Volume 31 www.jesus4greaterasia.com Summer 2015

Paul and Rickie Clark2-35 Suikoen-choHirakata-shi, Osaka 573-0095 JAPANTel: 011-81-72-841-2934

Osaka Bible Seminary2-11 Nakamiya 4 chomeAsahi-ku, Osaka 535-0003 JAPANFax: 011-81-6-6954-4144

Paul and Rickie ClarkE-mail: paulrickie@jesus4greaterasia.com or paulrickie@gmail.com

www.jesus4greaterasia.com

Celebrating 30 Years in JapanWhile it doesn’t seem like 30

years since we landed in Japan on July 18, 1985—the calendar does say so! Our daughters had just turned 15 and 17; our sons were 9 and 11. Now we number 22, in-cluding our wonderful sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and 12 grandchil-dren! Our kids are scattered from Raleigh, NC, to Columbia, MO, to Los Angeles, CA, and to Ishino-maki, Japan!

We arrived for the last four years of Dad Clark’s life and Mom’s last six years. Rickie began work at Kansai Christian School that September and is still there, now working with her 9th principal, and I am still on the board! I first taught some English Bible classes and went to Japanese language school. We are both still

Soon after arrival in 1985

JESUS for JAPAN

First Christmas in Japan 1950 Visiting Kansai Christian School first time

We started our Interna-tional Nights in our remod-eled basement about that same time. We con-tinue to minis-ter in this way every month ex-cept for July and August. Now we have Inter-national Night “alumni” com-ing back to visit when they are in town or in coun-try! Many, many guests have been entertained in our home, Hikari no Ie, passing through, staying over and even living with us.

In our work with Brother Kimura and the Nakaburi congregation there have been many ups and downs, challenges and victories, new believers added to God’s Kingdom, and a new building built in 1997. We were saddened when our preacher’s wife, Keiko, left this life a year and a half

learning vocabulary and yet are fluent conversationally. After Dad Clark’s death, I was President of Osaka Bible Seminary for 12 years until our hope and goal was fulfilled in turning the leadership over to the Japanese. Now we have our first post-war born president, Brother Kishimoto, and OBS continues to prepare men and women for ministry.

In 1999 we went to Mongolia for the first time, and we continue to do so. Last year was my 25th entry into Mongolia and Rickie’s 10th entry. We work with a ministry to the Mon-golian military and are called the “Grandfather” and “Grand-mother” of the Centurions Ministry. We also went to Siberia for several years of mission trips (1999-2005) to minister in congregations and camps there.

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First time in Mongolia, Hugh Ross SeminarInitially invited to Siberia

by the Burneys

A good International Night

President Emeritus,Last moments at desk

ago but were comforted and excited for her as she was ushered into God’s living presence! We praise the Lord for calling us to serve in Japan and Greater Asia and plan to continue in

our Calling here as from the Lord—until further notice.

Welcome to Nakaburi Brother and Sister Kimura

Looking with a goal perspective on God’s Calling of us to Japan and Greater Asia and how He has blessed accordingly, “We need a faith that rests on a great God, and expects Him to keep His own word and to do just as He has promised.” ~~ Hudson Taylor, 1832-1905

Goal for Osaka Bible Seminary: To see OBS come fully under Japanese ownership. How God worked: After 12 years of my being President of OBS, I saw it was God’s timing to pass the lead-ership on to President Nakano, who remained in that position for 9 years. Now after President

Kishimoto’s 5 years, our first post-war-born president, we see a growing OBS. A second goal: To see OBS New Testament and Greek Profes-

sor, Brother Oda’s works published! How God worked: Brother Oda’s New (Revised) Lexicon was published, as well as his Greek Grammar and some New Testament Commentaries—a major Kingdom contribution of OBS to the Church in Japan for genera-tions to come!

A third goal: To revive, sustain and raise new support for OBS, which remains necessary since the Japanese congregations, for their number and size, are not yet able to fully support the seminary. How God worked: Through steady publicity and faithfulness in reporting both in correspondence and in visits, God has sustained the work of OBS through gifts and offerings of individuals and congregations, some new and others who have supported OBS for over 60 years!

A fourth goal: To see OBS have a wider reach within the Church across Japan. What God did: He gave me the opportunity to become involved with the wider missionary community through the Hayama Missionary Seminars. I chaired the seminary several times over the years. God also provided the opportunity for our President Kishimoto to serve with KGK (like InterVarsity) to influence college-age students to enter the ministry. Our OBS seminars are held around Japan and on campus, and more students are studying with OBS on-line.

