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A R e por t b y Mark and Pauline Maxey
/ L i N K L e r r e R /
T o
th f ri en d s o f
th K y u s h u
C h r i s t i a n Mission
Kanoya» Kagoshima 893 Japan -
Bo x
417» N.
Vernon
IN 47265
LINKLETTER
299
MARCH 1992
Dear
Christian friends.
Once more
i t is time fo r
a word
to ou r sponsors the
refldprs n f
thie
l t t r The f i r s t LINKLETTER was published
in
September
1949.
That was 42
years and 9 months ago.
It
used to be published each month without fail but as
the years go by
it
gets printed
less often. Me
appreciate the
faithful
reader
ship and
participation
of the readers of
this
epistle.
If history interests you, consider this. In 1543, a sai ling ship
from Portugal ran aground on the northern tip of the island of Tanegashima.
a long,
narrow
isl and south of us.
Lacking
a harbor, the
crew
and
men
of the
island pulled the ship to other
end
of the island
where it was
repaired.
Then
i t sailed
back to Portugal . Portugal has never forgotten
this
kindness.
Aboard
this
ship was a gun.
It
was more of a blunderbuss than an ac
curate
weapon
but i t introduced not only gun, but shot and shell death and des
truction to Japan. It changed theart of warfare in the Orient. Afine granite
memorial in the
shape
of a
gun-shell has
been placed on the island by
Portugal.
Six years
later
in 1549, another ship approached Japan
from
the south.
It passed
the
island of Tanegashima on it s right and
landed
at the city of
Kago-
shima.
Aboard the ship were three Japanese men, 3 missionaries
and
the famous
Jesuit priest, Francis
Xayier.
This
mission work
ended 90 years later 1639 ,
bringing
an end to this missionary effort for 200 years. (A monument to Xavier
has
been placed
at the sea-shore
where
he and his party landed.)
. ^
Passing
tover the next 400
years,
let s come to
1941.
On December 29
or that year Pauline and I were married in Cincinnat i, Ohio. I
had al-
ready
begun preaching at
North Vernon, Indiana 70
miles
west
of
Cincinnati
on the
first
of December. We were there for three years, but that church still
remains a very special and personal place for us. Our first child Paula, was
b o r n
t h r
fr®*
^ went into the army—and to the Philippines and then to
Japan.
Pauline moved back to Cincinnati and started a church in her
apartment
at Laurel
Homes.
Son, Walter,
was
born there. Ayear and a half
later :Pauline
brought
the two children across the U.S. by train and across the Pacific by
troop ship.
She arrived in Yokohama in
June,
1948 to
resume our
life
together.
Jut
of our
army
stay in
Japan
came
a decision for missionary service in that
ther^* ^
fiturned to Japan in August,1950 to
begin
our
missionary
service
The year-end of 1991
was
great. Oldest daughter, Paula,
came from
Canada and
stayed 3
weeks.
Faith and Paul
Axton from from
their
home
in
Tsukuba north of Tokyo) and 3rd
daughter,
Hope,
from
Yoshino 2 hours away .
So it was full house and a happy house ) for a number of days.
®
sudden
it
was
December 29, our 50th wedding anniversary.
The
three
daughers were in charge of arrangments and refreshments. Family,
friends
and
Christians
gathered
around to
make it
a
memorable
day.
God has
been
good
to
give
us this
many
years togther
N
this
many
Christian brothers
and
sisters plus a host of friends
and
fellowmissonaries in Japan.
Our
50th-
was a memorable event in every way. Thanks to
al l
who helped make i t so.
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80
years
ago, on January 25th
the
city of Tokyo was largely destroyed by earthquake. Never mind that
th e
city was
rebuiU
over
the same
fault. In fact, Tokyo's city
hall
has just been built over i t . Meanwhile,
the string
of volcanos that
l ine
th e
Pacific
rim ar e all doing their th ing .
We
have two on ou r island. One
a t
th e northwest
corner
of Kyushu
has
had
a lmos t con tinuous a c t i v i t y
for
over
a
year .
