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Field Address;

Julius & Virginia Fleenor

Box 13
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4-25-8 Irumagawa
JAPAN

1075 NW 123 Ave. Apt. 16

Portland, Oregon 91119

Sayama Shi, Saitama Ken

Phone - 503 6'(-5-3379 503 64-3-4500

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LATEST NEWS FROM JAPAN F, I, leenors ntercessors

Phone - 0^29-53-2733 0'lf29-52-4-795

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Julius Fleenor pictured with

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

youngest daughter Laurie age 8

and adopted sons Joe 12 and John 13 and NEW GRANDSON, David

Katsumi, age 6, (in front) being

adopted "by Stephen and Carol Fleenor, Stephen is the Julius
Fleenors* oldest son and second

Since Virginia had been having various symptoms, she was referred in March to a Japanese neuro-surgeon in Tokyo,
This doctor had taken his resident work at Walter Reed in the United States,

The results of the angiogram and other

term missionary to Japan. In February while Virginia was seeking information for friends who wanted to adopt a child, she
discovered this beautiful boy,

never legally registered in Japan, whose Japanese mother

abandoned him at age 2. He

x-rays showed a brain mass and throm bosis suspected. In spite of treatment various symptoms persisted and a mis sionary American doctor said, "If you were my wife, I would send you to the states to a good teaching hospital for
tests,"

appears to have had an American

or European father. By God's

Phone conversations with the Dr, Fryar

family of the First Christian Church of

Michigan City, Indiana, and much pray

grace Stephen and Carol felt led

to adopt this boy and add to

ing led Virginia to the decision to go

their family of Becky 8, Peter 5f and Debby 2, What a beautiful

gift from God I The editing of this issue was done by Lorraine Jobst from notes sent

to Mayo's in Rochester,Minn.
Earl Grice,

During

/ tests she will be staying at the home

of the Dean of Minn. Bible College, Mr,

715 -l^th St. SE Rochester

Minn. 55901.

Phone 507-288-655^.

jby Virginia as she departed for

/; Mayo._ The mailing process, as

r usuali was handled by Thelma

Littrell.

Julius will remain in Japan until sur gery is needed, Stephen and Carol have ^/temporarily moved into the rented house / / near the building site in Sayama to
V^are for the children, Stephen has

been preaching for Julius some of the

time as Julius is opening several home

Editor's Notei April 20 7 p.m. Just spoke to Virginia in Rochester, She wants everyone to know that she is extremely pleased with the., thor.-. oj^hness of the testing at Mayo. However, there are no results to report until all testing'is completed,
PRAY FOR VIRGINIA

meetings in the area as well as working

on finishing of the building.
A BRIEF ONE PAGE NEWSLETTER

WILL BE SENT WHEN DIAGNOSIS

TREATMENT ARE KNOWN.

Designated funds will be used for Virginia's tests and expenses at

Mayo *s,

April 1977

Saturday and Sunday Bible classes

are held for children in the new audi:toriuB since Christmas,

Pray for these children,

-Let the children come unto me

Of such is the Kingdom of

Heaven

A SUMMARY OF 1976

Moving^ from our Tokyo location of 23 year-S->6 our new Sayama City location involved much preparation and activity. We were busy from January to July Ist:
securing temporary meeting place for Tokyo congregation

with many conferences concerning either buying or obtaining from another mission property through a merger with an almost defunct church group which consisted of only 5 adult members. This congregation continues self-supporting in another
very good section of Tokyo with Pastor Morohashi.

closing the kindergarten and relocating the children to surrounding kindergartens

securing land in two locations for relocation (l) SAYAMA CITYLAND PURCHASED and (2) negotiations half completed for Tokyo site
and selling the ToIqto property, tearing down the buildings, and storing the
lumber and church effects for use in Sayama building

and moving on July 1st to Sayama City to a rental Just 4 doors from the building
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July 1 to December activities were:

supervising the construction of foundation and framing of building under Japanese

contractor. By Sept. 1st the framing and roof and the second floor subfloor in,
and the funds exhausted

David Reynolds (Missionary carpenter-contractor) and his wife arrive in Sept.

