Each Adult missionary should complete one of these forms and send by regular seamail to:

Mission Services

Box 968

Joliet, Illinois

PERSONAL FILE
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Name in fnii -

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Sex JL

Complete address on field

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Names and addresses of other newspapers which mi^t carry stories of your work...
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Place of Birth.

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Day 10

Where baptised? .F.ngi

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Year-i?iL

C.h^^^r^h nf Christj Portlandj Ore what age7_

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Marital status: Married^ Single

Divorced.

Widowed.

Married at what age_^k.

List children by full name giving place, 4ay, month, and year of birth;
Name

Place

Day Month Year

Seymour^ Ind#

29 Not 19U3

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Cincinnati Ohio

16 Jan 19U6

Gregory Alln

Fukuoka^ *^apan

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Number of Years

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Personal File - Page 2 - Namei VarV Prt

What things influenced you to become a missionary? Your own story in some detail might be
influential in leading others-into fulltime service'(use a separate sheetdf ^you need more space)?

ifVife, and living in P.I. and Japans during Ch^laincy

Describe briefly in outline form die nature of your daily duties.

Which of the following terms most nearly describes your missionary status:
Evangelistjc
Doctor

Bible College teacher

Nurse

Public School teacherHome maker

Social worker

Office worker

Other.

Father's name and home address (if living): ^^obert Tibbs Uaxey
His occuaption

Ministi?r

Is he a Christian?

What positions of leadership has he held in the local church?

Mother's full maiden ramp

Is she a Christian? yee

Tmasm Bryan

Is ghe living?ZEf.

Her occupation if employed outside of hnmp

What leadership positions has she held in the local church?

Name of forwarding agent.

missionary speaker^etc

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Address^-

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What are his or her duties:

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bills.

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you please indicate how in what f^rm?

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died:

Does your forwarding agent serve without salary?

What problems do you need help widi, that Mission Services might provide?

'

EaLhTidult missionary should complete one of these forms and send by regular seamail to:
Mission Services

Box 968

Joliet, Illinois

PERSONAL FILE

"

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Name in full

Paulino "^7

Complete address on field

Sex

Kanoya, Kagoshima, Japan

Complete home (for forAarding) address

Gladys toers,rald, Box 139, Nori^h Vemon.Ind.

Name and address of hometown newspaper.North Vernon, Indiana

Names and addresses of other newspapers which might carry stories of your work...
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On back of page please describe any special circumstances regarding conversion.

Marital status: Married_5t__ Single

Divorced

Widowed. Married at what age,

List children by full name giving place, day, month, and year of birth;
Day Month Year

Place

Name

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Persuiidf File
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Name Pauline i^axey
What things influenced you to become a missionary? Your own story in some detail might be
influential in leading others into fulltime service (use a separate sheet if^you need more space)?

Describe briefly in outline form the nature of your daily duties.

Which of the following terms most nearly describes your missionary status:
Evangelist,

Bible College teacher,

Public School teacher

Home maker.

, .

Bible school leader. Writes

norfnr

Nurse_ Social worker

Office worker

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Name of forwarding agent ,

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What problems do you need help with, that Mission Services might provide?

If it can be mailed to
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IR-ECRLiits for J/VPAi\

by Mark G. Maxey

JAPAN NEEDS NEW

MISSIONARY

BLOOD.

OTHER

MISSION FIELDS NEED NEW MISSIONARIES, TOO, BUT

I SPEAK FOR
JAPAN.
I THINK IT OUGHT TO HAVE
PRIOR CLAIM. HERE'S WHY:

WHY JAPAN?

Japan has the greatest concentrated population in the

Far East, 100,000,000 people in an area the size of Cali
fornia. This is a much larger population than lives in the
entire northern half of the continent of Africa for example.

-Eeople, people everywhere is the rule in Japan.

Japan is rated as the great civilized, industrial nation
of the East.

True! But it is also a nation of non-religion,

a spiritual desert whose people are now drifting, seeking

some goal in life. Shinto is not a life-force and never has
been.

