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[silence] Welcome to the foreign mission side of Mission Scope for 1979. The first feature is an interview with a Japanese pastor who was influenced by Glendon McCullough at an RA camp in northern Japan in 1951.

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The rest to the features deal with work in the Caribbean area and can be used now and should be saved to enrich the 1979 foreign mission graded series material which will deal with church planting in the Caribbean.

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I am a Sachi Fumi Imamura. I am a pastor of Sakai Baptist Church near Osaka. I have been working there for eight years.

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All right, Pastor, can you tell us a little bit about Sakai City and your church? Sakai City is near Osaka. My church is located in the central part of the city. We have 65 church members and usually 50 attendants.

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There is only one Baptist church in this city. Are there other Christian groups in the city? Yes, there are many churches. About 30 Protestant churches in this city.

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Let's talk a little bit about you. When did you become a Christian? Where did you go to school? This kind of thing. Yes. I accepted Jesus as my savior when I was 15 years old. During the summer of 1951, when I accepted Jesus Christ as my savior,

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I attended National RA meeting. At that meeting, I decided to be a pastor. Can you remember a little bit about the National RA camp that you went to? Where was it? What happened?

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At that RA meeting, it was held in Nagoya City. In this trip, I met Dr. Holloway. At the time, he worked in Nagoya. He said to me they didn't have the building for that R.A. meeting.

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Then he rented fields of park. What happened at the meeting? How did it go? At that meeting, Dr. Glenda McCullough spoke us the role of a royal ambassador. I was strongly impressed by his speech, and I made up my mind to sacrifice myself for

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God. And from that time on, you've been moving in this direction. Where did you study? Where did you go to school?

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After high school, I entered a Senan Gakuin seminary. After I finished, I went to Mission Point in the northern part of Japan. Whereas you were strongly influenced by the Royal Ambassador meeting, is there this type of activity with boys and young men?

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Is there such a program in many churches in Japan now? Yes, yes we have. We are thinking of succession of Christian faith to our children. We have many meetings for children and boys and girls and for youth.

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In my association, we have work camps for boys and girls once a year, and many meetings. I would like to come back to the idea that you have come to America to observe church administration. Yes. What are you seeing? Or what do you hope to see?

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I see. You know, most of the churches in Japan has from 30 church members to 100 church members. that's a small church. I need to learn how to grow churches. One thing I noticed is pastoral leadership for growing churches. I have come to the States for studying Church activities, especially pastoral leadership.

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I'm Carter Davis, missionary dentist in Grenada, which is an island in the southern part of the Caribbean. I first got interested in missions, or foreign missions, in 1971 when a friend of mine, Dr. Jack Fuson,

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invited me to participate in the medical dental volunteer program of our foreign mission board. The board has been very helpful and considerate and has provided me a place in Grenada with modern dental equipment in which we care for people's dental needs here. Not only do I work in our Baptist dental clinic,

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I also work with the Grenada Ministry of Health. I spend three mornings a week working in one of their government facilities at the government hospital.

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The government hospital, the only facility that they have is for dental extractions. This is a need. It's difficult for people in the United States to realize

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that people across the world do have pain from dental, an abscess or whatever other cause that there is. And in just about every case, the only thing that's left as far as treatment

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is the removal of the tooth. I now feel like that I'm able to tell people in the hospital that no, you do not have to have this tooth extracted, that there are places in Grenada that can fill the tooth or put a restoration in it and allow you to

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keep the tooth. And I enjoy being able to tell them this because so many times when I was participating in the volunteer program, the only thing we could do was just to remove a tooth, whether it needed it or if it was just a matter of pain and we knew that the patient could not get any other treatment.

