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March
1962
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',^hen we see young people dedicate their lives for Christ we realize that all the effort y
1
it takes to
of those who
evangelize
make a
in
-</
Christ,
Although
some
of
these baptisms have been re ported to you through our re gular correspondence we are
repeating
Nursery school ad NURSERY SCHOOL TO OPEN
Prom April the Tetcunan Church V7ill sponsor a niirsery school at the church building. Upon returning to the
last Jvily
i t was of bene
was in Jr. ffl.gh School, This was sometime before our going to the US for furlough. Ha is now teaching
grade students at
hour
decided that
the i n i t i a l
a mirsery school
funds were borrow
will be on
basis,
self-sustaining
August 20, I96I5 Upon learning that Mrs, Toshiko Utagawa," wife of a Uemuro High School teacher, was de siring baptism we made awangements
iOitfjiruit'cl i(
Q?he nursery
school
will be
opened with a inaiciiuura of 50 pupils. This ii; -he number that our present facilities
will allow. There vrill be two
women teachers
handling
two
yeC'r, from 9
for the benefit of mothers wh6 work. The school will meet
until
I'll I'liyc 4)
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mibbionaries
March 1962
(JZontinued from page 1)
to
ally blind. At the present time she is in Tc^qto undergoing extensive ex aminations on the eyes.
Mias
ISxriko
CHRIST
Masaml Oofuchl
Jesus was
born In
a stable
in Judea, I
However, I. think it
the
Son of
Jeisus wasn*t
IQss
Atsuko
Sunday
Atchan
nice house,
blind man, at
healed a man
another time he
who was suffer
ing,
(her nickname) -will be in her first ' ysar.jpdL&_^gh She ^,-plays_ihe bal^ -organ Xpr Sunday
/ School in Obihiro and ISenniro, She is
f\al power.
^ vices_at.Church,
V_
is the ycningest
If too,
woTild like
to
be a
was
Jesus.
He
, a righteous
.man until
hi
death. He, really was a good person. The Pharisees spoke harsh words about Him, but Je
sus, even when in sorrov^ walkthe right way, Jesus truly a great person. was
(^bab, bahy,
der>
We thought
terested in
you might be in
this article by
li^e* l&ss Yoairiirn KtimA started at tending seinrices late last year up
on her return fk>om Tokyo, Sar ther is in charge of the deaf and
dumb school in a western-suburbo FOR YOUR PROGRAMS.
There are tvro sets of slides
the fourth
grade
son
This
of
wit-
it lated to;
office.
Concerning
Packages
Occasionally some people have sent^ packages to our US office f^r Zov
them
additional i-rork but also increases
Write to
March 1962
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CHRISTMAS IN REVIEW
This seems a l i t t l e late to
SPRING MEETING
be reporting about Christmas but we thought you night like to know T-rhat took place. Some
one rewariced
recently
in
letter that
Christnas must be
hold an
be a
evangelistic
retxirn visit
present
which
to
see
the
program
for him. The above picture ; shows Mr. lijima preaching the very first evangelistic meet ing we held here in Obihiro
when we met in our home We
own
consisted
of Christuias
music, drama ,
and film strips.
shadow
play,
The night before, a Christmas party was held 'a't the rural
lijima has
to return to his
hometown for this meeting, Mr lijima is well known in 0bihiro where his father prac
tices law, Ke is minister of the Minato Shurch of Christ in
tendance,
Tokyo, teacher at the YllCA, and is author of a monthly publication called "Bokka"
(pastorial Song )
as
well as
gift exchange and games. The adult Christmas program is traditionally held on Christmas Eve, There were 57
present to sing together the
traditional carols and to see the slide presentation of the
CCoiiJiiiiici? (HI <<)!. /
author of a fine Gonraentary on Galatians. Kr. lijima is one of our most capable ministers in Japan today# We knovr that he V7ill be able to reir;ch many
souls for Christ as well as
the coming of
the first
night
citywide
campaign v;ill be held at the downtown community hall. Sub sequent meetings will be at
the Church house,
'Coiilj'micil from iicxl eol-)
Other programa were held on Christmas Day at the Aimi village coinraunity hall in conjuction -nith
the local school and also at Taisho, Christmas meetings were also held at Sunagawa by Ur, Oofuchi,
March 1962
This is the ice skating sea son in Obihiro, All the school yards are flooded and the boys and girls skate at recess and noon tirae. Almost every one in school carries his skates
bag on
over his shoulder
his
back.
