“The Lord gave the word: great was the company of those that published it” (Psalm 68:11).
Brother T, the man of vision, saw the need to establish a printing press as the work grew. Arecord reads: “Right from the early times, we saw the need to get the sound doctrine of the Word of God to our people in their own language for faith comes by hearing. We already had Sunday school books which were written in English but in order to reach the bulk of the people among whom we work, we saw the need to publish the lesson in our own language. We started with an old Letter Press which was used to print the senior Sunday school lessons and later the junior lessons. Other items are: a Guillotine which was operated manually. Types were composed by hand. 'Speed – O – Print,' a second-hand duplicator was given to us by Portland headquarters when the Africa Overseer, Rev. T.G. Oshokoya went there in 1951. Sunday school lesson outlines for adults, small slips of paper containing the caption for each Sunday school lesson, Bible text and memory verses and leaflets for primary lessons for children were rolled out on the duplicator. In 1952, a 'Banda Spirit Duplicator' was bought locally and this was used to roll out children's lessons in two or three colours. This was used up to 1961.
SISTER GRACE OGUNLAJA (Nee Oshokoya)
COMPUGRAPHIC TYPESETTER
Compugraphic Machine first bought in Anthony Village, installed in Brother T’s Cabin.
Brother John Aina & Sister Esther Ogunfowomu sent for training on it in 197.....?
RUTH ASHWELL AND BROTHER CLIFF PAULSON
IN THE PRINTING PRESS
“In 1965, we bought an Ellams Duplicator with interchangeable ink drums – using a drum each for a change of ink. In this same year, one Gestilith offset printing machine was purchased so that the elementary lessons could be produced with better quality and with greater speed because the lessons were used in Kwara State and many schools in the northern part of Nigeria.”