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Prayer Letter # 28
John & Deana Kachelmyer
House No. 2001

Forwarding Agents;
Mr. Mrs, Clarence Cord

Sayama-shi, Saitama-ken, Japan

Dear Friends in Christ,

Catlin, niinois 61817 January 18^ 1967

"It's a girl," said the nurse, and with that nine months of waiting were over Mother and baby were doing just fine but the father was a little shaken. Our "baby doll" was born on December 7th at 12-47
in the afternoon. She weighed 8 lbs. 41/2 oz. at birth and measured 20 in, long (or as they put on her passport, 1 ft. 8 in, tall). Her name is Genevieve Amie. She li.^s a cute little face and lots of fine brown hair. We couldn't be happier with her. As I write this she is 6 weeks old and pretty active for someone who can't get around by herself. Our Japanese boys saw her for the first time when she was asleep and asked how old babies were before they opened their eyes, I had to explain it was just a little different than puppies and kittens. The baby is very healthy and the only problem is her sleeping habits.
We've asked her nicely if she wouldn't mind doing her sleeping at night and her waking in the daytime
but so far she feels she gets more attention with the present set-up,

Deana has a small problem remaining, in that during delivery the very end of her spine (coccyx) was fractured and is still giving much trouble. She is only able to care for the baby and nothing else so I have been doing all the rest. This has left me somewhat short for time to do much else so per haps you all will understand why this letter is so late in the first place, and why we have not answered any of your very kind Christmas cards and letters yet. We are also behind on acknowledging the kind ness of those who sent us things for the baby. Please consider this a temporary thank you and we will
write as we can. We considered ourselves blessed by the kindness of so many.

We had been praying both that the Lord would send some heip to us somehow and also that He would open new paths of service. I've heard many people pray that the Lord would lead them in new paths of service, as we did, but I wonder if anyone is really prepared in case the Lord actually answers that prayer. We were somewhat floored by the suddenness with which things began to happen around here
last week. It all started this way.

For some time we had had a growing interest in the plight of mixed blood children, that is, child
ren whose fathers were American G, I, 's and whose mothers are Japanese, I visited the Elizabeth Saunders Home, a famous institution in Japan for such children, but was shocked by the rude recep tion I received and the quick brush-off. I found out later from others that they are interested in money, not well-wishers. We wrote some other places but received no reply. We felt the Lord had given us this interest so put it all in His hands if He wanted us to do something. Then on Dec, 21 there was a letter to the editor in the Japan Times, the largest English daily newspaper in Japan. It was written by an American who was bewailing the plight of Japanese mothers whose American husbands had run off and deserted them. He wrote how so many of them were trying to hold their little families together and didn't want to give up their children to institutions or for adoption. He said that few people know of them or how hard they have to work. The letter was unsigned. We were immediately interested so I called the Times and asked for the address of the writer. They gave it to me and I received a replj'^ from the gentleman on January 3rd, It turned out that this gentleman and his family are in difficulty themselves. He had some trouble with the Japanese immigration authorities over this visa and they wanted to deport him. He is a U, S. citizen. He has a Japanese wife and 3 children (boy 14, girls 10 & 5)., He doesn't want to leave Japan

in the first place and of course won't leave without his family, so he has been locked up since August, Meanwhile, his family was just managing to stay alive without their father working. He is an older man and has been in Japan 18 years. In his letter to me he asked me to help get him out of the deten tion center and to take in his family, I spent the next 2 days on the telephone getting all the info I could from the U.S. Embassy officials, consulates, etc. His family was located about 180 miles nortJi and an official of the American Cultural Center in that locality was helping them exist. Anyhow, to make a long story a little shorter, before I knew it I had promised to take the family in and later do what I could for the father. So, on January 9th the C.,, family arrived and joined our growing family here. The mother is an excellent cook and is helping us in many ways. With the boys we have here, however,
we just couldn't see how we could fit a mother and 3 children into our house, so we have rented a small house for them nearby. They will sleep therec etc. but eat here with us and spend the day here. The children have had almost no education so it falls to us to tutor them at home. They are too far be
hind to enter a normal school.

Meanwhile, back at the newspaper, a few other people wrote in saying that an organization should be formed to help the mothers and mixed blood children but no one was saying anything about heading
it, I contacted one of the writers who is a business man in Yokohama and he said he was ready to

help with cash but couldn't do any of the work involved because of his own business. Our friend in the detention center, after starting the whole thing, was obviously also in no position to do anything, I felt the opportunity was ripe for us as Christians to do something in forming an organization for help ing those people and at the same time evangelizing them. I looked all about me and found everyone enthusiastically behind me pushing. So I wrote a letter to the Japan Times which was printed last

week, saying that I would assume leadership of an organization to help these neglected mothers and
children, all of whom are U, S citizens. By our next letter we should have some definite informa
tion on what we are going to do.

