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INTRODUCING

Mashoko Secondary School

Mashoko Mission

P. 0, Mashoko, Rhodesia

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Kashoko Secondary Staff

Daily Schedule
5:30 6:30 6:15 9:10 Breakfast

Headmaster, Robert Smith

Secretary, Ilary Margret Grider

Librarian and

6:15 - 6:25
9:10 9:30

Inspection and Prayers

Four classes

Teacher aid, Daniel Mashoho Boarding Master, Ed Chatira

Break (Tea for Teachers)

Four more classes Noon meal Two more classes

9:30 -12:10 12:10- 1:15 1:15 2:35

Boarding Mistress, Miss Sitole Teachers, Don Stoll, Sam Mangenda,

Mr. Rugara, Ruth Poorman,
Don Poorman & Bob Smith

2:35 - 5:00
5:00 - 6:00 6:15 - 6:45 6:45 - 9:00

Physical Education and Work

Program

Subjects and Instructors

Evening Meal Evening Chapel time Study

English, D. Poorman & B. Smith

Shona, Mr, Rugara Bible, D, Stoll & R. Poorman Geography, D. Poorman Science, D. Stoll History, R. Poorman Art, R. Poorman
Arithmetic and

The Spiritual Programs

Bible as a school subject.

Morning prayers and evening chapel. Choir and small groups. Bible Club on Saturday night.
Preachers club on Saturday night. Bible School, Christian Endeavor, Morning

Mathematics, S. Mangenda

Bookkeeping, R. Smith

and Evening worship on the Lord's Day.

Evangelistic Services one week each term. Village programs with students doing the interpreting.
Front Page Pictures Explained

The Prefects are leader students. They have much more responsibility than our student councils. They supervise work, study and discipline programs. The boy on the left is Zindoga Bungu, our top scholar.
The Head Boy Prefect is Kudakwashe Mushal
and the Head Girl Prefect is Lucie Mbaim-

bai. Both are average students but have a great deal of leadership ability and are respected by the students.

The rest of the pictures speak for them selves, the four classes.

This Is Phinlas Masendeke.

He Is 16 or 17 years old.

He is a

Form II-A student and stands second

in his class. Phinlas* father is dead and his mother has a l i t t l e

girl to take care of. His village is over thirty miles away.
He came to Mashoko Secondary S^ool from a Dutch Reform school. Because he is a boy of promise they
paid his fees until he became a
member of the Church of Christ. We

were then asked to "adopt" him.

There are others who are equally as worthy. If you would like to help in this way write to the
Poormans for more information.

Oh, yes, Phlnias says he wants to be a preacher. Pray for him.

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SUBJECT:

A FRIDAY

Dear Christian Friends,

I would like to relate to you folks =t home, some of the happenings on a Friday.

you a typical day here at Second-^-ry School. First of all, at about a quarter to six in the morning, the alarm clock goes off. Ruth generally hops up, then tries to get me up. At about six o'clock we're mating breakfast and listening to the morn
ing news. Then we prepare to leave for class at about a quarter to seven.
So come with us down the hill some couple hundred yards. Most of this is down hill in the morning so it is a very pleasant experience. As we round the corner to ward the chapel, and look down the hill, th"^ sun is Just a little more than peeking
over the tops of the mountains in the background. Many a morning we will find the students already lined up in front of- the school buildings in two long lines singing choruses and having a short prayer before the morning begins. This is not a part of

This, by no means, is an unusual daily occurrence; but I thought that it would show

our scheduled program, but one in which they have taken upon themselves and enjoy.
Needless to say as we round the hill and start down that last incline to hear this type of thing in the morning is very beautiful indeed. Now come with us to class. I first of all have two English classes and then on Friday, -unless I've called extra classes, I have two hours of Geography, then a break} and then I finish the classes in th?" morning vdth two more Geography classes. Ruth, on the other haai, starts out by teaching History and then during the morning has Bible classes, some art c"* asses, and aft^r our "tunch has two more Bible classes

on Friday afternoon. Our classes stnrt during the 7?j;rmer months at 6:30 in the morning and go until 12:10, resuming at 1:15 unti"" 2:25 so you can see the days are long, 7?e hnve a twenty minute break in there for tea in th'^ morning after the fourth class

and then we have a break of an hour and five minutes for lunch.
afternoon classes.

During this time,

I have no

we must climb up the hiTl, have our dinner and Ruth must be back down.

Classes on this particular Friday ran very much the same as others. The singing in the morning was beautiful and the classes went fairly well. There were

of course times of discouragement as we found that the students did not get what we thought they had learned. Times of joy when they seemed to capture the point that

we were trying to get across.

board a notice that there was to be a baptism in the afternoon. And so at 3:30, when classes were ended for the afternoon, being the winter months and running a
Christian Hospital to witness the baptism of three boys and a girl.

