Jakarta, Indonesia - Osman Tambunan was 70 years old in April. His health has been failing for the past few years, and it has been months since he could attend the assembly of the saints. It's all he can do to walk a few steps down the lane and back to the house. His physical world is circumscribed by physical weakness, but his spiritual vision is 20/20, his faith unabated.

I went to see him today. I knew he was a World Bible School student years ago, so I asked if he remembered his teacher's name. He went to the back of the house and returned with a yellowing sheaf of papers, an 11-page, handwritten letter from Perry and Katheryn Price of England, Arkansas. It was dated July 1978. Tambunan would have been 46 when he received it. He worked at the Japanese Embassy then. He was a Muslim, but he was searching. He also showed me his WBS certificate, signed by Jimmie Lovell.

"We received the answers to your introductory lesson in April," the Prices wrote, "and you got them 100% correct. We kept it to have something to remember you by." (Is there a sheaf of yellowing papers somewhere in Arkansas from Indonesia?) It was a month or so later the Prices received Tambunan's answers to the six-lesson course, along with questions ranging from baptism to the deity of Jesus. Their reply contained 35 Scriptures and many words of personal encouragement. Tambunan read it carefully, and the old letter has his own study notes written in the margins.

The last lines of the Prices' letter said, "Please be baptized as soon as possible according to Romans 6." They told him who to contact.

Tambunan went to Jalan Sumatra and was baptized into Christ after a couple of weeks of study. For almost 24 years since, he has been a bulwark in the church.

God bless World Bible School teachers like Perry and Katheryn Price. May their descendants be like the sands on the seashore, as our Lord has always intended

- Duane Morgan