As for our Boys' Home, we were praying ulso that the Lord would lead the right boys to us for the

coming school year which begins here m April. Last week a German missionary brought a fine boy down here for an interview from one of the northern prefectures. The boy was interested in coming here until he heard that he would be unable to continue doing the thing he loved best -- playing base
ball, You say why? The reason is that at these Japanese schools, sports practice lasts until 6:30 or 7:00 p. m, every night Monday thru Saturday year round and the games are played Sunday mornings and afternoons. If we let the boys join we would neve^ see them here except to sleep and we want to run a home, not a hotel. The Japanese schools seem determined to break up the family with their schedules. After prayer with the boy and counselling, he went back home. Last night 1 got a call from
him and he said he decided he would come to us with no strings attached. We were very pleased and
so were the rest of our boys. He will be a fine addition to our home. His name ia Kaneko-san. His

father is dead and his mother mnkes her living by going from morning to night coilecting old news
papers and r,igs. She has 8 ch.ildren in all arid this one is the youngest. His r.exl oldest t)rolher is a tine Christian boy..

One other boy may come He is from a very wealthy home an exception to our plan. His father
is quite old and he has been raised by his nn(ihe.r and two maids. He has bccrome such a discipline problem that his family says that if the Chrisiians can't straighten him ou'. ilicy give up. This will be quite a challenge 5nd we look to the Lord in the matter. Of course, if Ihe boy laLis the high
school entrance exams he is out so that would t^etlie it.

Our boy. Nakamura. has improved so verv much. tharJts to your prayers. He is sllH not a Chris tian but has changed 200% from s few months ago- We are thankful that we will be taking on our new boys without any old problems hanging over. Continue to pray that he might accept Christ. Now, please remember us in your pravers. So many things are operting up here and V'e need daily strength. Our "family" consistf^ of 10 people now and will increase agrjin with the new boys coming.
We eat IB lbs, of rice and 9 dozen eggs a week. The merchanis are beginning to smile when 1 come around. Thank you for the many ways you have helped us witli prayer, finances, letters of encourage ment or just plain good wishes. fn Christian Love. John and Deaiia Kacheimyer

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PRAYER LETTER # 30

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House No 2001 bayama-shi, Saitama-ken, Japan

Dear Friends in Christ,

Catlin, minois 61817 Februsry 27 1967

(Printed March 15, 1967)

but still not completely over the problem mentioned last time.
attached here with to satisfy the curiosity of many.

j-he's sleeping all night long now which Deana.. especially, is happy about. Deaiia is much better now
picture of the baby at 5weeks is

Usually we wait longer between newsletters, but many things have been happening here so we thought we'd better get another letter out before there is too much to teil. First of all, oar baby, Genevieve, is doing fine. She's 12 weeks old cow and it's getting pretty hard to hold her down." '

Last time we told you about Kaneko-san, the boy who wanted to come here and go to high school but couIdB t bear to think of giving up baseball - the thing he loved most. There is an interesting sequel to his story and a good lesson for all.of us to learn from it. When Makoto (that's his given name which 1Uuse from Bare on) came here for the interview he was crushed when he heard that basebali practtice 6 mghts a week and games all day every Sunday would not fit into our schedule. Before he left to
counselled witli him about the things most important in life;

mey fmd that God's will and plan conflict with (heir own will and plahs ? But we told Makoto-san that God has a wonderful plan for his life and if he would forsake everything and follow the Lord that He never takes anytnmg from us without giving us b8.ck something better, i gave him some personal ex amples and we prayed with him as we felt that the Lord definitely wanted him to come here. About a week later we got a call from him and he said he had decided to come. The first result was that a

an the first thmg, namely, following God's plan and purpose. Don't most find it hard to obey when

ever of goi^ .o high school. So he said, "Do you think Kachelmyer-san would take me in too?" So on
letter^ Both passed tne entrance exams so now Maruyama will also be able to go to high school beeducation is not lightly regarded here,

cousin of his who is the same age heard about his coming here. The cousin had had no hope whatsoFeb. 1st, Makoto and nis cousin, Maruyama-san, came to take the entrance exams at the Seibo High
Lutheran school about 30 mln. away. (Will explain that situation in the next news

dow^and r^nMaruyama he passed, he yeUed and warming. j-omped upAn and hollering, "I made it, I madeheard it!" Such enthusiasm is heart
Now for [rt two. in my last letter I mentioned Makoto's next oldest brother who I said is a Chris^

The day fte entrance exams were over, Makoto's brother Shigeru came out here to visit him, not h<^rattended a Tokyo-wide evangelisitic crusade on one of his off days. He had to work from 8;30 a. m. to
^ birthday last restaurant. week. SinceAyear he graduated from 9a gmde he had come to Tokyo and was working in asmall Chinese ago he

tian. Idi^ t Imow then that there is another broflier named Shigeru who is actually the next oldest.

