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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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2

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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TH;

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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mmmQSLT.:^ japj^n

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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B' -g

GO

YE

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.

nielsen paul marcia 1950 japan

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