive. It could have been very much more so, but praise God for His mercy, and Light's father's graciousness. As it was, THANKS to you, we about broke even on the expenses. I do hope to send a personal note of thanks to each of you, but I hope you will understand, it might be later than
sooner.

As you pray, please remember:

** Light's health and that of the baby

** Ask the Lord to send more workers to the

The Polings found only two tenta tive prospects during their furlough last year. The fields cannot be "ripe unto
harvest"
the seed!

field.

if no workers go forth

to

sow

To several special friends, if you did not receive special notice of the wedding, my apologies. -I did NOT forget you! Based
on several that came back in the mail,
address stickers came unstuck.

some

Speaking of finances, I won't take the time now to detail last year's giving, but I do want to say that your giving once again outdid my using. PTL! and thank you very much! So far THIS year, even though I had to move into a much more expensive flat, my expenditures still have not kept up with

** The Bible College and its students. We would still like to have some people pledge regular support in order to plan future spending. So far the Lord has provided enough to meet the bills through tuition fees and special offerings, but this makes it difficult to expand. According to our students and our own observations, we are one of the few Bible colleges in this part of the world that offers a qxiality education for Christians who want to better serve, or even just understand the Bible more thoroughly. ** Ask the Lord to provide additional sup-

/ port
t

for the David Poling and

Ben

Rees

, your gracious contributions.

In fact, when

ever I spend more, you all just give even more! This is truly a missionary's dream come true! :> That is not to say that I

families. Nathaniel Poling will be start ing non-home schooling and Matthew Rees will be graduating High School and going to the States for college. Megan Rees is also still in an English-language school here in Hong Kong, which has just nearly
doubled its fees and cut its discounts.

have been spending your gifts in riotous living. I have not had the strength nor time to so indulge! :> But Light.has had a few

/extra

doctor

bills lately

and

inflation,

though slowed somewhat, is still much higher than in the U.S. Also, the exchange rate is down, so I get ten cents less for each dollar traded. Briefly, last year until Febniary this year, each month I was spend ing about US$750: $370 on housing and util ities, $100 for the Bible college, and $280 on personal requirements. Since Febn^y, this has increased by about $100-$200 for the higher rent and doctor bills. As of April 22, there was $5,333 in the current
account, $6500 in the furlough/emergency account, and about $1500 in savings. This is
a little bit MORE than the same time last

At a time when some churches, are cutting back their missions support, or (horrors) reappropriating the funds to other fields this can be very stressful for workers who are already on marginal budgets.

*^Pray that Beijing's leaders will finally

"/ come to fear the Lord and His judgements. ,Many recent internal events in China show t r
that human life is not valued very highly utility approved of by the

^by the government,

'demonstrate
leaders.

unless that life can

Pray that the TRUTH of Jesus' gospel will 'be proclaimed throughout the world, even

/
'

in American churches.
half-truths

The!re are so many

NIV's

and outright Hes.(cf

"translation"

of

Fsajm

5l:5!)

being

year. PTL! Thank you all for sharing in this ministry. May you also share in the
Lord's rewards!

^spread that it is difficult for people to

know" what is true. Remember, if the Father REALLY intended Jesus to set up a physical kingdom of Israel/God on earth when he came the first time (as a vast body of literature and believers main tain) , then Jesus was NOT sent to die and bring salvation from Sin, Satan and
Death!