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workers. (We told ofto this of situation in our early promotion crusade he went forward thekind icAtsttoc and declared that he wanted
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witaZinJrh^-^, ^ it faithfully and continued T r K T to boss who told him to shut up. Wifii such working hoarsWe he co^d not attend church of course. Now then, back to the afternoan Shigeru came to visit Makoto
verv^^lTT ^ look in his eye that both to Deana the boyand otlier than to not (Jiat was but had such a sad I mentioned that he he seemed on the verge of tears. We hadl6 people for supper that night and afterwards agood hymn sing. When it came time for everyone to go home, Shigeru sort of hung back, and shuffling his feet a little and r" ,*'^vely. "What is it,"that Iasked. "I'd like toIt go to high too,", he rln? rephed in aforlorn manner."Sensei?" My first thought was it's impossible. was Sat. school, night and only

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to Shigeru - to pray with a special urgency. So I prayed until 12:30 when Ifelt that the Lord had heard. A 12:30 a.m. that morning his boss had told athim 7:45. groped my way to the and it was Shigeru. At he Icould quit and gave himphone his "blessing. " ynoon Shipru was here and moved in. The reason he had to come so quickly was that the entrance

That mght Iwas prepa.ring to go to bed about 11 p. m. but Ifelt strongly Impressed to stay up and pray

toouble lor him He was able to get Monday off, though, and came out, and we got him registered at the school just 90 mm. before the deadline. He went back to Tolqro to have another fcilk with the boss.

one school was still taking entrance applications and Monday was the deadline, but w talked for a couple of hours and finally decided we would try to do all we could to get him tar He was to com^ m'Z bringing someto necessary papers. Sunday he called me and in a sad voice said that his employer refused let him quit and that if heafternoon quit anyhow, the emplover would make

Th^ wn r used.""""f ' Iasked him what his ambitin wasat. in He life. he words in Japanese convey the idea of whatBible. kind of profession did he want to work
wtot he was saying and pointed out the scriptures on the cost of following the Lord. He understood

e^phed, My cn.y ambition in life is to fcilow the Lord Jesus Christ. "Iasked him if he really knew

mv ' w "f But lie replied, "The only feing Iwant is to know that Jesus has forgiven cL^T'w ^ scriptures that pointed the assurance ofasked forgiveness through as hrist. We t.en studied ttie scriptures on baptism and the to result was that he to be baptized soon as possible. We were going to do it outdoors at church on Sunday so as many as possible could -ee It but a snow storm came up on Friday so ,1 baptized him here in our Japanese style bath on Sat. afternoon. Now Shigeru smiles and laughs all the time and the sad look is completely gone. I have wruten at length about him because Iwan^, you to uphold him in prayer and because Iwant you to watch his progress. This is no ordinary boy but rather he is one who is speeiaiiy chosen by the Lord for set mto motion? Makoto is still not a Christian. What abom you then who are Christians ? Many young people reading this will underst^ind the terrible conflict in Makoto's mind, wanting to do the things he loved best. But Makoto chose to follow Another's leading and i.n just a few we have already seen
live -.!ere and go to school too, and as for us, we look to the coming harvest. "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with
him. " (Psalm 126).

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some great task- I think I have the mind of the Lord in this and the coming years will corlirm. Now then, the mcral of this whole story I think is evident, Whst 11 Makoto had decided baseball was more importent and chose not to come here? Do you see what a chr,ir. of extents has already been

blessing upon blessing; for I think Makoto is thrilled beyond words that his own brother will be able to

yama. He has also been admitted so with Shigeru that's four new boys. There is one other boy we asked to take In who is in an orphanage now but the officials are oppc^ing his coming. Inasmuch as I don't know the outcome yet, I will save the story for next time. We seem to feel a special urgency
about getting this boy, in the same way we did with Shigeru.

The boy we mentioned from the wealthy home also took the entrance exams with Makoto and Maru-

The Chapman family I wrote about last time is still with us so we have 10 at supper every night plus our baby. The US, Embassy is working on the Chapman's visas so the whole family can go to the States, so they may be with, us ody short time longer. This has been their first opportunity to hear the Gospel and Mrs. C. seems very open. We have been memorizing a scripture verse per week and
on Romans 6^23 she wanted to know all about what it meant by eternal life. We were proiii of our own
boys taking over and answering many of her questions.

a Christian girl through Bro, A1 Hammond who wants to do socia.l work and would especially like to be
a case worker. We are intending to hire her as soon as tiie way is clear to make all contacts. It seems v/e've run cut of space already and the news in only is.lf told, You^l have to wait until

letter because of being so tied up with the new boys coming for entrance exams, etc. We have located

