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Don and Norma Burney send September, 1975

'Shikoku

SHIKOKU Cin^ISTfAN MISSION; li-I-fi Asaliimiichi, Toya-Yitmacia-cht), Kaini-Htni, Kochi-ken, JapanSecretary: Harold R, Jones, R.R.I, La Fontaine, Indiana 46940, U. S. A.

THIS SUMMER MARKED ^^EARS since we-~Dc3n, Konna and Paul arrived in Japan.The middle of Septa34>er marked IS since m came to Shikoku. I reraenfoer that hot first sunner in Tokyotlie heat,the smells, the inability to spesk or understand. (The ave.August temperature (for Kdcbi Itovince) is 27.5C (81.5 F).Don't let that thermcmeter reading fool you, thcti^. Ihehuman body knows seme things about tenperature that thermometers don't kncwl The hutnidity makes it feel like theydip every day in hot water before they let it loose. Thereha^ been many sunmers since that one, and one hardly notices the heat any more, .or the smells or the language....but that first summer in 1955 has to be the most inhospitable sunner ar^ time.

We have had four children bom in Japan In thf>8e 20 years:Sarah, now 1^ and a student at Pepperdlne Ikiiversity at>felibu, California; Joe, 17, and a senior in a ChristianHigh School in Tok^; Tom, 15, a third-year student (9 th.grade) at the local Japanese Jr. Hi^; and Rachel, 5, mtyet in school. Paul is 21. He is a Co-op student atGeorgia Tech (Atlanta, Georgia), going to school and working for the Georgia Power Ckn^any.

WE HAVE BEEN SAECENED by the deaths of both Don's father, Hugh W. Bumey, of Her-miston, Oregon in April, and Norm's father, H, Donald Wil-

y son of Peru, Indiana in June. We thank the Lord for theirOCT. s 1975 ^ influence in ota: lives and their wrlllingness to give their

children and grandchildren for Japan for these twenty years,

THIS YEAR'S VACATION BIHE SCBDOLS - We had 5 of than.. .had their good days andtheir bad days. We had one in a pRjblic hall, me next doorto an orphanage, and one each in the thr^ churches, Noichi,Gomen and Yamada. Of all five, the Ganen VBS (lidiere therehas been no preacher for several years now, and we tried togather children by giving out har^ills at the schools) hitthe bottom of the attendaice IJ^t., .2 little boys. The Noichi church, vihere a thrivlr^ children's program is going,bad about 40 each day. Here at our house, where the churchTHeets in Yamada, we had an attearidance increase every day xspto 16 on Thursday, .then the typhoon rains reduced It to 4on the last day. Mr. Hattori (Noichi preacher), Mr. Saito(soon to be Gcraen preacher) and Joe Burney tau^t the firstthree VBS. Joe wasn't needed for the foui-th. He helpedone day in the fifth VBS, then was busy elsesdiere, as youwill read later, schools weren't as many or as big asother years, but it Is good to teach children the way ofthe Lord.

Church of Christ at TreatyR. 5, Wabash, In. A6992

Mission Services AssociationBox 177 ^Kempton, Indiana 46049

PERMIT #127Non-Profit Organ.Wabash, In. 46992

'k'kieieieicie'k'k'k'kic'k'kie'kie'k'kic'k-k'k'k'k'kic-k'k'k-k'k-kie'kierkit-if'^t'kicIKE BEST NEWS WE COUID POSSIBLY HAVE is the news that Mr. Saito, who was living in

the Gccjen parsonage and preaching for the church during thesunmer vacation on a trail basis, has said he will conie backafter graduation from Osaka Bible Saninary in April to he' thepreacher at Gcmen. You may guess that not only'was Mr. Saitoon trial, but so was the church! There are many more churchesin Japan than preachers. We want you to know that he is reallya fine young (22 years old) man loves the Lord and knows

