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Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Pratt

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Vol. XXXV, No.2, Spring, 1991

Japan is beautiful in spring.

Magnolia and cherry blossoms are succeeded by wisteria,

azalea, pink and white phlox and dogwood. Still, we are making plans to leave by July 25th for
a six-month furlough. Our first month will be with Japanese young people in a month-long Home
Stay program. We will be able to attend our first Missionary Convention in eighteen years and
enjoy Christmas with our children and grandchildren for the first time in eight years. We in
tend to visit churches we have missed during the past several years.

Our Sannobara Church is growing.

duced each week.

New people are being intro-

Mr. and Mrs. Takao Tomono transferred their mem-

bership to our church on May 5th. She was trained by the Ray Mings
family at Nakaburi in Osaka. They are already assisting with the
Sunday School. All are enthused about our NEW FIVE YEAR BUILDING

PLAN, Our preacher and his wife welcomed a little one on April 6th.
They named her Erika.

She is the seventh child born in our church

family in the past two years- Then there are six others who are

not yet school age. We need to build. This is a good problem.

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The Machida Church is also growing. Within the next three

years the church building must be moved eastward about the width
of the building in order to expedite the widening of the road. At
the same time a new road along the south side will cut down the
lot by one-third. The group hopes to be able to enlarge the church
room by adding a second floor over the living and dining areas of
the missionary's home. At present this is a veranda area.
The
plan will be subject to the approval of Central Japan Christian
Mission. Pray about this matter and that much-needed land will be-

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Karis, Graduating

come available for them as parking space.

Karis Pratt, Mark and Lynn's daughter,and our oldest grand-

daughter will graduate from Beliefontaine, Ohio, High School

this

spring. She is a member of the National Honor Society with a grade

point average of 3.93- She has won various awards in piano and

will enter the Cincinnati Bible College on a music scholarship in

the fall. Naturally her major will be in Music. Congratulations,
Karisl We pray God's leading for you all the way.

Our youngest grandchild is Douglas Matthew Sawch. He registered his footprint on March 3 1991. His parents are Mary Joyce
and Steve who live at Locust Valley, N.Y. Kathleen was present when

he came home from the hospital and for two weeks time. His older

brother, Gregory is now getting acquainted with the 'new guy*.

Praise God! The Onga Church, served by Hideto Yoshii, reports

two baptisms, recently. One was a junior high school boy and the

other a 29 year old man. He tells of still other prospects. Sannobara has called Hideto to serve as Evangelist for this October's

Evangelistic meeting. He calls himself a 'Timothy' of this church.

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Akiko

Nobukazu

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The students pictured above will be in the Home-Stay program> All of them, five junior
high students and two high school boys will be with us at San Jacinto, Calif, from July 25th
thru August 8th. My nephew, Rod and Debbie Crider and their church at Hemet, Calif, will be
their sponsor.
The two high school boys will return to Japan from there. The five junior
high students will move on east to Cincinnati, Ohio, for two more weeks.

Two mothers from Sannobara will join them there and then lead them back to Japan. Lydia and Rick Coyle and the
Highview Church will sponsor them through August 23rd. Pray that this will be a learning esperience in Christ as well as in learning English.
Kathleen and
will remain in the States through February of 1992.
over my Bible Classes at the Junior College during the second semester.

-_tbe Christian_Club_.at_.the College and take over chapel speaking_dates.

speaking dates in mid-September.

Bill Turner will take

Tim Turner will lead

We will begin making

Write us at our Japan address through mid-July. Or, you may

contact us through our forwarding agent at the Indianapolis address.

The DaySpring Christian Church of Fort Collins, Colorado, has been generously contributing
to our work, recently. Daina Noll (see Thanksgiving-Christmas Issue, 1990) has been constantly
in touch with or entertaining Japanese exchange students in Ft. Collins.
have visited our Sannobara Church and two have attended regularly.
tized at the DaySpring Church is attending regularly at Sannobara.

Three of her contacts

Kaori Noda. who was bap

She is a second year student

at Sophia Junior College. Pray that she can begin a Bible study group at the school.
Our Japan Churches of Christ have taken care of their own.

