Seinan Gakuin
4-L
Foundation
News
Number
48 July
20, 2015
Associate Berger Completes First Period of 2015
Erik
Berger, the Seinan Gakuin 4-L Foundation Associate, now serving in his second
year, posted this on his Facebook timeline on July 16: “Last day of teaching
before summer starts! ”
Teaching is hard work, and teachers (like
students) are always ready for a break. But in addition to having time off,
Erik will be involved in church and other activities through the summer. Let’s
continue to pray for him and for his witness in Japan.
Seinan
Gakuin Enrollment for 2015
As of June 1, the
enrollment at the various Seinan Gakuin schools was as follows, with the
enrollment in June 2014 in parentheses for comparison:
** Seinan Gakuin University – 8,337 (8,195)
** Seinan Gakuin High School – 1,322 (1,288)
** Seinan Gakuin Junior High School – 666 (654)
** Seinan Gakuin Elementary School – 423 (413)
** Maizuru Kindergarten – 176 (157)
** Samidori Day Nursery – 110 (111)
** TOTAL – 11,034 (10,818)
It is gratifying to see that in this time of constant
decline in the number of children in Japan, the enrollment in all of the Seinan
Gakuin schools is up from last year.
“The Good
Seinanian”
One
of the many privileges/responsibilities of the Seinan Gakuin Chancellor is
writing the cover article for the Seinan
Gakuin Geppo, the monthly bulletin that is distributed to the nearly 600
faculty and staff members of Seinan Gakuin.
Chancellor (and Seinan Gakuin 4-L Foundation Director) Gary
Barkley’s July cover article for July was partly about the New Testament story
of the Good Samaritan. In concluding his piece, Chancellor Barkley challenged
the faculty and staff to become “yoi
Seinanjin” (good Seinanians) like the “yoi
Samariajin” (good Samaritan) and to nurture students to become such
persons.
More News
from Seinan Gakuin
** Focus Week for the
spring semester was held at Seinan Gakuin University on June 2-4. The speaker
for the first hour-long Chapel service was Dr. Tetsu Nakamura, a Seinan Gakuin
Junior High School graduate who has served for many years as a medical doctor
and Christian witness in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Dr. Nakamura, b. 1946, will also be
the keynote speaker at the Seinan Gakuin centennial activities to be held next
year on May 14, 2016.)
The guest speaker for the second and third days of Focus
Week was Dr. Yasuyuki Shimoinaba, a medical doctor and church leader in Fukuoka
City. For many years Dr. Shinoinaba (b. 1938) was the Head Director of Eikoh
Hospital and Chief of Eikoh Hospice Care. In 1967 he established Kasumigaoka
Christ Evangelical Church and through the years has been associate pastor of
that church.
** Last week on the
campus of Seinan Gakuin University there was a public protest against the Prime
Minister of Japan and the lower house of parliament, which approved a
controversial military bill on July 16. According to the Nishi Nihon Shimbun,
about 100 faculty, staff, and students gathered at SGU to object to the bill that
expands the role of the Self-Defense Forces. At that gather, Theology
Department Dean Ichiro Sudo read the public statement of protest.
Number
48 July
20, 2015