Faber Ernest Neva 1961 Japan

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Hokkaido Chr i s t i an Mission

Minburn Church o f Ctir is t

John R, Noe, Box 173Adel^ Iowa//

February 11, 19£L

Dear PViends in Christ,

As this is the first letter that we have put out since Christmas we wouldiKe ^ tê this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for you

^- "Âojightfulness: in sending gifts, letters and cards. Many of the letters... - sone unanswered but we hope that we can remedy this in the future*

êr past few months we have secured many Christmas cards. Sunday^c ool mateîalj etc that will be put to good use in our work cn Hokkai-

, could still use more if you have any that can be sent on^

Brother John Noe has talcen over real weU in the office at Adel, Iowa#forwarding secretary with the Minburn

Church of C^st being the forwarding address® Write to him any of yourchecks be sure you make the check payu

able to HCKKAIDO CHRISTIAN MISSION.

The report from ?bihiro shows that they are continuing faithfully in theservices there with attendance perhaps a little lower than average butnevertheless steady. Continue to pray for the Christians there and forthe leaders as vfell as for those that are interested in Christianity^

You ^11 note that there is a card enclosed in this letter. It is now

°w going to need to icaow concerning any newsupport. We need more support in the work there and i t would help usout considerably if we kne\T that you were planning oii either increaseing your support or going to start to support us. It might be thatyou plan to support a specific amount each month. If so just fill inthe amount and the date that you will be starring. If you are uncer-

+S"iiT and T;ant to leave i t on an individual basis then usethe Jap^ for Christ Club" plan and have each member enlisted to sendin through one person $10 per month (2.50 per vreek). Under this planyou need to only enter the name of the claSs and/®r church and not fillin the amount-as i t will vary with the n̂umber ofîsmbers enrblledli

Also in line with the card we vrauld like to mention that i t does takea considerable amount of money to buy equipment and supplies as well

i l and freight bills. Any help along this line would certain.,y be appreciated.

Ernest, sometimes accompanied by Neva and the children, visited manyotoches since the first.of the year. Most of these churches were in

Int Dakota area. M^ thanks to these churchesor thei r hospitality.

forward to visiting the following places the coming

I ' Mich.) Peb, ll», Wauseon, 0,i Peb,'f /f 21-23, C,B.S, Feb. *6,Cleveland Ave and P.M. Southeast churches in Atlanta} Mar,'

1, Sm^na, Ga.j March 2, Lakewood^ East Point. Ga.j March L Tucker.East Point Ga.j March P.M., North Druid iius, Decatur, Ga.r S .

S' East Point rally; March 10^ West Rome,mej Ga,} ^ch 12^ A,M,, Red Oalc^ Ga,j P^., Mt« Olivej East Point,â., lj>.26, Tenn.j March 31, Athens, IH^J April 23^ Hill City-JCansasi^ May 21, A. M., Minbum, lowaj June i|.. Concord, Calif.

Donald Joseph, the baby, is doing fine and lilce^ babies is growing like a weed. He is now in the process of gettingnis shots. In fact , a ll but Donnio. h^v^snots in preparation for jtteiwning to Japan^ Linda is doing well inschool but does »e«d a lot of help at home, Charles is rather bored witht ak^ kindergarten the second time. Th^would not admit him to firstgrade because of his age.

Well, until we ccme along again we -ivill say, *'Be seeing you."

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. , ; " Hokkaido Christian Mission

April 26, 1961

Dear Chr i s t i an Fr i ends ,

The time that we have been awaiting has nearly arrived. This will be the l as t let te rthat you will receive from us before we sail for Japan. I am sure you remember thatwe are to leave from San Francisco on June 7, onthe President Wilson. Please keep usin mind in your prayers and, also, remember us with your letters. Greetings to us as