As for the work with mixed blood children we have not been able to do any more on it since our last

next time for the rest. We are making plans to expand our work in several directions, the scope of which is almost, humanly speaking, impossible. But we'll teil ail about it next time. Please pray es pecially hard this time for all the unsaved in our care. Again, we are months behind in correspondence, but we do thank the Lord for the blessing each of you has been to us. John &Dean<i Kaehelmyer
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vSaitama-ken, Japan
Dear Friends in Christ,

1'orv.-ardmg Agent; Clarence Cord

Cauii., Illinois 6181/

As usual, much has happened here and v/e keep our days prett}' full and busy. We rejoice in the victor
ies and accept the trials for the perfecting of our faith.

By April 10 our 4 new boys had all arrived, so our house seemed pretty full with the Chapxnans still
here and our older boys. The baby maiiages i;o intrude herself pretty well, too, At 5 mos,. , her favority

pastime is smiling at people. She gets so excited sometimes she starts flapping her arms like a litde bi.rd trying to take off., We are thankful tlial she does not have a fussy disposition and is always so good and quiets Now concerning our boys. The boy we were sending to electronics college, Ichilcawa-san, we let go^ He was not really fulfilling his obligations to us and with our needing more room, we felt he was capable of taking care of himself from here on. He secured employment and a place to stay in Tokyo near the school
so he is no longer with us. The boy who has been with us the longest, Nakazaki-san. is now a senion in liigh school and has made progress spiritually by leaps and boundSa It is diiiicuU to realize tnai-he is the same boy we had so much trouble with just a little over a year agOo He has developed a deep w^alk with the Lord and is showing good leadership now in the home, Much of this however is due to the inlluence of Shigeru, the boy I wrote about last time who so much wanted to follow Christ, Shigeru has truly been sent to by the I.ord to be a bright and shining light in our home and a stabilizing influence, Lven as I write this ] can hear him in another room, witnessing to one of the other boys For a new Christian and a 17 yr. olc the depth of his walk with the I-ord is nothing short of miraculous. We have many discussions about the Bi
ble and he often asks me to explain in detail some point he soesn't understand,

Shigeru's brother Makoto, is not yet a Christian, We wrote about him last time too, you recall, and
nis decision to come here. We ask your prayers for him. Being the youngest son in tlie family he was ter-

ribl3^ spoiled by his mother so he has had some adjustments to make here. We ask your prayers also for
their cousin, Maruyama, who is here too and not a Christian. He is the one Shigeru is talking to now.

Nal^amura-san who has been here a 3'^ear now and for whom we liave olten asked prayer^ seems to liave
hardened his heart more than ever. He has tried to lead the new boys astray too in little thingSc He knows

ihat everything we have taught him about the Lord is true but he just closes his Heart, This is one of oui
most urgent prayer requests.

We only briefly mentioned one other new boy, Takahashl-san, in our last letter,. He is from a wealthy homebut brought up without discipline. He had become a severe problem to his parents so that they des paired for him., They admitted they could do nothing for him. He associated with bad companions, snuck out of the house at nite to meet with them, smoked, carried a knife, wouldn't study, etc. His parents fin ally contacted a missionary and said that if the Christians couldn't help the boy no one couUL He would
end up in a life of crime. So the missionary contacted us and asked us to take in the boy., The parents

'vould pay all expenses for him. I didn't think any Japanese boy could be all that bad^ especiallj' when I met him and saw that he was a skinny kid and evidently lacking in self confidence. So we accepted him. The first thing I noticed after he came was the faint smell of cigarette smoke in the house now and then I couldn't quite believe it but I finally sniffed it out one day and the found the evidence, After a rather

stern talking to, he promised he wouldn't do it anymore. I warned him at the same time that after school
.started, not to choose bad friends but to choose good oneSo So school started and life continued on heie Then one afternoon, his home room teacher called me and said that Takahashi had left school early for a dental appointment, but couldn't I schedule such things for after school hours? A dentist appointment was