Ruth to teach her classes and I went down to do some other work in preparation for the next week. Some time in the morning there had been tacked on the bulletin

On this particular Friday, Ruth and I went back down,

later schedule, the secondary students and staff walked over in front of the Mashoko Now let me give you the background to these particular baptisms. For while

few days prior, we had a guest speaker in the Sunday morning service by the name of Peter Nathan. Peter is a New Zealand missionary, now a school inspector; but he married one of our American missionaries Miss Marilyn Steinmetz two days before

the day was not unusual, the candidates at this time were a bit different. Just a

tie led th singing for the evening service and then sat down for someone to get up

Christmas here at Mashoko, Peter was here and gave a very good Sunday morning mess age, but this we do not feel is what led up to these particular baptisms. In the evenly, Mr. Kenneth Makusha, our African inspector of schools was scheduled to speak,
For some reason or other he did not remember that it was his turn. Mr.
speaker. He got up, very nicely men tioned tbat there had been a mii-up and started to preach. 'Afhat he did was simply

in the morning; using some of th. passages that Mr. Nathan had

w and elabwating on them; using some of the very same doctrinal points that these Doys have heard many times before.

What made this unusual is that one of these hoys is our number one student

and he's the type of boy who thinks very deeply about things# His comment to Mr. StoH some time before had been, "Well, anyone, when they take time, can prove their doctrinal points by using scripture." And therefore it had been very difficult to convince Zindoga of the New Testament plf^a. But when Mr. Makusha did such a fine job on the spur of the moment, without preparation,- then this seemed to produce in Zindoga a real desire, a real feeling that-what we were claiming for the New Testament church did heve a particular meaning. So he came forward along with one or two others that evening as the invitation was given. So this type of conversion is what made this
particular Friday and its afternoon baptism s bit different.

You see, we have for a long time wondered why we were unable to convince

these that were brighter concerning our plea, but now Zindoga had submitted him
self to Christian baptism. And on that particular Friday afternoon was baptized into Christ by Mr. Makuku the chaplin at the hospital. Mr. Makuku does most of the secondary baptisms for us. We look forward to the time when we can find a per son with the educational background and the concern to employee as a secondary chaplin.

After the baptismal service, we continue on. V/e find that some of the students went out to carry wood in for the dining hall. Many of the rest of them went tt the Physical Education classes and some to other tasks such as cleaning i^)

the classrooms, getting reqdy for the evening study hour. V/e of course, after the baptisms came back up to the house for a little relaxation, a cup of tea, while
some went over to play a little tennis.

And then at 6:00 in the evening, we were again down at the chapel for our
evening devotions. These are distributed between the staff and the other mission

aries. The students sing for about 15 to 20 minutes and then there's a short even ing devotional talk. After this at 6:30 until 9^00 the students return to their

respective home rooms or the library and spend the rest of the evening in study and
payoparntion for Hondoy's Teeeonsr So muoh foT a Friday,

It is not-unuBUsl-for us to begin-the day in one way, just "a^ typxcsl" class day pnd end up in the middle of thR afternoon at th baptistry in front of the hos
pital to witness the baptism of those that have accepted their Lord Savior. We only wish that you could experience what we experience and whst we feel when those

To conclude with Zindoga we might point out that before this last term ended, Zinioga
was one of four who preached a sermon during these evening devotion hours.

th^t are taught, not just the word of God, but those that we've taught in class see the relevance of the Lord Jesus in their ^ives and in all matters thft they study.

Pray for us and our work here as we do for you as together we work for the
Lord Jesus Christ.

Yours for a Christian World,

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Report Card
SUBJECT

ELTGLISH COMPOSITIONS

Sometimes we get interesting compositions from the? students*

wrote them# ':mj I lT5i3) NOT TO KlTO\v HISTORY

Here are tv;o just as the students

.7hpt are the main factors of war betv/een countries? Many

people die because of knov.-ins the history of their tribes. country v/as at war with another hatred fells their hearts. If a If the

history of that V72r is carried to some new generations, do you

think the two countries will be friendly Y;ith each other? There

are some divisions of races, for instance, Chinese, Russians, Snglish and many others. If these people new nothing about how

thing like communism? These people were going to be friendly if they new nothing about their history. Moreover they were all going to be called white people instead of many races. There is a bitter hatred between

they came to be Russians etc, do you think we could have some

the Egyptians (Arabs) and the Israelites and the reason is that they know their history.
lets*s avoid history and live in peace.
Richard

V/HY I NSEID GEOGRAPHIC PRmCH^LSS

Geography is the study of man and how they live.

don t mind about planets nor the earth because they are natural things-which have nothing to do with me. I know the view around ray school merely by seeing and not reading a book
tHat will tell me about Canada a country which is very far away from me. I have nothing
to do with such a country because I will never get there.

I actually don't see the use of geography because it tells us about the world.

Geography tails us some stupid things as rivers, lakes, trees and vegetation of dif ferent places. I don*t like that because when I get a profession I will never someday
W014C on river Gabi no will I see the use of thdt. *
Charity

I taught Geography at the time these were written.

The interesting thing to note is that Ruth teaches History and

Yours for a Christian World,

Don and Ruth Poorman