Appeal May 2004: As member and as sponsor

Chisato Koriyama, Chairman of Y-Service Committee

The list of the persons who are not member of the YMCA in Y's men was sent to each club. Some people who repulse to that list say: "There is a problem rather in such the posture of the YMCA. This claim seems to be consequential, standing on the presupposition that the Y's Men's Clubs have another organization than the YMCA. However, the fundamental difference with the other luncheon club is in the thought that the Y's Men's Club is the party which attends the YMCA.
The Tokyo YMCA made the "members department" earlier than the other YMCAs. Some people say that to make members department specially is odd because the YMCA derives from the members movement originally. Some people sneer at the fact that only the members works enthusiastically.
It is evident that the YMCA has various faces. Moreover, it erases some faces and makes some new faces as it responds to the request of the times. But a lot of people assume that only the one that they like is the face of YMCA though this one is lost. They are indifferent to the faces except that. Or they have an antagonism to them. They don't attend the faces which they don't consent to.
The root of the YMCA service is simply that one works as YMCA member and the club sponsors various activities of the YMCA.