On December 12th, Owari Baptist Church officially launched! Since our launch date was in mid-December, we didn’t have much time to turn around and promote our Christmas services. But we still had first-time visitors at two of the three Christmas services we held on Dec 24th & 25th. It is a tremendous privilege to preach […]
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We hope your New Years is off to a good start! On Friday evening we had an event at the church and had two people who were first time visitors come in. Typically it is traditional to eat noodles that are made out of buckwheat on years eve so that is what we served, everyone
This past weekend we held our Christmas Eve and Christmas day services. On Christmas Eve 6 adults came including 3 first-time visitors. Thank you so much for praying with us about this! For our Christmas eve candlelight service, we had a string.of lights overhead as well as some battery powered candles that seemed to work
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Today I had the opportunity to study the bible with two guys. We began going through the book of Mark together and one of the questions that was asked was, “so was John a bad guy?” It was the first time that I think either of them had ever read any of the gospels. It
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Sunday we had our first official service as a church at Owadi Baptist church. We are excited that four adults outside of ourselves were there including a family with three kids. Please continue to pray for us as we are planning a special Christmas service on the 24th and the 25th. There is a lot
This past week we were able to get our number plates switched over to Nagoya which was our LAST PIECE OF FORMAL PAPERWORK needed for the move. It took documents from many different parts of Japan to get that process complete because of how we moved, but thankfully we were able to get that all
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This past Sunday we had our Sunday morning bible study, as well as a meeting that afternoon explaining the direction and vision for the church. We had two different people attend each. This past Sunday was our third Sunday meeting and every Sunday we have had two different people show up so it has been
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In our last letter, we wrote to you about getting the keys to the church building and our scheduled move. Things have been moving along smoothly as we head toward the official church launch on Dec. 12th. The space we are renting for the church is not extremely large by American standards, but it suits
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Today we started our SHORT-TERM ENGLISH PROGRAM at the church! We had a number of people join us for the first session today and we are excited to see how things go moving forward. Lord willing we will begin a BIBLE STUDY this coming Sunday and are praying for a good turnout as we make
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