-- - how-to present Him. - - - -

PERHAPS YOB HEARD OF SEVERE TYPHOCMI in Japmi this sinmer. If your ne^jspaper carried a little more news than nost, you toay also have noticedthat they were primarily in Shikoku. Typhoon Phyllis (alsocalled #5) tdiich carried Typbcm Rita (?/6) caiosed us to ha\^almost rio children an the last day of It dunped morerains, and killed another 20 people. We were in no dangerhere in the east end of the state, other than the minor dasirage a typhoon alwa3's brings (for us, a broken roof-tile \terea tree lijib fell on it). The hoiE of one of the Christian

High Sdiool girls fron the Gomea duird:i was flooded to about three feet above thefloor. Mr. Hattori, Joe and I went several days to help clean up the house andits contents, repair electrical appliances, and helpout any way we could. We took dinner frcwi our bouseto the fatnily and workers for three days before theirgas was restored. (We bad some quick substituting ofVBS teachers to do at the last minute. Mr. Saito, aidMrs. Hattori taught the classes in this school, with

The Gccien diurch, althoughNotma assisting), xne uccien cnurcn, aictiiugti verysmall, gave the girl's family about $60.(X) to help get started again,be praised for His care.

The Lord

WE HAD A REALLY WMERHJL CAMP deep in the mountains, beautiful as only the Shikokunountalns can be. (When you travel through Kyushu, the raomtalns ranlnd youvery mjich of those of our Western UnitedStates. The Shikoku miuntalns are different. They seem steeper, taller, withdeeper and narrower valleys. As youtravel throu^ by train, you get onlyglimpses stolai between the 100 tunnelsit takes to get the train frcm our KochiProvince to the northern edge of Shikoku.And you wonder how the people, live inthose houses you see way up the mountain, ever get there. It was in thissetting that our canp was held this sisaner. Beautiful, and cool, and quiet,'and in just the place to appreciate God's spiritual blessings together withHis phj^ical blessings. Ihere were 16 adults and 9 children, all but twqof tlie adults staying throughout the vdiole cmap. Mr. Saito taught"the entire book of PIiilippiflisa really excelloit study, and well presented. Itwill bear its fruit. Wie thank you for your prayers in this sumer's affairsand always.

RECEIVED OCT 2 0 1975

PERSONALITY, PIETY AND P.??

"Se/^6fc4o( Sorr\juA^r/TiCK

I was madj I can tell you I was boiling! Someone had implied publicly thatto be a successful missionary one had to have PERSONALITY (in the American pulpit).And furthermore, I felt that he also implied that I didn't have any. Since I figuredanyone who was truly humble couldn't be angry at the latter slight, I decided to beangry about the former. "Yeah,' All missionaries need to have is PERSONALITY, PIETYand P . . .??" I couldn't think of anything appropriate. So I threw a mental hymn-book at him, and settled down to listen to the rest of the discussion,

(If you have never thrown mental hymnbooks, I recommend it highly. You getit out of your system immediatelyyour aim is always right on target even if you aresitting in the back of a huge auditoriumand no one needs to know anything about itsince it raises no knots on any preacher's head.) In this presentacase I did feel alittle sneaky at throwing ond. at the back of the speaker's head, and at such shortrange, but it couldn't be helped and I felt much better.

When I got home that afternoon the "P , , ,??" was still bothering me. SoI got out Wetester's Seventh eollegiate Ready-Made Texts for Alphabetical Sermonsand looked under the "P's^ I was amazed, I fdund 130 words beginning with P thathave some connection (direct, sarcastic or remote) with missionaries, from the viewpoint of themselves, preachdrs, people in the pews, their well-meaning enemies ortheir mis-guided friendsand there were more, if I could have given it a little moretime. As it was I sat for an hour, jotting down words and chuckling to myself,completely forgetting about ruffled feelings, (Can you imagine what one's familymust think of a person who sits for an hour reading a dictionaryand laughing??)

m don't expect everyone to thoroughly understand my reasons for every oneof these nouns and adjestives which I have applied to missionaries. It will depend onhow many you have had home to dinner, in the pulpit, on the agenda at board meeting,in the frying pan, etc. Those terms which are beyond you, please allow to die quietly,and don't worry about them, I have included only 77 of the original 130, and have, inthe end, failed to make a final decision on the proper word to go with PERSONALITYand PIETY.

