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1986

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LINKLETTER 277 AReport by Mark and Pauline

Maxey

1201-1203, No.

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n.oi j /Oil i/yy Friends of the Kyushu Christian Mission

Knnoya, Kagoshitna 893

Japan-Box 417,

N.Vernon

IN

47265

Dear

Ch ris ti an f ri en d s

We ve

been

a

place

or

two,

seen

a thing o r

two,

met

a

friend or

two

and had

family

event or

two since we last w rote y ou -

almost

six mon th s ago .

Twice

a year is not

much of

a correspondence,

I ll

admit bu t

we ve seen

a lo t

of

you

face to

face in this

perio

a n d t h a t

i s

better th n a letter

Family

news

first . We arrived in Amelia

OH,

20 miles east of

downtown

Cincinnat

Dec. had the joy

of

seeing our new grandaughter ,

Meredi th Ann

Maxey (born Nov. 18)

to son, Gregory and wife, Beverly. We have continued to

enjoy

Meredith as we have an apa

ment

down

the road just a

quar ter of

a

mile

from them.

March 13, in Tokyo, Japan, Paul and Faith (Maxey) Axton had th eir f ir st child,

a baby daughter, Erin Noriko . Noriko is the

name

of

Faith s

close

Japanese f ri end from

childhood.

The day after

the

baby was

born,

by

the

miracle of

direct

dial telephone.

Fait

called to teD us about i t Now we have one

more

reason to hurry back to Japan.

Dec. 20, our o ld est so n, Walter, received,

in

absent ia th e Doctor of Ministry

de

gree from Sou th er n Bap ti st Theological Seminary in Lou isvi ll e, Ky. He had completed the

resident

work

on h is p re vio us fu rlo ugh. He

wrote

on

Developing

a Chr is ti an Perspec tive

and

Approach to

Traditional Ancestral Rites for

Members

of the

Yoshino

Church of Christ

Ancestor worship has been a living issue fo r

two

centuries of Asian Christians, who really

have never come to

grips with i t

yet .

We enjoyed Chri stmas at the Mt.Washington Church of Christ , Also with

our

fam

Bev s

family and Makoto

Yoshii,

And

with

Victor and Lois

Maxey and other

Maxey relat ives

of

whom

we have a few in

the

city.

Victor,

my younger

brother ,

has been lib ra ria n a t

Cincinnati Bible Sem in ar y f or 20 years

Dec .29, Pau li ne and I celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary

along

with Greg

who

has

a

b i r thday

December

30

.

Using

our home as a base, we spoke in December to Sciotoville OH

Church

of

Christ ,

Clifton

Christian in

Louisville KY

and Omega Chr is ti an i n

Arcadia

IN . In

January

we spen t

three

weeks

in the south: a t

Gethsemane

church

Mechanicsville

VA;

Northside

church

Newport

News VA; Chris t ian church at Swan

Quar te r NC;

Chris t ian church Jackso

ville NC; Westside church

Jacksonvil le

FL, Lakeland FL

Church

of

Chris t where

many

friends we had not

seen

for many years a tte nd ed a nd Silver Star church, Orlando FL. We

also spoke at chapel at Florida Christ ian

Colleege

a nd talk ed to their faculty seminar on

the

topic,

Convictions of a Non-Conformist. We had

an

in terest ing time together .

North to

Georgia,

we

taught

two classes

at Atlanta

Chris t ian college.

We

met

many old fr iends there we

had

known in prev ious d ay s,

both in

Japan

and

in

the

military.

Phi l Zook- took an af te rnoon to repair the repairs of an Orlando garage. We spoke at

Emerson GA Baptist

church

before going north

to

Tennessee.

'in Nashville

we met

with the class of Japanese (connected with the

Toyota

Co.)

who are being taught by Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Floyd at the

Harpath

Church

of

Chris t .

The

Disciples Historical

Society

gave me an

important

page of

history of

my

great

grandfather,

Asa

Maxey,

a preacher o f Ch ri st ia n

uni ty

in

the early 1800 s. Moving east , we visi ted

Mission Serv ices and talk ed

to the

staff

there

before

going on

next

door to

Johnson Bible

College.

