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Julius 6t Virginia Fleenor

Missionaries to Japan for

the Christian Churches of
America

Japan address: 1-5-15 Nakaochlal, Shlnjuku

Tokyo, Japan

Phone 9516025

Forwarding agent for funds; Mrs, Maxlne Seyb

1800 West 43rd Place

Los Angeles, California

90062

NEWSLETTER

JUNE 1, 1967

Dear Friends;

"Praying always with all prayer and supplication In the Spirit, and watch ing thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth
boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador*" Epheslans 6:18-20

trip we have just completed to eight of our Bible Colleges In the midwest, north, and westcoast. We have a mailing list of over 200 names of young people open to God's leading who want our newsletters to pray for Japan and who would be willing to go If God clearly directs. Continue to pray that God will send
forth at least 100 new recruits to Japan In the next ten years to be witnesses

ANSWER TO YOUR PAYERS

Many of you have been praying for the two month

to the 99,000,000 Japanese who have not yet heard or responded to the gospel. Every college graciously received us and we wish to express our thanks to Ozark Bible College, Great Lakes Bible College, Cincinnati Bible Seminary, Kentucky Christian College, Nebraska Christian College, Dakota Bible College,

Minnesota Bible College, and San Jose Bible College. These schools arranged speaking dates and conferences with students. It was a joy to see the large
number of students In every school preparing for the mission field. the last census 80% of the people under 40 stated they had no Interest In any religion whatsoever so the great spiritual vacuum In Japan Is still there.

Japan Is a completely open field, a great nation, 99.6% literate, and In

Continue to "PRAY LORD OF THE HARVEST SEND FORTH LABOURERS INTO YOUR HARVEST." This Is one of the commands of Christ when He saw the multitudes as sheep without a Shepherd and He had compassion on them.
PRAISE GOD FOR THOSE COMING SOON IN PREPARATION FOR JAPAN NOW.

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2. 3.

There are about 40 students who have expressed to us a definite call

to Japan*

There are five mature adult couples seeking God's will In prayer and Inquiry to go to Japan as professional teachers etc.

Many college age young people are planning a year or a summer o

missionary Internship teaching English and Bible to students as their livelihood and earning their own transportation to and from Japan on special charter flights of about $600.00* Mr. & Mrs* Dale Wilkinson, he a blo-chemlst and former students aC Cincinnati Bible Seminary, plan to come next year with their two
small children as full time evangelists.

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5,
6.

Barbara Courtney, missionary teacher, will sail with us August 3rd

on the President Cleveland from San Francisco for a term of service*

We rejoice at the many missionary children from Japan who are planning to return to Japan shortly after education as full time missionaries. Our son, Stephen, is one of these.

STEPHEN FLEENOR AND C/UROL PAyiOTT WEDDING PLANNED.

June 25, 1967 is the

date set for these two to make their vows before God to become husband and wife.

Carol is the lovely daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Glen Parrott of the Willamette
Church of Christ in West Linn, Oregon near Oregon City. Julius will perform the wedding, Julia and Dana Lee will be bridesmaids and Gracie will be flower girl. Goro Kuwabara will be best man and Kip, Carol's brother, an usher with Ed Strom, a former classmate of Steve's from Cincinnati Bible Sem inary. This will be a happy day for all. Stephen and Carol plan to continue at Pacific Christian College and also secure a graduate teaching credential

before coming to Japan as missionaries.

Pray for this new home and these

recruits for Japan. THE FLEENOR MISSION TO JAPAN SUPPORT GROUP in Inglewood California cori'' tinues their faithful support of the work giving their fiinds through the

Lockhaven Christian Church. They have a monthly meeting the second Monday of each month in order to increase their interest in world missions and to keep in contact with the work in Japan. In May, this group gave a wedding shower

for Stephen and Carol.

