barricklow carolyn 1983 japan

8/11/2019 Barricklow Carolyn 1983 Japan

1/9

FORWARDING

AGENT

(note

address

change);

Mrs. N a t a l i e

Johnson

R.R. 1, Box 124

Orleans,

IND.

47452

Phone:

(812)

865-2387

Dear F r i e n d s ,

FIELD ADDRESS:

202 S un ab ori B iru

5-39, 2-choine, Izue Hesaka

Higashl-ku, Hiroshima 730

JAPAN

February,

1983

When

the frost i s on the pumpkin, everyone's fancy turns to thoughts of

turkey, r i g h t ?

A f t e r

s e v e r a l years

o f

t a l k i n g about

Thanksgiving,

I decided to

teach my monthly cooking class how

to

roas t chicken

(turkey

must be ordered two

months in advance). November

being par t icular ly

busy, I forgot a l l about the

c l a s s

u n t i l the l a s t minute.

I

s c u r r i e d around, f inding i n g r e d i e n t s , but a f t e r

t r i p s to a meat marke t a nd two supermarkets,

n o t

onexhole chi ck en cou ld I

f ind

The butcher

had

remarked

once, We c a n t

put

whole chickens in t he d is pla y

case

would

make people sick No problem

with

whole f ish , squid, and

octopus,

though...) We roasted chicken

pieces

on top of

the

stuffing; sure enough, several

ladies thought t h a t

was

much b e t t e r ,

since

a

whole

chicken looks so

gross.

I

guess i t s a l l i n what you're used to .

Also

in

November:

preparations

for Christmas

programs;

playing

for

my

f i r s t

church

wedding

i n

Japan;

and weekly

t r i p s

to

the

hospital

for

foot

and

hip

pains.

Nothing

seemed observably

wrong with the

hip my guess i s

a r t h r i t i s , but

I do

have

b u r s i t i s of

the bunion which

has

no cure; p ain can be

relieved

by

giving up

s h o e s . . .

Tfiffi

December

was

a t r u l y

j oyou s, b le s se d month, as our Hesaka

church members

a n t i c i p a t e d and p a r t i c i p a t e d i n shar ing Christmas. December 12 was our

community out reach: s tepp ing out in

fai th,

we showed the m ov ie , J e6 a6

oj

UazoAzth,

Film,

p r o j e c t o r ,

and h a l l r e n t a l , p u b l i c i t y and other escpenses

were

budgeted a t

$700. God honored our

fai th

Over 130 people came

to th e

movie,

and

we

had

enough money t o send an offer ing to another mission work

Each

o f

the church

members

had

worked r e a l l y hard , so no one was completely esdiausted; seed was

sown;

th e

visual presenta tion of Jesus' l i f e made a strong inq>act on many of

our

English

and

Bible

s t u d e n t s .

There

were other

programs, too: S un..

Dec. 19: Lunch and a p arty fo r our

30 Sunday School kids. Apuppet play,

T/ie OtkoA.

Man, was adapted and

produced by Hari Ariki; 4 budding actors taped the s c r i p t , complete with

music

and sound

effects;

was a great success

Fri ,

Dec.

24 ;

I taught Christmas

songs, and Sachiko told the

true

meaning

o f

Christmas to 300-400

elementary

school children at

a community

Children's

Club

party.

Thanks

for

that oppor

tunity to Mr. Mrs. Morlyasu MohAeei/afuoo), who have attended worship services

r egul ar ly for

the past year;

Mrs.

M.

was one

of

th e

club's

sponsors, and wa nt ed

the

children

to know what Christmas real ly means. Sat . Dec. 25: A.M.. A

Christ

mas party for Sachiko's

English

classes;

NOON:

Sharing lunch, a

Christmas

film-

strip

and talk with a group

of

Kazuko Nishlmura s English students She teaches

at

a Buddhist high school and thus cannot share he r

faith

so freely

at

school);

P.M., A

candle-l ight

service

f or b el ie ve rs

and

f r iends ,

t o

celebrate

the L ight

t h a t came i n t o the world on a

dark

night so long ago. I t was a b e a u t i f u l

Christmas, and made more

so

by

the

warm thoughts of fr iends a t home who sent

so

many

wonderful cards, and

g i f t s ,

and goodies.