we leave may be addressed as fo llows:Ernest Faber, Cabin class T-3

P re s i d en t Wilson ,

American Pres iden t Lines

301 California StreetSan Francisco, Cal i fo rn ia

As you well know there is a lot of preparation when one gets ready to go to Jap^. Inorder to receive our visa we had to have a le t te r oforganization in Japan, letter from a supporting church, letters of physical fitness,as well as the various shots. I t was along the line of shots that wegreatest concern. It seems the baby, Donald Joseph, is allergic to the Th^hoia-rara-Thyphoid shots, l-fhen he received his first one he had such a violent reaction that itwas necessary to hosoitalize him for one day. He, also, had a reaction to the second

shot but we were looking for i t so stayed at the doctor's office for untilhe recovered from i t . Friday he will be receiving the last of these shots. This willbe the last thing along this line that will have to be done. The visa is in hand aswell as our passport and t i cke ts .

Concerning the tickets we do wish to report that we were able to pay for them onschedule as well as most of the equipment. Funds are s t i l l needed fo r f re ight and forthe replacement of the car in lieu of taking it back to Japan. Probably $1500 will^beneeded for these things. Undoubtedly some of this is on hand at the forwarding office.We thank you kind folk fo r your interest in our work in Japan.

We continue to be in need of living-link for the two youngest children. We would liketo have $25 per month for Allan and Donald. Needless to say, additional pledged sup

port is needed to continue and enlarge the radio program, the printing ministry ando t h e r a c t i v i t i e s i n th e work t h e r e .

Since writing last Ernest has visited with churches in Ohio, Georgia, Tennessee,Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Among places visited were the GeorgiaMissionary Rally and The North American Christian Convention. Ernest just returnedSunday from the fellowship with many friends at the North American where the HokkaidoChristian Mission had a booth. In the meantime, Neva did some visiting in Nebraskaincluding a visi t to the Missionary Rally at Norfolk, Nebraska.

The closing weeks in America will be spent-as,follows: April 30, A.M., Stillwater andP.M., Cleveland, Oklahoma; May 2-5, Kaimichi clinic; May 7, A.M., Memphis, Texas andP.M., Yale, Oklahoma; May 14, P.M., Council Bluffs, Iowa; May 21, A.M. and afternoon

homecoming and farewell at Minburn, Iowa; May 24, Bagley, Iowa; May 28 A.M., Glenrock,Wyoming and P.M., Riverton, Wyoming; May 31, Stockton, California; June 4, PleasantHi l l , Cal i fo rn ia .

Please remember us as we return to our field of service, VJe should be in Obihiro bythe middle of July at the latest. We will writs you as soon as possible after wea r r i v e on th e f i e l d .

In C h ris t,

The F a b e r s



July 19, 1961

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.;'-l>sai^'Fr4eaada,

t^,h<Hael Our-ship- left San Pranoisco on June 7th and for a

« hL 1 j + ^7® out tho first time i t took usIt Astsirard s strike at thu last minute delayed us several hours anden we finally got out of tho harbor, wo tumod bade after a couplo of hours '

w sohedulo a l l along theT^'+J Ifewaii__for the first time and tho children enjoyed Wakiki beach •d the zoo. TTb puUed a-vray from tho docks there about five ininutos before

happy they made it undor tho Hirealthough I can't think of a plcasantor place to be strandodl

Wo docked In yokohama In pouring down rain. The rainy soaaon proved all

•T+ + during our five day stay with tho lixrold SimS family in TokyÎt took that long to cloar the freight in customs. Wg woro chargod no ijnport

T° charges brought us face to face vdth the fact that oveiy-hxng in Japan has gone up in price. .

^ Cfoihiro on June 30th, Vô found the services and classeseing conducted ^ when wo loft -vrLth a few additional classes, Thero woreso, though ovor half of the Christians are not prosen-tft^

discouraging. Some of tho boys from tho^glish Bible classes are coming regular}^ to church now and the one new Chris-tian is very faitl^. Response to the radio program has boon slow in tho las*fw months so we have changed the broadcast to an earlier hour. The format isalso changed and is now callod "listen 0 Ye Isles."

