Forwarding Agent in States: Maxine Seyb, 1800 West ^3d Place

Mr, & Mrs. Julius Fleenor,

1-5-15 Naka Cchiai

Los Angeles, California, 900^^

Newsletter
Dear Friends:

Shinjuku, Tokyo,

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(25^ stamp or 13^ airform)

April, 1969

So much has happened since our last newslet

ter, we must condense the news,

but through
some of

the pictures we hope you will catch

the joie de vie (joy of life) that we have in Christ as missionaries. Jesus said, "Your joy no man taketh from you" G^ohn 16:20-22).

This is true in these day;s when we see the

'rorld corrupting around us in every way.
Then we remember Jesus said, "This world is fading away." Read again Isaiah 3 and which describes the last days on earth. But Jesus said, 'Mhen these things begin to come

to pass, then look up,...for your redemption

draweth nigh." How wonderful it is to be a
Julius, Julia, and Virginia as they appeared on Fujii T.V. National Morning Show in Feb.

i^art of God*s divine plan for the universe, ana i:o be used of Him to bring LIFE to those dead souls around us. Truly we look for that
Kingdom whose builder and founder is GodI

IDven when you don*t hear from us, do continue praying. We do thank God for you who keep up that faithful financial support, making possible our ministry in Japan. We live by the promise of Jesus Christ: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." Many days we want to write letters, but God brings Japanese who need the love of Christ expressed to them through us, and we
must do first things first.

and Grace found a little boy, beaten and bruised and starved, standing by the road one day
Ve investigated; the parents became frightened, and took him to a welfare hospital. He was found to have a broken elbow (that had healed unset, and was just dangling and stiff), acute hernia, and bum and bruise scars all over his body. V/e prayed and visited. His arm became injfected after the operation. We asked to get him, so we might^et him to a -%onj2. spficialxst. Finally,"on Christinas Day, a phone call came, and he was released to us. Oasis Sliriners Club in Totyo agreed to pay all of his medical expenses at the St, Luke*s Hospital, where we took him on January 7th. He had a battered and deformed ear,
which is now corrected ty plastic surgery.
January 1st, his parents signed Yukio over

GOD GIVES US Ttv'O NW SONS - YUKIO, age 5 - MA CHAN, age 4 Perhaps our most thrilling news is the story of how God has given us two new sons. Julia They asked us to pray for him. Julia found out where he livedo

on their way to school.

to us as guardians until he is 20 years old. He was to be placed in an orpliar^ge

by the Welfare Department, because w learned that the police had been called in several times before we found him, and
after we got involved, the VJelfare decided

to take action. We prayed, and felt that God wanted us to take him as a son, and
all OMT children agreed to love him as a

brother. In eight hours, he was calling

us mother and daddy in Japanese.

(left to right) Ma Chan - Virginia - Y\ikio

age ^ age 5

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Grace 8, Dana Lee 15,
bring joy to our home

Julius and Laurie

Maxine, age 11 months,

are often caught in this pose. She wins many friends for us with her smiling eyes.
Mrs. Kuwabara has been

our faithful hel.per in the home 1? years.

Laurie _love s_,her.

In the hospital Yukio told the doctor, *'My old daddy burned me and beat me, but my new daddy loves me." Yukio came home from the hospital March 28th. What a joy he is! We find we love him as much as our own children already.

On January 22, Mrs. Kuwabara (my helper in the home for 1? years) told me of a boy who
had been beaten by his mother. It was in all the newspapers and on National T. V. He had been taken to a hospital on Christmas Day, with multiple fractures of the ribs,

shoulder, and his leg brokon, with bone deterioration from being forced to walk on
it. Ilis front teeth were knocked out, and his lip cut so badly it looked as if he had had a poorly repaired hair lip. The doctors said had he been brought in a day or two
later he would have died from shock and malnutrition. His face was full of scars where

his mother had clawed him.

We prayed for this boy, and felt guided to take hijn.

The

children agreed, so we asked God to open all the doors so we could get him within 2k hours, if it was God*s will that we have him, as getting Yukio had taken mar^ visits

over a period of three months. Within 2^ hours we had permission of the hospital,
parents, and police for us to become guardians until he is 20 years old. We had him transferred to St. Liike's for treatment, with the Torii Oasis Shriners Club of Tokyo

agreeing to pay all medical expenses. home with us about April 10th.