God’s Other Goals: When we arrived, we had no idea how God would lead us into such signifi-cant ministries with our home, Kansai Christian School, and the Centurions Ministry in Mongolia

Life’s work in publications

Addenda to Celebrating 30 Years in Japan

President Retiring President Nakano

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other than seeing Japan as a Great Open Door to Asia.International Nights: God’s Word extols hospitality as a Christian calling, and with our arrival

we saw the potentiality of our “forsaken” basement. What God did: After remodeling, we began of our monthly International Nights in January 2001.

Kansai Christian School: As ministry at KCS progressed, our goal became to find property of our own so we could expand and reach more families. What God did: We lost our rented properties

to termites, but after three years He led us to our present property in a growing community and our own campus.

Centurions Ministry: Our goal from the beginning was to help raise up Mongolian lead-ers to reach Mongolia through different areas of the military: cadets (military academies), of-ficers, border troops and police. What God has done: He has raised up many dedicated and spiritual leaders and provided us the opportu-nity to mentor and encourage them through our annual visits.

Our goal as to our future: We see the sig-nificance of remaining in Japan to support the Church of Japan and be available to Greater Asia. God’s answer: Affirmative! He has blessed us with health, energy and the support to keep on keeping on, I Thessalonians 4:1,10!Mongolia Called

The 49th Grad-uation Ceremony at Osaka Bible Seminary, insti-tuted in 1937, was held March 20th. Two unique people were graduated this year. Miss Togami, nearly blind, was excited to receive her diploma, as she had nearly given up a time or two! She is now prepared for ministry. The other graduate, a retired school principal, studied one-on-one with the OBS teachers by Skype sessions, on campus intermittently, and in person with a teacher who flew regularly to Okinawa! He is leading a house church in Okinawa!

Four new students have entered OBS who are al-ready active in their congregations. Three of these stu-dents come as a result of President Kishimoto’s long

Osaka Bible Seminary

2015 Graduates Brother Tairaand Sister Togami

Brother Taira’s ordination

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involvement with KGK, an InterVarsity-like national ministry. Our Mrs. Ibuki

from the Naka-buri congrega-tion will begin her second year at OBS. Our growth in stu-dents at OBS has been very encouraging to us and the staff and alumni of OBS. We now have nine students, the highest since we had a graduating class of nine in 1993, and we are grateful for Brother Kishimoto’s leadership.

OBS has never been large but we have graduates serving on all the main islands of Japan who are faithful in their callings, just as OBS has continued faith-ful in its purpose “to train preachers, pastors, evangelists and other Christian workers for the Church.”

We continue to have seminars on cam-

pus, plus daily chapels. I am on campus regu-larly twice a week and speak in chapel monthly.

We have recently had a reminder of God’s faithfulness and the faithfulness of U.S. congre-gations in supporting OBS for nearly 80 years. During the war years both Harold Cole and “Dad” Madden busied themselves raising support for missionaries to return to Japan and reorganize the seminary. Brother Madden met a man in Knoxville, TN, who influenced his congregation to support OBS. Several years ago he passed the baton on to Skip Tanaka, a 3rd generation Japanese born in the States. Skip recently wrote us and said he was planning to visit Japan for the first time and would like to visit us and minister while he was in the area—and minister he did! I met him at the train station near Kansai Christian School and took Skip over to the school. He borrowed a guitar and led the students in chapel in a powerful contemporary song. They loved him! Then he spoke to the high school chapel group,

New students 2015Mrs. Ibuki fromNakaburi congregation

President Kishimoto

Speaking in Chapel

Leone Cole5

Skip Tanaka

making contact at their interest level and led them in a chapel time they will probably never for-get. He also played guitar at Nakaburi, and on the way to the airport we were able to show him OBS. Come again, Skip! Thank you, the Church in America.

Please pray that the historic and present support, hard work and prayers of the many, past and pres-ent, will continue to result in yet more students for OBS and more Japanese reached with the Gospel of the Kingdom and God’s purpose and plan for us (Ephesians 1:9,10; Acts 20:24-27).

Work day painting roof of Sugano Hall

OBS is eco-conscious, too! Osaka Christian Mis-sion had 102 solar-panels installed on the flat roof

of Madden Building from a land sale.

