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FORWARDING ADDRESS
In care of Clair R. Roberts Route I

Carl and Grace Fish

Meadville, Pennsylvania

March 18, 1963

Mission Services

Box 968
Joliet, 111.

Dear Bro. McGilvrey,

Perhaps you would want some announcement about our family for "Horizons". The Carl Fish family will sail from Long Beach, Calif, on March

29th for Kobe, Japan.

Tentative plans are to take a year's langaage

study in Kobe before moving to Kyushu where they will establish their home and the center for their work among the island peoples. Philip,
their son, has recovered from his illnesses.

God has wonderously provided living-link support for the entire family and the following churches provide this support: Central Christian Church, Pittsburgh, Pa. Westshore Christian Chxarch, Tampa, Pla. Hillman Street Christian Church, ^oungstoMn, Ohio Rose Hill Church of Christ, Reynoldsburg, Ohio

Pennline Church of Christ, Pierpont, Ohio East Dayton Church of Christ, Dayton, Ohio First Christian Church, Meadville, Pa.

Murray Church of Christ, Murray, Iowa

Rosemary Church of Christ, Washington, N.C.
Havelock Church of Christ, Havelock, N.C.

Capital City Church of Christ, Raleigh, N.C.

Our family wishes to express its deepest thanks to all these above living-link churches and also to all who responded to wonderfully to this mission work through our presentations. We are ever grateful for every gift of money, supplies, and personal needs and for the

pledged prayerful support of God*s work in the Isles of Japan work. We will do all we can, with our Lord's help, to continue this close fellowship of labor for our Lord *^esus Christ.
Perhaps you can use the above paragraphs in some way to notify the

readers of "Horizons" of our departure.

you all at Mission Services. as possible.

Thank you kindly,

God bless
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We will send you a field address as soon /g

Yours,in Christ,
TTIal-i

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FISH FAMILY RETURNS TQ FIEID

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The Carl Fish family sailed from Long Beach, Calif. March 29th outward bound for their first term of missionary service in Japan. They previously served in Okinawa for two terms between lanuary 1952 and 1958 when they
In the interval,

came home due to the\health

of their son Philip./Carl has ministered to the Sharon Christian Church in West Palm
Beach, Fla.

They, plan to establish a mission work in the Isles of Japan stretching southward

from Kyushu to Okinawa. As "Isles of Japan Christian Mission," they expect to establish

churche:? through a program of New Testament evangelism anH conduct a prdlCing ministry to
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provide tracts, Christian literature, correspondence courses and text books in Japanese.

They plan to spend possibly a year in language school at Kobe, Japan beforejfmoving
to Kyushu where they will establish their home and the center for t heir work among the"
island peoples. Philip,their son, has recovered from his illnesses.

2 Carl Fish

'^hey are commended to t he brethren by the elders ofj^irst Christian Church,

Meadville, Pa.^and. S. L. Russell, preacher; and by the elders of Sharon Christian

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Church, West Palm Beach, Flq^. They may be contacted t hrough their Forwarding Agentj^:
Clair R. Roberts, R 1, Meadville, Pa.

On sailing, they wrote: "Our family wishes to express its deepest thanks to all
those who have promised backing in this new work, and also to all who responded sp .

wonderfully to our presentation of this work. We are ever grateful for every gif

of

money, supplies, and personal needs and for the pledged prayerful support of God's
work in the Isles of Japan work. We will do all we can, with our Lord's help, to continue

this close fellowship of labor for our lord Jesus Christ."