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FURLOUGH ADDRESS;
435
Mulberry
S t .
R i s i n g
Sun.
IN 47040
PH: 812-438-3253
NEW FIELD
ADDRESS:
2 - 1 - 1 2 Soda
Hesake
H l g a s h i - k u
Hiroshiroa
JAPAN
730
Dear F r i e n d s
/ ^ '2.
Z.
FORWARDING
AGENT;
M r s .
t lie
J o h n s o n
R.R«1, Box 124
Orleans, IN 47452
PH
812-865-2387
June, 1986
Greetings
in th e p re cio us name of our Lord
Jesus,
who saves
us and
through
His unspeakable
grace
and mercy
guards
and
guides
our hearts and l ives,
to
the glory of
His
Name and Kingdoml
So many
things
have transpired since I wrote to you
l a s t :
I
shall
try to recount them i n
decency
and order, I
am
thank
ful for so many things, more than ever for God's love, poured
out
through
Jesus, Especially,
I
give thanks
for your
prayers for
Sachiko and myself, for the Christians in Hesaka, and
for
the
millions
s t i l l in
spiritual darkness. We survived 1985 only
through the grace
of
Jesus, and
prayer.
Along
with
thanks,
please
accept
my
apology
for
not being
able to
write;
I simply
did
not
have the mental or emotional energy necessary for such
effort.
Ask
my
parents—X ended up getting a push-button phone
so I
could
d i a l them direct every 3 or 4
weeks,
1985 was truly a year of grace under pressure. During
my
s^03?t furlough
in 84,
many of you shared in prayer
for
EIJI
FUKUD whose leukemia was diagnosed that July, Not long^after
that,
Eiji gave his
life
to Jesus unconditionally, and
was
baptized
upon
my return to
Hiroshima
in
October,
We
prayed
mightily
for
his
physical healing, but
i t
was not
to
be;
nevertheless,
his
spiritual journey was little
short
of miraculous. He was hospi
tal ized again
in December
( 84);
on his l a s t weekend v i s i t home
in
February,
he
told
me; You know, a t
f i r s t
I was
embarrassed
to
talk-about Jesus;
but
now
i t
just
comes
out
naturallyl
And
he
gave me these instructions:
When
i t s time for my funeral,
don t make
i t a sad
affair.
Read Psalm
100,,
and have
i t in
a
big place so all my
company
colleagues can come, Day by day,
as the church members and I visited
him
and read the Bible,
sang
and
prayed,
we saw his faith
reach out to doctors,
nurses,
other patients,
his
fellow workers, neighbors, and
most
of all,
to his own family.
He
called
those brief encounters, mini-
evangel is t ic-meet ings ,
We knew nothing of Christian funerals in
Japan,
but the Lord
led us to a generous and godly preacher who not only taught us
what to do, but also was led
to
preach the funeral sermon
offer ing h is church s
meeting
house
for
the
funeral.
Over 200
people gathered on July 9th
for that
testimony of Bijl Fukuda's
fa ithsmost o f
those
present had
never before been
in a church
building; many had never heard the name of Jesus, Even through
the
valley of the shadow of
death, God's
name
was, and
i s
glorified,
I cannot help but feel
that
Eiji»a
faith stil l
speaks.
My
other great
trauma 6f l a s t year i s linked with the new
field
address
you may have noticed above. After several years
of
praying and searching,
God led
us in February
to
a
big,
beautiful
house
that
was for
rent.
The house
i s
surrounded
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by a
beautiful
garden^
with
a wooded mountain for the back
yard:
t was jus t the peaceful oasis I was needing for my t i red soul.
But the peace
d idn t
l a s t long; two of
the
church members qui t
when
they
found we
were
moving.
That
•real ly
did
me
in ;
both
had
been my
friends since
my very begizming in Hesaka. Thus, our move,
instead of the
expected
respite, was one
of
tears and heavy hearts,
followed
by
waves
of
shock,
depression,
and
despair .
I
perceived
my
presence
there as a source of hurt rather than help, and found
myself
a t a t o t a l loss as to how to re la te to
people. I f
t
hadnBt been for Sachiko, and for Eiji and Akiko Pukuda, I probably
would have
l e f t Japan r ight then
and
there.
But the Lord gave
grace , when- energy and endurance
were nonexis tent .
And Hb gave bless ings . Among
those
we counted were: the
baptism
in to
Chris t
of
a
young mother,
REIKO IKUTA; Sachiko s
long-overdue trip to
the
States
in
the fal l ; time off in
September
to
be in Tokyo with Penny Boggs during her surgery and hospita l-
i za t ion ; a blessed
Christmas
season, and
the
chance to share
the
true
meaning of
HRISTmas with
Japanese people of a l l ages.