and
Linda
a book
has
some skates but she is too soared to get out on the ice with them. Chucky tried them
on once but
he
couldn't keep
down hard. Another time he went head first and Mora almost
him,
before
on is
you
started
other.
^ve a school room, Linda is In the fourth grade, Chucky in When we studied about
all helped make pichere to Grandmo
kitchen and we
crowded with
are
glad
we
njt know .nglish not reali zing that the English and Ja match. This seems strange to us but they almost always give the page number in Japan be
cause all the Bibles
same.
panese
Then we
txires to
letters Linda gave a report on the Post Office and its work
show how our letters
are
the
travel from
It is fun to study
together
Sayonara ,
doesn't
the winter and from 8 A.M.un til i|. p,M, in the s\aTinier, In
special cases we will take
prised if you were to visit our school, You might think It was Sunday School because
we always have a Bible lesson
care of the. -children longer. We hope that through the school we will have an oppor
On
his first
lessons
young
concerning
in the
for the
child
of Christian teaching
Sunday
Sunday
homes it is necessary
Japanese people.
go
to
We trust you will keep this school in mind when you pray.
/"/ o h
SUMMER
- ExangelistU.Meeting
f i S i- i ^ ry
MEETINGS
llstic speaker. The ^^^^9 meetings were held a- jjS^Q midst the threat of ty- r^ag
phoons and heavy rains* On the opening night the kindergarten was scheduled to present a shor t
'
Kuto was to preach his first sermon. The openred because of the del^.
in
Mr. Oofuchi, and the evange list, Mr. Muto. (See "Sftpppro Camp, Page 3) Neva, with the
Dairy
farm
1$
miles
S.W.
the ehad on to get ordina would
but in
of Obihiro. Following vangelistic meeting we ly one day in order ready for camp. Xftider ry circmstances this
not seem so difficiilt
everything
withusincluding
ters* (Someone
the shel
re
recently
organl")
It is quite a
I
^ \
a camp.
But we
feel
i t iswell
people's hearts
John Muto
and
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MISSIONARIEB
September 1962
see that
government
is
run in
Christian way.
agree with these programs? Ai*e'they what you would endorse? Write the company especially if you don't. It is your means of protest^and by all
means refrain from buying the
ducts of this company.
"THERE IS YOUR
Matthew 6:21
HEART"
pro
teaching here.
If
you
put yo r
Many people are interested in pur work in Japan and esqpress their in-
treasures in the Lord's work your heart and your concern will also be
assume
there,
\that they substantially beleive we jtre doing what is rii^ht. Or do th^ dtqaport us like the government? Do
they feel that how we use their mo
realm of government. Of course, each of us must pay for" our goverament. He do so 'through taxes in hundreds of different ways. Not only this but we can also support politics by i^ancially backing up our candi
dates.
ours?" If businesses were operated this way thsy would surely fail*
We put out receipts for two rea
sons.
it is an
Where you spend and entrust your treasures you will certainly show conccm. If you have your money in vested in stock in some componiy you are going to be interested dn the welfare of that coii;)any*
Ihese enable you to check your files and determine whether we are doing
what you would want vs to do. Na
V/ith our money we not only support religion but also government and
businesses. At the sme time we can
turally, we, like the government, can't Vdo everything that people
might like for us to do but we can consider your views. We appreciate it when a church
their
send
jad to those who not only deny God bftt also seek to destory us. That
you $$^0 for the year whereas bur l0.edge is for $600, ELeasd send us
the receipt numbers and dates
we support it. How? One way is the giving of our laon^ through aid to Comministic countries* (As written in KV3NTS recently, "Call it 'Taxpayer's money' not the 'goveni^ ment's monQT.'") Do you agree with their use of your money? If you don't then you have the responsibil ity of telling your congressman and Senators about it. They will be
As a
the
followup
of this
received
balance of the
pledge.