J apan 's b igge st celebration,

though,

i s

New

Year's. The l a s t week of

December,

every

housewife cooks and c l e a n s

l i k e

crazy ,

and eve rybody g e t s

ready

to go home

while

the

county

shuts down for

four

days. Sachiko went home

to

Tokyo, but X went to

Oikayama,

to study

KANJI

kahnjeethe Chinese yord-pictures

tlmt

berdevil

our

attempts

to read and write ) along

with

ip ^pther ioissionaries.


2/9

Betty Turner

taught

t h i s s p e c i a l seminar, and we

learned a l l of

t h e

195 c h a r a c t e r s

that Japanese children learn

in

th e third grade. We also

learned

th e logic and

symbolism behind th e characters, so

we're

supposed

to

be able

to

remember them

a l l now. Thanks to Leone

Cole

and Keith Summers, we had

fantastic

meals,

comfortable beds,

and

the grindstone

was mellowed by a

l iberal coating of fun.

Then,

a f t e r

spending

a night

at the

Ono church, I

went

to

Osaka,

hopped on

a big bird , and flew home. I had f e l t the need of time

to

r e s t and

be with

my

parents, so I decided on a

short

surprise v i s i t . Dottle and Terry McKinley

picked me up a t the Cincinnati a i r p o r t ,

and

my folks sure were surpr ised I had

a s u r p r i s e coming

too ,

f o r the 10th day I

was

home, I went to

bed

with a

sore

spot under

my

r ig ht e ar .

By

morning

had

swollen

to

about

f o o t b a l l

s i z e , and

you guessed i t I

had the

mun^s. Ten

days

o f t o t a l r e s t followedbut n o t under

the

most

comfortable conditions

Then

Mother had

to have some

surgery, so

poor

Papa

was p r e t t y

busy taking care o f

both

o f us. Mama came home on Feb. 2 and

was doing w e l l ,

so

I l e f t to

come back

to Hiroshima on Feb.

6th.

Last year was extremely busy, and emotionally exhausting;

I

doubt t h a t t h i s

year w i l l

be

much d i f f e r e n t .

Several

church'members

a r e

facing

major, l i f e -

changing

decis ions;

the r e s t

a r e

s t r u g g l i n g with every-day

l i f e .

Please

continue

to

pray

for

us

We

are

pleading

for

God's

intervention

in

the following:

^kddJMjonoJi mnkvUi om. nttd d.

We

couZd

uie a t

texu>t 5 utl-tur\e, rnU tona/U i,

and a ^tzady 6tAzam 4>tx. month

to

tw-uzoA. hoht

tVm koJbpviM,

Even a peA6on

u)ko

knom no Japanese couZd 6e \jttal kztp tuct/i cAait6 and vtdual

cU,d ,

Ungtuh

and OH.

BngtUk BtbZe. cZa6-i>t , 6zcHjZtaHtal mnk, coofeXng,

cEecin^g...

new

house

i s

needed.

S ach ik o and I must f ind a place with

s u f f i c i e n t

rooms

for

study, l iving, housing guests, and keeping the

workers

we're praying

for . Our current two 8x10 rooms are j u s t

not

enough.

H need

HzguZoA

4itady

timz ^O

Japanz z, I

am

^Zucnt

tn

zonveMkotion

now,

bat nzzd

mack

mo z twiytn Hzading and

wJuXLng

to tzack

adzquotzZy*

Sachiko and I a r e always

encouraged by news from

f r i e n d s and

churches

in

the

S t a t e s ; I

plan to

be

more prompt

t h i s

year i n

answering

correspondence,

but

I

won't

make

any

promises.

God go

w i t h you,

eireTPUI

ZOX

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a(aisvi.isod

Ziifln

^ireppui

'sunexoo

T

a i i

q o j n q o trepq.spaqD


3/9

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5/9

Pr-A?TCIAI

131FCHT

Hi rosh ima Chr i s t i a n

i s s ion

Carolyn BarricJclow

Fund

January 1 December 31 t 1982

d e c e i v e d :

Alpine

Christ ian

Church 260.00

^eech

Grove Chr i s t i an Church 20.00

Helen odne r 10 .00

Cambridge

City

Christian

Church

2,120.00

Christian

Friends 523.16

.DeaTt and Co. 1 .00

fellowship Christian Church 2,280.00

Fideli ty Union

^1.20

Fetty

J .