^'d to Talvahashi for about an hour about his playing hooky and other things.. It turned out that wasn't the

iiews to me 1told him. The teacher also said he wasn't studying. That night Shigeru, Nakazaki and I^talk-

iirst time. Also he had gravitated toward the worst characters in the school as friendso Altnoagh we all talked sternly to him and also admonished him much with the W'ord of God it vvas evident that it was all going in one ear and out the other. The boy's grandfather lives in Tokyo so we called him out here 2 nites later but the boy told him that he wasn't studying and had no intention to, The grandfa ther threw up his
hands in despair and left saying that we could do anything we wanted to the boy - just straighten hirn out^ Of course any straightening out should have been done 10 yrs., ago, preferably with a siout board, ihings

continued about the same until last Sunday nite. The boys had all gathered for cur evening service. ^ bad several visitors that nite including Miss Sigrid Riedel, the German missionary who hirid brought c? of our boys to us. She lives about 8 hrs, away but had felt led of the Lord to suddenly jump on the tram the
nite before and come down here. 1went over to the boys' part, of the house to look for some extra hymn books when my sniffer told me that someone had been smoking. Sigh! We had a wonderful service that, nite almost 2 hrs. long. There were several Christians present so we turned it into a testimony meeting. : thought the 2 best testimonies were our own boys Shigeru and Nakazaki, but of course. , Aftei the sei

vjce 1called Shigeru and. Nakazaki together and tallced with them a.ga;n about I'akahashi. They^had no sovuHorj nor L To expel him from the Home would be turning him out to a life ol crirrie as both
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speakers for revivals. After about 30 minutes Takahashi told her he would like to be freed from his sins and receive Chririj lnf:o his heart. With tears and great sob>; he conff:ssed his sin6 ana asked the

Lord to save him. Then with confidence in the promises of Christ he believed, and so passed from deatii
unto life. "He that beiieveth and is baptised shall be saved;" Mark 16:16
Upon returning to his room, the first thing he did was get his cig3ret*.;vc gn't thwm to Nakfizaki and

ask him to throw tiiem away.. The next day it was so evident there Wis a great change in him. All hia silliness had gone and there was a seriousness about him. He used to sort oi hold his head down while looking upv/ards at one with shifty eyes, but that was gone too. Iha-c evening he speni th^. whole timir at his desk studying for the first time since he had come. Now. 5 day? later, he is still rej.^i.cing in his sal vation. One interesting sidelight is that, before, lie and Nakarnui-a were such '^ery close buddies because Nakamura is such a strcn^^ unbeliever and like Takahashi had, has a spirit of disobedience and rebeilion. After Sunday nite, Nakamura dropped him like a hot pot?.to. Tii js again we see the miracle of the "new birth", and what better term could the Lcrd have used in describing it. It is a birth, not of flesh and

blood but of the Spirit (John 3:3fi) And. "If any man is In Christ he is i. new creat3re The old things have passed away; behold, all has become new." li Cor. 5:17. Prsy for him now thit he may be strengtiiened. Perhaps we can include a picture of the baptism next time. And pray earnestly for these others who as
of yet do not believe.

The Chapman family is stilt with us. I'he father is in Honolulu now 3.nd they are hoping to be able to join him htere but we don't know wh;n. Deana, in talking with Mrs. Chapman iearnisd that she and her

son Michael have been having long talks concerning the things they have heard about th-e Lord here and at church. They are almost convinced that aHl of it is true. Please pray tor them that they may soon decide
for the Lord. Perhaps th?at is why they aie still here.

Deana rejoices in ths i-'ictory of her' Japanese teacher, Mrs. Yamaguchl, accepting the Lord, f bap
tized here here on March 31st, She is the wife of one of the top executives in the largest electroniee

corporation in Japan,. She too rejoices in her salvation but as yet has not told her husband. Please pray
for her that she wjll have the courage to confess her Lord before him.

We will be getting 2 more boys soon. One I mentioned brieily last time. He is irom ar- orphanage. He

will not be able to go to school tlds year. Will tell more about him after he comes. The o^her boy is r^^med
Katori-san. His father was a Christian and died 14 yrs. ago. His mother ie a Christian and dying 01 can

cer. She was expected to pass away over a week ago. The boy has no relatives so w:U be ad alone. A missionary contacted me about the case so f went up there, about 5 hrs. north of here by tram, a month ago. The mother was worried about her son, what would become of him, and her hope wa.s that he would be able to go to high school and eventually become a teacher. After I talked with the mother and promised
lii=rr-1 would ts-ke-her sen and care for him she said, 'T liave such great peace now,, I have nothing to worry

aobut." As soon as she passes away and the funeral is over the boy will come here. The p.9iicy in Japan

is that a cancer patient is never told he os she has cancer and a patient who ts dj'if^ lb never, ne"</er told. We argued with the hospital people about tliis, saying that Mrs. Ifatori is a Christian and should know that she is dying; but they said rules are rules and refused. The doctor did say tiiat ihe reason for this rule is U\at the Japanese people have no hope of anything after dea.tii and th.i-t if they knew they are djing, tbey go completely to piece?. Nevertheless, Mrs. Hatori did figure it oit and is prepared to meet her X-ord. She says she is looking forwai'd to it so much. " . that we shouLd "jiJ.;t grce'i ie as tho^se who have
nohope." Thes?:. 4-13V

