DON AND MARIANNE BAUGHMAN

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
DON AND MARIANNE BAUGHMAN
Most, If not ail, missionaries have interesting
stories to tell as they relate their experiences in
adapting and relating to the people in a previously
unfamiliar culture. One such story involves a mis
sionary who went to a culture where witchdoctors
were thought to possess supernatural powers.
Their claims were "proven" by their ability to
handle poisonous snakes without being harmed.
To counteract the witchdoctors' hold on the super
stitious people, the missionary mastered (very care
fully!) the same feat. The people began to realize
that the witchdoctors had no special spiritual
powers, and the door was opened for the mission
ary to teach the people of the power they could all
possess as Christians.
The people were Nigerians. The time was 1956.
The missionary was Don Baughman. For 20 years
Don and his wife Marianne have committed their
lives and their family to the work of West African
Christian Mission in Nigeria.
The Baughmans arrived in Nigeria in September,
1956, to join a mission work pioneered by Roy
and Barbara Goldsberry a year earlier. The two
families combined their efforts, concentrating pri
marily on establishing churches in which new
Christians could fellowship and worship together
and on training young men to assume leadership
positions in these and other churches.
In 1960 Walter Coble, founder of Gospej Broad
casting Mission (GBM), suggested that a "Search
the Scriptures" program be broadcast in Nigeria.
Baughmans accepted the offer and soon the pro
gram was on the air. Besides preparing each broad
cast, they were responsible for a Bible correspond
ence course offered in conjunction with the pro
gram. A literature distribution program was begun,
offering tracts and printed texts of radio messages.
In October, 1973, Don summarized the results of
radio evangelism in "Listen," GBM's newsletter.
"Listeners write for the correspondence
course which we offer and ask help in know
ing God better. Presently, we are using a
Bible doctrine course. Before the end of the
course, many of them write to say they are
understanding God's message. This is the
fruit of the preaching of the Gospel and it is
of great consequence. . . .Today there are edu
cators, doctors, lawyers, soldiers, engineers,
civil servants , students, etc., who write to us
(in English). We also receive letters in the
Yoruba language (the language of the area of
southern Nigeria where the Baughmans work)
and we offer the correspondence course in
Yoruba. One of our evangelists grades the les
sons and answers those who have problems in
Yoruba."
Nigeria's rigorous climate forced Roy and Bar
bara Goldsberry to look for another field of serv
ice. In 1963, they left Africa and, after a year of
furlough, went to Italy in 1964. In 1967, Walter
and Edna Smith joined the Baughmans in Nigeria.
The work of West Africa Christian Mission
focuses on several aspects besides the radio broad
casts. Five congregations in the Yoruba area and
six in the Cross River area of Eastern Nigeria are all
in need of nurturing. Evangelists in all the congre
gations are in steady contact with Baughmans and
Smiths, and preaching services (similar to revivals)
are conducted by the missionaries once or twice a
year in each congregation.
Medical care is also offered by the Baughmans.
Both local Christians and ones from the East
depend on the Mission to meet their medical needs.
Non-Christians in the area who are unable to meet
their own needs are also helped by the Mission.
A camp and retreat program emphasizes fellow
ship among the various Christians. Many get-to
gethers are regularly scheduled throughout the
year.
Donald Douglas Baughman was born May 27,
1929, in Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Cin
cinnati Bible Seminary in 1954. He held ministries
in Kentucky and Indiana and worked with the
Laurel Homes Colored Mission in Cincinnati before
going to Nigeria.
Marianne Grimes Baughman was born December
16, 1932, in Columbus, Ohio. She attended Cin
cinnati Bible Seminary for two years. In 1951 she
and Don were married. Their home has been
blessed with four children. Ruth Carol (February
19, 1954) died November 28, 1969, in Nigeria
before she could fulfill her desire to attend Bible
college and return to Africa as a missionary.
Judith Ann (April 24, 1955) is now Mrs. Mark
Champion. Their other two daughters are Lisa
Annette (September 18, 1957) and Jane Suzanne
(November 15, 1959).