We

spoke

at chapel

there all

day in

classes

and

met with mission

recru i ts in the

evening. We spoke at Erwin TN Sunday morning and got

snowed

in at

Knoxville

TN as

we tried

to

return

to Cincinnati

that

night . , Absolutely,

we ve exper ienced the

worst

drivin

conditions this time of any

other

furlough.

In February^ we spoke at Clinton IL; participated in Missions Week at Lincoln IL

Christian

College;

at

Hoots

Chapel,

Salem IL; all

day

at La

Harpe

IL; to

see

Dr/Mrs Jen



Shang in

Wilmette,

IL.(Their daughter , Sophia,

teaches

in Kanoya.)

On to

Buchanan

MI;

Elkhart

IN; all day teaching on campus at Great Lakes Bible College,

Lansing

MI; visited

friends

in

Battle

Creek MI where we had made the decision to go to Japan; also the grave

of our infant son, Charles,

buried

in the Ft.

Custer Military

Cemetery near there. To W

view

church.

Grand

Rapids MI;

Etna

Green

IN.Leaving

there

in the

fog,

my catalytic conv

ter

went out

leaving

us

stalled.

The expensive

repairs of one

man lasted a

week

followed

b

double charging at the

next .

( I

was

a s t ranger , so

they

took me in. )Visited my

brother

Bryan and wife, Kathryn, briefly at

Defiance

OH: to Burlington

IN ,

Markle IN where

Neal

Carr,

my chaplain s assistant in the 35th Infantry,Japan, made a recording to be used at

the Ft. Wayne radio statio n he manages. To Lyndon church and Shively

Christian

in

Loui

ville to

end

the

tr ip.

While

in

Cincinnati

, I

spoke for

the

Faith

Promise Rally

at Fi rs t Chris tian,Spr i

field OH at the Missions Emphasis Week at

Cincinnati

Bible

College/Seminary along

with

fou

other missionaries .

I

spoke

in

Chapel and conducted two seminars.

At

the

last

chapel per io

105 young people s te pped out to make a missionary committment - one of the most

moving

moments of my missionary

career . One

s adne ss t hough , of

the 105,only

one made

Japan

hi

missionary choice. So Japan still seems to be the

ultimate

challenge today. But we must ha

young people who will choose Japan;

one-third

of

our

present missionaries

are

in

their

6

In

March

we left

on our th ird trip

visiting

Brownstown IN;

Murphysboro IL;

the

brotherhood Uni ty mee ting in St^ Louis; Christian Reônst^ct ion Conference, Arlingto

Heights

IL;

church

at

Mundelein

IL; New Covenant Fellowship, Urbana

IL;

Carterville

IL

Ozark Bible College,

where

I

spoke

in chapel and both bf. lis had

several

opportunities

to

t each c la sses ; also to make an hour broadcast on the

college

station; a l ong week-end

with

Salina Heights

KS

church

- a

mission seminar

on

Saturday,

missionary

banquet

(sitt ing

on

the floor) and al l

day S un day

- something special. Visited th e p ar en ts of A1 and Rhonda J

of Sueyoshi (now the pro ud parents of a baby girl, born in

Kanoya) at Palmer

and Linco

NE,

Speaking

at Douglas St church,

Lincoln NE;

Fort St church, Omaha; Missouri Valley,

Onawa, Akron and Davenpo rt lA . A1 and Mary G iese (younger sister)

came

to see us at

Sioux City.

Tender,

loving care at Ora and Lee

Townsend

home,

Onawa. Old Japan

Hand,

Velma

Held took care

of

us

at Davenport . Sunday night at Stronghurst IL and

then

to

Oh

Pauline stayed

at

home

as I

made the

long

trip

west and

north. Easter Sunday

was a great day at Pleasant

View

church Cassopolis

MI.

