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CHRISTiAriTY GAMS TO MIYAKO

DONaLX) and pay RiCKEUSONj lilSSIONAJ-clSS Aza Higashlnakasone 95^ Hlrara City; rUyako Shima, Ryukyu Islands
In ans"^7er to tho many requests which are coning in from fiissionary

groups for information concerning this new mission field, vre vjrlt tho
following concerning;:
MITAKO

n? i of Christ. Spare tiiie hethree tau.ght the he word of of Godf.B. andanH ostahl =:h Church After years died ?he i next W Vodis the Christians carried on alone. Elder Makasone fNaw

and Brother Hanashiro (Haw-naw-she-row) who vjas presented'in tlie^Oct*^

(whose picture and write up vail appear in the

MIYAKO ISLAMD lies 175 miles ScW. of Naha, Okinav;a Pnd 22? miles of Taipei, Formosa^ This puts Hirai^a City. (He-raw-raw) the capitol of

'53 news-shoet, did the pr.achxn^ .nd held the chm^rtlgeihorr


of"th

r'Ii,yako , within 350 miles of the Chim mainiand-, Miyako is in reality


one large island^ also called Hi-yako- surrounded by five smaller

Wmmm, no missionary hnd ever cone to love on these Island', Th-^ir.

islandsc There are about SO^OOO people in this niroup of islands, v^ith

tesS^thcn the

then and'to

a livin.^^ on this flat, trian.^le shape of rock, and'red clay, only about
45 miles in circumferencei The second lar,?^est island is ^'Irahu-'
home

the bulk of course on ,Miyako Is].and^ -v'here some 66j00n people eke out

(Ee-raxv-boo) vdth some 10,000 people. The other four islands provide a tbie remainin,r; 4,600 people
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The Miyako ^roup has its own free elected GOVgRKIMG BODY, but 1: .3

Hiral^ City v.ihere al.l members are quartered incD.uding the families of

vised by the U-S. Divil Administration Team> They comDOiu ley have nave a compound near

Air Force detachre^nt on t he Island. They are s-cationed near the air{>ort.
So that theFe mi-;ht be a better understanding betvjeen the U^Sr pnd the

the Comrnandxng Officer and the Security Officer, There is also a smal]'

line pastor, we have Takehiko Hanashiro, who is Chorus C] Director, H( a director of music in the puloj.ic schools* In HLIa::a CxTY four services arc held on the Lord*s Dav Ai- o a m teachers and preachers, and at the same hour'a*

Ryukyu (llee-you-que) peoplej the Ryukyuan-American Gultixral Centers


have been estab-lished^ Here one can attend lectures, view educational

hila.^en s i^Jiolo School. At 10 A.i;,. the Lord*s Supper and Preacbin"-.

filmSj listen to music on recordSj study and read in the library^ or


meet ^-dth different leaders for discussion^ Such a place as this doe^

zaw-toe). one of the program directors here is a member of the Miyako Chui^ch of Christo He speaks Sn.'":li3h very well. Every week Far^ Rickers son
assists him v.ath his Snflish reports^.

much to brin.^ about better understandin.f^ Ilr, Keiei Yama-zato (Yaw-ina.w-

a class lor elderly women ;^o speak only the Miyako dial.'^ct. V/e-V^" aft-r

Sundays we con-.LUct services for our American boys at the Air Base, village are hold on,.Tues. and Theirs, nights. Mon^-ia^^ ni^rht -is
noons we con'.uct a service at the Leper Co3.onv

3 ^'V-t:he ...evangelistic hour. WeJ., night is prayer meeting Fri Biole Study and Sat. night is for Chorus practice. At 12:15 on

at the T.B. Hospital. Children's Bible classes'are "hold thrr-'e aft'^res a class in En-vish in the Jii.-h School.

and Fridnv Tptr>-'^r.r>c5^

'"NearTy aij. me paxn ^uij.,-ui-;ira

tiful v.'ith h.^dges of many colored shrubs around the homes"! Many homes
have a .rock wall surrounding thera to provide privacy from close nei^^hbors and the streetc The country homes are not as p:ood as those of the city dwellers^ but the customary rock walls and other construction is
the same. I'lany cf them have thatched roofs-

streetsj v?ell laid, and" clea'n make an attractive city, Miyako is beau

are post war and haATirTIle'TooTfThe

n o o n s - O n e afternoon a word. Tjr, Pick^-so^tnLh

The SGiiOOLS are all post^vrar and very nice buii,dings^ In addition to

of Christ OUR t ? neotins place of the la-ako Church IS for financiii assistance in erectin" oiulding on lapko. The native christxans have Dur- ' chased the property but are unable to raise the biiildinp fund. Funds are also needed to carry on the general rork of the mission. sheets and you can mark it on the aap, v/e suf^gest that ebhe papes of information oe put on i lie for future missionary progra.ms.

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our- personal friends,

The red dots on the fiij^ako map indicate places where a_-e are now conductinp; services. As now fields are opened \k will report in our news-

ry. The Agricultural H.S.cnnd the Teacher Training School are the only
hl.:?:her schools that are co-educational o

Schools ?nd 1? Primary Schools. Education through Jr. High is compulso comprises 5Cf5 of I-lyako^s agriculture. It grows from sec
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SUGAR CAN'S

tions of cane cut and soaked in v/ater and stuck in the ground. Soon the

is a v^ry s:i.mple device with three wheels, turned by a horst se The cane is fed through one sidej then back through'again ftjom the other, side. This squeezes out the jxiice which is then ready for boiling or refining into the blacl: sugar that is eaten as candy, used as sweeten ing in teaj and exported in great quantities Miyako'sugar is famous
in the islands for its superior flavor.,

reaches 6 cr 7 feet and is ready for cutting and fina],].y the presj

".eaves appear and the n&vJ stock begins to show. In a few months it
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cnurches. iitn tnem is a manuscript which tells the thrilJing s^ry of lIiyako j/rioe plenty of time in advance and be sure to rctiirri slides as soon as^own, by insured niail. It is suggested that an-offc-rint^ be taken for the mission on the night of pros:-nting the work , howev-r
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set of 60 beautiful COLa-irlD SLIDES are available for showing in vour

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to our Fonvarding Sec, immediately, /giving correct nane and address:

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iME 2 SUMMER 1954

"The night is far spent, the day is at hand" . . . SEND THEM THE LIGHT NOW!
DONALD N. RICKERSON AND FAY RICKERSON, MISSIONARIES

Aza Higashinakosone 95, Hirara City, Miyoko Shima, Ryukyu Islands Financial Secretary: Mrs. Warham Cox, 1709 West 71st, Los Angeles 47, California
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HOME OF PRAISE

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In seeking a name for our Mission
MR. SHOBEI NAKASONE who were faithful members of our