Field address: Don and Marianne Baughman,
Box 46, Otta, Nigeria, West Africa. Forwarding
Agent: Mrs. Carol Scarbrough, Rt. 3, Box 26 C,
Midlothian, TX 76065.
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FREEDOM'S BEGINNING
By Don Baughman
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Freedom's price is sacrifice. But what is the "basis of
freedom? i/tfhere does it begin? In Luke 1^: 25-33Jesus spoke of
counting the cost of being His disciple. His remarks can be
summarized in His final statement, "Any of you who does not give
up everything that he has cannot be my disciple^" HKSK
Freedom's beginning involves counting the cost and understanding
the price that is expected of us. Another Scripture relevant
to this subject is Colossian^ 1:13-25. I draw your attention to
the 2^th verse especially. The New International. Version trajis-
lates this, "Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you". The
American Standard reads, "Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your
sake," and so does the King James. This latter translation would
have a reference to the sufferings of the Apostle Paul. The NIV
is obviously different. It says, "Now I rejoice in what was
suffered for you". There are no textual differences. It is only
a matter of how one word is translated. Rather literally the
text says, "Now I rejoice concerning the sufferings on your be
half". I rather think, because of the context, that the NIV has
it right. As Paul talked to the Colossians he looked back in
time to the sufferings of Christ. These sufferings effectively
rescued them and us from the dominion of darkness and brought
them and us into the kingdom of the Son He loves.
In counting the cost we must look both ways; backward/ to
His cross and forward to our own crosses that He asks us to bear.
Looking back at the price He paid helps us put into true per
spective the price we must pay;vo What God and His Son have done
' is the basis for what we will do.
He has given us a great kingdom at great cost to His Son and
to Himself. Matthew 135^5i^6 tells us very plainly the value of
the Kingdom in which we stand. In this kingdom we have freedom,
from
for we have been rescued tsm the wrath of God and from the
inevitable consequences of sin.
This kingdom also brings a new manner of life and rescues us
from our former ways (Golossian^ 1:13). It is valuable because
it saves us from ourselves, from what we would be if we were
not there. is valuable because it rescues us from the
spiritual darkness of the present age in which we live and re
stores eternal life to us. Yes, the kingdom in which we stand
and in which the cross of Christ is central has great value
and it cost God something. And what it cost Him gives it its
essential value. So the kingdom has value and it has cost. These
two are different.
Think of something of value that you have. You may have
worked hard for it, or you may have just found it or inherited
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it or received it as a gift. But the way in which you got it
has nothing to do with its value. It can have different costs,
but it has only one value. A woman with several children may
pay more for one than for the others in terms of her health and
physical strength. Bjict she will still love them all equally.
They all have equal value in her sight regardless of the more
difficult price she had to pay in the case of one.
The widow's mite is relevant here. Its absolute value was
only two farthings, but the cost to her was very great, for the
Bible says that she in her poverty cast in all her living. Her
offering did not have great intrinsic value but it cost her a lot.
In like manner, the kingdom has a great value, and there are
different costs of different magnitudes relating to it.
When God rescued us from darkness, it cost Him something.
What was the cost? John 3'says that "He loved the whole
world so much ttet He gave His one and only Son that whoever
would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life".
When He sent His Son, it cost Him something. Can we appreciate
the price He paid? Can we feel what God felt when they cruci
fied His Son? Yes. Not fully perhaps, as our Father felt it,
but we can know and we can feel something of what God felt
when His Son suffered death for us.
Jesus'sacrificial death for us, the beginning of freedom,
was not a last minute plan. It had been in the heart of God
before the craation of the world (I Peter 1:20). It was His
will for Jesus. A^ter Jesus prayed in agony for Godjs will
(Matthew 26:39,^2,^4), He died for you and me. He suffered
for us and His Father permitted Him, in spite of His own suffering
and sorrow and agony as His Son hung there. And when He permitted
it the scoffers thought that they were rightthat God surely
did not know or care anything about this man (Matthew 27^^41-44).