The June meeting will be in Tapia Canyon among God's

This group

beautiful outdoors in a time of prayer and fellowship as we part.

for five years has met faithfully and supported the work in prayers and offerings, They, as you, are truly co-workers with God for a world evangelized for Christ.
J\me will be full of farewells and packing as we leave here June 17 for Oakland where we will leave off baggage at the HOME OF PEACE (Missionary agency to help missionaries with supplies and details of their missionary journeys) Stephen, Carol, three members of the wedding party and our forwarding agent, Maxine Seyb will be traveling with us in two cars. We plan to be in Oregon from June 19th. After the wedding, we will be in Yakima with Julius' mother until July 5th and then be speaking in Oregon until a week before sailing when we will be at the HOME OF PEACE, 4700 Daisy, Oakland, California. We sail August 3rd on the President Cleveland from San Francisco, Economy class.
ITINERARY UP TO SAILING

June 17

Leave Los Angeles area

June 18

Home of Peace, 4700 Daisy, Oakland, California

June 19-25
June 26-Ju. 5

% Dr. G. Parrott, 1120 7th St., Oregon City, Oregon 97045

Wedding at Wilamette Church, West Linn, Oregon

Ju 5 to Ju 15
July 16 to 24
July 25 to

% Mrs. Nadine Wolverton, 802 S. 8th Ave., Yakima, Washington Speaking in Yakima area

Bill Miles, 1st Christian Church, Newberg, Or. Phone 538-2502

Speaking in the Eugene, Oregon area Send mail 7o David Henry, 175 15 Avenue East, Eugene, Oregon

August 3

Send mail % Home of Peace, 4700 Daisy, Oakland, California

August 14 Arrive in Tokyo, Japan to begin 4th term of missionary service.

PRAY FOR USS

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URGENT NEEDS AT PRESENT

Many have been asking about our needs at this time of sailing. Japan Is $1890 total for our family of flve Received to date for ship fare deposit $400*00
Reserve In Nlshl Aral Christian Foundation 100*00

Our fare to

Fleenor Mission Support Group Reserve

General Fund Reserve

400*00
300*00

Total received to date

1200*00

Amount due $690*00

This means we must have $690*00 more by June 15th to pay for our tickets before leaving Los Angeles* Balance Is due 60 days before sailing* We are trusting God to supply this through His church* FUND FOR TRAVEL may be sent directly to our forwarding agent who will send you a receipt, Maxine Seyb, 1800 W* 43rd Place* If for tax purposes you prefer to sezfd to a church, 3rou may make your check to LOCKHAVEN CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 3947 W* 104 St* Inglewood California and clip or staple a note to the check saying "For Fleenor Mission
Travel Fvind"

Various people wish to send things to the Robert Warrick family* You may mall or ship them to us 7* Home of Peace, 4700 Daisy, Oakland, California at least 10 days before August 3rd and we will gladly pack them and take
them with us*

Several asked us if we gained a lot of extra mission financial support during our two month tour of the Bible Colleges and churches* Offerings covered all our travel expense and the cost of repairing the car to make it servicable for the trip* Our purpose was recruiting and raising eyes to the fields white unto harvest in Japan* The promise of "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these other things will be added^ remains unchanged and we are operating on this promise* One principle of the work we have done remains unchanged "GOD IS FAITHFUL"
NEWS FK(M THE FIELD

The Warricks write that one of the former students of the Bible School

for Prayer and Evangelism will be married to a fine yovmg girl who was con verted through the Karuizawa Camp work and the Shimoochial Church* Mr* & Mrs*
Mbrohashi will minister at the Yokosuka Church of Christ on the outskirts

of Tokyo which was started years ago by Stnaley Buttray, a fellow missionary in Tokyo and is now being reactivated* Also David Mat sue a convert and contact made through Julius's YMCA teaching and the Karizawa Camp work has married a Christian* Dr* Rayner did much of the personal work in winning this young business man to Christ and to help him establish a Christian home* We rejoice to see two new Christian homes begun* Pray for Japanese Christians who wish to marry Christians but who are hindered by godless parents who oppose* The Warricks and Dr* Rayner plan a busy summer camp season in Karuizawa with village festival evangelism* Pray for an ingathering of souls and a work of the Holy Spirit with the Word in every camp* You may send a needy child to camp for $5*00 a week* Perhaps you or a Vacation Bible School group would like to help a needy child have a week in the mountains studying God's
Word*
FAREWELL IN SAN FRANCISCO

Several friends and relatives are takl. ^ their vacations to be in San Francisco August 3rd at our sailing time of 4:00 p*m* on the President Cleveland, Economy class cabins #322 and #314* You may board the ship from noon on. Also we are planning a farewell party in ChlnaTown the night before sailing* We can be contacted a week before
sailing at the HOME OF PEACE, 4700 Daisy, Oakland, California* us if you can* Come see

Finally, Brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things

are honest whatsoever

things are just, whatso ever things are pure ^ whatsoever things are

jLovel^, whatsoever things

are o good report; if there be ativ virtue, and

if there be any praise,

think on these tnines.