I am Mr. Shobei Nakasone who lives at 38 Nishisato in Hirara City,

Miyako Shima, Ryukyu. 1 am 74 years old and serving Christ as the pastor of the Miyako Church of Christ. I am

very glad to help Mr. and Mrs. Rick-

Home, we turned to the Word of God first resident pastorate, provided $1, and read in Isaiah 61:18 " . . . thou 150. Another close friend gave $200. shalt call thy walls salvation and thy A young woman who had been a gates Praise." Because our hearts little girl in one of our early pastor were so full to overflowing with ates, gave $350. Three couples each praise to God for giving us this gave $100 and one gave $50, while home, we felt led to call it, Home of two women gave $25 each, making
a total of $2700. To all of these we are

erson who conduct the Miyako Chris Praise. tian Mission, coming to speak the We began each day by singing, Gospel of Christ to all parts of the "Praise God from whom all blessings Miyako Islands. flow; Praise Him, ye creatures here Mr. Rickerson asked me to write below. Praise Him above, ye heavenly the outline of my carecr in faith. I was born in Ikema Shima of Miyako Islands in 1880. After graduating from the Hirara Primary School, I went to Okinawa that 1 might study in the Middle School, which was the only one in the Ryukyu at that day. When I was in the third year class I

host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy


Ghost. Sometimes we sing it in Jap anese, the words are: A me tsu chi ko

zo ri te, ka shi ko mi ta ta e yo, mi me gu me a fu ru ru chi chi mi ko mi

With the exception of $25, the money for this home was given to us The living room is 14' 7" X 17' 4". by our personal friends. The first $100 Since this room must be used for a according to the guide of my friend. was given by Brother and Sister Teddy church, the only furniture we have in After that time 1 would often attend Leavitt, who wanted to provide the it is two home made pulpits for Mr. the church service through a year. I
went to the Methodist Church in Naha

deeply appreciative. Since many have asked lo see a picture of our home, we are putting it in this news-sheet, with a description of .same. It is made entirely of Jap anese knotty cedar (a much lighter weight than American cedar). We varnished the entire inside, and will paint the outside as soon as weather permits. The roof is tile. All floors are covered with masonite, which takes the place of a finished flooring.

ihreshhold. We had worked with the can't forget now when I knew Jesus Leavitts in Bible Rock Camp for Christ and accepting as my personal seven years, while ministering at ZilSaviour. I was just 22 years old when lah, Washington. One, with whom I was sprinkled, but T did not know
that was not New Testament immerContinued on page 2

Rickerson and his interpreter. Straw mats are used for the people to sit
on. The kitchen is 15' X 8' 10" and

has many builtins. We eat on a small friendship was begun in Bible college table which is hinged to the wall, so days gave the next $500. Two sisters, Continued on page 2

Mr. Shobei Nakasone Continued from page 1

sion, at that time.

When I was 24 years old, I was en listed in the army which was the Kum- myself and my wife safely from amato Infantry 13th corp in Japan, Pacific war which is fought between and I went to Methodist church in America and Japan. I lived in Tokyo, Kumamato City, Japan. When I was but I did not go to church imtil 25 years old, I departed for the front coming back to Miyako in 1946. to fight against Russian army which When I was 67 years old, my wife and
was in Manchuria, because the war I came back with Mr. and Mrs. Kunwas fight between Japan and Russia inaka in Nov. 1946.

I had been parting from Holy sliding glass doors, reaching from floor to ceiling, and a closet where an extra why there was not any church in mattress and springs are stored, so Miyako. When I was 65 years old, that the room can be used for a spare I went to Japan that I might keep bedroom. The bedroom is 11' 9" X
Bible and Jesus Christ. It is the reason
8' 10" and has a clothes closet and a chest of drawers built in on each side.

We brought springs and mattress with us and had platform and head board with shelves made from our packing
box lumber. The bathroom is 9' X 5' 10". At

in 1904.1 took my part in the fight at In Dec. 1946 a church was begun the Ugakujyo, Gaihei, Daisettukya, Kaijyo, Shuzanjie, Shaka, Hoten, Tet- by Mr. and Mrs. Kuninaka, preaching surei, Kaijyo Shoto and Kokukodai. the Gospel of Christ. I partook of Through these battles I keep the faith this and could return to Holy Bible in Christ, and I experienced the thing and be given revival. God recalled me.
in which it is written in Psalm 91:7 Praise the Lord alleluia! In the fellow

present it is used for a mimeographing room since we do not yet have water piped to the house, nor plumbing in stalled. Since we live in the typhoon belt, all windows have storm shutters. Mrs. Rickerson is standing in front

of the Holy Bible.

in joyful heart, peaceful soul and of the front porch. No one wears "A thousand shall fall at thy side, saving spirit, day by day, and I was shoes inside of a home here, usually and ten thousand at thy right hand; elected elder of the folk by Mr. Kun they are left in a pile in front of the but it shall not come nigh thee." inaka who was pastor of the church. door. We had this rack made to take
care of them. To the right you see the living room windows and to the left the study window. This house might not pass inspection in the States

ship in Jesus Christ, I have been ii>^g of the-geta-rack,-which is at oncend

I had a triumphal return, because After the death of Mr. Kuninaka in Mar., 1949, I began preaching and Japanese army won the field against teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ Russian army. I was 27 years old at the Sunday communion service. when I returned to Kumamoto in

as materials here are inferior. The

fantry 13th corp in Japan, and was In the fall of 1951 I received the conferred the Seventh grade of the book, 'The Church of Christ" from order of the Golden Kite by the mer Mr. Muto who is a pastor of Mabashi itorious deeds. Church of Christ, in Japan, where Mrs. Kuninaka had gone.. Reading I went to the Methodist church in this book, to my surprize, I was not Kumamoto City in Japan and did not baptized in New Testament baptism. smoke and drink intoxicants. In these

walls are very thin so that every


sound from without is heard inside.

But it is a very comfortable home for us, and serves as a church as well. We will be very happy however, when
funds come in so we can build the

Tomori, who was a member of the for use as study tables, and two for corp by it. Such my life was contin uing until I returned to Miyako in Mabashi Church of Christ, and sent our back porch. We used scraps of by Pastor Muto. masonite for covering tops, and with Jan. 1907. But I could not find the a wax finish they are very good. We job to work, so I went to Osaka, Since that timej have been leading Japan in order to work. As soon as the Christians of the Miyako Church wish that yomnight visit ns^nd^ee I reached there I visited a pastor who of Christ. But I am getting the rest our home, but hope that this will had a Methodist church, and I talked for myself, feeling the weariness. give you some idea of what it is like. with him for myself. He was very un Therefore Mr. Rickerson is teaching kind to me and I got so freezing rec them instead of me. "IT PAYS TO SERVE JESUS, eption that I gave myself up for going I thank you for sending Mr. and to church and I thought that Christ IT PAYS EVERY DAY" ianity is not to be depended. Since I Mrs. Rickerson and setting up the One Sunday afternoon when we had thought it, I was for six or seven Miyako Christian Mission, and I years in Osaka, Japan, but I did not thank the living God, Heavenly Father. been home only a short time, from our I am very glad to help them in God's Air Base service. Brother Hanoshiro go to any church. love. hurriedly came to the door informing I came back to Miyako when I was us that one of our Christian girls was Shobei Nakasone 35 years of age, in fall of 1914. Then dying by the roadside in Hirara City, for about 30 years I was the head of and to drive to the scene. Upon ar HOME OF PRAISE Acquatic Guild in Miyako, a member Continued from page 1 rival, we found many people gathered of Aquatic assembly in Okinawa that it can be let down when not in to watch. The girl had died and as which is Ryukyu now. A member of use. The study is 8' 81/2' X 11' 6". A there was no one else there to do it. Aquatic assembly in Japan, a member built in desk, filing cabinets and cup Brother Hanashiro and one of our of the Hirara City assembly, and boards for storage are on one side. Christian young men, picked up the Mayor of Hirara City. On the other side is a book case with body from the roadside and put her
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name of the Father and of the Son fortable home. From our packing barracks. I only went to the chiu'ch service. I made a good record in my and of the Holy Spirit, by Mr. Aigen lumber we have had four tables made

church, add some furniture to our days the soldier could go out of the Immediately, I was immersed into the living rom, and make it a more com

