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img Congregation outside the Japanese Baptist Church (ddr-densho-12-1)

The Japanese Baptist Church is located at 160 Broadway in Seattle, Washington. Before World War II, this area was adjacent to Seattle's Nihonmachi, or Japantown.

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img Hood River Japanese Methodist Church Orchestra (ddr-densho-259-323)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "The Hood River Japanese Methodist Church orchestra. This was not the same organization as the band. Here LeRoy (?) Burns was the orchestra organizer, leader and instructor. I think that Rev. [Isaac] Inouye just lent moral support. Notice that on the bass drum...it reads, 'H.R.H.S.', and 'Japanese'...HRHS of course stood for Hood …

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img Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church of Portland (ddr-densho-259-307)

Caption by Homer Yasui: "Posed group of members of the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church of Portland. This old church was actually a remodeled home and it was located near 16th Avenue and Glisan Street."

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img Japanese American servicemen near a church (ddr-csujad-55-2277)

Black and white photograph depicting two Japanese American servicemen and two women in front of a church in winter. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2382

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img Members of the Japanese Baptist Church (ddr-densho-353-69)

The church was located on Jefferson Street. A note on the back indicates the 50th anniversary.

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img Dance performance at Japanese Congregational Church (ddr-densho-474-159)

Front left to right: Marianne Hazumi Urakawa and Elsie Fumiko Urakawa Back: left to right: Emiko Takenaga, Starr Miyeko Urakawa, and Sachi Takeuchi

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vh Yosh Nakagawa Interview Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-172-23)

Leaving camp to attend a church camp, meeting a non-Japanese American pen pal

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doc Letter from John Mulder to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-24)

Fourth Presbyterian's response to Tsai's May 26 letter about a place for the Bible Study awaits the formation of a committee.

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doc Letter from John Mulder to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-17)

Fourth Presbyterian Committee voted unanimously to allow Japanese Church of Christ to meet in the John Timothy Stone Chapel at the Fourth Presbyterian Church every Sunday from 2-3:30 pm starting May 23. Committee's recommendation will go to the church session on May 20, 1942, for action. Muldur invites Tsai to attend with another church leader. Fourth …

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doc Letter from John Mulder to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-25)

Fourth Presbyterian's rejects Japanese congregation's request to have children meet Sunday afternoons and requests combining the Sunday schools on a trial basis.

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doc Letter from John Mulder to Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-20)

Confirmation that Japanese Church of Christ will meet at Fourth Presbyterian Church from 2-3:15 pm starting 24 May 1942 in John Timothy Stone Chapel. Six conditions stated. Questions about Sunday School and Bible Study will be discussed in the future.

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img Funeral photo for an Unknown Person (ddr-ajah-4-27)

Taken at Japanese Methodist Episcopal church

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-170-16)

Staying in Seattle's Fujin Home, a home for women run by the Japanese Baptist Church

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img Hiroshi Fujiyoshi (ddr-njpa-5-601)

Pastor at the Waimea Japanese Christian Church.

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img Seattle Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church group photograph (ddr-densho-395-57)

A group photograph outside of the Seattle Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church (renamed Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church in 1956). Seiso Bitow is on the back row, sixth from the left.

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img Seattle Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church group photograph (ddr-densho-395-79)

A group photograph outside of the Seattle Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church (renamed Blaine Memorial United Methodist Church in 1956). Accompanying materials state, "Caucasian man may be Reverend E. L. Blaine who bought the church in First Methodist Church's name because Japanese Americans could not buy property."

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doc Draft letter from Ai Chih Tsai (ddr-densho-446-27)

Arrangements for young people of First Baptist Church of Cicero to entertain Nisei US soldiers on July 18, 1942. Request for list of interested soldiers to send invitations.

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doc Chicago Sun: Ai Chih Tsai Ordination Article (ddr-densho-446-385)

Notes that "a Chinese has been chosen by Chicago's only group of Japanese Christians as their spiritual leader".

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doc Letter from Ai Chih Tsai to John Mulder (ddr-densho-446-23)

Thank you to John Mulder for previous letter. Japanese Church of Christ is grateful to Fourth Presbyterian. Tsai reports that 31 people attended the service on May 24. The Japanese Church of Christ declines Mulder's offer to have the children of the Japanese congregates attend Sunday School on Sunday mornings with the Fourth Presbyterian children. Tsai …

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doc Letter from Ai Chih Tsai to John Mulder (ddr-densho-446-18)

ACS thanks JM for his kindness and requests to attend the Wednesday meeting at Fourth Presbyterian Church

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doc Group posing for photo in garden (ddr-ajah-4-6)

Title: Alameda, CA, circa 1912-1912 Early Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Includes historical information about early development of Alameda and the Japanese Methodist Episcopal church

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vh Emery Brooks Andrews Interview Segment 17 (ddr-densho-1000-155-17)

The end of World War II: returning to Seattle, father's resolve to reopen the Japanese Baptist Church

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img Clearing the ground for Japanese Church, Norwalk (ddr-csujad-57-19)

Five adults and one child stand in a clearing with houses and trees in the background. Dust or smoke is in the air. [Handwritten note on photo] Clearing the ground for Japanese church, Norwalk. Aug 30, 1924 - Mrs. Foster and Cammack [Handwritten on verso] Mrs. Cammack __ raking for burning. Aug. 30, 1924 (7). Title …

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img Japanese Sunday school at the new church (ddr-csujad-57-14)

Congregants of a Sunday School class at Friends Japanese Church. [Handwritten on photo] Japanese S. S. at the New Church [Handwritten on verso] The church completed Lydia Cammack 1924 [Sign hanging above door] FRIENDS JAPANESE CHURCH / G. T. Hayashi, Pastor. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: FFC-0014

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doc Japanese Christian Church Receipt for stored items (ddr-densho-157-194)

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