barricklow carolyn 1978 japan

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FINMCIAL REPORT

Hi r o s h ima Christian ission

From

t h e

F i e l d

January 1 to Decemher 31

19?7

Personal Expensess (excluding food, clothing, and other misc

household expenses)

R e n t

Utilities

He a l t h

I n s u r a n c e

Ti the

and offer ing

Summer travel

f i ss ion

Expenses:

Office and Publ i c i ty

Evangelism

Language Study

Transpo r t a t i on

Equipment (Duplo)

Receipt s from

English

Teaching:

1,212.76

2i|-7.23

25.00

992.12

997.30

^^3,'^99.38

$ 266.78

101 .26

1^7.i|-2

if-50.52

288.46

^1,254.44

3,706.92

The dol lar opened

the

year a t 285, and

closed

a t

about 235,

so

a l l the

above figures a re based on an average of

260.

Dear

Ones ,

I know

it s

a

little l a t e

to be

t-

.Iking

about Christmasbut

my,

how

t ime

does

f ly , . .

The

h i ^ l i g h t

of

the sea son her e

5,n

Hesaka

was

our

Sunday

School Christmas

program.

Because of invi ta t ions

from

Tokyo, we f ina l ly

decided

to have

it

on the

18th ins tead

of

th e 25th , and then s ta r ted prac t ic ing

songs

and f lash-card s to r ie s ,

baking cookies, and

gett ing

nervous. Sachiko thought about 30 kids would come; I

f igured 50,

since we

had

invi ted various c lasses and community kids . Praise the

Lord,

there

were 74 He dragged in

extra

chairs ,

put

people on

top

of each other,

watered down the Kool-aid,

s pre ad o ut

the

cookies,

and

had

a hec t ic , bu t marvelous

t ime. I

r ea l i zed t ha t

we sure

a r e n t

ready

to

handle tha t

many

every Sunday,

bu t

a t

l e a s t

th e

po t en t i a l i s t h e r e .

Sachiko and I spent a r es t fu l 10 days in

Tokyocelebrating

Christmas

eve

with

hei home congreation, a tt en di ng t he wedding of a mutual fr iend,

vis i t ing

various f r i ends .

I rea l ly

enjoyed shar ing an o ld -f as hi on ed f ell owshi p d inn er

with the Tokyo-area missionar ies , and

praying

in the

new

year with

Paul

and

Hark

Pratts at

Isehara

Hel l ,

the Year of the

Horse

has

brought

not

only our regular ac t iv i t i e s , but

need fo r

decis ions .

The Turners have vrri t ten t ha t they

wi l l

be coming back

to

Japan, but

to

Tokyo to f ac i l it at e t he ir

k ids

sch oo lin g, S ac hik o s min is te r

wants

us

to come

work

with him in Tokyo. He have b ee n h av in g 25-3 0 in Sunday

School

since th e

beginning

of January,

and

our

ladies group

i s

t a lk ing

about

how we can

s t a r t

making th ings

grow.

So

Sachiko

and I

are

t rying to

decide

vrhat we rea l ly want to

do. Despite the

f ac t

tha t

th e

grass

looks

a lo t greener

elsewhere,

I

hes i ta te

to leave

the smal l

nucleus tha t has ga the red her e; perhaps inadequate shepherding

i s be t te r

than

none.

One of my par t icu la r

con ce rn s a bout

s tay ing

in Hiroshima has been fo r

February,

1978


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continuing

language studyand jus t l as t

week, I

found tha t

I

can

get

into

a

universi ty

class

that had been completely closed to

me

before.

After th inking, praying, and deciding to s tick i t out, Sachiko and I have

started

looking

for a room to renta

place of ou r

own in

which

to

grow.

Ue have

found two marvelous possibilities,

to

the

tune

of about 1,200 do m and 225 a

month,

not

counting the

needed

furnishings. For

us,

of

course,

this is impossible?

b u t God is able

Ue

really need your

prayersnot only for

the

wisdom

of

making the r ight

decisions,

but

for the strength and foresight to carry them out.

Please

pray that

mi

my

teaching and

study schedule will allow me

time to vis i t and

make

friends

in

the

cimmunity. Pray that Sachiico wil l

be able

to find

an

outlet fo r work in psychology

or counseling, which she i s wanting very much

to

do.

And join with us in prais ing God in everything.

T 'arch 1976

D ear O nes,

Right

now, I have a week of spring vacat ion j ^arch was

real ly

a madhouse

with

f ina l exams,

grading

papers,

and

graduat ions .

