Burney Donald Norma 1962 Japan

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THERE

AND THEN

ANDEERE

AND NOW

Th i s i s s u e

o f

Shikolcu Cl i r i s t i an

ss ion nev;s le t ter continues

the plan we

t a r ted

l a s t

time of present ing the there

and

then the

s ix years we wpent in

Japantaken

f rom letters

wh i ch we

wro t e

at t h e t ime to ou r

paren ts and f r i ends ; and then

a ft erwa rd s p re

sen t ing

the he re and now -the presen t

ac t iv i t i e s ,

fu ture

plans ,

and the needs tha t

now

exist.

The h i s to ry

i n

t h i s

i s sue

con

cern s th e

s a i l i ng

to Japan

and our

f i r s t days

t h e r e ,

Ve

f in d th at

th e

a v a i l a b l e

ma t e r i a l

f a r exceeds the ava i l ab le

space ,

so

we

liave

h ad to make a ch o i c e a s t o wha t we would in

clude.

When you have

read it

we hope you

wi l l understand bet te r what Japan

i s

l ike , and

how she

needs

the Lord Jesus, and wi l l

be

acqTiainted

with

the Barneys,

We

invi te

your

s and

sugges t ions . Write to us a t I39 Ful le r

St r ee t ,

I n d i a n a ,

Donald

0, and

Norma

Barney

\

SHI OKU

CHRISTI^^iMISSION

J ^ pp ; n

KdtiBfi

HERE A m THEN

l.??3 Mlea Out

Dear Folks ,

July IQ'S^ (To th e

Wilsons )

say

t h a t t h e r e is too much to

w r i t e

abou t

f rom

o u t

h e r e . We left San

F r a n c i s c o

Sun

day evening (July

10)

a t 5:50,

and

passed under the

Golden Gate

at 6:50.

Since

then

i t has

been

a l l water.

Not much

to

do,

real ly,

but

talk, read ( if

you dare),

o r p lay checkers , e t c .

3^6

Miles Out

(lll4

to

go).

July 21, IQ';^

Had services in the lounge Sunday morning

and

evening. Don preached.

We bou^ t

qui te a few

th in gs b ef or e

we l e f t ,

and

yet ,

not

so

much I guess. I t

seemed

l ike a

lo t

to

us,

but

Mr,

belson, a t the

Home of Peace , v/here

our

things were

packed, said it ms under

average

fo r a

family

going to the

f ie ld ,

. .We go t some dried

f ru i t ,

Fab

Ivory,

Masola oi l , cake mix,

bleach,

shortening,

and a fev; othe r

a ss or te d t hi ng s.

Also shee t s and

b lank - i t s .

P

,0.Arrived yesterdayMonday, July

25 1955very

h o t i

Tokyo^

JaiJan,

July

19'^S (Tq

FettysForwarding

Sec,)

arrived ear ly i^nday morning, after setting out

in

th e aarbor a l l rdght (Sunday night) because

the

quarant ine boat had .hist qu it fo r

t;ie

n igh t , Grace

Farnham, Haiold Sims, I'tr, Yaraada (preacher of

the

Church

which

i s next door

to

t he F leenor s*

house), and

a

deacon

of tha t Church came to meet us, iv ? are s taying

with

Grace

un t i l

we an get our

belongings

through customs.

1

ANY COM>ISNTS?

We

sai led on the Ind ian Bear ,

a

f r e i ^ t e r ,

with a to ta l of

11

passengersthe

t h r ee of us ,

three

Korean men,

a

denomina

t iona l v/oman

missionary,

two

se rv ice wives ,

and

the two

sons

'o f

on e

of

them.

The

th ings

mentioned

here were

l a s t minute purchases

of

sup

p l i e s ,

We a l so took

othe r

things

(rebuilt

Maytag, refr ig

e r a to r ,

spr ings

and mat t r ess ,

baby bed, clothing,

bed

cloth

ing , s l ide

projec tor ,

tape

recorder,

e tc . )

Of the l i s t of

suppl ies

mentioned,

I

v/ould NOT

aga in take dr ied f r u i t . Fab

Ivory,

sola oiX,

bleach,

or

shor t en ing .

Hottes t

night

I ever spent

in

l if e . No rm a

We s tayed in the J ul iu s F le e-

nors' house in

^okyo

during

our

yea r

c

language s tudy

while

they were on f u r l ou^ .


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ANY COMMEOTS?

Don has been learning quite a b it

of

Japanese,

mostly by getting oat and practicing it . iiss Farniiam

has sent

him

out

to buy sugar and bi-ead, and although he

didn t

come

back

vrith

exactly

what

she

ordered.

e:.taer

time, he did bring back sugar and bread.

Ther.

he spent

an hour trying

to

learn how

to

use the t-elephcn.e one day

was

finally

rescued by a passerby

who

heard h.im speak

ing English to a policeman

who

didn t understand But he

knows

how

to get sugar,

bread, and a phone nunber nov/, so

he

knows more than I do. I have been a uitt-Xe more rimid

am

afraid to

make a

mistakebut

I am

going to have to

s ta r t ma king t hem in order

to

learn.

Our school term

doesn t s ta r t unt i l

Septeniber 1.2,

I believe i t is , so

we

will have

plenty

of time to -settle

down. Tiie

weather has

been unbelievably

hot .nd

darap.

Tokyo, Japan, July 31? 19?^ (To the B'arneys)

They tell us

that we

arrived at a bad time for

recruits.

The

weath er h ere is so very hot

at

xhls time of

the year. In fact,

even

the folks

from

ToKyo^say

i t

Is the

warmest i t has been fo r a while. A Japanese xady told

me

i t was even hotter

in

Shikoku, so that was nc conso.i.atior.

