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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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50th Anniversary-29 Dec. 91

Monument to Japan s

1 st

Gun

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T ra in in g C o ur se :

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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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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

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Genius;Organized

Confusion

Multnomah

Falls:

Oregon

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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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ocean. Ray

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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

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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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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

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To

the friends of the

Kyushu

Christian Mission

Kanoya, Kagoshima 893 Japan

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Box

417, N.

Vernon

IN

47265

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Tanegashima -Ready to

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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.

u s t 1992

Front: Pauline

and

Mark

Maxey: Zachary

Flrin Axton

Mary

Walter Trent Maxey; Hope; Faith 6 Paul Axton

Harry Robert

Fox

Shares

at

Minister's

Meeting



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.

A

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 .

Pick out any kind you want.) The

way

i t looks now, how

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Clinton s

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