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May

191977

5^

i.

Dea r

F r i e nd s ,

Well, After our

evangel is t ic

meeting, I thought I

would have

l.^ts

of time to do

lots

of

things. . .but

I_guess I always was a_

dreamer. The new school

year

began the f i r s t week of April, witn

th-

j ui rv and confus ion invo lved with a new term . This

yea r

I am

y

. nlr.g

Er

v^lish

one

day

at

Jogakuin

Junior

High 5 c3.asses

of

k6

i rs) ,

one day a t Joga .uin College (two 2-hGur classes o:inth-graders),

one day

at Joga :uin

College

two 2-hGur

classes of

celj.ege

freshman), and one morning at a

kindergarten

c3.ose

to my home

two ?i0urs of

3,4,

and 5 year

olds).

So every week, I have to

change

gears several times

to

get

ready

for

each

different

age and

ability group.

At

Jogakuin,

I

am free to teach the Bible as

time

permits,

so one of

my

projects this year

is

to have each of

the

girls

memoriae Bible

verses in

English,

Although

they may not

real ly

unders tand

the

verses

now, I know

t ha t the seed of the

V/ord

can grow

in

t h e i r hea r t s

as

wel l

a s

in

t h e i r minds and unders t and ing .

Sachiko and I are t ry ing to continue the

Bible class

tha t the

Turners

and

I

s ta r ted l a s t year a t

the

Junior Highj but

because

of

various

confl ic ts ,

only

three of

the

gi r l s

have

rea l ly

continued

^steadfastly.

I

want

so much to demonstrate to a l l the gir ls tha t

Chris t iani ty

is not

dul l ,

boring, and commonplace, but

a

v i t a l ,

exci t ing experience.

We

meet

every Wednesday

afternoon,

so

i f you

v;il l

intercede fo r

us in prayer concerning th i s , Tuesday evening

would be a good t ime

to

pray .

The Turners

fur lough

t ime Is

here;

Betty has

al ready gone back

to Georgia to

be

home

fo r

littl Stevle ' s

bir thday,

and B il l w il l be

l eaving

w ith S hery l the

f i r s t week o f June ,

A l o t o f

people are

asking:

Are

you

and

Sachiko t ak ing th e T urn ers '

place?

or :

Can

you ca r ry on the work ll by you rse l f ? I guess I c a n ' t r e a l l y ansv/e:i

A .-y.ier one o f

t h ese

ques t ions ; Sachiko and I cannot

do eve ry th ing ,

t r . t

we

can

do

some

th ings ,

and

those

th ings

v/e

wi l l

do,

by

th.e

grace

of God .

The

first tv/o days in

May, I went to the m iss iona ry

convent ion

in

Osaka, and had

a

g rea t

t ime

-singing and t a l k ing and

shar ing

the

Word.

I saw a

l o t

o f fo lks I met

seven

yea r s ago

when

I

cane v/i th

the

Ohio Singe r s , and th re e o f us from

t h a t

group a re now miss ion

a r i e s , I was e spec i a l l y touched

by

th e f i n a l

message ,

de l i ve red

in

Engl ish by a

Japanese preacher . His c los ing i l l u s t r a t i on was

about

Lf

^ young, scrawny kid

who

was runniiig

in

a mile race with several

JiiP^/remarkable athletes. After the race

had been

won and the stragglers

had dropped ou t , the hu rd le s

were

being pu t up fo r th e

nr-xt

evej i t ,

I One of the judges called a halt v/hen he saw

this

kiu

panting

and

s t rugg l ing up the t r ack , and

ran over

to him as he

co l l apsed

a t th e

f i n i s h l i n e , V/hen

asked why he v;as in

the r a c e , the k id exp la ined

between

gasps

t ha t

t he i r miler had got ten s i ck ; the

coach,

having

p ro mised an en t r y

fo r every r a c e ,

had

asked

him to

r un .

V/hen

th e

judge i n s i s t e d , But

why d i dn ' t you j u s t give up

l i k e

a l l

the

r es t? ' '

the k id

rep l i ed , They

d idn ' t send me here to win. They d idn ' t send

me here to

qu i t .

They j u s t s e n t me

here

to

run ,

Trying to keep running .


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ARGer -

HIROSHIMA CHRISTIAW

MISSIOW

Wo. 20

SummeA,

1977

THOUGHTS

LJTERACyji Co otyn

Japan

i s

th e most l i terate nation

in the

worldbut i t s own people will be

th e

f i r s t

to t e l l you

t h a t

l i t e r a c y i s

not

e a s i l y achieved. The

Japanese learned

to

wri te

from the

Chinese in the 5th and 6th centuries;

but

the languages aren^t anything alike, so the

Chinese one-picture,

one-sound

system

became

a confusing,

complicated

s t ructure . Some of

the

characters, or

kanj^ were adopted

for their

sound aloneforming a syllabary an

alphabet-l ike

grouping

of

consonant-vowel

syl lables

of

about

51

basic

sounds.