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into the pickup. We drove several rude tomb cut into the side of a miles out into the country to her hill. It took some time for the funeral humble home, where she had lived procession to proceed as long grass alone for some time. She was a T. B. had to be cut away from the tomb patient but had thought that she was entrance and an opening made in the improving. She had wanted to come mouth of the tomb. Then a brief comin for church, but could not walk in mital service, and the body was placed the two or three miles by ten o'clock. in its final resting place. She had been visiting friends when Brother Yamazato, a member of the she was taken violently ill. Miyako Church of Christ, and one of Upon arrival at her home we placed the program directors of the American her body in her house and went to Ryukyuan Cultural Center, inform
inform the sister-in-law who lived

patient and was in the T. B. Hospital until January in 1953. He saw and
talked with her when she was there

and she heard the Gospel of Christ

by Mr. Hanashiro and Mr. Shimoji,


and became a Christian in 1952 in the

T. B. Hospital. She was getting well

lately so she wanted to go to church


service on the Sunday on which she died, but it was too late to attend the
church service because she had not

ed us that the city was stirred by the

down the road a way. She said that action of the American Missionaries they could do nothing about it, so and the Miyako Church of Christ, in Brother Hanashiro said we would have seeing that the young woman was to take care of the preparation of the taken care of and given a Christian body, purchase the box and arrange burial. An official said to him: "This the funeral. There are no mortuaries is a typical example of the "Amer on Miyako, so what preparation was ican way of life." Rather he should necessary was done right then, the have said: This is a typical Christian washing and arranging the body. The way of life. Mr. Yamazato further house was then closed and we drove said, "Because of this deed, Christ back to Hirara for our evening ser ianity will enjoy a greater influence vice. on Miyako." One never knows how far reaching a humble deed of mercy On Monday morning, two hours and kindness will go. before time to depart for the funeral service, people began to arrive at our The editor of the Hirara Daily home. By the time we had made a news went to Mr. Hanashiro for an trip to pick up the box we had ordered interview concerning our deed of made, there was a truck load of people mercy and wrote the following, which waiting. The head of the Public Wel was translated by Bro. Hanashiro. fare Department of Hirara City came to extend special thanks to us and AASHISHINBUN - DAILY the Miyako Christian Mission for the deed of mercy and kindness in taking NEWSPAPER the service and caring for the needs. Some Christians on Miyako Island
He sent two men from the office to go on the way in Christ.

a clock and could not walk so fast, so she visited some friends in the city and on her way home she saw this Mr. Shimoji who lived in Ueno Village. As she was talking with him in the street she hemorrhaged and after a few minutes, tumbled down. He was very surprised and sent word to Mr. Hanashiro, who is a leader in Miyako Church of Christ, and one of the workers in Miyako Christian Mission, which Mr. and Mrs. Rickerson have. Then Mr. Hanashiro went
to the home of Rickersons and told

them,

so

Mr.

and

Mrs.

Rickerson

went to carry the dead girl with them in the pick up, to her home. When they reached the road side, many people were crowded around the dead girl, but no one took care of her except Mr. Shimoji, for fear of T. B. But they arc Christians, and living in Christ, .so after prayer to God, they wiped the blood off her face, hands and feet, and wrapped the dead girl in a blanket, which Mr. Rickerson brought, that they might carry her to
her house.

do the necessary fumigating. Christians gave to a poor woman Upon arrival at the home, the body was fumigated, also the house, inside and out. The box was only about four feet long, so the body had to be bent to be placed in it. Then it was pushed to the open door-way and some of the neighbors and friends gathered for the
Christian service. From then on to the close it was conducted similar to our the Christ's love. In the afternoon of

One of the people seeing this sight said, "I am glad that tears for the

funerals in America. Hymns, prayer, Bible message. Then the people were given white lilies (which grow wild in great profusion) and they went to the casket, bowed, placed the flowers in side, stood silent for a moment with bowed heads, bowed again, and went "She is Miss Yoshi Miyasato who back to their places in the crowd. lives in Soido Maefugu in Hirara Brother Nakasone, who had baptized the girl, closed the service with prayer. City." After this time he said that she was all alone, because her parents A neighbor came with his basha had died already, her brother worked (small horse drawn cart) to take the in Okinawa, and her sister lived in casket to the place of entombment. Hirara, in order to work as a maid It was a long walk to the old and of some one. Besides, she was a T. B.

25th of April, a High School boy who kindness of Christians who live in is named Mr. Yoshinori Higa, who is faith to Christ, Son of God for they not a Christian, came into Nishi Police did the faithful action as the disciples Box and said, of Christ." They told the city office because she was on the receiving "One girl has tumbled down having people from the Public Relief Soc hemorrhage, near the slaughter iety in city office. And then next house." Hearing it, the police man morning some Christians went again went to the place which that girl fell to her home with Mr. Rickerson, and down, as soon as the boy had reported after having the farewell service in it. There he saw a young man who is Christianity, they buried the dead a Christian, named Mr. Keitoku Shim- body. oji, who had been taking care of her. Mr. Shimoji said,

FINANCIAL REPORT
MARCH 1-31, 1954 (Living Ling Included)

we know that the Lord has a place of


service for him in America, so we

say, Farewell, and God bless you.


$175.00
000.00 1 5.00 5.00 5.00

Chorch Byilding Fond


General Fund
Receipts:

Christian Workers, L. A., Col. 0. D. Priest, Hubbord, Ore. Mrs. F. A. Shogren, Mosier, Ore.
Church of Christ, Sisters, Ore. Mrs. Icel Dunn, Pasco, Wash.

G, B. Schmid, Grondiew, Wn. D. S. Missions Group, Lebonon, Ore. Lodies Council, Conby,
A. J. Monley, Eugene,

33.00 50.00
6.00 50.00

Ore.
Ore.

25.00
48.00

St. Johns Chr, Church, Portland, Ore. _. 5.00 C. W. F. Chr. Church, No. Bend, Ore. Figueroo Crenshow Chr. Church, L. A
Col.

10.00
20.00

Paul Weller, Veronio, Ore.


Mrs. Emma Oliver, (Church BIdg.) Eugene, Ore,

10.00
10.00

Families, Chr. Church, Modero, Col. .. 120.CKD Irving Church of Christ, Eugene, Ore. 15.92 Chorch of Christ, Acompo, Col. 10.00

Mr. and Mrs. E. K Pritchord, Accmpo,


Calif. Wash.
Toiol

5.00 55.00
502.92

Leio C. Cox, L. A., Cclif. . . ...15.00 McKinley Pork Chr. Chorch, Tocoma,

TEN LEPERS WARREN EKSTROM

Expenditures:

Ten lepers who were cleansed from

Mimeograph supplies
Mots for villoge meeting house Gas and cor expense Point, send and gravel
Postoge on news letter etc.

8.40
3.74 15.00 32.50
10.00

their sins. After their baptism in the It was with regrets, that we said East China Sea, they ALL returned

Generator parts, water pipe 78.95 Immigration renewol, speciol fees etc. _.5.00 Furlough fund 70.00

goodbye to our friend. Warren Eks- to the shore where we sang praises trom. We are happy for him that he to God, and they thanked God for can again return to civilian life in their cleansing from sin in the prec
the United States. But as wc meet

Don ond Fay Rickerson (L. L.)