But they were wrong. God gave His answer that night when His
Son breathed His last. The curtain of the temple was torn in
two from the top to the bottom, the earth shook, the rocks
were split open, and God the earth with darkness to
cover His children's deeds of darkness. He spoke^ saying,
"Yes, this is my Son, my beloved Son. I'm well pleased with
all that He has done". Yea, God can suffer and He did suffer
when His Son died. The Bible says that God is love. And
because of His love He suffers for those whom He loves.
Our Father did something drastic to save us. He committed
His Son to the violence of the cross. And He committed Him
self to sorrow and suffering as His Son walked on the earth and
as He hung on the cross. So it is reasonable that we should
expect something drastic to be required of us. And this is
what we find. The teaching of Jesus in Luke l4 is the gravest
teaching imaginable. In it Jesus clearly pointed out to the
bem^
large crowds that were following Him the cost of t>olra His
disciple. "If anyone comes to me and does not love me more
than he loves his father and mother, his wife and children, his
brother and sister, yes even his own life, he cannot be my
disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow
me cannot by my disciple. And again, any of you who does not
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give up everything he has cannot be my disciple." He was telligg
them to count the eost, and He was telling them what the cost
would be. The cost was love. If we are willing to pay that
price we cam be free in Jesus.
The price God paid was love. The price Jesus paid was
love. And that's the price we have to pay. i/tfe must have the
same kind of love for God and for oWchers that He has for us.
Will you pay that price?
(In 11 pt. UM reduced to about 7 pt.)
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(The following article, part of a continuing series, is the of seven main
session addresses delivered at the 29th National Missionary Convention in Dodge
^ City, Kansas, on the theme "Freedom's Price is Sacrifice". The article on the facing
page is the first in a series from the Convention workshops.) ^ q,
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Acassette tape of the complete message^ from which this article is^^erpted^
is available from Christian Audio Tapes, 888 Corporation Street, Brid^e^rt, IL
62417. Tapes of other messages delivered at the National Missionary-C5nwntion
are also available. ,
Mr. Baughman is a missionary in Nigeria, Africa. '
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The Land of the Sahara and the Niger
May-June, 1977
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Dear'Christian Friends:
Our time draws near to return to Nigeria for our fifth term of service.
We feel blessed indeed to have the pleasure of such an inspiring year of
fellowship among you all. We plan to depart for Nigeria from the Columbus, Ohio
airport on Saturday, June 18th.
We are happy--to announce the arrival of Kris ten Dawn Champion on
May 28th at 11:00 a.m. Kristen weighed 8 lbs. 5 oz. and her
daddy are Judy (Baughman) and Marc Champion. Marc
Christian Church, Box 382, Pine Grove, West Virginia.
Saturday,
proud mommy and
is the minister of the
Lisa and Jane are soon to be graduated from Wilmington High School. Jane
started to The Cincinnati Bible Seminary this past January and will return to
CBS this fall. Lisa is completing plans to go to Kentucky Christian College
this fall. We are happy that they have chosen to labor in the Lord's vineyard
We have been spiritually refreshed in our travels all over the United
States. We spent one week at East Tulsa Christian Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma. In
other meetings we have visited at the Bridge Street Church in Chillicothe, and
the Sunbury Church in Ohio; Boulder, Colorado; Westhill, Southside and Southwood
churches in Columbus, Ohio; Pine Grove and Paden City in West Virginia and Derby
in Kansas.
We are grateful to the Wilmington Church for their faithful support --
especially in providing housing for us and taking care of all the little de
tails that make our 'comings ahTd^goXngs so enjoyable.
The car that you all gave so generously towards is soon to be sold. The
money received from the sale of the car will go towards a new Peuguot station
wagon which Walter Smith is purchasing for us in Nigeria,
The Search the Scriptures radio program continues on the air. We pray for
your continued interest and support to keep it on the air.
The Walter Smith Family will be arriving at the Columbus, Ohio airport on
July 4th. They will make their home in Butler, Indiana after a brief visit with
relatives.