Maxine Seyb Forwarding Agent

Nadine Fleenor Wolverton

Mother of Missionary J. Fleenor

Mother Fleenor Wolverton served as our forwarding agent for 15 years. She came to Japan two times, first with Julius' father to help care for our oldest daughter Julia when she was born in Japan and to build the Shimoochiai Church and Mission home. Iwo years later Julius' father went
to be with the Lord. Seven years ago she married Clarence Wolverton a fine Christian gentleman who has graciously allowed her to come to

home enabled us to travel for two months to the Bible colleges and churches
to recruit. Without her sacrificial help in time, love, and money, we could not have continued these last 17 years in as full a ministry.

villages of Japan. Again she came to help us here in California for seven months during furlough and through her lovely ministry in our

Japan for a full year in 1964 to help us with the work and enabling both Virginia and Julius to take a 6 week evangelistic trip to China, India, Singapore, Hongkong, Thailand, and Pakistan, besides take trips into the

She was on the first missions committee that voted to take Virginia a living

she went to Bible College from the old Figueroa Christian Church.
link for $100.00 a month.

Maxine Seyb has been an old friend of Virginia"s since the time

the field and helped in various ways.

living link of Julia Nadine.

For years she has maintained a contact with

For 15 years she took the partial

of food and supplies for our camp and general missions work. Since 1964 she has served as our forwarding agent. She has given hours of her time and strength and of her personal funds to help the work in Japan. She

Since 1962 she has mailed dozens of boxes

lifts a tremendous burden from our shoulders that frees us for doing
is a wonderful help.

evangelistic work in Japan.

detaild of a bank account and transferring of funds from the United States
May God bless these two faithful servants and co-workers with us.
TO a l l OF YOU

To have a trusted friend to care for the

and strength, who bear us up in prayers and words of encouragement, we say thank you for making this a wonderful furlough and by the Grace of God we look forward to the next term of service in Japan expecting
Great Things to be done by God.
Sincerely,

Those of you who send us, who give us of your time and finances

Julius and Virginia Fleenor

FLEENCai MISSION TO JAPAN

"YOUTH FOR JAPAN" SPECIAL NEWS SHEET

Dear Young Person,

We have put you on our mailing list because you have expressed some interest in the mission field and some o you have already elt

a definite call to Japan or some other mission field.

As we are nearing

our return to Japan, we wfuit you to know we are praying very specially for you that you might find the will of God for your life*
KNOWING GOD'S WILL Three Rules

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Begin reading the Bible daily for your own personal benefit. In other words, open the Bible and go systematically book by
book in the Old and New Testament, Read a few verses or a

chapter, but read until to get food for your soul* Read in a prayerful manner* Ask God to speak to your personal need out of the Bible* The Holy Spirit of God is our teacher and

2*

you will find when you read the Bible in this spirit of seeking God's will you will gain great new light to the scriptures and God will speak personally to you* Begin to make your entire day an attitude of prayer* Pray
about your every activity* If you cannot ask God to bless it then you will know if you are in His will or not* Pray this simple prayer **Lord I want to do want you want me to do all the days of my life^ This is the only kind of Christian attitude that will please God* Ask God to direct each day and believe that he will, for Hebrews 11:6 says <Hirithout faith it is impossible to please God; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him*"
WORSHIP GOD*

meditate on the Person of Jesus and glorify Him with your heart and in song and word* "Oh God, Thou art my God* Early will I seek Thee* ^ soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty land* So have I looked toward Thee in the aanctaary to see Thy power and Thy glory***

take a Psalm of David and read it in praise and worship and

In other words do not Just come to ask God but

A true worship is attributing to God what He is as we find in

Rev* 7:9-12 and Rev* 5:11-13

3* Look for open doors and circumstances and opportunties to

do God's will within the framework of the revelation of

Bible and the inward assurance that comes thoough a prayer fellowship with God* We trust these three principles might be helpful in your finding God's will for your future and for your daily life*
God has yet to find a man fully surrendered to His will* Prayerfully,