After surgery, he is now walking and should be

Ma Chan's parents had been in a triffic accident two years before, the oldest son was killed. Ma Chan slightly injured, both parents unconscious 20 days. The mother lost the baby she was carrying, which was due within a month. Ma Chan stayed with his grand

parents until Septaaber, 1968, when he returned to his parents, and from that time un
til December 25th, he was nearly beaten and starved to death. The mother is pregnantexpecting another baby in May. Since no action has been taken to get her treatment, Virginia has taken her to a psychiatrist friend, Dr. Hasegawa, who is treating her. He says she is incapable of raising this baty, which is soon to be bom, and will likelydo the same thing. We are praying, if it is God*s will, that this baby will be released to us, and the Robert Warrick family has already agreed to adopt the baby, if this is possible. If not, pray for the conversion of the parents, and that treatment will en able the mother to give good care to the baty. She told the psychiatrist, **Mrs. Fleenor

is my only friend, and the only one who cares about me."
sick mind, and know the will of God in this matter.

Pray that we may help this

HCT// RICH WE ARE with our little laurie to be one year old May 9th, and that God has given us two sons and a daughter all within one year I
OPPORTUNITY TO WITNESS ON NATIONAL T.V. The police informed the NHK National nrws sta

tion that we had taken Ma Chan, and they came Immediately and took our pictures, and told

of our giving him a home. Also, we were Invited to appear on the Morning Show of the Fujii T.V. Station, and Julius vas able to say, *The reason we took these two boys is

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April, 1969
believe that

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because we Christians

is a way

of wor-

shipping our God. We live only for

the glory of God, and taking these boys is just a wonderful chance for us to express our love to God. This is the joy and opportxmity we have

as Chjristians."
ters thanks

As a result, the
yen

Station got many calls

saying they

like more missionaries to be interviewed. about let-

to help support Ma Some wrote saying they wantto the

am

One to

and will

a Christian.

could

never believe in miracles before, but now I can." Our very first con vert of 18 years ago phoned us after reading about us in the papers.
VJe had lost contact with her. She

said she was still a Christian, and remembered she owed us money, and was coming to pay her debt. She thanked us for helping her when she was lost and in great need. How won derful that God let us be encouraged through this. Our purpose of taking the boys was not for publicity, but through it God gave us a chance to have free time on a nation wide ToVo to witness for the Lord. People have recognized us, stopped us on the street and thanked us for helping these boys.
NO'/i FRAY FOR OUR SONS that they may find God*s will for their lives their full potential. My, what a blessing we would have missed had boys into our hearts and hornet VJhat a joy to see them come back to withdrawn, nervous, trembling boys to confident, laughing children, ing God daily, and thank Him for their blessings. and fulfill we not taken these life from quiet, who pray to the liv

PRAYHy.5 ANS'^'JERED FOR I3IBLE SCHOOL FOR PRAYER AND EVANGELISM.

In January of 1968, we

asked prayer that every room would be filled in our Bible School. As this is -vrritten, every room is filled with young men studying God^s Word and evangelism, and meeting each morning for prayer as they also attend regular University classes. Pray for them, ana also for God to use us to train workers to open 100 new places for evangelism, and pray

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Q11+ 1nQ^new missionaries in these last days.

The picture below shows^Julius baptizing a young engaged

FIRST FRUITS OF KOIWA WORK.

G^u-ple from the new-y<ark-begun-n-a home in-Koiwaa-year agcniThis Is anoUier of Lhe

100 new places we have asked God to use us to open.

ROBERT WARRICKS will go on furlough June 15 for one year. They will present their work, and will tell of our work also. PLEASE INVITE THm TO SPEAK TO YOUR CHURCH or to a group

in your home.

They can be contacted at Mrs# Warrick^s parents*s address:

Bob^Warrick

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Cambridge City, Indiana

Please encourage these missionaries and help

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them along their way. We commend them to the

brethren everywhere*

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Julius baptizing a young engagea

couple from the new work in
Koiwa.

EVANGSLISM & SUMMER CAMP!. FT^.Pt

Please begin now to pray for Special offerings will be used

this work, in Ifey for

a $200,printing bill for 50i000 tracts of

fering a Bible Correspondence course (Paul

Pratt*s),and 8 songs in English <5: Japanese

for the "Sing Alongs" we have at the Festival Street Meetings, and also which we hope to have on the Ginza Plaza in May and June, If you want the blessing and oppor tunity of reaching thousands, just desig

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nate your

gift for

tracts.