Buddhism is the basic source of Japanese custom

and personality, but it has long since lost its relevancy.

Japan's home-grown religions are taking off like shooting
stars offering not 'pic iri the sky' but health, happiness,
and prosperity here and now. The nation's great thirst for
education, pleasure, travel, pacifism, socialism and ma
terialism has not satisfied the fundamental human longing to

"seek God... and find Him. " In 100 years of history, Chris
tianity has impregnated Japan with noble ideals and insti
tutions but individual converts number less than 1% of the

population. Japan needs Christ NOW!

Not only is the need great, but Japan is one of the few
countries in the East where missionaries may enter freely,

live where they please, and teach without hindrance of any

kind. Christians have always interpreted open doors as
Gtod's leading. Japan's doors are wide open to men and
women of character and purpose. We believe this is God's
leading. We believe Gk)d is calling Christian men and women
to enter that door. Coupled with the open door are these
auxiliary facts :one language for the entire nation; the Bible

in the vernacular, cheaply and freely available; a solid

evangelical literature in existence; a fundamental good will
toward Christianity; a telegraph, telephone, mail, rail and
airline systems equal to any in the world, tying the nation
together into one unit and connecting it with the world.
Japan is the keystone to Asia strategically, economically
and politically.

No seasoned observer doubts this even

though it will take another generation for the wounds of the

war to heal. We believe Japan will be the key to Asia re
ligiously as well. Religious beliefs have always traveled
along with culture, commerce, and the intercourse of people
with other nations. This will continue. A Christian Japan
will have significant influence on the East. In its present
religious state, that influence will be negative. Recruits
are needed to plant the seed of faith, nourish it, bring it to
maturity and send it forth to plant itself elsewhere.
Recruits are needed for replacements. This need is
critical. Twenty-nine church of Christ missionaries (over

half of the total) came to Japan in the five year period 19501955. Since that time we have gained 6 and lost 14, a net
loss of 8.

There is not much of a future in this

trend.

The average direct support Christian missionary today is

fortyish, served in Japan 13. C years, and has childern who
have already or soon will depart for college in the U. S.
His parents are aging and ailing, his own body aches and
pains can no longer be ignored, nervous tensions have
reached the breaking point ana he often thinks seriously,
not of taking his hand off the plow, but of plowing in some
other field. From observable data, we knowthat it is during

their forties that many missionaries leave the field never

to return.

There must be a constant inflow of young, dedicated

missionaries to replace them. But this has not been true of

Japan. Young missionaries are declaring for foreign fields
constantly but they are not choosing Japan. We know of
very few young people who have publicly announced for
Japan and are actively preparing to come to Japan - NOW.
The most likely immediate prospects are the children of
Japan missionaries now in training in the U. S. Lonnie and
Donnie Mings are the first of this noble vanguard to return
to the land of their childhood. They are, in fact, the only

truly young people, of our own group, newly married and

childless, to come to Japan in ten years.
WHO IS NEEDED ?

Let's face it, Japan is not everybody's cup of tea. Japan

doesn't need just anybody. It needs somebody special.
Police have made a science of taking partial descriptions of
a^fson from a dozen people, giving themto a trained artist
who in turn draws a remarkable likeness of what the man

probably looks like. Putting the basic needs of Japan to

gether, the ideal recruit for Japan looks something like
this. He or she is :

Educated, A collegiate degree is basic. A graduate

degree highly desirable. Japan is one of the literate and
cultured nations of the world. Missionaries who themselves
are not both literate and cultured can expect neither respect

nor hearing from the Japanese.

Young! Young enough to be adaptable and teachable.

Young enough to believe that nothing is impossible. Young
enough to not yet have learned all the host of things that
can't be done in Japan.' Young enough to break out of the
established mold, to try new approaches, to launch out into
new and lonely places. Young enough to have that bound
less energy, bubbling enthusiasm, and infectious faith which

are the particular possession of the young. Young enough

to mingle with Japan's rising new generation. Young enough
not to be saddled with debts, house and furniture, the desire

for comfort and permanence. Young enough to pick up and

begin life all over again without regret or a constant hanker
ing for "home." Young enough so that there are either no

children or they are very young. Young children grow up

with their parents in the new land.

seldom satisfied.

