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FURLOUGH ADDRESS;

435

Mulberry

S t .

R i s i n g

Sun.

IN 47040

PH: 812-438-3253

NEW FIELD

ADDRESS:

2 - 1 - 1 2 Soda

Hesake

H l g a s h i - k u

Hiroshiroa

JAPAN

730

Dear F r i e n d s

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Z.

FORWARDING

AGENT;

M r s .

t lie

J o h n s o n

R.R«1, Box 124

Orleans, IN 47452

PH

812-865-2387

June, 1986

Greetings

in th e p re cio us name of our Lord

Jesus,

who saves

us and

through

His unspeakable

grace

and mercy

guards

and

guides

our hearts and l ives,

to

the glory of

His

Name and Kingdoml

So many

things

have transpired since I wrote to you

l a s t :

I

shall

try to recount them i n

decency

and order, I

am

thank

ful for so many things, more than ever for God's love, poured

out

through

Jesus, Especially,

I

give thanks

for your

prayers for

Sachiko and myself, for the Christians in Hesaka, and

for

the

millions

s t i l l in

spiritual darkness. We survived 1985 only

through the grace

of

Jesus, and

prayer.

Along

with

thanks,

please

accept

my

apology

for

not being

able to

write;

I simply

did

not

have the mental or emotional energy necessary for such

effort.

Ask

my

parents—X ended up getting a push-button phone

so I

could

d i a l them direct every 3 or 4

weeks,

1985 was truly a year of grace under pressure. During

my

s^03?t furlough

in 84,

many of you shared in prayer

for

EIJI

FUKUD whose leukemia was diagnosed that July, Not long^after

that,

Eiji gave his

life

to Jesus unconditionally, and

was

baptized

upon

my return to

Hiroshima

in

October,

We

prayed

mightily

for

his

physical healing, but

i t

was not

to

be;

nevertheless,

his

spiritual journey was little

short

of miraculous. He was hospi

tal ized again

in December

( 84);

on his l a s t weekend v i s i t home

in

February,

he

told

me; You know, a t

f i r s t

I was

embarrassed

to

talk-about Jesus;

but

now

i t

just

comes

out

naturallyl

And

he

gave me these instructions:

When

i t s time for my funeral,

don t make

i t a sad

affair.

Read Psalm

100,,

and have

i t in

a

big place so all my

company

colleagues can come, Day by day,

as the church members and I visited

him

and read the Bible,

sang

and

prayed,

we saw his faith

reach out to doctors,

nurses,

other patients,

his

fellow workers, neighbors, and

most

of all,

to his own family.

He

called

those brief encounters, mini-

evangel is t ic-meet ings ,

We knew nothing of Christian funerals in

Japan,

but the Lord

led us to a generous and godly preacher who not only taught us

what to do, but also was led

to

preach the funeral sermon

offer ing h is church s

meeting

house

for

the

funeral.

Over 200

people gathered on July 9th

for that

testimony of Bijl Fukuda's

fa ithsmost o f

those

present had

never before been

in a church

building; many had never heard the name of Jesus, Even through

the

valley of the shadow of

death, God's

name

was, and

i s

glorified,

I cannot help but feel

that

Eiji»a

faith stil l

speaks.

My

other great

trauma 6f l a s t year i s linked with the new

field

address

you may have noticed above. After several years

of

praying and searching,

God led

us in February

to

a

big,

beautiful

house

that

was for

rent.

The house

i s

surrounded



by a

beautiful

garden^

with

a wooded mountain for the back

yard:

t was jus t the peaceful oasis I was needing for my t i red soul.

But the peace

d idn t

l a s t long; two of

the

church members qui t

when

they

found we

were

moving.

That

•real ly

did

me

in ;

both

had

been my

friends since

my very begizming in Hesaka. Thus, our move,

instead of the

expected

respite, was one

of

tears and heavy hearts,

followed

by

waves

of

shock,

depression,

and

despair .

I

perceived

my

presence

there as a source of hurt rather than help, and found

myself

a t a t o t a l loss as to how to re la te to

people. I f

t

hadnBt been for Sachiko, and for Eiji and Akiko Pukuda, I probably

would have

l e f t Japan r ight then

and

there.

But the Lord gave

grace , when- energy and endurance

were nonexis tent .

And Hb gave bless ings . Among

those

we counted were: the

baptism

in to

Chris t

of

a

young mother,

REIKO IKUTA; Sachiko s

long-overdue trip to

the

States

in

the fal l ; time off in

September

to

be in Tokyo with Penny Boggs during her surgery and hospita l-

i za t ion ; a blessed

Christmas

season, and

the

chance to share

the

true

meaning of

HRISTmas with

Japanese people of a l l ages.

Also, in

'oi|.

and 85 ,

we

were

vis i ted

by a number

of

angels (Heb .l3:2) : Mark Akers,

Southport Heights,

Indpls;

Jim

Bankowski,

PellowshlpChristian, Cincinnati;

Don Sue Miller,

Moscow, IN; Leo, Bette ,

Pete

J uv e, L in co ln ,

NE; A1 Hammond

and

students

from San Jpse Bible College; Carolyn Tyner, Cambridge

City, IN; Cora Dragoo, Richmond, IN; Jim Melody Hood,

helping

in

Niigata, Japan, and Melody's parents Ralph Marian Massman,

Bridgetown, Cincinnati.

Each one added

something special

to

our days ,

and

to our l i v e s .

And now I am home on

furlough.

Due to my own state of

total exhaustion,

and

to

my father s

recurrance of

heart trouble,

I £0lt i t needful, and God provided for me to come home in Pebruary,

1986. Teachers were found for English and Bible classes; the

church

membera.^decided

to

stand

together

and

develop

their

own

body l i fe unti l

Bill aid

Betty Turner a return.to Hiroshima

in

August .

Since my return on Feb. 6th, ad has undergone surgery

twice,

and hospitalization twice more; proper medication

has

f inally been found,

and

he is

in

fa ir ly stable condition.

Under a

doctor s

care, I too am getting better day by day.

I started my official

furlough

in June

with

V.B.S. at

Syria

Christian Church

(Orleans,

IN), and

a week a t Woodland Lakes

amp

(former Clermont

County).

I am making

plans to attend

Cincinnati

Christian Seminary

beginning in

September

(classes

in music

and

New

Testament), and hope

to be able

to vis i t and

share with as many

of

you as

possible

during the next

year.

And I

PROMISE

to write

again

soon

and

f i l l

you

in on

ll

th e

de t a i l s

With love in Jesus,

Carolyn Bqryicklow



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fo r t h e i r

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Carolyn

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the hosp i t a l

almost

every day , read ing th e B ib le

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Akiko,

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bro the r

to leukemia

f ive years

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was a counse lo r she could

t r u s t

even

more

th a n h e r own f ami ly .

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Lord

wi l l

n ev er fo rsa ke

you,

Carolyn s

words gave Akiko s t rength

as she began working

pa r t - t ime a t

a

depa r tmen t s t o r e .

One

more month to ge t

r eady

to go

home, Carolyn

t u rns to I s s e i :

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go t

a lo t of New Year s money t h i s

year l

Bring

your Mom

to America, and we l l go see the Great Lakes . And Akiko promised

t ha t

dur ing

I s s e i s

summer

vacat ion ,

they would go to America

and visit Caro lyn .

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