Brother Sugiyama’s First year Greek class

We both immensely enjoyed our three weeks in Mongolia last summer. It was the first time we had been able to go together in four years because I usually go in the fall or winter, as planned this year, and Rickie cannot leave Kansai Christian School at those times of year. I was invited

Greater Asia Outreach

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to share with the offi-cers and junior officers groups in Ulaanbaatar, and Rickie was also asked to encourage and share with the women workers and the wives of Mongolia Campus Crusade for Christ lead-ers from various minis-tries. During our week in U.B. we made a trip Rickie speaking to Crusade wives and staff

to a retreat led by the Teachers’ Ministry of MCCC for teachers around the country and I was asked to share a greeting with them.

A few days later we went with the Centurions Ministry staff for a staff retreat in a remote wil-derness camp in the heart of a National Park, only reachable by 4WD. It was a very meaningful and enjoyable time. I shared each morning with the staff and the opportunity integrated us with

Teaching officers at Command Center MCCC Director Bataa

Speaking at Staff Retreat Rocky camel ride

Hustai National ParkDirector Sumya leads in All Jump

(Camp below)Fording stream

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them even more closely. On the fourth day, we changed location to another place about 4 hours away—out on the real Mongolia Steppe. For four more days we met in a ger (yurt) for our meals and our time in the Word with Rickie also leading. We had various activities in the afternoons (hikes, fishing, going to see children racing their horses) and we slept in our tents at night. (Our backpacking tent has come in very handy in Mongolia). We were awakened by sheep, goats, cows, horses and dogs and even experienced a “cow funeral!” (A cow had been butchered the day before and when the other cows smelled the blood, they gathered around the “scene of the crime” and just bawled and bawled endlessly!)

In Ulaanbaatar, the capitol city, we had opportunities to meet with staff members individually and as families to encourage and be encouraged.

Please pray as the Centurion Ministry staff continues to reach out to non-Christians and disciple Christian leaders for the great nation of Mongolia.

Where the Mongolian Horse roams

“Eagle Man”

Ger on the steppe

Ladies in front of Chinggis Khaan

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Father coaching sonSix-year-old race winner

in yellow and pink

Fish for dinner

Rickie sharing At the horse races

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Sumo fans, our Harumafuji from Mongolia

Sharing inside on Staff RetreatThe traditional Mongolian boot

Steppe tent lodging

Tuuguu Family -- once young and single, now

a familyGantumur Family --

founding directorGer home

Ger life

Our very special Centurions Ministry Staff

Our ministry with KCS continued as intensely this year as last, but things have gone more smoothly. We are growing in numbers and anticipate around 45-50 students this fall. Rickie’s work is always busy. I am chairman of the board again this year, and important meetings have gone long out of neces-sity. We have opened up another teaching position as well as watching the Lord’s provision of new teachers to replace three who are leaving. It has been exciting to see how the Lord has worked in these situations and reminds us again and again to leave our concerns in His hands and not get in the way—“one day’s worry is enough for one day”! As I stated last year, “With changes

Kansai Christian School

KCS Banner,see the Eagle?

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God always brings opportunities to grow in His grace and lean upon Him—our confidence and peace is in Him and the assurance of our Callings (Col. 3:15; Phil 4:7,9)!”

This April we had a group of five young Christian ladies, who are teaching English in Taiwan, come to KCS to lead Spiritual Life Emphasis Week for the students. For two hours every afternoon during Achievement Testing Week, they worked with the large group, then with smaller groups, with the theme “Giving God your Best!” (See OBS for Skip’s visit to KCS.)

Please pray that the Christ-centered education provided at KCS will result in students’ lives being molded by God for a lifetime and that they will have an influence on many as they go out to serve.

Open Mic Night showing flags All School Chapel

Board chairman shares a message

in chapel.

Skip Tanaka in chapelTaiwan team arriving for Spiritual

Life Week at KCS

Staff meetingCovenantPlayers

Kids participating withCovenant Players

Spend Awhile on the Nile,Drama Night Skip sharing with high schoolers Open Mic Night act

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Our International Nights con-tinue to go well at “Hikari no Ie” (House of Light), our home. Several of our friends from recent years have moved away from our area for dif-ferent jobs, and others are taking their places. The “alumni” come back when they are in town and it’s always good to see them. Stepping through the door into our home is like entering “Little America” and our guests immediately respond to the homey atmosphere. Yes, it takes a lot of preparation, as we must pre-pare games, music, devotions and clean our big basement before and after, but it is well worth it to see how much everyone enjoys the fel-lowship and brings new people.