Older children are

They must soon be sent off to school

either in the cities of Japan or to the U. S. Inevitably the

parent's hearts follow the children. Sometimes they follow
themphysically. Their hearts are torn by diverse loyalties:
to God, to their commitment to their children. It is hard to

be happy and face three ways at once.

Married. I say this especially for the young men. Two-

thirds of the world's missionaries are women, many of them

wives of course. The largest single group of missionaries
is single women. What a shambles the missionary enterprise
would be without them. Women are capable of a sublimation,
a dedication, a complete giving of themselves to the cause
of Christ which makes their contribution to missions irre

placeable. There is a place for young women on the mission

field and there always will be. But their dedication must be
complete and final. There will be few opportunities for
marriage on the mission field. The same does not apply to
young men. In the rigorous Catholic system single priests

are able to carry out their tasks successfully. For those

who have grown up in normal society, a man expects com
pletion of his life by wife, children and a Christian home.
Positively, however, the Christian home is the basic
demonstration of what the Christian life can be like.

The

missionary's wife is his first evangelistic tool (and I con

sider this a compliment to my own wife and to all missionary

wives and mothers). But she must have a dedication equal
to her husbands. It is not sufficient for her to go to the
field out of loyalty to her husband or because of her love

for him. Her love for Christ and loyalty to Him must be the

equal of her husband's. Failure can only result when two

go, but only one is "called." In this case, the missionary
service will last only until the wife can stand it no longer.
The ideal male recruit has a wife, equally dedicated as
himself.

Has character.

Character that has been distilled from

a taste of poverty; manual labor; rigorous family training;

academic discipline (he took the hard courses as well as the
easy ones); spiritual andphysicalsuffering; disappointments
and victories; the handling of money, both his ownand some
one elses; promises kept and appointments honored; funda
mental honestybothof speech and action-the whole resting
upon the foundation of God's word. This character must
come with the recruit to the field. The mission field does
not build character. It seeks out weakness of character the

holder never knew he possessed. Crisis after crisis does

not always make a man stronger. Eventually it may over-whelm and destroy him. Only character that has already
been established and is undergirded with iron-will and selfdiscipline can stand the test.

Knowledgeable. We are assuming that the new recruit

knows God's book. Nothing can make up for this lack and
there can be no greater mistake than to come to the field
without this knowledge. We believe that the recruit's basic
motivation must come not from pity, idealism, humanitarian-

ism, or any other human emotion, but rather because as a

student of God's Book he has been convicted that it is a

missionary book. That it has a message that must be told

and that he, himself, must go tell it. In this sense his
desire to be a missionary is itself an expression of his own
faith in God, and in His Son who is Saviour of ALL.
But we believe he must be knowledgeable of missions.

Besides being wasteful of time and energy, it is inexcusable

for a man to come to the mission field without knowing what

he is coming for, and without having a basic idea of how he

wants to go about it. An immense missionary literature

exists today. New volumes are appearing constantly and
they are more hard-headed, down-to-earth than they have

ever been before. Every problem that has ever come up

in the mission field has already been discussed in print.
There is no reason why everyyoung missionary must learn all
the lessons over again himself. He must be knowledgeable
of the literature in the field. Hemust notonly buy the books
to grace his shelves, he must read them and study them.
He should have sat under a dedicated professor in college
who exposed him to these writings as well as his own theory
and practice. He must have visited mission fields either in
the U. S. or nearby and tested what he has learned in actual

practice before committing himself to do it for a lifetime,

(missionary internship). Hemusthavesoughtoutmissionar
ies in camps, or rallies or college campuses or in churches
or in his home and learned by "both hearing them and asking
them questions."