On Monday

it

took ten hours not

including 4 hour time change) to

fly

to

Anchorage

including

stopover

in Seattle. Welcom

in

the

Fred

and Jan Green home

and Southerlen

church ;

at

Wasilla AK; by nine-passenger

p lane to Kenai ,(All 9 of us put

our

brief

cases in

a shallow

baggage

compartment in the

plane s

wing

-

they

fi t

exactly.)

A

year

ago,

Henry

Haney

h ad asked

me

to

speak at

the

Kenai Men s Retreat. It was

easy to say

yes at that

time and

distance.

Now

the

time had

come. The theme: The Great Commission. The instruct ions: The more you ta lk , the bett

55 + men came t hr ough th e

snow

to the camp lodge,

Fri . -Sat .Apr

4 5. I talked 3

hours

Fri.

night, 3

hours Sat

a.m. and 2

hours

in

the

aft.

It was one

of

the

great

events of

m

life. Sunday a .m . at Kenai and p.m . at Homer (of volcano fame) .Scenery,fellowship and

i iospitali ty the very

bes t .

- — —

Down the

coast to Seattle:

guests of Dav id Semrau

(exchange

student in Kano

and family; teach ing at P uget

Sound

College

of

Bible;

weary

but still moving at Southside

church, Lebanon OR; with M/M

Dan

Kawasaki an d Jap an ese C hristian s in their home, Cup

tino

CA;

taught a

class and

had

precious

fellowship

at

San

Jose

Bib le Col lege ; Parkcrest

church. Long Beach; Twin Oaks church, Oceanside

CA

and two classes and much talk with

students

at

Pacific

Christian

College

Long

Beach.

All

night

lon

April

16 17

fijriiig

back

via Seattle and Chicago to embrace Pauline at Cincinnati airport. Must

close

this letter. W

will

go

to the West

Coast

late July take a Japan-bound fre^hter in mid-August.IN HIM

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A Report

by

Mark and Pauline Maxey

/ uNKLe r r eR /

To the Friends

of

th e Kyushu Christian Mission

Kagoshima 893

Japan-Box 4 7 No.Vernon

IN 47265

JULY 1986

Dear

Chr is t ian f r i ends .

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kur jim his resumed

its

thrice d ily êruptions. Japan Kagoshima Mt sakurajima ec

matter, it is time to return to th e familiar faces and

p la ce s wher e we have

spent

over one

half of

our l ives .

Yet we will certainly miss the v astn ess, g re atn ess a nd

goodness

of America and the many,

many

family, frien ds an d Christian people

who

have shared their liv es w ith us these

month

We

had

thought

to re turn

in

leisurely fashion by f re igh te r, but

Lykes

Lines,

the

only

company

hauling

passengers,suddenly

removed their ships from the Pacific and put

them on

the Atlantic run. That is certainly

not

a positive sign

for

Japan-U.S. t rade.

Also,

son Walter and family have decided to return to the U.S. in August fo r fur

lough. They had thought to

stay

five years but extreme t i redness and financial pressure

due

to th e 35

devalua t ion

o f th e U.S . dol lar makes t h e i r r e t u r n now adv i sab le . We will

arrive a

couple of

weeks before their departure so will have some family time togethe r and

to make the

transition.

Walter

and

Mary, children Shelley and

Trent,

will be making their

home

in

Murphysboro, Illinois, near h er p ar en ts . We will leave

the

car ,

which

we jointly

own

t h e r e

fo r

t h e i r

u s e .

Meanwhile, Pauline and 1

have had

many opportunities

to

share a

missionary witness

and vision.

Pauline

and I ended April by participating in the first Faith Promise Ral ly

of the Mt. Washington Church

of

Christ, Cincinnati, where son Gregory i s a

deacon

and

chairman of the missions

committee.

Thus it

was

a special

pleasure

to

work

with him in

this

special

way. I

spoke

three

nights.

Pauline

spoke

for

a

special

women s

meeting

on

Sat

May

3

and again on

Sunday, May

4.

