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Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
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Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
General Conference Missionaries in Japan in the early 1950s
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
Ten General Conference missionaries arrived in Japan in 1951, and then more came in 1953 and 1954.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
While new General Conference Mennonite Church missionaries were in language study, a small group of new Japanese Christians emerged that held their meetings in a garage adjoining the mission house. This group was not organized into a church, but members from this group later provided significant leadership within mission congregations.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
Leonore Friesen is teaching two Japanese girls.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
Teruko Yano of the Hyuga Church in Japan served with Mennonite Central Committee in Vietnam for two terms.
Part of COE Slide Presentation - "Overseas Missions: General Conference Mennonite Church"
The Voths (former missionaries in China) move to Miyazki Prefecture (Japan) in 1952.