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January 1957
Dear Friends of ours Everywhere,-

We hope you have had a happy season of

remembrance of the birth of our saviour, and

we wish you a profitable year ahead in the

Lord.

We did finally arrive in Jobe-.-but more

about that laterand have been busy getting

settled, studying language, and working with

the. Kobe, church.

We have found working with

the church.especially pleasurable, and Don is

happy to be preaching some again, although at
first through an interpreter. Classes are
also held in our home on Wednesday and Satur
day evenings
Christmas here in Japan this year was
Just a little different from any we have exper

ienced before. First of all, we have been in

Japan long enough now to understand a little
of Vy?hat was going on around us,
of the

preparations being made by^ and the worship, of

the smair group of Christians in Kobe

We

have learned to read the syllables of Japanese

so that, even .though" we did not entirely under

stand what we were singing, w6 could sing the

Christmas hymns. alOng with pur brethren.

This

year inb- could more truly -worship our Lord to

gether on-the day of. His birthi
Several Sundays before Christmas, after
the morning service, everyone gathered around

the big charcoal-burning-fire-pot to practice

the Christmas hymns.. (This may be something
you have never thought about These JapconeseChristians have not, as you have, heard and
learned.
hymns, from the time they were

children.

The Japanese congregations often

have a special- ^practice time^ for learning new

feymns

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turned
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The fire-^pot does net really '^ive off

nuch heat, but the Japanese people love it

because- it (and the tea-pot) is one of their

main sources of heat during the. "winterer Per

sonally, we would rather warm our feet* but

would be awkward, undignified,-a
little dangerous and highly unorthodox, we too
warm our hands, though with somewhat less en

thusiasm than the Japanese^

We preseixted quite a picture stcmding

around the huge fire-pot., wearing oui^ wraps

because the meeting hall is not heated at all

warming our hands by the glow of the Charcoal!

and singing the praises of the Lord born to
offer us all salvation.

iaunday the evening service

was held in our home. The church decided on

a candle-light service, with alternating

Scripture-reading and Christmas carol sing

ing..^ It was simple, but very nice. On this

evening also, Don preached his first sermon

fS
reading
[Reading a sermon
is
but it is a start in
being able to preach

it tothethebest,
assembled
group
not
of course,
the direction of someday
in Japanese..,) Through

this service and the social time that followed

we thought how in previous years we had wor
shipped the King with those nov; some halfa
world away, but how essentially the same the

worship was, and essentially alike the worship

persbecause their Kin.g. . and our King. .
and your King. . is Jesus Christ the Lord who

is always and forever the Same.

Pray for us regularly.

Your ministers in Japan,

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tape reGordin:p program. The later giving

raany sounds one hears in Jtzpan. The chants of
a Shinto Priest, noises of a busy street, the
howl of the Devil worshipers, and r.any other
sounds and beautiful pictures to EI'JTLHTAIi'T
yur friends.

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MalnloM? aS SlisSlaSELge newspaper published in Os^a,

jSm. -His article was called "Buddhist Institution Advancing and was

written by a Buddhist, or Buddhist sympathizer,

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Buddhist priests and institutions have been rapidly
awlkening from their long lethargy to meet the
social conditions. . . Buddhist
petus from the Christian missionary activities
tion of educational and social welfare work such as maintenance
of schools, hospitals, (etc.) in much the same way as i^he

ChrisSan churches . . . A lack of appropriate modern media

e:c^r^sion of Buddhist thoughts and sentment to get

rinse touch v/ith the -^jovxizev generation of Buaaliiots lo

aSotherdi??icuSrwith
which Buddhist institutions had been

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Dear Christian Friends

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This month"WG are happyrro^tell you

that two of our young people from the Kobe
church have accepted Christ as their SaviorJ

They are Akira Kojima, a highschool Junior,

and ^oichi Kajikawa, who according to
the American school system, is a Freshman.
Both of these boys were originally contacted
and taught by Mrs. Fultz (who started the
Kobe work), and have been attending the
Sunday worship sorvicos. Kojima-san

(Mr, Kcjima) is a member of the vfednesday

night English Bible Class which Don teaches,
and Kajikawa-san is a member of the Saturday
night English Bible Class which Horma
teaches.

About four years ago a Christian

Service Camp was started among the
churches of the Osaka-Kobe area.

This

year it had progressed to the place

where the planning was entirely in the

hands of the Japanese churches.

Japanese

young people love camp as much ap- do

their American counterparts, and the

group had a wonderful fellowship together.
(Fellowship with other Christians is not
as plentiful in Japan as it is in America.)

ICojima-san and Kajikawa-san were baptized

in the nearby river on the lost day of
camp.

They have given their lives to

Christ early, but this means.they will

have many, many more temptations. Please
prqy for them.

OUR FDTAL PL/ITS HAVE BEEN MADE!

We are very happy to think, the Lord

willing, that we will soon be in our own

(rented) home, preaching and teaching in

a place where Christ is not yet knowiii,

We^'fd^led by ship fa lg~hour trip) '

from Kobe to Kochi (pronounced Ko*-chee)

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Province recently, and found a backward

country area in comparison with the rest

of Japan, but with around 800,000 (4/5

of a million) populations^
It is a place
which needs Christ badlyl
Since we have received recent word

from Mrs. Fultz that her plans now are

to return to Japan by Octiber 5, we hope,

if funds are available, to be able to

move to Eochi by the middle or end of

September. Fe have rented a house near the

town of Gomen (Go-men*It sounds like

a basketball yell, but it means "I*m sorry"

in Japanese.)

The house has to be fixed

up a little before we move, especially a

suitable kitchen installed. It may be

interesting to you to know that according

to renting custom? in Japan we mus t, make
the improvements on the house ourselves

and when wo move away we are expected

to take them with usJ
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In adding together all the estimated

expenses of moving to Shikoku, we

find that it is going- to cost aroQnd

t^BOO, including repair of the house

and unpaid tax on the car.

For the

last several months our monthly r_cceiots have barely covered our"'llving and language expenses, so we have

I no reserve to use for moving.

Fo need

I your help if we are going to bo able to

l^move to this new endeavor for the Lord

If you can help us now, it will soo us

throu^^thtf $ime o;r,.^ajor change in our

life f ^ r ' J i p a
and aid our be
ginnings ^Ph..Shi^j3ku

Please pray for us.

_^Your iministors in Japan,

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cuKt::r;:s or nDtioncl habits

urtj vory po'v.crrul, 7.c crc vvoiicloririr if

the anas lorrncci in Jai-on will be -no hnrC
to bronk ns the nxricnn-lcarno:" oncs
Will wo take our shoes off before enter

ing your house, or forgot and boiv when

we should shako hands? (Many newly-rcttimed missionaries from Japan do the latter,
wc arc tolG) On the other hand, we find
that Norma, at least, has forgotten an

American "custom" because of a Japanese

onco
She recently was shocked to discover
that she can no longer whistleS After
two years of no practice because the
"I'iTilstling-glrls-Gnd-crowing-hens" rule
is s t i l l in force here and nice-women do

not whistle, she has lost whatever ability

she ever ha4--V"hich -wasn't much, but it

was some accomplishment even to bo able to

whistle badly!

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