K. Honoshiro (salary)

200.00
33.33

ious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Woyne Rickerson (Support)


Totol Receipts Expendifores expenditures

Transferred lo Church BIdg. Fund


Totol in Church BIdg. Fund
General Fond

each Sunday afternoon in our service Brother Shimazawa, (left top row) $492.92 at the Air Base, we will miss this has been a student of the Word for $502.00 faithful Christian. He was a member several years. He has been cho.sen as 492.92 of our Men's Quartet, and on his last the leader of the Christians at the 10.00 Sunday night, brought such a beau Leper Colony. We gave him a com 185.00 000.00 tiful message in song, entitled, "If I munion set and instructed him in the Gained the World." He not only at observance of the Lord's Supper. He
$000.00 185.00 33.00
2.00

36.00

APRIL

1-30,

1954

(L.

L.

Included)

General Fund Church Building Fund


RECEIPTS:

G. B. Schmid, Grandview, Wash.

Lodies Council, Canby, Wn.


Russell,

25.00
22.00 5.00

Marion

Zillon, Wn.

A. J. Monley, Eugene, Ore. Mrs. Shogren, Mosier, Ore.


Chu. of Christ, Sisters, Ore. Chr. Church, M. P. Tocoma, Wn. Chrisfion Workers, L. A., Cal. fig. Cren. Chr. Church, L. A., Cal. Fomilies, Modero, Col.

6.00 110.00 5.00 20.00 110.00

tended the services at the Base but is conducting the service each Lord's also came into Hirara City to attend Day. We go to the Leper Colony on the Miyako Church of Christ. Wednesday afternoons of each week, and hold services. We are always In his farewell words to the Christ ians here, he said, "I have enjoyed greeted with great joy and we feel worshipping with you. You are my this is one of our most profitable friends, and I will miss you, just as works on Miyako.

St. Johns Chr. Church, Portland. Ore. Chr. of Christ, Arlington, S. D.

10.02

I have missed my friends in America. Please pray with us that every To Mr. and Mrs. Rickerson, he said, leper will be cleansed of the leprosy 5.00 "It was worth coming to Miyako, of sin. just to have known you."
Ther has been a total of 29 con-

Christian Church, Ookridge, Ore. W. C. Dewey, Oklohomo


Christian Church, Wopoto, Wn. C. E. Chr. of Christ, Ceres, Cal. Irving Church of Christ Mrs. E. Oliver, Eugene, Ore. (Churdi
Building)

37.50 5.00
52.32 13.98 17.23
100.00

We will miss this sweet singer, but versioons on Miyako so far in 1954.
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0 MIYAKO CHRISTIAN MISSION

Church of Christ, Acampo, Col. L. Cox, Los Angeles, Col.


EXPENDITURES

10.00 10.00 200.00 33.33 36.00

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c/o Mrs. Warham Cox


1709 West 71st

Don and Fay Rickerson {L. L.) K. Honoshiro (support) Wayne Rickerson (support)

Los Angeles 47, California

Mrs. Cox Paper,

(expenses)

15.00
15,00 100.00

Gos ond Cor expense Water pipe

electric wire

14.25
4.00 74.00
491.58

Postoge, pkg. charges Furlough fond


Total

Receipts Expenditures
Bolonce

599.05 491.58
107.47

Church Building Fund


General Fund Balance

100.00
7.47

Church BIdg. Fund Totol

$285.00

"The night is far spent, ths day is at hand^^.^^^

Azo Higashinokosone 95, Hiror^fii^ty, Miyoko ^Shlmo, Ryukyu Islands


Financial Secretary: Mrs. Warham Cox, 1709 West 71st, Los Angeles 47, California
AUGUST 1954

DONALD N. RICKERSON AND ^^SW6?S^r MISSIONARIES

LIGHT NOW!

MY TESTIMONY TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST


by Mr. Keitoku Shimoji 1 was asked to write the testimony
as a Christian, but 1 don't know how

ONE PHASE OF OUR WORK HELPING THOSE IN PHYSICAL NEED

lo write because of receiving God's


love so much! I have no other re

source than the leading of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ and God. Now I am full of thanking heart to God, being saved me by the mer itorious deeds of Jesus Christ, our Lord, because I was a sinner, having no better any part than others, and that I am joined to the body of Jesus
Christ and added lo the dearest
Mrs. Kurima Small home of Mrs Tsuru Kurima.

brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ

Mrs. Tsuru Kurima is one of the

How thankful are we to God for all

in this world and singing hymns and sick members of the Hirara Church the blessings we enjoy in America? of Christ. She has been ill for a long Are we willing to sharenot our praising the Lord. I was born in 1932 and grew up on time and is unable to attend services. homesbut the Good News of Sal Miyako Island of the Ryukyus. Here Recently we were called to take her vation with the people who sit in is another religion, worshipping the from the hospital to her home seven darkness? The used clothing which you send trees, stones, sun, moon and other miles out in the country. When we idols. But I am thankful that God arrived at the tiny house she calls helps people like Mrs. Kurima. After we had taken her home from the was bringing up my faithful heart to home, she said, "My house is very hospital, we returned the next day the true God, our Heavenly Father. God called me, being a sinner that small, but I am happy that I have and took her four new dresses, as he might lead me from the bodily this small home in which to live." she was greatly in need. land of Egypt to the spiritual land

of Canaan which was flowing with elder brother met an unnatural death milk and honey. I had been walking in Okinawa when he was returning
through straying in many mounts of from the battle field. We were waiting affliction, many valleys of the shadow for him lo be a great helper. When of death. I had been tareing in the we were in great sorrow, I had been wilderness of disappointment and getting an illnessT. B. So my father traveling through the many fires of sold our small house and little field temptation as well as Israel had been which was decreased for being taken walking the temptations and afflic by the air-field of the Japanese army, tions for forty years. that he might care for me. Therefore I can remember these things in we went into the poor and disappoint 1944 when it was in the fulness of ment, and 1 entered the T. B. Sana

I had never heard the Words of God

would

have

never

known

such

agonies. I did not get well soon, but God


who had chosen me before I was

born, gave me His salvation, while I had not a hope and a recoverable body.

At the early time when I heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord, I disputed with Christians about being
not a God in this world and Jesus

Christ was only a man and my enemy. the Second War (Pacific War). My torium. When I felt a bodily painT. B. But after such a thing often, I had to mother, my younger brother and I were compelled to go to Formosa, my weakly heart was attacked by accept God's love by the Holy Spirit, greater anguish of deeper and more and that Jesus Christ has been my and our mother died there. Our father sins than bodily pain. God is holy Saviour and Son of the living God was left by the Japanese army in eternally, because I was covered and Miyako, and my elder brother had without blemish, spot and any sins caught with Jesus Christ's love. I ac but I was a sinner who had many gone to the battle field. After the cepted the Lord Jesus Christ as my many .sins which it covered myself war my younger brother and I had Saviour and was baptized into the to come back to Miyako when I was utterly. Sin! sin! I was nothing else name of the Father and of the Son twelve years old and my brother eight. that I would be cast into the fire of and of the Holy Spirit on August 4, Then we received the report that my hell, so I thought sometimes that if Continued on poge 2

TWO OF OUR FINE YOUNG

CHRISTIAN MEN, WHO THO AF


FLICTED IN BODY WITH T.B. HAVE HEARTS FILLED WITH PRAISE TO GOD.

any sins still, and that I was bound by the law in the time in which I had never felt, and then I was revealed my deep sins by the words, "For the good which 1 would I do not, but the evil which [ would not, that I prac tice." "Oh, wretched man that I am!" Therefore I felt my illness, suffering spirit which is nothing else but death into sin. At just this time, God let me open the Holy verse, "They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick, for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners." I got the strength by the Holy Spirit, and studied and studied the Holy
Bible. Now I am the most interested

MY TESTIMONY TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST Continued from page 1

1952. I was baptized by Mr. John Muto who was the pastor of the Mabashi Church of Christ in Tokyo, Japan, who came to Miyako to hold a meeting, Since baptizing, I have never felt the sorrows and pains about advers ities and my hard illness of T. B. My
heart has been converted from God's

enemy into the thanking heart to God as well as the Lord did bigger miracles in my spirit than stopping
the storm in the Sea of Galilee.

to learn the Words of God.

i
RightMr. Shunko Shimoji. Left Mr. Keitoku Shimoji. My Testimonyby Mr. Shunko Shi"There is now no condemnation

to

them

that are

in

Christ

Jesus."