In recent
weeks I have writt^i about, "The U nited Nations," "Medical aid," ?(JSIA
had missed a month. That is just not good stewardship. Are you interes
ted in how we use not "our mission
they
velfrom
city hall
to
the state
SUNAGAWA
NURSERY SCHOOL
It has now been a year since the Ohara boy was drowned.
anniversary of his death. This they didleaving camp at 10 A.M. and returning at 6 P.M. They returned just before the
river flooded the town of Su
nagawa.
Because
of
pressing
and other
held
any meetings in Sunagawa since January, We were glad for the opportiJnlty to again witness
to this family,
Sapporo Camp
now 3 teachers
school,
working in the
poro,
Since
there
are
only
for
quite close. Our very first camp held in 19^8 was in con junction with the Sapporo
church. Since then we have
camps but e-
able to fellowship with them. This year Mr, Oofuchi and Er nest again went. They were
and grow and that our contact with these yoiing parents will result in much good.
there from
The camp was a very wet camp with rain every day turning much worse on Thursday as the ^typhoon approached, Friday night the campers were return ed home and the faculty re mained until the next day and
(Continued on page 4}
building every aftrnoon year DV5S was held from JLugust 6-10, It ran concurrently with the evangelistic meeting,The children enjoyed theBlp
etc. For part of handwork we used
tures
merica*
from 10:00-12:00 AH a
day.
UUtloouy .CoOTcaUon
Page 1|.
Dear Boys and Girls, haven't forgotten you i.he last
September 1962
few months.
ten,
convention,
fon/ard Japanese
also we
to this trip.
we can see
When we go to Tokyo
are able ;to visit and play vn.th many American friends. During the convention they had special meetings for the children. Also, because of
the kindness of an Air Force Chris
wiener roast
outdoors. This attracted quite a Japanese audience. We can't buy wieners here but eat fisJi sausage so real wienars surely tasted good Of course^ we always-dislike part
of the trip to Tokyo, It means we have to go to the, dentist and docr
rain, V/e enjoyed throy/ing rocks in the T/atcr, walking in the rain,riding in an abandoned but usable boat
of
every
V/ell, we
returned home we
were thinking of going away again. The English missionary camp for
hope to visit you sooner next tdme, Y/e haven't heard from sone of you
get lonely
children was
to
be
held
in July,
Please write.
Donnie and Allan both vrere too young to go but Allan is looking forward to next year. To make up for this Daddy took Allan with him to the Sapporo camp, Allan got the best of us thouf^h because he had an airplane ride. There vms a big flood and tlie train tracks washed out so they had across to r^et home.
In August we enjoyed
Church camp Mrith 37 people,
our
or/n
'There were 37 present for the cacg)> to make it one ofoiir largest. This
Donnie
especially livened up the can^ ' making a 2 year-old nuisance of him self and was hold so often by so
many that he retumod home spoiled. Mother iras busy helping to dish up food and so Donnie wouj.d help him
self to some hmdy plate and get in
of the typhoon ire made an unexpected visit vdth the Church at Sapporo osrer Sunday at which time Ernest spoke.We finally secured plane tickets and a-
during the camp baseball game. Dad dy Tfas on the losing side-20-9.
Tokyo, we flew over the flooded ai?ea and approached Obihiro from the opposite direction. The tracts be tween Obihiro and Sapporo are . nbt yet repaired in the mountains.