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Nursery school ad

NURSERY SCHOOL TO OPEN

Prom Apr i l th e TetcunanChurch V7ill sponsor a ni i r sery

s choo l a t the church bu i ld ing .

Upon re tu rn ing to the

f i e ld from fiirlour^h l a s t Jvilyt h e p ropo s a l was made to open

a nurse ry sc h o o l . A f te r raanj,'"m o n t h s o f deliberation i t w a s

decided t h a t a mirse ry school

in this area w ou ld b e of b e n e

fit to the corainunity# Althought h e initial f u n d s w e r e b o r r o w

e d f r om t h e m i s s i o n t h e s c h o o lw i l l be on a s e l f - s u s t a i n i n g

basis,

Q?he nursery school wi l l beopened wi th a inaiciiuura o f 50

p u p i l s . This i i ; -he numbert h a t ou r p r e s en t f a c i l i t i e swill a l l o w . T h e r e v r i l l b e tw o

women t e a che r s hand l ing two

c l a s s e s b e s i d e s Fir , Oof uch i a nd

Erne s t i n charge o f th e school .The s c h o o l v ; i l l be ope r a t e d on

a year-round bas i s v.-ith tvxoweeks vaca t ion dur ing th e yea r— o n e w e e k in the s u m m e r a n d

one week t h e first week of t h e

yeC'r, The hours are arrangedf o r th e b e n e f i t o f m o t h e r s wh6

work . The s c hoo l w i l l meet

from 9 A,Mo un t i l ij. P,M» inI'll I 'l iyc 4)

ADDED TO THE CHURCH

',^hen we see young people de-

d i c a t e their l i v e s fo r C h r i s t y

we r e a l i z e that all th e effort 1

it takes to evangel ize in iJapan i s worthwhi le . We knowyou a l so r e jo i c e when you hea rof t h o s e who m a k e a s t a n d for

Chr i s t , Although some oft h e se bap t i sms have been re

por t ed to you th rough ou r re

g u l a r co r r e spondence we a re

repea t ing them again in order

for all of o u r r e a d e r s t o h av e

an opportxmity to share withus th is "xmspeakable joy," We

wil l l i s t the 6 who have been |bapt ized s ince our re turn to ;

. Japan in the order they were /b a p t i z e d ,

Ai^s t 18, 196lj Mr, Takashi Gotoi s a yoking man who f i r s t s ta r ted to

a t t e n d Neva ' s Bib l e c l a s s w h i l e he

was in J r . ffl.gh School, This was

sometime before our going to the US

fo r fur lough. Ha i s now teaching

1st , 2nd, and 3rd grade students a t

the Sunday School hour as wel l ashelping with the work in Uemuro,

August 20, I96I5 Upon learning

that Mrs, Toshiko Utagawa," wife of a

Uemuro High School teacher, was desiring baptism we made awangements

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Miss Purukawa 's Bapt ism



HOKKAIDO CHRISTIAN MISSION

mibbionaries

Ernest D. and Neva E. Faber

T4 Odori, AAinami 21 Chome

Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

r O RW A R O I N Q A O O R E SB

Minburn Church of Christ

John R. Noe, Box 17 3

Adel, Iowa

CHRIST

Masaml Oofuch l

Jesus was bo rn In a s t ab l e

in t h e sm d l l t own of Be th l e h em

in Judea, However, I. th ink it

very stralnge tha t the Son of

God was bo rn i n a cheap man^ r .

I wonder why Jeisus wasn*tb o r n in a nice h o u s e ,

Jesus hea l ed many s ick peo

p le . At one t ime he hea led abl ind man, a t another time heh e a l e d a man who was s u f f e r

ing , Jesus real ly had wonder-f \a l power .

This Jesus ^ who died on thecross in my place*is my Jesus .I f too, woTild l ike to be agood man l ike Jesus . He was, a righteous .man unt i l hi«dea th . He, rea l ly was a goodperson . The Pharisees spokeharsh words about Him, bu t Jesus, even when in sorrov^ walk-

th e r i g h t way, Jesus was

t r u l y a g re a t person .