Romans 8:1.

I am praising God, having an end less love to men, who He arose Jesus Christ, His Son, from the tomb, that He might arise me, and bring me upon the sinless mount of God's grace with Jesus, while I had been wandering into the valley of the dis appointment indeed. I am very glad to write this my testimony in praying and being led by the Holy Spirit, because I am good-for-nothing how to express this my great joy. I was baptized on Oct. 12, 1952, believing the redemption of Jesus Christ for me and taking Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour, and then I entered the way to salvation. It was the greatest joy for me as well as
for the lame man who entered with

When 1 was given the Grace of God, I had been suffering in bed with T. B. It was the wonderful op portunity to read the Word, "It is good for me that 1 have been afflic ted, that I might learn Thy statutes" Ps. 119;7I. To be illness is the thank ing thing for myself. If I would be a good health, 1 would go into the way to Hades, seeking the decaying thing. So, I think that the illness is a mercy of God to me. Lately, I meet diffi culties sometimes, but 1 am taught the I would die with it. mercy of God's will every time, and I will stop my pen in praising my I know that it is good for me that
I

The prayer of Jesus Christ on the cross began to knock softly and pow erfully when I was in agony. At last in my soul the words, "Oh, be just ified by the greatest deed of Jesus Christ on His cross!" Not my any thing He has lighted brightly as a morning star. How thankful, joyful and peaceful it is! Now, in my spirit, the greatest joy in Jesus Christ on His cross, not worldly, is full, and I am singing hymns in my mouth. To add to this, lately I am recovering from T. B. which the others and I thought that

Lord God is near the sorrowful and

Keitoku Shimoji that, "Yet 1 live, and yet no longer I, Note: In this issue you will read the but Christ Hveth in me." Jehovah my testimony of three Miyako Christ

have been afflicted. I

believe now

Lord.

painful man and woman, and saves


the breaking heart, I believe and
thank.

iansall with the name of Shim

oji. None of them are related. The name "Shimoji" is as common

the disciples, walking and leaping. I cried in my mind that this faith to God. Jesus Christ His Son, and the Holy Spirit, was the true faith which of wisdom, and wealth of God are! I was seeking so long. According to Which can tell the wonderful, un the Holy verse, "So belief cometh of accountable love that all sinners may hearing, and hearing by the Word of be saved. I have understood that God God." I was full of thanking to God, is love, and there is nothing else one

The greatest grace, which does not forsake the men, who revolt to God again and again. Oh thanks! I am knowing it clearer and clearer day by day. Eternally, 1 will offer to God my soul, breaking the haughty soul in the presence of God. After this, though satan will cry to me, I depend upon my Lord, being in His Spirit, because the Lord is very strong if I am weak. I trust in Jesus Christ like the David who sang, "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." How deep the knowledge

on Miyako, as the name "Smith"


in America.

Mr. Keitoku Shimoji is pastor of the Chiyoda Church of Christ which meets in his home every Lord's Day. He is a very worthy young man and for this reason we paid his expenses to summer Bibie camp on Okinawa.

GIFT BOXES FOR MISSIONS


GIFT BOXES FOR MISSION Please do not send boxes for mis

sion use to Mrs. Cox. A young man from the Air Force base is working with us and will be happy to receive the boxes. Address exactly as follow.s: (Do not write our name nor name of mission on box)
A-3C
AF

the

joyfull

heart,

and

the

light of Jesus Christ in my

bright who can separate us from this love. At last I will pray for you, having mind

Donald

E.

Luckert

17363566

more and more as T heard the Gospel the light, joy, peace, and hope of God 624th AC&W Sq. DET. 3 APO 235 c/o P.M. of Christ. I discovered clearly my with us always. Shunko Shimoji. San Francisco, California sins more, and that I could not keep

YOKU AND KEIKO MITSU

A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY lies

just across the street from our Mission Home. It is a Primary School of nearly two thousand students, in cluding grades one thru six. On three Generol
afternoons a week we conduct Bible

FINANCIAL REPORT
MAY, JUNE, JULY 1954 (Living Link included) Fund
L. A, Calif.

$7.47
60.00

Receipts:
Crenshaw Chr.

Lena Newfon, Redondo Beoch, Calif.


Jr. CE, Chu- of Chr. Zilloh, Wn.

25.00
9.05

Ghr, Chu. N. Bend, Ore. G. 6. Schmid, Grandview, Wn.

20.00 99.00

Chu. of Chr. Acompo, Colif.


Chr. Vi/orkers. L. A. Col.

10.00
10.00

Chu. of Chr. Sisters, Ore. Mcbel Gilmore, Zillah, Wn. Chr. Chu. Lebanon, Ore.

18.00 5.00 65.00

A. J, Monley, Eugene, Ore. S. L. Schuler, Irwin, Iowa Chr. Chu. Jefferson, Ore.
Marion Russell, ZiUch, Wn. Fomilies, Madera, Col. Chr. Chu. Lela Cox. L. A. Calif.

66.00 10.55 15.00


9,00 320,00 30,00

McKinley Park Chu.. Tocomo, Wn.


Ernest Staley, Lincoln, Col. Paul Weller, Veronia, Ore. Chr. Chu. Mansfield. Wn. Si. Johns Chr. Portland, Ore. I

105.00
120,00 10.00 16.67 10.00

Chu. of Chr. Irving, Ore. John Orr, Miyoko


Mrs. R, Smith, Lomor, Neb.

47.98 105.00
1.00

classes

in

our

home

for

the

Ladies Council, Conby, Ore. sixth Mrs. Icef Dunn, Posco, Wn.
Chu. of Chr. Orleans, Ind. 1st Chu. Monmou'h, Ore.

50,00
30.00
6.00 25.00

grade pupils. Above is a picture of one class, with teacher, Mrs. Kuninaka

D. Grammon, Boise, Idaho 1st Chr. Mill City. Ore


Mrs. Gass, Gosport, Ind.

25.00 9.08
9,00

at the right. As I was planning and Chr, Chu, Wapato, Wn. this fitting poem by C. J. Sharp.
D. V. B. S.

38,87
10.00
10,00 100.00
i 44,62

Miss. Soc. Stillwell, Oklo. praying for these classes 1 ran across Chr. Don Kelley, Holsey, Ore.
Mrs, P. Tracey, Zilloh, Wn,
No. Bend, Ore.