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We felt like that it was better to treat the patient than it was to treat the tooth. It's exciting working with the Ministry of Health. They are very considerate and helpful to me. While I am at the hospital, I do take time to have a devotional time each morning with

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the patients prior to our beginning the treatment. I have a prayer with them and share something about why I'm in Grenada that I am with our Baptists here that we invite them to visit with us and worship with us in our churches and that we as Baptists are concerned about the whole man not just their spiritual but their

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physical needs as well. I also in our dental clinic in our Baptist dental clinic. I'm able to spend a little more time with patients and I feel a little more comfortable sharing or witnessing to them through the day. Some days it seems like it's more appropriate to witness to the patients as they come in.

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I don't know whether it's because the schedule might be a little bit a little freer or that just feel like that the spirit is leading or that maybe the patient asked a question because we have a sign out front of our dental clinic that says dental ministry of dental of Grenada Baptist not dental clinic so

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automatically they see that there is something a little different from the start and sometimes people come in with a with a question and I always enjoy just taking time to share with them whatever they have to ask. One thing that I also am excited about doing in Grenada is working in our church. I feel like

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that the Lord didn't lead my family to Grenada for me just to operate a dental practice. I work actively with our pastor who is a missionary and also work in lay leadership development. I work with the Sunday school teachers of the youth age and the adult age in preparing for the coming Sunday, helping them to

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plan a Sunday school program and plan their lesson so that they have an aim and they see how see what steps they want to take in leading the class towards the aim or towards the goal and helping them to be able to see that the Bible lesson that is there is more than just reading verses of Scripture and

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and seeing what they mean, but also taking those same verses of Scripture and applying it to us in our living so that we can obtain the benefit of what the Scripture really says, helping us to see how we can live our lives, and our lives can be drawn closer to that of God through the Sunday School lesson, through our obtaining the message for us today in

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are living today. My name is Marty Overstreet and I serve in St. Vincent. I feel that my main talent is lies in music so I've been striving to use that talent to strengthen our work here. We're very fortunate that the natural talent of the people seems to be in music here.

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They all love it. They all have rhythm in them. Most everyone can sing and enjoy doing that. And so the first thing I wanted to do in the church

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was to start a music program. We advertised in the paper that we would be doing this, that I would be teaching anyone who desired to learn to read music,

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that I would help them. So I began teaching them music theory each week, and then after the music theory, I would teach them songs. A few weeks after I'd been here, I got a phone call from St. Joseph's Convent School,

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where my daughters attend, and the sister there told me that she had heard that I played the piano, that they needed an accompanist for the singing class at the school. So I started helping at the convent school for two days a week. And while I was playing for the convent school, I met Bill Roberts, a Peace Corps worker,

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who was teaching music there. And I let him know about my dreams in the music program in our church. Well, he started attending our church and accepted the Lord, and I asked him if he would be interested in taking over the theory teaching part of the music program because he has his

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master's in instrumental music and is a real expert in the theory. And he thought that would be a lot of fun, so he's taken over the theory part of the class and then I teach the singing part which follows. We had our first concert in September and I was just real pleased with the quality that we turned out in

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just five months. [Music] [Music] (upbeat music)

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[Music] [Music] (upbeat music) (upbeat music)

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[Music] [ Music ] I've got peace, love, joy, and a river I've got peace, love, joy, and a river

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I've got peace, love, joy, and a river in my soul I've got peace, love, joy, and a river I've got peace, love, joy, and a river ♪ Have your peace, Lord, forever in my soul ♪

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♪ Have your peace, Lord, forever in my soul ♪ ♪ Have your peace, Lord, forever in my soul ♪ ♪ Have your peace, Lord, forever in my soul ♪ [choir singing]

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In these concerts we have singing, we have instrumental music like recorders, ensemble, and the trumpet solos, we have quartets, duets. (orchestral music) [Music]

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>> The recorder is a small flute-like instrument that originates from England, and that has become very popular in St. Vincent because the people here can't afford major band or orchestra instruments, but they can afford a little recorder, and the schoolchildren buy them.