In
th e
sou theast co rne r ,
near
us,
Mt . Sakurajima,
gives us continual dusting. The populace coope ra te in f i l l i n g
plast ic
bags with th e s t u f f . Then
i t i s hauled
away
fo r
landfill.
No
help, however,
fo r
the
grit
that remains in
the
eye, ear , nose and throat.
Thirty
years
ago, we started having an annual
Bible-study
course at t he col de st time of th e
year.
Seimin
Sugiyama, Prof,
at Osaka
Bible
Seminary, was our
l ec tu re r t h is
year. His topic: The Gospel in the Book of Acts.
We
worked him
hard:
four
nights of
two hours each
at th e
Christian Center in Kanoya; two nights
a t Sueyoshi
with
and
Rhonda Juve; a Sunday morning sermon a t
Keisei
church; an hour lecture a t Kushira church. The same a t Tarumizu
church. Two nights a t
Yoshino
church.
A Sunday
morning and
afternoon
a t
Kagoshima
church
and
two nights
a t Kushikino
church. We
had a beautiful Wednesday morning
drive through
th e h i l l s
to
th e
airport- and
on
south to
Tanegashima
island
and
th e
church
a t Nishinomote.
On
th e
way, Bro. Tanijiri
took
us
to
a community
center
being
b u i l t
back
in
th e h ills . He said th e government
is trying
to stem th e flow of i t s young people to the ci t ies by making
l i f e
in th e
country more attractive and comfortable. I t s a good idea and I hope i t works. We also hope i t works in regard tp
th e ministry. Most
of
our preachers came from the country and migrated
to
the
cit ies.
Now
young people,
especially
Christians,
are
getting
scarce in Japan. Big families have become l i t t l e families: one
or
two children.
This
year,
fo r the f i r s t time, Osaka Bible Seminary will no t have a new student
entering i t s classrooms.
Thus,
th e
church and
th e country face a different future - and a
challenging
one.
The church on th e
island
of Tanegashima
is
led by Bro. Tadayosh i
Ikeda.
As this church
is
th e most isolated,
i t makes up fo r that loss by
the
finest hospitality and fellowship
to
be found anyp lace. The two
nights of lec tures
brought excellent attendance and people who brought
their
Bibl es - and used them. Mrs. Ikeda and daught ers saw that
we were well fed. Bro. Ikeda f ound time
to
take us
to
see
th e
historic spots on
th e island,
including
th e
pad where
Japan has just put a full-fledged,.Japan-built rocket into space. nd five months from now, in
July,
this church
will host
our
All-Japan convention. This will be both a challenge and an accomplishment. One challenge 1s
that th e
island l ac ks hot el s pa ce . A new hotel Is being b ui lt th at will house th e convention-goers - bu t t he quest ion is :
Will
the h otel
be
finished
in
time fo r the big
meetin ?
Over
the yea rs
in Japan I have been
writing
and publishing
Christian l i terature.
During
the
recent
Training
Course,
I
displayed
almost
50
items:
t ra c ts , a r ti c le s ,
training
course,
biography
and
mission
history.Considering the
high
level of education
In
Ja pa n and thei r coninittment to
reading, we
feel that th e p ub lic ati on o f Christian material
to be a plus
factor
in our ministry.
A question in
closing;
Did you ever
read
Psalm 119 in one si t t ing? I t has 176 verses.
Recently
at a morn
ing
service
in Kushira, I
asked fo r
each
person to
read one verse
of
Psalm 119.
Evidently
the one verse
request
wasn t heard. So t he r eadi ng
went
on
and
on . In
fact i t took
30
minutes
to read the whole
Psalm. I t
proved to be one
of th e
most
exhilarating reading of
scripture
I
have ever
experienced. When th e l a s t sentence had been read, no
furth
er words needed to be said to make t he ser vi ce
complete.
And now, I must end.