SHEPHERD OF SOULS
"REAR VIEW"

Com. Chu. Port Orford, Ore. Mr. and Mrs. N. Green, Zillah, Wn. Chu. of Chr. Sonto Clara, Ore. TOTAL

15.77 10.00 8,00 $1578.59

(Luke 15:4)
little

Brought Forward
TOTAL

7.47
1566.06

Yoku

Mitsu

is

one

of our

kindergarten girls. She is five years old, and very small for her age. Some days when she is attending kindergarten, she must take care of her little sister, Keiko. She is really a "back full" as you can see. When she cried, Yoku would get up and dance around the room to quiet her.
We see hundreds of children this

If shepherds tending little lambs


Shall render record true
Disbursements:

For every lamb within their care, What means that fact to you
Ye in whose care immortal souls

Rickerson, Mr. & Mrs. (LL.) Mr. Hanashiro (salary)

600,00 99.99

Wayne Rickerson (back support due)


Miss Shimoji (salory) Eclipse Printery

194,00
60.00 130.12

Are placed in care for One

Mrs. Cox (Sec. Expenses)


Furlough Freighter Fund Car Expense Misc. Postage, News-letters, etc. Mr. Shimoii (to Bible comp) Tronsferred to Church BIdg Fund.
TOTAL
Toiol Cosh

37.05
54.00 55.00 49.12 8.33 20.00
..1307.61
1586.06 1307.61 278.45

Who trusts to you to keep them safe Till day and night are done?

size with children almost as large as themeselves, lied to their backs. If one lone lamb is lost betimes, This is not just for the purpose of The Shepherd true is grieved. taking the child somewhere, but it is where the child will stay for many Each one is precious in His sight; Each one, a trust received. hours.
Then how much more the children's

D isbu rsed Balance

soul's A mighty river rushes along, mighty CHURCH BUILDING FUND $285.00 beyond our ken, He trusts to you and me Receipts: This is the river that rushes along; To feed and guide and keep for Him Glen Burley, Clinton, Wn. 100.00 Ladies Council, Canby, Ore. 75.00 children, and women and men. For all eternity? Com, Chu. Sufnner, Wn. 49.67 They are living in the darkness, and Morion Russell, Zilloh, Wn. 1.00 dying in sin, children, and women Mrs. Ailumbaugh, Eugene, Ore. 15.00 Can any task on earth be found and men.

They are rushing from NOW to an


awful THEN. of men! Hundreds of millions

More sacred to the Lord

Don Rickerson (chaploins gift) W, Ekstrom, Miyoko


1st Chr, Lebanon, Ore,
Tonnemaker Memoriol Gift

100.00 10.00
25.00

Than shepherding of children's souls

2000.00

And teaching them His Word? Church of Christ, Fisher, III. Oh, what can I do to help them? No shepherds task can half compare Tronsferred from Gen. Fund. Christ died for these millions, I know. With that wherein is given Total
But someone MUST take them the

35.00
20.00
2410.67

messege of LIFE. Shall I help those The care of God's own little ones who do so, or go? To bring them safe to heaven.

Brought Forword
TOTAL

285.00
2715.67

s./

OUR CHRISTIAN KINDERGARTEN

MISS SEIKO SHIMOJI

and Mrs. Rickerson visited my home to see me. I accepted the position they offered me to become the teach er of the Christian Kindergarten. 1 am enjoying being a teacher, and I like singing very much. Every day I praise God with singing hymns. I think this is God's blessing to me. I

thanked God to become one of Miy


ako Christian Mission Workers. I

will bring the Gospel for Kindergarten . children and sometimes 1 go to the

villages and help teach the Gospel. Pleas; pray for Miyako Bible Mis
sion workers.

The first of May, we added a new


worker to our Mission. Miss Seiko is

"1 was born on a small island that

Seiko Shimoji

Shimoji became the teacher of our Christian Kindergarten. She has prov en herself a very fine worker, indeed. She loves the children, and they love her. Every day the children hear a Bible story with ihe usz of the flannelgraph, then they have a picture to color which represents the lesson. The evening of the last day of each month we put on a program and
invite the mothers. The children dem

called Miyako of Ryukyu. One Mr. John Orr, who was the first day when I was a student in the fruits of our labors at the American Junior High School, I entered into Air Base, on Miyako,. g^ve us $10.0 the gate of the church with a few for the first five months salary for
friends. The first time I heard God's

Word I did not receive it in my heart at all. But I was going to church with some friends to every service for a while. 1 understood step by step God's Word, the Bible, through the preaching of Mr. Hanoshiro and

Miss Shimoji. His term of service is over now and he has gone to the States. At the present time he is in the hospital in San Francisco, prob ably undergoing surgery. He writes that he is sorry that he no longer can give full support for Miss Shimoji. Mr. Nakasone. I learned that 1 was He will give S5 a month.
Is there another individual or a

onstrate what they have learned and out in the darkness in the world and receive their handwork to take home. I turned to the dawn of hope. It is Everyday some of the grandmothers very important to have faith. Then attend the kindergarten, so they are 1 had very hard studies but I went hearing the Gospel as well. At the to the services of the church even close of the first program we gave on the rainy and stormy nights. I each child a mounted picture of the was baptized in the China Sea by group which you see here. How de Mr. Muto, preacher of the Mabashi lighted they werea picture means Church of Christ in Japan, who was so much to these people. It brought visiting in Miyako. I was a junior in as much joy to these little poor chil High School when my heart became dren, as a fifty cent gift would to a full with love of Christ. Now I am enjoying every day. child in kindergarten in America. Send sJl -ifersngs for Mtyako Christiaa Mission to Forwarding Secretary, Mrs. Warham Cox. (Sec full address at top of sheet). Soon after I had graduated from High School I went to Okinawa for further study. I studied typing four
months.

church or Bible School, who would like to give the necessary $15 a month support that we may continue the Christian Kindergarten?

I came back to my home in Miyako the first of May. In a few days Mr.
t

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1709 West 71st

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"The night is for far spent, the day is at hand" . . .

NOW! NOW!

DONALD N. RICKERSON AND FAVO^'f^SON, MISSIONARIES


Azo Higashinakasone 95, Hirora City, Miyako Shima, Ryukyu Islands
Financial Secretary: Mrs. Warham Cox, 1709 West 71st, Los Angeles 47, California
DECEMBER 9954

CHRIST JESUS MEETS MY NEEDS


I, who was born in a lonely small Island, named Miyako Shima, which was full of the siiperslitions and the idolatries, had passed half of my life, having many questions about the faiih in God and Jesus Christ. Specially
about the time when I came home

from the fighl field witli the tiagic heart in the defeated war, I had
become one who was an atheist who

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE


From the two Of us couldn't Send a Christmas Card Without a lot Of fuss for we are

refused any god. I got the T.B. in 1953, and 1 went to the Miyako T. B. Sanatarium in Jan uary 1954. There I had a first good chance to read ihe Holy Bible and

Living on an

Island here

Far out On the China Sea With those who "idols" fear

Glad tidings of peace to them We will bring but we could only


Come to answer their call through

The consecrated gifts and prayers Of you all - So BLESSED CHRISTMAS our
Dear Fellow - Laborers, one and all, and

A HAPPY NEW YEAR, too. Whenever you can


Find the Time WE'D LIKE
TO

HEAR FROM YOU


Mr. Genchu Shimoji.

THE RICKERSONS
but 1

hear the Christ's Gospel. In the early lime of these things, I had not an
idea to become a Christian

thought if 1 would be able to be com forted in my painful body and tedious and hopeless heart from the illness, T. B. But in passing two months or three months since that, I was very

the Father, and of the Son, and of the mild temper in my heart in some way Holy Spirit, believing and accepting or other, but at last I found that my the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal hasly temper could not change easily Saviour and the Son of the only living, into the mild one by myself, because it almighty, and merciful God, that I was my natural temper. Sometimes, I might be saved by Him and go into' disputed with others. 7 had dissapointment. thinking that I could not follow
the words of God and have a faith in

interested to read and hear the Word the Kingdom of God. of God. T opened the spiritual eye to When 1 only knew the teaching of the love of Jesus Christ, and then I Jesus Christ, before I was baptized, I decided lo become the God's man. had a bad character, I was a hard In this way, I was baptized by Mr. loser, hasty temper and unfriendly Donald Rickerson, into the name of with others. So often I would get a

Christ. But the great love of God encouraged my spirit each time when I went down a valley of a death, and
Continued on pago 2

righted my doing by my own power, Send all offerings for Miyako Christian Mission to Forwarding Secretary, Mrs. Warham Cox. (See full address at top of sheet).
I would not be able to be a Christian

in all my life, and I think that I can say the same words to all men in this world, too, not only me.
I believe that we will be cleaned
and taken our sin and defilements out

FINANCIAL REPORT
AUGUST, SEPTEMSER, OCTOBER 1954 General Fund $268.45
RECEIPTS:

of our hearts by Just believing and accepting the Redeemer, Jesus Christ

Crenshaw Chr. Chu. L.A., Calif.

