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EIICHI TANIYAMA (Seisho Yomu Kai, Tanabe, Wakayama) has just had
a telephone installed in his home. His telephone number
is: (0739) 23-1158.
THE 21ST annual SATSUGU CHRISTIAN CAMP was held at the CHRISTIAN

CENTER, Kanoya (Kyushu) from August 4-9.

BROTHER NAMIO

KAMADA [Editor of Tembo] from Okinawa was the camp special

speaker.

DAVID SIZEMORE has been very ill with "glandular fever", so that he
was forced to leave school at Lincoln Christian College be

fore summer vacation and return home to recuperate.

SHIRLEY KLEINER left Japan from Osaka International Airport on July

20.

She was to spend 2 weeks in Hawaii before returning

home, where she is a High School teacher (English and

History). While in Japan, besides helping the TURNERS and
teaching VBS to their children, she was able to spend two
days helping AUDREY WEST, besides becoming acquainted with
the Osaka area missionaries.

REMEMBER THE NEW ADDRESSES of Osaka Bible Seminary and the MARTIN
CLARKS.
Effective September 1, 1971 the address of Osaka

Bible Seminary became 2-11 Nakamiya 4-chome, Asahi-ku,

Osaka (535).

The CLARKS address is 4-21 Nakamiya 4-chome,

Asahi-ku, Osaka (535),

YOKO FUJII has returned to Hokkaido, having left Japan Mission the
first part of July.
FIFTY-FOUR ADULTS attended the MINATO CHURCH CHRISTIAN CAMP at

Hakone during the latter part of July, MASAHISA IIJIMA,

the preacher, wrote.

CORRECTION:

MRS. SUGIYAMA, whom we reported as taking the job of

cook for the O.B.S. students, has been unable to do so;

We are sorry that this was reported as news while decisions

had not yet been finally made.
PAUL AND RICKY CLARK have a new address: P.O. Box 1520, Tahoe City,
California, 95730.
BARBARA WARRICK is spending this year with her parents in Japan.
She will help with letters, bookkeeping, housekeeping and
taking care of the younger children.
She also wants to
fina time to sew.

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SHIN KUBONO, a student from Osaka Bible Seminary, worked with the
SANNOBARA CHURCH during the summer while the PAUL PRATT
FAMILY was in America.
(Isehara, Tokyo).
KOICHI HOMORI (DBS student) preached for the TARUMI CHURCH and the
KAGOSHIMA CITY CHURCH (Kyushu) from July 3 to August 30
during summer vacation.

EISUKE MASUDA (DBS student) helped during the summer at the MOIWASHITA CHURCH (Sapporo, Hokkaido).
KIYOSHI NAGASE made a trip to Okinawa during the summer.

MASATAMI KIKKAWA (preacher, ONO) has been teaching Japanese to

WARREN AND EILEEN CHRISTIANSON, who, is is reported, are

making amazing progress in the language in the short time

they have been here.

A SECOND AKASHI VBS, this one held at the apartment rented by the
FUJIE CHURCH for English Classes, etc., averaged 15 for

the 6 days. Most of the students were 5th and 6th grade
boys and girls, which is not the usual case in a VBS.
MICHIKO FUKOE taught.

THE ONO KODOMO KAI (Children's Meeting), held for 3 days, July
25-27 with MICHIKO FUKOE as teacher, had 12, 25, and 18
children in attendance.
Two High School boys of the Ono

congregation, TAKEGAWASAN and KOBAYASHISAN, and two

American girls, DENISE KEMP and JODI WENZ from Crenshaw
Christian Church (Inglewood, Calif.) who were visiting the
CHRISTIANSONS for the summer, helped with the children.

In spite of not knowing the language, the girls were able

to play the organ, help with the handwork, and handle song
sheets.

MRS. CHRISTIANSON brought cookies the last day

and she and MRS. KIKKAWA served juice.

DALE MINGS is studying at home this year, since he lacks only a

few credits of graduation. He wants to finish early and
enter college in the fall. He has been helping out at
NAKAMIYA CHURCH (Osaka).