With tôe in school this fall we face a school-roora problem as woll as a ^bGôom problem (with four children and only 2 bedrooms.) Since there is con-.

attic T/e have investigated malcir- three rooms up thero ^ aisin the south roof a few loot and putting in -ivindovfs, Ih found a stairs."W and toeo good-sizcd rooms would cost aaôund 5^650, including the cost of "r^sxng the roof. So we have the contractor making up tho plans in hopes offinishing before school starts. The present children's room will then serveas a much needed mission vrork room for mimeographing, preparing maiinps. sort-ing and storing Bible School literature and tracts, etc.

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•X. + It weekly English Bible classes scheduled. He is to bo 'Evanec-list in the Sapporo camp with Brother Wesley Walker and in our own caim as

T T an evangelistic meeting here in Obihiro next month. HeedlesslottZi PotnL S"" f?"" necessary house repairs, general unpacking and

^v ?? generally talces care of the office work- (m-iting the reeipts and the rost) so some of tliis work will have to come later.

In short, it is good to be back and in the work again. Thanks to each oi '"!?ow furlough pleasant and rofreshing. We count our Christian •

friends a great blessing and thank God for each of you. ,

Xours for Christ, *

Q M ' ; ^



i/okkaifio Christian Mission^Box l'i33 Adel, la©

« « September, 1^61Dear faithful Supporters,

"Child dies because of disregard of off limit .•"•.gn on h(?ach" wavS the headlineover an artical in an extreme left-vdng I-Iokkaido nei'-spaporp XTrent to Sapporo to the Church of Christ caii^-Jeld-at Xoichi^^ Holdcaido, on Monday^ July 31oCa^^got_under_w^ real good-mth 150 in attendance from the large city ofSapporo, rwas the evangelist' and 16?^ Oofuclii from here was the chapel speaker, On Wednesday there was considerable excitement at camp when a teacher andone cliild died from dro^ming up the beach from inhere we were campingo A boat

had to be launched to recover the body of these tTro^ After tliis in ci dent t he

Education Department put "off limits" signs on that par t of the boachoThe next day, because of the accident, we were especially cautious. The buddysystem v/as rigidly enforced. Those who quit s^vdjnming were chocked off thel i s t one by one. When swimming was over at noon a ll vfas accoimted for. Wewere especially shockcd when we heard someone from the T/atcr^s edge collout,"There is a body in the waterJ" There was hope vrhon we realized that the bodywas s t i l l warm. But this hope was short lived as the boy failed to rally andthe doctor made the pronouncement that ho had died of heart shock- As was thecase the day before this particular area r/as posted as a danger area for swimming after the accident, UnlmoTm to us the area was an unposted "off limits"a r e a *

Mr Suzuki of the Mbiwashita church and Ife*. Oofuchi took the body by car to theboy's home some 2 hours drive from Sapporo, The police had already informedthe family of the death before their arrivals tiro Suauici and Walicor ofSapporo and Oofuchi and myself from here were present for the f-aneral whichwas from R?iday evening until Saturday aftornoono On PViday, after our arrival,the family requested that we sing some of the songs the boy had siing at camp—•in spite of the fact that they were a EuddJaist family,, That evening at theservice wo had a Christian service following the priest 's departure„ At thefuneral the next day the priest was surprised to ioarn that the family requested us to have a hymn, prayer and scripture reading during th-? funeral conrice.

It seems the boy the year before had used son^ of the money ho was given to goto the Shinto "big festival" and bought a song book at a tent revival meeting.I t Was because of his continual pleading that he was allowed to go to campa

Knowing of the boy's inter es t in Christianity the-ptjponts vrore anxious to havea service that t hey thought the boy wou ld lil-ce^

There is a Christian family from the vrork in Sapporo novr living at this torncalled Sunagawa (sand river). Because of the interest of Christianity and atthe invitation of the Christian family as well as the boy*s fcnaly we starteda work at this place, Mr, Oofuchi is loading in the worktherof, ViTe began thevrork with a four days evangelistic meetingo Attendance averaged around 25-30 each night. Among those in attendance vj-ere the parents of the boy and thefather's employer's wife and other near-by fr iends of the familyc Services willbe continued with the hope of establishing a diurch in this tOT/n of 30,000 people, "All things work for good to them that love the Lorde"

After the camp at Sapporo we had our ovm camp here on a much smaller scale.