As his interest and leading narrows to a particular

country and field, then he must develop contacts with mis
sionaries and nationals of that particular field by both visit
ation to that field if at all possible, personal contact when
these men are in the U. S., and by correspondence. He
must be reading constantly about his chosen country - not
only its religions, but of its history and culture.
Committed. Not only to Christ but to missionary service
as a calling, as the way he wants to spend his life for
Christ's sake. It is so easy to confuse commitment with

the desire to "escape" -a change ofaddress, the longing to

travel, the adventure of living in another land, the glamour
of being a "missionary"; or the possibility of relieving the
distress, physical or spiritual, of the less fortunate. These
reasons will not suffice.

Our freighter was about to sail with us to Japan for our

third term.

A group of Christians had come to see us off.

They had toured the ship, sat in the comfortable stateroom.

and joined in farewell hymns and prayers.

One minister

said to me that what he had seen could almost make him want

to be a missionary. I said little in reply. I thought of the

grueling speaking schedule of the furlough year, the thou
sand details of preparing for the journey, the last sight of
my mother whom I felt I might not see again in this world,
the farewell to our daughter on the morrow as we left her

behind in the U. S.; and especially of the work awaiting me

on the field. So many years and dollars spent. So little
seemingly to show for it. The ten days of peace and quiet

on the ocean did not seem especially significant when com

pared to all of this.

Commitment led my wife and me back to Japan. A com

mitment sufficient to override the basic emotions and loyal
ties by which ordinary men live. A commitment to God, to
Christ and to the Christian faith. I cannot say more. But
the recruit must examine his own commitment on his knees

before God through the lonely watches not of one night - but
of many nights.

This commitment must include a generous dose of selfrenuYiciation.

Men and women who serve God are much in

the public eye. They are used to having the praise of men.
Public discussion of what they are doing helps them to evaluate their own effectiveness.

But this discussion, if it

be praise, may become a crutch they must have if they are

to continue their work. It also may feed an ambition to

acquire honor, recognition, the "chief seats in the syna

gogue" and increasing financial rewards for his services.
The recruit to Japan must learn to do without these

things. Few if any will praise his messages. TRUE great ness can be found more onthe mission field than anywhere I
know, but it is not the greatness that men usually honor.
The Schweitzers are rare. The missionary to Japan (and
elsewhere) will mostly do his work in obscurity. Oppor
tunities for fame will seldom come. Even martyrdom is
hardly possible here.

The missionaries'table will never

lack for bread but financial rewards in accordance with his

age, responsibilities and work done will be modest at most.

The qualities we have listed above for the recruit to

Japan are "ideal". None of us are ideal and it may be just

as well. Consider the qualities mentiond as a measuring
stick. Remember that God can make up what is lacking if

you will trust in him. Dwight L. Moody used to respond to

his critics by saying: "Remember, God can strike a mighty

straight blow with a very crooked stick!"

WHAT TO EXPECT

Language Study. The recruit to Japan must come with

certain expectations. For all his zeal, knowledge, edu
cation, culture and commitment, he will come to Japan
tongue-tied. He must begin his ABC's all over again. Only
this time in Japanese. He must be a kindergarten student
repeating again the sentences of his childhood and teaching
his tongue new sounds. It is enough to make strong men
weep and women faint. I have wept myself in futility and
seen women collapse in class. Two years of this are funda
mental to service in Japan. Two years in which all the
evangelism you came prepared to do must wait. It is a test
ing period of the soul.
One of Many. The recruit must come expecting little
welcome other than missionary friends and Christian Japan
ese who know of his arrival. This ancient nation has seen
thousands of missionaries come and thousands leave. No

one gets excited about one more or less. He will be lost

among the millions. Seldom will he recognize a face in the
crowd and seldom will he be recognized. There will not be
those special ones who hang on his words and who stand in
line to compliment his sermons. The new missionary to
Japan will find little to feed his ego.
Misunderstandings. The recruit must come prepared to
misunderstand and to be misunderstood. It will be a number

of years before he can tell whether "yes" really means

"yes" or is actually a polite way of saying no". After four

or five years he will learn to listen for what is meant rather
than what is said.

