Weekly Updates

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 […]

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

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

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

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

This past weekend, we had my (James’) parents visiting for a few days. During their visit Rosie and my mom attended a ladies retreat in Gifu Prefecture (state) which is just north of us here. They rendezvoused with Bro. Hill’s wife who came from Niigata (where we previously were) on their way up and seemed

Spiritual warfare is definitely real and this past week we have been feeling it strongly. It seems like the devil had been launching coordinated attacks. Amidst his prowling, as he seeks those whom he may devour, we know our God is greater. One of the ways we’ve seen these attacks unfolding is through the life

This past Sunday we had a church fellowship event followed by a “bring our own boxed lunch” fellowship. Many people stayed around after the service to spend time together. It was neat to see the church interacting and enjoying fellowship with one another. Thank you so much for praying for our friend Yuuji who we

Last Sunday was our third Sunday in a row running double-digits in church attendance! Thank you for your continued prayers for our church plant as we move forward. This week Japan is in “golden week” with Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday being holidays. Many people take off Monday and Friday and enjoy having a ten-day holiday.

Following a special service, we typically seem to have a dip in attendance. But that was not the case this week! We were pleasantly surprised this past Sunday to see that eight of the ten people who joined us for Easter returned again. Our two first time visitors were part of this group! Throughout the