Paul is

getting to be a pretty gro wn-up

boy

He talks

quite a bit

now,

imitates the bean-jelly peddler s horn,

anH

gets

smiles

out of all the

Japanese

w meet

along

the

s t reet His

blond curls

and

fa i r

skin show

still have

a

l o t to do,

however .

Don got everything through customs without trouble

not

the Jeep

yet,

of coarse. But while he

was ^liHoading

things int o the house here, he got a case of

l?.e.3.t

haustionstopped perspiri.ng,

no

saliva,

nauseated and

had

to quit and drink a

lot

of

salt

water. lo

was

because

he

hadn t

been drinking any water s in ce he

was a way .from

Grace s and

water

he

knew

was safe, and because

of

the

heat and hard work. He fe l t OK by

evening.

Of

course, the church services this inorni.i.3g were axl

In Japanese,

which

we couldn t understand. A.ft-eiward

they had a ' elcome for us with different Japanese cookies

and

s^veetened ice

water.

They are a

ve ry n ic e

group.

He

got

the wrong measure

of

sugar

and the wrong brand of

b r e a d

an d

Tokyo,

Japan, August 6. 1935^

(To

the

Wrlsons)

^

We do not have the Jeep W illys stationvfagon;

yet

may not

have

for a month or so.

Our

bill of saie vdated

Decenber

193U)

had to be sent back

to

the

dea le r to

be^

notarized, and vie must obtain notarized statements saying

when

we bought and

when we sold the Oldsmobils the car we

had before the Jeep).

So

until

those come back and

some

more is done

with the

Customs

dept., we will be walking

and riding the

trains. Which isn t

a bad idea

anyway

in

Tokyo.

Personally, I m going bo ride a long time before

I

do

any driving

in this

left-handed

traffic.

Ho

one

goes

out here vrithouta pa.rasol, and even the

men carry hem in the very hot weather. The men

all

cariy

fansthe fold-up kindin

their pockets.

Paul was a

year

and a half

ol

Of

a ll

things, he remembered

the

remedy

fo r

heat

exhaus

t ion from having s tudied

f i r s t a id as a Boy Scout I

Watch

this

subject

closely

t

gets

more

interesting

a ll

t h e

t im e


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vvMn ;i;;;:}?^r

ATY COn-JENTS?

- 3 -

Noj Paul

hasn't

learned any Japanese as yetso Par

as I

knowj

that is .

e

have decided not to speak any to

him

at

home because

a l l the English he will

know

he will

learn

from

us.

He

w ill le arn

Japanese

soon

enough from

the

children and other Japanese people.

Don

is doing pretty well with

the

language),

but

X

just know

a

few

shopping words peaches, watermelon,

eggs, eggplant,

etc.).

I haven't had time

to si t

down

with the book and the

tape

recorder

l ike

Don

does. He

made me buy the train tickets

the other

day and

figure

out

we have a mapwhere to change trains and where to get

off,

so I wouldn't be

entirely lost out

by

myself. You

can

usually

find

someone who

speaks a

l i t t l e

English,

but

very few

who

will understand

much

beyond a simple sentence

Tokyo, Japan, August 10, 1955 Tq the Burneys)

Mr.

Yamada

(preacher) asked

Don

to teach

an

English

Bible Class

beginning

in September. I t will be

young

people both from the church

here

and

some

who

are

not.

Many

young people become

interested in

English f i r s t

and

then t h e Gospel.

When Mrs. Kuwabara

went t o do t h e market ing t h i s

evening I had her get some soy sauce since we now have

our

r ic e r at i o n.

I t o l d her

to ge t

a small b o t t l e and

measured with my hands about 5 inchesabout

the

height

of a soy sauce bottle in the States. She came back

with

a

b o t t l e about

the size

of

a ginger alo b o t t l e -

ful l

of soy

sauce. e were amazed, so Don

asked her

just for fun he can

manage simple

questions now i f

this was really a small

bottle.

She said yes,

i f

I

had asked

for a large

b o t t l e

t would have been

about

2

gal lons.

Glad

I

d i d n t .

That was a noble e f f o r t b u t

l e s s

than a

mcnuh

l a t e r I

did get

iost

on the trains by

iirFseif.

rut

then, not en

t irely lost , :;1 tee aTter 3

or

li hou rs, w ith

the aid

of

a Japanese student, I

f inal ly

found my way

t.ome.

lirs* Kuwabara worked f o r t h e

Fleenor

family, and stayed on

t o work f o r us v ; h i l e we l i v e d

n

t h e

h o u s e .

She

s a won

d e rf ul C h r is ti an v/oman, and

brightened our f i r s t days in

Japan

immeasurably. She

unders tands no

E n g l i s h .

Tokyo, Japan, August 11, 19^5 Xo the

Pattys)

e got everyth ing except the

Jeep

through customs T;ith-

out duty to pay. The Jeep had to have papers from

the

States,

and we a l s o

had

t o have

them

on th e

Oldsmobiie

we had

b e f o r e

BUT someone made a

typographical

error on one of

these papers

a

2 i n s t e a d

o f a W

i n t h e

motor

numberand

t

i s

t o do

a l l over

again, since th ey wouldn't a ccept th e document. We

Tdll eventually

get

i t but t sure i s pil ing

up

storage

charges i n the mean time, and we are doing a

l o t

of walking

a n d

t r a i n - r i d i n g .

e

are

expecting

another

l i t t l e one in January. Norma

plans

to

go

to

school

from

September

to

the

end

of

the

sem

ester in

December,

and then skip

a

semester,

and go

back

again. She

got

along very wel l on

the

t r i p

and

fe els f in e.

e

are

really

getting

an

ini t ia t ion to

Japani

Right

now

Norma has moth poisoning. She has become one

of

perhaps 200

or

so victims

of a t r i b e of small

yellow

moths which invaded

Tokyo about the same time the heat wave came. I t

is

th e

pollen

from the wings which is poisonous

to

the touch. Yes

terday

her

face was swollen red and puffed way out and her

hands had angry red

spots

about

the size of

quarters. I t

i tches

and

burns so,

she

says, especially

her hands.

irs.