Julius & Virginia Fleenor

NEWS FROM mm
Dear Friends at Michigan cjty,

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Enclosed 's the new contract and your increase in salary from $150,00 to $(75oOO a MONTH FOR 1960 WILL 3E AGREAT HELP DUE TO THE CONTINUED RISE IN THE COST OF LIVING
THE
HERE IN Japan. Thanks again for your faithful support and increases in support over

17 years since YOU FIRST TOOK ME AS YOUR LIVING LINK MISSIONARY TO

JAPAN.

Here is the news.

ISOBE WORK was begun in October, This is a town of 20,000 people located 120 miles north of Tokoyo and 80 miles south of Karuizawa whehe our summek camp is lo
cated.
led child

In August the v.'arricks introduced us to Mr. and Mrs, Mogi who have a cripp
whom the V/arricks have been helping. Mr. Mogi has v/anted a missionary

fluent

in Japanese to come and have monthly meetings in his homej as this town has

NEVER HAD A CHURCH OR A REGULAR HOMEMEETING FOR CHRISTIANS. | WENT FIRST IN OCTOBER AND WILL GO AGAIN NEXT WEEK FOR A SECOND MEETING IN THE TOWN HALL WHICH MR, MOGI IS

RENTING FOR ME TO SHOW FILMS ON CHRIST AND TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. THIS IS A DIRECT ANSWC.R TO OUR PRAYERS FOR GOD TO USE US TO OPEN 100 TOWNS OK [0,000 POPULATION OR
MORE FOR REGULAR GOSPEL WITNESSING IN THE HOPE OF PLANTING CHURCHES IN EACH OF THESE

PLACES. We WILL NEED JAPANESE AND MISSIONARY WORKERS TO BUILD UP THESE LITTLE MEET
SO CONTINUE IN PRAYING THE LORO OF THE HARVEST TO SEND OUT

INGS WHICH WE WILL BEGIN IN HOME OF CHRISTIANS AS GOO LEADS US TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE,
LABORERS.

The KAMO work

of

in a city or 50^000 where we have had the trained evakgelists^the

effort so Paul and Kathleen Pratt, one of the School of

AONOSjWORKINU for the past five years,has again attracted our attention for the need
a special evangelistic

Evangelism students^Kr. Yamanaka and I will go for 5 days of meeting,November 9 to

I5 We have rented the tov/n hall, printed 10,000 announcements and have tracts pre
pared for house-to-house calling to preceed the meetings. We are invited to meet ings IN the town high school and some of the surrounding villages also. So pray for

this time of seed

show films.

sowing. Paul Pratt and I will do the preaching ano I will also Kathleen will play her viperharp ano sing. Pray entire homes might be

won to Christ in this very strong Buddhist stronghold 600 miles north of Tokyo, THE BILLY GRAHAi-l CRUSADE IN Tokyo was held from October I9 to 29 and was a tremen dous success and we have received over 10 NAMES IN OUR TWO CHURCHES IN TOKYO AS A
result of the HOUSE-TO-HOUSE CALLING OF THESE MIGHT MANIFEST AND THE DECISIONS MA0E AT THE CrUSADE. BAPTIZED We INTC TRUST MANY REAL FAITH AND REPENTANCE AND BE

Christ in our two Churches we have helped to establish in Tokyo. All the Churches OF Christ in Tokyo have cooperated and have received a large number of names for

contact.
heard

The last night

of the

meetings,a stadium was rented and ^15,000 people

forward on the invitation of repentance ano

the gospel and

thousands went

faith

toward Christ

and to receive Him

in their hearts.
HAS BEEN GOOD,

The papers have given

IS THE LARGEST CHRIST

VERY GOOD WRITEUP AND THE T.V. COVERAGE

THIS

IAN GATHERING IN THE HISTORY OF JAPAN,

VARIOUS University groups

I WAS BUSY GETTING GROUPS OF 15 TO 20 OF THE

Virginia GATHERING

| have contact with to go to the meetings

SERVED
I HAVE

EARLY SUPPERS

FOR

and THEM AND THEY WENT GLADLY TO SUCH A SPECIAL

ANO WERE DEEPLY

IMPRESSED.