Thfere have .been many deaths among the Christians in Nigeria since we left
there. Please continue to remember the Nigerian Christians in your prayers and
us as we return to our labors in Nigeria for the first time without our family.
Yours in Christian Love,
Don and Marianne Baughman
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Champion, who ministers in Pine Grovp,
West Virginia, became the parents of|
Kristen Dawn on May 28. This is the|
first grandchild for Don and Mariann^.
Shortly after the Baughmans return
to Nigeria, Walter and Edna Anne Smiph,
their co-workers, will begin their fjir-
lough in the U.S. They will arrive pt
the airport in Columbus, Ohio, on Juj.y
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residing in Butler, Indiana. (Submitted
by &XH Marianne Baughman.)
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The land of the Sahara and the Niger
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OCTOBER, 1977
Dear Friends in Christ;
We had a truly good year in the states visiting with each one of you and we have many-
happy memories of your love and concern. We know that you are praying for us and for
more souls to come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
May God help us to never forget the value of a soul; "To the weak I became weak,^
to win the weak. I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means
I might save some, I do this for the sake of the gospel that I may share in its
blessings," I Corinthians 9:22,23.
May we never forget the virtue of the gospel; "I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.,'*
Romans 1:16,
May we know the victory of love;
II Corinthians 5:14,
of Christ constraineth
In this pagan and Moslem land the Search the Scriptures radio program is indeed a
light shining in the darkness. Here is an excerpt from a recent letter: "I am
happy God has granted me this opportunity to write and say hello to you once more.
I am also thanking Him for enabling us to remain in the faith. Glory be to Him, I am
also glad to tell you that I was once a student of yours.,,and have completed the
course since 1966 and I got a certificate,..Your very course has led me to goodness,
even to the post of the minister of religion and I am now working in the fold for
Christ..."
Presently we are heard over Radio Oyo and Radio Ondo* However we just received word
from Radio Oyo that "after September 30th all religious programs will be discontinued*
Certain African Christian leaders are attempting to get this policy changed even
before it can be implemented. We hope to know something of the results of their
efforts this week. In the meantime, please pray that we will continue to have the
opportunity to preach the gospel on this station. We have been on it since late
1961.
Good news from Bob and Connie Sheffler! The Sheffler's applied for a visa to
Nigeria over a year ago. When they did not receive it they came on to Liberia in
West Africa, Bob writes that they would like to visit us in Nigeria at the end of
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this year and January of next year. Please pray that they will be allowed a visitors
visa and that eventually they will be permitted to work here in Nigeria. They have
one daughter, Chris, and we are certainly looking forward to working with them.
Evangelist Francis Olorunfemi is still not well. One thing is that he has chronie
malaria. He is going to the hospital today to see the doctor. Please pray for his
complete recovery. He ministers to the churches at Egun Tedo and Egan when he is
able. Also, his father died the end of July. Brother Joseph was an elder in the
church at Egan and he is deeply missed.
Camps for this coming dry season are currently being arranged. We are looking
forward to the Deeper Life Club from the University of Lagos the last week of
October. We have been fighting termites in the girls dormitory, and there is still
-mucfa-repairr-work to bo done^Presently we haveonly one full-time worker to help us
care for this ten acres and one part-time worker. There is much preparation to be
done during the month of October to make the buildings and grounds habitable. - We
really miss brother Daniel and Stephen both of whom died the year that we were
in the states. They both worked here with us.
Lisa is settled at Kentucky Christian College and Jane is back at The Cincinnati
Bible Seminary. Judy and MArc and Kristen are thrilled over recent decisions for
Christ at Pine Grove. May His harvest be great in this coming year!
Church of Christ (Christian)
909 West Locust Street
Wilmington, OH 45177
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Baughman
Box 46, Otta, Ogun. State
Nigeria, West Africa
FORWARDING AGENT:
Mrs. Carol Scarbrough
Route #3 Box 26 C
Midlothian, TEXAS 76065
In Christian love,
Don and Marianne Baughman
Non-Profit Organization
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Wilmington, OH 45177
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