Kuwabara

recognized

i t and

made sure Norma

went to

the Dr.,

although

there

i s n t

much

to

do

but l e t

t

run i t s

course.

The way Mrs. K. got me

t o t h e

Dr. i s

i n t e r e s t i n g

She

t o o k one look a t me,

and a s k e d f o r Andrew P a t

ton's Tokyo missionary)

phone number.

Then

she

t o l d

l l r s .

P a t t o n i n

Jap

aneseto

t ll

mein Eng

l i s h t o go t o

a Dr.


4/15

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Tokyo, Japan, August 11, 19^5 (Heivslettor)

7(6

hav6 not really had a

great lo t

of adjustment

to

make

in

Japan. Not being

able to

speak the language

of those

around is , of

course,

a great problem. Norma's problem is

shopping and not being able to count

either

-vegetables or

money. Don's is trying to discover the errand of those I rho

come to the door. One

man

v/ho ca l l ed a feiT days ago ex

pressed the

situation

classicly You no spealc Japanese?

So

sorry. I no

speak English

I

THE grea tes t ADJUSTISMT we

have

had

and.

r r i i l continue

to have to make

Is

a

spir i tual

one. We

are

not used to be

ing vihere Scripture

is

read and sermons preached, and even

hjTTins sung in a language v^e do not understand.. We love^

these

bre th ren of

like precious faith, but v:a can

join

in

th e

fellovrshlp of worship only in the Lord's Supper and

the

music

of the

hymns.

Please join us in prayer that we may be able

to

keep up

our spiri tual

strength.

A?ir

COIMMTS?

Counting i s

a major

hurdle

in Japanese

language

study,

s ince

round

th ingsonions

fo r

ins ta?iceand

long

thingsgreen

onions,

fo r

in s tanceare counted by

d i f f e r en t systems.

Tokyo, Japan,

August

1^,

19^S

(Wilsons)

Don is out

trying

to get the Jeep

througn

customs

again

to

day. Failed

last

week

because of a typographacal error

in

the

motor number

In one

of

the

documents.

Got

some

more

papers

yesterday, but don't know how he will

do

with

them.

Really, I

don't plan

to drive the thing for a while.

Just

riding in a

taxi

scares

one

to

death. The

streets

are

narrow

for

the

most

part

and

they pay no attention to pedestrians (the situation

is

_mutual t hov/ever)just

blow

the horn, and ama iingly^ enough get

through

OK.

-Don j^sT^came'bacK^CwithnTi-tr'

said he could probably

have

i t

in

5 days.

Tol


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At

S a ra h s I dn d er ga

to u

t h e r o i'.-.

pl y

house fullL? equipped

b u t

which h o l d s

o n l y

f o u r

c h i l d r e n a r

a

t i m e . I n d i s c u s s i n g

t h e situ tion r e c e n

l y

Paul s a i d he kne

how

f i v e could p l a y .

One

c o u l d

b e t h e

Daddy and

be

away

most

o f

t h e t ime

I

HEBE AED NOW JAMJARY 19^2

When

we come to

the

Here

and

Now i we note that almost without

our noticing i t more

than half

of our

furlough time i s

gone

and

only four or five months remain. We are beginning to think ahout

a l l

kinds

of preparation

necessary

for our retu rn to Japan.

Since we arrived in

the

States, Don has been traveling most of A

the time, and

away

from home, The family continues to live in 'B Tti t

Indiana. Paul (8) is in the

third

grade, and Sarah (6) i in h

kindergarten. Joey (almost A) and

Tomny

(1 | ) are

preschool,

Thes * h

and Norma usually

stay

at

home, since the two

older

children

are

in

f

school, but sometimes they

are

a ble to

make

a trip

with

Don on a t:

weekend.

When there

were places to which

Norma also

went,

her

t,

mother, sister, or raemhers of the Salem church (Peru) have kept the 1;

children

and

sent

them

to

school,

Hut most of

the

time

Norma

and h

the

chi ldren are

at home with Don

gone, sometimes

for

two

or three

0

weeks

at

a

time,

^

m

We have a family

mem bership

in the Peru YHCA

(half-price

to

preachers) and

swim whenever

we can.

It

is good relaxation, and

the family, except for the baby, can all have fun together, Norma

is

enrolled in the women s

swimming lessons ( baty-sit ting provided.

free by the Y), and Paul and Sarah are

enrolled

in the children s

swimming lessons, Besides the recreation of i t we do hope to

learn to swim,

since

we are constan tly around

irrigation ditches,

rivers, poi^s, and the ocean in our section of Japan,

One

of

the

most

serious

problems

facing the

mission

work

is

the

need

for

adequate funds to underwrite a program which will keep us

working at

full

efficiency in evangelism. Part of the solution is

to

interest other churches,

in

addition

to

those

presently

support

ing the work regularly, throu^

speaking

engagements.

We

must se

cure

additional regular

support,

CAN

YOU,

OR

THE

CHURCH OF

WHICH

YOU ARE A

MSKBSR,

HEIP IN THE EXPANDING OF

THE GOSPEL

IN

SHIEOEU,

JAPAN?