His church paid round trip fare and we promise to provide room and board and a love offering in return for his services in building the church using materials
from the demolition of the Tokyo buildings

receiving a no interest loan of 6,000,000 yen ($24,000) from the Tokyo congregation
which is used for plastering, windows and other materials

using the main auditorium in December with services for 35 opening Sunday School and Saturday Bible club with total of 45 children in weekly classes.

calling in 60 homes with tracts? four summer camps in August at Karuizawa with
two accepting Christ and being baptized
PLANS AND NEEDS FOR COMING YEAR....

Julius is teaching three nights a week in a large elngineering company just 15 minutes by car from the church. This contact with 150 engineers and business
people will feed into our contacts.

Julius spends 8 to 10 hours per day working on the bxailding with David Reynolds. Final payments to be paid to the Tokyo church on their loans will be $355-00 per
month for 5 years.

Plan for daily Christian related activities in church for community from May when the building is completed and dedicated include: exercisc class for mothers with Bible class following; cooking class with Bible class following; English and Japanese Bible classes for all age levels weekly; regular film and music evangelistic

meetings with preaching; training for leadership classes of Japanese Christians;

continued worship, praise, prayer, Bible study and fellowship fer Christians.

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David and Japanese friend play baseball in park.

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scaping.

Need $5000 to finish

Four meetings a week now held in

building.

Carpeting not done. m--A'

"MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER"

April Resurrection Sunday

HELP WANTED

View of church

building from train station at cherry blossom time. SAYAMA (50 minutes by

train from Tokyo)

Wanted 10 Secretaries for Japan

You can stay in your own home and serve as a mission secretary for Ixthus. The plan is this. Virginia has been asked many times to write some of the exper

ythe story of John and Joe being given to us and the story of 100 or more people '/God brought to our door to find salvation. Also his miracle provisions again

iences of the mission field.

Stories for children, biography, her testimony,

I and again,

f You can help,

Virginia plans to put the stories in rough on cassette tapes.

Then the tapes will be sent to volunteer secretaries. The secretaries will type a rough double spaced copy to be sent back to Virginia to re-edit and
then someone will be asked to do the final copies.

If you feel called to this ministry, please write to our forwarding secretary
or direct to Japan and volunteer.

Continued from page 2 More Plans and Needs for Coming Year ...July and August four camps are already scheduled and more planned. A Japanese Christian in next town from Sayama desires a church opened in his home and has asked Julius to come to teach and

preach weekly.

A Japanese woman wants a weekly morning English and Japanese Virginia plans to travel in Japan for one week with

Bible class in her home and has asked that either Julius or Virginia come to

teach and preach weekly,

Dr. Eflargery Terpstra (Christian Psychologist) on behalf of the Mothers'

Christian Counseling Service on whose board Virginia serves.

April 1977

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Valentine's Day Japan David Reynolds, our

The building when David Reynolds arrived

missionary,^carp,enter. & contractor, and his wife

Eleanor, have done a

to help September 1976

great job.

We need $5000

to finish building and want to give them a love offering for 9 months of
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auditorium since D

U.S. Airman Jim Mathers

and Roy Daniel, missionary printer from India*both gave many hours of volunteer labor
on the church. We say thank

you.

Julius works daily on

the building too.

Julius preaching in auditorium of new Sayama building. The mission house will
be on the second floor. Not due to be

finished until the end of May.

FUNDS NEEDED FOR BIBLES AND TRACTS TO BE GIVEN IN EVANGELISM OR SOLD AT COST

We are making plans to work in cooperation with our son Stephen Fleenor and
evangelism.

family in evangelistic projects. He is fluent in readin^nd writing Japanese.