CLAIRE BOULTON's new address is 18 Okisho Hsq., Urasoe City,

Okinawa.

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"We are not," he said, "living in our own house

in Mercy now, and won't be for at least another year. . .

Our contract with the housing agent we left in charge of

our place specifies that the house is to be returned to

/us vacant at the end of our furlough, but he wrote an

open-ended contract with the present tenant, and there

isn't any way we can put them out. In fact, if they want
to stay for 5, 10, 20 years or more, there's nothing we

can do about it. . .He is a civilian working for the gov

ernment, and says that there isn't any way that he can Listay past September 1972, so we hope to get back into our
own home then.

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OKIHARU DOYAMA returned July 12, i971 from just under one year of
study in the United States at the American Baptist Seminarv

of the West, at Berkeley, California:^ lie is now preaching

on Awaji Island for the Bihon Kirisuto Eyodan Shizuki Kyokai.

His address is: Mr. &Ifa-s. (^iharu Do3rama, Nihon Kirisuto

Kyodan Shizuki Kyokai, 1716 Shizuki, Tsuna-cho, Tsuna-eun
Hyogo-ken.

'

MARY PRATT has enrolled in Cincinnati Bible Seminary. Her address

is 303 Women's Residence, iiVOO Glenway Avenue, Cincinnati
Ohio, 45204.

'

ASOT OP 55 SLIOBS on "Vmat Cbrlstlanlty la Like In Japan" was sent

to Australia to be used by HIROSHI INADA in a September ;
convention to present Japan to the Christians of Australia.
He will also be able to show them in various places as
time goes on. Thanks goes to TURNERS, SIMS, CLARKS E.
fuIjTZ, v. LEHMON, coles and BURNEYS for what we feel was
an interesting, if somewhat long, presentation.

WALTER^AND MARY MAXEY arrived^^^a^a aboard the President

Thursday^,AgUst26^ith the help of the
KIYOTO YANAGIMOrpOs
iid KlyutS^sister, they were able t

locate an apartment at Koganei City, the next stopi^

Mitaka where International Christian Universitv^^islocated

. .They visited in Kanoya for 9 days and returned to

Koganei. They are to study language at ICU from Sept. 14

through June 30, 1972. Their address is: 41-3 Higashimachi, 4-chome, Koganei-shi (184).

DAN AND CAROL (MING^) ELLIOTT have moved from Tampa, Florida to
Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their address is Box 157, Foyil, Okla
homa, 74031.

DAN will finish his training for medical

work in Tulsa.

HAROLD AND LEONE COLE wrote on August 11, "Camps and VBSs seem to

be our main activity right now. . .Have helped in 4 VBSs,

2 camps, and have spoken over 40 times since coming home'
this summer.

We have one more VBS and 1 camp yet to com

plete.

A THREE DAY ROTREAT at Karuizawa for the High School girls in EXIE
FULTZ's Sunday morning Bible Class (THE NATIONS CHURCH OF

CHRIST) resulted in the baptism of MISS TOSHIKO SHU (Chin^

ese). MR. &MRS. BOB WARRICK, MRS. MABEL BOTTRAY, and MISS
CHIAKI OKAMOTO also helped in the retreat, and according
to Exie's newsletter. Miss Shu "with living green trees as
the backdrop, was baptized into Christ by BRO. WARRICK in
the outdoor baptistry at the camp grounds of the JULIUS
FLEENORS."

MARTH^OST wrote on August 17: "Next Friday will find me flying

r"^to . . .Los Angeles. I do not know just where I will be
/ living since I sold my Garden Grove bungalow to come to
^ the mission field. I have snent three years at Omika and

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TOST, cont.

"tried to be teacher, friend, and counselor to many students.

I have given out more than fifty dozen "Good News For Mod
ern Man" to students, travelers, and all who have desired
the Word of Life and could speak and read some English.

Thank God for the opportunity. . . My work with the college

is finished and someone else will be taking over my classes
for the second semester.
Two new American young couples

are coming I understand."