These

syllables

are

now

represented

by two different kinds of kana script) , one for native

words, and one for

foreign

loan-words. Other kanjA were adopted for their meaningsand

can

now

be

read

2,3,

or as many as 8 different ways,

depending

on

whether

they

are used

alone

with original Japanese

pronunciation,

or in

groups

with

Chinese

pronounciation.

In my current Japanese studies, I learn 5-10 new kanjA

each

week. Armed with this

new knowledge, I am constantly

trying

to read new signs

in

the stores and along the

streets

not unl ike

my early

cereal-box

reading

days). Sometimes I am rewarded by seeing

a former maze of

squiggles

transformed into meaningful order. But just

as

often, I wil l

see a combination

of

characters,

each of

which I know

separately,

but not

have

the

f a i n t

est idea how

to

pronounce or

translate

them together. I t

is

small encouragement

to

know

that Japanese sometimes have the

same

problem.

Writing,

though,

brings on a d if fe re nt s et of

problems.

Thank

goodness,

the Japan

ese government has limited modern

usage

of the borrowed

kanjA

one Chinese dictionary

l i s t s

over

40,000 characters) to

around 2,000. Of

these,

881 are

considered essent ial

and are required

learning

for

elementary

children. I t s

no t

really hard to

learn

10 kanj-l

a weekthe trouble

is in

trying

to

remember them

the

next week

while

trying

to

learn a

new bunch

Many

fzanj i. have 15-20 or more strokes, and must always be

written

in

the

proper order. Studying the

t radit ional

methods seemed

to be

the best way

to learn to

write properly,

so

I began studying calligraphywriting

characters

with a brush.

Calligraphy

involves a

l o t more than

good

writ ingit i s t ruly

a disciplined and exacting a r t . Like

a l l

Japanese a r t s the goals

of

call igraphy

are

to

increase

s p i r i t u a l

calm and

awareness

as well

as to

discipl ine

the body

and

challenge the

mind.

Not only

am I

learning more about Japanese

thought

and

culture;

I am finding deep

s p i r i t u a l applicat ions.

For example, when I begin

learning

a new

character,

I

must constantly look back and forth

from my brush

and

paper to the

exerc ise

book

and my t ea c he r s w r it te n sample. Gradu

a l l y as I master the brush techniques

and

the stroke

order,

I can

concent ra te more on the w r i t i n g . But i s only when the form and

pattern

of the

character have

become imprinted on my brain , when I

can

apply

my whole

mind and body

to

re-creating

that patternonly

then do the

characters

become

al ivespir i ted , yet harmonious.

continued on

page

2)

0

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UIHON


3/12

Isn't this the

same thing

that happens when

the

word of

Christ dwells

in

us

richl

(Col.3:16)?

Or when we

receive with

meekness

the implanted word (Ja.l:21)? Let 's clai

the promise of Hebrews 8:10: I mtt put my Icm

Into

tkzAX mlndb, and

mite,

tkem on

the

neoAt6,

and

I uxiZt be tkeUx God

and the.y

ihaZt be.

my

people,, Literacy is a rare prive

lege,

one

not enjoyed

by

many people in the world.

Let s

thank

God

for

i t , and

use

i

wisely,

to glorify Him and build up His kingdom

i t i e

i ck i t

NEWS FROM

HIROSHIMA

The BIG news from Hiroshima t h i s month i s t ha t

Carolyn

and

Sachiko

were

ab le to

g

ahead in rent ing the

room

which

they

had

been praying

about.

Sunday

School c lasses we

held there

for

the

f i r s t

time on

Apri l

23rd.

Carolyn

wrote: This short paragraph ca

hardly express

the

t ime,

thought, prayers ,

fears , and hopes behind it

Of course , w

haven t any furni ture ye t , but

we ve

been pricing th ings. I f igure i f God was ready fo

us to

have

the room. He d provide th e th in gs

to go

in

i t .

- I f you would 4.ike to send a spec ia l

gif-t-designated

to buy cha i rs andtables an

some of f ice

furn i tu re fo r the new

meeting

place , p le a se d es ig na te

it

for FURNISHINGS an

send to e i ther forwarding

agent:

Mrs. Jean

Snooker

Mrs. Nata l ie Johnson

809 West 23rd Rt.

1 , Box

65

Scot t sb luf f , NB

69361 Orleans ,

IN

47452

WITH THE

TURNERS

A6 the TARGET

t6

gotng

to

pKe^6, Betty Turner and daughter Sheryl oAe Keody to teoo

on a t/Up to the PfUltpptned to

ci 6t t mth mcutc

and chttdAen'6 meetings

tn

a cUty-md

evangelt&tte cAaiode tn Cebu Ctty, They

uUIZ

be leavtng on May l6t and A.etuA.ntng on Ma

17th.