Also, $7,00

will send a child to summer camp. This makes a good V, B. S, project. Save the stories of the boys on the front page, and
use these to tell the children, so they can see how their offerings help children

like this go to simmer camp,

UVING miORIALS FOR MISSIONS

Recently, a check for $50*00 came frcii the

Hannegan Christian Church in Indiana, This Katie Vee Clarkson

Church has sent partial support for Julia since her birth. This $50,00 met an urgent
need. It was sent as a living memorial to
of Ray Smith, a former missions in honor

Veteran Sknday School teacher and supporter of Missions, writer of Standard

V.V,S,naterials, poetess, Child of the
Most High God,"Our Mother in the Lord,"
Also, we remember

minister of Hannegan and a godly man, who recently went to be with the Lord. We cherish a lovely Bible they gave us, besides many spiritual gifts.

some years ago when Alice Kempf of Iowa, who had supported Julia at $10, a month, went to be with the Lord, A dear friend of hers found a letter of ours among Alice*s be

longings, and wrote asking if she might continue whatever amount Alice had given. Mrs, Strickler has continued this $10, monthly support through the years.

Thus,

Then just this week, "our Mother in the Lord," Katie Vee Clarkson, sent us a beautiful

poem she had written on March 1969* She has supported missions all over the world, and taught Sunday School since she was 16. She was Virginia's first" Sunday School teacher in Los Angeles. She and her parents came from Illinois to L, A. in 1924, hop
ing to work among Japanese in California, They won a little girl named Virginia to

Christ, and then God called her to Japan, We wanted you to see her picture, and give
tribute to her as representing all such faithful prayer warriors and ones who nurture

the Church ty their faithful lives dedicated to Christ and His teaching. She wears a 32 year perfect attendance pin, and has a Bible Club in her home, plus having taught some ^5 years at the Crenshaw Christian Church (formerly Figueroa C, C,), Hundreds of children have passed through her classes, having found the Lord as Saviour, and many
serve as ministers, missionaries, and S. S. teachers today. small, but we know her reward will be great in Heaven.
I won*t need flowers *round my casketGive their price to missions, I plea But a smile and a handclasp of friendship
Will be "living posies" for me.
How oft in the rush and the tumoil

This little "posie" is

REMMBER THE LIVING - E&r Katie Vee Clarkson

So 1*11 cherish such "posies" while living,

And try to be helpful and true

Of our daily, fast-moving pace, It is easy to pass up the pleasure

Of bringing smiles to the face

To those who need smiles and attention. For this brings me happiness, too. No, I won't need flowers 'round my casket I'll be where immoi*tal flowers grow; Forever with loved ones in Glory,
And Jesus, Who loves us all sol
GOD BLESS ZOU ALL

Of a dear one who needs to be noticed, Not pushed aside in the throng,
Who will cherish the smile and the kind word

That brings to his sad heart a song.

WRITE AND TELL US YOU ARE PRAYING.

Forwarding Agem: in States; i'laxirje Seyb 1800 West 43d Place

Kr, & Mrs. JTiiius j?eenor

1-5-15 Naka Ochiai

Los Angeles, Ca,, 9OO63

"URGENT NEED"

Shinjuku, Tokyo, I6I (25?5 stamp or 13^5 ai^forra)

NEWSLETTER JUNE, I969

i^eloved 3!n the Lord: FI?.ST OUR GOOD NEI^.'S A>ID ANSl'JERS TO TRAYm

Stephen and his wife Carol in Eugene, Oregon, where they are please contact them directly:
ych Street, Springfield, Oregon, 97^77
'baptized into Christ.

Aj^ril }, 1969 our first granddaughter was bom to our first son

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finishing their preparations for missionary service to Japan 7S you wish them to speak to your summer camps or churches in

Stephen Fleenor, 1528 N.

after hearing the gospel for the first time in Home Evangelistic meetings, held house to house in villages 'over six days. KEK TOM OFEKED. Continue to pray for God to use us to
iwa (thirty miles from Tokyo in Chiba). This group is meeting

KAMO EyANGT^'TSM resulted in one head of a household being Pray this might be our first Christian family. Also, three others made confession of faith in Christ

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open one hundred new places for the gospel. As of May, a group of twenty University students are meeting in the City of Kash-

Rebekah Lynde Fleenor "Our first grandchild"

eveiy Satuiviay in a place arranged ty a young convert from last summer*s camp work. Mr. Yamazaki spent many hours talking to Stephen during his missionary internship last summer. Finally,

he decided to take Christ as his Saviour, but asked us this question, "I4r. Fleenor, if my father throws me out of our home when I tell him I have been baptized into Christ, can I come

and live with you? Will you be my father?" Julius replied, "Yes, I will make a place fhr you in our home, but let us pray that your family*s heart will be opened and that they will become Christians." A few days later a letter came from this young man: "Praise God, ray father was liappy when I told him I was a Christian. He said he had been studying the Bible secretly once
a week also at some church. He said, *It is a good thing to be a Christian.*" This was one