Whenever

I speak at a

church, Pauline

gives a short

message

also. In add it ion she

has been the featured speaker fo r a women's meeting

at

Mt. Byrd church, Milton, Ky.;

for a Mother-Daughter banquet at Campbellsville

KY

where we were guests of Ray

and

Mattie Mings, long time missionaries in Japan; at a Monday morning women s meeting at

Murphysboro

IL hosted

by

Maxine Stanes;

at

a

Mother-Daughter banquet

at Hammersville

OH, the home church

of

Gregory's wife, Beverly; twice at a Women s Retreat held at

Woodland Lake Camp, here in Amelia - her theme,

Prepared

fo r a Purpose ; to the com

bined Adult Bible

school

classes

and to the children's

church

(a

total

of

4

times) at

Bethany Chri st ian ,

Ander son IN;

to a special group

of

women who gathered at the home

of Wendell and Ruth Bobbitt, Xenia OH. Ruth was Pauline's roommate at Bible college and

later

her b ride smade a t

our

wedding, soon to

be

45

years ago.

A special

time for

me

was

the

Faith

P romi se Rall y

at

East

River

Park

Christ ian

Church, Elizabethton Tn, John

Smith, minister.lt

wasa happy time

fo r

us al l when

they

easily

reached

their goal and went far be yo nd. John's mother, Thelma Smith, herself a

former

missionary

in India with her late

husband,

wrote about the

Rally in

her

Mission

Study fo r June: In his humble presence

and

manner,

perhaps

Mark

Maxey

made

the

great

est impression

. He certainly

put

Japan

on

the map

for

us . . .Severa l

have

said

that

the

s lide program that

Mark

Maxey gave

on

the final night of

our

Faith-Promise

was

the

best

ever

given in th is c hu rc h or ever

seen

anywhere . . .

Thank

you,

Thelma,

for

those

encouraging words and fo r the southern

hospitality

of the John Smith home and of

th e

church. Due to correspondence

resulting

from my

a rti cl es i n Horizons

magazine,

the pas t

few months have

been a

time

of severe s tress . I

very

much n eed ed the

encouragement

and r es to ra ti on

I

received

i n E li zabethton

TN.



May travels

took

us

to

Mt. Byrd church, Milton, KY; Christian Clmrch, Campells-

ville KY; Northside Christian

Church,

Georgetown KY where Toyota will soon

build

a multi-

million dollar automobile plant 1

talked about

some of

the

ways in which

the

church

could

welcome t he J apanes e families who

would be

coming

to

t he ir c it y) . On the

way back

to Louis

ville,

a passing

truck

hurled a

block

of wood at

us,

shattering the windshield. We

were

t h a n k f u l

n o t to b e

h u r t

n o r to loose c o n t r o l o f

th e

c a r

In

Louisville

we h ad phy sic al

exams,

s kin c an ce rs

removed

from our

faces

and

got medications. Seems

not to

be much change in our

physical conditions.

Bill and Gladys

Roberts took special

care

of us. I

attended

the

Incorporators

and Trustees

meeting

of

the

College of the Scriptures, Cornelius Daniels, President.

Usually I

can only par ti cipa te by

proxy.

A

special

event

was

a

reception for older

brother

Tibbs and his

wife,

Helen.

Many

f r i ends came

from

a fa r

to b e t h e r e

All

day

Sunday, May

18, with

the

great

Be thany Ch ri st ia n

Church ,

Anderson IN.

I

spoke

fo r two

a.m.

services

and

also

in

t he eveni ng . Dinner with the missions committee

and special

hospitality

with minister Lanis Kineman and

wife,

Kathryn and

at

the

Wayne

Masterson

home. The next day with Rod and Bev

Cameron

at Rainbow

Camp,

Converse

IN.

May

25 we

were

a t Central

Church

of Ch ri st , S tr ea to r IL, Tim Hughes, m in is te r.

I t was

a pleasure

to

have meals in

the homes

of many of

the members.

A special Memorial

Day at the home of

Sarah Ward

and her friend, Eve lyn Good,a t Kn ight st own IN. This

town

had

the most

beau t if u lly decorated

graveyard I

have

ever

seen .

