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===Historical Background=== | ===Historical Background=== | ||
In 1873, the ban on Christianity – strictly enforced during the feudal Tokugawa period – was lifted by the government and, that year, the first resident missionaries, Rev. and Mrs. Robert S. Maclay, arrived from the Methodist Episcopal Church. Mission bases were set up in Tokyo, Nagasaki, and Yokohama, and Maclay was instrumental in the founding of what is now Aoyama Gakuin University. | |||
In 1884 the Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference Committee on Missions organized the work in Japan into an annual conference. The conference had 32 clergy members–13 missionaries and 19 Japanese ministers–along with 1,148 church members, 241 probationer members, and 1,203 persons enrolled in Sunday schools. | |||
By 1895, the Japan Conference had nine districts, 68 clergy–18 American missionaries and 51 Japanese clergy. There were 3,371 members and 668 probationers. The Women Foreign Missionary Society had 23 missionaries stationed in Japan – 19 working in schools and the rest with Bible Women in evangelistic missions.<ref>"Methodist Church, Japan, c. 1920", at "Old Tokyo", https://www.oldtokyo.com/methodist-church-japan-c-1920/, accessed 3 April 2020.</ref> | |||
=='''Pentecostal Church Records'''== | =='''Pentecostal Church Records'''== | ||
===Writing for Records=== | ===Writing for Records=== | ||