When tfee list was completed, I first named it "Professor Pshaw's Philosophy onPep, Personality and Pneumatics", but soon gave that up because three of the six wordsaren't pronoxmced with a "p". Perhaps for the present the proper proceedure is topermit you to peruse the proximate (this word means the same as "phollowing") programand propose your particular pick of "P , . .??"

To start with, missionaries are PATHETIC: (It's built in. It starts with "sofar away from your home and family" and "those poor little children". Missionarieshear this so often that some of them begin to believe it.) Then PALAVERER; PALE;PAIR (At least this is what they tell single women recruits. **You'd better go homeand get a husband."); PAMPHLETEER (a writer of pamphlets urging a causethemissionary feels he uses too much time doing this, while the supporters feel hedoesn't use enough.); PARASITE; PARBOILED; PANACEA (of conscience); PAIN (in-the-heart?,in-the-neck?); PARADER (from one side of the stage to the other in conventions andMissions Camps: rarely able to say more than "My name is" and "l work in", but theaudience gets the feeling of being in the presence of "real missionaries"; PARIAH(outcast); PARTNER; PASSABLE (barely good enough); PASSE (outmodedespecially afterbeing out of the States for 10 or 15 years); PASSIONATE SPEAKER; PERFECT; PAST-PERFECT(this applies to missionaries whom a church has decided to stop supporting in orderto support someone else); PAST TENSE (There are a lot of missionaries in the past tense,including many Bible College Missions Professors and editors of missionary periodicals^but if you want to edit this sentence oui^, Dick, you are welcome to do so); PAUPER;

PERSONALITY, . . .

RECEIVED OCT 2 0 1975 -2-PEASANT (low social status, uneducated, uncouth); but on the other hand, the PEDAGOG(who continues to go to college even on the field that he may be all things to theeducated); PECULIAR; MCUNlARy; PEDESTAL SITTER (not by his own choice); PENDULOUS(drooping downwardfrom discouragement sometimes, mostly when people aren't praying);PENHOLDER; PENNY-PINCHER; PENSIONLESS; PENSIVE (sad thoughtfulness); PENTAMETER (Thisword means "having five poetic feet"this is probably why everyone stares.')

Then let's start again with PEOPLE (There is a difference of opinion here withthe disputants drawn up in three camps); PER CAPITA (about 2,000 church members per 1missionary); PEREMPTORY (There is at least one of these on every fieldusually a"senior missionary"); PERRENIAL (Or at least it seems so "from all the newsletters Iget asking for money"); PERFECT SQUARE; PERFORATING (boring); PERFORMER; PBRIODIC(recurring at regular intervalsusually 4 or 5 years for overseas ones); MIRSNICKETY(will eat nothing grown in night soil); PEST; PHOTOGRAPHER (Here is another place wheremissionaries think they do nothing but, and ch^tlrches thinfe they don't do enough);PBFHEflDED PIP-SQUEAK (the "junior" to go with the "senior" mentioned above); PIRATE(of a church's finances); PITCH-FORK (Some preachers use him to get behind the peopleand make a few jabs they don't dare make themselves); PITCH-MAN (one who vends novelties;The missionary tells you "how the other half of the world lives", what kind of shoesthey wear, what they eat, what they name their children. It sometimes gets moreinteresting than how the other half of the world dies.); PITEOUS; PLACELESS (lacking ahome, especially in the States, so that it is impossible to answer,"Where are you from?"PLAGUE; PLAIN ("Ohhh5* I'm sooo glad to meet a missionary who doesn't look like one,"said a lady once (not to me.)