We thought you might be in

t e r e s t ed i n t h i s a r t i c l e bythe four th grade son ofCh r is ti an p a re n ts , Mr. and Mrs.Masashiko Oofuch i , This wi t -

i ness tQ_his fai th in Christwas•^-înted in his elementery/ school's newspaper and circuit lated to ; a ll those in the^school,. With Christians like

t h i s we can reach Japan andth e wor ld f o r C h r i s t . Are we

a s f a i t h f u l i n ou r wi tness ing .

Concerning PackagesOccasionally some people have sent^packages to our US office f^r Zov"warding. This not only caus. themadditional i-rork but also increasesthe overall postage cost which mustbe paid out of mission funds. Pleasesend a ll packages directly to Japan.

March 1962(JZontinued from page 1)

t o to h e r home i n t h i s r u r a l tom

to bring her to Obihiro for the baj^t ism. 1 ^ , ntagsira has had eye

t rouble fo r year s and i s son- v i r t o -

al ly blind. At the present time shei s in Tc^qto undergoing extensive examinations on the eyes.

October 29, I96I5 Mias ISxriko-Satoo is a second yea^^ti3Ê~iaJr . Ifi.gh School (e l i^h sraderjl Hareagain Yie note tha t the~i i rs t contact-eras made through Sn^ i sh . This cai^t ac t nas made by Mr. Oofuchi i rhilewe were on fur lough, Sbft_ helps in

t te wo]^ bgr posing out t racts and

also t ^hes preschoolers in the

Sunday School,Januaiy lU, 1962j IQss Atsuko

__Dirukas(a has been attending Sunday^hool from the time that the churchbuilding iras bui l t , Sjie l ives Ju s t

2 doors nor th o f the dxorch , Atchan

(her nickname) -will be in her f i r s t 'ysar.jpdL&«_^gh She

^ ,-p lay s_ ih e b al^ -organ Xpr Sunday

/ School i n Obihiro and ISenniro, She i s

/ / also assistant organist for the sei>-^ vices_at.Church,V_ January lit, 196?; Ifaaami Oofuchi

i s the ycningest person to be bai^

tis^ la r Obih i r o , Since he is th e

sjon o f ^ t h e a s s i s t a n t he re he ! ha s

in taught spir i tual things since abahy, Masami chan i s a four th eara-

de r>

January 23, 1962; Our most recent Itt^tism was a .-2^ ysar olddaughter .of a l a t e minis ter and Mg

liê* l&ss Yoairiirn KtimA started at

tending seinrices late last year upon her return fk>om Tokyo, Sar

ther i s in charge of the deaf anddumb school i n a western-suburbo

FOR YOUR PROGRAMS.Th e r e are tvro sets of slides

a v a i l a b l e f rom ou r US o f f i c e .

Set # 1-This se t was made xq>

x©arly in 1961 and i s in tended

fo r yoimg peop l e . It showa^

the many,contras ts în . Japan,

^ Set p 2-This se t was made upear ly i n January and i spor t of the vrork over theLpastyfiLai?*—It is ' also avai lab let h rough Miss ion Se rv i c e s , At aped commentary i s ava i l ab l e

w i t h this set.

Write to Box 173» Adel , Iowa,for further i n f o rma t i o n .