BOB AND JOYCE WARRICK should be sited this year for "Bravery Be
yond the Call of Duty." Because the Christian Academy
dormitories were unable to keep them, CHARLES FABER,

ALLAN FABER, CAREY JONES, and SARAH BURNEY are all staying
with the WARRICKSbesides, of course, Warricks* -own fam

ily.

We down-country and up-country parents are very

thankful to the Warricks for their Christian love.

THE NOICHI CHURCH BUILDING AND PARSONAGE (Kochi, Shikoku) are well
on their way to completion, the roof and walls being almost
finished. The building is scheduled to be finished in
November. The quonset which will house Shikoku Christian
Press will then be moved onto the back of the property.

PAUL AND KATHLEEN PRATT, ANDREW AND BETTY PATTON and family, and
GRACE FARNHAM arrived in Tokyo from the States Sept. 1.

THE HAROLD SIMS FAMILY, who intended to take the same plane to
arrive September 1, was forced to wait when their new

passport arrived one hour after the plane left.

(Jon,

whom they left in Cincinnati, was on the old passport,

making a new one necessary.) They took a plane the next
day and arrived September 2.

GR/iCE FARNHAM, who arrived September 1 for about a year, is stay

ing in the STAN BUTTRAY home. She thinks she may go to
Korea in October.

Then her niece and family are coming to

Japan in April and GRAC^ is to act as interpreter for

them. (She is still nursing a broken arm and sprained
right wrist, which she suffered in a fall June 9. The
cast has been removed, but the wrist is still weak.)
BREWERS YEAST, rich in vitamins, minerals and amino acids, and
used as an additive to food, is easily available at Japan

drug stores. It is called EBIOS, manufactured by Ebios

Yakuhin Kogyo Co., Ltd., of Tokyo. A 500g can costs about
Y 400.

THE OBS BOOK STORE was closed during the summer by the resignation

of SACHIKO ONO, but opened again the first of September

under the direction of MR. & MRS. NORIHIKO SAITO. Please
continue to use the facilities of the Book Store to obtain
your books.

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MR, & MRS, HAROLD COLE, JUNIOEr (HAP and ANN) announce the birth of
their first child, a son, born September 13, 1971. His
name is SCOTT ANTHONY; he weighed 7 lbs. 12 oz. at birth.

Their address is: 5731 Campo Walk, Long Beach, California

90803.

JAPAN MISSIONS, 1971 SUPPLEMENT was printed and delivered to the

September Portland, Oregon Missionary Convention for in
clusion in their packets of literature. You have probably
already received your copy if you are one of the 28 individ
uals or couples included in it.
It consisted of a front
page editorial, with the inside full-spread being a map of
Japan surrounded by pictures of the missionaries.
The back
page contained a listing of field and forwarding addresses,

a surprising number of which had changed since the 1970

JAPAN MISSIONS was published.

"MR. and MRS. PAUL NIELSEN, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Mr. and Mrs
Eldon Enders, Maryville, Missouri, announce the engage
ment of their children, MARTHA ANN and KENNETH LAVERNE.
. . .Miss Nielsen is a graduate of Widefield High School,
Security, Colorado, and will be a 1972 graduate of Nebraska Christian College, Norfolk, Nebraska. . . Mr. Enders is
a graduate of Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School, Graham, Miss
ouri, and is also a student at Nebraska Christian College.

. . .A Spring wedding is planned."

MARTHA NIELSEN

also wrote, "Haven't heard too much from Japan

Reporter lately, but I imagine that you are kept pretty

busy with other things.
I have enjoyed so much receiving

them, for it keeps the 'tie' between Japan and me.

Would

love to just pop in some day and visit you all, but will
just have to do that in my dreams I guess. . .Mom and Dad
are now working full time with Midwest Christian College;
they live right there on campus.
Their address is: Mr. &

Mrs. Paul Nielsen, P.O. Box 18665, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,

73118. . . Well, best sign off.
Thanks much for letting

me tell the whole world how happy I am."