How about PLATYPUS? (It is a strange animal that lives in the water, lays eggs,nurses its young, has a bill like a duck, dense fur, webbed feet, and a broad flattenedtailthe perfect description of an attempt to mix two cultures if I ever heard one.);PLBASAKFEY; PLUNDERER; PLOW-MAN (This comes as a surprise to some who think missionariesare only Reapers. The fact is they have to plow, disk, harrow, get down and breakupthe soil with their fingers, sow, re-plant, water, hoe, weed and wait, too.); POCKET-BOOK;POCKET-HANDKERCHIEF (Sometimes used while listening to "Passionate Speaker"; more oftenused to catch the tears shed for the "poor missionary," but very rarely for the poornative's soul.); POGO-STICK (Needed (fan furlough for getting from one speaking engagementto another on time.); POLLIWfig (First he has to learn how to get along with a tail andno legs, and no sooner has he mastered that, than he goes on furlough and has to learnhow to get along with legs and no tail.);POSTGRADUATE; PRAISEWORTHY; PR^IWR (Whatmissionaries always needin their own lives and in their behalf from all the churches.This is no joke.); PRECARIOUS (but for God); PREACHER; PROMISE (He lives on them;mostly God'swith whom there is no shadow of turning); PROSECUTION (Some preachers wantthe missionary to convince the people of "missions"others to tell about the missionaayy swork.); PSYCHO; PUBLICITY (What there ^is never enough of besides money); PUU^UP-STAKES(Missionary children do this twice each furlough year); PULL-THROUGH (They do this,too.); PULPIT (When this is in America, it is what you are supposed to have PERSONALITYIN); PUZZLE,

Japan ReporterVol. V, No. 1 November 1975

THE 27th ALL-JAPAN CONVENTION will be held in Nagoya, March 27-29,1976, at Mikawa Heights. It is being sponsored by theNAGOYA NIBHI CHURCH OF CHRIST, with MAKOTO YUSE as chairman.The theme is II Corinthians 4:13. The missionary conventionwill be in the same location on March 29-31.

TANE MAKI KAI, held this year November 2-3, had a very good attendance. There were 109 present on the first night (Sunday)with a total registration of 159. Speakers were AKIRA OnA,(preacher, Daito) who spoke on Growth in the Word, KATSUMIHatsushiba (Daito) whose subject was Growth in Wisdom, andmark BMEY (Kanoya, Kagoshima ken) who spoke on Growth UntoMaturity. (TANE MAKI KAI, which translates as "Seed-SowipgMeeting , is an annual preaching rally held at OSAKA BIBLEseminary.)

MIHCHCO KISHI, eleven years old, the eldest daughter of ETSUZO ANDITSUKO (LYDIA) KISHI, was baptized the second Sunday ofSeptember at the NUMATA CHURCH in Hiroshima.

THE 1975 ALL-JAPAN CONVENTION, represented by its chairman, SUEOMORIKAWA, preacher at KINAn CHURCH (Tanabe, Wakayama ken),presented Y100,000 to OSAKA BIBLE SEMINARY at the TANE MAKIKAI. He also presented yi00,000 to MAKOTO YUSE (NagoyaNishi Church) for the 1976 Convention.

HIDEKI MAEDA, a first-year student at Kwansel Gakuin Daigakko,Nishinomiya, was baptized during October at ONO.

MARK and LYNN PRATT, and daughter KARIS arrived in Japan August 24and are living with his parents, PAUL AND KATHLEEN PRATTat Isehara at present, while Mark and Lynn are studyingJapanese at the Missionary Language School in Ochanomizu.

EXIE FULTZ, recently returned from furlough, has moved into a newapartment in Tokyo, according to JOE BURNEY who with STEVEFLEENOR helped her move there one rainy Saturday evening.Her address is Apt. E, Isoda Building, 6-15-8 Minami Aoyama,Minato ku, Tokyo, 107,

SAYURI IWAGAMI was baptized October 19 at the NOICHI CHURCH (Kochiken). She is in her second year of nurse's trainii^ atChuo High School, Kochi.

AFTER A RECESS OF 3 YEARA AITO 8 M&IiIIIS, uc are mchins an atter.pt tcput JAPAN REPORTER back into operation. For those.not familiar with previous Issues, the purpose of JAPAN REPORTER isfellowship and information exchange between the leadershipinvolved in preaching Christ in Japan (not to presentmissionary activity in Japan to American churches). Don andNorma Burney compile."'materials sent by various japan inissioii-aries and preachers in Japanand by missionary childreh,students, recruits, former missionaries, and other Japan-related people in the U.S. and other countries.

