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March

1962

IB

ADDED TO THE CHURCH

',^hen we see young people dedicate their lives for Christ we realize that all the effort y
1

it takes to
of those who

evangelize
make a

in

Japan is worthwhile. We know you also rejoice when you hear


stand for

-</

Christ,

Although

some

of

these baptisms have been re ported to you through our re gular correspondence we are

repeating
Nursery school ad NURSERY SCHOOL TO OPEN

them again in order

for all of our readers to have

an opportxmity to share with us this "xmspeakable joy," We

will list the 6 who have been |


baptized since our return to ; . Japan in the order they were /
baptized,

Prom April the Tetcunan Church V7ill sponsor a niirsery school at the church building. Upon returning to the

Ai^st 18, 196lj


is a yoking man

Mr, Takashi Goto


while he

who first started to

attend Neva's Bible class

field from fiirlour^h

last Jvily
i t was of bene

the proposal was made to open a nursery school. After raanj,'"


months of deliberation

was in Jr. ffl.gh School, This was sometime before our going to the US for furlough. Ha is now teaching

1st, 2nd, and 3rd


the Sunday School

grade students at
hour

decided that
the i n i t i a l

a mirsery school
funds were borrow

in this area would be

as well as helping with the work in Uemuro,

fit to the corainunity# Although


ed from the mission the school

will be on
basis,

self-sustaining

August 20, I96I5 Upon learning that Mrs, Toshiko Utagawa," wife of a Uemuro High School teacher, was de siring baptism we made awangements
iOitfjiruit'cl i(

Q?he nursery

school

will be

opened with a inaiciiuura of 50 pupils. This ii; -he number that our present facilities
will allow. There vrill be two

women teachers

handling

two

classes besides Fir, Oofuchiand

Ernest in charge of the school.


The school v;ill be operated on

a year-round basis v.-ith tvxo weeks vacation during the year


one week in the summer and one week the first week of the

yeC'r, from 9

The hours A,Mo

are arranged ij. P,M in


Miss Purukawa's Baptism

for the benefit of mothers wh6 work. The school will meet

until
I'll I'liyc 4)

Page 2
HOKKAIDO CHRISTIAN MISSION
mibbionaries

March 1962
(JZontinued from page 1)

to

to her home in this rural tom

Ernest D. and Neva E. Faber

to bring her to Obihiro for the baj^


tism. 1^, ntagsira has had eye
trouble for years and is son- virto-

T4 Odori, AAinami 21 Chome

Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan


rORWAROINQ AOORESB

Minburn Church of Christ John R. Noe, Box 173 Adel, Iowa

ally blind. At the present time she is in Tc^qto undergoing extensive ex aminations on the eyes.

October 29, I96I5

Mias

ISxriko

-Satoo is a second yea^^ti3^E~ia


Jr. Ifi.gh School (eli^h sraderjl Hare
again Yie note that the~iirst contact -eras made through Sn^ish. This cai^ tact nas made by Mr. Oofuchi irhile
we were on furlough, Sbft_ helps in

CHRIST
Masaml Oofuchl

Jesus was

born In

a stable

in the smdll town of Bethlehem

in Judea, I

However, I. think it

tte wo]^ bgr posing out tracts and

very stralnge that


wonder why
born in a

the

Son of

also t^hes preschoolers in the


Sunday School,

God was born in a cheap man^r.

Jeisus wasn*t

Januaiy lU, 1962j


__Dirukas(a
building iras built,

IQss

Atsuko
Sunday
Atchan

nice house,

has been attending

^hool from the time that the church


Sjie lives Just
2 doors north of the dxorch,

Jesus healed many sick peo ple. At one time he healed a

blind man, at
healed a man

another time he
who was suffer

ing,

Jesus really had wonder-

(her nickname) -will be in her first ' ysar.jpdL&_^gh She ^,-plays_ihe bal^ -organ Xpr Sunday
/ School in Obihiro and ISenniro, She is

f\al power.

This Jesus ^ who died on the cross in my place*is my Jesus.

^ vices_at.Church,
V_
is the ycningest

// also assistant organist for the sei>-

If too,

woTild like

to

be a
was

January lit, 196?; Ifaaami Oofuchi


person to be bai^
t i s ^ lar Obihiro, Since he is the sjon of^the assistant here he ! has

good man like

Jesus.