JON

SIMS is enrolled in Cincinnati Bible Seminary, working part-

time there as a Messenger.

His address is: Room 107, Boy's

Dorm, Cincinnati Bible Seminary, 2700 Glenway Avenue,

Cincinnati, Ohio, 45204.
BOB WARRICK is continuing his training in the Japanese language at
the Japan Missionary Language Institute at Ochanomizu,
Tokyo.

DALE AND PEGGY WILKINSON and family moved

Sept. 3 to Karuizawa to

i^enter the language school there. They have rented a house

/ which is only a few minutes walk from the school, and hope

to stay for two years.

Both DALE and PEGGY will be able

to attend school, and MARK and BETH can attend a primary

school held for the benefit of children of Language

School parents. Their address: >1073 Karuizawa Machi,
Nagano-ken, (389-01).

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MR, & MRS, DOMEN are the parents of a little girl, their first
daughter after sons SHIN-CHAN and KEN-CHAN,
She was born
August 8, 1971 and named Rebecca ( o
).
The DOMEN
family now attend worship services at the SAYAMA CHRISTIAN
CENTER in the home of BOB AND JOYCE WARRICK (Tokyo).

KOSDGI-SAN (3rd Year High School boy) and MURAKAMI-SAN (a member

of the Japanese Navy based in Yokosuka) were baptized Aug.
29 a t the YOKOSUKA CHURCH.

MURAKAMI-SAN had been first

contacted only a few months before when he was handed a

t r a c t on the s t r e e t .

KEIKO TAKITA, who kept the Sendai work alive in the NIELSENs' ab
sence, and has worked so closely with the JONES's, has been
hospitalized with ulcers.
She will be in the hospital for

from 2 months to 1 year,

"if no one prays for her, " added

13-year-old CAREY JONES.

MR, & MRS. NORIHIKO SAITO announced that their first baby, a boy,
was born on the lOth of August, 1971, They named him
Yoshinobu (^ 'fo
), MRS. SAITO is the former REIKO
NAOMI NAGATA,

The SAITO family live on campus and teach

at Osaka Bible Seminary,

VIVIAN LEMMON, in the U.S. for a short furlough, wrote: "Just now
I am in San Jose (Calif.) visiting at HAMMONDS. . .Went to
the 75th anniversary of Northwest Christian College at
Eugene (Ore.) in June.
I carried the banner for active
Japan Missionaries, and MARY HARDING carried one for Osaka
Bible Seminary in the great processional. . . I attended
Missions Week at WiNeMa camp.
CARL KETCHERSIDE was the
daily speaker.
I am bringing tapes of his lectures home

to Japan.

. .After the Missionary Convention in Portland,

I will go to Kentucky Christian College and other points

during October^

I still plan to come home November 1 with

ETHEL BECKMAN. .

.Greetings to all the fellow-workers in

Christ.

MISS CHIAKI OKAMOTO of the NATIONS CHURCH OF CHRIST was to leave

the week of August 16 for America to enter Pacific Christ

tian College, Long Beach, California.
HERE IS AN IDEA:

"The [Sayonara] party was held after class and she was preN.

sented with a pair of pajamas with the names of the class

^^^^^embers on the cuffs so that when she says her evening

prayers she'll remember to pray for us."
THE DAITO CONGREGATION (Osaka fu, AKIRA ODA preacher) extended its
meeting place by enlarging the former meeting room in the

ODA residence almost 2^ times to 2.33 ken x 4.25 ken, ..build

ing two rooms upstairs, and adding a new genkan (entrance
porch).

The church is helping the Odas pay back the loan

to Osaka Christian Mission.

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DON AND NORMA BURNEY and family moved August 15 from Nolchi, where
they had lived for 8 years, to Tosa-Yamada, a somewhat
larger town a few kilometers north.

