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MISSIONARIES TO OKINAWA AND JAPAN, 1951 - 1982
| Many Facets to Mission... Two years after arriving in Okinawa, Harold began a mobile hospital ministry to serve the many people in remote villages throughout Northern Okinawa who remained without medical care -- eight years following the end of WWII! The mobile hospital was made possible largely through the support of the First Methodist Church in Glendale, California. Right: L-R: Joko Kamiya, two nurses, Rev. Nakaima, and Rev. Harold Rickard in front of the mobile hospital (1953). |
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| Harold also served patients at Airaku-en (that is, "Garden of Love and Comfort"), which was a leprosarium on a small Okinawan island. More on this story will follow. | |
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| Above left: Dr. Nakadomari, Head of Airaku-en (1952). Center: Airaku-en nurses (1951). Right: Keisai Aoki (left) and an unknown gentlemen at Airaku-en (1951). | ||
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