We hope to work on taped teaching sets and possibly some/paid radio time for

April 1977

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Julius with Nobue Yamaguehi> first person to be baptized in building, Mr, Yamaguchi and his
two sons are open to Christ's
word also and invited us to his

BORN AGAIN

Nobue Tamaguehi, mother of one

Virginia's kindergarten pupils^

came for months for Julius to

home after baptism and are open

ing a weekly Bible lessons in
their home.

teach her.
JAPAN!

Now she is witnessing

PRAY FOR

to family and friends!

FAMILIES TO BE CONVERTED IN

Christian school teachers, Miss Lois Sparkman and Selma Harmon, They
sewed a week for Fleenor children.
God wants

Visitors to Sayama are retired

Then Lois sent a gift saying "Please

buy an automatic dishwasher for the

new mission house.

Virginia-to do other things with her

time." God bless her!
prayer and DeoDle.

More time for

Julius with missionary son Stephen and daughter Grace (1?), Stephen
and family returned January 1977 to plant churches and evangelize.

An Easter afternoon picnic in the park

just before Virginia left for the states

for medical testing.
house.

This park will be

our view from the church and mission

April 1977

Stephen said*"David needed a mother and father

even though one might think we need no more
children," David told the children at the Praise God for

orphanage, "My American father found me and is going to take me home," He had waited for a
"dream" and God sent us.

letting us be co-laborers with HIM.

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Joshua in KAMAKURA

Brother Bill Potter celebrated his 74th birthday in Japan - returned to states in September because of illness. He went to be with his Saviour on March 28 this year. He left a scholarship at Lincoln Christian College for Reyna Takebuchi, PRAISE GOD
FOR SUCH SAINTS!

Reyna Takebuchi soul winner pharmacist. She will help us one year in evangelism at Sayama on Saturdays and Sundays and then go September 1978 to study Bible 2 years at Lincoln
Bible College

Daughter Dana Lee

Capt. Paul Harder and wife Kathleen helped us

in many ways. Here we enjoy a party and

will graduate the University of Oregon this June

and plans to come for one year to teach English

and Bible to children and be a self-supporting

missionary.

She will need $^00 for fare to

prayer fellowship in
their Air Base apartment

Japan on a special charter flight.

called to teach children.

She feels

Now working among

Japanese foreign students in winning them to

Jesus Christ on University of Oregon campus.

April 1977

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Portland, Oregon 97229
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Dear beloved family in the Lord Jesus Christ, First, we must give thanks to God for all your prayers and kind letters and

cards of encouragement during this time of concern for Virginia's special

health problem. May God return many fold to you the offerings sent for exami

nation and treatment. To date about $800 has been received. The First Christ ian Church of Durfur, Oregon sent $500 of this amount. The Michigan City Indi ana First Church (Julius* living link for 28 years) paid the round trip fare
for Virginia to come to the States and will take another love offering for medi

cal costs for the $1000 yet to be paid,

weeks of extensive tests.

Mayos greatly discounted the costs of

Dr. Herb Miller, a wonderful Christian dentist, of the First Church of Michi gan City gave all his treatments without fee to Virginia. Dr. Gene Fryar, an elder and Christian dentist at Michigan City (lived 2 years in Japan as an Air

Force dentist at Yokota)phoned for the church,to Japan urging Virginia to come
to Bfeyos and get to the source of the problem. Dean Earl Grice,' of~Minnesota Bible College, and his wife Irene graciously invited Virginia to stay in their home during her testing at Mayo, Pastor Earl Wood of Michigan City made all the arrangements, Harold Gallagher minister in Honolulu phoned two Christian Chinese staff doctors at Mayo, This husband and wife team kindly en couraged and helped Virginia, All the doctors at Mayo were so kind and thor ough in their examinations. We praise God for all of them, June 17, the head of neurology at Loma Linda University Medical School in California gave a final review of the tests at Mayo, with a 3 hour examination of Virginia, The usual

$100 fee was discounted 50?5,

This fine Christian man. Dr. Guy Hunt, was very

helpful in his diagnosis and advice.