Creig 35*00

r.

and

r s .

-eredith Haun

50.00

J oanna J

ones

2

0 .00

r. and r s .

Lanny e l lang

100.00

Park

Church of Chris t

Ladies Group

10.00

*r. and r s . Grover A. Payne

60.00

Rising Sun Church

of

Chri s t

2,700.00

Rising Sun Church

of Chris t Fidel i s Clans 300.00

Rising

Sun

Church

of Chr is t l ad ies

Auxil ia ry

125.00

Rising Sun Church

of

Chr is t

y s t e ry

Class 310.00

Rising

Sun Church o f Chris t Sunday

School 4l6.28

r .

and r s . a l lane Roche 35.00

Gviynth

Rice 20.00

Southport Heights

Church

o f Christ

^3 .6^

Sy r ia Ch r is ti an Church

200.00

Cathy

Temple

20.00

lorene ^-ard

25.00

e s t em

H i l l s Church o f C h r i s t 280 . 00

Voided Check

in

1981 56.00

Total Received: 10,511.28

Expenses:

I n s u r a n c e

i s c e l la n eo u s

H e w l e t t e r

Postage

fo r

I ewsletter

Savings

Serv ice expense

Specia l

expense

Tota l expenses:

la lance

on

Hand

January

1, 1982

T o t a l

Income

Less Expenses

Balance on

Hand . Oecember 311

1982

98.31

10,511.28

lU,oW.39

15.16

382.96

33^.01

69.^3

^8.03

35.00

5,700.00

4.025.00

t iX5903


6/9

FORWARDING

AGENT;

Mrs

Na t a l i e J ohn son

R.R.1, Box

124

Orl eans , I nd ia na 47452

Phone; (8 12 ) 865 -2387

Dear

Friends

CAROLYN

BARRICKLOH & SACHIKO

OSAWA;

202

Sun ab o r i

B i r u

5-39, 2-choiite, Izue Hesaka

Higashi-ku, Hiroshima 730

JAPAN

March

1983-jMarch 1984

^'0

98

I t

has

now been

over

a y ear s in ce I

wrote

my l a s t newslet ter ; I repent

in dust

and ashes (especially when I try

to

clean off my

desk),

and

shal l

t ry to do

be t t e r

1983 was a busy, f rustra t ing and

exhausting

year. I should have

guessed

what was coming s ince t

s ta r ted

out with my

get t ing

the mumps Almost a l l

th e good things that happened were

immediately

swallowed up by

disappointments

or

problems.

Yet,

when

1984 dawned, with a l i t t l e time

fo r

re f lec t ion I was

able to see many ways in which God

had

blessed our work and fellowship

in

Hesaka.

GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS

DEPARTMENT

or. High and

Low

Lights

of

1983

Our

part-time preacher,

Mr. Bi&ukt

MoAuck, l e f t

in March

for

a

minis t ry with h is home church in Sapporo,

Hokkaido.

Now the burden

of

speaking

a lmos t eve ry Sunday has fa l len

to

me. Yet,

preparing

one message

in

Japanese

each

month

during

Mr.

MoAuda A

2h

years

with

us has disciplined and

enabled me

to presen t teach ings in f a i r l y cohe rent J ap ane se .

For some

t ime

now

I have

been

teaching

through the Life

of

Christ , and b eg an two weeks ago on the

Sermon on th e Mount. @@@

Jus t as we thought we were losing our

only

male church member, a young

man,

Ifeuo

yukam^

19,

from

the

Kinan

Christian

Church

in

Tanabe,

Wakayama

Prefecture, entered Hiroshima University and is

now

working and worshipping

with our

congregation a t Hesaka. He s

got

lo ts of

ideas

and

energy. P .T .L .

Our

f i rs t

Christian

here.

Miss TeAtmc fujUZ, began school

a t

Osaka

Bible

Seminary

in

Apri l

in

order to

study

the

Bible

more

deeply.