GOD
BLESS In His Service. Mark Maxey
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A Report
by
Mark
and
Pauline
Maxey
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To
the
f ri ends o f
the
Kyushu Chri st ian Mission
Kanoya,
Kagoshima
893 Japan - Box 417, N.
Vernon
IN 47265
LINKLETTER
300
MAY 1992
p /7
Genius;Organized
Confusion
Multnomah
Falls:
Oregon
PC.MEP
I t
has taken a long time to get to
LINKLETTER
300.
Forty-three years in
fact . The f i r s t LINKLETTER was mailed
at Hunting-
ton.West Virginia
on
October 3, 1949 as we
had just begun
visiting OT; ̂ *(r
the
churches.
It is amazing and encouraging to note that many of the uSMfejjK
churches and individuals of that time have continued to
be
partners . THB
with us these many years. Thank you for that .
Going back even further than 1949 would bring us to a v
cook book
pub li shed i n 1923
by
missionary
ladies
in
Tokyo. One of the
recipes
was
submitted
by
Mrs.
Emily Cunningham.
She
and
her
husband
* ^1,' -
were among
our earliest missionaries in Japan. Here is
her
recipe for BJHmMHmM
washing
clothes. Needed:
1
bar Japanese soap,
1 lb of washing
soda,
4
quarts of
water,
1 cup ccal oil and i p in t l iquid
ammonia.
Cut up the Multnomah Falls: O re gon
soap. Boil until dissolved in part of the water. Add the washing soda
psflw-
^
»* • *
until dissolved. Take
from
fire and a>.d the coal oil and ammonia.Stir Iftfip if '
well
and
allow to cool. Always
stir
to the bottom before using. ' l I
If this le t ter is
l a te ,
one reason may be that
th e
IRS -
was
standing in line to receive our income tax report. It is
amazing
HE
that they can find us at the end of the
line
in southern Japan. The
local tax
man,
however,
looked
over our papers
and
said we didn't owe ^ us .l, a ^
any Japanese taxes this year. Good for them (and us).
We have to
report
a death in the family. We have been
dri-
I
ving
an
ancient
Japanese
car
(Cedric)
and
appreciating
its
comfort. BM
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Last month, however, it gave up the ghost. The transmission
went
out
and BbH ^9H
the
electric
system joined the funeral the same day.
It
has been
re-
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placed
by
a
Mazda
diesel, owned
by
the late
Martin Clark. His
son, Paul, 3Hb.
'
now president of
Osaka
Bible Seminary,
drove
it
down
from Osaka.
So
we
HH
rnHmj
have
wheels again.
Last
December
29, three of our daughters (Paula, Faith t p
Rmtiq
and Hope) had a Golden Wedding celebration for us in the Kanoya church.
This was a very spec ial occasion for Pauline and I. Greetings and salu-
taions arrived from
all
over Japan.
The rest of
the family
in
the U TSff JH t
il
thought that they ought to be included, too. We agreed to go for three ®
weeks.
Saturday
afternoon,
March
28,
family
and
friends gathered
at the Mt. Washington
Church
of Christ, Cincinnati,
Ohio. Sunday
morning C
we
filled a
couple of pews
at
the same church. Son,
Gregory,
introduced
jmH^
us
all.
Travelling
the
farthest
to
attend
was
Kiyoto
and
Paula
Yanagimoto
^ ^
from
Canada. It was really
an
outstanding occasion for all of us.
-With Howard
&Betty Neal-
Utilizing the
spring break,
Bro. Tibbs arranged
an
all-day Pomeroy
meeting with Bro.
Fred
Mitchell of Lexington KY; Bro. Richard
McCain
of
MBHBHl
Cleveland, Tibbs
Maxey of Colorado
Springs
and
myself
to
d is cu ss th e
present and the
future of the College of
the Scriptures in
Louisville,
I ^HT
^
Ky.
Please
keep the
college
and i ts future as one of
your
prayer
con-
cerns.
This college
is
vitally needed by
our brotherhood.
Ches te r &
Velma
Stewar t
CRichland OR)
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We spent a
week-end
in the Louisville
Y
area,
guests of Arthur and
Garnet Dixon and
the Loyal Friends
class of the Clifton Christian church.