Results - in-God's good time. Above all the recruit must

come expecting results, certainly, but not so quick nor so

numerous nor so immediately rewarding as he hact'dearned
to expect from his labors in the U.S. ACatholic missionary
friend of mine told me that while in the seminary his pro
fessor had taught him to, "Plow the rock until it yields.
Missionary service in Japan is veritably plowing spiritual
rocks. The new missionary that comes must expect this and
not the relatively fertile fields of the U. S. nurtured by
centuries of Christian culture, literature, laws, and cus
toms.

Joys eternal. On the other side of the coin, the recruit

can also come expecting to see heart-farming conversions,

friendships established with Japanese Christians which will

become dearer than brother or sister; and young men and
women who themselves become sowers ofthe Gospel seed
as a result of the missionaries' seed sowing. These are

joys and satisfactions that are uniquely the missionary s,

and the new missionary cancome inexpectation of partaking
of these joys.

God is faithful.

He can come expecting that God will

keep His Promises, that the Holy Spirit will comfort, that
Christ will save, and that the Bible will guide. The mis

sionary will come to know as few other men can know, what

Christ meant when He said, "The first will be last and the
last will be first."

Recruits, I have emphasized the difficulties. Forgive

me! But it is better that way. There are mountains to be
climbed and sufficient preparation must be made to scale

them. It is foolhardy to set out improperly informed and

inadequately equipped. But once these (spiritual) heights
are scaled, a feeling of exhiliration will erase all doubts.
The vista of God's handiwork will make it all worth while.

Are there young men and women who have the necessary
qualifications who will come to Japan with the expectations
mentioned? We believe there are many such in our colleges
today. We believe that theyare goingto other mission fields
rather than to Japan because they have not been aware of
Japan's great need, have not been challenged, have not been
called,

have not been recruited.

If such there be who

have read this article this far, consider yourself "invited "
humanly speaking. The remainder of the matter is between
you and God.

Japan faces a crisis in missionary leadership in the

immediate future. Japan needs new missionaries as pio
neers, church-planters, seminary teachers, radio broad
casters, and as fellow-servants with Japanese Christian
leaders already in service.

Active recruitment is needed. Though this article may

give an otherwise impression, this recruitment must be

based fundamentally on our Lord's instruction: "Pray ye

therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he send forth labor
ers into His harvest."

I will be praying. What about you? If you will pray

sincerely and faithfully, it could be that you will rise up
and answer the prayer yourself - and come to Japan. That
would be a result devoutly to be praised.
Reprinted from FAR

EAST

CHRISTIAN

MISSIONARY

Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer, 1965, A1 Hammond, Editor

You may order reprints of this article at 10^
each as well as the books listed on the oppo
site page from:

CHRISTIAN CENTER BOOK STORE

KANOYA,

KAGOSHIMA, JAPAN

Also the following by Mark Maxey:

Christians in Japan, 35^i
Establishing the Church Abroad, 25<^
Training Nationals for the Missionary Enterprise, 50^i.
~
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RECOMMENDED READING
PERIODICALS

Far East Christian Missionary,

27 Sakurayama

cho, Nakano ku, Tokyo. $3.GO for two years.

Horizons,
Box 968,
Joliet, Illinois 60434
$1.00 per year.
Japan Harvest,
1-140 Akebono cho, Tachikawa
cho, Tachikawa shi, Tokyo, 900 per year.In

U.S.:P0 Box 2, Louisville, Ky.,$2.50 per yr.

Occasional Bulletin, 3041 Broadway, New York,
N.Y. 10027, $3.00 per year.
Practical Anthropology,
Box 307, Tarrytown,

N.Y., $2.00 per year, $5.00 for 3 years.

The Japan Christian Quarterly, Kyo

Bun Kwan,

2 Ginza 4-chome, Chuo ku, Tokyo,$6.00 year.

BOOKS (An introductory list only)
An Introduction to the Study of Christian Mis
sions, Harold R. Cook, Moody Press, Chicago.
History of Japanese Religion, Masaharu Anesaki,
Charles E. Tuttle Company,
15 Edogawa cho,

Bunkyo ku, Tokyo, Japan (Rutland, Vt. in US)

How Churches Grow, Donald A. McGavran,
World
Dominion Press, 59 Bryanston Street,
Marble
Arch, London, W.1.
Japan, Past and Present,
Edwin. 0. Reischauer
Tuttle.