Virginia was found to have a liver disease of some kind. They did not want to risk hemorrhage to biopsy the liver since she had had hemorrhaging problems in her tests in Tokyo and a history of this problem. The normal liver function

test should show a reading number of 3 to 4o and the reading was 210 and then
3 weeks later 198 and now 185. The neurologists said they could find no tumor .in the brain from the Brain Scan test, but suggested that there might be a scar

tissuB'3m the""brain causing symptoms, but no medication could be given as the liver was the biggest problem. The hepatitis being sub-clinical (meaning no obvious symptoms, yet not functioning,properly) probably explains the dullness
in thinking and inability to get things done that Virginia experienced in recent months. Also some of the headache and feeling that she was pushing and yet very slow to accomplish any task.

While waiting at Michigan City for the results of the blood parasite test which had been sent by Mayo to the Disease Center at Atlanta, GA,, Virginia was praying one night and asked God to show her the source of the headache,
blurring of vision and balance and face and eye numbing problem. Although

relaxed and reading a Bible passage she had had 30 vision blurring episodes and face numbing, and found it difficult to read and concentrate. She bit on a piece of ice from ice water she was drinking and an old filling was sensitive. Next day she asked Dr. Fryar if a pressure on the nerve from teeth could cause this problem. He said that he and Dr. Miller had discussed that she had classical symptoms of something. The next day Dr. Miller said the tooth was fine, but that she had a ^d jnalocclusion problem and that perhaps h could solve the problem. He made xem-platHa~Tclear "plastic dentures which fit over the back bottom molars which align the bite perfectly). God
helped Dr. Miller to get these adjusted just at the time that Virginia heard the negative report from Atlanta on the blood parasites which could have caused

the same symptoms.

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Within an hour a constant headache, of 8 months duration,

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ceased and the face numbing stopped.

months to stop if this pressure from the jaws not being aligned is now correct
This malocclusion causes pressure on the neck vertebrate and this presses

on the 7th, 8th and 9th nerves at the base of the skull in the brain affecting
the inner ear for balance problems and the eyes and face nerves,
AMAZING THAT ONE OF THE FEW DENTISTS IN THE UNITED STATES DOING THIS WORK IS
A MEMBER OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH AT MICHIGAN CITY AND IT WAS ANOTHER

DENTIST, DR. FRYAR WHO FELT IMPRESSED BY GOD TO URGE VIRGINIA TO COPE TO MAYO
AND THEN OR THE MICHIGAN CITY AND WAIT UNTIL THE PARASITE TEST WAS FINISHED. _

Riayo doctors and also Loma Linda said to cut down on the pressures causing
stress so that the liver can heal. There is an enlarged vein in the brain that they can see, but there is no' treatment. The final word is that the priority planning of life style is the main treatment.

Mayos urged Virginia to have varicose vein surgery after the liver is healed
next June 1978.when the Fleenors are due for regular furlough. If the blood

tesfsrof^liver function do not come down in a year, Mayos liver specialist,

Dr. Hughes, said they want to biopsy the liver to find the definite cause of the liver disease, but there is too much risk at this, time of hemorrhage and they want it to heal of itself. Vitamin and rest therapy is best. Dr. Miller will cap the molars at that time.
WE NEED YOUR PRAYERS BECAUSE:

^-JVirginia returns to Japan June 25th.

as the work at Sayama grows.

This next year is an important year

We ar^. moving into our mission home^uly Ist^nd do have some summer
evangelistic responsibilities, Julius* ulcer problem flares up when he is overworked. Stephen, our son, is doing some of the preaching and taking over the summer evange
lism in Karuizawa since we shall be in the process of moving.

All special offerings will be used for finishing these problems,

^DANA LEE, our daughter, age 23, graduated June 12 from the University of

Oregon and will come to Japan for one year to take over some of Virginia's and Julius classes and to do evangelism. PRAY FOR HER. ^

family housing at the Bible College living units during Julius* physitjalUune
1978 for the ulcer condition and while Virginia is having a check up and

The kind people at Minnesota Bible College in Rochester, MI h4ve. off.eJ?ed qi^
possible surgery.