SheJiyl

t i exctted about fietuKntng to the place loheAe 6he um bom, and Betty

eageA to go back to the oAea

wheAe

^he 6pent mo6t o^

13

yearn h/ViA ng

Je6a6

wtth Etlcptn

people.

They

will

6top

ooeA tn

TOKYO

on

the

way,

to

ee

about schooling and

hoa tng

po66t

biltttci,

beioAe

making

^tnal pmpaAatton to ^etuAn to Japan

thti

6ummeA.

The

TURNERS

hope to wind up

thetn.

commitments tn GeoAgta by Jul^th and stoAt

theiA jOuAney back

to Japan.

Until

then

they can

be Aeached at Green

Valley Drive

Rive rda l e ,

GA 30274

T e i v (t404) 471-S002

o

TARGET

- HIROSHIMA

Dogwood faAm Chnisttan ChuAch

5285

f l a t

Shoals

Road

VecatuA, GeoAgta 30034

. i t m m

' llll

ATOMIC

BOMB DOME

TO;

Missions

Services

Box 177

Kempton,

In. ,

46049

Non-Prof i t Or

U.S. Postage

P e rm i t

No.

5

Decatur ,

Geor


4/12

. /

HIROSHIMA CHRISTIAN MISSIOW

l|r I

The BZbZe. cta66 tadin^ gave

SqXTj^

ddQJUihonJjLb

ioK koji

lumono.

She, wa6

votzd tk z

mo6t JapaneJ>Q,-Zoofung ojJ

th e 3 kanono' d

Za.dlz&

ARGCT -

HiHosnmA

No.

20

SummoA, 1977

SAVONARA

I f

you

e njo y s ay in g good-bye, you r ea l ly ought to go

to

Japan.

I t*s

a

very

complicated procedure,

and doing

it

proper ly demands

a ceremony,

with

dinner and

speeches

if

poss ib le , and

of course , th e g iv in g of g i f t s .

Th^ Turners have been in Hiroshima for.-fpur

years,

so they had a

lo t

o f people

to say

good-bye to . The month

of A pril

was almost

l ike

Christmaseveryone

wanted

to

have a

par ty

There

was

the

English c las s

par ty

a t

the

Kesaka Community Center .

B i l l

sa id h is f i na l f a rewel l s

a t

th e

den ta l school and

th e Merchant Ma ri ne

School , with

many

thanks

to

the dean

of

the

l a t t e r

for arranging for

shipping t he i r

baggage back to the

Sta tes . Betty was

part ied by the

Jogakuin

college staf f , her YW ladies

and th e

Bib l e

c la s s la d ie s

a t Kesaka .

Then, o f cou r se ,

t h e r e wer e all t h e f r i e nd s who came f o r a la st v is it o r

to

bring

a

farewell gi f t

or

an

inv i ta t ion

to another din

n e r o r p a r ty .

But

t h a t s not all it s rea l ly important

to the

Japanese

to

see their fr iends off i f a t a l l

possible.

There

was

qui te a crowd when Betty l e f t by Bulle t

Train

in May,

but

Bi l l managed Co

s l ip

away

unannounced

in

June

f

w -w

M

The, Za.cU.eJi BlbZe. cZcu>6 mMi Betty i^rvt],

Carolyn ce-JtiCA.},

and

Sachiko

lAZgfttJ .FZeAie.

pAai/ jJoA theJiC coho axe, contZniUng to tady

the. WoAd ^OAtk^UytZym

The EngtUk oAe. ghjowtng

a

the. Commimlty CenteA, with Sachiko teac

Ing eZmcntoAy cZxUii ej>, and CoAoZy

teaching an InteJimecUate-advanced gA.oap


5/12

WITH THE TURNERS

BETTY has

been

busy

since her

ar r iva l

a t home speaking a t ladies* meetings and

g reet ing f ri ends in

various

churches. Her

summer

ac t iv i t i e s inc lude two camps

and

s e v e r a l Vaca t ion Bib l e Schoo l s .

BILL and

SHERYL

got a s ta t ion wagon on

th e

West coas t

and drove

it

to

Georgia ,

stopping

in

Nebraska

to

v i s i t forwarding

agents, Jean and

Charles

Snocker, on the

way. The whole family then enjoyed a few

days

with Bi l l s folks in Pennsylvania,

before going

to the North American Chris

tian

Conven t i o n in

C i n c i n n a t i .

SHERYL and TIM served as

j un ior

s t a f f

members

for F i r s t

Chance

Camp

in July.

STEVE r e cove r ed

from

a b roken

shou lde r

j us t in time to

break

a f inger . Then he

got a knee infect ion,

and

we're afraid to

imagine

what 's next

BILL

wi l l

be

doing

more

t rave l ing

th i s

summer to repor t

to

supporting

churches.

