Today, Rosie and Amos came home from the hospital. In Japan, after giving birth, people are required to stay in the hospital for about six days, but there were no complications. We are thankful for a healthy baby! On Wednesday night at 8 pm Eastern time, we will be doing a live Facebook update to […]
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First, thank you to all of you who have personally reached out to us during these turbulent times. Niigata has taken some extra precautions for daily life and most events/large gatherings have been cancelled or postponed. However, as of this writing we are not in a lockdown. From our end, we hurt with those who
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This past Sunday we had Dr. Furukawa come to the church and do a special seminar about the coronavirus. We had one new couple attend who had never been to the church before, and they seemed interested in the English classes that are held at the church. While we did not have a big turnout,
Special Sunday Seminar (3/31/2020) Read More »
This past Sunday night we had an Onigiri event at the church. Onigiri is almost like a sandwich to Japan. It is a rice ball with all kinds of things stuffed inside of it. We had salmon and beef and pickled plum that we served alongside of this. My friend Daiki who I asked many
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On Saturday we had a special White Day event at the second church plant. White Day is a Japanese holiday that is exactly one month after Valentine’s Day. This holiday is supposed to be for people to give chocolate back to those whom they received chocolate from on Valentine’s Day. We had six people outside
White Day Event (3/17/2020) Read More »
With the media painting drastic pictures of the corona virus, many schools have decided to take their spring break a little early. Rosie’s language school was one of them, so she finished up her first year a little bit early. Because the corona virus is a topic everyone is talking about, Bro. Hill was able
Unexpected Twist (3/10/2020) Read More »
As we entered this year, we decided to rethink some of the church events hosted at Hope Baptist Church in Niigata. We decided to try doing a food-based event about once a month, and we have been seeing some good results. One food we made was Oden. This is a traditional Japanese dish that people
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During our first short term here in Japan, we have tried to be intentional about visiting another work about once every three months to learn what others are doing to spread the Gospel. Since this past weekend was a three day weekend and Rosie had Monday off, we visited another church to glean from their
Continuous Learning (2/25/2020) Read More »
This past Friday was Valentine’s Day. We held a special Valentine’s Day event at the church to create another opportunity to invite people to church and share the Gospel. Some of you may remember that I (James) have been volunteering at a local high school since December. We hadn’t seen anything come from it for a
Valentine Event (2/18/2020) Read More »
On Sunday nights, we are going through a series on our Identity in Christ. The Bible says if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. But that doesn’t prevent us from thinking things about ourselves that aren’t true. To illustrate, I used a cockroach (it’s a toy), and a lion (both pictured above).