There were 3k in attendance at the camp here, which was held at the T,?, tov/ersome 30 minutes by bus from Obihiro, The 19$9 T-Vopet, that I bought vdth themoney from the sale of the American Plamblcr̂ was delivered in time to use i t forcamp.

During the week of August 13 we were busy getting ready for the evangelisticmeeting to be hold here, Mr, Suzuki from Sapporo spoke two of the four nightsand I had two of the services. Attendance ranged from Zkr-kS during the seiwlce.There was one baptism during the meeting and another Sundcy morm.ng, the lastday of the meeting, '

Morikawa, who has been vdth us now nearly 2 -Hilrl be iearang- us- to-xe-tum to school. This m il necessitate my hcvvi.ng to resvina the roll of mnisterto the chiurch here .

The school bell rings out at our house noiVs School st-arted i.-', the kitchen thisweek—a temporary arrangement until the house can be enlarged^ With Jillan inkindergarten, Charles in first grade and in fourth g3:ado, Neva has a mightytask ahead of her ,

Donnie thinks he is great stuff now—he can wall^o He can't walk for though forhe is confined to a 5 by $ ploy pen,

linda was especially happy to rece ive a number -of letters from he r church and woare glad at all times to receive letters from our many friends, V^e -wish there



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HOKKAIDO CHRISTIAN MISSION

M I SB i a N A R I E B

Ernest D. and Neva E. Faber

14 Odor i, Minami 21 Chome

Obihtro, Hokkaido, Japan

POR WAR OINC 3 A D D R E S S

Minburn Church of Christ

John R. Noe, Box 173

Adel, Iowa

LAST DAYS

Jude llt-25

Ju s t a cxirsory g lance a t the

Kev Tes t amen t r e v e a l s t h a t J e

sus i s to r e tu rn aga in . Paulwas especia l ly conscious of

th e f a c t t h a t t h e Lo rd wou ldr e t u rn* Di f f e r en t peop le a td i f f e r e n t t ime s have t r i e d to

pred ic t the t ime of His coming

b u t i t i s n o t f o r men t o Icnow

"tha t day and tha t hour ."

I t may very wel l be t h a t wewi l l see th e coming o f th e

Lord i n th e n e a r f u t u r e . I n

f a c t i t may be b e fo re th e

night i s ove r . Many f e e l t h a t

His coming i s the only so lut i o n to th e w o rld 's p rob l ems .

Th a t t h e wo r l d i s i n a mes s

a l l can t e s t i f y .

One loo)^ and a hurried onea t that , o r the fi lm , "Communism on the Map", shows therapid spread of Communism overth e v?orld t o d ay . L i t t l e by

l i t t l e Communism i s t ak ing

con t r o l . They have even made

much headway i n ou r own Ameri

c a . You c a n s e e th e e n e r o a c h -

mont of commimistic ideas inoia? schools , oxir government »and i n o u r ch iu^ches .

On eve ry hand we see th e

ev i l fo rce s i n Conmuniam, A-

the ism^ Mater ia l i sm^ e t c , b a tt l i ng aga in s t th e s p i r i t u a l

f o r c e s . The s e e v i l f o r c e s a r e

a t work whereeve r Chr i s t i an i t y

i s making progre s s . This i st r u e no t on ly i n America bu t

on the fo re ign f i e l d as we l l .

The dev i l has managed to

cap tu r e th e minds o f mos t o f

J apan ' s peop le th rough i n t e l -l e c t u a l i sm . Japan has l a r ge l y

l e f t God o u t a s i t ma r c h e s th e

r o a d o f i n t e l l e c t u a l i s m a n d

ma t e r i a l i sm*

But the person and/or count ry tha t f a i l s to consider Godi s t reading a dangerous road .