From

September,

Betty

wi l l

be

avai lable

for daytime lad ies

meetings.

Both Bil l

and

Betty wi l l be

a va ila ble t o v i s i t con

gregations

to re po rt

on what the Lord has

b een doi ng i n

Hiroshima during

the

pas t

fou r

years .

For speaking

dates

you may

reach them

a t :

M r. and M rs . illTu r n e r

49

Green Va ll ey D riv e

Riverda le , GA

30274

Te l .

(404)

471-8002

TARGET - HIROSHIMA

Vogtvood Vtm Ch u^ tCan ChuAck

52 B5

Ela t Shoots

Road

VzcatuA GzoAgla 30034

W

ATOMIC BOMB DOME

TO :

BACK JN HIROSHIMA

The LEE JONES

family

have

moved

in

the

house the Turners

j u s t

moved

ou t

o

The^CHRISTIAN CENTER has

a ls o r el oc a te

to an o lde r but spacious house not

f

f rom t h e

f o rme r location

CAROLYN

BARRICKLOW an d SACHIKO OSA

a t t ended a

movie

semina r

a t Hi ro sh ima

Ch r i s t i a n Literature Cru s ad e b o o k s t o r e

get the p ro jec t ion i s t s l icense

necessa

to

show Chr i s t i an

f i lms .

They went wi

much fear

and trembling,

but eviden t

passed the t e s t , because

they a re

now l

censed pro jec t ion is t s .

Average at tendance a t Sunday School

Hesaka was 11 fo r the second quar te r , a

a to ta l

of 12^ people a tt en ded f ilm me

i ngs

dur ing the t h ree months. Beginni

in

June ,

Sachiko

has i nv i t ed

the

Sund

School chi ldren to the

apartment on

t

f i r s t

Sunday

of

every

month

to

ea t

lun

and

have

fun together . The

kids seem

have a

good t ime,

and eve ry body l i kes S

chiko 's cooking

SACHIKO

and CAROLYN h a v e tw o

B i b

camps scheduled fo r

the

summer: one

wi

t h e

DON BURNEYS

on

t h e

island

o f

Sh i ko

in

Ju ly ,

and one in

the Tokyo

a re a w

Sa c h i k o s

home

chu rch t h e first weeke

of August .

ADDRESS FOR CAROLYN

AND

SACHIKO:

//202

Sunabo r i

Bi ru

5-39,

2-chome, Izue

Hesaka,

Hiroshima 730

JAPAN

Mision

Services Ed.

Office

Box 177

Kempton, In .

46049

Non-Profi t Org.

U.S. Postage Pd

P e rm i t No. 580

Decatur , Georgi


6/12

D s a r F rie ri f is a nd

l o v e d

o n e s ,

cldoLd

2 0 2 S u n a b o r i B i r u

5-39, 2-chcme,

Isue Hesaka

H i r o s h i m a 7 3 0 ,

J a p a n

J u l y 22. 1977

I can hardly

believe i t s the

middle

of July. Betty

Turner

lef

for

the

States

at

the

beginning

of

May

then

Bill

and

Shcryl

l e f t

the

f i r s t v/eek

of

June, Before Bil l

l e f t ,

v/e spent a l o t

of

time ao...ting

the car t i t l e trans fe rr ed to

my

name. I remember when I did this

in

the

States, I wasn t too happy about the afternoon I had

to

stand

waiting in linos, etc. Well, here we spent probably the equivaxent

of a v;f;ek getting a certificate from

one

city office in order to get

a certificate at another city office, ad infinixum. If I can remembe.

right, i t

took ^

trips

to City

Hall,

3

to

the

Land

Transportation

Bureau, 3

to

the Police Department, 2 to the Land

Office,

and 1

to

th-

Tax

O f f i c e , . ^ ^ -u..

Then

Bill needed to

take his

last-minute

freight

to

Kobe

in the

i t s

a 2-hour

trip

by train, but 10 hours by

car),

and didn t

want to

have to

drive back to Hiroshima j u s t to go

back

again, so

Sachiko and I v/ent

along,

and I drove

the

Tan back

to

Hiroshima

the

next day. That

was

a

lot

of

traveling

in two days, but

i t was

an ^

interesting

trip, and convinced me

that

1

C n

drive

anyv/here

if i t s

r e a l l y n e c e s s a r y , . ^ ^ ^ 4.

Then, Sachiko and I had to rearrange

the

apartment to accommodat

the extra eQuinment the Turners

lof t

in^'our care--no small matter,

considering

cur small space. Since then, our

return to

'normal

life

has been greatly hampered by a warm-weather invasion of cockroaches,

Ncv/ these are

not just ordinary

dirty l i t t l e

brown bugs; they

are

ur' 'yt 2-3 black monsters We have cleaned out

all

the Kitchen cup

boards, spraved,

etc.,

but are

s t i l l

occasionally

surprised

by

one of

the nasty l i t t le creatures.