Japan, Portrait of a Paradox,

Quentin Crewe,
Nelson, Edinburg.
Missionary Methods, St. Paul's or Ours,Roland
Allen, World Dominion.
Protestant Beginnings in Japan,
Winburn T.
Thomas, Tuttle.
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword,Ruth Benedict,
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston,
The Unfinished Task,Stephen Neill, Lutterworth
Press, Bouverie Street, London, E.C.4.
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MISSIONARIES IN JAPAN WHOM YOU MAY WRITE

(The individual addresses

sionaries can be found

PRAYER LIST,

50^.

Box 968,

of

all Japan

in the

Joliet,

mis

MISSIONARY

Illinois

For simplicity, only one

60434

address

is

listed for both the Tokyo and Osaka areas.Let

ters sent

to

these addresses

will

reach

the individual missionary whom you write.)

TOKYO AREA: 27 Sakurayama cho, Nakano ku,Tokyo
Stanley Buttray

Paul Nielsen

Julius Fleenor

Andrew Patton

Exie Fultz

Paul P r a t t

A1

Hammond

Harold Sims

John Kachelmyer

OSAKA AREA;
ku,

Osaka,

George
Martin
Harold
Vivian

Robert Warrick

31-6 chome, Nakamiya cho,

Japan

Asahi

Claude Likins

Beckman
Clark
Cole
"Lemmon

Ray Mings
Donnie Mings
Lonnie Mings
Bill Turner

HOKKAIDO

Ernest Faber, 14 Odori, Minami 21,

Obihiro
Wesley Walker, 250 Moiwashita, Sapporo City
SHIKOKU

Don Burney,

KYUSHU

21 Nakano Otani,

Noichi cho

Kami gun, Kochi ken, Japan

Mark Maxey, Kanoya. Kagoshima, Japan

*

Each of these missionaries produce their own

printed letters and reports, each an inval
uable source of information about the Japan

field.

Write them personally about how

may be placed on their mailing lists.

12

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HISTQBICAL ASD BIOGRAPHICAL SESSCHBS

Pmun wjos
August 2 1921, Wind Bidge, Pa. Only dmaghter, foctr 'brothers. Parents
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pethel live in Wind Hidge, Pennsylvania*

Bomi

Rori^ed:

Eichhill Hi^ School, Wind Eidge, Pa., 1939; Cincinnati Bible Seminary
A. B. 1943.
Mark G. Maiey, December 29 19^1t Cincinnati, Ohio.

^hildrdnt

Paula Haxey, dau^ter, November 29 19^3

XdiicEitioiii

Seymour, Indiana; Walter

Mark, son, January 18, 19^ at Cincinnati, Ohio; Charles Gregory, de

ceased, Jialy 8, 19^49 at Battle Credc, Michigan: Gregory Allen, son,
!December 30, I95I at Fukooka, Jap^; Mason, deceased at Eanoya, Japan*
Pr^arationt

Z.

December 2?, 1953*

Mfelong desire to be a missioaary. Active in Wind Hidge Christian
Church. ]>aring college worked among young people in Bast Snd, Cincin
nati. While husband was overseas, started Sunday School and church in
her home, now it is Laurel Homes Church of Christ, Cincinnati. As an
Arn^ wife in Japan held regular classes for the Japanese.

MASK mOQSS: MAXB7

August 8, 1917, Pomer<jy, Washington. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Tibbs

Maxey. Father, deceased, was minister for 5I years. Mother, Mrs. Maude

B. Mazey, served in Japan 2 years. Of seven living children, 6 are in

full-time Christian service. Isabel, longtime missionary in China and
now in Japan; Tibbs, Pres., College of the Scriptures, Louisville; Mary,
wife of Alvin Geise, minister at Storm Lake, Iowa; Victor, Christian
teacher at College' of the Scriptures; and Bryan, minister at Jamestown,
Kentucky*
Sdueation:

Circleville (Ohio) Hi^ School, 1935: University of Minnesota 1935-37;

Minnesota Bible College, A. B., 1939; University of Cincinnati, 19^;

Cincinnati Bible Seminary, M. A., 19^2; B. D., 19^3Preparations

3.

