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Repairers of the Breach
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About the AuthorSixtyone years ago, on August 31, 1948, three years after graduating from college and the end of World War II, Margery L Mayer sailed with eight other young Americans on a freighter from San Francisco to Yokohama, Japan. They were part of a group of sixty young people recruited by the Board of Missions of the Methodist church into a program called the Fellowship of Reconstruction. The purpose, and Margerys mission, was to live for three years with Japanese youth, teach English in a mission school in Nagasaki, and through that vehicle, together tear down the wall of fear, hate, and hostility that had been built up during the war between Americans and the young people of Japan, and to rebuild a new world view of peaceful living together by witnessing to the students about Christianity.Margery was sent to Kwassui Girls School in Nagasaki which had been over the years a sister school to her college, Ohio Wesleyan University.She was so impacted by that experience that at the end of the threeyear program she made the decision to return to Japan as a fulltime associate with the Japanese Christian church. In 1951, she returned to the United States with her students bidding a fond farewell laced with love, understanding, and respect.After completing graduate studies at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University in New York City, Margery returned to Japan as a full time missionary. Her first two years were spent in intensive Japanese language study in Tokyo. This was followed by an appointment by the Japanese church to work with women and youth in the area of Kagoshima at the southernmost tip of Japan. In 1972 after 24 years, she took up life again in the United States currently residing in Brentwood, Tennessee.Product DescriptionMuch has been accomplished to repair the breach between Americans and Japanese since World War II. Margery Mayer and her Kwassui students did their part in postwar Nagasaki. They had many discussions about Christianity and democracy as well as the growing nationalism and militarism of the United States. This is the story of their life togetherthe Japanese students and the American missionary, the impact they had on each other, and the bonding that took place as they worked toward a new world of peace.
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