I t

was

also

entrance

exam

season?

a

time

when the whole country

goes

paranoidgetting

into

a good school sets the tone

for t h e rest of o n e s life

Uhen the new

term

star t s in A pril, I wi l l be teaching English three mornings

a week at Hiroshima Jogakuin (Girl 's

School),

and some private classes

here

in

Hesaka. y Japanese classes wil l

be on londay and

Tuesday afternoons,

I think.

Hith Sunday

ac t iv i t i e s ,

Bible

c lasses , and cal l igraphy, tha t leaves n? c with

one

evening to

vratch

T.V.

On

Tuesday,

I l ike to watch The

Lit t le

House on

the Big

Pra i r ie and a

samurai show.

I t s amazing how much

the

samurais are l ike cowboys

the k

good guys always

take care of

15

or 20

bad

guys, only with swoids instead of

s i x - guns .

Hel l ,

spring

i s

a

time for

new

beginnings, and

new

encounters. Yesterday, in

a

bread

shop,

a

l i t t l e

gi r l

of

4

or

5

w.mted

to

know why my

hair

wasn 't b la ck ,

and

i f

I could

real ly

speak English. On my vir.y

home,

a guard

a t

one of our ever-presen-

obstruc t ion s i t es wanted to

pract ice

English, asking

where

I was from and how did

I

l ike it

here . Late r

on, a t

a supermarket , a s tock

c lerk

s ta r ted asking me

quest ions and we ta lked about re l ig ion and phi lo sophy ove r the bananas and

oranges.

Thank

and praise

God, He

is

b igge r t ha n the

dol lar

devaluation

shock? 20 or

30 yen

doesn t

sound l ike much

un t i l

you

s t a r t

subt ract ing it from every single

dol la r you 'v e s en t^ I t adds

up

p re tty f as t then .

I

wish

I

could

thank

you

personally

for

the

gi f t s you've g iv en dur in g

the

l a s t few

months.

I t

rea l ly

i s

through

your fa i th and encouragement tha t God gives me st rength to keep

going.

I hope tha t you wi l l be praying with

Sachiko

and

me

about

rent ing a new

room

fo r

meetings . As God

provides the money

we

need, it wi l l be

a

b ig respons ib i l i ty .

P l ea se p ra y** th a t we wi l l

use our t ime and resources wisely?

**that

we

can

f ind

a t t r ac t ive

and

pr ac t i ca l

furnishings

a t

a

reasonable

cost:

**that

a l l our a c t i v i t i e s wi l l pra ise God,

who gives

us l i f e .

Pra i s ing

Him,

u


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FI 'ANCJAL REPORT

Hi r o s h ima

Ch r i a t i a n

f - l i s s ion

Carolyn

Barricklow Fund

January 1 to December 31i

1977

Rec e i v e d :

Alpino Chr i s t i an Church

Ralph

Barr icklow

t r s . Ollie Bax t e r

Zo l a Drcwn

a n d ^vs

Tom B e n n e t t

Camari l lo Chr i s t i an

Church-Homen's

Fel lowship

Cambridge

City Chri s t i an

Church

FrO.lovrship Chr i s t i an

Church

Fide l i t y Union Life Insurance

Betty J . Greig

' ^ r . an d T irs.

Floyd

Hansen

Dr. and

r s . Thomas S .

Hayhurst

Highland Chr i s t i an Church

Nor t h Grand

Church

) f Ch r i s t

r. and

^rs

.

Grover A.

Payne

Pleasant

Ridge Church

of

Chr i s t

Bui l de r s

Class

Pleasant Ridge

Church

of Chr i s t Youth Group

U r . an d

: T r s , J . G .

R i c e

Ris ing Sun Church

o f

Chr i s t

Ris ing Sun Chu rch

of Chr i s t

Ladies

Auxil iary

Ris ing Sun Chu rch of Chr i s t

'ystery

Glass

^ r , and ^^ r s . Ua l l a c e

Roche

' ^r, and ' -Trs. Or r i n

Roo t

Southport He igh ts Chris t ian

Church

South

Red fo rd

Church o f Ch r i s t

* r . and

f- lrs . F r ank

P . Sterrett

Nary

S . Stone

Sy r i a

Chr i s t i an Church

Tr and Hr s ,

Bill

Tu r n e r

Hes t e r n

Hi l l s

Church o f Ch r i s t

T o t a l Rec e i v e d

Expenses :

Sa la ry

Service

Link (-Mission Expense)

Postage and

Paper Supplies

I n s u r a n c e

Savings

Isc.

To ta l Expenses

Balance on

Hand

January 1 ,

1977

Rece i v e d

Less Expenses

Balance

on

Hand December 31f 1977

^ 195.00

75.00

35.00

29.64

66.36

10 . 00

888.8?

