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29-816: The JEB was founded by the Rev. Barclay Fowell Buxton and Paget Wilkes at the Keswick Convention in 1903 as an evangelising agency to assist existing missions and churches and to organise Christian Conventions for Bible Study and Prayer. Buxton had been an independent missionary in Japan with the British Church Missionary Society since 1890 and had invited Wilkes to join him as a lay helper there in 1897. They worked together at Matsue in Western Japan, before returning to England. Buxton and Wilkes were joined by

58-558: A prisoner of war camp for both German and Italian prisoners. Franz von Werra , a Luftwaffe officer, escaped from here; he was recaptured at nearby RAF Hucknall , while trying to steal an aircraft. A film entitled The One That Got Away , and starring Hardy Krüger , was made of his exploits. In 1856 the Revd John Wood gave land for a church to be built in Swanwick, at which time the village's industries consisted of coal mining, farming,

87-458: A Japanese worker would participate in pioneer evangelism. They did this in many rural areas as well as in some of the larger towns which had not been exposed to Christian work. Churches were started in about 100 centres and full salvation and missionary literature was printed and circulated. The JEB were anxious to avoid creating another denomination, intending that their churches would be linked with existing Japanese denominational churches. However,

116-533: A number of shops, pubs and other businesses, a Church of St Andrews, as well as Methodist and Baptist churches. In the northern part of the parish an industrial estate on the former Swanwick Colliery site incorporates the Thornton's Confectionery factory along with other businesses. There is also a Christian conference centre, the largest in the UK. Now largely urbanised, the parish still has some remaining agricultural land to

145-586: A small group of friends at the Keswick Convention who shared their concern for evangelism. The group included Thomas Hogben, who had founded the One by One Working Band, a group devoted to personal evangelism. Initially the new mission was known as the One by One Band of Japan, being dedicated to personal holiness and aggressive evangelism. Nine months later, the name was changed to Japan Evangelistic Band. Wilkes imagined "a band of men ... who detaching themselves from

174-693: A war injury who set up the All Nations missionary training college and succeeded his father at the JEB, Murray Barclay Buxton, and Alfred Barclay Buxton, who joined CT Studd in the Congo and married one of CT's daughters, Edith, and then served as a missionary in Abyssinia. Both Alfred and Murray died together at Church House, Westminster during the London bombings of 1940. He was an uncle of Arthur Buxton (1882–1958), Chaplain to

203-543: Is now a secondary school. With the aid of a donation of £3,230 from Francis Wright the building was completed in 1859 with a nave of five bays, north and south aisles, north porch and bell turret over the west gable. The pointed arches on both sides of the nave and in the chancel imply that the architect, Benjamin Wilson, had Early English architecture in mind when he designed the building. The Church celebrated its 150th anniversary on Sunday 26 September 2010. The Bishop of Derby,

232-530: The JEB churches conferred and decided they would prefer to be linked in their own denomination. In 1938 many of them withdrew from the denominations they had joined and formed a separate denomination called the Nihon Iesu Kirisuto Kyokwai (NIKK) or Japan Church of Christ. World War II and other factors held back progress, but some Japanese members were able to continue limited evangelistic activities during

261-478: The British Church Missionary Society . Within several weeks of his arrival over 700 people were attending his services and by the end of the first year seven churches had been founded around Matsue and Yonago . He invited Paget Wilkes to join him as a lay helper in 1897, and the two worked together in Western Japan, before returning to England. Together they founded the Japan Evangelistic Band , which

290-528: The British headquarters and office. This property was sold in 1983, and the JEB bought new headquarters at 275 London Road, North End, Portsmouth . In 1999 the renamed Japan Christian Link refocused its work on expatriate Japanese, mainly in Europe. The Japan Council directed work in Japan. There was always a majority of Japanese members, usually five Japanese with three expatriates. Work in Japan continues to be known as

319-548: The Butterley ironworks, framework knitting, shoemaking and a newly established silk stocking maker.with the crest adopted by the Wood family. The Woods succeeded the Turners as owners of most of the local mineral rights, and Hugh Wood later moved into the newer Hall with his wife; a painting of his later children, painted by Joseph Wright of Derby in 1789, used to hang in its dining room. It

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348-525: The Forces and Rector of All Souls Church, Langham Place , Marylebone . Barclay Fowell Buxton was also a notable amateur tennis player. He played at the 1880 Wimbledon Championships where he lost in the first round, and he won the men's singles title at Cambridge University LTC Tournament in 1881 against Erskine Gerald Watson. In 1882 he took part in the Agricultural Hall Tournament one of

377-535: The JEB until his death. Between 1921 and 1935, he was the Vicar of Tunbridge Wells . In 1937, he received three separate calls to go back to Japan for a last missionary effort at the age of 75. Beginning in Kobe , he spoke 125 times in 153 days in 19 areas of the country. Buxton married Margaret Maria Amelia Railton, daughter of William Railton , in 1886. They had four children, a daughter Rachel Jane, Godfrey Buxton crippled by

406-502: The JEB, and is now under the direction of Japanese workers. The archives of Japan Evangelistic Band are maintained by SOAS Special Collections . Barclay Fowell Buxton Rev. Barclay Fowell Buxton (16 August 1860 – 5 February 1946) was an English evangelical Christian missionary in Japan . Buxton was the son of Thomas Fowell Buxton and Rachel Jane Gurney and grandson of Sir Thomas Buxton, 1st Baronet . Barclay's grandmother

435-851: The Japan Christian Union, Seamen's Work in Birkenhead, and the Sunrise Band Committee. In 1947 the British Home Council appointed a Publications Committee to 'co-opt, plan, produce and supervise all publications of the JEB and the Sunrise Band'. From September 1955 this committee was known as the Literature Committee. In the early years, the JEB had its British office at 55 Gower Street, London. In May 1962, it purchased property at 26 Woodside Park Road, North Finchley , London as