THE JOY OF BAPTIZING

SEVEN

YEARS AGO,

LAST SUNDAY A MOTHER OF A GIRL JULIA WON TO CHRIST THEY ARE NOW PRAYING FOR THE FATHER AND TWO SISTLRS TO BE CONv'ER-

TED,

It SEEMS SLOW,

BUT WE KEEP PRAYING ANO V/ORKING TOWARD THE GOAL OF WHOLE FAM

ILIES WON TO Christ if the church is to be strong in jApArj. this shows how a child CAN BE the beginning^ HOWEVER, SO WE NEVER DISCOUNT OUR CHILD EVANGELISM WORK. This month there ase two young men to be baptized as a result of the personal work
OF Christians
A

in the church,
WITH THE FILM.

I keep SUSY VISITING CHURCHES IN THE TOKYO AREA SHOWING GOSPEL FILMS ANO PREACHING
MESSAGE TO GO

Our FAMILY IS WELL ANO BUSY AND SINCE

NOT REPEAT DETAILS CONVEREO IN IT.

WE HAVE JUST SENT A RECENT NEWSLETTER, WILL

We give THANKS TO GOD UPON EVERY REMEMBRANCE OF YOU,

Julius Fleen

OCTOBER MISSION GIVING INCREASES! TOTA Julius Tleenor $!50, Archie FMRbROTHER Great Lakes Bible Col

$175^ Chkistos Danikas $100, L.R.C.A, $83, Puroue Campus Ministry $250, Aiil BURG Mission Services $17, rick Jones $8o. Rapid City Church of Christ $110,
Lincoln Christian College $25, L.R.C.A, $r/, Archie Fairbrother $[0, Cont, on page ?.

JULIUS AND VIRGINIA FLEENOR

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Missionaries of the Christian Church 1-5-15 Naka Ochiai

Shinjuku, Tokyo

CHRISTMAS

19 6?

Forwarding Agent in states for funds Maxine Seyb

Tokyo, Japan

1800 West ^3rd Place

Los Angeles, California

Dear Friends and Co-workers, As the year closes, we want to send

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help during the past year has meant to us.

and express how much your friendship and

Also we want to share some of the good

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KAMO EVANGELISM. With the missionary

team, Kathleen and Paul Pratt, and Japanese

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Christians, Mr. Yamanak from the Bible School WF-:^

Aiko More, one of Christians from the Nishi

Aral work in Tokyo, and the Aonos, our

for Prayer end Evangelism here at Shimoochiai r{

full time workers in Kamo City, Julius felt

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About 100 people attended the

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10,000 homes and much house to house visitapublic hall.

tion was done "before the meetings began in a

Bandsome of the hig scho l age children

usually bad weather. Anew village home I i"
was opened for home meetings also and the

public high school allowed us to give gospels

of John and tracts to over 200 students in

THE FLEENOR FAMILY

a special Christian music program presented by the Pratts using Kathleen's vibraharp.
Two of the adults have moved to other towns

This city in northern Japan has been a Buddhist stronghold. The Aonos have working here for T years with only three adult Christians...sjid_15- children-as convegts-.-

are not allowed by their parents to attend meetings. As a result of these meetings held November 8 through 13, there were five who expressed a desire to become a Christian and one lady was baptized into Christ. She had been taught by the Aonos for about three years and made her decision during the meetings. We are praying for a complete family to be
won to Christ for the church in Kamo, Pray for

this and for the Aonos as they work daily in this difficult place that needs Jesus Christ. The picture on the left shows the TEAM, front row, Mrs. Aono's sister, Mrs. Aono, evangel ist, Newly baptized Christian, and Mako Aono, evana^elist. Back row, Julius, Mori Aiko, and
Kathleen and Paul Pratt,

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The young men pictured at the left are one of the grea-c joys of our lives. Mr. Shibata

age 26 is a deacon of the Shimoochiai Church

of Christ. He accepted Jesus Christ at age 12 after Julius preached a sermon on complete surrender of Jesus Christ. He came through
Grace FarrJiam's work of the Mabashi Church.

