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P a u l
i e l s e n
47
Shishigakuchim
Koyoen
Nishinomiva-shi, Hyogoken, Japan
December 7 1950
Dea r L iv in g Link
Ohurchs
Another month has rol led
arotand
but
th i s
time
I
fee l l ike
I
have something
to write about I have been feeling
lately
that my let ters were getting stale
and
very uninteresting
Paul
thinks
I
am
a question box for a couple of days
before
1
write
But I
really
enjoy
getting le t ters
from you asking a
lo t of
\
questions because
i t
makes
the writing
so much easier
Last
Sunday was
Paul's
last
Sunday
to
preach for
the
Army-we
hope and guess
e a ll
had
phsicicals
and
Paul showed that
he is
very tired
and
the best
and
quickest cure
would
be to spend 10 days
in
bed doing absolutely nothing e
says
he
will
try to
hang on
unti l
Christmas
then
he
will
rest
This
not
having
to preach
fo r
the Army
should
give him more t ime
to rest
As
soon as
we move
we hope to have
Bible
Classes in Koyoen
The Asha church has averaged a baptism every Sunday for the
past
7 months
Also another one of the students has begun a new work. He is calling
i t
an
Evangelistic Center
When
he was asked why he called
i t
that he replied
that
he couldn ' t ca l l
a
church
unt i l
he had
Christ ians to make up
the
church
The
price
of building
materials
has
not ccmie down
any
at
all
In fact
they
are going higher all
the
time The ste^
re-inforcing
rods
that
we used in the
home
for the Clarke cost 5>000 yen a ton; what we used cost 12,000 yen a ton OOI0
building a center
in
Kobe for a missionboard there and i t cost 5^,000 yen a ton
Tile
for the
bath
room
will
be
doubled
af ter
the f i r s t of
Jan and want
to
buy
ours
before
then All
Japanese
use
t i le
in the baths and kitchen t
is
very
cheap according to
American
price In
America we
consider
i t
for the well to
do
only All building have t i le roofs, except the country straw thatched roofs The
t i le are
heavy and the
Japanese use
such flimsy construction under the roof
that
the
Typhoons
sends
them r ight down.
They have two kinds of plaster. One is
mud
and
the
other
cement The mud
walls absorb the ra in and moisture so that the hcmes are
very
damp and cold Only
the
better
hcmes
use
cement
When
a
family
has
a
foreign
room
they
always have
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it
plastered with
cement.
We
are p l a s t e r i n g three
rooms,
th e liv in g room, b a t h
and ki tchen. I n the
r e s t
of the house
we
a r e using
a second
grade ply-wood.
The celotex
i s
used fo r wall f in ishing but it
draws moisture
and warps. You have
t o pain t or paper
it While it
i s cheaper than
ply-wood
by the
time
you g e t e i t h e r
th e p a i n t
or
paper
on,
it
c o s t
th e
same, and
t h e
ply-wood
i s
b e t t e r
and
more
l a s t i n g
There are two kinds of hard
wood
for the
floors,
one is oak I don t know the other
now
^ight
now we have no choice in hard wood Youttke what you can get which
is
s^cpnd grade oak. You
can
use a
very sof t
wood
but
i t i s no pract ical .
We had had word
t h a t
the Mings and Davis
famil ies
a re Sbilin g Dec. 17th.
They are ccaning on d i f f e r e n t ships and
t o Kobe.
I f
it i s poss ible
we should
l i k e
t o
go
t o th e boaft t o meet
them.
Russell dearly
loves
t o
meet
t r a i n s and
I
th ink
h e
would l i k e
t o m e e t
a b o a t .
The Soninary
has
j u s t moved
i n t o
i t s new building. Paul
spoke
a t the f i r s t
chapel
s e r v i c e
and a l s o conducted th e
f i r s t
c l a s s period i n it Every one
i s
happy and enjoying it very much.
Prefecture means or corresponds to our coun ty . The men get a
hair
cut
for
90
yen
in Asaka and 45 yen in
Tanabe.