This
class has been
a supporting group of th is mission -
now going on
42 years.
Likewise, long-time friend. Bill Roberts,saw that
we were
more
than adequately fed.
On Sunday
night, April 5,
Charles
and Minnie
Stults
drove up from
Louisville
to Milton Y
to
bring
us the
mail and
to be with us for evening ser
vice at
Mt. Byrd
Christian church. This
church
under the
leadership of minister, Keith Tennant, has never wavered
in Its mission support the past 40+ years. A delicious
pitch-in dinner
made
the evening even more
enjoyable.
Sunday morning,
April 5
we were at
the
First
Christian church in North Vernon, Indiana to preach at the
morning service and also the Bible
School
hour with the
Homebuilders
Class.
We and this class have grown older
together. As seldom as we meet, ye t we
still
treasure our
fellowship. Minister,Charles Carter,has been a true frienc
1. u
easy,
however, speaking in love
ly church buildings. Our
churches
in
Japan
have much smal
le r
buildings
and
smaller
memberships.
Vnrn.^n life in North
^ scBiiiDBi ry n wnsn soi^vino tfis hupch vq
This church
has been our home base and
faithful supporter
s i n ce
t h a t t i m e .
u *
u®
® ''ays with
Rozanna
Hartwell
who has been our
forwarding
agent for the past
30 years.
One
of the things
that
we
decided
is that
we
could no longer send out displays. It
was
involving too
much wear and tear and the gradual loss of display items.
Instead, we will arrange a
small
display of non-return-
able Items to.those making requests. This will take a
l i t t le time before i t becomes workable.
Before
leaving
North Vernon, we
got re-acquainte<
w ith t he
people
a t th e
post office
and
th e
bank. Without
t h ei r cooperation continuing
this
mission
would be
difficul
Using an
Alamo
Rental
car, we
drove to Akron, Ohio
where Pauline's
younger
brother,
Roy
Pethtel
and
wife
Marg
aret live We enjoyed their hospitality, meeting older bro
ther Allen Pethtel and also the
un-ending
monologue of the
barber
where Roy
took
me
for a haircut.
On
the
way back
we
drove by the huge
hanger
that
was
buil t to
house
the dirigi
bles of
60
years
ago.
I
went
through i t
when
I
was on
a
camp=
in
trip
with
Boy
Scouts seeing
historical sites
in the East.
We used ou r
time
well
in
Akron.
Pauline
had he r
lense implant cleansed by laser. I stocked up on office sup
plies
courtesy a
credit card
and we returned to Cincinnati
th e
4t h day.
.AlLioo-soon, jt
was -time to head
west
agaifl,-
Victor
and Lois Maxey were a t
th e
Cincinnati
Airport
to
see us off.
Victor
handed me a
sheaf
of papers of family
history.
We
enjoyed reading them as
we
flew across the Pac-
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fi c
ocean. Ray
an a
Dorothy West,
f ri en ds t he
time we
spent
* furloughs in Louisville KY saw us o ff as well.
There
was
j|
a f lurry of re-writing tickets as I could not find
mine.
I
* paid th e t icket agent $50 fo r
writing
a new
set
and a few
%minutes later
found
the tickets in my coat pocket
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One of t he t hi ng s
I wanted to do on
way
back to
* Japan was to visit the town of
my
birth:
Pomeroy, Washing-
ton. Again,
Alamo rental, made that
possible. Driving east
J and
U
gave
us
an ever changing
view
of the
Columbia
River
*and of the green fields gradually changing to
brown
- excep
Jfor
those
being
irrigated.
At
the
end
of the
day
(travelingnortheast on U.S. Rt. 6. ,
we
arrived
at
Pomeroy, about 50
♦ m l s from
th e
Idaho
border.
* I was born there in 1917, just
before World War
* I ended. But I
wanted
to see the church and
its
people aga
jjlAlso
to see the great open,spaces and the huge machinery
* used
fo r
th e
grain harvests t her e.