He

, a righteous

.man until

hi

death. He, really was a good person. The Pharisees spoke harsh words about Him, but Je

sus, even when in sorrov^ walkthe right way, Jesus truly a great person. was

(^bab, bahy,
der>

7pee:in taught spiritual things since a


Masami chan is a fourth eara-

January 23, 1962; cent Itt^tism was

Our most re a .-2^ ysar old


and Mg

daughter .of a late minister

We thought
terested in

you might be in
this article by

li^e* l&ss Yoairiirn KtimA started at tending seinrices late last year up
on her return fk>om Tokyo, Sar ther is in charge of the deaf and
dumb school in a western-suburbo FOR YOUR PROGRAMS.
There are tvro sets of slides

the fourth

grade

son
This

of
wit-

Christian parents, Mr. and Mrs.


Masashiko Oofuchi,

^school,. With Christians like


this we can reach Japan and
the world for Christ. Are we as faithful in our witnessing.

it lated to;

^-^inted in his elementery / school's newspaper and circu


all those in the

i ness tQ_his faith in Christ was

available from our US

office.

Set # 1-This set was made xq>


xarly in 1961 and for yoimg people. is intended It showa^

the many,contrasts ^in. Japan,

^ Set p 2-This set was made up


early in January and is

Concerning

Packages

"warding. This not only caus.

Occasionally some people have sent^ packages to our US office f^r Zov
them
additional i-rork but also increases

port of the vrork over theLpast yfiLai?*It is' also available


through Mission Services, A taped commentary is available
with this set.

the overall postage cost which must

be paid out of mission funds. Please


send all packages directly to Japan.

Write to

Box 173 Adel, Iowa,

for further information.

March 1962

page 5
CHRISTMAS IN REVIEW
This seems a l i t t l e late to

SPRING MEETING

be reporting about Christmas but we thought you night like to know T-rhat took place. Some

one rewariced

recently

in

letter that

the loneliest tinie of the year^.^^-''


the many activities v;e hardly

Christnas must be

on the mission field. But with


had time to reflect on loneli*
ness

Several weeks before Christ

mas the Sunday School started practice for their respective


parts in the Children's

j Mr, Stephen lijima is sched/uled to


This will

Christmas program. This pro gram was hold on Simday after


noon the 2lj.th of December, There were about 50 children

hold an
be a

evangelistic
retxirn visit

meeting here March 27-April 1,

present
which

to

see

the

program

for him. The above picture ; shows Mr. lijima preaching the very first evangelistic meet ing we held here in Obihiro
when we met in our home We
own

consisted

of Christuias

music, drama ,
and film strips.

shadow

play,

The night before, a Christmas party was held 'a't the rural

are happy that Mr


seen f i t

lijima has

to return to his

tov.'u of Komuro, the bean capi tal of Japan, 15 youth from


the ages of 8-15 were in at

hometown for this meeting, Mr lijima is well known in 0bihiro where his father prac
tices law, Ke is minister of the Minato Shurch of Christ in

ted^of slides and music in ad dition to the refreshments ,

tendance,

The program consis-

Tokyo, teacher at the YllCA, and is author of a monthly publication called "Bokka"

(pastorial Song )

as

well as

gift exchange and games. The adult Christmas program is traditionally held on Christmas Eve, There were 57
present to sing together the
traditional carols and to see the slide presentation of the
CCoiiJiiiiici? (HI <<)!. /

author of a fine Gonraentary on Galatians. Kr. lijima is one of our most capable ministers in Japan today# We knovr that he V7ill be able to reir;ch many
souls for Christ as well as

fall of man and


the Saviour,

the coming of

strengthen the Christions# The meeting is scheduled for


the last of March which will be about the time that you will receive this paper# Cn

the first

night

citywide

campaign v;ill be held at the downtown community hall. Sub sequent meetings will be at
the Church house,
'Coiilj'micil from iicxl eol-)

Other programa were held on Christmas Day at the Aimi village coinraunity hall in conjuction -nith
the local school and also at Taisho, Christmas meetings were also held at Sunagawa by Ur, Oofuchi,

Christmas serrices in Obihiro

March 1962

Dear Bojs and Girls,

This is the ice skating sea son in Obihiro, All the school yards are flooded and the boys and girls skate at recess and noon tirae. Almost every one in school carries his skates
bag on
over his shoulder

his

back.

and

Linda

a book

has

some skates but she is too soared to get out on the ice with them. Chucky tried them

his feet under him landed on top of

on once but

he

couldn't keep

and he sat Puniw our for

down hard. Another time he went head first and Mora almost

how easy it looks


try on the skates.