90 yen i s 25 cents. But
turkeys
are higher
h e r e
55
c e n t s
a
l b .
Martha
nn
has
been sick since las t
^ue.
I tried to do everything
that
J:
knew to do but i t was a new
thing
for me She became much worse today so I called
the Swiss missionary
Dr. who
l i v e s
i n
Kyoto.
I called
him
i n
the morning
and
as
Paul
opened the door to go ou t to go to bed I heard him say Well Dr. Come in.
He had ccaae 40
miles
to
us.
\le sure needed him. I f I had had a
car or
something
ITwould
have
taken her
to
him
but
I
d i d n t
l i k e
to
take
her
on
the
t r a i n
and
he
told
me
not t o
tak e h er
on
it
for
it
would make
her j u s t t h a t
much
worse and
it
wouldn t take him any longer to come to me than for me to go to him. But I was
thinking of
his
time and other patients. He told me l a s t nite tha t he was
going
to
a
missionary
who
lived
80 miles from him
I t
sure wouldn t
do
to
have aii
e m e r g e n c y .
I
have wondered j u s t
what Russell
and Paula would
d6 if
they
face an
emergency.
Paula
t ipped
Marth
Ann over i n her buggy head f i r s t . She
called
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to us to
come
help
her. Her
tone of voice told us t h a t
she was
frightened,
^^ussell w s standing behind me in
the kitchen
I w s peeling potatoes and he
^ot
into than
faster
than I could e had the baby in his
rms
trying to
comfort
her.
Paula
was
trying
to hold
the
buggy so that
i t wouldn t
to on
top o f h e r .
This i s the next day and Kawamurasan came ear ly t h i s morning, I have
been busy
a l l
day long
and am very
t i r e d
t o n i t e . I
also
have a
very
f u l l
hear t over
the days happenings. In
trying
to
locate
the food t h a t the Dr.
wants
Marth
Ann t o have I have m et new
people
and have fo und them exceeding
ly gracious and kind i n
helping
me, a pe rf e ct s tr anger . The Lord c e r t a i n l y
has ways
o f
making us
r e a l i z e
how dependant we are
upon
Him.
Paula
can
s t i l l make us
la ug h o ve r
our d i f f i c u l t i e s . The
other
day
the
ICg broke o f f
from t h e washing maching.
Paul
and
I were s t ruggl ing t o
g e t
the
maching back into i t s place. e worked and worked
a t
and f i n a l l y got
back and
a l l
t h i s time
Paula
had been watching without
saying
a word. All of
a
sudden
she said, The
leg i s broken .
The
tone of voice that
she used se t
us t o laughing.
e
were n t ab le
to
send
out ou r usual
Ohristmas
greetings
cards
t h i s
year.
I t would
have meant not g iv in g
Paula the
food
t h a t
she needed so
we are send
ing our
greet ings i n
t h i s
l e t t e r
and
we know t h a t
each of you will understand
t h a t we wish
them
j u s t
as
sincerely as i n other years. May the Lord send
peace
t o
our
s o u l s
and
l i v e s .
I n
His S e r v i c e
M a r c i a
N i e l s e n
Received
^55
from
Univ. Ohurch, Minneaplis,
Minn for
Oct. 1950
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O s a k e O h r i s t i a n M i s s i o n
Osake
J a p a n
J an u ar y 17 1^51
D e a r O h r i s t i a n
F r i e n d s ?
I t i s
past
time
to
have these
l e t t e r sent out but j u s t who
i s n t busy
a t
t h i s
t im e
o f
t h e
year?
on
to p
o f
it
I
l e t Y uk ik os an h av e
12
days
o ff
and sh e
d id n t
om back
u n til
a
da y l at er than^hat
I
told her
to
take
o f f
She wen t
t o h e r hcme an d it snowed
e v e r y
day
sh e wa s t h e r e
But
she
is r e s t e d s o
I t h i n k
s h e w i l l b e a b l e t o t a k e t h e w o r k
b e t t e r I
n e e d t o t a k e
a good re s t
myself
now Paul
took
4 days o ff instead
of
the 1 that
the Dr .
t o l d
h im
to t a k e
Th e O l a r k s
and
Beckmans ha d Ohritmas
d i n n e r
here
w ith
u s Th e d a y b ef o r e
th e
Dr.
and h is
family
came f o r
P a u l a s b ir th d ay d i nn e r.
