Religion: Flying Missionary

When Bill Jackson was not up in his C-47 last week, he was busy 1) watching bulldozers break ground for Tokyo's first English-speaking Baptist church, and 2) organizing an all-out evangelical campaign, "the biggest single effort in the history of Baptist foreign missions." Texas-born William Henry Jackson Jr., missionary and active reserve officer in the U.S. Air Force, is planning his $200,000 church with all the U.S. trimmings—kitchens, dining hall, classrooms. As rotating pastors, he hopes to get "big Baptist churchmen" from the U.S. As for his choir, he needs "at least 500...

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