him,

before
on is

you

T^oko,^ and U^ashi Oofuchi


are glad we learned the Japa nese writing so we can sing her English Bible. LastSmday when Masami chan's Dad
some of the songs. Linda takei

We have an upstairs house now. One room


our school, -rfhen we

in September we studied in the

started

kitchen because the wasn't done yet. It

upstairs was very

other.

the first and Allan in kinder garten, Sometimes we study to

^ve a school room, Linda is In the fourth grade, Chucky in When we studied about
all helped make pichere to Grandmo

kitchen and we

crowded with

our desks in the

Linda the place by telling ner


the page number since he doesBible pages don't

was preaching he tried to show

are

glad

we

njt know .nglish not reali zing that the English and Ja match. This seems strange to us but they almost always give the page number in Japan be
cause all the Bibles
same.

panese

Then we
txires to

letters Linda gave a report on the Post Office and its work
show how our letters

are

the

We would like to thank the^


boys and girls who have writ ten to us. We try to answer

travel from

ther's house in America.

It is fun to study

together

much but sometimes he gets too noisy for us to study. He

Donnie. doesn't bother us very


talk yet but does a

but it seems strange to have a baby playing in one comer. '

all the letters that your write. Please write to us again.


Linda, Chucky, Allan, and Don.
froyn page i])

Sayonara ,

lot of jabbering and pounding.


You would probably be sur

doesn't

the winter and from 8 A.M.un til i|. p,M, in the s\aTinier, In
special cases we will take

prised if you were to visit our school, You might think It was Sunday School because
we always have a Bible lesson

tunity of becoming acquainted with many new and young fami


lies in the area. In addition

care of the. -children longer. We hope that through the school we will have an oppor

first and a memory verse.

On

some days we have a short Ja panese lesson. We have learned

his first

we will give the

lessons

young

concerning
in the
for the

child

Japanese Bible and


School papers,
we like to

to read the 50 simple charac-ters so Linda can now read the

God and Christ,

of Christian teaching

with the lack

Sunday
Sunday

homes it is necessary
Japanese people.

church to reach out in various


ways to touch the lives of the

go

to

School and Church but we don't

understand very much of it. We

We trust you will keep this school in mind when you pray.

/"/ o h
SUMMER
- ExangelistU.Meeting

f i S i- i ^ ry

MEETINGS

llstic speaker. The ^^^^9 meetings were held a- jjS^Q midst the threat of ty- r^ag
phoons and heavy rains* On the opening night the kindergarten was scheduled to present a shor t

Mr* John Muto^ of Tokyo^ Japan, was the evange-

gellstic meeting was jES^E held from August 6-~12 |g9^B

The annual sianmer evan-

'

Kuto was to preach his first sermon. The openred because of the del^.

program after which Mr. I8S|

ing was somewhat mar- Mjpitl


the arrival of jbimest,
Our camp met at the Nitta

in

aid of a few of the Christianf^


went ahead as scheduled and in

Mr. Oofuchi, and the evange list, Mr. Muto. (See "Sftpppro Camp, Page 3) Neva, with the

Dairy

farm

1$

miles

S.W.
the ehad on to get ordina would
but in

place of the sermon presented the film, " The Patriarchal


Age," Other than this the meeting was held without inci dent. The attendance was steady but smaller than usual generally running around 20.

of Obihiro. Following vangelistic meeting we ly one day in order ready for camp. Xftider ry circmstances this
not seem so difficiilt

our caiap we take

everything

withusincluding
ters* (Someone

the shel
re

recently

marked, "Why they even took an-

organl")

It is quite a

task to seciu>e the neces-

sary pans, food, equip-

I
^ \

ment, and tents for such

a camp.

But we

feel

i t iswell

worth the effort when we


see the many young peo ple Joining together to sing praises to God, to thank Him for meals and to enjoy Christian

SWe realized we were


reaching into the young

people's hearts
John Muto

and

minds when all joined to*

gether in informal dis[CoHtitnictl oil page 4]

Page 2
HOKKAIDO CHRISTIAN MISSION
MISSIONARIEB

September 1962

see that

government

is

run in

Christian way.

Ernest D. and Neva E. Faber 14 Odori, AAinami 21 Chome

Many businesses sponsor newscasts,


current event programs, and many po pular T. v. programs. You are sup

Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan


FORWAROINO ADDRESS

porting these programs when you buy


the companies' products. Do you

Minburn Church of Christ

John R. Noe, Box 173 Adel, lowe

agree with these programs? Ai*e'they what you would endorse? Write the company especially if you don't. It is your means of protest^and by all
means refrain from buying the
ducts of this company.