Minister,
Howard Neal, and wife, Betty, gave us the
^
hospitality of
t h e i r
home.Howard showed
me th e s i t e s of th e
* town (Population - 3500) including the railroad station, no
only a reminder of the days when
trains actually
came
there
Sunday—r-we-spok8-at-^the-B4W«-SGhoo4—hoiH^nd—the-ffl©nvH
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And
also enjoyed the church supper
together.
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I was interested in
knowing
whether there might
be someone in th e
congregation who
had a
connection with
my
father. I
found
one,
Vida
Petersen,
now
89 years old.
She
was
baptized
by
my
father in
1917 when
she was 14
years
old. The
week-end
in Pomeroy
was
one we will never forget.
On th e way back to Portland, we visited Chester
and
Velma Stewart in
Richland
OR (Look it up ) It is 48
miles east of Baker OR). Don t leave Richland ti l
you ve
met the preacher and enjoyed the hospitality of both the
church and Chester and Velma Stewart. Under Velma s guid
ance
we al l
enjoyed a sukiyaki supper in the church base
ment. Afterward
we
had a chance to listen and to share with
th is small bu t
vi ta l church.
Multnomah Falls
was
our last stop before Portland
on our return trip .
When
I was a l i t t le boy, my UncleWalt
e r, v is it in g
us from New York City, sa t me on the
rail of
the bridge over the falls. I have never forgotten
my
terror
I felt as I looked
down
into the churning waters below.
We spent our last night in a hotel in Portland,
Oregon.
Wy
and Loni Summers came
up from
Lebanon, Oregon.
We
talked half of the night.
The next morning, they
re-
corded an interview
with
us
on
their video camera to shareJ.
with their
church.
After a
good
breakfast together, they
headed for
home
Ashort time later,
we
also
headed
for
home on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
Having arrived at
Kanoya,
we can say about this
trip
as
we might
say about others,
Be it
ever so
humble,
there s
no place like home.
God
bless
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A
Report
by Mark and Pauline Maxey
/LiNi^Lerret^/
PI ]
To
the friends of the
Kyushu
Christian Mission
Kanoya, Kagoshima 893 Japan
-
Box
417, N.
Vernon
IN
47265
Link le t t e r 301
Tanegashima -Ready to
Fire
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Church
Camp
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Free
Time
Camp Class : The Life of Paul
August
1992
Announcements -Announcements
Dear Chr is t ian f r iends
450 years ago, Por tugese sailors found
their
way around the Cape
of
Good Hope and eventually to a
long,
narrow island, south
of
mainland
Japan. Tanegashima was
the name
of
the
island - then and now. Through
the
years,
th e Portugese visi ted th e i sl and o ft en. The sai lors
were
welcomed.
The Tanegashima people were especially interested in th e muzzle-loading
guns these man
brought
with t hem. They began to want these guns
fo r
them
s e l v e s
To achieve this
goal, they a llowed
a Tanegashima girl to marry a
Portugese
sailor.
She went with him to
Portugal
and
through
him
learned
how
to
make
the gun. After a
passage of
time, the sailors again
visited
Tanegashima
bringing
the husband and hi s Japanese wife. When i t was t ime
fo r
the ship to return
to
Portugal, however, the young wife could not be
found, The
ship
left
without
her and
the
wife emerged to
teach the
natives
how to make
th e
Tanegashima .
This gun
is
being both pr eserved and used today. A team of four
experts were present in the park early the
f i rs t
morning of
the
convent-
tion to demonstrate the use
of
the gun. Afte r the muzzle-loaders were
ready, they
were fired one
after the
other. The smoke ascended and many
people
gathered
around to examine
these
centuries
old
fire-arms.
The
entire
convention group had been bussed to the park by 7.30
a.m. A
real
cook-out had been prepared and was
served
to us by
t he loca l
citizenry. The whole was a unique experience that
we will
never forget.
After a welcome like that ,
all
of us
will
want to come again.
Throughout its history, visitors to Tanegashima had stayed in
small inns along the waterfront. A local ent repeneur decided to change
t ha t s it ua ti on
by building a
f i rs t
class hotel
that could host
an entire
convention. I t became a race against
time.
