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News Report of Paul S* & Kathleen pratt

R'issionaries to Kagoshima, Japan

Volume VIII, No J

March, 1964

Claude X.ikins
& carl Pish

POREWARUING ADDRESS

JAPAN ADDRESS

Mrs. Polly Wilkinson

Paul S. pratt
222 uearata Cho,

23769 W. Edison Road

south
South "Bend,
Rend, Indiana.

Kagoshima,
Kagoshima, japan
japan

Kathleen
& the 'Vib'

Dear friends.

How can we express in words our appreciation to all of you for yoin* faithful
ness to us over the years? Your extra gifts and remembrances at Christmas time
were a token of the personal nature of your interest in us. Many, many thanksj
Our radio program "Calvary Calls" is on the air again as of February 8th,
thanks to the promised assistance of the South Side Church, Danville, Illinois.
The time of the broadcast is Saturday evenings, 9:20 to 9:35, so pray at that time.
The news of the slaying of our president shocked this nation, too. words of
condolence came to us from every source.

We heard such expressions as "I wish I

could have died in his place" or "I would not have been as saddened if one of
our own leaders had died as I am over president Kennedys death". Less than one
month after his death a book of his life for youth was on sale at bookstores.

We spent Christmas as some of you American preachers do, with numerous church
programs and parties. The most significant of these were as follows- Por lack of
a good movie, we were given a total of seven minutes T.V. time on Sunday morning
to present in slide form the story of "The Birth of Christ." Mark Maxey shared
the expense for the T.V. time which is the very best way to reach the greatest num
ber of people, one of our high school students wrote about our drama "I had a very
good time on Christmas play..,. I shall never forget that night as long as my life".
Miss Arikawa, a Christian lady helping at the deaf school here showed slides and
by sign language gave the message to 300 children while we were visiting seven dif
ferent hospitals with the youth. A tract and a pencil or an orange were presented
as token gifts to the patients. Over 6000 tracts gave gift-shoppers also something
for a spiritual meditation. With big eyes and a loud "Arigatto" (thank you) the
children at shinomiya orphanage received your gifts and also sox provided by Mr.
Mark Maxey's contributors. More important, they memorized John 3:16 and received
its message as for themselves personally.

The Kanoya Youth played host to 35 young people of this area for a New Year's

fellowship. While praise flowed from their lips, soiuids of revelling filtered
through the paper partitions of the sakurajima Hotel. I don't toow about the other
group but we were complimented by outsiders for our joyous singing.
possibly we are prejudiced, but of all our holiday guests, one of them was

most precious to us. That was our son, Paul, who came back from Tokyo for three
days at Thanksgiving time and ten days at Christmas. The phone rang one morning
just before the year ended and Larry Laszynski, an old friend from Dowagiac, Mich,
was on the other end. Larry is in the navy and we enjoyed his three-day visit,
carl pish and Claude Likins, missionaries at Kobe also enriched our lives by a

stopover on their way to Okinawa for evangelism. We never learn about our full in
fluence with the navy boys that visit. But, we were encouraged by a letter from
John Bradford, a sailor, who visited us three years ago. He claimed that we had
helped him settle his doubts at that time and that since then he has dedicated his
life to Christ.

He has plans to marry a fine Christian girl this spring.

Every missionary faces the problem of his children's schooling. With Paul in

high school, Mark entering this fall and Lydia the following year we-arj:rSd@fc
plans

giQkvo where the family can be together, we have accepted sn Invi-

'"tati'on from the Andrew Pattons to live in their house during their furlough from
the summer of 1964 to the fall of 1965. More details in the next 'Epistle*

February marks the beginning of a regular service at the home of Sgt. Yasunori

Tojo, a Christian policeman in Kawanabe, a city of 20,000 people. It lies directly

in the center of satsuma peninsiila and has no church.

Our correspondance course is meeting a need, too. one of our correspondants

(a man) is a mentally disturbed patient in an institution. Three junior high boys
who take the course are in an orphanage on Mt. sakurajiraa where there has been no

church. Still another young man has developed a desire to enter Bible college.
pray that we shall be
able to make proper plans in

meeting the challenge of the

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about the D.V.B.S. kits.

Sakurajima radishes

Funeral procession for a

Kagoshima's special product

rare burial (usually cremation)

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Report of the Paul S.Pratt family, Missionaries to Japan

JAPAN ADDRESS
U. S. ADDRESS

, Mrs. Polly Wilkinson

Vol. vni, No. 4

{1/^23769 West Edison Road,

December, 1964

Kathleen & Paul Pratt

27 Sakurayama Machi,

Nakano Ku, TOKYO.

South Bend, Indiana, 46628

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