(To those who attended

the 1964 Missionary convention in Shikoku, Tosa-Yamada was

the place you got off the train and boarded a bus.) They

(finally) found a house to rent which was large enough, and

situated and priced right.
It is Japanese style with a
small yard .
It is directly across the street from the
Yamada High School.
Their purpose in moving was to be able
to help in establishing a new church there.
The BURNEYS
new address is: 1-41, 3-chome, Higashi Honmachi, Tosa-

Yamada-cho, Kami-gun, Kochi-ken (782).

Mail intended for

the Shikoku Christian Press may be sent either to the old

address in Noichi, or the new one in Tosa-Yamada. . . They

have no telephone, but can be reached on a neighbor's

phone at the Hide Biyoin (Hi-de Beauty Parlor): 088752-2293.

A DAUGHTER, REBECCA, was born to TOM AND HOPE (SIMS) SCHMIDT on

April 6, 1971, their first child. She is now 6 months old.
EXIE FULTZ has returned for a short trip to the States to attend

the National Missionary Convention in Portland, Oregon, a

and speak in various churches on behalf of her plans to

start Christian Summer Institute on Awaji Island.

She
plans a 45-day trip through the West and Mid-west before
returning to the West Coast.

"workweek" at OSAKA BIBLE SEMINARY consisted of 3 days (Sept. 6-8)

in which the faculty, staff and students removed the sum
mer's dust and polished everything up ready for a new seraester.

It had been intended to take down half of the old

Boy's Dorm, but there wasn't enough time to attempt it.

The first worship service of the TOSA-YAMADA CHURCH OF CHRIST was

held in the DON BURNEY home September 32, 1971.

There are

presently two Christians besides the Burney family and

MICHIKO FUKOE.

JULIUS AND VIRGINIA FLEENOR, STAN AND MABLE BUTTRAY, MILTON JONES,
DALE WILKINSON, and BOB AND JOYCE WARRICK spent their

summer, or part of their summer, helping with the KARUIZAWA

MATSURI DENDO (Evangelism during the Karuizawa Celebration)
and camps held in the Fleenor cabin. The total number of
campers" for the summer was 192. Those baptized at camp
totaled 24; and those who made their confessions and were
to be baptized later were 6 adults and 20 children.

was one decision to enter the ministry.

There

TOSHIHIKO SHIMADA

(Miyakojima Church, Osaka) and HIDEYUKI MOROHASHI (Yokosuka Church), and others slso helped with the preaching.

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"WE HAVE GAINED THREE NEW BROTHERS AND SISTERS," writes the ONO
CHURCH, "rejoice WITH US.'" YUKIKO TOMOFUJI was baptized
August 1; YUKIMI AE on August 29; and HIDEKO AKIYAMA was to
be baptized on September 5.

TEN ELDERLY FOLK meet each Wednesday at a service held at the Old

Folks Home by the ONO CHURCH.

"On September 5 these 10 will

attend church at Ono, be present for AKIYAMA-SAN's baptism

afterward (which will be a good lesson for them), and be

guests at a picnic held in the afternoon in their honor,"

MASATAMI KIKKAWA (Ono preacher) wrote.

BILL And BETTY TURNER plan to sponsor four Film Meetings during
October-November.

Moody Science Films will be held in the

apartment rented by the Fujie Church in the hone of reach

ing some of the residents of the large apartment house
next door.
DONNIE MINGS will be helping.

STEPHEN AJID CAROL FLEENOR and family arrived in Japan in August,

and are living in Karuizawa in the Fleenor family house
while going to language school there.
STEPHEN also intends

to strengthen some of those from Karuizawa who were bap

tized this summer. Their address is: 1073 Karuizawa Machi,
^Nagano-ken (389-01).
IRS. MISUZU ORYU, a beauty parlor ooerator in Tosa-Yamada (Kochi)
and the mother of two boys, was baptized September 6, 1971
a week after a typhoon caused the cancellation of the
first-set date.

She had been hostess to a

Home Bible

Study held by MINORU HATTORI (Noichi preacher) and DON

BURNEY each week since last February, in the beauty parlor,
DR. AND MRS.

