At a meeting of the Japan Mission, an agreement in principle was reached to reaffirm the purpose of the Japan Mission in strategic alliance with Presbyterian World Mission and Yodogawa Christian Hospital of Osaka, Japan, to serve as a mission society that will contribute to the mission of Jesus Christ in Asia and beyond.
Yodogawa Christian Hospital in Osaka, Japan, has given the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) $208,577 to be used for mission in Asia.
The gift represents the same amount Presbyterian Women contributed in 1956 to the hospital, founded by Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) missionaries. The PW gift, which was raised through the organization’s Birthday Offering, helped build a 76-bed hospital that has grown into a multi-faceted medical complex.
The Presbyterian medical ministry in Osaka began in 1955, when missionaries opened the Yodogawa Christian Clinic. The first superintendent, Dr. Frank Brown, committed Yodogawa to providing “whole person healing” in an impoverished community still reeling …