Continued

speaking

engagements are

in

the offing for the

next

quarter.

Much

of

the

remaining time will be spent in the

same

manner

as the f i r s t h a l f of

the

f u r l o u ^ o n

the

road

speaking to

churches. If you would l ike Don to speakwithin driving distance

of Indiana^please write us at 139

Puller St. , Peru, Indiana ,

When

the c h i l d r e n f i n i s h school i n the spr ing ,

we

eapect to r e

turn

to Japan as quickly as

possible.

During the fi rst Amonths we

are

in

Japan

we

must plan to

build

a house. The house

we lived in

last term has been kept rented during our fur lcu^ so there would be

a place to store our household

effects

and a place tc* go back to.

However,

the landlord

wants

the

house

and experience (some of

i t

sad)

has

shown

that building

would be

better

than

renting,

so

plans

are

being made to build. This house will probably be located

about

7

miles from the present church

building

and

will

give us new opportun

iti s f a r t h e r o u t i n t h e c ou n t r y .

Two

other

opportunities we hope to do something about when we go

back

art

(l)

sponsoring a radio pro^am

in

our area,

and

(2) sharing

in

underwriting the work of Osaka l ible Seminary.

We

a r e

ll a n x i o u

t o

be

back i n

Jap

a n . The

c h i l d r e n

a l s o a r e

l o o k i n g

f o r w a r d to

t


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J t

-6 -

Since our

las t

newsletter a more

effective program

of

overs i^ t

fo r

our mission work has

been

worked out

e have

long

f e l t the

need

for having

a more effective plan

for receiving counsel

on im

portant changes in our

mission

act ivi ty, as

well

as a plan which

would

give the

Churches

effective control

of

missionaries. We

be

lieve such a program is an integ ra l par t of the Scriptural plan of

miss ionary

endeavor .

The

need

fo r e f fec t ive overs ight i s imir:ediately apparent to a l l .

Large

missionary

organizations

cover ing the

nation

and

sending

f o r t h

miss ionar ies

to s ev e ra l c o un tr ie s

have proven

themselves

susceptable to

wasteful

operation

through

h i^

overhead, and depart

ure from the f a i th

by

both the

control lers

and

the

missionaries

sent

out. The

problems

of

in te r -pe rsonal ity con fl ic t

l ikewise become

harder to solve

the

l a rger the

organiza t ion

becomes.

At the

other extreme, no-oversight

has often

l e f t

the

missionary

without

anyone to

of fe r

counsel when

it

was

earnes t ly desi red and

sore ly

needed.

Personal i ty

dif ferences between miss ionar ies t ha t

have disrupted

mission f ields

and caused th e

return of some who

could

have

r ende r ed fruitful

s e r v i c e

have

had no

means

of

s o l u t i o n .

Various

committees

consis t ing

sole ly or pr inc ipa l ly of busy

preachers, who

often wind up being

scattered across

th e con ti nent

in a few

years ,

then

become

nothing more th an ru bb er stamp

committees

of

b ig

names

whose sole funct ion i s to lend pres t ige to

th e m issio n , i 'roblems ranging a l l

the

way^p

tro

gross moral

-lapses

on

the

pa r t

of

mission

personel have

not

fornd

sa t i s fac tory

or

speedy so lu t ion

where c lea rcu t

r e spon s ib i l i t y

and con t ro l have

not

been presen t .

The

plan

fo r

the

overs ight

of our

work

i s

simply

th i s :

the

elders

of the

^che lor

Creek

Church

of Christ (H.R, 1, Wabash, Indiana), the

Macy Christ ian Church, (Macy,

Indiana),

the

Salem

Christ ian Church

Peru, Indiana), and

t he Treaty Christian

Ch\irch

(E.H.

5 Wabash,

Indiana)

send two

representatives

and th e

preacher

from

their

respec

t ive

congregations

to

form a committee

which

oversees

our work. e

a re fu l l y

respons ible

to them. This

comnit tee

meets once

each

month

to

receive a

fu l l

f inancial report and to con sid er current business

and

problems. They

have f u l l

con t ro l of

oui-

work fo r the Lord in

Japan, e are grea t ly

comforted

by them, and thank

our (Jod

fo r

th i s

group of Christian men d ed ic ate d to Him and the

spreading

of

His

Word

throughout

the

world ,

Mr,-Robert

Winterrowd,

our

new

forwarding

secre tary ,

i s

an

e lde r

of the

Treaty

Chris t ian

Church,

and one of i t s representa t ives on the

Shikoku

Christian Mission committee.

(Mi . CSarland Petty,

our

former

forwarding sec re ta ry , i s

a l so

a member of the committee as one

of the

representatives

of the elders of the Salem Christian

arch.) If

you

would

l ike

to

know more about th i s committee and the way

i t works, or

i f you

have questions

about us or

the work

in Japan

which

we

have

engaged in , you may wri te

to :

Sh i k o k u

hristian

Mis s i on

c/o Mr. Robert Winterrowd

R.E.

5

Wabash, Ind iana .

COMMENTS?

The s e

Chu r c he s ar

all w i t h i n a b o u t

twent y m il e

radiu

of Peru, In dian a

As

you

can

see,

are

p r o s p e r o u s

country churclie

a n d

one

a

sm a l l

t own

Chu r ch ,

Th

overs ight and sp

sership

does

not

mean

t h ey

a r e

ca r ry ing ou r ful

suppo rt ( th ey hav

provided

about 6

in the past) . Th

are

several

othe

cong r ega t i on s

and

i n d i v i d u a l s

who

pray

and

work

r eg

u l a r l y

with

u s .