NAKARAI and DR. AND MRS. WALKER visited Osaka Bible

Seminary the evening of August 9.

The Osaka area missionaries had a upecial meeting that evening at the CLAIOKS.
t

THE KARIYA (AWAJI) CAMP was held August 2-9, with the OBS teachers
central in leadership.
Camp attendance was low this year,
but a profitable camp was held.

A typhoon caused some

anxiety, and swimming proved impossible because of the

pollution of the Inland Sea.

STEVIE TURNER has been attending Japanese kindergarten at a near

by Christian kindergarten since April.
He wears a uniform
complete with beret.'

MILTON JONES wrote from SENDAI,

" On the 17th of October, SHIMADA

(TOSHIHIKO) SENSEI will speak for us here

In November we will start a

in Sendai.

new Bible Class.

just finished landscaping most of the yard here.

to finish the church building in the next year.

serve as a Christian Center and church.

.We have

We hope
It will

.We ask your

prayers for the work here. ***

TWO-A-PENNY, a Bil]y Graham movie, was to be shown on Sept. 15 at
the Asahi Sangyo Kaikan (Osaka), wrote KOICHI HOMORI.
Tickets were to be 250 yen.

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JOHN HILL came through Tokyo October 9 and 10 on his way back to
Korea. He was met at the airport by STAN BUTTRAY, JULIUS
FLEENOR and GRACE FARNHAM, spent the night at the FLEENORS,
and continued his journey the next morning. He had escorted
17 orphans to the U.S. the first part of September, then

performed the wedding ceremony for the marriage of his

daughter VIRGINIA while he was in the States.
BETTY PATTON was hospitalized for over a week in September with

Hepatitis.

She is much better now, resting at home, and

able to help with meal preparation.

OUR DEEPEST SYMPATHY to the family of MRS. TOYOKO SATO, wife of

Fumio Sato (preacher, Kamiochiai, Tokyo) and mother of

Hiroaki Sato (preacher, Sakurayama and Arakaw'a, Tokyo),

who went to meet her Lord on August 25, 1971 after many
months of illness.

THE REGGIE THCMAS CRUSADE

was held in a building in downtown

AKASHI from August 22 through 27. There were 6 baptized

during the week, including Sheryl and Tim Turner, two

Jr. High girls, a grandmother from the Fujie neighborhood,

and a young man who was visiting from ONO. Besides these
four new members of the Fujie Church (Tim Turner is now in

America.), there have been other good effects of the meet

ing. Several new people have been comingstudents and a
Christian family newly moved to Akashi. Six ladies who
attend a Saturday class taught by BETTY TURNER have become

very interested in Christ. . . Besides REGGIE THOMAS him

self, his team included his son "Tony" Thomas, Faye

and Janice Rostvit, and Patty Briggs. Those who helped

during the Crusade who came from outside Akashi were
BONNIE MINGS, ETSUKO (LYDIA) KISHI, MICHIKO FUKOE, NORIHIKO SAlTO,and MASATAMI KIKKAWA.

IN TARUMI CITY (Kagoshima) on August 21 (Sat.), a Billy Graham

movie. TwoAPenny, was shown by the TARUMI CHURCH OF CHRIST

in co-operation with the City Offices and Police Department.
(A 25-minute Traffic Safety Film was shown at the same
time.) Admission tickets were sold at 200 yen in various
stores about town. Even though the Hot Springs Matsuri

(Celebration) came at the same time, wrote KOICHI HOMORI,

there were close to 100 in attendance.

The church was en

couraged .

MISS MIKI NISHIMORI was baptized September 20, 1971 in the river
near Tosa-Yamada. She is a beautician who has attended
the Home Bible Study classes held since February in the
beauty parlor in which she works.

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AL^R has CCME FRCH HIROSHI INADA in Australia. "^Thank you for
your slides.