$ 60.00

McKinley Prk. Chr. Tocoma, Wn.


Paul Waller, Veronia, Ore. John Orr, Son Froncisco, Colif.

220.00 our Lord, and then we will be able

G. B. Schmid, Westporf, Wn. Mr. & Mrs. Pritchard, Acampo, Calif. _


St.Johns Chr. Chu. Portland. Ore.

to have a hope to live eternally by just 99.00 believing the resurrection of Jesus
30.00
20.00

20.00 10.00

Christ our Lord.


Since 1 came home from the T. B.

A. J. Manley, Eugene, Oregon


Chu- of Christ, Sisters, Ore.

63.00
18.00

Irving Chu. of Christ, Eugene, Ore. Sewing Club, Ziilah, Wn.


W. Seottle Chr. Chu.

52.51 5.50
12.00

Chr. Workers, L. A. Calif. Families, Moderia, Colif.


Mrs. M. Russell, Zillah, Wn.

20.00 302.50
9.00

Sanatorium, I go to the servicc in the every Lord's Day. and keep the fel lowship in the Lord's Supper with
Jesus Christ, and the members of the

t::.!
Kayoko Takasato my daily lonely life, that I would like to die, if I would do so, I would

Chu. of Chr. Amity, Ore. 25.00 Orchord Ave. Chu. of Chr. Spokane,Wn. 10.00 Missions Group, Lebanon, Ore. 36.00
Chf. Chu. Mansfield,--Wn. ^ Mrs. Lela Cox, I. A.. Calif.

Mt. Vernon, B.S., Springfield, Ore.

Lodies Council, Canby, Ore.


Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Rickerson,

Bellinghom, Washington
Mrs. Icel Dunn, Posco, Wn. Women's Council, Truman, Minn. Greenwood Chu. of Christ, Seottle

Mrs. Noble Walton, Bellinghom, Wn.


W. C. F. No. Bend, Ore. Chu. of Chr. Elmira, Ore.

Chr. Chu., Wopato, Wn. Chr. Chu. Monmouth, Ore. Chu. of Chr. Acampo, Calif. C. L. Barrett, Rockledge, Flo. Ed. Bcrrett, Rockledge, Fla. Don Luckert, Miyako Total Receipts Brought Forward
TOTAL

Miyako Church of Christ, and Christ ians ail the world. So I have my life in 12.14 peaceful, hopeful, delightful and hap 15.00 17.45 py spirit every day, being full of the 75.00 many graces of the merciful God, my 10.00 Heavenly Father. Please favor me with 30.00 20.00 your prayer that I will grow in faith 20.00 25.00 in Christ, praise the name of Al 10.00 mighty God and be able to spend 50.54 33.61 all my life in thanking to God. At 16.80 10.00 last, I will pray for all Christians in
20.00 the whole world. 8.33 5.83

be able to go to my lovely late


mother's place.

$1392.21 268.45
$1660.66 600.00

Expenditures:
Mr. & Mrs. Rickerson (L.L.)

Woyne Rickerson, (Supports


Mr. Honashiro (solory) Miss Shimoji (Salory) Furlough Freighter Fund
Misc. car, office, postage, mimeo., etc.
Insurance on car

138.00
99.99 60.00 54.00
73.17
71.50

A LIFE OF SORROW TO A LIFE OF JOY-- CHRIST JESUS BROUGHT SALVATION AND COMFORT TO KAYOKO

One evening as I was going for a walk, my ears caught a good and beautiful melody from an unknown quarter. My heart was tied utterly by that beautiful chorus, and then my feet carried my body toward the place to be singing the wonderful chorus, bccause I was seeking only the warm affection for my lonely life. But in spite of it. I could not enter in the such peaceful fellowship.
As T was alone again, I stood under the window of the hall of the Police Station, and I heard from inside the

Read her thrilling testimony hall, the somcones tender and happy I am pleased to tell you my glad voice, saying, "Blessed are they that ness in Christ, thanking for the grace mourn, for they shall be comforted."
of the Lord.

Eclipse Printery, & Sec. exp.


Totol
TOTAL

70.20
1166.86 $1166.86

When

heard

that

voice

stood

Expenditures

RECEIPTS:

TOTAL EXPENDED

BALANCE
CHURCH
RECEIPTS:

BUILDING

FUND

Joe Levin, Tocoma, Wn.

Lodies Council, Conby, Ore.


Chr. Workers, L.A. Calif. Mrs. M. Green. Glendale, Cal. , B. S. Jefferson, Ore. TOTAL RECEIPTS

Balance Brought Forword Total Receipts


TOTAL

My mother died on the third month $1660.66 after I was born, and my father went 1166.86 away in order to do his work, leaving _$ 493.80 me with my grandmother. Therefore I spent the lonely and sorrowful time 2.00 25.00 day and night, with my grandmother 5.00 and Ionly two. I, who passed my 15.00 67.00 childhood in such a sorrowful way, $114.00 was thinking on my way, as I was $2715.67 growing, why God took my mother
114.00
$2829.67

still, thinking, then 1 left, as if escap


ing. I told myself that there was no one to comfort me in this world,
and all men in this world have been

deceiving one another with the tender, peaceful, and happy words just on
their lips. I did not know that the words 1 heard were God's words. I was so unreflecting that I could not

find the true God in spite of the


merciful God's lead.

from me, and when I saw the happy homes of my friends, I cried and

After several days I went to hear

one day I stopped my heart on the cried, and then I hated God and men verses in Matt. 9:12-13, on the way to as a result of my lonely home life. read the Holy Bible. Instantly I made I. who was spiteful was going in this up my mind to commit to God's care way in which I was not able to keep all of myself. At just this time I my companionship with my friends, believed that Jesus invited the sinful in the time of getting the higher ed and weak one like me, and therefore ucation course. there was nothing else to lean my sin I had known only the idol worship ful and unclean body and soul on, about the religion, because I was but on the bloody hands of Jesus on taught in my childhood that men were
the Cross. If I would have a faith in

the story of Jesus and His Gospel, with my friend, accepting her invi
tation. To my great surprise it was
a different hall where we went this

time, and to add to this, I had to stay


here patiently, because somehow I would not like to leave. And there, I knew that the late Mr. Kunimaka, who was a preacher in the meeting,

came to speak the Gospel of Jesus saved by idol of the dead men. I use Christ, to the people of Miyako Is