"THERE IS YOUR
Matthew 6:21

HEART"

pro

iSach of you knovfs what the Lord is

teaching here.

If

you

put yo r

Many people are interested in pur work in Japan and esqpress their in-

treasures in the Lord's work your heart and your concern will also be

\ terest in a material way, ' I

assume

there,

This as not only true In the,


also in the

religious field but

\that they substantially beleive we jtre doing what is rii^ht. Or do th^ dtqaport us like the government? Do
they feel that how we use their mo

realm of government. Of course, each of us must pay for" our goverament. He do so 'through taxes in hundreds of different ways. Not only this but we can also support politics by i^ancially backing up our candi
dates.

ney is not their responsibility but

ours?" If businesses were operated this way thsy would surely fail*
We put out receipts for two rea

sons.

First and foremost,

it is an

Where you spend and entrust your treasures you will certainly show conccm. If you have your money in vested in stock in some componiy you are going to be interested dn the welfare of that coii;)any*

acknowledgement that your gift was received and recorded. Secondly, it


is for your records. We also put out financial reports annually.

Ihese enable you to check your files and determine whether we are doing
what you would want vs to do. Na

V/ith our money we not only support religion but also government and
businesses. At the sme time we can

turally, we, like the government, can't Vdo everything that people
might like for us to do but we can consider your views. We appreciate it when a church

be supporting our enemies and


atheistic doctrines when v/e

their
send

jad to those who not only deny God bftt also seek to destory us. That

writes and asks like one church did,


"According to your records we jsent
for

C^nunism denies God is a fact. That


it seeks to destroy us is also plain
for all to see. Yet with our funds

you $$^0 for the year whereas bur l0.edge is for $600, ELeasd send us
the receipt numbers and dates

we support it. How? One way is the giving of our laon^ through aid to Comministic countries* (As written in KV3NTS recently, "Call it 'Taxpayer's money' not the 'goveni^ ment's monQT.'") Do you agree with their use of your money? If you don't then you have the responsibil ity of telling your congressman and Senators about it. They will be

the above $550 so that wemigjit check


our books."
we

As a
the

followup

of this

received

balance of the

pledge.

(Checking the receipt, no,


difficult -since each church or

and datos is not so we have a card for

person that sends in funds.) A good


many churches and individuals woTild

glad to hear your views.

In recent

weeks I have writt^i about, "The U nited Nations," "Medical aid," ?(JSIA

had missed a month. That is just not good stewardship. Are you interes
ted in how we use not "our mission

never have realized that

they

pau^jhlet on Buddhism in Thailand,"


and "Urban Affairs Bill." ^Qxe same is time on the local le

funds" but Vour money"? Where your money is there is your


heart also. Or is it?

velfrom

goverment. If your heart is really

city hall

to

the state

Send all funds to the forwarding agent

Tfhere your money is you would try to^

SUNAGAWA

NURSERY SCHOOL

It has now been a year since the Ohara boy was drowned.

They wanted Mr. Oofuchi and Mr.


Suzuki to come and present a small service on this the 1st

anniversary of his death. This they didleaving camp at 10 A.M. and returning at 6 P.M. They returned just before the
river flooded the town of Su

nagawa.

Because

of

pressing
and other
held

work here, distance

difficulties we have not

any meetings in Sunagawa since January, We were glad for the opportiJnlty to again witness
to this family,
Sapporo Camp

!nie Tetsunan Nursery 3cho<7l is continuing with its ^p^resent


enrollment at 60* There are

Whenever possible we try to work with the church at Sap

now 3 teachers
school,

working in the

poro,

Since

there

are

only

the 2 churches of all Hokkaido our

Christ on ties are

the annual sports meeting. The


PTA officers held their first meeting in the Paber's home recently. Pray that the seed in these young hearts will take root

Plans are now underway

for

quite close. Our very first camp held in 19^8 was in con junction with the Sapporo
church. Since then we have

had ovir seperate

camps but e-

very year some of us have been

able to fellowship with them. This year Mr, Oofuchi and Er nest again went. They were

and grow and that our contact with these yoiing parents will result in much good.