When

this happens, all other activities

stop

until

we

get

the

crit ter

or

i t

escapes

into

some

l i t t l e

cranny,

?.'\t

there

are seme friendly animals around, too.

We

have a laraily

oi

chameleons

that

scamper around

cur window

screens chasing the bugs ^

tiist

are attracted to

the ligiits.

Sometimes they wag

their t a i l s

ariu

play tag; I

really

think they re cute, but they re too snake-y for

Sachiko, , ^ . .

j

With July

came the

las t

throe

weeks

of schoolspecial

meecings,

exams,

etc.

My college classes

finished

early, so I

invited

the

students to come

to

the apartment to spend

some

time together a

l i t t l

more in formally.

Sixteen

girls came

to

one

party

and eighteen

to

another. We

had a

r e a n y

good

time, and

I

keep praying that Jesus

love may touch t h e i r l i v e s through me,

Sachiko

and

I have

also shared specia l dinners

here with the

Sunday School

children,

the

Bible Class

ladies

and

tlieir

friends,

and

our Jr .

High,

and English Bible Class students. Many

of these

v/e

will

not

see during

the

summer

because of vacatio;:is,

fami:iy and

summe

school commitments,

but

please

pray w ith us that

they

wil l keep

studying the Word and that faith in God will grow in their hearts.

Love

i n J e s u s,


7/12

HIROSHIM CHRISrm MISSION

No. 21

mus

FROM

HIROSHIMA

When

ROLYN and S HIKO went to

a camp

n the Tokyo area in August, they

were ac

by

c o ll eg e s tu d en t

TERUMI

FUJII

d

by second grader

little

Mr. KIRA

both

th e

Hesaka Bib l e c l a s s e s .

They a l l had a t e r r i f i c t ime And it

s during the

week

of camp tha t Terumi

as

immersed

I n t o Ch r i s t .

She

had made a

confession some time before , but

er parents were.slow in

agreeing

to allow

er

to

be

bap t ized .

Terumi

( in white) i s seen

with he r

and her

s i s t e r s

family as they

aw

her

o ff

fo r

camp a t

th e Bu l le t

Train

Please pray

fo r Miss

Fuj i i

and fo r

her

as

wel l

tha t

her

Chris t ian l i f e

be

a g r ea t

i n f luence

on the

r e s t .

ARGCT

SeptembeA,

1977

TRAl/ 't lW BROTHER BILL

When BILL and

SHERYL

ar r ived

from Japan

in June, one of th e

f i r s t item s they

had

to

take

care

of was get t ing

a

furlough

vehicle

They found

a barga in on a

1977

Chevrole

s t a t i on wagon

t h a t had been

a demons t ra to r

It had

3,000

miles on it but

was almos

like new .

They

drove

across the

Sta tes , stopping

in

Nebraska fo r

speaking

dates . By

the

t ime

they got home to Georgia in June 25

they

had added

qu i t e

a

few

miles .

Since

then . Bi l l

has t ra ve led to r epor

on

th e

work

in

Hirosh ima

to

Pennsy lvan ia

Ohio, and Maryland. He wi l l soon be

making

t r i p s to Flo r i da and

South

Caro l ina .

When he

i s not

t r ave l i ng , B i l l i s

help

ing

a t

th e R ive rda le Chr is t i an

Church

which

was

s t a rte d in

our

home 10

years ago.

He plans to

help

some

in

other of

our

l iv

ing

l ink

churches , and a l so

to devote

som

t ime to th e study o f

wr i t t en

Japanese .


8/12

IRST TERM

-

S INGL

kfOu.val

In

Cebu UXy

on Uovmbzn 10

1951

OURTH TERM - WITH CHILDREN

i ? .

In

06akcL,

Japan

In 196S

BETTY

VARBROUGH

TURMER

SECOND TERM - DOUBLE

Olitk Gaen

yi{^^ Mi

in OcXobzx 0^ 1956

THIRD TERM - MARRIED

[iJiiddlnQ bzZti> Aang

on Mcuick

15 1961

FIFTH TERM - A GROWING FAMILY

i

To

H^o^kana Japan

Zn J une oX 1973


9/12

WESITV-n i /E

YEARS Of MISSIONARY

SERVICE

Vou mmn you came all the. my

acA066

the. ocean by youA&eZi was the surprised comme

made by

Filipino

brethren when

Betty

arrived

in

Cebu City, Philippines. The missionarie

already on the f ield were equally amazed that Betty had secured her support

and

t ravel fund

from

her

home area, without having

to travel around

from place to place.