464-586: The Swanwick crossroads. The house was extended in 1812, two years before Hugh's death, and in 1891 by Christopher Wood J.P. It was then sold for £10,376 to Derbyshire County Council in 1920 when it would then become a grammar school. Swanwick Hayes – now the Hayes Conference Centre – was constructed in the 1850s as the home of Mr Fitzherbert Wright. In the early 1900s, it was converted into a conference centre, and operates as such to this day. The Hayes gained notoriety during World War II , when it served as

493-526: The centre of JEB activity. In 1905 the Kobe Mission Hall and the JEB Kansai Bible College were initiated to train an indigenous ministry to carry on the work in the long term. By the 1920s the JEB decided to launch its own forward outreach work since other missions were then finding their own experts in evangelism and making less use of the JEB. Small teams comprising an overseas missionary with

522-615: The earliest known indoor tennis tournaments, and the prestigious Prince's Club Championships held at the Prince's Club at Hans Place in London . Swanwick, Derbyshire Swanwick ( / ˈ s w ɒ n ɪ k / ) is a village in Derbyshire , England, also a parish within the Amber Valley district, with a population of 5,316 at the 2001 census, falling to 5,084 at the 2011 Census. It has

551-693: The far south, then to Minoshima and Kainan and later to Kozagawa . Other programmes were to Shikoku Island where work began in Tokushima Prefecture at Tachitana then in Hanoura and Naruto. A separate venture was begun in Shido , Kagawa Prefecture and work also started in Wajiki . Churches were established in Tachitana and Naruto. There was another outreach in the 1950s to Northern Hyogo Prefecture and then over

580-474: The local mineral rights and became coal magnates, until the death of Charles Turner in 1736. John Turner built Swanwick Hall around 1690. Elizabeth Turner had a school built in 1740 to provide education for 20 children from poor families. The school house is now a private residence. The other most significant family was the Woods, who occupied the original Swanwick Hall ('The Old Hall') in what is known as Wood's Yard. It

609-521: The north and west. The name Swanwick is derived from the Old English Swana , meaning "herdsmen", and wic , meaning a group of buildings. The settlement is thought to have begun in the vicinity of the farm above The Hayes (meaning "enclosure"), on which a number of ancient footpath routes converge. It is first mentioned in 1304 in Sir Thomas Chaworth's grants to Beauchief Abbey . Sir Thomas

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638-565: The prefectural boundary into Kyoto Fu , where work began in the mountainous districts around Amano Hashidate . In the UK, JEB members worked among Japanese seamen arriving at the docks in Birkenhead . Conventions were held regularly at the Hayes Conference Centre at Swanwick, Derbyshire in June, and at Southbourne, Dorset in August. From its early days the JEB was actively working with children. There

667-612: The responsibilities and entanglements of ecclesiastical organisation, would give themselves to prayer and ministry of the Word..." . The JEB was set up as a non-denominational fellowship of Japanese and expatriate missionaries who came from North America, South Africa and Australia as well as the British Isles. In October 1903, Wilkes led the first missionary party to Japan, serving briefly in Yokohama and Tokyo, before moving to Kobe , which became

696-658: The war. A bombing raid in 1945 destroyed both the Mission Hall in Kobe and the Kansai Bible College, although both were later rebuilt. JEB missionaries returned to Japan in late 1947 and started work on the new housing estates that were growing up on the outskirts of cities. Irene Webster Smith opened up a centre for students in Tokyo. In the 1950s new outreach programmes went into Wakayama Prefecture , first to Susami and Kushimoto in

725-585: Was Hannah Gurney, sister to the Quakers Joseph John Gurney and Elizabeth Fry and the name Barclay stems from the Quaker family who founded Barclays Bank . He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge . He was ordained deacon in 1884 and priest (London) in 1885, From 1884 to 1887, he was curate of Onslow Square , and was then curate of Stanwix , Cumberland until 1889. In 1890, Buxton went to Japan as an independent missionary with

754-404: Was a Young People's Branch of the JEB called the "Sunrise Band" it was renamed the "Japan Sunrise Fellowship" in 1977. Barclay Buxton was the first Chairman of British Home Council the parent body of the JEB, and he was succeeded by his son Godfrey Buxton . Eric William Gosden became Chairman in the late 1970s. Among the subsidiaries reporting to the British Home Council were Regional Committees,

783-493: Was a substantial yeoman's residence of 1678, as evidenced by a datestone high up on the dormer gables, along with the crest adopted by the Wood family. Swanwick Hall , was built from 1771–72 by Derbyshire architect Joseph Pickford Of Derby , for Hugh Wood , a wealthy colliery owner in Swanwick after the Turner family left. It originally was a three-storey, three-bay red-brick house with limited stone dressings built south-east of

812-515: Was formally launched at the Keswick Convention in 1903, where Buxton and Wilkes were joined by a small group of friends who were interested in evangelism in Japan. At first the new mission was known as the One by One Band of Japan, but nine months after Keswick, the name was changed to Japan Evangelistic Band, (“Kyodan Nihon Dendo Tai”) in Japanese. Buxton worked with Wilkes in Japan for many years, and returned to England in 1917. He remained Chairman of

841-497: Was the Lord of the Manor of Alfreton , which encompassed Swanwick. The area was exploited for coal from early times, first with small pits in the locality known as The Delves (meaning 'diggings') and later with a major colliery in the north of the parish, which closed in the 1960s. Several families figure highly in Swanwick's long history. The Turners, beginning with George Turner in 1620, owned

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