We have hosted several overnight guests over the past year including the Covenant Players, who minis-tered at the Nakaburi congregation’s fall outreach, and some of the same five Americans from Taiwan who came earlier in February needing to leave and re-enter Taiwan for visa renewal.

Rickie’s English Bible class con-tinues studying the book of Acts with the ladies enjoying learning from God’s Word. They bring their Bibles and read them in both English and Japanese. On alternate weeks they study English grammar and write essays twice a month. These essays give us further opportunity to learn the culture. We thank the Lord for the faithfulness of these ladies who have studied with Rickie for some 15 years now. As I was reminded by a fellow missionary recently who has taught a group--for but seven years, “It is only our responsibility to give them something to hear!”

Please pray for our International Night outreach and for the ladies, that the Holy Spirit will break through and hearts will see/hear and understand the Good News is for them and they will respond!

Outreach from Hikari No Ie

International Nightalumnus Manami treating

us to lunchRyuji thanking us for the

Dr. Pepper

Ryuji de-rooting oursewer line

Hosting Taiwan groupin February

Winners of the Paper Tower Contest . . . and the losers!

Can you spell “lenient”out of Valentine?

Ibuki and daughterShiori sharing theChristmas storyfrom an apron

Our 3rd music group,Yu and Luke call themselves

“Yuke” JSharing about love

in February

Due to one couple moving to Sendai, another couple wanting to work for the Lord closer to where they live (45 minutes from Nakaburi) and our OBS student being required to experience working with another congregation this year, our numbers have become quite small. Yet our pastor, Brother Kimura, continues on with a new sense of evangelism and has

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Christmas dinnerOkinawa Soki-soba

hostessHosting Burney M.K.s

Neighborhood hairdresserAnother International Night alumnus, TomiRickie’s Bible class

Karina Ikedo from Brazil Reaching out through free Japanese classes

At the neighborhood summer festival

Nakaburi Congregation

Saying good-bye to Takamuras,who moved to Sendai

Special memorial service forpassed-on Nakaburi members

Brother Kimura illustrating his sermon on the whiteboardPlum blossoms

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distributed tracts in the mailboxes of many new homes in our area and visits with people along the way.

Our fall outreach taco party in October was well attended and the Covenant Players, a drama troupe of three, put on short dramas and helped many in the group perform a modern version of “The Prodigal Son” which few will forget!

Please pray that the Lord will bless our faith, encourage our spirits, and bring new ones into His Kingdom through this congregation.

Brothers Kimura and Ueyama, friends for life

from OBS daysYours Trulyin the pulpit

Nakaburi outreach potluckEnjoying the potluck and

fellowship

“Partying” with the Prodigal Son and theCovenant Players

Skip giving his testimony in song

An afternoon with Mokyoroom alumni

Christian Fellowship GatheringsOur All Japan Christian Convention last summer took place on a beautiful peninsula near To-

kyo. We drove there, spending a night near Shizuoka and visiting an International Night “alumnus” Manami, who is serving at a care-home ministry for both mentally and physically disabled people. We enjoyed meeting them and seeing them involved in various activities, before heading back into town and eating at a famous vintage or historic noodle restau-rant. The Emperor had eaten at a branch of the noodle restaurant just the day before we were there! We ate at the original? J

Our time at the convention was very special as we witnessed All Japan Christian Convention in Hayama

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the leadership of OBS graduates in preaching and leading small groups. Of course, members of their congregations also served in different ministries that week. One Japanese worker and his wife had taken a trip to Or-egon and showed some historic slides of former missionaries to Japan. (Rickie recognized her Uncle Emmett Rickard in one of those pictures! What a small world!)

These annual conventions are always a special time of fellowship and learning and a wonderful opportunity for Christians throughout Japan to gather together in worship, in song, and in relating to one another as brothers and sisters in Christ!

This August the convention will be held in our Kansai area, making it necessary to cut short our time in the States so we can participate.

Our Tanemaki-kai (seed sowing) rally is held every No-vember at Osaka Bible Semi-nary. There has been a very welcomed heightened emphasis on the Call to evangelism, and usually around 100 people from all areas of Japan gather for an-other opportunity of fellowship and worship—basically a time of singing and preaching. It is also a time for alumni to gather.

Please pray for your brothers and sisters of the Faith in Japan as the post-war generation of younger leaders take their places, and for the new growth building on the old—a most important aspect of this transition time.