We n e e d t o r e d e d i c a t e o u r

l i v e s to th e ta sk o f proc la im

ing Christ to a Chris t lesswor ld . Then beginning a t home

l e t u s see whom we ean ' i n f l u

ence w ith th e Oospe l o f J e s u s

C h r i s t .

The hope o f the world i ss t i l l Jesus ^hr is t*

NEW CAR

Already we have found ourJapanese l i g h t van an i nva lua

b l e a i d t o t h e wo r k . E r n e s t

purchased th e e a r in Sapporo

wi t h f u n d s f rom t h e s a l e o f

o u r U.S . c a r wh i ch we u s e d on

fur lough . (By th e way, i t waisold to a f el low mi s si ona ry . )The c a r a r r i v e d i n t ime f o r

use a t camp. I t was e sp e c i a l

ly us e f u l fo r coming a f t e r

supp l i e s and br ing ing s ick

campers i n to see th e doc t o r .

We use i t , a l s o , f o r th e evan

ge l i s t i c meet ings . Among o -the r things i t was used fo r ai>>

nouncing the meetings everydaythrough use of loud speakers ,fo r t ak ing some o f th e au d i

ence hcsae, and to go and br ing

one la d y to chxirch frcm th e

coun t ry fo r bap t i sm . She i s

pa r t i a l l y b l i nd and" t r a v el fo r

h e r i s d if f ic ul t.

A t r i p was made by ca r toSunagawa (page 3) to open the

work there . Also, i t i s usedt o do f o l l ow -up o f th e r a d i o

c o n t a c t s i n r u r a l a r e a s .



NEW WORK

We started a work in S ima -

gawa in August, as r epo r t ed in

a recent newsletter. We first

l e a rn ed o f th e oppo r t un i t y i nt h i s town o f 20,000 when wewen t t o th e f u n e r a l o f Obara

san, a 5 th grade school boywhowas d rowned at t h e Chu rch o f

Ohris t camp near Sapporo, Bec a u s e of t h e interest Bhown in

Chr i s t i an i ty by the boy ' s Fat he r and Mother , we deemed itwise to follow up immediately.So wi th very little p r i o r no

t ice we s e t about get t ing thework started.

It i s in oha;rge of Brothe r

Cofuchi , who has been helpingin th ^ work in Ob ih i r o , He

wi l l be spending more and moz*eo f h is t ime i n Sunagawa, I fth ings work ou t he and h is f amily w il l , in a l l probab i l i ty ,be moving to Sunagawa in th e

sp r i ng . As .it i s now he

spends a good dea l o f h is t imeon th e r o a d . He is gone from

home from Satu rday morn ing until Monday even ing .

The attendance at the Evan

g e l i s t i c Se rv i ce s was abou t

20 wi th p re s en t a t t endance as

fol lows: Sunday School , 50}morning worship, 6-8j eveningworsh ip , 10 -12 , Meet ings a re

he ld i n a r en t ed home, A l a r g e

rocaa with wooden floor wh i c h

fo r roe r ly was used a s a b a r b e r

shop prov ides a good assemblyhall. Seve r a l s i de rooms may

be used a s l i v ing qua r t e r s smd

th e up s t a i r s s ub r e n t e d t o r educe th e month ly r e n t t o l e a s

t h a n

November 1961

DBDICAHON

This paper i s dedica ted to a5th grade boy who died fromhea r t shock in the water during camp at Yoichi , Japan,th i s pas t J iuy , It was because o f h is f a i t h and de t e r

mination while living thatdoors were opened at Sunagawafo r a Chris t ian witness a t thet ime o f h i s d e a th .

PrintingThis i s especia lly d i rac ted to our

new readers . Before our fur lough we

pa t out a memeo paper each month to

cdn t r i b u t o r s wi t h th e HOKKAIiX)

CflRISTIAN being prin ted every three

months and going to every one, Re~

cent ly we have been sending out only

th e memeo letter and this to th e

whole mail ing list. Because o f i ncreasing costs in Japai^(Everythingla now 1/2 to 1/3 higher than a year

ago.)—it will be necessary to read ju s t our ma i li ng s chedul e. We

will t ry to send a t least once every

other month with every other mail

ing being the HOKKAIDO CHRISTIAN ,Contributors wi l l continue to re

ce ive monthly l e t t e r s ,

S i i d e s

In t h e n e a r f u t u r e slides

wi l l be a va ila ble fo r yoiir usa

These new s l i d e s wi l l be accompanied by a t a pe a s w e l l a s

a commenta ry . They w i l l bea v a i l a b l e a s s oon a s s l i d e s

a re p ro cessed and dup l i c a t e d .

