Today is Sunday; Yokohama Union Church

April 27, 2014
Dear Students and Friends
Today is Sunday. We went to Yokohama Union Church.
It is one of the oldest churches in Japan.
It was built by the first missionary, Rev. Hepburn 151 years ago.
He built Union Church and Ferris School.  He first built it next to the place signed
the American-Japanese Treaty of Commodore Perry and the Japanese shogunate.
Now it is the site of the oldest protestant church, Kaigan Kyoukai.
He later moved to Tokyo and built Meiji Gakuin.
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