Also, in
'oi|.
and 85 ,
we
were
vis i ted
by a number
of
angels (Heb .l3:2) : Mark Akers,
Southport Heights,
Indpls;
Jim
Bankowski,
PellowshlpChristian, Cincinnati;
Don Sue Miller,
Moscow, IN; Leo, Bette ,
Pete
J uv e, L in co ln ,
NE; A1 Hammond
and
students
from San Jpse Bible College; Carolyn Tyner, Cambridge
City, IN; Cora Dragoo, Richmond, IN; Jim Melody Hood,
helping
in
Niigata, Japan, and Melody's parents Ralph Marian Massman,
Bridgetown, Cincinnati.
Each one added
something special
to
our days ,
and
to our l i v e s .
And now I am home on
furlough.
Due to my own state of
total exhaustion,
and
to
my father s
recurrance of
heart trouble,
I £0lt i t needful, and God provided for me to come home in Pebruary,
1986. Teachers were found for English and Bible classes; the
church
membera.^decided
to
stand
together
and
develop
their
own
body l i fe unti l
Bill aid
Betty Turner a return.to Hiroshima
in
August .
Since my return on Feb. 6th, ad has undergone surgery
twice,
and hospitalization twice more; proper medication
has
f inally been found,
and
he is
in
fa ir ly stable condition.
Under a
doctor s
care, I too am getting better day by day.
I started my official
furlough
in June
with
V.B.S. at
Syria
Christian Church
(Orleans,
IN), and
a week a t Woodland Lakes
amp
(former Clermont
County).
I am making
plans to attend
Cincinnati
Christian Seminary
beginning in
September
(classes
in music
and
New
Testament), and hope
to be able
to vis i t and
share with as many
of
you as
possible
during the next
year.
And I
PROMISE
to write
again
soon
and
f i l l
you
in on
ll
th e
de t a i l s
With love in Jesus,
Carolyn Bqryicklow
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During
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Carolyn Barricklow has taught over 15
a thousand
people
as an evangelist, a 0 a ^^^ 5
and
as
an
Eng li sh c o nv e rs a ti on
t eacher ,
Among
t ho se ,
one she wi l l
never f o r -
get
is Akiko
Fukuda,
who
rose
above
a®s i jk 07
the sorrow of
losing
the pi l la r of
So'B' no2
her home, **When I was
getting
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couraged in this foreign
land,
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came
a long
and
helped me ou t ,
remem-
be r s Caro l yn .
Her f i r s t encounter with Akiko-- ff-m
who
lost
her husband
Eiji
(age 3k)
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last year
from leukemia—and son llfflin
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Issei (age 8) was thanks
to
Issei s ^ g
a r t
class .
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was
in
the same ? S
building as
the
Christian
Center
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through
which Carolyn
works;
they §85
met,
and
became
fast friends,
Eiji,
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salesman for
a pharmaceutical com- S? ?
pany, began studying English from 7
11
fi
Caro lyn ;
t h e i r f r i e nd sh i p
became
a
fami ly
a f f a i r ,
,
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doctor for some ear t rouble; the S r
resul t s
were announced
not to him, S
but to his wife; leukemia.
How
to A^tl•®b^s^y^
f a c e th e f e a r
o f d i
s e a s e , th e f e a r
fo r t h e i r
fami ly?
Three months
la ter,
Eiji was baptized
at
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that
t im e
until
his
death
almost one year later , ^ g ®e a o I ^ 3 ^ « o a
Carolyn
v i s i t ed
the hosp i t a l
almost
every day , read ing th e B ib le
and
s inging hymns,
Thank you.
Please
take care of
my wife
and boy. E i j i »082(292)3
faced his death to tally at peace, |l
To
Akiko,
Carolyn (who had l o s t a
bro the r
to leukemia
f ive years
ea r l i e r )
was a counse lo r she could
t r u s t
even
more
th a n h e r own f ami ly .
The
Lord
wi l l
n ev er fo rsa ke
you,
Carolyn s
words gave Akiko s t rength
as she began working
pa r t - t ime a t
a
depa r tmen t s t o r e .
One
more month to ge t
r eady
to go
home, Carolyn
t u rns to I s s e i :
Ybu sure
go t
a lo t of New Year s money t h i s
year l
Bring
your Mom
to America, and we l l go see the Great Lakes . And Akiko promised
t ha t
dur ing
I s s e i s
summer
vacat ion ,
they would go to America
and visit Caro lyn .
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