They arrived on the first day of our Mission

ary Convention held in Harlaxton Church of Christ, so that

I could show them on the third and last day. They appreci
ated the slides very much since they knew almost nothing

about the Christianity in Japan. .

going to-show the

slides as often as possible whenever there is a chance to

do so. Thank you for your kind help, indeed." He also
wrote concerning his studies there at Kenmore Christian

College. "I am very busy at the moment, since I am sitting

for two kinds of exams in about a month's time; one for the
College and the other for the matriculation to the Univer

sity of Queensland. The latter exams are of very high

standard, so that I am not sure whether I can pass them

all this year. They include such subjects as English

(6 hrs.), Ancient History (3 hrs.), Hebrew (3 hrs.) and

Logic (6 hrs.). I am doing well in Hebrew and Logic but
Ancient History is a problem. I have to write 6 essays in
3 hours for this subject. Most students here fail to pass
in one year. Some even take three years to succeed. So
it is not very likely that I will pass in all the sublects

this year.

But I will do my best anyway."

BARBARA COURTNEY arrived in Tokyo from the U.S. on September 9

stayed the weekend with FLEENORS and WARRICKS, and left

Monday for Ibaraki-ken, where she says she'll be doing

much the same work as beforeif she can find a house.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL at KOYOEN (Nishinomiya-Osaka) was held July

26-30,
ETHEL BECKMAN, SONOKO FUJIMOTO, and RUTH BECKMAN taught. There were a total of 48 children with the
highest attendance any one day being 31. There were 9 with
perfect attendance. The children were mostly from ages

3 to 8. ETHEL wrote, "NAOMI (SAITO) helped me prepare

materials 'Jesus, the Promised Saviour." We made work

sheets for pre-school, primary and junior."

AL HAMMOND is making plans to change Christian Mission Todav .

now a quarterlyto a :^^-jpage annual volume" "Mv

duties,

he says, "at San Jose Bible Collie plus the

demands of the churches on the weekends make it unworkable

to continue on a quarterly basis. The hike in mailing ;

rates and costs of production were also factors in our

decision. Bqt^we believe that an annual b^r>!r edition will
have appeal-^nd wjn ^jjBBjJJy^prderlng and distribution.

It will also work in well with mission classroom usage and

perhaps be a more stable economic investment.

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YASUKO MATSUDA, mother of MRS. REIKO KIKKAWA of Ono, and KEN MATSUDA
Reiko-san's younger brother, were involved in an automobile
accident on July 27, which left both hospitalized, but are
now home and much improved.

FROM HORIZONS MAGAZINE we read: "The TURNER and MINGS families in

Osaka, Japan have provided MISS VELMA HELD with slides and
authorized her to speak in behalf of the need of funds for

the missionary children's schooling.

MISS HELD has taught

in Japan, the Philippines and India, and is able to add her

own experience to the presentation.

She may be contacted

at 1656 W. 29th, Davenport, Iowa, 52804."

VELMA is attempt

ing to raise the tuition necessary for SHBRf-MINGS, SHERYL

TURNER, and TIM TURNER.

DECEMBER PLANS for the KAJIKI and KAGOSHIMA CITY (Kagoshima-ken)

churches include an Eiga Dendo Kai (Film Evangelistic Meet
ing) , according to KOICHI HOMORI who intends to show Yakusoku No Kuni.

In KAJIKI the meetings will be held in the

second story over the tank, while in Kagoshima City the

church building will be used, together with the YOSHINO

DENDO SHO (Tomiyama-san's house).

At KAJIKI, especially,

there are plans to have a record concert using the music

from the sound track of Yakusoku No Kuni, sometime before
the actual

movie i s shown.

