As many around the world celebrated Jesus’ resurrection this past Sunday, we also were able to celebrate at our church plant in Japan. In fact, this past we hit a new record: double digits adult attendance. Among the ten were two first-time visitors. Please continue to pray with us as we work to make disciples […]
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
Number two (4/5/2022) Read More »
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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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
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
Family of Five (2/15/2022) Read More »
*** Last Thursday morning Japan time Rosie gave birth to our third son Ezra, thank you so much for praying for a safe delivery! There were no issues or complications so Rosie and Ezra were able to come home on Monday. In other news Rosie and the baby were actually on the news later that
*** There seems to be a little bit of back and forth between prefectural government (state governments) and the central government right now about whether they need to put the large cities and surrounding areas in a state of emergency or not. The central government seems to be saying that it’s not necessary but the