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M arch 1962

SPRING MEETING

j Mr, Stephen lijima is sched-/uled to hold an evangelis t icmeet ing he re March 27 -Apr i l 1 ,

T h i s will be a r e tx i rn visit

f o r h im. The above p ic tu re

; shows Mr. l i j ima preaching thevery first evange l i s t i c meeting we he ld here i n Obihi rowhen we m et in o u r home« We

are happy t h a t Mr« l i j ima hass e e n fit t o return t o his own

hometown fo r t h i s meet ing ,

Mr« l i j ima i s we l l known i n 0-

b ih i ro where h i s f a t h e r prac

tices l a w , Ke is m i n is t e r o f

th e Mina to Shurch o f C h r i s t i n

Tokyo, t e a c h e r a t th e YllCA,

and is au t ho r o f a month ly

pub l i c a t i on ca l l ed "Bokka"

(pas to r i a l Song ) as wel l asau t ho r o f a f i n e Gonraentary onGa la t i an s . K r. l i j ima i s oneo f ou r mos t capab l e m i n i s t e r s

in Japan today# We knovr t ha the V7il l be ab l e to reir;ch many

souls for Christ a s well a s

s t r eng t hen th e C h ris t io ns#

The mee t ing i s schedu led fo r

th e last o f March which w i l l

be a bou t th e t ime t h a t you

w i l l r e c e i v e this pa pe r # Cn

the f i r s t n igh t a c i tywidecampaign v; i l l be he l d a t the

downtown community h a l l . Sub

sequen t m ee ting s w i l l be a t

th e Chu rch h o u s e ,'Coiilj'micil from iicxl eol-)

Other programa were held onChristmas Day a t the Aimi vil lagecoinraunity ha l l i n conjuct ion -nith

the l o ca l school and a l so a t Taisho,

Christmas meetings were also held

a t Sunagawa by Ur, Oofuchi,

page 5

CHRISTMAS IN REVIEW

T h i s seems a little late to

be repor t ing about Christmasbut we thought you n igh t l iketo know T-rhat took p lace . Someone rewariced recently in aletter t h a t Chr i s tna s mus t bethe loneliest tinie of the year^.^^-''on t h e m i s s i o n field. B u t w i t h

the many ac t iv i t i e s v;e hardlyh ad t i m e t o reflect o n loneli*

ness •

S e v e r a l weeks b e f o r e C h r i s t

mas the Sunday School s t a r t edp r ac t i c e f o r t h e i r r e spec t i ve

parts in th e C h i l d r e n ' s

Christmas program. This pro

gram was hold on Simday a f t e rnoon the 2lj.th o f December ,

There were abou t 50 ch i l d r en

presen t to see the programwhich cons i s t ed o f Chris tu ias

music, drama , shadow play,and f i lm s t r i p s .

The n igh t before , a Chris tmaspar ty was held 'a ' t the ru ra ltov.'u of Komuro, the bean capita l of Japan, 15 youth fromthe ages o f 8-15 were in a t

tendance, The program consis-ted^of slides and music in addition to the refreshments ,gi f t exchange and games.

The adult Christmas programis t radi t ional ly held onChristmas Eve, There were 57presen t to sing together thet r a d i t i ona l ca ro l s and to seethe s l ide presen ta t ion o f thefa l l of man and the coming of

th e S av io ur ,CCoiiJiiiiici? (HI <•<)!. /

Ch r i s t ma s s e r r i c e s in Obih i r o



Dear Bojs and Girls ,This is the ice skating sea

son in Obihiro, All the schoolyards are flooded and the boysand gir ls skate at recess andnoon tirae. Almost every one

in school carries his skatesover his shoulder and a bookbag on his back. Linda hassome skates but she i s toosoared to get out on the icewith them. Chucky t r ied themon once but he couldn't keephis feet under him and he satdown hard . Another time hewent head f i r s t and Mora almostlanded on top of him, Puniwhow easy i t looks before yout ry on the ska tes .