1,280.00

38.45

25.00

20 . 0 0

15 .00

105.00

25.00

30 .00

25.00

25.00

25.00

l,0i^8.69

90,00

100 . 0 0

25.00

1 0 . 0 0

300.00

101.50

120 . 0 0

25.00

120 . 0 0

20 . 0 0

372 .00

5,^45.51

39.37

5,245.51

5,284.88

13.28

Forwarding

Agent,

3,701.00

579.64

185.69

304.32

170.00

330 .95

5,271.60

5.271.60


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a ri ck lcrw^ oi^ot^fy

July

17, 1978

Dea r One s,

Thank you so much for

your

continued prayers and

encouragements.

I hope you ve

gotten the most recent TARGETS and have prayed with us about HESAKA

CHRISTIAN

CENTER

How thankful we are fo r the

used benches

and

desks

from

the Jogakuin school, and

for

the

new

things

we

have been able to buy as

God provides the

funds

To star t

developing

a program

of

English

and

Bible

studies

at

the

Center,

I

began a class for high school

students.

The class is an hour and a half weekly 50

minutes

of English

conversation, a 10 minute brealc and 30 minutes

of

Bible

study

in

English.

I had no

idea how

many

students

would

come}

we put inserts

in the

Hesaka

newspapers and prayed. The

f i r s t

class, there were two gir ls and two boys, and

the

next week one boy brou^ t a fr iend.

How

pleased I am to have some fellows in a

c la ss fo r a change And how I hope

they wil l

come

to

love Jeses.

Hell, I m sorry

I haven t

written for such

a

long

time,

Since

the new

school

year began in April, I have been really living one day a t a t imeeach day

there

has

been just

barely enough

time to get

ready for

the next

day. Haybe I

could have

cau^t up a l i t t le on Fridays my day off),

but

by then I m so

relieved

not to have

to go somewhere I jus t

absolutely have

rebelled

a t

doing

anything

I

ought to do.

Summer

vacation

s tarted

jus t

today,

so

maybe now I

can

get

cau^ t

up.

There

are

so

many

more

things

that could be

done

i f there

were

more t ime, or

more

money, or

more

people But we just keep

hanging

in there,

hoping that God can use the

l i t t le

bit

that

we re

able

to

give Him.

Not too long ago, I went shopping a t a different grocery store. Now that

doesn t sound too exciting, but I

ran

into Kuniko Akiyoshi, whom I haxin t seen for

quite some t ime. She seemed so happy

to

see me, and when I to ld

her about

our new

meeting place,

she came to worship

with

us the

next

Sunday. Kuniko graduated from

college in

^^axch

and

af te r

tha t was

s ick

fo r about

a

month, almost

to

the points o f

death.

She thou^t

a lot about life

and

death and God and now

wants

to study the

Bible

seriously

to

find the answers

to

he r ques tions.

Pray with us fo r Kuniko, for

her

ihysical

and

sp i r i tua l

hea l th and praise God

for

His

Providence

Probably

your summer i s

ha l f over,

but

ours

i s jus t

beginning, so

please

pray

with u s about ou r

summer

ac t i v i t i e s :

**Dedication

and

apprecia t ion

service a t the Center ,

July 38th .

Vacation Bible School July 31-Aug.2 (our f irs t

attempt)

^ I i s e

use

o f t ime f o r :

concentra ted Japanese

s tudy

prepara t ion fo r f a l l c lasses and

ac t i v i t i e s

catching

up

on

correspondence, f i l ing bookkeeping, housecleaning

get t ing

be t t e r acqua in ted wi th

people

of

the

community.

uch

love to you.

August 10, 1978

Dear Fr iends

Since

th i s writ ing

Carolyn has

learned tha t

she must

have an operat ion

on

her

eye. A t iny

hole

has developed in the r e t ina and t

must be

surgical ly closed.

This

surgery i s not

ser ious bu t none- the -l e ss i s surgery . Aft erwa rd she

must

be

perfect ly

st in the

hospi t a l

fo r one month. Please be praying fo r Caroljni a t th is

t i m e .

Iw i l l

keep

you

informed

o f he r r ecovery .

Thanks to each o f you fo r your

prayers and fo r

each

o f you who share in t h i s minis try by

your

giving . TTay God

Bless you.

His love

to

you.


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Putting

The

ew

enter

Together

P l l ^

Moving day

Carol^

Sachiko

and

Terumi

Fujii

carrying and

cleaning.

I ^

The

f irst arr ivals for

Sunday

School

in the

n w ro om

April 16th was moving-in day

although we

didn t

have much

to move. I t s a n

adventure

to

trust God

to

provide for

our

needs

at just

th e right

time.

P r a i s e Him

t

Puttmg

up

posters

to

point

the

way

to the

third

floor.

Sachiko leading

the

kids in

p r a y e r

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