1-16 Anabatake, Minato Machi
Hachinohe Shi, Aomori Ken, Japan
January 30, 1956
Dear ________,
Christmas and New Years are behind us and we are well into the new year with its opportunities and responsibilities. Praise the Lord for the great blessing of knowing Him and for the great privilege of being able to serve Him.
We want to thank you for letters and cards received this Christmas and for your faithful prayers during the past year. It is only God’s grace that will enable you to pray faithfully for others during the coming year; all of us will need to be on guard against the evil one as he seeks to hinder our ministry of intercession. May He give us the grace that we so need.
We had a busy but happy Christmas. Most of our Christmas evangelism plans were cancelled because of a late typhoon but we were able to do a little. Pray for much literature distributed during Christmas and New Years.
Praise for the fact that Louise was able to successfully write her language exam in Tokyo before Christmas.
Praise for our Sunday School begun three weeks ago with an attendance thus far of about sixty. We have advertised very little thus far lest we get too many children. We prefer to train our teachers with smaller numbers and then enlarge. At present we just have the one helper, a Christian young lady named Miss Oda. Louise works with her, teaching her to do most of the teaching.
Pray for our Sunday evening service. We have attempted this for a number of weeks with very poor attendance and sometimes none. We are not sure of the reason that people do not attend. The weather is bad but it is more apt to be our location. If we are too far from the centre of the city for interested people to come then we shall have to seek another house in the spring. At present it seems that souls will have to be won outside our home, so please pray for more effective evangelism at homes and on the streets.
Pray for the following contacts:
Mr. Umesu, an employee in furniture shop; working long hours with no time for meetings or visiting and often no time for a private talk, he is seeking and seems very close to the kingdom.
Mr. Yokoyama, an apprentice in a baker, too busy for meetings, is seeking and may be close to believing.
Mr. Namiuchi, an elderly druggist; we cannot discern as yet how deep his interest is, but pray for him. Few Japanese of this age turn to the Lord.
Mr. Seki, a baker; interested in English and thus the foreigner; pray that he may soon become interested in the things of the Lord.
Pray for a tent campaign planned for here around the middle of May. It is early yet but not too soon to pray for prepared hearts.
Pray concerning the arrival of our baby the last of April and for arrangements yet to be made.
Mr. Huse, a teacher, mentioned in the last letter has moved and we have completely lost track of him although he is still in the city.
We pray for you very often and trust that the Lord is making you a blessing where you are.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Hachinohe Shi, Aomori Ken, Japan
January 30, 1956
Dear ________,
Christmas and New Years are behind us and we are well into the new year with its opportunities and responsibilities. Praise the Lord for the great blessing of knowing Him and for the great privilege of being able to serve Him.
We want to thank you for letters and cards received this Christmas and for your faithful prayers during the past year. It is only God’s grace that will enable you to pray faithfully for others during the coming year; all of us will need to be on guard against the evil one as he seeks to hinder our ministry of intercession. May He give us the grace that we so need.
We had a busy but happy Christmas. Most of our Christmas evangelism plans were cancelled because of a late typhoon but we were able to do a little. Pray for much literature distributed during Christmas and New Years.
Praise for the fact that Louise was able to successfully write her language exam in Tokyo before Christmas.
Praise for our Sunday School begun three weeks ago with an attendance thus far of about sixty. We have advertised very little thus far lest we get too many children. We prefer to train our teachers with smaller numbers and then enlarge. At present we just have the one helper, a Christian young lady named Miss Oda. Louise works with her, teaching her to do most of the teaching.
Pray for our Sunday evening service. We have attempted this for a number of weeks with very poor attendance and sometimes none. We are not sure of the reason that people do not attend. The weather is bad but it is more apt to be our location. If we are too far from the centre of the city for interested people to come then we shall have to seek another house in the spring. At present it seems that souls will have to be won outside our home, so please pray for more effective evangelism at homes and on the streets.
Pray for the following contacts:
Mr. Umesu, an employee in furniture shop; working long hours with no time for meetings or visiting and often no time for a private talk, he is seeking and seems very close to the kingdom.
Mr. Yokoyama, an apprentice in a baker, too busy for meetings, is seeking and may be close to believing.
Mr. Namiuchi, an elderly druggist; we cannot discern as yet how deep his interest is, but pray for him. Few Japanese of this age turn to the Lord.
Mr. Seki, a baker; interested in English and thus the foreigner; pray that he may soon become interested in the things of the Lord.
Pray for a tent campaign planned for here around the middle of May. It is early yet but not too soon to pray for prepared hearts.
Pray concerning the arrival of our baby the last of April and for arrangements yet to be made.
Mr. Huse, a teacher, mentioned in the last letter has moved and we have completely lost track of him although he is still in the city.
We pray for you very often and trust that the Lord is making you a blessing where you are.
Sincerely yours in Christ,