THE MAILI^ LIST four years ago consisted of about 200 copies.Of these, more than 100 were addressed in Japanese and mailedin Japan. Another 30 were addressed in English and mailed inJapan. Of the about 70 sent overseas (U.S., Australia, Taiwan,Philippines), 21 went to missionary children, 16 went topotential recruits, 9 to former missionaries, 8 to missipnatrieson furlough, and 4 to Japanese living in the U.S. The very fewothers sent went to a few fOi^arding secretaries and a few (8)-churches. We expect our revised mailing list to be approximately along this outline.

JAPAN REPORTER began with one issue in October" 196^, followedby 7 issues in 1^70 arid 9 in 1971. The last issue was sentin February 1972. JAPAN REPORTER Digest, a summary of thenews in Japanese, was sent for the last 4 issues to Japanaddresses only. We hope to continue JAPAN REPORTER Digest,which is translated and edited by MINORU HATTORI."

We will depend on YOU for the news, fellowshTp arid informationnecessary to keep this ijew attempt going; ' (Wei are sorrythat we will, for the present, be unable to print pictures aswe did before.) Please send us;a letter or chrd, in Japaneseif necessary, with your" news.

LONNIE AND CORAL MINSS will hold two 3-day evangelistic meetings inHiroshima during the period of November 9-14. TTiey will bewith the KISHl family at thd NUfiATA CHURCH and with the BILLTURNER family at the HIROSRIM CHRISTIAN CENTER.

THE SUMMER PROGRAM of the ONO CHURCH began with a 3-day evangelisticmeeting, followed by a 3-S'anday series"of sermons, and thena 3-day camp. There'were 5 confessions at camp, 4 of thembeing High School students who are awaiting parental understanding before being baptized. Please make this a matter ofyour prayers. Pray also for 3 others (adults) who are neara decision on being baptized.

Xliis Faljj bnu i\j !5e::l"in of Church^ 0"P ON'^CHURCH (MASATAMI KIKKAWA, preacher) will be'held Novemter23-24 at the Yashlro Motorboat Kaikan.

HOPE MAXEY is enrolled as a Freshman:boardingr student at ChristianAcademy in Japan, in Tokyo. She graduated from the 8thgrade at Hope-Academy in Mafiila, The^Philippines where shehad been staying with her sister, Paula Yanagimoto, andfamily.

HIROSHI INADA (Address; Box 55, Kehmore, Queensland, Australia) willgraduate fromvKenmore Christian College oh November 21, Heterms the graduating class the smallest in years in termsof number of graduates, which is three including me as theonly male student, though two students have already left theCollege after-having finished their courses of studies in thefirst, semester, , , I at last got my B,A, degree from theUniversity of Queensland. My majors were Biblical Studiesand Greek Language and Literature . . , i should get my B.D.also next year from -the same university. . . I am preaching*tto a circuit of three churches in a farming area calledWest Moreton, about 70 miles from Kenmore. I drive my carthere every Sunday. I am having a tremendous time there and

, learning a lot of things* . . I may be able to see you inJapan next :year, perhaps in January.''

MEGUMI KOGAMU, a member of the ONO CHURCH, has been in the UnitedStates since July, and enrolled in Atlanta Christian College(2605 Ben Hill Road, East Point, Georgia 30344, U.S.A.)Since September. She is supported there by the.ONO CHURCH,

MICHIKO FUKOE has begun her second year at Ozark Bible College (1111N. Main, Joplin, Missouri 64801, U.S.A.). She recently felland "sprained" her left elbow, causing her to have to carryit in a sling for several weeks. X-rays showed "bleedinginside ,the bone'*. She is now serving as the youth sponsor ofa small church near Joplin, where the youth meetings haveincreased from almost nothing to 35 at last report.

THE SANNOBARA CHURCH sponsored two musical programs during thesummer, had a 3-day home-force rally, and had (with theZUSHI CHURCH) 20 in Motosu Christian Camp. They have paidover half of their $1700 building debt since January 1.There have been 4 persons baptized in recent months.