We wou l d like t o

have

YOU

Jo in

the

a n d

us


7/15

-7 _

Our

tentative budget for

the

year

1962

i s considerably in excess

of

regular r equ irements because

of the plans to build, and

because

of the expense of

return

tra ve l to Japan. Here

it

i s :

Salary (Burneys ) 1;,860.

Mission Expense on

field

5>380.

Housing ( rent) . 573.

Bui ld ing (Lot,

House,

Office

space) . 8,000

Travel Fund 2,350

ITEMS TO

NEED TO TAKE BACK

1 Food

F r e e z e r

Our beef , pork and whale are mostly purchased in

the

Pre-

fectural

capi ta l . Since we are moving

further out

from

the

capital , shopping t r ips wil l have to

be

less frequent.

Our

small (7 cu. f t .

ref r igerator

does not have enough

f reezer

space

to hold even

a

week s supply.

The addit ion

of

a freezer

would save

several t r ips to town

and

make

possible

a bet ter

diet

2*

Au tomat ic Washer

Laundry for th e family

has

been taken care of

by

a vrringer

type Maytag. An automatic would

just

generally mprove

the

eff iciency of the

household.

m 3

Hot

Wate r Hea t e r

Necessary to operate

the

washer.

Clothes

Drye r -

~~

A Japanese house has eaves t ha t extend several

fee t

over

the edge

of

the

house,

and we

have been

able to

dry

diapers

the re

when

it i s too

wet

outdoors.

It

ra ins

fo r

days on

end

sometimes.. Once

in a whi le c lo thes s e t

fo r

tvro

o r t h r ee days

betvreen v/ashing and

get t ing

them

dr ied.

5.

Adding Machine

We want to keep a bet ter se t of records. I t takes time

to

convert

everything

from

yen to dollars .

6.

16 num. projector (sound)

A new type using 250 w.

bulb

is being cons idered . This

. .ill make i t possible to use

i t

on

th e

poxver

supplied

by

the

Jeep, as

well

as on

ordinary

fuses found

in

Japanese houses.

Japanese copies of some of lk>ody Science Institute Series

(God

of Creation, etc . ) are a-t ailable and particular ly

appropr ia te to the needs of the young people

who

have been

thoroughly saturated in evolutionary theory in High School

and Col l ege .

J^T.

Corabinator

This Tfould make possible

the

use

of the Jeep

as

a power

supply for projector , loudspea... eoo There have been

times when th Jeep battery wai ..o worn dorm by the loud

speaker adver ti sing of an evangoiistic meeting that i t would

not budge

to

.11

the

Jeep out : x a rice

field

into which

i t

s l ipped .

8 .

Prin t ing equipment.

*Both the Hot Wate r

Heater

and the omMnator are

being

purchased

for us by classes from the Treaty c . jxcli. As of now the rest are

yet to be taken on by

classes

or congregations. Our thanks to

these

Treaty

c lasses .

h .

Our o ld vrashe r

sets

out

on an open porc

with a

piece o f

plas t ic

t ab lec lo th

ov^_it_. In spite_ o

freezing CO I d,

blaz

ing

sun,

drenching

r a in and howling

ty

phoons,

it

continue

to v;ork, although w

constant ly

had

t r o u b l e wi t h th e

Wringer. I t was..al

ways

squeaking,

s t i

ing, or dumping

o i l

over the

top

of the

rinse water

Slipping

in to r ice

f ie lds i s a

par t

o

adver t is ing a

meeti

Don has two sh ov els

ca l l s

h is

evange l i

t i c t o o l s fo r

d ig

ging

the car

out .


8/15

-mvPit-.-.-^TTyrrT

il .1 k

ROBERT WIHTERROWB

IS

N W FORWAEBING SECRETARY

want to a^in draw your attention to the fact that we

liave

a new

forwarding

sec

retary. We are Tery happy to introduce him to you as:

An

of the Treaty Cliristian Church.

A

Soulwinner

Bihle

Study

into

homes

of the

community.

A Sunday

School

Teacher of a Young Married People's class

In te r es t ed in

vangel iza t ion

of the World so

that

before becoming our fon-zarding

secre

tary he

for several years

was Misr. Chairm

Head

of a Christian

ome

he

and

his wife,

Dorothy have two

Christian

daughters one a beautician & the

other in

nu r ses t r a i n i n g

Businessman

part-owner of the Minear Oil

Company Wabash

I n d i a n a

are

extremely

happy

to

have

him

as a

co worker

in the

work

of the

Kingdom

in

Japan

All funds

shoiad

be sent to him: Shikokru Christian Mission

c/o Mr.

Robert Winterrowd

R.R. 5

Wabash

Indiana

TREATY

CHRISTIAN

CHURCH

RR

5

Wabash

Indiana Permit 127

Non-profit

Organ.

Wabash

Ind iana

^ ^ S

^

Form

35^7 requested


9/15


10/15

SHIKOKU CHRISTIAN MISSION

JAPAi\

j f fiX

\

r

THE FAMILY: Don and

Norma Burney

and Children

T H E P L A N ;

To leave San Francisco June 19 , 1962

to

r e t u r n f o r o u r second t e r m in the L o rd s S er v

ince in

Japan ,

T H E

N E E D :

About 1 , P 00

remains

to be raised

toward the fare

for

our

family. Al l contributions should be mailed

to

us in

care

of Mr. Robert O. Winterrowd, R. R. 5 Wabash Indiana.

CAN YOU H E L P

NOW

T O W A R D OUR R E T U R N ?