Keiko Kimura, the faithful

wife of Tetsuaki, Minister of the Nakaburi Church, Os^a has had a two-year battle against
breast cancer. When they learned about the need, churches throughout the land contributed to
help share the burden. At first she received a kind of Chemo-therapy and finally submitted to
surgery. Throughout the ordeal gifts came in to assist them. The last we heard she is now on

her way to recovery, thanks to the prayers of all who rallied to help.
Here is a quote from the Quarterly, Japan Update, April, 1991* "On January 10th, the Sendai High Court of Justice decided that it was unconstitutional for any government official in

cluding the emperor or the prime minister to go officially to the Shrine (Yasukuni Shrine) and
worship, or for any government office to make financial contributions for ceremonies conducted
at the Shrine." This was based on the fact that the Yasukuni Shrine was declared a private re
ligious body after World War II. Yasukuni Shrine is a shrine of Shinto to honor the war dead.
Many persons and companies in Japan are rich in this world's goods.
have tried to unearth the 'riches in glory by Christ Jesus'.

found it and are generously sharing it with others.

Yet so few of them

Blessed are the souls who have

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Vol. XXXV, No, I, Winter,

Dear friends,

The Sannobara Church saw attendance records broken at Christ-

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mas time. There was joy in heaven and on earth, too when"MrT"^
Mrs. lizuka were baptized into Christ. He is the ham radio oper-

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ator who contacted us in Indiana last summer. Attendances remain

good in January. Mr. Nishiyama and his wife are expecting in April.

To date, aside from our Mid-week Study, we have not had adult

Bible classes for some time. With two ministers we will begin Sunday services at 10:00 AM with the grown-ups class along with the

children's Sunday School. I (Paul) will lead the adults l^~^i^d^g

the book of James while the Nishiyamas and helpers direct the kids.

Our two junior high classes meet on Sunday evenings for English and
Bible. Five of them will be going Stateside with us for one month

(July 25-Aug. 2k) for a 'home-stay' experience.

Mrs. lizuka's baptism

Sannobara's special evangelistic meeting is set for mid-February. Brother Makoto Yuse, of

Nagoya, will be our evangelist. Some of you may have attended Midwest Christian College or

Lincoln Christian Seminary with him back in the early 'BO's. Brother Nishiyama has been discipling some prospects. Pray for them and for decisions.

Kathleen is retiring from her teaching at Obirin Junior College after serving 20 years.

Her fellow foreign English teachers honored her with a party, flowers and a gift se"F~of dessert
dishes. She cannot attend the graduation nor the students' gala 'Thank You Party' for their

teachers at the Prince Hotel in Tokyo. She will be Stateside assisting Mary Joyce by caring for
Z/z year old Gregory and welcoming her ninth grandchild which is due in early March.
During the time of Kathleen's teaching she was able to witness the beginning of a dream
come true. In 1975 our son, Mark, and his wife, Lynn, came to establish the Campus Ministry
and the Machida Church. Penny Boggs, Betty Turner and her son, Tim are lined up to continue her

Bible Classes. Though we have not seen as many visible results this year as last, through our
various surveys we know of more
and more students who have come
to believe in Jesus as God's Son

and who will choose Christianity

as their religion. Let me join
with the others who have echoed,
"Well done> Kathleen!"
Our Obirin Christian Club*s

Retreat was held up in the moun

tains of Nagano Ken. One day
was set aside for skiing. No, I
have never skied.

And this was

no exception, especially after I

learned about the total cost of

all the needed equipment. By

the way, Tim Turner will be able
to assist with the Christian

Club, too, in the future.

Kathleen

Some of her students

We have .just three more years of payments toward the retirement of the Machida property

loan> However, we cannot win for losing. About the time we get that all paid off, the Machida
City Improvement Section will come to move our building over twenty-five feet and take away 1/5
of our 3i780 square foot lot. They are convincing us that the roads they will build should en
hance the community and raise the value of the property we have left.
Our Junior High Classes presented the drama of "The Good Samaritan" at our Christmas pro
gram.
Many of our friends have been asking why we Americans are so anxious to reach out to
assist other nations such as Kuwait and Saudia Arabia.

We were reminded of an incident that

happened years ago when we were in Kagoshima City. Five hundred homes were wiped out by
one cold night, just two miles from our home.

fire

We talked with a neighbor lady about how terrible

it was. I asked her where we might take clothing or blankets or money to share with the home
less. The lady replied, "Oh, we need not worry about them. They are in a different ward from
us." Remembering this experience I thought how very necessary the Samaritan story is and how

it needs to be repeated again and again in this land.

