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Title
総合病院 日本バプテスト病院
Description
We need to return February 1946 to trace the origin of the Japan Baptist hospital. It was when Japan was in chaos suffering from poverty and disorder after World War II. A chaplain at the St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, which was a US army hospital at that time, having been taken over by the occupational army, visited the Rev. Kiyoki Yuya of Mejirogaoka Church. It was the only remaining Baptist Church in Tokyo at that time. The Chaplain offered to help the Japanese churches to contact churches in America. At that time Japanese were prohibited to correspond with Americans. Rev. Yuya wrote a letter to The Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention in America for help to evangelize Japan. This was how initial contact was made.
This letter was written not only before The Japan Baptist Convention was established but also before the missionary, Dr.E.D. Dozier visited Japan to investigate the circumstances in October 1946. His father had also been a missionary in Japan and he himself prayed and waited in Hawaii for the end of the War so that he could evangelize in Japan.
In April 1947, 16 Baptist churches having been merged into The United Church of Christ in Japan left it and established The Japan Baptist Convention. Dr. Theron Rankin, the Baptist Executive Director of the Orient of the Southern Baptist Convention visited Japan then and confirmed the 6 parts of Rev. Yuya's letter and the evangelism was resumed in Japan. As soon as The Japan Baptist Convention was established, it became a goal for the Baptist Convention to establish hospitals and nursing schools, and a definite plan to do so became our main object.
Languages
日本語 (Japanese)