11/15

Continued fron page if

Tokyo,

J ap an . J an ua ry if , 1956newslet ter

I t does

not

seen

possible

that we have been in Japan

for

alnost s ix nonths.

Being busy

with

language

study,

we

have hardly

noticed

th e

passage of t ine. One semester i s over,

and af te r th e ho liday vaca ti on , s ch oo l h as s ta r ted

again

on

Jane

6

Don

returned

to

school

at

that

t ine,

while

Norna made

plans

to

study

a t

hone for a while two or three t ines a

week with a private teacher.

feel tha t we have learned

quite

a

b i t of

the

Japanese

languager

but

i s by no means enough to be able to t e l l the

story of

God s salvation

to

those

we

meet.

Please keep us

in

your

praye r s

as we cont inue to s tudy .

These

f i r s t

fev/ days of th e Hew

Year have

been the

most

important

holidays of

the year here in Japan. Pagan worship

has

been

a t i t s h ighes t and so has drunkeness . At midnight

on

2 ecenber J l

the Hew Year was ushered in by

108 gongs

fron the

be l ls in

the Buddhis t Teir^jlesone gong

for each

s in

to

which

nan i s he i r .

As

the l a s t gong

Hed

away the

Hew Year

began

and

fo r those

v/ho had heard a l l

100 gongs gu i l t

for a l l

108 s ins

was supposed to

have

gone with

the

o ld y ea r. How nany

thousands

of people

there are who are

dying in

pagan s in \

Tokyo, Japan, January 11,

19 j6 (to Wilsons)

SARAH

RUTH

BURHBY was born January 7 a t 8:15 p.m. Tokyo t ine;

she weighed 9 lb . I5 oz.

As

of

nov; May I962,

a ll

funds

should

be sent to us c/0 Mr Robert

Winterrov/d. R .R . j ,

Wabash, I nd i ana .


12/15

L -

m j 1962

HOIvlZAIEO

THERE AND THENAND EEEB

A^TD NOW

Ko r e a

Pt^JfY

[ s \

/ miKOKO

KW/SHi;/ v

THBES AHD

THBH

Tokyo

t s e e n s

t h a t

i n

this

i s s u e

o f th e

SHIEOK

CHRIST IAN MISS ION news

we ha ve r e v e r s e d

t h e u s

ual procedure and

placed

the

Here

and Now

first t is

he c au s e at this t ime t h e He r e and

Now is more inportant

if

we are to re turn to

the

Lord s work on- Stiikoku

promptly.

Won t yo

cons ider

helping now

in our

re-turn to Japan?

As

fo r th e

There

and Then s e c t i on o f o

l e t t e r ,

t h i s

issu e deals w ith th e

f i r s t

days

o

language

study

and the birth of our daughter.

Perhaps

you are th in kin g

t ha t th is s ec tio n

i s

becoming long and drawn ou tno t

cover ing

th e

time

fast enou^ .

I t

wil l

not

always

be

so

You nay

ask e i the r

se t

o f

our parents , from

whose

l e t t e r s these excerpts

are

taken, and

they wi l l

t e l l

you

tha t the longer we were in

Japan

and the busier we becamethe fewer and

f a r t h e r be tween became ou r letters

ANY GOIMBNTS?

Tokyo, Japan, Aug.

22,

195'?

(To PettysForwarding

Sec .)

I have been t rying to do

a l l

of my own shopping l a t e ly .

t i s one way

to

l ea rn . At th i s

season

we can get

squash,

eggplant , car ro t s , tona toes , peaches, apples , melon, and a

lo t of Japanese type things

we do

not

know how to

use as yet .

. I t

i s

very

hard,

however,

to get

a r ine

tonatoe,

peach

or

ap ple, sin ce they seen to

l ike then green. They th ink

we

a re c razy .

We can buy American-type food and, canned goods a t a

s tore fo r

miss ionar ies only, but

they

are t remendously

high (because i t i s imported). On the luxury

side

I

did

buy a

gal lon of Je l lo

powder. Yes, a

ga l lontha t

is the

way

it came. We wil l

probably

never want to ta ste th at

pa r t i cu l a r

f l avor aga in

a f t e r

we

. f in ish

t h a t .

I

sa id

i n the beg inn ing t h a t I

was

go ing to

r ide

a

long

time in

Tokyo

before

I

ever

t r ied to drive . I

take it back.

t i s n t

r e a l l y

as

hard as

it looksyou

j u s t

have

to

change

a

few

habi ts ,

and

use your horn a l o t . We now

have

Japanese

dr ive r s l i censes .

I

guess t h a t means

we are s e t t l ed do.wn.

, I must -tell you about my

(Norma s)

f i r s t

day s

driving

experiences.

This

i s

long, but I hope

you

don t

mind. Ton

had

to

go uptovm, so

to

save time he had ne drive him to a

t r a i n

s t a t i on

nearby,

where he

could ge t

a t ra in d i r ec tl y

up-

to^vn

without

changing.

This

same station

is

near the (Andrew)

Pa t ton s house, so

I

dec ided

I

would

go

v i s i t Mrs. Pat ton

a

few

minu tes whi l e

I

was

ove r

t h e r e . But it t u rned

o u t t h a t

the

road

going pas t

the i r

house was to o n arrow

to

allow

turn-*

in g in to

t he i r

gateI doubt t ha t if

I

drove

f lush aga ins t -one

v;al l o f the road I could have got ten the o th er ca r

door

open

wide.

And it looked l ike it was get t ing narrower a ll the tim e.

We

have

s i n c e l e a r n e d to

use

many

Japanese

foods &

vege tab les ,

and f ind then

very

good.

We Imd some l e f t 3 years a

t

was s t rawberry .

