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Orlo's Story
This is a story of the struggels and joys of a son of blue collar workers, who went from life in a small town in Minnesota to the mission fields of Japan and Russia. While in college he met and married, Carol, and by the time he graduated with a B.A they had two daughters. After three years of graduate school he became a pastor in Appalachian Mountains in Virginia. However, his great desire was to be a missionary to a foreign country. In 1964 the Church of God, Anderson, Indiana commissioned them as missionaries to Japan. where they served for 31 years. Being just short of retirement, the Church of God Mission Board requested that they go to Russia for a year. Upon retiring they settled in Vancouver, Washington, close to family, and he became the pastor to seniors for the Vancouver First Church of God, serving in this capacity for ten years. His great joy in retirement is teaching his great-grandchildren to ski and play tennis.
Japan Directory
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The Shining Light
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SENSEI
This is the account of the experiences of a farm boy from the western prairie and a girl from the Bronx. These two spent 35 years in Japan. No two societies could be more different This is the story of their struggle to understand, their mistakes, the humorous situations they find themselves in, all against the background of the American occupation and the Korean conflict next door. It contrasts American and Japanese life and tells the story of many courageous Japanese and their response to life situations. It tells of their being ushered in to meet the Emperor and of his kind words of thanks. It is the account of the trip from culture shock to true bi-cultural living.
Bamboo and Bonsai
Bamboo and Bonsai is the story of a Kansas boy who spent his entire career as a missionary in Japan. His service spanned forty-three years as a missionary of the Church of God. He was the founder and director of the Seminary House program. It was designed to prepare seminarians to become pastors in the Church of God. It offered specialized training in the theology and history of the Church of God. He directed this program for twenty-two years. He was also the principal of Tamagawa Seigakuin a girls junior-senior school in Tokyo. He led a staff of fifty Japanese nationals and four American teachers and over one thousand students in preparing young women from a Christian perspective to develop...
Kirisutokyō nenkan
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The Families of Henry Nail & Mary Keller and Thomas Ray & Elizabeth Pearce
Heinrich Nagel (Henry Nail) (1771-1827), son of Gottlieb Nagel (Caleb Nail) and his wife Margaret of Döffingen, Germany, married 1798 in Rowan Co., North Carolina, Mary Keller (1776-1857), the daughter of Jacob and Barbara Keller. Henry Nail died in Addison Twp., Shelby Co., Indiana. They were parents of thirteen children. Gottlieb Nagel (Caleb Nail) arrived in Pennsylvania in 1754 where he spent the next twenty years. By about 1774 he had left Pennsylvania and moved with at least four of his children to North Carolina. Thomas Ray (1762-1829) was the son of William Ray of Wake Co., N.C. He was born in Granville Co., North Carolina. He married in Wake County Elizabeth Pearce (ca. 1764-1844) in 1783. She was the daughter of Nathan and Nance Weston? Pearce. Family members migrated to Shelby County, Ind. in the early 1820s.
The Families of Henry Nail and Thomas Ray
Christian Nagel II (1693-1751) married twice, and immigrated in 1751 from Germany (via Rotterdam) to Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descen- dants lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and related families.