We have an upstairs on ourhouse now. One room is forour school , -rfhen we s t a r t edin September we studied in thekitchen because the upstairswasn't done yet. I t was verycrowded with our desks in thekitchen and we are glad we^ve a school room, Linda isIn the fourth grade, Chucky in

the f i r s t and Allan in kindergarten, Sometimes we study toother. When we studied aboutlet ters Linda gave a report onthe Post Office and i t s work»Then we all helped make pic-txires to show how our l e t te rst r ave l from here to Grandmo

ther ' s house in America.I t is fun to study together

but i t seems strange to havea baby playing in one comer. '

Donnie. doesn't bother us verymuch but sometimes he gets toonoisy for us to study. Hedoesn ' t t a lk yet but does alo t of jabbering and pounding.You would probably be sur

pr ised if you were to v i s i tour school , You might th inkIt was Sunday School becausewe always have a Bib le l esson

f i r s t and a memory verse . Onsome days we have a sho r t Ja

panese l e s s on . Wehave l ea rnedto read the 50 simple charac--te r s so Linda can now read theJapanese Bible and SundaySchoo l pape r s ,

we l i k e t o go t o SundayS c h o o l a n d Chu r c h b u t we don't

unders tand very much o f it. We

March 1962

T^oko,^ and U^ashi Oofuchi

are glad we learned the Japanese writing so we can singsome of the songs. Linda takeiher English Bible. LastSm-day when Masami chan's Dadwas preaching he t r i ed to showLinda the place by telling nerthe page number since he does-njt know £.nglish not real izing that the English and Japanese Bible pages don' t

match. This seems strange tous but they almost always givethe page number in Japan because a l l the Bibles are thesame.

We would like to thank the^boys and gi r l s who have wri tten to us. We t ry to answera l l the le t ters that your wri te .Please write to us again.

^ Sayonara ,Linda, Chucky, Allan, and Don.

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the winter and from 8 A.M.until i|. p,M, in the s\aTinier, In

spec i a l cases we wi l l t ake

care o f the. -children l onger .We hope tha t through the

school we wil l have an opportunity of becoming acquaintedwith many new and young famil i e s in the a re a . In add i t i onwe wil l give the young chi ld

his f i rs t lessons concerningGod and Chr i s t , with the lacko f Christian teaching in thehomes it i s necessary for thechurch to reach ou t in var iousways to t o u c h th e l i v e s o f th e

Japanese people .

We t r u s t you wi l l keep th isschool in mind when you pray.



/"/ o h

SUMMER- ExangelistU.MeetingThe annua l sianmer evan-

gellstic meeting was jES^Eheld from August 6-~12« |g9^BMr* John Muto^ of Tokyo^Japan, was the evange-

llstic speaker. The ^^^^9meetings were held a- •jjS^Qmidst the threat of ty- r^agphoons and heavy ra ins* 'On the opening night thekindergar ten was sche-du led to p r e s en t a sho r t •

program after which Mr. I8S®|Kuto was to preach h is

f i r s t sermon. The open-ing was somewhat mar- Mjpitlred because of the de l ^ .

in the arrival of jbimest,Mr. Oofuchi, and the evangel i s t , Mr. Muto. (See "SftppproCamp, Page 3») Neva, with theaid of a few of the Christianf^wen t ahe ad a s s c hedu l e d and in

place of the sermon presentedthe f i lm, " The Pat r i a rcha lAge," Othe r than t h i s th e

meet ing was he ld wi thou t i n c i

d en t . The a t t e ndance was

s tead y bu t sma l l e r t h an u sua l

gene ra l ly running around 20.

John Muto

f i S i- i ^ ry

MEETINGS

Our camp met a t the Ni t t a

Dairy farm 1$ miles S.W.o f Obih i ro . Fol lowing th e e -va nge l i s t i c mee t i ng we had on

ly one day i n o rd e r to ge t

r eady f o r camp. Xftider o rd i n a

ry c i r cms t a n c e s t h i s wouldn o t seem s o difficiilt but in

ou r caiap we tak e eve ry th ing

with—us—including the shel

t e r s* (Someone r e cen t ly re

marked, "Why they even took an-organl") I t is quite atask to s e c i u> e the neces-