CAMP IN THE SHIKOKU MOUNTAINS this summer was attended by 16 adultsand 9 children. HIROSHI SAITO, presently a student at OSAKABIBLE SEMINARY, led the Study of the entire book of Philip-pians.

MR AND, MRS. KTSUZO KISHl Oiiroshima) and their 4 childl^en, spentfive weeks in the United States this last summer. Mr.Kishi, who is an University Economics professor in Hiroshima, attended professional meetings in California. They

' also traveled and spoke in several churches, among themones in Seattle, Nebraska, Kansas, Indiana, Ohio and NewMexico. ^

AN EVERT MORNING PRAYER MEETING with the leadership rotating amongthe membership, is being held at the OND CHURCH, Thirtyminutes each morning is spent studying one chapter ofScripture a day (presently the Minor Prophets), followedby 15 minutes of prayer.

CAROLYN BARRICELOW (remembered by many from the first Ohayo SingersGroup) spent six weeks in the summer of '75 working withthe Hiroshima missionaries and preparing to come back inthe sprix^ of '76 to work permanently. She is now finishing her teacher certification requirements at the University of Cincinnati.

A 60 TSUBO LOT has become available two blocks from Obirin College,and the PAUL and MARK PRATT families plan to take advantageof it with a view to establishing OBIRIN CAMPI^ HOUSE."Our plan is to buy this land, then build a two-storybuildingone floor for Mark and Lynn's home and the otherfloor for the campus house. With our recent experiencebuilding the church here (SANNOBARA CHURCH'S building) weare confident that we can do much of the building ourselvesat a minimum cost. Through a campus ministry we will beable to reach 5,000 youth from all over this country andeven a few from other countries." The cost will be $765.45per tsubo. The lot will measure 36 ft. by 60.ft, PAULwrites, "We feel like Abraham againgoing out, not knowing whither we go. I appreciate that old man's faithmore and mote-all the time,"

THOSE NOW WORKING IN HIROSHIMA are JERRI LYNN ANDERSON (arrivedJune, 1974), LEE AND SANDRA JONES and 3 children (arrivedSept., 1974, except for little Peter Michael who joinedthe family in April of 1975), ETSUO AND ETSUKO (LYDIA)KISHI and 4 children, and BILL AND BETTY TURNER and 3children. Meetings are held in the chapel behind theKishi home at Tomo, Numatar-cho; at the rented ChristianCenter in Ushita, and in a home in Hesaka. English classes in various places provide many contacts. There havebeen 8 baptisms since September 1974.

HIDETO YOSHII was married on October 18 to MABAKO NOGAMI of KitaKsrushu. They are living in Setagaya, Tokyo.

for furloucliSTEPHEN AND CAROL FLEENOR and 3 children .plan to return/to the

United States in December where he will enroll: for moreschooling. They plan to spend Ohristmas there with hisparents, JULIUS AND VIRGINIA FLEENOR, who will then returnto Japan, arriving sometime in January.

HIDETO yOSHII returned to Japan from study in the United States onAugust 26, and has been helping in the SANNOBARA CHURCH. Heand MARK PRATT preached a 3-day "home-force rally" there.

AN EVANGELISTIC MEETING was held at the MEIJIRODAI CHURCH fromSeptember 24 to 28. FUMIO SATO (preacher at Kamiochiai,Tokyo) preached and showed slides of his March-April trip toIsrael and Sinai, including a climb to the top of Mt. Sinai.The highest attendance for the meeting was 22 one night.HAROLD SIMS commented, "l had thought that current interestin the Israel-Sinai-Egypt situation would bring some extraattendance at the meetings, but it did not."

MARY PRATT was at home in Japan for 3| months this summer, and herroommate, BARBARA ROTH, also spent 3 months here. Bothtaught English, and assisted with the church and camp. MARYearned six extra credits (college) by attending the summersession at Sophia University. BARBARA was impressed with"the joy and boldness of the Christians I met, who shineas lights in their world. " MARY is in her senior year at theUniversity of Cincinnati as an English major.

YUICHI NAKAGAWA, guitarist from SANNOBARA CHURCH, worked with theSHIMOOCHIAI Christians in Karuizawa in a coffee-house typeof evangelism during a part of the summer.