In

Japan th e t r a f f i c moves

on th e left s i d e o f th e

street

Throughout

th is s to ry

remember t h a t very

few

wo

men

in

Japan

dr ive .

Some

one i s always

say ing

to

me

T h i s

is

th e

first

t ime

I

ha ve e v e r

r i d d e n

w i t h a

woman (driving).


13/15

.V i

So to make

nat t e r s

worse one of these

t iny

l i t t l e

Japanese

taxi-cabs

drove

up behind

ne and

wanted throughthey are

s in i l i a r to Engl ish

carsvery narrow

and low.

I thought I

couldn t go

on, so

I backed

up

and drove into

an equally

narrow

(dead-end)

alley

on the

l e f t to le t the

taxi

pass.

Of course

you know v/hat happenedthe taxi wanted

to

go down

the

a l ley .

So there

v;as

nothing

l e f t

to

do

but

try

to back out

of

it

into

the

narrow

s t r ee t again. Of course,

I

would have

had

to

do

this

anyway, but not before a l l

tha t

audience

Three

t ines d urin g the

process

the

v/onan

passenger

in

the

wait ing

taxi

got

out

and

was

going

to walk on honenot

tha t

she- could have

squeezed pas t

the

Jeep

in the

process of turn ing around

anyhow.

I had to nove

an

inch

or

two a t a t ine 10

or

I5 t ines backward and forv/ard, and

f inal ly got

it

turned

around.

In the neantine I

had

accunulated

besieds

the taxi ,^ or 5 bicycles, about

the

sane nunber of ped

estr ians , a l i t t l e boy

fron

a nearby house ,, an

old nan

pul l ing

a pul l -car t who was very anuzed,

and

a couple Tokyo Bible Sen-

enary students watching

fron th e

upstairs v/indow of the Senin-

ar.y. So th e taxi proceeded down his hard-vron l i t t l e al ley, and

I went hone and cal led Mrs. Pat ton on the^ phone 1

Henoe.forth

I

wi l l

keep

out

of narrov; l i t t l e streets-with

an

Anerican* car .

. ..

Tokyo,

Japan, Se-ptenber

5t 19^ ? (To ftilSdn s-)

Paul (1^)

is

called Paul-chan here. Theyput chan oh all

children s

nanesa

l i t t l e l ike our

ie we put on

children s

nanes.

(Like

BobBobbie or Bill-Bill ie;-^

The sane nan into whose tea ^ au l threw his

l i t t l e

car

the

other day,

cane back

and

brought sone o f

h is

English- language

s tu de nt s f ro n J r . High School.

He i s

the pr inc ipa l

of

the

school and Don

i s

going

to teach a

c las s

on

Engl i sh conversa

t ion there once

a

week hoping to contact young people tha t

v;ay.

They brought

Paul a gai ly

painted

wooden truck which

i s

nuch too

large

to

throw into anybody s tea . I don t know if tha t had any

thing to

do

with

i t .

They cane as

a

courtesy ca l l to thank

Don

for c on sen tin g to te ach ,

and

then

they

are

always

in te res ted

in

a

West er n- type house.

Tokyo, Japan, S en te nb er 2 3, 1955 (To Eurneys)

t

has been two weeks s ince I d id any l e t t e r -w r i t i n g . t

exact ly

corresponds

to the

two

weeks

of

language study

we have

had

so

fa r .

We

leave about 8:30 in

the

nornlng, get back

about

12:3C

or_l:00

p.n . and

af ter

fixing dinner have

to

study except

for

supper

and

other

neces sa ry things

l ike

consoling l i t t l e boys

who can t have

everythihg they

want. Sone days, though,

it

seens

l ike there is always s on eth in g t o

in te r fe re

with study. They are

pushing us

just

as

fast

as they canawfuliy discouraging sone-

t ines . There i s no English spolcen in- the class

a t

al lnever has

been

since the

f i r s t day.

I t

i s

anazing

how

nuch you

can

learn

that way. All the

English

explanation we get

cones fron

a text

book to be r ead out side

of

class.

e

have seven

students

(count

ing ourselves)

in the class.

e

have

three

different teachers one

period each each norning They ask nia -questions and we

answer

(sonetines).

Hay Janes, an Indian boy fron McKinley Indian Mission,

spent

last

weekend with us. is now-awl^arine

outside

Tokyo.

e enjoyed seeing hin so nuch. (Jin Johnson,

fornerly

in our

youth group

at

Ransey,

I l l inois, also visited

us about

this

t ine on leave fro n

Korea.

We

rea l ly did enjoy seeing

old

fr iends. )

This

custon o f br ing in

presents to th e

child

when

they

fee l sonethi

is-owed th e parent can

get

out-of-hand soneti

The

ch i l d r en

r e c e i v e t

any sweets,

and

begin

expect

gi f t s .

We l i v ed i n F l eeno r s h

t

t h i s

t i n e .

We always d id

na in ta l

however, tha t questio

l i k e

D o dogs and

ca t

h ave han ds and. f ee t ?

were very hard

to

wor

i n to everyday convers

t i o n .


14/15

.'S.

^dryn^ Janan, Octo bGr 28^ (To Wllsong)

This

aught to s urp ris e you as

long

as

i t has

taltcn

mo

to

v/ritco I have a good excuse

this

timeour semes

to r

exams

came V/cdnesday

and

v;o

jus t haven t had time to do anything

but

prepareand

then

I d id poorly,

I m afraid, especially

on

the oral

t es t . They talee you in a room by yourself and

ask

you

questions

in

Japanese v;hich you

arc

supposed

to

answer whi le two

o th er te ac he rs s i t behind

you

and record

your

score

on

p r

en

unciat ion and

construct ion . They asked

nc what

three l i t t l e

children in

a

picture

v/erc

doing,

and I an

Just sure

I

told then

they were

hearing

a

star

(instead of looking

at

i t ) .