J sary pans, food, equip-men t , and t e n t s f o r such

I i a camp.B u t we feel i t iswell

^ \ worth the e f fo r t when wesee th e many young peop le Jo in ing to ge th er to

s i ng p r a i s e s to God, to

thank Him fo r meals«and to en joy Chr i s t i a n

SWe realized we werer each ing i n to th e young

people ' s hear ts andminds when a l l j o ined to*

gether in informal di s -[CoHtitnictl oil page 4]



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HOKKAIDO CHRISTIAN MISSION

M I S S I ONARI E B

Ernest D. an d Neva E. Faber14 Odori , AAinami 21 Chome

Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

F ORW AROI NO A D D RESS

Minburn Church of Christ

John R. Noe, Box 173Ade l, l owe

"THERE IS YOUR HEART"Matthew 6:21

iSach of you knovfs what the Lord i steaching here. I f you put yo rt reasures i n the Lord's work your

hear t and your concern wi l l also be

there, This as not only true In the,r e l ig ious f i e ld bu t a lso i n th e

realm of government. Of course, eachof us must pay for" our goverament.

He do so ' through taxes in hundreds

o f di f fe ren t ways. Not only th i s

but we can also support pol i t ics by

i ânc ia l ly backing up our candida t e s .

Where you spend and ent rust your

t reasures you wi l l cer ta in ly show

conccm. I f you have your money in

vested in stock in some componiy you

are going to be in terested dn the

welfare o f tha t coii;)any*

V/ith our money we not only suppo rtrel ig ion but also government and

b u s i n e s s e s . A t th e s m e t ime we c an

be supporting our enemies and the i r

a t h e i s t i c d o c t r i n e s when v/e send

jad to those who not only deny Godbftt also seek to destory us. ThatC^nunism denies God is a fact. Thatit

seeks to destroy us i s also plainfo r all to s ee . Yet wi th our funds

we support i t . How? One way i s thegiving of our laon^ through aid toComministic countries* (As writtenin KV3NTS recently, "Call it

'Taxpayer's money' not the 'goveni^ment's monQT.'") Do you agree withtheir use of your money? I f youdon ' t then you have the responsibili ty of telling your congressman andSenators about i t . They wil l beglad to hear

your views.In recent

weeks I have writ tî about, "The U«nited Nations," "Medical aid," ?(JSIApau^jhlet on Buddhism in Thailand,"and "Urban Affai rs Bi l l . "

^Qxe same i s t im e on the l oca l l e

vel—from ci ty hal l to the s ta tegoverment. I f your heart is reallyTfhere your money is you would try to^

S ep te m be r 1 96 2

see that government i s run in aChr is t ian way.

Many businesses sponsor newscasts,current event programs, and many popular T. v. programs. You are sup

porting these programs when you buythe companies' products. Do youagree with these programs? Ai*e'theywhat you would endorse? Write the

company especially i f you don't. I tis your means of protestând by a llmeans refra in from buying the pro

duct s o f t h i s company.

Many people are interested in purwork in Japan and esqpress th eir in -

\ terest in a material way, ' I assume\ tha t they substantially beleive we

jtre doing what i s rii^ht. Or do t h ^dtqaport us l ike the government? Dothey fe e l th a t how we use t h e i r money i s not the i r responsibi l i ty •butours?" I f businesses were operatedthis way thsy would surely fail*

We put out receipts fo r two rea

sons. First and foremost, it is anacknowledgement tha t your g i f t wasreceived and recorded. Secondly, iti s fo r your records. We a lso putout financia l reports annually.

Ihese enable you to check your f i les

and determine whether we are doingwhat you would want vs to do. Na

turally, we, l ike the government,can ' t Vdo everything that peoplemight l i ke fo r us to do but we can

consider your views.

