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struggle for the community to end the month with a credit balance, but that only provided them
with more lessons in living by faith and trusting God to supply all their needs.
As for the problem of finding the right Principal, David Day, who had served one term in the South
Malayan field, came back after his first Home Assignment and was asked to consider the position.
He accepted and proved to be an excellent first Principal.
It was at the 6th Field Conference that the suggestion was first made to HQ in Singapore that all our
new workers should spend four or five months at the Language School in Singapore studying Malay
before starting work in Malaya. We had been making use of the language school for government
officers, which was situated in a big temple near us in Kuala Lumpur. The plan was for all our
workers to be examined by teachers from this school, but it proved to be an expensive exercise. So
Percy and two other representatives from the South Malayan Field joined forces with Don Temple
and two other representatives from the North Malayan Field and broached the suggestion to
Headquarters.
This was agreed to and all new workers spent the first few months of their missionary life in
Singapore at the Language School and then came to Malaya where they spent another four or five
months studying a local dialect.
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struggle for the community to end the month with a credit balance, but that only provided them
with more lessons in living by faith and trusting God to supply all their needs.
As for the problem of finding the right Principal, David Day, who had served one term in the South
Malayan field, came back after his first Home Assignment and was asked to consider the position.
He accepted and proved to be an excellent first Principal.
It was at the 6th Field Conference that the suggestion was first made to HQ in Singapore that all our
new workers should spend four or five months at the Language School in Singapore studying Malay
before starting work in Malaya. We had been making use of the language school for government
officers, which was situated in a big temple near us in Kuala Lumpur. The plan was for all our
workers to be examined by teachers from this school, but it proved to be an expensive exercise. So
Percy and two other representatives from the South Malayan Field joined forces with Don Temple
and two other representatives from the North Malayan Field and broached the suggestion to
Headquarters.
This was agreed to and all new workers spent the first few months of their missionary life in
Singapore at the Language School and then came to Malaya where they spent another four or five
months studying a local dialect.
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