Pastorates at Madelia, Minn.; Truman, Minn.; Hew

lowtown, Ohio and North Temon, Ind., 193^19^*
, serving in Maryland and Michigan and 30
the Philippines and Japan. In Japan saw both the
tunity for Christian missions.

Holland, Ohii; H61U. S. Army Chaplain,

months overseas in
need and the oppor

tnmj cHEisnAN mission

We decided to return to Ja:pan as missionaries in August, 19^ and
selected the name, KYUSHU CHHISITIAN MISSION, at that time. In August,

IQieaS

1949, we made a p^lic announcement of the fact and after discharge

from the Army in September, presented the plan to the churches* Sailed
from San Francisco, August 27, 1950. Arrived in Japan September 12th
Family arrived Kanoya, October 20th* >Q.ssion house completed January
5, 1951.
Where!

Japan has fotu: main islands.

K^shu (pronounce it key-yourshoe) is the

farthest south* We chose Kyushu because no missionaries of the churdies

of Christ had ever gone there. We wanted to settle in a smaller town
in a con^letely untouched area. When we heard of the Kanoya church
started by Chaplain Arthur Paul Cook we decided to go there and begin
with that nucleus.
What:

The area served ^s the eastern peninsula of Kago-

shima prefecture at the southernmost tip of Japan*

The work is basically rural evangelism. We are training Japanese

leaders to evangelize and establish churches. We are assisting them

with the methods, the materials and the means with which to best get
this done*

Sxg^ports

We are a direct suEport mission*

link churches*

Our salaries are provided by living-

Fred-will gifts and offerings support the woxk.

VroRK AK-D WCRKSHS IIv KAGOSHIlia PREFECTURE

MISSIONARY :

Isabe3. Sltteaore

Began work in Japan^ Jan.; 1952

Present work:

Radio production and evangelism

Responsibility for Satsunia area (a)

Co-workers:

1. Nag;ancri Tani.liri, Pastor Kushikino (1)

Also teaches class at Ichiki (2)

2. Takeo Ii;m.ire, Pastor Kagoshima church (3)

Also serves Kajiki (4)
3' Itsuko Sh:j;jenobu, associate and asst.
on radio progra.iis
kloSlOa'ARIi^iS:

A1 and Eleanor' Hamniond

Began work in Japan^ April, 1954

Present work:

Evangelism in the islarid of Tanegashima (c)

KAaosnm PREFECTURE

Co-worker:

Ikeda, Pastor Nishinooinote church (14)

Also serves ^wna (15)

popolatio^ a-o44..ii2.
RsiUoad

MISSlONAKIES;

Paul and Kathleen Pratt

Began work in Japan^ August^ 1958

Present work:
^ICHl

Language study in Kobe.

V//5UEY05H 1

j^KWC^ATAj

satsuma

PeninsiJ'

KACtOSHlMA BAyM

kushira

MISSIONARIES:

Ivlai'k and Pauline I\la:xey - Kanoya, Kagoshiiaa

nsula

Began 'work of Kyushu Christian

Japan
iviission in Sept., I95O
(U.S.: Box 139
Present work:
North Vernon,

General evangelism in Osumi (b)

Ind.)

peninsula and elsewhere

Leadership training, literature

evangelism at new Kyushu Christian
Center.

Co-wcrkers:
"
TANNEerSHMl-4
ISLAND

NISHI-NO-OMOT

(7)
Ikemiya, Pastor Kanoya church

Also visits leper colony, Sueyoshi (13)

and i^tuuyaira (12)

3 Sadahiko Motoyoshi, self-employed

school teacher.

'TANE^ASH

and Kaigata (5).

YAKUSttlMA
NONA

(10)

2. Junko Dip-kusono, Pastor Kushira church

Also serves Koyaina (9) and Osaki (ll)
Serves Tarumizu (6)