Well, space has run oi:t again with still more to tell. There is mere to tell oi our daily i:ife- cur future jjrojects which I promised to tell you of last time, and many other things. I always say Pm not gomg to wait so long to write the next letter but... As our "familj'" lia.s become larger our work Isas n:i.tura.]Ll.y
increased too, to the poini where it is getting harder and harder to find time to wrJ-te. There is more

work than one can imiJgi5''e -- piles of laundry to b'e done every day, enormous quantities of lO'jd to he purchased and brought home plus the 101 little details that cannot be itemized. Please pray for our re
sponsibilities both physical snd spiritual.
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Prayer Letter # 32
House # 2001, Sayama-shi
Saitama-ken, Japan
Dear Friends in Christ,

Forward Agents: M/M C. C. Cord

Catlin, Illinois
61817
July, 1967

We continue to rejoice daily in the marvelous grace of our Lotd which is poured out on us through
His never failing love.

We received two new boys since our last newsletter which brings our total now up to 8, We are be ginning to burst a little at the seams now but we have managed to find a place for everyone to sleep. I told you about Hattori-san l3.st time whose mother was dying of cancer. She passed away about 6 weeks ago and he came here a-bout a month ago. We were unable to get him into school this year so he will begin high school next spring. He is a rather bright boy and I was surprised to find that he
was helping our high school boys with their math. On Monday evening, Julj*^ 3, I talked with him about his soul and he said he wanted to accept Christ as his Saviour. After going through the scrip
tures witirliim tomake sure he understood we prayed together and he asked to be baptized as soon as possible. So on Tuesday evening I baptized him in our deep Japanese bath.

On that Tuesday morning Deana told Mrs Chapman tliat Hattori would be baptized that night. The German missionary, Miss Riedel, who had been visiting with us the v/eek before had spoken to Mrs. Chapman at length about the Lord. So when Mrs- Chapman heard about Hattori-san she said she would like to be baptized too. So we praise the Lord for her repentance and acceptance of the everlasting gospel. As you remember, Mrs, Chapman is a Japanese whose husband was deported and she and her 3 children are under our care. We are praying now for her 14 year old son Michael who is very close
to accepting the Lord,

The same evening Hattori accepted the Lord, an 18 yr. old Japanese boy stopped by the house and
said he wanted to be a Christian. He has no parents and is working in this area. He said that pre

viously he had been living in a town about 200 miles from here and had attended a Bible class for over a year. He wanted to be a Christian so he was given a written test(? ?!!) but was told he wasn't ready. He told me his sins were weighing upon him and he wanted to be forgiven. After going through the scriptures with him he professed faith in Christ and said he would come to be baptized the next
evening along with Hattori, but to our disappointment, he did not show up. Please pray for him.

The other new boy we received is Sudo-san. He comes from an orphanage about 75 miles from here. He graduated from 9th grade and was told he was too stupid to go to high school and would have to go to work. But after the orphanage people tried for several months to get him a job they were unable to in spite of the fact that Jr. high school graduates are in great demand and demand exceeds supply. The reason is that Sudo still has a bed wetting problem. In this country the slightest aberration makes one an outcast. I thought they were rather cruel to the boy about it since when I visited the orphanage to meet the boy they talked all about him right in front of him, saying how he was retarded and couldn't go on to school and that he couldn't get along v/ith other people and so forth. In fact, they didn't partic ularly want to let me take him either, I knew of the case through some fellow missionaries and at first we were not very warmly received. Anyhow, Sudo-san came about 10 days ago. For the first 2 or 3 days he just sat staring at the floor or out the window. But soon he v/armed up since we continued to smile at him in spite of his lack of response and I guess he decided we weren't going to mistreat him. After he came out of his shell we discovered him to be the most alert boy we have ever had here and also perhaps the sweetest. His education is quite poor though since his problems were heavy and

incentive to study nil. He is quite open to the gospel and we are praying that he will accept the Lord
soon. Please pray with us.

Another boy will join us next month. He is a Christian mixed blood boy who is exceedingly brilliant and also very confident. Since we will then have 4 boys here who are not in school, this boy, Nimikisan, will help us start a grocery store nearby which the 4 boys v/ill run by themselves. There is no store in this area but a large local population so the store should be a success. Please pray for this venture and that we will have the capital to get it started. There is a vacant building just a halFblccE"
away that we will see about renting.