He
brought her th e
b e s t p re se n t p o ss ib le He brought th e r e s u l t s o f h er
tests
fo r t h a t
month
an d
they
showed t h a t
h e r limgs
are
a l l healed.
The lymph
gland i s s t i l l enlarged
bu t
t h a t w i l l
god won
i n
time.
So we
have been able t o allow
h er
more
freedom
So
she
h as d ec id ed
t h a t she
wantp
to
l e a r n t o
cook she
g e t s
h e r
l i t t l e pan
every time Yukikosn
makes
a p ie
an d
h er a l i t t l e one and no on e but Daddy can
t t
Kawamurasan was up from
Tanabe
t h i s
p a s t
Monday an d
Tuesday an d
he
r e p o r t s
t h a t they
had a
large
c6rwd
for t h e i r Christmas
program and
three
were
baptized
t h a t d ay . P a u l
has n o t been
abl e
to
make a t r i p down
t o
Tanabe
f o r
some t ime
bu t
I hope
t hi ngs l e t up so he w ill f e el f r e e
to ta ke
t ime from t hi ngs here t o go.
The churches
a l l
had
Christmas
programs and
parties bu t
I
w asn t a bl e
to at t end
a l l
o f them. I g ot worn o ut b efo re they a l l go t
over
w ith. Paul did
a littl
b e t t e r
t h a n I
d i d Th e
Asahi
church
ha d a b ig
crowd f o r b o t h
o f t h e i r
programs. The one by the ^ible School had between 4 and ^0 0 in attendance.
T h ^ didn t use c h a i r s
t hey
s a t
on
th e f l o o r
Japanese
fashi on. I didn t g e t t o
t h a t
b u t t o t h e ml/sical p ro g ram on su n d ay e v e n i n g I
h e a r d .
On
Chrislanas day
5
young
men who
work
i n a
f a c t o r y t o g e t h e r ha d
d i sc u sse d
Q h r i s t i a n i t y t o g e t h e r and had
t a l k e d
witVi I m a i s a n
ab o u t
it an d t h e y decided
t o
be
baptized
on
Christmas
da y
together.
Then
besides
t h i s
th ree
young
g i r l s
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wanted to be
baptized.
The mother
of
one
of
these
gir ls
attended
the
service,
^hen she heard what was said
at
the service she decided that she wanted to be
baptized also.
So she
put
on
the
wet clothes that
her daughter
had been bap
t i z e d i n and was b ur ied w ith
h e r
Lord a t th e aame hour .
t seems t ha t we
have
had
so
much to
discourage
us
but when
you see
things l ike this
happen
we can see a
brighter
side also.
Noiv
will
answer
seme
questions. We use mostly home grown stuff. We
do buy some
things
from the
foreign
stores mostly staple items.
The
people
s t i l l have their
classes. For acamplej
one of the
gir l
worked
for
me
before she married
one
of preachers. When she
was
married
Jjnai-
san remarked Now you are one
of
us . nd the maid can t take a bath in the
same
bath tub as the family.
The
people
seen^o
be
happier
and
freer to
scane
extend.
They
have rotten politicians and they don t do anything about
i t
just take i t . They
will
say something ab ut i t but/jkitt
is all.
I t is time that I go t ready and
started
out
for a meeting with the
kindergarten teachers.
Two
of the churches are
starting them
and they asked
the ladies to ccane and give them
ideas
and I suppose try to get us to teach
n
f o r
t h e m .
In His s e r v i c e
l iarcia
N i e l s e n
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GOSPEL REACHES OUT IN UNETAKGifLlZED
A
t panp iB is s iona iy l
Any ,ay
t h a t I s what
my
wife
smet ln ies
cu l l s r. e
when T
go o f f to
Tunabe cr a
vi l lage abrut
Osa-'a
to hold services .