Christ after I cleaned my heart and to think in those days of distress in lands. I asked to myself, "Is it for

me, too?" And I asked again and mission and teaching that our Lord the way of Christ when I thought was Jesus Christ gave us. All of us must about the relation of the kingdom of ashamed, thinking that such a kind perform to fight a good fight of faith heaven and human life. After I believ man was in this world and he came to in the Gospel, for we are to live by ed that 1 was a sinner and Jesus Christ sp^ak the Gospel for me, too. In the grace of the Living God. I could was my personal Saviour, I was bap
again this question, at last I that message, the words of Jesus Christ were spoken, "A.sk and it shall be given you." I thought care fully about that Holy Word, applying it to myself again and again. At first I did not know what my need was.
believe that it was God's will for tized by Mr. Rickerson. Since I was saving me that God, who knew all baptized, my mind was converted about me, took my mother from me. according to depending on Jesus I think that 1 will not be able to Christ. Now I have a happy and forecast about the method how God joyful time every day, forgetting my will save eternally the human's spirit illness, T. B. I thank God every day and bring into His eternal sweet that I will be happy to be able to heavenly home. I want to bear any enter the Kingdom of God, being troubles and difficulties until Jesus given the eternal life by the guidance Christ will come again, believing God, of my Lord Jesus Christ. the promise of Jesus Christ's coming again, surely.
MMIIItlMIIIIMirilllll

I knew that I was unhappy, and I

was so shy that I waited to be com forted by someone. Then I began to see that t had to have something in my heart, and then I determined to ask and believe God that I might be a good girl, having a sweet char Since I became a Christian I con acter. That was the reason why I tinued to live in the safe soul every went to attend in the church meeting day. as much as I was said by my and pray little, but I was able to have I have not knowledge to express my my joyful heart in the fellowship wonderful joy, but I am looking for
with the faithful brothers and sisters
in Christ.

TBTIMONY OF MISS HIDEKOTASOKO

after that. 1 could not sing any hymn friends that I "changed my character."

ward that all of Christians will be

seen with the saving peaceful spirit,

When I was taught about the living in the heavenly home of God, our God and the Jesus's death upon the Heavenly Father, introducing Jesus cross for my sin, I was surprised, Christ. and then I thought and thought about At last please read Phi. 4:6. Kayoko Takasato the love of the living Cod. I was
ashamed that I had not faith in

Christ and God, but I wanted to become a faithful Christian. My great

TESTIMONY Oriss
TOSHIKOTOYOSATO

joy was that

I was given a great

promise to be saved by God. Then 1 was baptized into the name of the

God of the Son, of the Holy Spirit. This joy is a higher one than the worldly joy, 1 believe so. Though there are many men in the world who will turn away from the Bible, not being able to believe
the wonderful works named, and the
miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I passed my selfish and unworthy life for twenty-six years. I felt that
1 was born in newness of life when

I believe through my experience that the merciful, living God, has done upon me a wonderful saving work, giving me great joy to live with Jesus
Christ in this world, even I who was in a hopelessness in the world before. Before, I hoped to live by believing

and doing the only words of the Holy


Bible as a faithful Christian without

saying anything. I am full of the glad


ness and delight, and I believe and
thank to God that it is due to the

leading and endless love of God for me to tell my joyful heart and peace ful spirit in Christ to my many friends and neighbors. that is a faith in Christ. At first I I will do my best in faithful life knew and understood the way to God in Jesus Christ and the works of by the Gospel preached on Sunday loving for others, because I felt the and about what the teaching of Jesus importance of the commandments. Christ means. I wanted to go into

I am an in-patient in the Miyako T. B. Sanatorium. If I could go to school I would be in the third year of Junior High School. I am very sorry that I don't go to school. I want to go to school. But I found here the greatest trea sure in my illness on the sick-bed.

I was baptized, believing Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour since I was saved by Jesus Christ. 1 thank that 1 can endure the pains of T. B. by praying to Jesus on my bed morning and evening. I pray day and night to God. my Heavenly Father, "I hope always that 1 want to gel the eternal life if I die." When I pray in same mind everyday, I forget my illness, T. B. and then I am going forth into deeper faith in Christ. After these, I am full of my thanking soul to God for my joy and peace, being given me by my Lord, Jesus Christ. I am thanking every time to Jesus Christ, who can lead my sinful spirit into the
faith in Him.

Please pray for me in order to go to the eternal life in the Kingdom of God, and I will pray for all men that they may be given the hope and peace.

MRS. MITSUKO TASAKI - A FAITH FUL YOUNG CHRISTIAN MOTHER

and that my children may be the good children who will conform to
God now and in the future.

MR. AND MRS. G. B. SCHMID OF

WESTPORT, WASHINGTON

WHOSE HUSBAND, DR. TASAKI IS


STUDYING IN AMERICA
HER TESTIMONY

I thank and pray to God every day that I'll attend- to every service in Miyako Church of Christ, and I couid have a faithful Christian aa my husband. I am very glad to say to my Lord, Heavenly Father, "Let me grow in faith to faith in Christ, and let my song be praising to God."

DAiLY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOLS ENROLL 450 PUPILS


The schools on the Island of Miy ako have only six weeks for summer vacation. We took advantage of this time, and held three Daily Vacation
Bible Schools of two weeks each. In

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Hirara City, 160 children enrolled. This couple, alone, are supporting In Jimodi, a village three miles dis tance, there were 65 enrolled. In Mr. Rickerson's interpreter, at $30 a Nishibe Village, two miles in another month. By so doing they arc helping to get the Gospel out to hundreds of In 1946 I began to go to Church, direction, 225 children attended. For two weeks of these schools people on Miyako each week. Their but I had never read the Bible before that time. Now I went to every ser I had only one worker to help me, consecrated money will always be vice on Sunday, and read the Word of the other three weeks I had both used for an interpreter. God, and heard the Gospel. I wanted Mrs. Kuninaka and Miss Shimoji. to have something in my mind, and In each school we had only one room OUR NEED in which to meet, so that all children 1 did not yet have faith. ANOTHER couple who will con It was the happiest time to me the were in one big class. In the Nishibe secrate $30 a month for the Lord'.s next year when the wedding of Mr. school with 225 pupils in a one-room work here. Mr. Keiki Hanashiro has Kunio Tasaki, my husband now, and club house, (plus twenty-five little been our interpreter for the past year. tots at the openingsdoors and win me was celebrated in the church, He is an enthusiaslic young evangel though I had not a faith in Christ so dowsbut really just openings) it ist, but he needs more Bible education. much. When my husband was passed really was a noisy place. We were We hope to send him to Bible College in the examination of the resident very tired when our "summer vaca in Japan just as soon as we have the students of America, by the grace of tion" was over but we were happy necessary $30 a month for his sup God, he said, "1 will not be able to that we had been able to give the port while there. One couple could go and study with an easy mind there Gospel to 450 children, most of do it just as the Schmids' are if my family will not believe and whom had never before heard the doing. You would be educating a obey to God, the Heavenly Father name of Jesus. PxeacheiL who in four yeurs.._could Mrs. Rickerson before the time when 1 go to Amer return to Miyakoto preach to thou ica." sands of his own people. Or. three We do not know what the So his mother (molhsr-in-law to me) future holds, but wc do know couples each giving $10 p:r month and 1, each of us, accepting Jesus that God holds the future. could support him. as He is Christ, our Saviour, and the Son of the living God, and we were (do 0 0 0 (5irtnnrb~tt"o~o~tt~a"o"o 0 o jnsmn baptized into the name of the Father I MIYAKO CHRISTIAN MISSION c/o Mrs. Warham Cox and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost in 1951. 1709 West 71st

My husband left for America in June 1952 to study the course of the Body and Mind Medicine, in the Public Hospital of New York State. Since he left, I have just given my weakly mind to faith. I thank to God always to be able to live every day in peace, bringing up my children without my hu.sband. I have the won derful love of God and leading of Jesus. I pray always that my husband may work as a good Christian Doctor,

Los Angeles 47, California

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