When Betty had

told

the folks

at

the Grant Park church of

her

desire to go

to

the Philip

pines,

one

elder

expressed

what

o ther s a lso

f e l t :

I jJ BeXty 16

uulllng

to

go,

then

tve

shoul

be

(AJtllXng to 6end

heA and 6uppoAt heA So

i t

was that the home

church

had a special

ser

v i c e to s e t B e t t y a p a r t a s t h e i r

f i r s t

LIVING LINK missionary on September 21, 1952. At

t h a

very service,

B e t t y s

mother was immersed

i nt o

Chris t . Mrs.

Yarbrough has been a tremendou

s ou rc e o f encouragement t o Bet ty a l l the years o f

her

miss ionary

work.

That

evening

Brother B a r t l e y the church t r e a s u r e r gave Bet ty

her

f i r s t

s a l a r y

check

o

100. Mrs. Bartley had agreed

to

serve

as

B e t t y s forwarding agent, and

she did

a

great

jo

a t t h i s

f o r a

number

of

y e a r s .

The

next

morning

Betty

l e f t to begin her way to the Phi l ippines. After

attending

th e Na

t i o n a l Missionary Convention i n Kansas an d purchas ing s u p p l i e s i n C a l i f o r n i a she

s a i l e d

o

October

2 1 s t

and

a r r i v e d

i n

Mani la

on

November

1 7 t h .

She

reached

h e r

d e s t i n a t i o n

o f

Cebu

b

plane

on

t h e

20th ,

an d was

very

soon teaching a t Cebu Bible Sem inar y and help ing i n

the wor

i n

o t h e r

ways.

When B e t t y

l e f t f o r

h e r

second term

i n

1956,

she

was accompani ed by Miss Guen G r i f f i t h

n a t i v e

o f Meadvi l le , Pennsylvania and a worker a t t h e

Grant

Park

Church

whi le a s t u d e n t a

Atlanta

C h r i s t i a n

College.

I l l n e s s

l a t e r

forced

Guen

t o

leave

the P hil ip pin es f or

the

milde

c l i m a t e of Hawaii. However,

she

made

a

g re at c on tr i b ut i o n t o the work

both

i n

Cebu

and i

H a w a i i b e f o re h e r

d e a t h

1 9 6 3 .

The

P h i li p p in e b r e th r e n k ep t p ra yin g f o r Betty

to find

a l i f e p a r t n e r so they were de

l i g h t e d

when t h e i r beloved Ma'am Yarbrough was married

to

B i l l Turner

on

March 25, 1962

There was

an a l l - o u t welcome

f o r the newlyweds when th ey r ea ch ed Cebu i n November t h a t y e a r

Sheryl

Ruth was born

to B i l l and Betty

on

June 6,

1963,

and

Timothy Roy

was born

on

Jul

28,

1964.

From

b i r t h

Tim had symptoms o f h e a t a l l e r g y an d he became i n c r e a s i n g l y

worse

Doctors advised

a

c o o l e r

c l i m a t e so the

Turners

decided

t o

go

t o Japan. They

l e f t Cebu i

September o f 1965, and have been working

i n

v a r i o u s

p l a c e s i n Japan

s i n c e

t h a t

t ime.

During

a

fur lough, Stephen Martin was born on

May

22,

1967. He was

j u s t

a

few months ol

when he a r r i v e d in Japan. Even as

a

wife and

mother

o f t hr ee c h il dr en Betty cont inued t

serve as a ful l - t ime missionary. The Grant

Park

Church

(now Cedar

Grove

Christ ian

Church

has

been h e r f a i t h f u l LIVING and

LOVING LINK

d u r i n g t h o s e y e a r s .

This month, on completing 25 years of service, Buetty has,.requested a f ive-year leave

o

abg^jce as Cedar Grove's

salaried

missionary. She will continue to serve oir~~Vcnuhteer ba

s i s

i n

church

work and

with

HIROSHIMA CHRISTIAN

MISSION,

b u t w i t h S h e r y l

and

Tim

i n t h e i

critical

teen

years, she feels she ^hould devote more time .to the family.:;

With the family

i n

mind,

Betty

had turned down some o f f e r s as a f u l l - t i m e teacher . How

e v e r

when a p a r t - t i m e teaching

p o s i t i o n a t

Pathway C h r i s t i a n School opened whic h

would r e

quire only two hours a morning, Betty

accepted

this as a means of use fu l Chr is ti an s ervi ce .

Betty

i s t hankfu l for

Christ ian friends and for God's blessings

during

the past 25

years

and

looks

forward to

continued

s erv ic e in the Kingdom in whatever ways the Lord may lead.