of the very unusual, happy surprises we find in Japan from time to time. Now this young man has gathered a group of students and found a meeting-place, set the time, and is trying to be gin a church in this town of fifty thousand, where his University is located. Many of the
students plan to come to camp, so FRAY FOR CONVERSIONS1 Ut4AEDA CHURCH OF CHRIST in Nishi Arai section of Tokyo has been given money to relocate from the City of Tokyo, and land has been purchased in a much better location, and construc tion is to begin in late June. The funds received will be adequate to cover everything.
Pray for continued growth in this church.
TIIANK GOD WITH US FOR THE ABOVE ANSWERS TO ERAYfiR. TRULY. PRAISE HD^ CONTINUALLY!
THIS LETTER IS MINLY AN URGENT APPEAL FOR PRAYER

Perhaps more than any time since our arrival to Japan has prayer been more needed for Japan. In the World Commimist Party "time table," they have set 1970 for the take-over in ^

Japan. V7e see many signs'bf the pressures and workings of certain godless groupV to stamp out
freedom and crush the Church in Japan as it did in China,North Korea and other places in
recent years. June, 1970 the "Japan-American Security Pact" comes up for renewal. If it is not renewed then, Japan will stand alone against the pressures and threats of Communism. Of course, this will affect the entire missionary picture, if Japan breaks its ties vrith the

free world and bends under the pressures of the Communist and Socialist groups, which are

planning INTENSIVE RIOTS, beginning now on through June 1970. j Already, an April bloody riot
took place in Totyo.
ized by riots.

All pavement stones throughout the city have been removed, and asphalt

sidewalks have taken their place, because in the past year these stones have been used to hurl

at police and destroy things. Whole stations where thousands commute daily have been immob-ilREAD CAREFULLY THE ATTACHED Revival News written by a dear friend of ours, Will Schubert, who worked almost forty years in China, and was tinder the Communists for many months before

being allowed to leave China. He then felt called of God to come to Japan to pray for Japan. His letter tells of some of the siiailarities at the time of the Communist take-over in China,
and the conditions we see in Japan today. DON*T I4ISS READING THIS!

In the past month, several times Japanese Communists have called at our door. One, at first, posed'as a Christian anti-Communist, bat finally admitted that she was not a Christian, under our questions. She kept asking each of us, ^What do you think of Communism?" She, how-

ever, would not give us the purpose of her visit, and left suddenly, A week later, a group
v:i.sit6d our church, and invited our Japanese young people to a rally, and gave them liter.T.ure on Communism. Just a week ago, two Communists came to our door, and asked Virginia if they could put up their political poster in front of the church. We said, "No, because yju do not beliove in God, and the most important message of the Church is that there is a 31/ir.;-: God Who sent His Son Jesus to reveal Himself, Also, in countries like China and Korea and Vietnam, where the Communists have power, many Christians have been killed and threatened." This handsome young Communist looked us right in the eye and said, "No, we
Ourfiifiunists do not kill all the Christians, only those who oppose the Communist Political

Pr.rty." Then he asked again, "Can we put up the poster or not?" "No," we replied, "we cannot help you destroy the freedom of the Christians in Japan." Then we gave him a tract, plus Will Schubert*s book in Japanese, "God*s Plan for a Perfect World," which has a pic ture of the globe with a cross over it, and a dollar sign in one comer, and a hammer and sickle in the other. The message of the book is Christ's message, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." It states the answer is not capitalism nor Communism, but Christ that brings life and happiness. Pray that these Communists we meet may see the Person and Love of Christ in us. There have al ways .been one or more Marxists attending our various English Bible classes. They come faithfully, but their attitudes and comments reveal their thinking.
-FEEL-THAT jmS-IS-THE^mE-l'^HEN-SATANIC FORCES mULMASS THEJdSELVES^ASJNEVER ^_QRE^

Also, we believe GOD HAS A PLAN FOR JAPAN.

Matthew 24:6-1^ speaks of the last days: "Ye shall hear of wars, and rumoiirs of wars: see that ye be not troubled...nation shall rise against nation...there shall be famines, ...and earthiiuakes in divers places...then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you; and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." The love of the. great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity. "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NA
TIONS; AND THEN SHALL THE END COME."