The

next

day

with

Herb

and Marilyn

Works at In dian ap olis . T his in clu de d a

t r ip

to

the res tored ra i lroad stat ion,

now

a most

delightful

place for

the citizens

to shop

and

stroll, meet and

eat .

A

real fun

t i m e

The next day to

the

home of Manon and Carol Felts in P ortl an d IN . The y h os te d a

supper for

a dozen

of th e c hu rc h le ad ers.

We

shared our

slid es a nd

Japan

work

with

them.

A s h o r t visi t

with Bob

Lou

Houtz at Lima,

en ro u t e to

Ak r o n

Ohio for ou r la st v is it

with Pauline s family: Roy and

Margaret Pethtel

of Akron, Also

Florence Pethtel;

Allen

Pethtel

of Barberton

and Boyd and Edith Pethtel

o f B r ecks vi ll e OH .

(Pauline

was the

only

girl

in the family. Her brothers raised her r ight . ) Later we were with cousins.

Bob

and

Helen Pethtel of Cambridge OH.

Sunday,

June

1 at Miles

Ave

Church of

Chris t , Walton

Hills

OH,

Don

and

Wanda

Newlan, m inisters. T he y h ave a

lovely

facility in a s up er b s et ti ng and a vital

interest

in Japan. We

enjoyed

a restaurant dinner with the missions committee before going on to

East Palestine OH,

Robert

Helbeck,

minister.

It

was the best attended Sunday

evening

service we have seen in our travels . Nobody

in

a hurry to go home, Plenty of time to

t a l k

G o o d

rest

a t

t h e

h o m e

o f

G e r a l d i n e

N e w c o m b

Monday,

June

2,

en route to Cincinnati, an evening at Circl ev il le Oh at the home of

Paul

and Mary Turner . Jim and Doris Reicheldorfer

had arranged a carry-in

dinner

for

any members of our high school class of 1935. 14

were

there . It would be hard to th ink of

a

nicer

evening. We

ate and

talked,

showed

pictures

and

ta:iked

about

Japan,

and recalled

old times

till late.

Thanks Jim

and Doris, Paul

and

Mary fo r this get-together.

A

week

later , June 8, we

were

at

the

Christian Church at

Waynesburg, in

the

southwest

c orn er of Penna. Pauline was

baptized

here.

This

churdh

has

always shared

in

her

work. Sermon was b ro ad as t (a s also at

Streator

IL). T hat Su nday night

at

Pauline s

birth place, Wind

Ridge

PA A

special re cept io n a t the

town

fire

hall .

Pauline

spoke and I

s howed s li de s at her home

church I t

was an im po rtan t reu nio n o f th ose who knew her from

childhood. .

The

next day we

visited

family

graves,

the

old

home place, neighbors and

relat ives .

Precious

memories

indeed.

We

must

break off

our

story

here. We

leave

the U.S.

with regret

and

return to Japan with anticipation.

Remember

-

wherever ,whenvever ,

what

ever

- we are only a prayer

away.

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and Pauline

Maxey

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the Friends

of

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Kyushu

Christian Mission

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ar Christian friends Baptism of Fumiatsu IKE

The

wanderers have

returned

home and

i t

is time to say

hello

again from

another

part

of

t he e ar th .

Trave l c an

be

enlightening, broadening

and funny .

Americans

have a knack of

summing it

up neatly. My fav

e sto re sign:

Fill-Yer-Belly-Delly.

Vanity license

p la te i n Chi cago ;s ign in

car

window said,

Clergy. The

cense pla te

read Z-RABBI .

Sign in

a

parts store: Right Place, Right Part , Right Price.

I

bought

some

I had occasion to have some waiting time in Idaho Falls

ID ,

population 300. There was a general store

s ta tion where th e

town s road ended

at

t he s ta te h ighway .

It had

a huge

hand-made

sign

with letters

aning in all directions. It read: Rest room fo r

us e

of

our

customers. If you

buy

anything

you are

a

custom

Since

I needed to become a customer pretty

badly,

I bought a bottle

of

pop.

