As Spring ushers in a new school season in Japan, God has ushered in a second church plant. Rosie and I are thrilled to be part of God’s plans for this country. This past Sunday we held the first service for Owari Baptist Church. Two visitors joined us. They had previously attended our first church
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I took this picture recently as my wife and I walked through some temple grounds. There were “prayer wheels” as well as this statue with a mask on (pictured above). Quickly thinking about what this would imply, I realized that the mask implies this god can either 1) get sick itself or 2) get me
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Alas! This past weekend special prevention measures for Covid ended in 18 prefectures (states) including ours. It was a three-day weekend here in Japan so the measures extended through Monday, but we had a good turnout at the church. We decided to do a simple time of fellowship after the service by telling everyone to
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“Wars and rumors of wars.” Maybe this phrase has come to mind with the recent war which began Ukraine. Our heart breaks as we see the news pour in of unjust actions. Just as the media began covering the invasion in Europe, the domestic news began talking about extending the Covid special prevention measures (again).
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This week we have begun to focus on getting the word out for a second location. Lord willing, we will start to meet at the top of April on Sunday afternoons in a second location. This will create more opportunities to reach people with the gospel. Because the second location is more central in the
Things are definitely far from how we had planned them to go but we are excited to start a second location soon. Here are some of those details and how you can be praying for us. Listen on the go
Over the weekend as the world has been watching events unfold in Europe, Japan has been talking about extending its current emergency prevention measures for another two to three weeks. While they have not yet formally extended, our prefecture (state) will be applying for this in the next day or so. This is not what
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We’ve been passing out flyers promoting our Wednesday night service and the front is a picture of me (James) holding a Bible saying “Wednesday night Bible study!” This past Wednesday we had a first time visitor from the flyer. He said that he had been previously studying the Bible with Jehovah’s whiteness . He said
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This past Sunday was our family’s first time going to church as a family of five. It was definitely an adjustment to our schedule and the rhythms that we are accustomed to, but we are grateful that Rosie and Ezra are out of the hospital and doing well. Please continue to pray for us as
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At the end of January, the Omicron variant began spreading rapidly in Japan. Aichi prefecture (our state) requested for special prevention measures to be put in place. These measures allow the local governments to place restrictions on businesses and the measures went into effect on January 21st. The government is also calling on people to
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