The owner was saved. The
hotel
was
finished
and open
to the public
by 3 P.M. and
t he gue st s
fi l led
th e
rooms shortly af ter . The hotel owner
also
made sure
that
he and his
guests
were aware that something
historical
had happened in
hi s
town: a
large
plaque
high up in the
great
hall
proclaimed:
Established: 1992 -
Ah
Lest
we forget
The 43rd annual church convention
was
held
July
20-22)
As
the convention began that night, I gave a 15 minute greeting
to
those assembled.
More important was the splendid evening message by
Hammond
from San Jose Bib le Col lege . and
hi s wife,
Eleanor,
spent
seven
years
in Japan, part
of
which was was
spent
on the island
of
Tane
gashima.
The 40 members
of the
Nishinomote church
led
by Bro. Tadayoshi
Ikeda and h is w ife , Hisako, worked
whole-heartedly
to make the
convention
th e
world
success
t h a t was.
Tota l
at tendance
was
204.
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Front: Pauline
and
Mark
Maxey: Zachary
Flrin Axton
Mary
Walter Trent Maxey; Hope; Faith 6 Paul Axton
Harry Robert
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The annual
missionary
convention was begun
by Mark
and
Pauline
Maxey
on
Friday,
April
3, 1953, in the
Asahi Church of Christ in Osaka. missionaries were present for it s beginning. It has continued to meet annua-
ly from
place to place
since
that
time.
This year s convention was held in
Okayama
Prefecture, south of Osaka a couple of hours drive.
Huzzah's
to the
convention planners and hosts
jiilso for the blessing
and renewal
that
we
received.
Jim and Marj Taylor
from the
River
Lawn church in
Wichita,
Kansas were central to the program
with
their singing, preaching
and
quiet
talks. They were a
blessing
to us all.
Grateful
thanks
also to Audrey, Daynise and Keith for their successful preparation and leadership that
made
this gathering outstanding. I had
my
spot (or
shadow)
in the
sun
by
leading
the singing on night
2.
sang non-stop: 45 verses from 23 different hymns but al l from the same song
book. The
next afternoon and night
then i t was
way down
south over the mountains and along the shore r iding in the van with the Paul and Faith
Axton
family -
arriving
at
last
at
Kanoya
in the
early
A.M.
Tho
dead-tired home
is sti l l
best.
One of the joys of preaching the gospel is the joy of telling the Good
News
together
with
the prospect of
being blessed in re turn. This kind of blessing happened to us when Harry Robert
Fox
of
Orem, Utah
came to be
with us from
May
17-20. Born and reared on the Japan mission field but
now
living in the U.S. - his heartfelt
messages,directed both to us preachers as well as to
th e
church, brought faith and encouragement to each of us.
The
audience
grew each n ig ht o f
hi s
presentations.
Though
I speak highly of Japan and
i ts
people and the country
itself living
here is not without
its
stress. Two
typhoons
went
through
our town on successive weeks. In spite of the mess these storms leave, yet
what a
peace i t is
when th e
s to rm d ie s
down
an d th e
wind
flees to the north.
Another thing we don t enjoy are the daily volcanic eruptions from
Mt.
Sakurajima, 20 miles±
away
to the
northwest. Black ash erupts more or less
al l
the t irre. The ash absorbs the rain -
which
is extra heavy in the
rainy season. Eventually, the ash can hold no
more
water. Then Tts cohesion gives
way
and
huge
globs of
ash fills the valleys
and
the roads below. Thus the whole peninsula slows down till the roads are open again.
Summer is camping time. Though an on-coming typhoon this year made us close down
earlier
than planned,
still
i t was one of our
better
camps. Campers were ready to listen as well as to play and study the Bible.
My
assigment
was
two
class
periods to teach the Life
of
Paul. This
year
the
camp
has bought a new,
larger
light
weight tent. This
will
make
i t
possible to have a ll campers to be in c la ss a t th e same time -
in th e
t ent or
in th e permanent
building
classrooms.