He has been faithful through the years winning) several to Jesus Christ and is able to preach

the gospel very well. He is an electrical engineer and a fine lay evangelist. The man standing next to Shibata San is a senior at Tokyo Imperial University and was won to Chris through our Karuizawa Festival Evangelism street meetings when a freshman in University.
The following year-he won the man on the far left of the picture Mr.Takahashi to Christ. Mr. Takahashi is president of our youth group at Shimoochiai and has rarely missed church services in two years. The man next to Mr.
Takahashi is Mr. Matsumura This man wa^

WILL MAKE YOU FISHERS OF MEN

Takahashi, Matsumura, Kuroiwa, all students of Tokyo University with Timothy Shibata

also brought by Kuroiwa and Takahashi to church and he was baptized the 12th of November while Julius was away at Kamo. Deacon Shibata did the baptizing. Pray with us that each of these men will marry Christian women and establish Christian hcmes in Japan.

Julia and Virginia are pictured with Mrs. Okiyama who also was baptized into
Christ in No'^rember here at the Shimoochiai

Church. The story is a precious one. Seven years ago Mrs. Okiyama's daughter became Julia's neighborhood friend when both were

she did not want to go to Sunday School because

it was not interesting enough.
Bible story.

in the Uth grade. Little Yoko Okiyama said

mBM fc'':

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games and cookies and tea would tell them a

In about three months Yoko

an afternoon Flay Club on Sundays and after

said she wanted to be a Christian.

Julia started

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started ccming to the regular Sunday school and ^ -i

She went 1

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to her mother and said, "I have lied to you

mai^ times saying I went to school while you

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were at work and I played truant.

But now I

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am going to change and do all the things Jesus wants me to do." The mother said, "I don't know anything about the Christian Church but if it will change a bad girl into a good girl, I approve." Now Mrs. Okiyama
has read her Bible ind attended church and several of the Billy Graham Crusade meetings

uid now has given her life to Jesus Christ. We pray for the father who has been ill with t.b. for many years and for the two other sisters. Mrs. Okiyama said after her baptism, "The Bible was such a strange book to me, but after reading it many times, it finally came into my heart as Words of Life and now I have daily help from God and an eternal hope." These things give the missionary great Joy, Please pray that each of our children might be used daily as witnesses for Christ in this land.

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One of the great sources of Joy to

us is our Home.

Jvilius often says, "I'm

Virginia's niece, with us for a year's visit,

Then for the past 15 years we have had Mrs.

calls it the Fleenors' Girls' Dormitory for besides the three Fleenor girls pictured to the right, ve have lovely Gall Johnston,
She is

surrounded by beautiful vcmen." Virginia

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Kuwahara's daily help in the home.

the home.

She is the sweet faced lady Just

about 6 inches taller than Grace pictured

with plans to retum to Japan to help

establish churches. Her two other sons are Christians also. We pray for the conversion
of the father of this household who has

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expressed appreciation for what the Church has done for his family and who reads the Bible, but who has not yet accepted Christ
as his Saviour. Mrs. Kuwabara has been like a second mother to our children. She is

always kindly, happy and faithful.

side with Julius in evangelism.

Her ministry has enabled Virginia to work side by

VISION TO OPEN 100 TOWNS FOR THE GOSPEL IN JAPAN

ISOBE This town of 20,000 people was opened in October with the first home meeting in the Mogi home. In November J\alius held an evening of evangelistic films

with message in a public hall. About 200 people attended and Mr. Mogi paid the expenses of renting the building. Mr. Mogi has now arranged for the December meeting to be held in the public meeting room of a large Hot Spring Spa in the town. Continue
to pray for this work,
INVITATIONS TO TWO MOPE TOWNS RECEIVED IN NOVEMBER We received a letter this

November from a Christian evangelist working in the town of Sakai (50,000 pop.) up Sakai for the gospel. God bless you!