MARTHA YOST was Chapel Speaker at Pepperdine University (Malibu campus) the day NORMA BURNEY visited chapel during a short staywith SARAH there in late June 1975. MRS. YOST had fallensome time before and suffered a hip injury, but her indomin-able spirit had her .walking again with difficulty and acaneand even standing while speaking.,

Isn't ANOTHER ISSUE OF JAPAN MISSIONS overdue? Especially in viewof the missions study emphasis on Japan, Korea and Okinawaslated for April of 1976? BETTY TURNER and the BURNEYS arepresently engaged in investigation of the cost of preparation, When this is comlpleted, we will have the basis forconsulting with missionaries and recruits about a possiblenew issue. BETTY is willing to serve as editor assisted bythe BURNEYS.

v.rocc from (HIKAWA, iVe a-ie now settled for pn-^-f-horterm on the field. Rave been back now for two months, long eenough for our parcel post items to^catch up with us.'. .Ravespent most of the two months with welcome meetings; gettingoriented to the work again and being brought up to date onhappenings in the churches. . .We are slowly getting linedout again with a schedule. I have a Tuesday night BibleStudy, a Wed, night Bible study and prayer meeting, a Sundaymorning adult Bible class and bring the message here at UCHI-DOMARI where I am the pastor. Each third Sunday the localleaders take over the services here in UCHIDOMARI and I takethe full day for a schedule up north. I go to GENKA in thea.m., SAKIMOTOBU in the afternoon, and MAKIYA in the evening.Will begin also to go each third Saturday night to IE SHIMA.Have to stay all night as the boat doesn't run back to themain island after the services,"

An ISLAND-WIDE RALLY was held in Okinawa, Monday Nov. 3, with YUKIOITAGAKI (preacher, NAKANO CHURCH, Tokyo) as guest speaker.There were 150 in attendance. "BROTHER ITAGAKI spent 10 dayshere and was able to speak in a number of our churches as wellas bring the two main messages fro the rally. Met this yearat a beach resort about half way up the island on the ChinaSea side. Wonderful facilities and a grand fellowship." HW

PLEASE SEND YOUR NEWS, of family, church, childrenWRITE IT NOWWHILE IT IS NEWS AND AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO YOUR FELLOW-WORKERS"Because it has been almost 4 years since JAPAN REPORTER waslast published, our mailing list is in need of drasticrevision. Please send us the present addresses of those nowin America or overseas in any other countryyour children,students, those on furlough, former missionaries, and othersthere permanently or temporarily. If anyone is missed anywhere, let us know. It will take a while to get back tonormal publishing

JAPAN REPORTER was compiled by Don and Norma Burney from materialsent them by various Japan missionaries and preachers. Itspurpose is fellowship and information exchange between theleadership involved in preaching Christ in Japan. JAPANREPORTER Digest is translated and edited by Mlnoru Hattori,Address: Japan Reporter, Don & Norma Burney, 2-1-6 Asahimachi, Tosa Yamada oho, Kami gun, Kochi ken, 782.

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Don and Norma Burney send DECEMBER. 1975

FROM JAPAN,'Shikoku

SHIKOKU CIMUSTIAN MISSION: 2-1-fi Asahimachi, Tusn-Yamada-cho, Kami-^un, Kochi-ken, JapanSecretary: Harold R. Jones, RR. 1, La Fontaine, Indiana 46940, U. S. A.

RXgive XT A TRANSFUSIONContinue with a higher calorie diet.'

Our bank account is ailing. Undernourishment and overworkseem to be at the root of its?anemia. From January toOctober our General Fund* received an average of $1,782per month, while expenses averaged $2,131 over the sameten month period. This was an average deficit of $349 permonth (about 50% of our salary). Since August the incomehas sagged, with the average deficit of $629 per month(almost 90% of our salary).