We have been praying over the eventual possibility of starting a work for older mixed blood children. Theirs is indeed a sad plight. The American government doesn't want them and the Japanese govern ment refuses to even recognize them. They are persecuted and discriminated against and unable to find jobs in spite of a labor shortage here. Most of them therefore are turning to crime and the girls to prostitution. We feel that we should try to set up a business of some sort to give as many of them as we can employment and at thie same time a home and tlie comfort of the Lord Jesus. It was witli this in mind that I agreed to build an electronic organ for the Christian Academy in Japan, the school for missionary children where I used to teach. I worked the design out myself because I wanted it to be different from most electronic organs and imitL'.te tiie pipe organ as much as possible. Before I became a Christian my plans were to work in the pipe organ industry for my life's work, I worked on

building this organ off and on as time permitted this pastyear and finally finished it more or less on June 14th, just in time for the graduation at the Academy on June 16th. It is a large instrument and everyone was quite enthusiastic about the tone. I felt that it also came up to my expectations. Anyhow, we think that this would be a good business to set up as it would be unique and give the mixed blood young people a special skill. Whatever profits accrued would be plowed into additional orphanage and educational works. Our ultimate goal is to have a Christian high school where Japanese young people, the cream of society, can get a good education plus coming to know Christ. In this way the gospel would be spread through the most influential strata of Japanese society. We have many big plans which by human reasoning are impossible. We are still $1700 in debt on our present building and
with 15 mouths to feed now and tuitions to pay we are barely scraping by; but with Paul, we are able to rejoice in both plenty and in want knowing that it is all profitable for the perfecting of our faith and the lesson of utter, absolute dependence upon the Lord for all things. When the Lord is ready for us to take the next step. He will be there, ahead of us as He always is. Please uphold our unsaved boys in prayer. The hearts of some are very hard. Kaneko Makoto h^d
had an eye infection for over a year which resisted the attempts of the doctors to heal. The Lord told me to pray for his eyes so we laid hands on. him and prayed. Within a week the infection was gone but he refused to give glory to God 2,nd only hardened his heart against the Lord's claims on
his life. .. even though one should rise from tiie dead. " Luke 16:31

In contrast, our boy Shigeru is making rapid progress in his Christian development. It is just amaz ing to watch his progress in his spiritual growth. I would say he has already passed by many who have been Christians for many years. The depth of his understanding and his devotion to the Lord is inspiring. About a month ago I received a letter from a Japanese mother of 3 teen-age children. Her American husband had deserted them several years ago and since I heard of this very needy
case 4 months ago we have been trying to help them financially as much as we could. In her letter she tlianked us for our help and then told of additional problems, etc. I had Shigeru read the letter to me and when he had finished he was very much moved at her plight. He had just received a present the day before of $8 as had his brother Makoto Shigeru said that he wanted to show the letter to his brother and that between the two of them they would help her. But after reading the letter, his bro ther told him that that woman meant nothing to him and he wasn't giving up his money for anyone. Shigeru was crushed at his brother's selfishness and said, "All right, then, pay be back the $2 you
owe me from several months ago, " Then Shigeru wrote a wonderful letter to the woman, Mrs. Snell,

telling her of the love of Christ and enclosed the ?10, all he had. ("If anyone has this world's goods
and seesiiis brother in need,_yetcloses his heart against himT-^ow does^God's love abide in him?" I John 3:17) Later I read with him Eccles. 11:1, "Cast your bread upon the waters... " But Shigeru thought no more of it; he did it out of pure compassion and charity, attributes almost totally lacking in the Japanese. Then a week later, a letter came to us from a church in Indiana indicating that they wished to support Shigeru. (None of our boys are specifically supported.) When I showed him the letter he just couldn't believe it. He had not given that money with the thought of getting it back or getting a reward. Just the thought that someone would be providing his board and tuition money and he wouldn't have to take it from our account any longer sent him on cloud nine and he poured out many thanksgivings to the Lord, He is continually just bubbling over with enthusiasm and love for his Lord. At school he passes out tracts to his classmates and witnesses. I fear this will eventually get him in trouble with the school authorities, so I am trying to prepare him for possible persecution. Please pray for this boy and watch him, I wrote last February shortly after he came here that this boy would be doing great things for the Lord. Please remember us with intercessory prayer that the Lord will give us great wisdom and meet our needs and the needs of each of these boys in our daily spiritual battles.
Yours in Christ,

John and Deana. Kachelmyer

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PRAYKR LETTER #33 John & Deana KachelByer

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Forwarding Agent: Mr. &Mrs. Clarence Cord

Sayama-shi, Saitama-ken, Japan

Dear Friends in Christ,

October 23, 1967

Catlin, Illinois 61817

and the victory \4iich is in Christ. In the past, almost 4 months since our last letter- we have been very busy but most of it the everyday, ordinary daily chores. We were thank
ful to have three weeks of rest in August as all the boys found somewhere to go during va cation. Deana and I and the baby went to Karuizawa in the mountains where many of the missionaries go for their summer rest. We attended a wonderful deeper life conference
\Aitch was held for the missionaries vhlch gave us a great spiritual uplift. We need re vival tooj I left Deana there and came down into sweltering Tokyo for a week and then

We continue to praise our God daily for His wonderfiil provision of grace and care

went back up for another week of street meeting work# The results of the street meeting work are often unknown to us directly. One case did point up how far-reaching the effects

heard the gospel before but upon reading the tract she was convicted of her sin and need
of a Saviour.
baptized believer.

can be, though, A yotmg lady walking down a street in Tokyo, almost 100 miles from Karui zawa, found one of the tracts i-jhich we had passed out lying on the sidewalk. She had not
The Fleenor's address was on the tract so she sought them out and is now a

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room and Namiki I sent to a special course

L L to to R: R:

Namiki, Makoto, Hattori, Maruyama,

for training in child evangelism.