We l as t le ft you

in

my wife s home town, Wind Ridge PA . I t s only a couple of hours drive from

there

to B eth an y WVA where I s tood

behind th e

same

pulpi t

th at th e Gimpbells stood, father

and

son, in

th e

meeting house. We climbed th e

stone

fence to see the graves of the

p ioneer s. The

grave of Archi

McLean, 1849-1920, caught my attention. He was head

of

the

Foreign

Christian

Missionary Society

fo r

years.

His

epitaph

read,

Every

miss ionary to

non-Christian lands in the en ti re h is to ry of this society

wa

by

him. He

also

visited them all and prayed

fo r them

al l

daily.

Quite a man.

Other v is it s

in

Pennsylvania included Lynton and

Thelma Gea rh ar t i n Lock Haven;

Clarence

and Terry

Irwin

he was a fellow c it izen of Kagoshima in

our early days; Earl

an d

Dorothy Fay Richards,

Pitts-

we showed

slidesto

their guests in their

front

room and s pe akin g at B ryn Mawr chuch,

Mckeesport

all night

with

Fanny Bunting,

where

he

have also

s tayed before.

Saturday, June 13, was

a

beautiful day fo r

driving

south through

Penna.

and

West

through Kentuck

had a good v isi t w ith J Lowell Lusby

in

Grayson. Then on to Owingsvi lle cemete ry where we v is it ed t he

of my

grandparents

and my aunts and uncles. Also kneeled down to read th e fading

words

on the sto

f my

great

grandfether: Asa Maxey . Soldier

of

th e War of 1812 and P re ache r of th e

Gospel

for 50

years.

Sunday morning, June

13

at the

Sugar

Grove

Christian

church, Francis Nash, minister, was something

My grandfather Henry

Maxey started t he chu rch.

My

father

preached there

as

a young

man.

M/M

Cl

now nearing

90, remember

my family well. It was

good to see the pews

filled

with

whole families sitti

Plenty

of time to linger

and

talk at th e church d inner afterward. Also another good feeling at the

h urc h at L ystra,

KY

that

night.

The f ro nt

rows

were

f il led with

young

people

who

were

really

interested

what we had to say about Japan

and s tayed

to

talk about

it afterward. One of the g re at disapointments of

ur U.S.

stay

was

the

inability

to have contact

in

th e

churches

with ybung people. One

youth

minister allow

5 minutes. I

took

i t

Is

this the wave of the future

o r

th e d eath knell of the church? A fter services, a

meal with Herbe rt a nd Sad ie Lusby

and

we

were

ready

fo r

the drive home t o C incinnat i

(Amelia).

The

week-end of June

21 with

th e Macedonia

Christian

church , Bonneau SC , Lar ry B radbury

minister.

hospitality provided

by

Walter and Velda Mitchum. The w eek-end of June 29

with Shi loh

Chris tian

Tim Adams, min is te r. Thi s church is out in the

country from Greenfield

IN: .James Whitcomb Riley

Ate

with

U R Welcome

Class,

home of

David and

Shirely Wall.

Here are four country churches,

urishing, well-housed,

alive

and

growing.

1 was encouraged to be in each of

them. Sunday

P.M.June 29

th e First Church o f Chr is t, Xenia,

OH Peter

Creamer, Minister and s ta yi ng with

Wendell

and Ruth Bob

Ruth

was

Pauline s bridesmaid at our

wedding,

soon to be

45

years ago,

so they

had

a

lo t to t al k about

morning

Pauline taught a room

full

of ladies in

her

home.

A

sol id week of hard work preparing fo r

th e

North

American Christian

Convention

in Indianaplis,

July

-8. Set up our

booth

on Saturday. Preaching fo r

two

a.m. s er vi ce s a t First Christian

church,

Columbus IN

Armstrong, Minister,

guests

of Merrell and Irene

Johnson.

Back to Indianapolis for

the

opening

nigh

the

convention.

The highway

was crowded with

church buses

all

headed

for

the

same

thing.

