Friday evening, as I was out trying to meet some people through skateboarding, I twisted my knee and heard a popping sound. After spending six hours in the ER, they told me that it was not broken, but I did need to get an MRI done. Thankfully, we were able to schedule it for Wednesday. […]
This summer, we decided to ‘go on the offense’ and pass fans out in front of shrines and temples during their festivals. Our family and several volunteers (including a gentleman from another church in Nagoya) handed out around 3400 fans! We put Acts 17:24 and the following verses on the fans: “God that made the
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On Saturday some information came across my computer about a festival happening in town. As we shared in our update, last time there was a festival we were able to pass out fans with Scripture and a QR code to a video sharing the gospel. On that occasion, we were able to distribute about 1700
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This past weekend we were able to go to a festival next to a shrine in the city. Here, we passed out some fans which had our church logo on one side and Scripture verses with a QR code to a gospel presentation video on the other side. Several people from our church plant joined
Beginning next week, we are going to commence our three-month guitar class. So far we have had six people sign up for the course. Over the last several weeks we have continued to get fliers out as we promote “Guitar Classes for Beginners”. From melting pandas to weatherman cats… see news article. Six people signed
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This past Sunday after the morning service we had a barbecue in front of our church building. We bought the meet from the meet shop that’s downstairs. Since they are closed on Sundays, we had to pick it up on Saturday. But we had a good time of fellowship! One of the ladies brought her
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In case you missed it, here is a link to the letter we sent out about how we will be proceeding with our mission board. Thank you so much for your prayers for wisdom and direction! As we have continued to work and minister here in Nagoya, we have been trying to adjust as needed.
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Over the past week we were finally able to get parking spaces for our church. Last Sunday a visitor joined us and was able to use one of the parking spaces! This means that 60% of our parking was being used during that service and all of it by people outside of our family. It
Sixty Percent (07/05/2022) Read More »
It seems like we are officially out of rainy season and we are hitting some record heat waves in our area. We are excited that the summer seems to have reached us, it will bring with it many opportunities. Over the weekend, there was a bazaar near the station where we live. It was sad
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Over this past weekend we released a gospel presentation video in Japanese to our church’s Youtube account. It is captioned in English and in Japanese. If you could go to the video and give it a thumbs up, it would be a simple but tremendously helpful way to get the gospel to Japan! See video
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