We appreciate it when a church

writes and asks like one church did,"According to you r r ecor ds we jsentyou $$^0 for the year whereas bur

l0.edge is for $600, ELeasd send usthe rece ip t numbers and dates fo r

the above $550 so that wemigjit checkour books ." As a followup of th is

we r e c e iv e d th e ba l ance o f t h e

pledge. (Checking the receipt, no,and da to s is n o t so d i f f i c u l t - s ince

we have a ca rd fo r each church o r

person that sends in funds.) A goodmany churches and i nd iv idua l s woTild

never have rea l ized tha t they had

missed a month. That is jus t not

good stewardship. Are you in terest e d in how we u se n o t "o u r m is s io n

funds" but Vour money"?

Where your money i s there i s your

h e a r t a l s o . Or is it?

Sendall fundsto the forwarding agent



SUNAGAWA

It has now been a yea r s inceth e Ohara boy was drowned.

They wanted Mr. Oofuchi and Mr.Suzuk i to come and p r e s e n t a

sm a l l s e r v i c e onthis

t h e1st

ann ive rsa ry o f h is dea th . Thisthey did—leaving camp a t 10

A.M. and re tu rn ing a t 6 P.M.They re turned j u s t before th e

river f l o o d e d the t own of Su

nagawa. Because of p ress ing

work he r e , d i s t ance and o t he rdifficulties we have no t h e l d

any meet ings in Sunagawa s inceJanuary , We were glad fo r th eopportiJnlty to again witness

to t h i s f am i l y ,Sapporo Camp

Whenever poss ib l e we t ry to

work wi th th e church a t Sapporo , Since the re are onlyth e 2 chu r che s o f Ch r i s t on

all Hokkaido ou r ties a re

qui t e c lose . Our very f i r s tcamp he ld in 19^8 was i n conj unc t ion with th e Sapporo

c h u r c h . S i n c e t h e n we have

had ovir s epe ra t e camps bu t e -

v e r y y e a r some o f us have be en

able to fe l lowship wi th them.This yea r Mr, Oofuchi and Erne s t aga in went . They werethere from Jiily 30—August 1^.,The camp was a very wet camp

with ra in every day turning

much worse on Thursday as the

^typhoon approached, Friday

n igh t th e campers were r e tu rn

ed home and the f acu l ty re

mained un t i l th e nex t day and

(Continued on page 4}

UUt loouy .CoOTcaUon

NURSERY SCHOOL

!nie Tetsunan Nursery 3cho<7li s c on tin uin g w it h its ^p^resenten r o l lmen t at 60* The r e a re

now 3 t e ache r s working i n th e

school,

Plans are now underway forthe annual sports meeting. ThePTA of f i ce r s held t h e i r f i r s tmeet ing in th e Paber ' s home

r e c en t l y .

Pray t ha t the seed in these

young hea r t s wi l l take roo tand grow and t h a t our contactwith these yoiing parents wi l lr e su l t in much good.

For your^prograws^TO have slideX~'available. Also for 37 w© can send

you from Japan 2 klmonoes, saltedrice crackers and tea. Allow six )weeks to 2 months for. deliverylat ter . ^

Vacati9n Bible School

fhother semi-annual event i'sly Vacat ion Bible School*

About I4.0 ch i ld ren assembled—ti3ge th e r at th e • Chii rch

bu i l d i ng every a f t« rnoon

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

yea r DV5S was he ld fromJLugust 6-10 , It ran

concu r r en t l y wi th th e e-vange l i s t i c meeting,Thech i ld ren e njo ye d t heBl p

I ble storied* handwork «etc. Fo r p a r t o f th e

handwork we used p i c -tures sent to u s from^

• mer i c a* On th e same daysf r om 10 : 0 0 - 1 2 : 0 0 A«H« a

s im i l a r mee t ing was held

at Memuro with a t t e x t -

d a n c e a r o u n d 1 0 e a c h

day .



Page 1|.

Dear Boys and Girls,

haven' t forgotten you i.he l as t

few months. Mora and Dad have jiistbeen la te in rr i t ing the "HolclcaidoChrist ian" and so we hr.ve not wi t -ten, A lo t l-ias happened lately.