Wo

h^vo

tried to

got our Christmas

presents

togc-thor during

our mid-Gcnostor vacation. If you think Christmas shopping i s

hard there you should try i t here I Vfith very l i t t l e language,

and not liaving hcon hero long onou^ to knov; just v;here

things

can be found, i t is te rrif ic .

The

main trouble is that Japan

is mcdornizing so

fast

that i t is roalitivcly hard

to

find any

thing that

looks

Japanese. That is a pcculip-r

complaint

i

on

says

that we will have to face

the

fact

t la t

things made in

Japan are Japanese, and I suppose he

is

r i^ t . When

vjc

get out

of

Tokyo,

i t

v;ill

bo

a

l i t t le

different,

I

i taginc.

It

has

been

very cold and

rainy,

but Saturday was so nice

that v/c also

put a ll the- v/intor clothes and

bedclothes

out to

a i r on the

clothes l ines .

I

vant

to

get

the t h in^ wo have in

trun lis ou t on the next nice day. Things

mold

so

hero,

TokvpT

Janany ITov. (to Durnoys)

We have closed

off

part of

the

house nov; except

fo r

varm

a f t e r n o o n s .

Heard something

cute yes te rday

which

we thou^ t

ycu would

enjoy. A

l i t t l e

American boy

in the nei^borhood

of one of

the

girls

in our language class asked her

to please

tol l his Japan

ese friends down the s t r ee t to come and

play

v/ith him, Of course,

she

didn t

do

i t ,

so when she

and

a

friend

wore

valking

hone

in

the

evening,

this

same

l i t t le

boy

net

then

accusingly and

said,

I to ld one of you guys to to l l

my

friends

to

come and

play

with

nc, and you

didn t do i t . Then,

anticipating

thoir oxcusc of

in

suffic ient

language

to do

so,

he said, And

they

speak real good

English,

too yes and no .

Tolryp, Janan. Hoy. 2?, 19^*^ (to

V7ilsong)

Today is Tiianlic

giving

Day here in Japan, althou^i i t is V/ed-

ncsday

and

only the 23rd. Actually, today

is

a Japanese

natiorxil

holiday, and

since

we

go

to

school tcmorrov/,

we celebrate

Thanks

giving a day

early.

I hnd bought a

can of

cranberry

sauce

not long

after

wc

got here (from

the

nissiorxiry

store)

and saved

i t for

Tlmnlesgiving, so ^ve

h-ad

that and pumpkin pio, Gv;cct

potatoes

(both

plentiful

new),

meatioaf and

baked

apples.

So I

guess tiiat

took

care of t r ad i t ion .

One

cannot

bo

hero

vdthout rea l iz ing how much

wc

have to be

thanlsful

f o roven

more

t han

wo

knew. Been i n

a

physical \\iay, wc

in

ikaorica

h-avc

so much,

besides

tho

blessings

of

knov/ing

and

worshipping God.

(I

cu t the tops off some turnips

tho

other

day

and \vao going to throv/ thorn away, but a

woman

asked

for

then to take home

and

make soup.) As we came home yesterday wo

5ai7 a Bj-ddhist

wandering

pr ies t about a block from :

our

house chnnt-

ing a

song

in

front

of the basincss

places

to bring tho blessing

COI IEHTS?

I t

cer ta in ly

was

d i f f e

ent

[ V/hcn wo, got out

Tolyo

and axvay from sh

v;hich

catered

to

tou r i

I

cou ldn t f ind

anythi

tha t

looked

Japanose,

have se nt f arme rs

s traw h ats

fo r present

Pleaso remember t h a t

TcIqto weather

is

much

coo le r t h a t

Shikolru

wea t h e r .


15/15

of Buddha upon then. He was chanting a

par t

of the

Buddhist

Scriptures , This

is th e t ine of se ve ra l holidays and we have

seen seve ra l i ns tances of pagan worship

la te ly .

I t

cer tainly

nakes one

t h ank fu l fo r

G-od

and d ete rn in ed to do v;hat

he

can to

sp re ad th e go od n ew s.

e had

nice

v/eather

fo r

a

while , hut it i s cold nos t o f

the

t ine

now. We v;on t have qui te

so

cold

wea the r a s

you have

(I

th ink ) hut

i t

is

danp and

they

don t

heat

here

l ike

you

do.

We dress warnly,

though.

They have sone

heat

a t

school

now,

and we keep sone

in

par t of the house during the

norning

and

evening. They even h^ ve a t iny l i t t l e

heater

in the church

bu i ld ing ,

v;hich i s

unusual .

Tokyo, Japan, Jec.^, 19 75 To Norna s sis te r

One

o f our

f r i ends was t e l l i ng

us about an

exper ience

she had v;ith an interpreter who was helping her. They

say

in te rpre te rs can t rans late

l ike

a

typis t can

typewithout

paying any

a t ten t ion

to what

i s

being

said, dur fr iend

had

goi> shopp ing and asked the butcher for a bone for soup,

(in

Japan

there is no neat le f t on a bone

whatsoever.

This

.surprises

us

Anericans

at

f i r s t .

Anjn /ay, when

the

butcher

brought

i t , our fr iend said under her breath, Um, it

looks

l ike

a

dog has been to tha t one f i r s t .

lihereupon

her in

terpreter turned

to

the butcher

vdthout

thinking and asked

B ii the dog l i ck

tha.t

bone?

Embarrassing

I

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