Brother Tagushi(‘12)

Brother Uejima(‘04)

Brothers Ikeda (‘58)and Akada (‘6?)

OBS Alumni

Fall 2014 Tanemaki-kai

Noon fellowship at Tanemaki-kaiChristian entertainer

Honda, famous in Japan

Visiting a Brazilian congregation in Osaka

Preaching atKamizono

congregationOkayama Christian Center

Board Meeting

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We publish a monthly (or occasionally two months at a time) eUpdate also with lots of pictures which we send out to over 450 ad-dresses by email. If you would like to be on this list and hear more frequently from us how the Lord is working in Japan so that you will know better how you can pray for us, please send us your email address and we will add you to the list. We would be pleased to in-clude you. We believe good things happen when God’s people pray. Receiving the eUpdates also saves Kingdom postage money—over a dollar per address! Our eUpdates are also posted on our website: www.jesus4greaterasia.com. OUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED and we have lost contact with some of you. Please send all correspondence to either paulrickie@jesus4greaterasia.com or paulrickie@gmail.com.

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eUpdates

Health ReportIt has now been a long three years of hospital tests, procedures, sur-

geries and check-ups! Given all the successful treatment, I am prepared for a continuing healthy life for years to come, the Lord so granting! I am now the oldest Clark of my family on record--my Granddad Clark died at 55, I buried my Uncle at 55 and Dad was a younger 75 than I am today; and, I am strong and healthy with my hip, back, cholesterol and prostate problems met :-) !

You can look up my Kyosera hip replacement parts on the Internet--had a world renown surgeon! He passed

me off to the Kansai University Hospital’s Orthopedic back sur-geon who took care of my pinched spinal cord (sustained bone damage-deterioration from my early tennis career). Then there is my KUH Oncologist who after two years of Active Surveillance recommended I go ahead with Brachythearpy as it was now covered by our National Insurance. Presently I am in the

after checkup cycle from all these surgeries and do-ing fine.

After the hormone treatment in preparation for my Brachythearpy, I ballooned to an overweight 212 pounds. After my testosterone had finally nor-malized, I started working on losing weight and have now stabilized at 170-175! I have celebrated by getting back into my closeted Western Suit :-). Rickie stays well and hard working--and has been doing most of the driving for a length of time.

Practicing walking afterback surgery

The best view in Osaka

My fan club J

Family NotesWe are having a Family Reunion in Colorado the last week in June with our children (the

four J’s) and our 12 grandchildren; our family now totals 22! Everyone is looking forward to this special time since we are so spread out across Japan and America. We are very grateful that we can see and talk with them all by Skype!

Chad and Jennifer Huddleston and family (Anika 16; Josiah 14; Caleb 11; Katia 9; and Gideon 7) will also be in the States this summer to visit their supporting congregations and individuals.

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They continue their work in Ishinomaki in the earthquake/tsunami disaster area, and their congregation continues to grow. Counseling and hospitality are a large part of their min-istry and they and their teammates head up the Nozomi Project www.http://nozomiproject.com, a small jewelry-making business that gives them the opportunity to help survivors with work and the opportunity to minister to their needs. The jewelry is made from shards of ceramics broken during the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Several have become believers and been baptized. Jennifer home-schools the older two children and the three younger ones are in a local Japanese elementary school. She is also very active in school and community affairs.

Chris and Jocelyn Wolfe and family (Ben-jamin 16; Elijah 16; Johanna 14; and Ami 9) live in Columbia, MO, where Chris works as Senior Systems/Storage Engineer at Carfax. They serve the Lord as forwarding agents for both us and the Huddlestons! Jocelyn also helps Rickie J by collecting and shipping textbooks for KCS each year. Their oldest daughter Michaela (19) loves being at Mil-

ligan College in Tennessee and is determined to get through college debt free. So far, so good!

Jeremy and Amy and Edison (1½) live in Raleigh, NC. They both work for Ado-be from home and enjoy their little one very much! Jeremy is Director of User Ex-perience Design and Amy is Senior Inno-vation Product Manager. Jeremy designs our calendars every year and has recently been working on restoring my old Sierra

slides from numerous backpacking trips—a special gift for my 75th birthday last fall! What a job to take on, and the results are amazing!