40 000 for com

service that night. A

great spiritual event.

Convention

satisfying

and disapointing. So much to see

d

do

but

no t

the time.

Many

people

came to

our booth.

Had a

packed

room

fo r

a

workshop

on

Developing

Evangelists.

(There were so many people

attending the

convention

that

ail workshops

packed.) All but

one

of

the

Maxey

brothers

and sisters were there. Elder brother, Tibbs, named Hono

hurchman for his

work

in

Black

evangelism. Daughters, Paula

from

Canada and

Hope from

Houston, joined u

o we

had

some family time

together.

Son Gregory

and

wife

Beverly,

a

great

help to us as we

packed

up to

th e convention and also to ge t

ready

to leave Amelia

and

return

to Japan .

Farewell meeting with friends at Clifton church, Louisvi lle, Ky

July 11. Showed

slides.

Week-end at

Christian church, North Vernon IN

Charles

Carter, Minister

and s taying

with Rozanna Hartwell

our

forwarding secretary.

Pauline and

I

began our mar ried

life at

North Vernon when

I was

minister

ther

t

has

remained

our legal address

and

our

mission

address ever since.



July 14-19: sorting,packing,sending,discarding -

where

did i t

al l

come from? .Where

is

i t a ll going? W

kept United Parcel Service humping.Sunday, July 20 with th e

Lockland

Christian church, Noel Kirk, miidster.

My

mother

a

member herefor many

years.

Afternoon

at Mt. Healthy Christian Home

with

long-time friend,

Dor

othy

Lenihan

and

Edwin

Hayden. Monday, July

21 ,

a t ruck

came

to

get

our

f re ight on

its

way

t o J ap an .

Then i t

was farewel l to family

an d

friends.

Somewhere

along th e way 1 heard somebody pla3ring

an

old Elvis

Presley record: What s

>§ Good About

Good-Bye? Answer: There s nothing good

about sasring good-bye

except

the

profound hope of meeting again.

.1 hate to say

less

about th e res t

of

our t ravel bu t I am going to have to f in ish before this sheet

of

paper does. Tuesday, July 22 . One day s

drive

to the home of Joe and Maxine

S ta ne s, p ar en ts

of

Walter s

wife s parents . Since

Walter and Mary

will

be making their

furlough

home

in Murphysboro IL

where they

live,we brought household items fo r them an d left

the

car for

their use. Wed,

July

22:

By car

to St.

Louis

an d

plane to Kansas City MO fo r a

happy

reunion a good visit with Peggy Shaul and

her

fiance, Jim

Triplet

I

baptized her

when she

was

an exchange s tu dent i n

Kanoya

13 years

ago.

Thu rs , J ul y 23: Two hour lay

ver

at

Denver

airport

fo r

an

al l

too

sho rt v is it

with

Tibbs and

Helen

Maxey.

Then

on

to Salt Lake City for

an

overnight

stay with Pauline s brother, Guy

Pethtel,

and wife. Colleen

.Then

on to Boise ID,

Friday,,

July

25 .

My

fa ther

preached here when I was a boy.

Evening meal with Mae Wolfe, once my

Sunday

School teacher, now 101 a nd s till d riv in g her

own

car;

an d Elsie Gebauer,

who

has b een

a

faithful friend of the

Maxey family s

missionary endeavors fo r

50

years.

Spoke

that night at First

Church of

Christ, meet ing many friends, old and new. All day Sunday, July 27,

with the Christian church at Emmett, Idaho

located

in a

beautiful

ir r igated

valley.

Well taken care of by Jim

nd Cyndi Cur ran and

Bill and CheiîHamilton. Chester

and

Velma

Stewart

drove

over

from Richland, Oregon

nd

we

had

a good

vis it a fter th e service.

