REPORT

OF THE GOOD

SAMARITAN’S

ASSISTANCE

WORLDWIDE

“For I was an hungered, and
ye gave me meat: I was thirsty,
and ye gave me drink: I was a
stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was
sick, and ye visited me: I was in
prison, and ye came unto me.
Then shall the righteous answer
him, saying, Lord, when saw
we thee an hungered, and fed
[thee]? or thirsty, and gave
[thee] drink?
When saw we thee a stranger,
and took [thee] in? or naked, and
clothed [thee]?
Or when saw we thee sick, or in
prison, and came unto thee?
And the King shall answer and
say unto them, Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done
[it] unto one of the least of these
my brethren,
ye have done [it] unto me.”
Matthew 25:35-40.

A short week among the hills of
Tuscany crowned with olive groves
– those noble unpretentious trees that
symbolize what a Christian should be
like – were enough to answer to some
of the most urgent petitions that came
to our department.
As new evangelization fields are
opened and the number of members
increases in the different unions
and fields already established, the
number of demands for help increase
proportionally.
This time U$2000.- were sent to
Bolivia to be distributed among the
poor people in that country since
the socio economical conditions are
critical.
Peru, the biggest union in South
America, received the amount of
U$6200.- to support widows, orphans,
old and sick people. We sent U$1000.-
to Uruguay as a support for the new
Bible worker and his family who were
recently transferred from Paraguay
and has a low salary.
Zambia received U$2300., Zimbabwe
U$500.- and Angola U$500.- for
gospel workers.
A total of U$2500.- was given to
Tanzania to help different cases,
among them a brother whose house
was burnt down, a few orphans and
an undernourished child who presents
some problems in growth.
For the workers in Uganda U$1050.-
were sent out and U$1600.- for

workers in Burundi. The workers
in Malawi were also assisted with
U$500.-.
Many petitions have come from
Kenya where there are nine fields and
some of them extremely poor. Some
of the amount was to buy wheel chairs
for handicap brothers and sisters;
three widows needed a new hut built
since the weather conditions had done
away with their temporary shelter. In
Kenya, women build the walls with
earth but they need to buy iron sheets
and timber for the roof and the doors
and windows.
The estimate for each hut of two
small rooms is about U$230.- Some
sick people, among them a couple of
youngsters needed special nutrition
since their staple food „ugali”, a
maize porridge, is rather heavy for
a sensitive stomach. Sacks of rice
and potatoes were provided to those
families to help the situation.
The total amount we left in Kenya was
U$4700.- that includes the financing
of a project to buy and resell grains, a
business that reports a 50% profit that
can be used to assist some of the many
cases that come up constantly.
Different projects were started for the
women in various churches in Congo:
U$200.- were given out to buy caustic
acid, palm oil, powder and moulds to
make soap, another U$200.- to buy
colors, basins, buckets and tissues
to dye and sell material, U$200.- for

a project for the widows to make
pineapple juice and a delicious
vegetable bread spread prepared
with pumpkin seeds and other
ingredients, U$200.- to buy needles,
wool and thread for knitting and
needlepoint. With U$300.- we
bought two sewing machines for
one church where most members are
women and with U$520.- one sewing
machine, one knitting machine and
material for another church.
Two agricultural projects were
started in Lubumbashi with the
support of U$800.- and U$350.-
were given to buy mattresses for the
refugees of war. U$1000.-were left
to put a roof, a door and windows in
the house of one of our ministers, and
to build brick walls in the dwelling of
another worker.
The moment we are writing this
report we have before us other
requests coming from different places
as well as „thank you” letters.
The Indian field is very grateful
for the U$400.- handed by brother
R. Escobar on behalf of the Good
Samaritan with which they bought
three sewing machines, tables and
chairs and started a tailoring school.
The Tanzanian youth leader also
wrote to us to inform us of the growth
and progress of their own tailoring
school from which quite a few young
girls received their diplomas. The
Tanzanian union is very enterprising

and tries to organize the youth
in wonderful choirs and group
activities and also to provide
them a certain occupation so that
they are kept together and away
from the influence of the world.
Therefore, they have presented
us three project for young males
and we present them to you, our
beloved readers and donors. They
require U$600.- for machinery for
carpentry, U$300.- for welding and
U$300.- for masonry. Besides, they
require U$500.- to buy other special
machines for the tailoring school.
In Congo, there are three churches
in the capital city for which no
project was started due to lack of
funds and in Lubumbashi there are
five families sleeping on the floor
waiting that we remember to send
them some funds to buy mattresses
which may amount to U$700.-
We want to express our deep
gratitude for your generous cooperation
that made it possible that so
many people could be helped and
we do hope you are satisfied with
the way your donations have been
used. We hope that in the same way
that blessings are being poured upon
you from above, you may continue
being a blessing for many people
who need your charity.
Thank you very much!
–THE GOOD SAMARITAN
DEPARTMENT

Sweet Music In
Heaven

When hearts sympathize with hearts
burdened with discouragement and
grief, when the hand dispenses
to the needy, when the naked
are clothed, the stranger made
welcome to a seat at your fi reside
and to a place in your heart, angels
are coming very near, and an
answering strain is responded to
in heaven. Every act, every deed of
justice and mercy and benevolence,
makes sweet music ring in heaven.
The Father from his throne beholds
and numbers them with his most
precious treasures. “And they shall
be mine, saith the Lord of hosts,
when I make up my jewels.” –RH,
April 20, 1886
Our heavenly Father lays blessings
disguised in our pathway, which
some will not touch for fear they
will detract from their enjoyment.
Angels are waiting to see if we
embrace opportunities within our
reach of doing good,--waiting to
see if we will bless others, that
they in turn may bless us. The Lord
himself has made us to differ--some
poor, some rich, some affl icted--
that all may have an opportunity to
develop a character. The poor are
purposely permitted of God to be

thus, that we might be tested and
proved, and develop what is in our
hearts. –RH, April 20, 1886

“...extol him that
rideth upon the heavens
by his name JAH, and
rejoice before him.
A father of the
fatherless, and a judge
of the widows, [is] God
in his holy habitation.
God setteth the solitary
in families: he bringeth
out those which are
bound with chains,...”
Psalm 68:4-6.