Will you go to prayer right now, as you read this? Will you share this letter with others? 1. Pray that the Church in Japan may be strengthened and filled with the Holy Spirit, to redeem the time to be witnesses in the days ahead. Pray that Christians may know the will of God daily in each situation and do it. 2. Pray for rulers and those in authoidty, that they may be controlled and in fluenced by the Power of God, and not the powers of darkness.
3 PRAISE GOD AND WORSHIP HIM TN CONFIDENCE, and look to Him for our salvation in

this hour of trial, as Judah (type of the Church) did in H Chronicles 20:11-25# (1) Judah's prayer, **For we have no might against this great company that Com
eth against us; neither know we what to do; but OUR EIES ARE UPON THEE'i" Look to Jesus; trust Him completely to accomplish HIS WILL FOR JAPAN.

(2) Our attitude, "Be not afraid nor dismayed ty reason of this great multi tude; for the battle is not your*s, but God*s." (3) Our determination, "Stand ye still...go ye down against them...for the
~ Lord mil be with you." ~ ~ '

(4) Our power, "...all Judah...fell before the Lord, worshipping the Lord." (5) Our faith, "Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established..." (6) Our work, "He appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the
beauty of holiness, as they went cut before the army, and to say. Praise
the Lord; for his meres'- endureth for ever."

(7) GOD'S WORK;

vs 22,23 "And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord

set ambushments against the children of Ammon...to slay and destroy them: ...everyone helped to destroy another." We do not know what God's plan for Japan is, bat we do pray that we may be sensitive to His leading. We are asking WHATEVER IT TAKES TO TURN TTHS NATION TO THE LIVING GOD AND
FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST VOTL COME TO PASS.

We have urgent financial needs in order to print tracts, conduct camps, take evangel istic trips, conduct "Sing Alongs" using printed song sheet - gospel tract combinations.
Pray that we be used to the fullest in the coming year.

Finally, we have been contacted by the owner of the property adjacent to our camp. Al though she has had two offers to buy, she said she thought we needed more room for camp, ^nd said sjie would sell to us if we want it. We said, "If God places $14,000.00 into our
hands, we will bay it." Pray that this sum be placed in our hands, if this is God's will. Sincerely,

"READY TO BE SLAIN"-TOKYO PRAYER BREAKFAST TALK by William E. Schubert

Japan today is similar to China just before the Communist "liberation."
In Proverbs 24:10-12 God says we have a responsibility "to deliver them that are drawn unto

death, and those that are ready to be slain." So let us consider our relation to the present
situation in Japan. We have several questions to ask, and we may find some answers.
I. IS A COMMUNIST takeover IMMINENT IN JAPAN? 1. Conditions are similar to China before

the communist revolution: There were communist cells in every organization, schools, hospi tals, churches, publishing houses. The editor of a leading church magazine is now a commun ist official in Peking. Students converted in a revival confessed to being sent into our two high schools to cause trouble. Conditions in Japan bear the same marks of subversion. Work was slowed up, Christian workers were threatened, workers who had acted strangely later re vealed themselves as communist agents. Today in Japan, books that mention communism are boycotted, interpreters, translators, editors get "sick" or cannot finish work begun. In Chi na the communists did not threaten us, but threatened or punished our friends. There seems to be a "shadow government" in Japan doing the same thing. 2. A Japanese Christian professor thought some months ago that foreigners were too disturbed about communism, but now he says "the political atmosphere is changing rapidly." 3. So some who pray things through are selling Japan mission property. 4. The U. S. Embassy has completed evacuation plans for all Americans. 5. Finally, the communists announce it for 1970; and usually they run on schedule. II. IS A COMMUNIST REVOLUTION INEVITABLE IN JAPAN? 1. Humanly speaking, it seems to be unavoidable. Communist students outnumber Japanese police. Many think there is no hope. 2. Yet conditions seemed even more hopeless in Indonesia in early 1965, and in Brazil before that. But both were changed by prayer. Christian women organized prayer bands in Brazil, and the situation changed. Many prayed for Indonesia and Indonesian communists failed. So we believe the Japan picture is not unchangeable, but depends upon our active faith.

III. -.HOWEVER, japan IS SURE TO BE PUNISHED, UNLESS THE JAPANESE PEOPLE REPENT. 1. I have
taught the prophets twelve years, and I have learned one thing: Idolatry by person, family,
or nation is sure to be punished terribly. Read my books "CHRIST IN JEREMIAH" and "CHRIST