Disp lay m a te r i a l o f var ious

k i n d s is a l s o a v a i l a b l e . Wri t e

to Box 173, Adel, Iowa, forany requests.



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Dear Boys and Girlfl ,

Most o f you have hea rd "wa

t e r , water eve rywhere and not

a drop to drink," Well, theres u r e was a lot of wa t e r all

around the ship on our way to

Japan*

There are so many th ings wecou l d tell ab o u t t h a t we h a r d

l y know vhere to start. Wel e f t th e grandparents back inth e Midwes t and wenfWest^

Daddy had to speak in a coupleof churche's in Wyoming so wepassed t h rough t h e r e . We

s t opped to s ee "Yel lowstone

Hat i ona l Pa r k . " There we saw

"Old Fai thfu l" , many beaflpge l k , e t c . On the way we s l e p t •I n o\ i r t e n t . In C a li f o rn ia we

s t ayed a t Daddy ' s Uncle Fred

an d Aun t Minn i e*8 hou s e . Aun t

Minnie took us to the sh ip

where they pa t i en t l y wai ted

from 9 :00 AM u n t i l 3 :00 PM to

see us o f f . Most everyonee l se had left a f t e r wai t ing

for h9T}rs . The cooks were on

a s t r i k e thus causing the del a y .

Then we s a i l ed r i g h t unde rth e (xolden Gate br idge . Wea l so saw Alca t r a s ( th e r o ck ) .

We were on our way! Then we

t u r n e d for a last l o o k at t h e

br idge only to not ice t h a t it

was no t ge t t i ng sm a l le r bu t

l a r g e r . While i n th i s s t a t eo f b ew ild em e nt th e l oud spea

ke r from the br idge s a i d , "Att en t ion a l l passenge rs , .T h is

sh ip i s r e tu rn ing to San Franc i s co fo r r e p a i r s . "

masm

Norembe r 1961

THE UPSTAIRS

The work on th e up s t a i r s was

s ta r ted on Friday the l5 th o fSeptember In sp i te of a ra ins to im and ne a r typhoon whi le

the roof w as off a n d s u b s e

quent bad wea the r th e up s t a i r s

i s v i r tua l ly f i n i shed .

As y e t t h e r e is work to do ,

A little r e p a i r work on th e

stucco m u s t b e d o n e because of

a rain s to rm to o s o o n after

pa in t i ng ' and some o f th e e l ec

t r i c a l wir ing i s no t comple tedThe rooms a re i n u s e , t hough •The s c h o o l room w as the mo s t

n e ed ed . The k i t c h e n was a l i t

t l e crowded because it al ready

s e rved as d in i ng a r e a and laur^

dry room. The school room up

s t a i r s i s r e l a t i ve ly qu i e t . OHth e wa l l s a re b l ackboa rds , th e

ch i l d r en ' s handwork, ch8Lrts,

maps , e t c . It r e a l l y has asciiool room atmosphere. ^

Again the next day we sa i ledunde r th e same br idge . Westopped a t L.A. and also Honol u l u , At Honolulu we wen t toWaik ik i beach and en joyed afew l e i s u r e hou r s . Then on a

very bleak and ra iny day wea r r i v e d at Yokohama where some

k ind mis s i ona r i e s were on handto mee t us and t ake u s to

their h om e .

After a very long and di r tyt r a i n r ide we were aga in backin Obihiro.

Write u s , a l l you boys andgirls.

Love,

Linda, A l, Chuck, and Don,

Faber Ernest Neva 1961 Japan

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