Here

is an excerpt from that letter, "I am always so grateful to you for your help to open

When I heard you "100 opening new worl^,^^

We are

was thinking of Goka Mura, that _is_one place- I want to-start-;" "Goka"~T6^ is an hour fr<i here; It^r^sT^eaceful, beautiful and rich village town. Now another place one
hour from here is Sekiyado in Chiba prefecture across the river from us.

praying for the place now.

members from Sakai.

We have a children's work begun here by one of the church

We have already finished the every-home tract distribution there

too. No church and no work there besides the work we did. It took us nearly a year to call in each hcme here with a tract. Oh how I want to start a new work in these

places and some day build a church.

Please pray about opening these towns."

So here you see God is opening doors. We need Christian workers both Japanese and missionary to reach out in these places where no one has a regular work at all. If God grants us transportation money we will try to send a team on Sunday afternoons
to these two towns for home visitation and surveying. Please pray for these two

towns of over 20,000 people each in GOKA and SEKIYADO. Pray we will have workers and funds to open new work here. A Sunday School class or individual or Church might like to give $25.00 for each month for a year for transportation, tracts, and survey work in these two places. We will have a full time worker available from April who co\ild
do this work if God raises up the funds for it.

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RECRUITS FOR JAPAN

In October we received two fine letters from contacts we made during furlough, is from a Christian woman in Michigan who writes:

Hne

"Please give me information about Japanese language books and records.

I feel

the need for learning as much as possible at home. Lord willing, we may be able to work together in Japan some day, I thank the Lord for sending you to our area and as yet I know not when or why He wants me to go to Japan. I only know He spoke to me through you folks and it is but for me to obey and to prepare to go to Japan for His work. He will direct each step of the way if I will but follow."
Another fine letter comes

from a couple who will graduate soon from Ozark Bible

College.

They say:

"I am one of the Ozark Bible College students with whom you spoke when you

ife ln-that dirgct'torr.^-^^ay._fQr us as we graduate tois spri^^^^d reach out in faith."'

were presenting your work here earlier this year. My interest in Japan since that time has increased even more, and my wife and I feel that God is definitely leading

STEPHEN AND CAROL FLEENOR PLANS FOR MISSIONARY INTERNSHIP IN JAPAN call for their

/door for their ministry.

^ife plan to come for three months of intensive evangelism in ISOBE, and Karuizawa Camp ^ork and Karuizawa Festival Evangelism work. Please pray that God might open the
As we have mentioned before we have asked God to send out 100 new missionaries

c^ing in J\me, July, and August of 1968. The Lord providing the way, Dur son and his

^/ I to Jj

Japan and to open 100 new towns.

Join us daily in prayer for the "LORD OF THE

I HARVEST TO SEWD FORTH LABOURERS INTO HIS HARVEST. '

CHRISTMAS IN JAPAN

Since Christmas is now commerialized in Japan, it gives us much opporttinity to

distribute tracts and send out Christmas caroling groups in the main shopping areas
of Tokyo. Again this year our ch-urch young people will take part in this ministry

to reach the millions of Tokyo with a message of the "True Meaning of Christmas" This month we have begun a cooperating work with a missionary who has rented the second floor of a coffee shop one night a week in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo. Just five minute's by train from our church. Last Tuesday night Julius talked with six yotuig men who came into the coffee shop to hear the Christian folk einfflng and gospel jiiessage. Several of our young people helped in passing out notices in the area and doing personal work. Julius talked with six young men who said they would come to church the following Sunday. New and startling mthods must be used in modern
Tokyo to reach those who will not come to the churches. Jesus said He came to seek

and to save. Pray for the missionaries and the Japanese church to have wisdom from God to use new methods to seek and bring Christ to the lost millions of Japan.
THE GREATEST GIFT? YOU CAN GIVE US FOR CHRISTMAS is your daily prayers for our being empowered for His work. We appreciate your offerings. These are needed but add to
them your daily prayers.

^,S^cerely,
Julius

and Virgiilia Fleenor