IN EZEKIEL" or better yet, read those prophets themselves, and see what caused the Jews'
Babylonian Captivity. 2. Let us consider China again: Three things hindered the Christian enterprise for a hundred years: idolatry, undue family loyalty fostered by ancestor worship, and property. We prayed for many years about these things, and a small percentage of the Chinese people were "pulled out of the fire." Dr. John Sung before he died said God told him there would be a great revival in China, but 'the foreigners would leave first. Now all have gone, so we expect the revival. But how? God used the communists (much as we dislike

their methods) like He used Nebuchadnezzar to cure the Jews of idolatry. The idols are gone, including the homosexual Lama Buddhism of Tibet (which I saw in the Lama Temple in Peking.)
The old family system is destroyed in China. There is no private property. What they have

is a religious vacuum, awaiting the Gospel, and God is preparing His messengers. 3. Now
will God dismiss the communists as He dismissed Nebuchadnezzar after He had used him? I t

looks like it, and history inclines us to expect this, probably soon. In my own limited contacts, I know six whom God has called lately to mainland China: one frcm New Zealand

asked World Evangelism Crusade to send him, but they tried to get him to go anywhere else,
without success; finally they prayed, and after two hours of prayer the committee were unanimous to send him to Taiwan to study Chinese, where I met him. Then the New Zealand committee got a letter from England saying they also had a man who insisted God wanted him

to go to mainland China, and "what are you doing with your fanatic?" Reply: Taiwan. Two others in Hongkong applied for entry permits; when one prayed God told him his friends would get his permit from Peking, but to tell him not to use it as the way -would open otherwise,

^en he told his friend, the other man said he had the permit, but God had told him the same
thing. In Taiwan I know two Chinese, one doctor 61 years old, and a pastor of a good church,
who are called to the mainland. No doubt there are many others. 4. This is enough to indi cate God's purpose, and that the communists' end is near in China. Yet China has been pun

ished for 58 years (1911 to 1969) at least, for its idolatry, family ancestor worship, and
love of property above God. 5. Will Japan be cleansed in this way or otherwise? Could there

be a social revolution through the student movement, rather than a political revolution?

IV. WHAT CAN WE DO? WHAT SHOULD WE DO? 1. We need to seek and obtain God's perfect love by the baptism of the Holy Spirit, so that we can rise personally above all the trials and

truly sanctified and ^'sold out to God" were able to take what the communists dished out. I

vicissitudes of whatever does come to pass. I found in communist China that only those

can witness that one is able finally to live without fear during the "red terror" through a

sense of the risen, living Christ being with one, by the Holy Spirit. You feel His presence. 2. If Japanese attitudes do remain like those of the Jews in Jeremiah's time, we can say
"Amen" like Jeremiah did when God told him He would punish them. It could be that there is

no other way for God to rid Japan of idolatry, undue family loyalty, and love of property instead of God, except to break Japan as He did the Jews, and as He is now breaking the

Chinese clay "to make it again another vessel, as seems good to the potter." Jeremiah 18:4. If so, we too, like Jeremiah, can say, "So be it, 0 Lord." (Hebrew: Amen.) Jeremiah 11:5.
However, we need not "give place to the devil." Ephesians 4: 27. Rather, let us pray fervent ly and effectually, as they did in Brazil and for Indonesia. So let us lay hold for Japan.
3. We should "redeem the time, because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:16. We do not need to be fools; we can be wise, "understanding vdiat the will of the Lord is." Ephesians 5: 17.

Let us stop our bickering and backbiting, love as brethren, and help each other.
4. Our work can be filled with more of the convicting and converting power of the Holy

Spirit. Many send their reports to us, and we pray for them and those they mention. They have English classes, teach English teachers, university students, middle schoolers, and pray for their language teachers, still unsaved. Some report some results, but with the "grave clothes" of idolatry and heathen customs remaining. Some even confess none converted
yet. This.could be like David Brainerd's five fruitless years before the Indian revival. 5. On the other hand we have some who report clean-cut results. One report before" us here tells of nine new Christian homes established by their young people this term, four others going to Bible school last month, and one man who struggled for years, who finally yielded to God completely and "was sanctified wholly." He "let go" and let God. We need more of this. V. THE TIME DEMANDS THAT WE WORK FOR IMMEDIATE RESULTS. In China I had no converts my first seven years. They told me it couldn't be done in China like in my revivals in America. Then Dr. George Ridout came and held meetings. I thought, "He doesn't know it can't be done." But when he gave the invitation, they came in streams to the front, fell down, wept, con fessed their sins and got up with shining faces. I had him come to the interior to see if it would work there, and God worked in the same way. He told me, "Will, the devil is hold ing you back." ,I went out on my district, tried it, and altars were filled with seekers. Then we began to pray alone and together for a revival. Two of us prayed 30 days one year, an hour every morning, then 50 mornings another year, and God sent Dr. John Sung, the Holy

.Spirit fell (no tongues except Chinese) communist students were converted, all my preachers
were born again, even one who hadn't known if there was a God. Last I heard, he is still functioning, over 80 years old, in a self-supporting church in the interior of China. Our only failure was that we asked for too little. "Ask, that your joy may be full." John 16:24.