A big
event of th e
month was the return
of
Walter and Mary and son
Trent
from
furlough.
Also
another
big even t was
th e
two
week visit.of
Paul and
Faith
Axton,
Shelly
and Zachary
after
the convention.
All of us
were
together on Sunday,
August
2, as we attended church in Kushira. Then on Monday the
whole family was together fo r a s pe ci al d in ne r in honor o f P au li ne s
71st
birthday and my 75th. When I was
growing up, I never thought anybody could be that
ol d
and st i l l be in their
right
minds. Obviously, that s
not the way I feel
about
it now
Must close. It
was
a blessing for us to
be surrounded
by our
family
on this^
very special day. Will write again. Thanks fo r listening
fo r
sharing and
fo r
praying. IN HIS SERVICE,
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Another annual
event
is
the
Tane-Maki Kai (Seed-Sowing
Gathering)
sponsored by the Osaka
Bible
Seminary. Fol lowing
that , the Counci llor s of th e Seminary had their annual meeting -
reports,
discu-
ions, elections, plans, faci l i t ies the future. . . .you name
i t
One of the councillorsis elected a t each
meeting to
conduct th e meeting. I t
was my
turn this
time. The meeting went well. The future
of th e
col
l ege s tands solid. Present
students plus
those
entering
th e Seminary will double th e size of the stu
dent body. Pres. Paul
Clark
gave
his
report on the sta tus of th e co lle ge t o bring th e meeting to a
close.
Later,
Pauline went with me to the Okayama Christian Center
for
a
meeting
with Audrey West
and
Keith
Summers. As
they say down
south, we had an all-day meeting with dinner on th e grounds .It was
an important time of fel lowship ,
discussion
and planning.The next
day,
turning ou r
vehicle
around,
we
headed
south.
On
the
way
up
we
had
visited
Saijo
church in Hiroshima
Prefecture.
On th e return
trip
we had a meal as gu es ts of Ben and
Nobuko
Hirotaka,
long-time
mission
aries in Fukuoka City
(northern
Kyushu). Then on
south
to
Kumamoto fo r
an
overnight stay for
eye
checks,
treatment
and
visi ts
with missionaries there. Then on
south,
up, over and t hrough , the mountains to
home. Pauline counted 67 tunnels from Okayama
to
our home in Kanoya.And rest. . . .home
is
best.
One
very important event
that
made us happy here in
Kanoya
was the honor paid to Bro. Yoshii
and his wife, Miyoko, by
the Japanese
Government s
Minister
of
Education.
Hideo Yoshii was
th e
youngest
ever of
43 Japanese leaders to
receive this
Blue Ribbon
Award,
together with Blue
Ribbon
and
medal
and
gold-framed certificate. To ensure equal honors for
al l
the Education
Minister
read each of the 43
citations in
ful l .
I t took over two hours. Following that, the group were led into another room of
th e Imperial Palace where they received a
warm
greeting from the Emporer.fThese awards have~be^given~for
years.) Yoshii s
recognition is
based on
his
Distinguished
Accomplishments
in Private School
Education (Kindergarten); for his 27 years service to the Kagoshima Prefecture Kindergarten Association;
his service the last
6
years
as president of the All-Kyushu Kindergarten
Association;
for
h is service
as founder and main
trustee
of Life-Line
service th e
past 6 years - a
suicide
prevention organization.
Also for the past 15 years he has been counselor for s tudents of Kanoya
High
School who are having
difficulty
with
their studies
and are thinking of quitting.
Last but not least , he
is
the leader and minister of Kanoya Church o f Chr is t, a thriving,
growing and serving church. (P.S.
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and Rhonda Juve has
just
returned from a 6
months
furlough in the
U.S.A.so they, are ready to serve again with
full
force and energy).Blessings and greetings to
all
fo r
a
blessed
Christmas and
New Year.
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Oriental
calendar,
1993
will the year of
th e BIRD. As far
as
Icante l l any kind of bird
will fil l thebi l l .
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i t looks now, how
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