To th i s I
renly,
.:hat
would you do's Sonietl'-es w nder a t
the
slow progress
being
nade In
rural evangelistic worV. Of the 8 places
where
have held
irregular
services^
2
of
them
are beginning to
show some pronlse
or
a
defini te vorfr being s tar ted .
In
sp i t e
o f t h i s slowness we remember t ha t we must .low the seeds o f the Gospel
and
l e t God g ive th e i nc rease .
;Vlth the help o f the Brethren in the Tanabe Church,
have
had t he p ri vi le ge
of
preaching
In 2 more
vi l l ages
where the
Gospel
has never been preached. One
o f
these v i l l age s
i s back
up In th e mountains
about
20 miles an d 2
hours Jeep
time from
Tanabe.
The road
twis t s
a l l direct ions li '^e only a Japanese mountain
road
can
tw i s t .
t is
narrow
and 3 tops , o r bacv ups to
a wide
spo t
in
th e mounta in
s ide , must
be made to
le t
logging
t ru ch s p as s.
Soon af te r
ar r iv ing , Brother
KawamiiTi. begi^n announcing the se rv ice ov-.-r the P.A. syste-^ as je
drove
up th e
1
s t ree t
or t ;e vi l lage dropping out hand bi l l s
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preached,
saw the film
s t r ip
The Good
Samaritan ,
and heard the lesson
in Japanese
as
produced on
wire
by
the young people
of
the Kyoto Church.
Because th ere a re contacts with Chris t ians in both Of these Ti l l ages they
may
prooTe
to
be
more pennenant
than
some
of
the others.
Pray with
us
that
Gospel
seeds may
take firm
roo t
in
th e f i e ld s
o f Japan .
ETange l i s t i c
Work
Need s To
Con t inue
The 43 Jeep
we
bought
last
spring was
badly
worn when we got i t
I ts
2
trips
to Tanabe haye prooyed
i t s
i ncapab il it y to do the work we went
it
to
do .
We must.
do one of two things: (1 ) Spend f200 to oyerhaul th is one and s t i l l haye an
old
Jeep
that
would
require
more
parts
which
are
expensiye
here.
(2)
Sell tn is
Jeep,
which we can do with yeiy l i t t l e loss of the purchase pr ice and buy a new Jeep.
A
new
regular 4 wheel driye Jeep dellTered here through the V^illy's agency costs ?2100
including tax* We would s t i l l need to
put
a winterized body on
i t
to keep out
the
driTing rains. Jeep station wagons cost 500 to 800 more and do not haye 4 wlieel
driye, which is
of
great help on the washed out
mountain
roads.
About
600
can
be
sayed i f
1200 can
be
collected before the
September
saillgg
date of Jane Klnne t. She can bring a J ee p ch asl^
in
for
us
without
duty
or
import
tax, and we
can
have a body made to order by one of the members of
the
Asahi
church
who make s b u s b o d i e s
You can a id t he con tinuat ion of
th i s
eyangel l s t ic work by sending
your
JEEP
OFF RING before
August
30 to Paul
Nielsen,
323
E.
College, CoTlna, California.
Please
prsy
and giye tha t
the Gospel
may
continue to be heard in these
uneyangel ized p laces in Japan
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GO
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Into
a ll t li c
world
and preach the Gospel
to
evcrj' creature
Home
Address:
47 Shishigakuchi
Koyoen
Nishinomiya Shi
Osaka Christian Mission
Osaka, Japan
Mr.
an d
Mrs. Paul
Nielsen,
Missionaries
Osaka Chri s ti an
Mission
APO
25
c/ o
Postmaster
San
Pransisco, California
NIELSEN NUGGETS
OUR
AIM
To
establish New
Testament
Churches
of Christ in Japan
Seminary:
747
Nakamiyacho
Asahiku
Osaka
Japan
K
.