She

came home

in June

with

a

bleeding

ulcer We thought

a l l was

fine and

dandy

when she went

back fo r the s econd t erm in

September,

but the ulce r f lared

up

again and

she

came home in November for a month s

hospitalization. She seems

fair ly well now,

but i s

st on

medication,

so

af t e r much thought and prayer

has d ecide d

to wai t

a no th er y ea r b efo re

goi ng b ack to

Bible

co l l ege

Hi One of our Ladles' Bible Class members, Mrs.

fumiyo

Haya ki, was

baptized

In June. The mother of 2 grown

sons,

she Is ta le nted In music

and

a rt and. . . recycl ing: she made a baptismal robe from a muslin sheet ,

and

provided

a black-out cur ta in fo r movies and sl ides, from an old piano cover H t

Our congregation of

9

members

sent

13 people to the 1983 All-Japan

Chris t ian

Convention a t Kobe.

I t

was a

bless ing to a l l

who went, e sp e ci al ly t o

Mrs. iiit&uko TomJu,, who made her

confession

of

fai th

at

the convention,

and

was baptized l a t e r on her

birthday

in

September.

*** A great thr i l l for

me

a t the convention was to lead songs for I ts

first-ever Praise

Service (Singsplratlon).

I t was a marvelous 2-hour event,

among which a 10-song medley (another f i rs t I

think) le f t

everyone

gasping

for breath and joy. Sweet songs of Salvation ***

+++

ScLckdw had planned

to

go

to the Japanese Summer Institute of Linguis tics

d urin g th e month

of

August,

but her

fa ther passed away

a t the

end

of her

f i r s t

week there I t was a d i f f i cu l t time

fo r

her but

thanks

to summer school plans

she was already in

Tokyo,

was

able

to be with

her

fa ther during

h is

l a s t few

days,

and then

to spend

the

r e s t

of August a t

home with her mother. +++


7/9

@@@ I had

planned

to

spend a

quiet

August

a t

home,

catching

up on

correspondence,

etc. . .

But

after

a

short trip

to Tokyo to be with Sachiko

during her

father s

funeral. I t seemed like everyone

who

always wanted to

visit

Hiroshima, did so...one right after the other But

I t was

a joy

to

share time

and

fellowship with the

VcocUn

AndeAdon family of

Hong Kong;

Bob and

HzZ^n

SonA

of Cincinnati, OH; Ve,my Bogg6, a

new

missionary to Japan;

yoke

ICckkam, of the

Ono church; John and Vce. Bvano^^ of Masslllon,

OH,

and their daughter-in-law,

BtcfUko,

who

along with

their

son

Zlck,

were

classmates

of

Sachiko s

at

Mllllgan College.

My quiet

August

was quite

an August. 000

For

V.B.S.

in 83,

I made an exchange agreement with the Okayama

Christian

Center since they were short of

s ta ff la st

summer. Ke^k

SmrmA6

came to

Hiroshima to

help with our 3day VBS,

and I went to

help

with

his

two 5day schools, one in the

iiK)rning

and one in

the

afternoon, each with a

di f fe ren t curriculum

About

50 di f fe ren t

children attended al together , so a

lo t

of

Gospel seeds were sown, . u *

September brought a time of

testing

and refining through the

fires

of

doubt, discouragement, misunderstanding,

and

criticism

on

the part of several

church memberST^Words

were

spoken; tears-were^ shett;

and

heairt^ were-heavy fo r

several weeks. God

showed

us the need of greater fellowship, of more often and

open

communication.

We

are not unscathed, but are stronger for the experience.

Christmas

was

an especially beautiful

and

blessed time. ALadies*

Tea

was

sponsored by our Ladies Bible Classs all worked hard on invitations, decor

ations, and our first choral special. A Youth-group party featured a Moody

science film and

minipizzas

along with songs and activities; the 10

who

attended

had a great time. For the Children s

Program

we prepared a sandwich lunch, games,

Christmas songs, message, slides; Sachiko and the Ladies had made 59 small canvas

tote bags

xdLth printed

picture and Bible verseand can you imagine that

EXACTLY ^ children came to the program?