He is

Shigeru, Nakamura, Mike Chapman, & &

Nakazaki. Nakazaki, (Sudo missing.) mis sing.) (Sudo

very enthusiastic about working with child-

ren and his teachers said he has great ability in that way. He has been a gre^ft help to us in so many ways here in the Home, especially in co\inselling with the other boys. I
an 11th grader. This will not be easy so please pray for him.

am trying to teach him sufficient English for him to enter the Christian Academy next fail as

Again the power of prayer was shown to us late in July v\^en one of our boys, Maruyama, came home from school saying he had a bad headache, I told him to lie down until supper but "vAien supper came he didn't want to eat, I thought I'd better investigate the difficulty so

started by taking his teiT5)erature, I couldn't believe

eyes when the thermometer read 10^1^,

We got him into bed and tried to cool him down with cold cloths and aspirin. He was really hot. We were unable to get a cou^^etent doctor so I did lAiat I could but 11 p.m. it was still 102 5 I was worried he might have polio or sleeping sickness. Tou know how a fever

usually goes down overnight so I expected that by morning it would be better, but at 6:30 a.m.
I got up and took the tenq^erature and it every morning at 7*20 before the boys go room and prayed for him. The other boys little something but he refused. Thirty was back to 10^. We have a voluntary prayer meeting to school so that morning we gathered in Maruyama's went off to school and I tried to get him to drink a minutes later I heard hiin call out, Kachelnyer-san,

Kachelayer-san." I rushed in thinking something terrible had happened but he said, "I'm just

terribly hungiy now.

Could you get me something to eat?**

So I took his tenperature again

and it was 99praise the Lord!

I fixed him a big breakfast and he ate it all.

He was up,

moving around, and completely well the rest of the day and went back to school the next. He confided to one of the other boys later that he was so sick he actually thought he was dying and he might well have been. We wish we could coii5)lete this account by saying that Maruyama

accepted Christ but he didn't. But how often in our own lives does God show us mercy upon mercy, bail us out of tight spots, heal us and provide for us and we fail to give Him the glory and credit, "Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God, But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called 'today*, that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin,"
Hebrews 3;12-13,

While still on a somewhat somber note I must inform you also that one of the boys, Takahashi, decided not to continue with us, Tou will recall that he was the boy iiri-io came from a
wealthy home and who was heading for delinquen<^. His parents asked us to take him in and

straighten him out.

We felt that it was someiriiat outside of our scope and i^at we were try
After summer vacation at home with its soft
I talked it over with
in the time he was

ing to accomplish here but took him in anyhow.

ness and lack of discipline (iidiich is why his parents lost control of him in the first place)
he decided he could no longer .abide our discipline so returned home.
There is no question that our Home did have considerable influence on

the other boys and they felt we had done all we could for him and that I should let him go. here and he returned home changed more than he realized.
ber him daily in prayer and ask your prayers too. We were happy to have evangelist Joe Garman drop by for a day on his way to several months of evangelistic meetings in Korea, Taiwan, Philippines and back to Japan, We are always happy to welcome anyone from the States coming through,

We and the boys continue to remem

Billy Graham is holding a crusade now in Tokyo and our boys attended last night. pray that the Lord will bring mar^ new souls into His kingdom.
Our baby, Genevieve, is doing just fine.
11 months old now and in the best of health.

We

Almost
Her first'

words were, "Daddy, Pochi & Mama," in that order. Pochi is the name of our dog and she still says that more than anything, Unfortvmately, the dog does not recip

rocate her devotion, being miffed by the baby's taking

her_place in the family hierarchy.
We have been

thinking about the possibility of com ing to the States for a brief furlough starting early Sept.

1968,

We do not have clear guidance on it yet and there is

more involved than just saying let's go. There are two big considerations: first, having someone thoroughly competent to take care of our work here for the ^ or 5 months we would be gone; second, is the old bugbear, finances. Please pray
with us as we seek the Lord's will in the matter.

We will close for now. Thank you each one for your prayers, offerings, and encouragement. May the Lord bless
you all.

Yours in Christ, jDeana playing for children's meeiir^ in. KflEUizawa. John & Deana Kachelmyer

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