With the Huddleston Family Be-One House in Ishinomaki

The Nozomi workers make Beauty out of Brokenness

Nozomi Project --Nozomi means Hope

The Wolfe Kids

Chris and Jocelyn

Jeremy and Amy

Edison Reece Clark

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Jonathan, Yuki and Sean (6) make their home near Anaheim, CA. Jonathan works for Sumitomo Electric as Senior Sales Coor-dinator/IT and a liaison between the English

speaking cus-tomers and the factories in Japan. We get to see them about once a year. Sean was here last fall with his mother, and we got to have him with us for almost a week during Yuki’s recovery from surgery. He went to school with Rickie and experienced first grade at KCS. The other children almost cried when he left and still mention him.

Jonathan, Yuki and Sean on right

Sean with both setsof grandparents

Summer ItineraryWe will be in the States for our every-third-summer time of visiting OBS and personal sup-

porting congregations and individuals to share with our partners the work the Lord has given us in Japan and Mongolia. We are trying to spend a little more time with family and friends this time but we still have much traveling to do. We will be in 21 different states, driving a car lent to us by close friends and supporters. Here is our speaking itinerary at this point:

June 11 (Thu): Fly from Japan and arrive in Reno, NV, where the car will be awaiting us

June 14 (Sun): Turner Christian Church, Turner, OR

June 22-27: Family Reunion, Breckenridge, CO—all 22 of us

July 1 (Wed): Christian Church of Witt, Witt, IL

July 5 (Sun a.m.): Brownsburg Christian Church, Brownsburg, IN

July 5 (Sun p.m.): Faith Church of Christ, Burlington, IN

July 12 (Sun): Rogers Heights Christian Church, Big Rapids, MI

July 19 (Sun): Parkside Christian Church, Cincinnati, OH

August 2 (Sun): Central Christian Church, San Jose, CA

August 9 (Sun): Redwood Christian Fellowship, Fortuna, CA

August 16 (Sun): Bridgeport Community Church, Bridgeport, CA

August 19 (Wed): Fly from Reno, NV, and arrive home in Osaka on August 20.

Along the way we will see friends, family and sup-porters in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Arizona and California.

Please pray for our stamina and safety as we travel these many miles. Pray that we will be an encouragement to those along the way as we share what the Lord is doing in Greater Asia.

Our transportation for the summer,courtesy of Ran and Joyce

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Clark’s personal support: These funds are used to pay our personal salary ($2,500/month) and mission expenses such as office supplies, mission travel, utili-ties, etc. Chris and Jocelyn Wolfe handle these funds. Checks should be made out to Osaka Bible Seminary and sent to: Osaka Bible Seminary, P.O. Box 1697, Columbia, MO 65205. The Wolfes send out quar-terly receipts to the donors and banking reports to us. Their email address is wolfes@wolfeshome.net and their phone number is (573) 808-6256. Designated funds (e.g. Mongolia, KCS, special projects) can also be sent to this address.

Osaka Bible Seminary (Columbia, MO) is under the umbrella of Osaka Bible Seminary’s not-for-profit organization in California. We separate the funds for convenience by having two forwarding addresses and separate bank accounts. The funds are combined in our annual report to the IRS. All gifts are tax-deductible. All of Rickie’s stipends from KCS go directly to OBS in Missouri to help pay

mission expenses.OBS Seminary support: These funds are di-

rectly used to support Osaka Bible Seminary in Japan and help with basic expenses. Although the Japanese congregations continue to support OBS, they are not yet able, because of their number and size, to fully support the seminary. Therefore, your gifts are still very much needed and appreciated for the ongoing of this vital work here. Jon and Ann Ottinger handle these

funds in the States. Checks should be made out to Osaka Bible Seminary and sent to: Osaka Bible Seminary, P.O. Box 696, San Jose, CA 95106. Jon deposits the checks, and sends receipts to the donors and banking reports to us; Jenann Beckman does the bookkeeping on the Japan side.

If you wish to receive a quarterly or annual financial report, please contact us and we will send you one.

Please know that 100% of your gifts are passed on to Japan with no “overhead” taken out. Our forwarding agents do not receive any remuneration. We are VERY GRATEFUL for THESE PARTNERS in ministry with us. They, with our supporters, make it possible for us to be in Japan!

OBS Support

We wish to publicly thank Mission Services in Knoxville, TN, for their great job in put-ting out this newsmagazine year after year. They experienced difficulty with their image setter in 2013 but gave us a huge discount for the 2014 issue. Thank you, Mission Services! They also carry our eUpdates on their website: www.missionservices.org along with a world of other mission news!

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