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And through Bill, the piece co-worker, he started these recorder classes in all the schools. And I told him I thought it would be lots of fun if our church had a recorder ensemble. And a lot of the people heard the recorder group and said they would like to learn how to play also. One of our main goals is to have indigenous music, and that means that we want to

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have the music of the West Indies and not just hymns that that we've learned in the states that we teach to them. On any given

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Sunday or at any of our Bible studies, we use the guitar and we have a tambourine. And we've recently acquired some drums that we want to use in our music program. And the thing that we're dreaming of right now is using steel band music. I approached the leader of the Villa Harps, which is a steel band group,

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and asked him if they would be interested in playing for our church. Here in the West Indies, calypso music has been considered a sin by the evangelical groups, but we believe that it can have a real place in the church ministry, that it is of the people and it's something they enjoy,

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and we can use it in the place of even an organ or a piano. [MUSIC PLAYING] (upbeat music) [MUSIC PLAYING]

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(upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (upbeat music) [MUSIC]

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[ Music ] The people of the West Indies really do love music and we're trying to develop this talent so it can glorify the Lord. I'm Don Snell, been in Trinidad since 1974. In '76 we decided to take a short mini-furlough and we were back in the States from September through December of '76.

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So when we came back to Trinidad, there had been a change in our work plans and we were scheduled to begin new work in an area called Chaguanas. I went to the junior secondary school, which has an enrollment of 2,000 students, and asked the vice principal in the afternoon session if I could organize a choir.

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And he was very gracious and said that they would be glad to have something like this organized in their school. And I meet with the choir only once during the week. ♪ Forged from the love of liberty ♪

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♪ In the fight of hope and prayer ♪ ♪ We found our fate in our destiny ♪ ♪ We solemnly declare ♪ ♪ Side by side we stand ♪

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♪ Islands of the blue Caribbean sea ♪ ♪ This our native land ♪ ♪ We pledge our lives to thee ♪ ♪ May every creed and race find an equal place ♪

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♪ And may God bless our nation ♪ [singing] But out of this, an opportunity has come to meet some of the parents of these children, and I've had opportunities to lead Christmas programs

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and open day programs for the school, the music part of it. All in all, my contact with the school has broadened my vision of the entire community because these students do come from a radius

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of about five or six miles around Chaguanas. A man that I've met in the area is a Hindu musician. His name is Mungal Padasar. We have an unusual relationship since I'm a musician

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and he's a musician. He doesn't know much about Western music and I don't know anything about Eastern music, so we're kind of teaching each other.

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He plays the sitar and he has promised my wife that if she will teach him to play the piano, that he will teach her how to play the sitar. So I guess that for next Christmas, my wife will be getting a sitar for a Christmas present.

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This is written, the tabla beat will be beating rounds of 8 beat, in cycles of 8 beat, but divided into 4/4. So you get, and this beat will be like this, "Dhage na ti na ka dhina, dhage na ti na ka dhina, dhage." But each time, where this falls, well, "dha" would be here, because it starts on the second "ing." now the counting is here 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 right so what 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 in this

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particular case the measure starts here 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 now wherever this note comes if you don't fall there it's grammatically wrong no matter what you play and you come back here this note must always fall on this beat Only if you get what I'm trying to do.

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I'm not sure I follow everything Pat. [Laughter] I tell you, it's really a lot there. [MUSIC]

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(upbeat music) [Music] But, uh, Mungau, or Pat as he wants me to call him, is very curious about the Christian faith.

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He said that my approach to him was completely different from any other evangelist or missionary that he'd ever met, and he had really gotten turned off by some of the high-pressured people that had come in and tried to win him over in one day.

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But as with the others, I feel that it does take time, and a real strong friendship is built up between Pat and myself, and we have had some real in-depth conversations that have lasted for an hour and a half at a time.

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On one occasion he said, "I just want you to share with me your testimony of why you are doing what you're doing here in Lange Park, in Chaguanas for us. Why you're coming here? Why did you leave the States?"

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And so I had an excellent opportunity to share with him my faith. My basic approach has been to the man of the family. [ Silence ]