Our patient needs an immediate transfusion, but more thanthat, it needs more Intake on a regular basis. After 20years on the mission field, we find ourselves in financialproblems for several reasons:

(1) Long service creates heavier responsibilities. Wehave two other salaries (Mr. Hattbri^s and MissFukoe's), and will take responsibility for anadditional $165 per month in April to enable theGomen Church to hire a full-time minister. Theoperating expenses of the mission increase witheach new activity.

(2) Jnfl-tionWhen we came to Japan a haircut (Includingshave and shampoo) cost $.28. Now Just a plain dry

haircul costs $2.85an increase of over 1000%, Japanese grocery prices are among the highest in theworld. Ordinary hamburger costs $2.85 per pound. Webuy mutton because it is cheapat $1,52 per pound.Letter postage within Japan will soon go to thirteencents as against Just over two cents when we came.

(3) Japan is not as dramatic a field as some of the^*gl8mor" spo^s"l!n"the world. Conversions are fewerand the"cost per convert" conscious mission committeeoften looks for higher yielding fields.

(4) We haven't specialized in raising money. Newsletters,financial reports, etc., take tfrne.*^ "We have tried tobe good stewards of the Lord's money, but haven'tgiven a great deal of time to the reporting effortsthat gather money,

(5) The value of the yen used to be Y360 for each $1.00.The yen is now floating, sometimes high, sometimeslow. In December 1975 it was high--Y300 = $1.00,It has been as low as Y260 s $1.00.

ONE DOLLAR

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THREE HUNDRED YEN

Equals

TWO DRUMSTICKS

AND A THIGH

CHURCH OF CHRIST AT TREATYR. 5, WABASH, INDIANA 46992

NON-PROFIT ORGAN.PERMIT #127WABASH, IN. 46992

i~"-; rjf , Missioa Services AgsociatLon

Box 177I Kempton, Indiana 46049

WE HAVE MANAGED TO KEEP THE MISSION FREE from large deficits by accepting thedeficits as a reduction in salary. In this way, we wr6te off about$12,000 during our third term and since the start of our fourth termthirteen months ago, we have written off over $5,800. .(An exceptionto this is the August 1975 deficit of $1,536.38, which we have NOTwritten off because money had_to .be borrowed during tJjat.jiQtith,)

OUR BUILDING FUNDhandled seperately from the general fundhas an Indebtedness of $7,873 which will be paid off In about two years and four

. months at our present rate of re^pajment. This debt-was Incurred Inthe building of the Nolchl Church Building and parsonage. (TheBurneys live In rented quarters.) A part of this ampyrit waa borrowfrom the local Farmers' Co-op Bank. This part wlll/t^j,palci^i>ff Inanother 4 months. Mrs. Hattorl has taught piano andl No^aJ^ had taughEnglish for about 5 years to pay off this much. AnothePyearswill pay off what we borrowed personally (on Insuran^eS'^lir wecontinue at the same rate.

WE JOJ),CHURCHES who are willing to make long, tejcm .commitments. Efficient workdoes not result from minimum budgets. We need at least $1300 more permonth to do the Job that we believe the Lord has prepared us to doduring the past twenty years. How would you like to be able to sponsoran experienced missionary family already on the field?

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FOOD PRICES IN SHIKOKU, JAPAN during NOVEMBER 1975

Chicken legs and thighs $1.84 per pound

Lowest priced beef in our market 2. 43 per pound

Highest priced beef in our market(No steak on display)

6.54 per pound

Soft margarine 1.34 per pound

Bread .59 per pound

Nescafe Instant coffee 5,93 per pound

Nescafe Gold Blend 9.96 per pound

Eggs .85 per dozen

Milk (whole) .60 per quart

* Definition of General Fund; The amount that reaches the field after deductionsare made for furloxigh fund, special funds--auch as the Mlchlko Fukoeeducation fund, retirement allowance (begun about a year ago), andpostage and stationery, etc., used in Stateside mailing,

WORD HAS BEEN RECEIVED THAT DON BURNEY IS IN THE HOSPITAL, ROOM 658, ENRITSU GHUO-BYOIN, 6B2-CH0ME SAKUROI-CHO, KOCHI-SHI, KOCHI-KEN, JAPAN 780. He has anemia ofsome sort and will be in the hospital about a month.