Did you know that...Mrs. Evelyn Clark has been hospitalized for several weeks, has had

brain damage and is oartiallv paraivzeA? kemember her when you, pray...that the Machida CTOrch
will celebrate its 10th Anniversary on May 5> 19915'*that Joel Likins and family are making

plans to go to Russia to follow-up on Christians who were baptized last summer? It seems like
the beginning of wonderful things...that Mark and Lynn's daughter, Karis, is a member of the
National Honor Society, will graduate from Beliefontaine COhio) High School in June and enter
Cincinnati Bible College this fall?...that Lydia's husband. Rick Coyle, is District Finance
Manager with Digital Equipment Corp. serving in Cincinnati, Ohio? He is Director of Public Re
lations with C.J.C.M... that Mary's husband, Steve Sawch, is Construction Manager of The Ameri
can Museum of Natural History in New York City?
A little child shall lead.

Mary's son, Gregory, aged 2/2, likes to sing "This Little Light

of Mine". After singing "let it shine till Jesus comes" he repeatedly asked, "Mommy, when is
Jesus coming? I want to see Jesus". In Japan it is hard for many to believe in God who is un
seen.

Kyosuke Takahashi, aged 9| asked, "Where is God? I can't see him."

His brother, Taketora,

aged
replied, "He is here, even though we can't see Him". (Taketora is the boy who had Leu
kemia whom you have been praying for.)
Miss Aki Muto, who survived the crash-landing of Flight 252 will graduate from Sophia Jr.
College in March. She has been employed by a securities company and lives out east of Tokyo in
the vicinity of Tokyo's Disneyland. Her heart is open but she has not as yet made a commitment
to Christ.

Do pray for her.

Addison Bowers says:

KNOWING JESUS MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE IN LIFE THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW HIM NEVER REALLY LIVE.
THOSE WHO DO KNOW HIM NEVER REALLY DIE.

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Vol.XXXV,No.3,Thanksgiving-Christmas 1991
Dear friends,

We w_ih for a 1^1^ of you th

2^ Thanks giviggs!

Having this chance to

spend precious time with each of our children and grandchildren gives us cause to
be specially thankful to God. In addition, visits with you is an extra bonus.

We rai.e The Lord and

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California and ^n Cincinnati, Ohio for a successful Home-Stay experience. Already
several young persons here are looking forward to a visit to Japan in the near
future and hosts over there are making plans.
Mark and Lynn and family have been serving with the Hi-Point Church at Belle'

fontaine, Ohio.

All of us rejoiced to hear that

6^ve his heart to

his Lord and was baptized at the mid-week service, August 22, 1991. All of us

join in prayer for you to have a full life of service for your Lord, Clinton.

Our co-workers, Tim and Lisa Turner^ welcomed a new niinber ^o the^r fami._l21
September 2h All four of Katie L^nn^^ grandparents were on hand, in Japan,
to welcome her.
Bill and Betty Turner are missionaries there and Lisa's parents,
Dan and Carol Spencer, of St. Petersburg, Fla. were there for a visit.
They are
forwarding agents for Tim and Lisa.
Our congratulations to all.
Kathleen and I are living at Summit View Apartments next-door to C.B.S. We
plan to return to Japan in

March.

I am enrolled

as an auditor of two classes and

am teaching Mid-week Bible Study at the Highview Church.

Three young persons
from Japan are also enrolled at C.B.S. Se ij i Ikeda is from Bill Belew's work at
Niigata. Hiroyasu Yamaguchi is a graduate of Ibaraki Christian College and from

American Christian College.

Rebekah

Home-Stay Kids,Welcomed
in

Then, H2]S (Yabiku) and Tetsuo Domen's daughter,

is also enrolled.

California

Clinton, Baptized
August 22, 1991

Ernie & Polly Wilkinson

Together 65 years

Sec ial congrat ul at ions

Polly and Ernie Wi.lkinson.

They served faithfully

as our forwarding agents from 1957 to 1975. We were present to help them celebrate
their 65th
Wedding Anniversary on October 12, 1991.
They have no children of
their own but through their faithful Christian service they have seen many, many
born into the Kingdom of God.
They have taught faithfully, maintained the Lord's
house, and served as leaders in the West Side Church, South Bend,since its begin
ning 35 years ago. They also served as trustees of Central Japan Christian Mission
for several years.

We awa^^ results from Japan from the| recent evangelistic nieti.n^ a^ Sannobara
Two of our 'Timothies' were in charge.
X]lii from the Onga Church was the evangelist.

lead the singing and

At this writing we are all primed for the World Evangelism Conference at
Springfield, Illinois
It is our first in eighteen years.
In answer to the popular question 'Are you going to retire ? ' the answer is "No,

we plan to serve as_long a our health

We will return to Japan on or

near March 9th.

Central Japan Christian Mission has obligations that continue
^ven beyond the length of our days.
Pray for Japan!
Pray for this work!

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