10/12

RINGING THE BELLS

TOR

HIROSHIMA

I n/f

l/acation

BZbZt School

puplZi

In a number o^ chuAchc6

thl i 6umme/L

studied

about BeZt6

In HVLO^klma

and learned how

they

could

help

Alng

the

Gospel bel l i

ijoA. the child/ten o^ Japan. SeveAol

hundred

compel al&o

studied

about

Japan

and

gave

thetn.

oHenlng^.

OiiefUng^

that

weKe to CoAolyn SoAAlcklow m il make I t po.ii6tble ioK hoA to puAchaa

e duplicating machine that t i needed iofi pKepa/Ung matoAlati ioA Suyvday School childKen and

cXU4

l ad ioM

OêKlngi,

.sent to the TuAne/u helped them to buy a needed typewAiteA

and

typing table,

alio a i l lde pAojectoA and pAojectlon table. One U.B.S. designated thelA of^leAlng to go

the puAchase

o ^

a coa {ôa the TuAneAS

to

use duAlng ûAlough.

OmRWGS RECEIl/EP BV THE TURWERS

WERE

AS FOLLOWS:

F i r s t

Jun io r

Week, Woodland Chr i s t i an

Camp,

Temple, GA

Jun io r

Week,

Roanoke

Chr i s t i an

Camp,

E liz ab et h C it y

NC

VBS,

Berea

Chr i s t i an Church,

Hampton,

GA

VBS, F i r s t

Chr i s t i an Church,

Meadvi l le

PA

VBS, R i v e rd a l e

Chr i s t i a n

Church , Rive rda le GA

VBS,

Cedar Grove

Chr i s t i a n Chu rc h, E ll enwo od , GA

VBS,

Demopolis Chris t ian Church , Demopo li s,

AL

VBS, North D ru id

H i l l s

Chr i s t i an Church, Atlan ta GA

VBS,

West s ide C h r i s t i a n Church, E as t P o i n t

GA

153.00

5 1 8 0 0

1 3 2 8 2

2 0 4 A 6

2 1 1 0 3

4 5 0 0

5 8 3 6

1 1 2 9 5

2 0 5 0 0

A

heoAty

TH NK VQU to the young ladies and gentlemen who shoAed In the

wo fz

In Japan In

a wondeAûl way

SSSSSSS SS SSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSS S

BILL &

BETTY

TURNER &

FAMILY

49

Green

Valley

Drive

Rive rda le GA

30274

Tel

(404) 471-8002

ARGET - HIROSHIMA

Vogwood

ToAm

ChAlstlan

ChuAch

5ZS5

F l a t

Shoa l s

Road

ecatuA, GeoAgla 50034

C

ATOMIC BOMB DOME

^ROLYN BARRICKLOW. SACHIKO OSAWA

Sunabor i Biril^ ~~~ ~

5-39,

2-chome,

Izue

Hesaka ,

Hi rosh ima

730 JAPAN

TO: Mission

Services

box 177

liempton,

in ,

^60^9

Non-Prof i t

Org.

U.S.

Pos tage

Pd.

P e r m i t No. 5 80

Decatu r Georgia


11/12

The en d o f September 7^7

D^ar ONes in J e s u s ,

Well, autumn

is

upon us in Hiroshimaevident in more ways than

just the shorter days and the

sun s

golden rays. Our p-furo the t a l l ,

square Japanese bath in v^hich we s i t in water up to our chi.n takes

longc-r to

heats

the

cockroaches

are not quite so a c t i v e ;

a l l

the

Japanese schools are h av in g u nd o- ka it a combination sports da y

and

o :*)er i -house,

The summer real ly went

f a s t e s p e c i a l l y sin ce school

v/as not out

unt i l

the

th ird

v/eek

o f

Ju ly .

Sachiko

and

I

had

a good

v i s i t

with

the

Don Burney family on the island

of

Shikoku,

an d

then v;ent to Tokyo for

sightseeing and

visit ing before

going on to Bible

Camp

in

the

mountains

The camp was sponsored

by

Sach ik o s home

church,

a

non-

instrumental congregation in Tokyo, and the ^3 campers ranged from

kindergartners

to college-age plus, including 2nd-grader Fumihiro Kira

and college senior Terumi Fu.iii who went with us from

Hiroshima.

Sachiko

t ransla ted

a s

I t a u g h t a

Bible

c l a s s

each m or nin g a nd

helped

me lead

songs;

we both

shared

in evening

discussions

with the older

campers. August 6th dawned

with

a wave of

nostalgia

as I remembered

th e summer o f 1 9 7 0 , when I

celebra ted

my

bir thday

a t

t ha t

same camp

si te during my f i rs t t r ip to Japan with the Ohayo

Singers.

But the

camp was

climaxed

on Monday morning as two young

gir ls from

Tokyo

an d

Terumi

F u j i i

were

baptized

in

the cold,

choppy

v/aters

of

Lake Motosu.