We THANK GOD for all of you who urge us to do this and for

your prayers.

All gifts for the care of Virginia have been appreciated however we shall_be
slower in answering letters because of moving and trying to get proper rest.

Two young men from Michigan City Church, Brett and Brian Fryar (sons of Dr, Gene Fryar) are being sent by their family to help us move and to help with
Karuizawa Camp evangelism this summer.

One of the blessings of this trip was the meeting and v/itnessing to many Japanese,Jews, sick people, hospital personnel and others and helping to introduce them to Christ or else bring them back into a relationship with him. May God return 100 fold to each of you who have cared for us and who have
ministered by prayer.

Sincerely,
Julius and Virginia

IXTHUS MISSION TO JAPAN, P.. I. S. H.

Japan Field Address:

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THANKSGIVING NEWSLETTER t/'

November 1977

Dear Faithful Friends, Thanks to God and His Church the Sayama Mission Center and

Church of Christ building is at last finished and in full use. There is landscaping work to be completed and a large lighted scripture and notice board we want to erect in front, but
we are thankful there have been 40 adults in attendance each

morning this last month. The Sunday school now averages 35 children. Weekly English Bible classes have 23 persons enrolled. Three nights a week Julius teaches English and
Bible for two hours to 60 businessmen at a large tractor com pany in the neighborhood. Wednesdays and Thursdays the pattern since September has been house to house evangelism and school evangelism in areas around Sayama and other Churche of Christ where we have a Japanese church or missionaries doing church planting, Julius does much of the continual improvement work on the Sayama property due to the extreme Inflation problem and the fact that formerly $1.00 was exchanged to 360 yen and this

week the exchange dipped to $1,00 to 240 yen. Thus all missionaries in Japan have lost 1/3 of their mission income.
Since-we are~tuc'a^ed~next~tCT'a"IaTge park" whlctr has~no" drinking fountain we have erected one in front of the Sayama Church. The Glass foyer to the church is always open and tracts and scripture portions are available. Julius is shown during construction of the drinking fountain in front. The Del Amo Christian Church sent money for this project.
WHO COMES TO CHURCH AT SAYAMA? In November there

was an engineer, an IBM computer salesman and his

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and his wife, three Japanese servicemen of the Japan

family, two dentists and their wives, a chiropractor a SelfDefense Forces, 10 college students, 10 high school students, one doctor's wife, three jr. high students and three Japanese housewives plus the occasional missionary visitor. We have two Christian

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HjFljlr families in regular attendance now and one Christian mother who attends with her sons and bring friends.
Christian serviceman Mr. Seki has attended

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regularly since his conversion over a year ago..

these will reach out as soul winners in their sphere

Pray

of influence to build up the church. STEPHEN FLEENOR, our son, does the morning service

preaching and Julius teaches three afternoon and an

evening Bible class on Sundays. The above picture is

one of the rare morning services when Julius did the preaching,
1978

THE JULIUS FLEENOR FAMILY FURLOUGH PLANS

Daughter Grace will be entering Bible College in 1978, Virginia will need extensive dental treatment during the
month of July by Dr. Miller of the First Christian Church, We will be available for speaking dates in Indiana and Illinois during July. During the month of August we shall make our headquarters at the Minnesota Bible College in Rochester, Minnesota for check-ups at Mayo Clinic. If

Virginians hepatitis is completely well she is scheduled for vein surgery. Either Oregon or California will be our
headquarters during the rest of the furlough until June 1979 when we shall return to Japan. Stephen, our son, will pastor the church here at Sayama. Contact us for speaking dates.

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and then 180 and now i t is 160,

health?" Thanks to many prayers, the September blood test showed an improvemet ment. At Mayo the reading had been 210
The nor

Virginia is happily shopping, cooking, and caring

for th^fami^lyan^ ^
FOR THESE SPECIAL MISS lOl^IES HE SENDS TO HELP US,

mal reading should be 3-40,

So it is

gradually coming down. Pray the liver

will be functioning perfectly by next summer so a liver biopsy will be avoided. The missionary doctor said that 107=, of the people in Japan have chronic hepatitis.