John 14:13,14;15:7,16;16:23

tell

us to ask largely, ask anything, and your fruit will remain.

CONCLUSION: We can. have it either way. Victory or Defeat. It depends on our fervour and faithfulness in prayer. God will surely win. Let Him. choose His own method. However, it is heaven or hell for millions "ready to be slain," depending on how aggressively we work.

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Ma Chan, Yuk>Oj and Laurie

LATE

WORD

FROM

OUR

MISSIONARIES

Dear Brother Wood :

Your very warm and sincere letter was received by us, and we
WERE MUCH ENCOURAGED BY YOUR INTEREST IN MISSIONS, FOR TWENTY YEARS THE CHURCH AT MICHIGAN CiTY HAS GIVEN US EVERY ENCOURAGE MENT, AND HAS NEVER FAILED TO UNDERSTAND AND HELP US IN OUR WORK
HERE IN Japan.

It HAS BEEN SUCH A FULL AND WONDERFUL

lES.

SUMMER WITH MANY VICTOR-

From July il
CAME TO

to August 2k we had a total of i66 different people taking part in the

BARBARA CoURTNEY
DOING PERSONAL WORK PREPARING TRACTS, CLEANING AND

CAMP program besides WE FLEENORS WHO NUMBER 8 NOW WITH OUR NEW SONS.
HELP ALL SUMMER WITH CAMP

WAXING THE CAMP BUILDING, DOING ALL THE IRONING AND IN GENERAL BEING A "bIG HELP" IN EVERYTHING. NOW SHE IS LOCATED IN SaKAI MACHI HELPING TO ORGANIZE THE JAPANESE KINDER GARTEN WITH AN English program besides helping to open new English classes to bring in MEW PEOPLE TO THE CHURCH, AND PLAYING THE PIANO DURING THE VARIOUS TIMES MUSIC IS NEED
ED FOR THE KINDERGARTEN CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL THERE.

Julius and Virginia spent a week with Stanley and Mabel Buttray; then the first cam pers ARRIVED, AND THE JOY OF PRESENTING THE GOSPEL WAS OURS, MANY SAID, "YeS, WE CAN
''"""TI0N from OUR FAMILY AND SCHOOL IF WE ARE BAPTIZED INTO

b"n

AMn wlo T
There were 12

' CHRISTIAN."

ONE FINE YOUNG MAN, WHO WAS BAPTIZED LAST YEAR

One young man left

confessions of faith and 7 baptized into Christ.

THE SOGGAKAI
RELIGION...,

(FASTEST GROWING BuDDHIST SECT IN JAPAn).

THIS WAS QUITE A VICTORY AS

THEY THREATEN THE MEMBERS WITH

ALL KINDS OF DISASTER AND CURSES IF THEY EVER LEAVE THE

Now THE FALL WORK IS UPON US,

AND WE HAVE MUCH TO DOj

BUT WANT TO SAY THANKS TO YOU

WHO PRAYED FOR THIS WONDERFUL SUMMER. THE ONLY MISHAP WAS A FALL FROM A HORSE BY JULIA.

She HAD TO HAVE SEVERAL STITCHES IN HER TEMPLE FOR A DEEP GASH AND SHE WAS COVERED WITH
BRUISES, BUT NO PERMANENT OR SERIOUS DAMAGE.
WHEN IT STARTS TO RUN UP A MOUNTAIN.

ShE NOW HAS A GREATER RESPECT FOR A HORSE

When we think of the thousands of contacts through the street meetings this summer

Christ, we feel very thankful God has allowed us to be co-workers with Him in the KING
DOM. We thank Him too for each of you who helped us in prayers and offerings.

SINGING, witnessing,

GIVING OF

30,000 TRACTS,

THE DEC ISIONS AND THOSE 8APTI ZED INTO

On August 25th, we had a lovely birthday party for Grace (age 9), the boys, Yukio 6,
AND Ma Chan 5* *no Abel Perez, a Christian Marine Sargeant who has been visiting all
THE missionaries DURING HIS TOUR OF DUTY IN JAPAN....

During one week we helped an alcoholic, witnessed to a Berkeley hippy, fed and provi ded FOR A MENTAL PATIENT, AND HAD AT OUR TABLE A MISSIONARY ON HIS WAY TO VIETNAM, A

CBS NEWS CORRESPONDENT, A VETERAN MISSIONARY FROM CHINA,

Wayne Wertz.
HEARTS....

AND A FAMILY FROM INDIA, Dr.

