Weekly Updates

On Sunday we held our first baby dedication service at our church plant. Because many families take babies to the temple, we were able to provide an alternative for the young family. We had many visitors come back, we broke our attendance record again and had 22 people in attendance. At this rate, we might […]

Get more chairs out! Recently we moved away from gathering around two tables (about 10 chairs) to having a circle (12-13 chairs) on Sunday mornings because we have started to see a steady stream of visitors. Four of the six who came on the Sunday we had 17 people (2 weeks ago) have continue to

This past Sunday, we hosted a “Lunch and Learn” at the church after the morning service. In the past, we have held small lunch together events where everyone simply packs their own lunch, and we all eat after the morning service. This time, we decided to go a step further and have a small study

Thank you for continuing to pray for my knee. At my last doctor visit, he said that surgery is still on the table because the swelling is not gone yet. While this was something that we were hoping to avoid, it may be a better long-term solution. Thankfully, I have been going to see an

Thank you to those of you who reached out to us about the large typhoon (aka hurricane in the US) that blew through over the weekend. Thankfully, we were not in its direct path so our area did not receive the brunt of the typhoon’s force. We had ordered a new magnet for the sign

Lately, we have had what seems like a steady stream of visitors to our church and Sunday was no exception. A gentleman from the guitar class came with his wife on Sunday morning. We are very grateful that God has continued to bring us people and connect folks from our guitar class to the church

Today we were finally able to get some answers about my (James) knee. Thankfully, none of the ligaments are severely damaged and the doctor thinks it is primarily a damaged meniscus. He is going to have me begin rehab next week. We will be going from there. There’s still a lot of swelling and I

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.

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

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