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 | | But in 1961, the Hokkaido Mennonite Fellowship solidified its commitment to lay leadership by inviting Howard Charles, a professor from the Goshen Biblical Seminary, to conduct a yearlong training in Anabaptist leadership for the 195 members in the 11 Hokkaido Mennonite churches. |
 | | And celebrating the reciprocal relationship that made them co-workers and friends, members of the Hokkaido Mennonite churches sent Takio Tanase as their representative to be with Ralph at the time of his death. |
 | | Hokkaido was the frontier, the last island to be settled, and more rural, which still had some wilderness, and considered the less cultured place by the rest of Japan. |
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