HAPPY AND PEACEFUL

Yes,

this

summer

we

had

BUSY hands and FEET, BUT

In His Great Love, uLius Fleenor

Your Minister to Japan

Fleenor Girls and New Sons

THANKSGIVING NEWSLETTER November 1969

Dear Friends;

"IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS" says the Word

of God and we want to send a letter in which we

share our many blessings. Most of all we are thankful for the indwelling PRESENCE OF GOD through JESUS CHRIST. This is the "JOY" that Jesus spoke about when He said: "Your joy no man taketh from you." "Ask and ye shall receive, that your joy may be
full." John 16:22-24

_^^^^U^^L^^^FAMILY IN JAPAN
Shinjuku, Tokyo (25<? stamp) Forwarding Agent in States: 1 Maxine Seyb, 1800 W. 43rd PI, Los Angeles I
California, 90062

Truly the Word in Nehemiah "The Joy of the Lora

shall be your strength," has been a reality this year when His Presence has enabled us to do beyond our
human strength the work the Lord has placed in our hands. For this we give thanks.

Then we want to give thanks for YOU who pray and give sacrifically so we can stay in Japan and express God's love to those we touch daily. Many, many times this past year we knew our budget was far above our promised support from the Church in America but God was faithful again and again as He spoke to hearts to meet our needs when we had no time to write personal letters to make pleas for special needs for our new Japanese sons, for tracts, for evangelistic trips, for medical expenses, for supplies, for repairs on buildings. We would pray and then would hear from Maxine our forwarding agent that an unexpected check from some church or individual had come in. Yes, God has been faith ful. We are also thankful for you who have been faithful to give as God placed it upon your heart.

We are thankful for definite news of many young people preparing to come to Japan as missionaries who are studying and preparing and asking God to guide and provide. This is an answer to our prayer for God to send out 100 new missionaries to these people in the next 10 years.
We are thankful for OPEN DOORS IN JAPAN. Even though we see anti-God and communistic forces working in Asia, we are thankful for many victories and that many Christians have had their eyes opened through the riots in the schools and in other places.
For our as as the

family here Japan. Also for Stephen our first born and Carol and granddaughter Rebekah in Oregon. Their new address is

2355 W. 20th, Eugene, Oregon 97405. They

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schooling andprepare for service in Japan.

^
^ Y i i k i o will enter Japanese Grade

write of two fine recruits for Japan they have contacted recently as they finish their

parents have signed the irrevocable release

for him to be adopted by us and become a U. S. citizen. Ma Chan's future is still being

School in April '70. We are thankful his

Yukio age 6 and Ma Chan age 5 taken August 25, 1969 at birthday celebration. IQ's in March for boys Yukio 60 Ma Chan 70. IQ's in Oct. for boysYukiollS Ma Chan 132

decided by the court but they seem favorableto our adopting him. Both boys have doubled their IQ during 6 months in our Home and are spiritually responsive to God.

Thanks be to God for the Japanese

Church. Those who are faithful and

those who are witnessing for Jesus Christ in Japan. This is a picture of building that houses the first church JuUus established in Japan, the Shimoochiai Church of Christ. Recently the men of the church painted a new sign to go over the entrance. It reads:
"HERE YOU CAN FIND PEACE" The Shimoochiai Church of Christ. In

this building the Word is taught daily through the varied ministry of the kindergarten, the English Bible Classes, Japanese Bible studies, Prayer meeting. Youth meeting, music of all kinds, Mother's meetings, and Evangehstic Meetings of various types.
Shimoochiai Church of Christ Building and Bible

School upstairs, Mission Home in rear.

We thank God for the answer to prayer that every study room upstairs be filled with University students in the Bible School for Prayer and Evangelism. This prayer has been answered with 7 young men who pray together, witness in street meetings, help in Sunday schools. Coffee House Evangehsm and our camp
work.

The picture to the left shows these young men at the 6:30 morning prayer meeting where burdens are shar ed and prayer made and the Bible read.

THANK GOD FOR CALLING OUR JAPANESE YOUNG MEN AS EVANGELISTS. Goro Kuwabara wHl

graduate from Cincinnati Bible Seminary in June and plans to return to help. There are three Juifr Uhiversity students now talking with us and praying with us about their future. They feel God is calling them to prepare as full time evangelists or pastors after their graduation from University. Their fami lies will oppose, but we thank God for that promise in 1 Thess. 5:24 "Faithful is He that calleth you,
who also will do it."

Please accept this as a personal thanks if you have prayed for us or have both prayed and sent offer ings for the ministry God has given us to do in Japan. Finally we thank God for all who have encouraged us with letters and other means through the years.
Sincerely,

Julius & Virginia Fleenor