When we dec ided t h i s week was th e t ime
to
wri te t h i s l e t t e r littl
did
we rea l ize
the
wonderful news it would contain* Faul came home l a s t Friday
and
s a i d Mr.
and
Mrs*
Morse'and Laverne
w i ll a rr iv e
in Osaka
tomorrow.
Supper together a t the
Clark 's
Saturday evening
began
a week end
pf
cob-
santrated vis i t ing and thanking
God. While we were visi t ing
the telephone
rang. I t vra s
Chaplain Russe l l Barber up
a t
Misavra.
Air
Base,
a t
the northern
end of Honshu. Eight days ago
the
Morses, jus t before leaving Hongkong,
had
sen t a
cablegram to
t h e i r
l iv in g lin k
church in Inglev/ood,
Cal i f Mrs.
Barbe r had
hea rd
t h e
news
and
s e n t
an
ir
ma i l
l tt r
to
h e r
husband
in
t ime
fo r him
to
t a l k
to
them hero in
Japan
on t he t el ep ho ne
Sunday the Morses vis i ted as many of the
churches as possible.
They
were
here a t Koyoen
for
lunch,
met
the Sunday
School
children and spoke
br ief ly
to
th e church
fo lk
in
our
af te rnoon se r v i c e They hurr ied back to
town
a s th e
Beckmans
were
to
come in from Kyoto
to
see
thorn. Sunday n ig ht s ev er al
of th e
churches
met together a t Aoahi and the Morses told how od had led in bringing
them
out of China
together.
Vivian Lemon came up
from
Tanabe
for the
Sunday
night service . Mother Maxey
had arr ived from Kyushu t h i s
same day.
Brother Barber had also telephoned the good news
to
Brother
Guy Mayfiold
who has
jus t
arr ived
in Japan
to take over h is chapla in work
a t
Fukuoka.
Brother
Mayfield flew up to
Osaka
Monday morning to see
us
a l l Tuesday noon the
Morses
l e f t fo r Tokyo to ca tch t h e i r plane fo r the Sta t e s The Davises
and
Chambers
went
to
the
Nagoya
t ra in
stat ion
to
vis i t
with
them
during
the 5
minute
stop.
Thus in
the
5 days the Morses were in Japan
they got
to
ta lk
to a l l
of
us
except
Mark
and Paul ine
Maxey.
As we had prayed tha t the Lord would give
Brother
Morse
strength
to endure
whatever
was h is to boar, we thanked od tegether for bringing him out safely.
shed
tears
of jo y
as
we
saw his increased
spi r i tua l strength.
have a l l
been
grea t ly
blessed by
th i s
v i s i t and f ee l it i s God's manifesta t ion of His
care fo r
Hio^own.
On May
5^ the Nie lsen 's packed up and went
to
Tanabe for Mr. Sato's ordination.
Tanabe
is
Mr. Sato's home
town . I t
was
through his
suggestion tha t
Miss Schoon-
over and Mr. Kawamura
s t a r t ed
th e
work t h e r e
Mr.
Sato
had boon a nuccess fu l
middle
school teacher but
2
years
ago ho entered Osaka Bible Seminary to
prepare
himself
as
a
Christian
minister.
was one of
our
4 graduates
las t
March.
On
his
ordination
day,
Mr. Sato
vra s
the
guest speaker a t both
the
morning
and evening
services.
At
the
close of the morning service
Mr.
Kawamura gave th e o rd in ati on
charge
and
Paul assis ted with the
laying on
of hands
and
in prayer.
I t
was a
quiet and impressive
service.
Mr. Sato is
continuing
his
busy
ministry
helping
us
here
in Hyogo ken .
The
chi ldren are
enrolled in the Canadian Academy for the
next
school term.
The charge
i s |200
for each i f paid by September. |10 more for each
is added
a f t e r
September
but it may
be
paid in
5
payments.
Some of the
churches
have
a lr eady s en t money for
th is
purpose
but 2/0 i s s t i l l lacking.
continually
thank
God
for your
prayers and
support
and pray tha t God will
cont inue to bless and
prosper
you
in His work.