Right after school was out in I.!aywe made pl.mo to f^o to Tol-yo fo r the

convention, Vfe altvays look fon/ardto this trip. When we go to Tokyowe can see several of our Japanese

f r iends •N'rtio have moved and a l so we

are able •;to vis i t and play vn.thmany American friends. During theconvention they had special meetingsfor the children. Also, because of

the kindness of an Air Force Chris

t ian we enjoyed a rea l wiener roas toutdoors. This attracted quite aJapanese aud ience. We can ' t buy

wieners here but eat f isJi sausageso real wienars sur el y t as ted good«

Of course^ we always-dislike par tof the t r ip to Tokyo, It means wehave to go to the, den t i s t and docr

tor for check-upsi Charles is st i l lou r " t oo t h l e s s Joe" becaus e th e den

t i s t pulled his front teoth and they

are slcr.f in coming in , Linda got

some bf- ' t ter glasses so navr she sees

only one instead of two of every

th ing .

As s oon a s we r e t u r n ed home we

were th inking of going away again.

The Eng lish m iss io nary camp fo r

children was to be held in July,Donnie and Allan both vrere too young

to go bu t Allan i s looking forward

to next year . To make up fo r th i s

Daddy took Allan with him to the

Sapporo camp, Allan got the bes t ofus thouf^h because he had an airplane

r i de . There vms a b ig f lood and

tlie t r a i n t racks washed out so they

had across to r^et home.

In August we enjoyed our or/nChurch camp Mrith 37 people, Donnie

espec ia l ly l ivened up the can^ '

making a 2 year-o ld nuisance o f him

s e l f and was hold so of ten by so

many tha t he retumod home spoiled.Mother iras busy helping to dish up

food and so Donnie wouj.d help hims e l f to some hmdy p la t e and ge t in

l ine , also, IVe don' t understand muchJapant-'se bu t enjoyed the games ,c lasses , f i l jns, e tc . Chuck su r

pr ised himself as wel l as evc;ryone

e l se rhen he cauch t a high f ly b al l

during the camp baseball game. Dad

dy Tfas on the losing side-20-9.

September 1962

Yesterday ( August 30, Daddy's

birthday) we returned from a two-dayfamily camp a t a small lake i;0 milesno r th o f he re .

We enjoyed the outln:; in spite ofthe per '5istGnt dr izz le . The second

day was mo-t.ly cloudy but had l i t t l erain, V/e enjoyed throy/ing rocks inthe T/atcr, walking in the rain,r id-in g i n an abandoned bu t usable boa t

(that Daddy firmly t ied fa a tree sovre couldn't go too far out),and taking a r ide in an excurs ion boat .

But now our fun i s over and i t s

tine to go back to school, V/ell, wehope to v i s i t you sooner next tdme,Y/e haven't heard from sone of youfor a long tine and vre get lonely

fo r your l e t t e r s . Please wr i te .

Goodbye, Linda, Chuck, Al, and Don,^Continued from page 1]

cussions on the »Vord of God duringt he f re e- time per iods .

One young man made h is .confession

a t camp and was baptized following

c amp .

'There were 37 present for the cacg)>to make it one ofoiir largest . Thisis ci\ir otm local camp.Besides Mr. Muto from Tokyo, Mr.

Suzuki from Sapporo also assisted,(Continued from page 3)

broke up camp as scheduled. Beciuse

of the typhoon ir e made a n unexpec te d

v i s i t vdth the Church a t Sapporo osrer

Sunday a t which time Ernest spoke.Wef ina l ly secured plane t icke ts and a -

long with Mr. Uuto, our evangelist ,who had j u s t arr ived on his way from

Tokyo, we flew over th e flooded a-i?ea and approached Obihiro from theopposi te direc t ion. The t rac t s be -

tween Obihiro and Sapporo are . nbtyet repaired in the mountains.

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