there from

Jiily 30August 1^.,

For your^prograws^TO have slideX~'


available. Also for 37 w can send you from Japan 2 klmonoes, salted rice crackers and tea. Allow six ) weeks to 2 months for. delivery latter. ^ Vacati9n Bible School
ly Vacation Bible School* About I4.0 children assembled
ti3gether at the Chiirch

The camp was a very wet camp with rain every day turning much worse on Thursday as the ^typhoon approached, Friday night the campers were return ed home and the faculty re mained until the next day and
(Continued on page 4}

fhother semi-annual event i's


from 2:00-i4.;00 P.M.This

building every aftrnoon year DV5S was held from JLugust 6-10, It ran concurrently with the evangelistic meeting,The children enjoyed theBlp
etc. For part of handwork we used
tures

ble storied* handwork


the picsent to us from^

merica*

On the same days


attexteach

from 10:00-12:00 AH a

similar meeting was held


at Memuro with dance around 10

day.
UUtloouy .CoOTcaUon

Page 1|.
Dear Boys and Girls, haven't forgotten you i.he last

September 1962

few months.
ten,

Mora and Dad have jiist


"Holclcaido
hr.ve not wit-

been late in rriting the


Christian" and so we

A lot l-ias happened lately.

Right after school was out in I.!ay


we made pl.mo to f^o to Tol-yo for the

convention,

Vfe altvays look several of our

fon/ard Japanese
also we

to this trip.
we can see

When we go to Tokyo

friends N'rtio have moved and

are able ;to visit and play vn.th many American friends. During the convention they had special meetings for the children. Also, because of
the kindness of an Air Force Chris

tian we enjoyed a real

wiener roast

Yesterday ( August 30, Daddy's birthday) we returned from a two-day


family camp at a small lake i;0 miles
north of here.

outdoors. This attracted quite a Japanese audience. We can't buy wieners here but eat fisJi sausage so real wienars surely tasted good Of course^ we always-dislike part
of the trip to Tokyo, It means we have to go to the, dentist and docr

We enjoyed the outln:; in spite of


The second day was mo-t.ly cloudy but had little the per'5istGnt drizzle.

rain, V/e enjoyed throy/ing rocks in the T/atcr, walking in the rain,riding in an abandoned but usable boat

tor for check-upsi Charles is still


our "toothless Joe" because the den

(that Daddy firmly tied fa a tree so

tist pulled his front teoth and they


are slcr.f in coming in, Linda got some bf-'tter glasses so navr she sees

vre couldn't go too far out),and tak


ing a ride in an excursion boat. But now our fun is over and its

only one instead of two


thing.
As soon as we

of

every

tine to go back to school, for a long tine and vre


for your letters.
^Continued from page 1]

V/ell, we

returned home we

were thinking of going away again. The English missionary camp for

hope to visit you sooner next tdme, Y/e haven't heard from sone of you

get lonely

children was

to

be

held

in July,

Please write.

Donnie and Allan both vrere too young to go but Allan is looking forward to next year. To make up for this Daddy took Allan with him to the Sapporo camp, Allan got the best of us thouf^h because he had an airplane ride. There vms a big flood and tlie train tracks washed out so they had across to r^et home.

Goodbye, Linda, Chuck, Al, and Don,


cussions on the Vord of God during the free-time periods. One young man made his .confession at camp and was baptized following
camp.

In August we enjoyed
Church camp Mrith 37 people,

our

or/n

is ci\ir otm local camp.

'There were 37 present for the cacg)> to make it one ofoiir largest. This

Donnie

especially livened up the can^ ' making a 2 year-old nuisance of him self and was hold so often by so

Suzuki from Sapporo also assisted,


(Continued from page 3)

Besides Mr. Muto from Tokyo, Mr.


Beciuse

broke up camp as scheduled.

many that he retumod home spoiled. Mother iras busy helping to dish up food and so Donnie wouj.d help him
self to some hmdy plate and get in

of the typhoon ire made an unexpected visit vdth the Church at Sapporo osrer Sunday at which time Ernest spoke.We finally secured plane tickets and a-

line, also, IVe don't understand much


Japant-'se but enjoyed the games , classes, filjns, etc. Chuck sur prised himself as well as evc;ryone else rhen he caucht a high fly ball

long with Mr. Uuto, our evangelist ,


who had just arrived on his way from

during the camp baseball game. Dad dy Tfas on the losing side-20-9.

Tokyo, we flew over the flooded ai?ea and approached Obihiro from the opposite direction. The tracts be tween Obihiro and Sapporo are . nbt yet repaired in the mountains.

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