Virginia still has too little energy. given by Dr. Miller in Michigan City
numbing symptoms,
after she completed her tests at Mayos

However, the temporary dental treatment

has relieved all headaches and face

house evangelism, and talked with many who came and observed the missionary work during a
hot and difficult stimmer. A tribute goes to the home and the church that made these fine boys,

They duplicated invitations to our special coffee

is next to Joshua CJulia and Shinichi's son) and then our sons Joe and John,

OUR ENTIRE FAMILY WILL BE TOGETHER IN JAPAN.

THREE DEATHS SADDENED US THIS FALL.

This is an unusual blessing for foreign missionaries.

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THIS CHRISTMAS

News came to us through Gordon Hahn of the Nishi Arai Christian Foundation that they were

giving $1000.00 to the building fund

in memory of Tom Michael a faithful supporter of Missions.

Tom and his family have given through the years to the work in Japan. He was a builder and so this gift was given in his honor for finishing up the building. We shall miss Tom. Then word came shortly after that that Carl. Fromhold, a great evangelistic song leader and dear friend through the years had passed from this life. How we shall miss the beautiful
Christmas card he always sent with a beautiful personal message written to uplift us. We

know he is in that great choir that worships the Lord day and night.

Then just as we began

to type this newsletter from Japan, word came that Harold Cole, veteran missionary to Japan since 1938 had passed from this life, Harold and Leone's younger son David worked with us several summers in Karuizawa and plans to return as a missionary to Japan after his graduation from Pacific Christian College. Who will take the places of these fine men who gave of their time, wealth, and energies that Christ be known? PRAY THE LORD OF THE HARVEST TO SEND FORTH
LABOURERS. We feel honored to have had the friendship of these who have gone on ahead.

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It has been great to have our daughter Dana Lee here since June to
help for at least one year in our missionary program. She is con tinually making new contacts and bringing new people to the church for teaching, .Please pray for Dana as she considers her future work. She plans to return to the United States in 1978 or 1979 and desires to know God's will for her future service in Japan, She has taken over many classes for Virginia in the last six months and carried on many responsibilities to lighten the load for us. We

give thanks to God for letting her be with us this year.

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Our Japanese sons Joe 13 and John 14 are now in the 7th grade
at the Mission School but still study Japanese on Saturdays, Joe is a good baseball player and runner in spite of his leg
problem. He eniovs school and books. ^John's interest in electronics, science, ana art persists, John is always at his father's side to help in

Short Tern Missionary Dana Fleenor )ana Fleenor with brother Joe in background

building or repair projects.

Those" wlib "send for 'their school tuitibli and

support will not be disappointed in Heaven when you meet some of those who have received Christ

because of these "two angels" sent by God into our Home, Dr. Yamamoto says John and Joe greatly influenced her decision to become a Christian.
Last year, Dr. Yamamoto won 12 friends to Jesus

Christ through her home meetings. Dr. Yamamoto donates all the dental care for the two boys also. TO THE LEFT JULIUS is shown with a group typical of the weekly contacts he makes. The young man to his right is an American studying in Japan who just became a Christian one month ago. He comes
and worships at Sayama and desires to return to the states to Bible College to prepare for service.

Next to him is Sgt. Tanaka of the Japanese

Self-

Defense Service. He comes weekly to study the Bible and ask questions. Next to him is Cpl. Seki who

became a Christian through an American serviceman two years ago and who has attended services here
"at"Sayama. He plans to"enter "Bible College

next year. To the left front is Dr, Sato a profes sor in the Dental College. He and Dr. Tsuji come

weekly to study English Bible. PRAY FOR THESE MEN, Most Japanese become Christian only after much study and personal contact with some Christian,
Virginia serves as substitute Sunday School teacher at Sayama She is shown teaching for Stephen when he went north for evangelism one Sunday. Virginia taught the opening session on the subject of the Person of God the Creator and how to communicate with Him by

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prayer.