Bob

and Dora

Wecker

turned over

their bedroom

to

us during

ou

Boise

stay

G r e a ts love

hath no^man than

th is . )

and

took

us to see the places I

remembered

from

child

h o o d . - -

Lovely

flight

on Horizons Air, Wed. July 30, ove r the Idaho mountains to Spokane WA and an equally

drive through

beautiful

British

Columbia

with

Don and Mar ilyn (my niece) Lewis to th ei r

home

in Vern

poke Wed.

night,

July 31

at the Coldstream

church of Christ. Met many friends there from

th e

present and

e

past,

including

the

Kemper

family,

formerly

of

N.

Vernon.

One

of

their

sons

is

Mark,

my

namesake. Lef

e

Lewises with

regret

for Kelowna

airport

and on

into

Vancouver BC. About

Canada

airports,

they

love ste

ou go

down to ge t in and up

to get

out.

On

t he o th er

hand

their securi ty detects

belt

buckles , pen caps

nd

paper clips. I never raised a beep in

any

US airport with

al l

these

things

on

me.

At Vancouver .we joined Kiyoto

and

Paula

(oldest

daughter) and three

grandsons,

Temujin,

Takanobu

nd

Tamon . Also

grandaughter,

Megumi, who arrived from Tokyo

th e same

day

after

a

year s

stay

there as

n exchange student.

We

enjoyed three

days

together seeing what

we

could

of of

t he ir v er y fine

EXPO

an d

he special hospitality of Akiyasu and Yasuko (K iyoto s sister) Matsuhara. The Gener al Motors exhibi t f ea t-

a narra tor who disappeared with a puff of smoke at the end

of the

show. Their theme was, To live

d

th e ability

to move

ar e

as

one. Hmmm Doesn t quite

say

it

all. I know some fantastic people who not

ly l ive but add

to the

world

and are

able

to

move little or

pone at all.

In haste fo r the rest

of

the story:

To Lebanon OR f6>^stress test fo r me

and

Holter monitor of Pauline

art for Pauline. Restful s tay with Wy and Loni Summers. ^To Oakland CA and the

Home

of Peace, jumping

ff place for missionaries for 75 years. Airman friend, Ray .Cbates gave us the use of his ca r

and arranged

fascinating flight for us over the

Bay

area by his friend,

i?loyd

Wilson Wonderful

Sunday,

Aug

1

at First

church, Santa Rosa Ca. Guests of minister Ted Smith and wife, Barbara, and Paul and Ruby Kenn

lso Alan

Stiles for Sunday dinner.

Glad to

see

Don

and ât

Bean

again.

Amazing how

friendships can prosp

though renewed in person

only

every five

years.

0uri ne a nd hus band

came

up from

Stockton

and

remin

me that I

had baptized her

when

she

was 13

at Truman MN

That was 46 years

ago. Church sang Hap

to

me at both

serv ices .

On to Los Angeles

that_night^Met-by Caroline-Banta an d

daughter-Jan. Husbands-Jim,-handled our

fr e

shipment t o Japan . Enjoyed their Chino Hills home

as

we wound up ou r US

stay.

Good Monday lunch wit

Leavens, special family friend since Minn. days. G.B.Gordon took us to airport and Whalen French

in the nick of time with my forgotten briefcase. Animated conversation with Jeff Rada t il l departure t

t 1 PM. lOi hours

later,

in Tokyo. Changed planes. Arr ived Osaka at 8.30 p.m. to find

our

visas expired.

th e next day for temporary landing permits,

24

hours with

Martin

and Eveyln Clark.

Reunions with

Pau

d Faith (2nd daughter) Axton, grandaughter, Erin (first time to see

her)

and Walter and Mary, Shelley

(T he left

fo r th e

US

on

22 August) .

Wonderful

welcome

by the Chri st ians here

at our home

on Sun.

August

17.

Now

we

are

well

into

our

work

again, preparing, preaching, teaching.

It was a specia

oy to baptize Fumiatsu

Ikeda, Sunday

night,

September

28. It was a decision it tockhim a

long

time to make.

others were praying, teaching and encouraging

him.

Will

you do

the

same? At

this writing

Pauline is

n the Kagoshima University

hospi ta l for

extensive testing regard ing her hea rt .Keep

her

in your

prayer.s.IN

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