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My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards

My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards

$ 210.92

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  • Organization: Salvation Army

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    My Mother - The Childhood of Gunpei Yamamuro - Salvation Army Japan Storyboards
    Produced by the Christian Kamishibai Society
    12 Panel Stroyboard set - not really sure when this was issued
    Gunpei Yamamuro, the first Japanese Salvation Army officer (pastor), would know a little bit about that.
    Gunpei was born to a farming family in 1872. Unfortunately, his family was too poor to keep him, so he was adopted by a pawnbroker’s family at age nine. At the age of 15, he went off on his own, moving to Tokyo in an attempt to find some meaning of life. It was here that he heard the Gospel and gave his life to Jesus Christ. With a passion for helping people and saving souls, he was a perfect match for The Salvation Army.
    He moved to Kyoto to become an officer (pastor) in The Salvation Army. In 1895, at the age of 23, Gunpei became the first Japanese officer (pastor) in The Salvation Army.
    While the first Salvationists (members of The Salvation Army) in Japan had struggled to break through because of cultural barriers, Yamamuro knocked them down like a warhammer. In 1898, he wrote “The Common People’s Gospel” and explained Wesleyan holiness doctrines through the context of Japanese culture. Where others had failed sticking to the old methods, Yamamuro found success by adapting the concept of holiness into the language and culture of the audience.
    His efforts were successful—it took less than 12 years in a pre-digital age for The Salvation Army in Japan to go from a relatively unknown organization to a household name.
    Over the course of the next 30 years, Yamamuro rose in influence both in The Salvation Army and in Japan. He retired with the rank of Commissioner (the leader of the Salvation Army) in Japan. In 1940, he died of pneumonia at the age of 68.
    Condition is as you see - edge wear and some toning, but colors still fairly bright
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