CBS DENDO SHUKAN (Evangelism Week) will come the last of October.
The schedule: NORIHIKO SAITO will be holding meetings at
MOIWASHITA and TOMAKOMAI (Hokkaido) from Oct. 27-Nov. 3;

AKIRA ODA will be at NAKANO (Tokyo) from Oct. 31-Nov. 1;

TOSHIHIKO SHIMADA, KOICHI HOMORI, MASAMI OBUCHI, and SEIJI

TAKAHASHI will serve at SANNOBARA (Isehara, Tokyo) from
Oct. 28-31; AKINORI NAKANO, EISUKE MASUDA, SEIMIN SUGIYAMA
will be 3 days at KINAN CHURCH (Wakayaraa); MAKOTO YUSE
will preach from Oct. 29-31 at GOMEN (Kochi), and MARTIN
CLARK will go to Kagoshima-ken at KUSHIRA and SUEYOSHI for
3 days each.
THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR at OSAKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL at Ikoma is under way

with^2/i

this yearn1mrn%jl"Tiihln 1nf!t year's en

rol ImentTThere are two teachersT"Mi^s 'Marian Hovey, who

teaches 1st through 4th grades and is principal; and Miss

Liz Ramey, from Seattle, Washington, who teaches 5th through

8th grades. BETTY TURNER helps with the 1st and 2nd

graders on Mondays (when she takes Sheryl to school) and

on Fridays (when she goes early, teaches and brings Sheryl
home.)

SHERYL is in the 3rd grade.

TIM TURNER left for the States on August 27th, along with ETHEL and
JENANN BECKMAN.
He is living with his grandmother, MRS.

T.TCWTPB vARPPriuaR i Ti Riverdale, d^T.T attending the 2nd grade,

arid worshipping at the Riverdale Christian Church, which
was started in the Turner's home when they were on furlough.

Tim's family will be joining him in June of 1972.

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TANIMAKI KAI, the annual Preaching Meeting of Osaka Bible Seminary,

will be held this year on November 21-23.
The subject,

"Elders, the Product of the Holy Spirit" (Sub-title; The

Mature Christian), taken from I Tim. sTl, Acts 20:28, and
I Peter 5:1-5, will be covered by MARTIN CLARK (Interpreter
AKIRA ODA).

Others on the program are HEISUKE ENOMOTO

(Tanabe), KAZDHIKO SUZUKI (Sapporo), FUMIO SATO (Tokyo),

EIICHI TANIYAMA (Tanabe), and MARK MAXEY (Kanoya).
WE HAVE STATED OUR PURPOSE each time JAPAN REPORTER was published
in the past, but it still seems to be misunderstood by
some.
Some have assumed that JAPAN REPORTER was a joint
newsletter primarily for American churches. This is not
so.

Let us illustrate:

We printed 220 copies of JAPAN REPORTER in July, and had

19 copies left over after we mailed.

ing list is very close to 200.

Th^efore, the mail

(1) Of these 200, just over

100 are addressed in Japanese and sent to Christian leaders

mostly preachers and former students of 0.B.S. (the lat

ter mpstly women who are not now active as leaders).
(2) There are about 30 addressed in English and sent to
addresses in Japan.
These are mostly missionaries and
their children away from home, in school or married.

(3) The other 70 go to the United States (including one to

Australia, one to the Philippines, and two to Taiwan.) Of
these 70-or-so:

(a) 4 go to Japanese living in America (3 of whom will

return before long.)
(b) 5-or-so go to missionaries on furlough
(c) 9 go to former missionaries who will not return.

(d) 21 go to missionaries' children who were raised

in Japan and are now in college or married.

(e) 16 go to young people who are, or who may become,

recrui tg^J;fii=Japan.

(f) 6 go to private addresses4 of whom are forwarding

secretaries of various missionaries.

(g) 8 do indeed go to U.S. churches (3 of these are the

Burneys' supporting churches who receive it
as a part of our report of the work we are
doing in printing.)

At any rate, the purpose of JAPAN REPORTER is NOT to present

missionary activity in Japan to American churches.
Our
purpose is fellowship and information exchange between the
leadership involved in preaching Christ in Japanwhich we
feel is extremely needful.
We welcome any questions or
comments concerning JAPAN REPORTER,
JAPAN REPORTER is pub
lished at Shikoku Christian Press, Noichi-cho, Kami-gun,
Kochi-ken, Japan, compiled by Don and Norma Burney from
material sent them by various Japan missionaries and
preachers.