The grandmother kneeling in the back

pew is in her 70's and became a Christian through Sunday School evangelism. She came bringing her two grandchildren and a gift of fruit and
vegetables.

The girl at the piano was baptized at summer camp this last summer. She comes from a fine
Christian home and helps each week in the Sunday School and Church service.
WHAT IS OUR GREATEST NEED AS MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN?

First and always your continual prayers that we he faithful to Jesus Christ and His calling.
This prayer we make for the Japanese Church also. Second: Third: Pray we have wisdom from God in how to communicate His Message to this people. We need to buy and use more literature and scripture portions. The Japanese read, read, read. Literature of the right type is needed. Also tapes to be played in homes where people cannot or will not go to a church to be fed, THIS YEAR SPECIAL
CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS WILL BE USED FOR LITERATURE AND SUNDAY SCHOOL MATERIALS.

OUR NEED FOR MORE HOURS IN A DAY SO WE CAN COMMUNICATE BETTER WITH YOU WOULD BE GOOD, BUT SINCE
THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE PLEASE ACCEPT OUR NEWSLETTERS AS A PERSONAL THANKS TO ALL WHO HELP US IN
OUR MINISTRY HERE.

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STEPHEN FLEENOR AM) HIS "MISSIONARY TEAM EVANGELISTIC EFFORT."

Our Son, Stephen and family, began their second term of missionary service January 1977, When the door closed for them to secure a Japanese bank loan

to build a mission center 100 miles north of Tokyo and Virginia's health problem required her to go to the states, Stephen and Carol agreed to come to Sayama and work together with us in establishing a church. In August the Warrick family left for Korea having been called there in April when the Hill family left
Taejon, Since the mission house behind the new

mission center was vacant^ Stephen and family moved in there after two months ot summer evangelism in
Karuizawa,

SIX WERE BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST IN THE SUMMER EVANGELISM

in Karuizawa. Missionaries Cole, Patton, Buttray and Christensen worked in a team effort with Stephen in
various places during the summer.

The top picture shows Stephen teaching the Sunday

School opening session at Sayama .

the leadership for the Sunday School,

He is training

Since September, Stephen started the project of grouping

the Tokyo area missionaries and Warren Christiansen

from the northern area into a team where every Wednes day and Thursday the missionaries would work in one of the areas where a missionary lives or there is an established Church, They call in homes, visit the schools and distribute literatare. Every area was helped by an increased church and Sunday schooi

attendance,

Stephen is shown to the left teaching

some high school children using plastic covered picture rolls. The pictures help tell the story of creation and the coming of Jesus Christ through to his ressurection and second coming.
This is done all day early before school hours and

and after school hours. Each school principal ;is contacted and given a sample of materials which the missionaries will be giving to the children in the
streets outside the school yards.
The city children would listen from 20 to 30 minutes Julius was delighted, when the team went north to

the school above Karuzawa in Nagano prefecture where the Warren Christiansens work. There, groups of 50

to 100 children would listen for an hour to the message

of Jesus Christ.

In Japan we find that in almost every adult conversion the person will say, "I went to Sunday School for a

short time, or I gota Bible in Junior High or High Schoo].." Thus we Rnow we must continue the task of going out to the highways and by^^/ays and teaching anyone who will listen to the message of Jesus and
then take the literature in to their homes.

WE NEED A BIBLE PORTION" AND T.ITERATURE BUDGET

of $250.00 a month to homes and schools in During the past three reached many more but

meet the needs of contacts in the coming year. months the "TEAM" could have our mission budgets did not

cover the opportunities to the fullest.

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The picture to the left is not of two starving Asian children, but two healthy intelligent Japanese children with enough physical food, but they have no "Bread of Life" no knowledge of the True and Living God,
Jesus said: "MY WORDS ARE SPIRIT AND LIFE."

PLEASE ACCEPT THIS NEWSLETTER AS A PERSONAL GREETING FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS FOR A BLESSED CHRISTMAS.

Sincerely,

Julius and Virginia