***

Sachiko

came down with a terr ible high fever jus t before Christmas,

and had to miss our

church

fellowship dinner. We thought she just had a

cold, but

i t

turned

out to be a

stubborn

case of

tonsi l i t is .

She recovered by New

Year

s

though, and

was

able to

spend that

all-important holiday with her family.

I spent

my

holiday

In

Osakastudying.

Our

missionaries

sponsored

a

seminar on Kanjlthe Chinese characters

used

In writing

Japanese.

About 20 of

us tried to absorb In 3 days the contents of a 4-week course by Mr.

Joseph

DeRoo,

a Belgian priest who teaches Japanese linguistics. It

was quite

anJMrT affair: ^

Intensive, Informative, Intellectual,

and

International. rTTTnTk *-

)f

Jf

)f

Jf Jf Jf 3f )f

)f

)f

)f jf

Jf

1984 UPDATE:

January 15, 1984: fumcko Kaumqto, 24, was baptized, with her whole

family in attendance.

She works for

the

Mazda

company, a big industry here.

January 23, 1984: I began teaching a music

class

and piano lessons

at

Osaka Bible Seminary, making

the

3-hour trip by

bullet train

every

Monday.

I t was

a

t r ia l

term, and a blessing, I

think,

for both students and myself, but my

schedule

in

Hesaka and

the

Seminary s

financial needs for the

new

dormitory

preclude continuing the

new

year beginning

in

April.

Please pray

for

the

Seminary, as

i t

is the Restoration movement s

sole Bible

College

in

Japan.

JUNE-SEPTEMBER, 1984:1 am planning a brief furlough to be able

to

vis i t

supporting churches and go to

VBS

and

camps,

the NACC and Missionary Convention.

I hope I can see and visit with

many

of you while

I m

home.

Thank you alt

6o

much

ioA youA pAo^eAS, gtit6,

umm

thoughts and

IcXteM

du/Ung ike, pa t

yeoA.

Pt ode

keep

pAoylng

{oA u , We aAe bu leA

than eveA,

but 40 the Vevtt. The otctoAy has

yet

to be won.

With

much Love in J e s u s

V


8/9

4.

F r ^ANCm.

Hi r o sh ima C3h r is ti a n

-Tission

Caro lyn Barr ick low Fund

January 1, 1983 to December 31 1983

Fece i ved :

Alpine Chr i s t i an Church

Beech Grove Ch r i s t i a n Church

Cambridge

City Chris t ian

Church

Chr i s t i a n

F r i end s

r.

and rs, Ral jh

Cawelt i

Fa s t s i d e Church

Fellowship Chr i s t i an

Church

r.

and

- r s . F r n e s t

Greene

Fide l i ty

Union

l i f e Insurance

Pet ty J , Greig

r,

and r s , e re di t h Haun

rs, I r e n e c l n t o s h

^r, and

^rs,

Grover

Payne

^ ^rs

Gwynth Rice

Ris ing Sun Church o f Chr i s t

Ris ing Sun Church

of

Chr i s t Fide l i s Class

Rising

Sun

Church of Chr i s t Ladies

Auxi l iary

Rising

Sun Church

of Chri st y st ei y

Class

Southport

He i s t s Christ ian

Church

Syr i a Chr i s t i an Church

l o r e n e ^ a rd

^^e s t em H i l l s Church o f Ch r i s t

Trs ,

C l e a no r

^Ri i t lock

n r . and - r s , Rudy - o i l

To t a l Rece ived ;

expenses ;

I n s u r a n c e

nai l ing i ewsle t te r

Pr in t ing Newsletter

i s s ion Sxpense

Salary

To ta l

expenses :

Balance on Hand December 31i

1982

J j i come;

l e s s

Expenses;

Balance on

Hand

December 31 f 1983

260,00

25.00

2,073.18

1,220,83

150.00

i^27.8l

3,180.00

50,00

M.65

50,00

50,00

10 ,00

75.00

20 , 0 0

2 ^1-75.00

375.00

125.00

480,00

420,10

340,00

25,00

230.00

50,00

50,00

12,203.57

15.16

12 ,203 ,57

12 ,221

27.17

. 382,96

53.97

114,63

7,995.00

3.6^5.00

12,191.56

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