How we praised t h e

Lord toge ther

A f t e r tha t , as some o f you may knov/, I came home fo r a v er y s h o r t

b u t worth-while three weeks. The main object of the t r ip was to be^

able to

talk p er so na lly t o

the bo yfrien d I

lef t

behind in

Cincinnati

l a s t year. Besides

that,

i t was a joy to spend a

l i t t le

time

with

Natalie

and

Larry Johnson, my brothers families, various

uncles,

aunts, cousins,

and

of course my o and

Dad

who jus t recently moved

from the bird sanctuary in

Connersville back

home to

Rising

Sun.

Back

in Hiroshima,

i t

wasn t too hard

to

ge t

back

into the

swing

of things,

but

I haven t been able

to

write many letters because of^

some

long overdue

homework

A

few

weeks

before I

was to

graduate v/ith

my Master s Degree, I was found lacking a course

in

curriculum that

I

d i d n t

have

time

to takebut

a

very gracious

advisor

gave

me

cr edit

f o r the course on the co n d itio n tha t I do an independent research pro

ject on Japanese schools and curriculum. Finally I v/as s-ble

to find

some research m aterials in

English, an d

talk to some

school

o f f i c i a l s ,

etc. ,

but when I got. back I had to put i t a l l to geth er to reach the

S e p t e m b e r dead l ine .

I have

le a rne d

a lo t ab o u t Japanese l i fe as

w e l l

as schools,

coming to understand why the frantic worry about entrance exams effect-,

kids as fa r down as kindergarten. The rank

of

the ui.iversity one gets

into

in

Japan

wi l l be th e

sole

determining factor

in

the nature and

quality of success; once one

enters

a company

at

a certain level, he

cannot move

ou t o f

tha t

par t icu la r niche, r e g a r d l e s s

o f c h a r a c t e r ,

e f f o r t ,

a n d ab i l i t y .

.

Well, I

thank you and keep praising God fo r your co nti nu ed lo ve

and prayers. Please keep

praying

for our new Christians, Kazue Fukuda

and Terumi Fu.iii; f o r the l a d i e s who study the Bible with us every

Thursday morning; for me as I continue to study and learn Japanese;

fo r S a c h i k o a s

we

work tog ether fo r Jesus .

With l ove i n H i m ,


12/12

FINANCIAL

REPORT

Hi r o s h ima Ci i r i a t i a n Mi s s i o n

p

C:-rolyn

Barr icklow

Ju ly 1

to September

30,

1977

Re c e i v e d ;

Alpine

Chris t ian Church

65.00

Cambridge

City

Chris t ian Church

1^1-7,50

Fel lov/ship Chr i s t i a n

Church

200,00

Dr,

and Mrs, Thomas E.

Hayhurs t 15 .00

Highland Chr i s t i an Church 30,00

Mr. and Mrs,

Grover A. Payne

5 .00

Pleasan t Ridge Church o f C hris t

Youth

Group 25 .00

Bui lders Class 25.00

Rising

Sun Church

of C hr is t 225.00

Southpor t

Heights

Church of C hris t 50,00

Mr, and Mrs.

Frank

P, Sterre t t 5o,00

Wes te rn

illsChurch o f Ch r i s t

61 . 00

Tota l

Received

f 888,50

Expense s ;

Sa la ry S -fO.OO

S e r v i c e L in k 10 0 ,0 0

Pos tage

and

Paper

Supp l i e s

73.50

Insurance

5 .00

Savings

40,00

Loan

Repayment 150 ,00

Del inquent Taxes fo r 1975 78,77

Misc, 30. 51

Tota l

Expenses

1 ,317,78

Balance on Hand July 1, 1977 439,33

Income 88jl,j,0

1

f 3-^783

Less Expenses 1 .317 ,78

Balance on Hand Sep tember 30,

1977

10,05

Dear Fr i ends ,

The summer is gone too quickly and we find ourselves in September,

With September

I

find

Bryan

in f i r s t grade and loosing his front

t ee th . My husband Larry i s picking corn a l l day and sometim es in to the

night .

Aaron loves

to help h is dad on

the corn

picker?

but

each time

he ge ts

on

it he f a l l s

as leep

How? I wi l l never knov/. It s

such

a

noisy, bumpy, hot ,

dusty job. I

love

to see the t ra ck -lo ad s o f

corn

pass by the house. The corn looks l ike gold shin in g in

the

Autumn sun,

Carolyn s

quick

t r ip home in August v/as a

rea l

blessing

to

me.

I

f ee l

as if I understand her

work

and

the

problems

she faces

a little

be t te r . I t

was

jus t good

fo r

us to sit down and have a good t a lk

Please

continue

to

pray

fo r

Carolyn ind

her

work, Carolyn

and

Sachiko

have a great responsibil i ty with the

Turners

on furlough.

V/ith

love

in

J e su s ,

/

barricklow carolyn 1977 japan

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