Items for Prayer for Japan and our ministry.
What is Christian community? This was one of the discussion points in a new program for developing 15 potential small group leaders at the Nerima Baptist church. John developed this plan with the leadership of the Nerima church to raise up more leaders for small groups. Once a month for 6 months they meet together to discuss their monthly assignments. John is facilitating them in leading for community, discipleship, outreach, prayer, ministry and worship. Already…
CPI CONFERENCE (Nov 11-15) SPECIAL PRAYER NEEDS (1 week and counting) 1. We are expecting about 350 plus adults and about 80 kids. Pray for each one that God may bless them as they prepare to come. 2. Ask God that he would visit each of us at the conference with his presence of blessing and grace. 3. God has blessed the development of the gospel renewal curriculum project. All that is remaining is layout…
SPOTLIGHTS FOR PRAYER AND PRAISE 1. Elaine’s outreach at the Crossroad church making cards went well last month. Another is planned for the 9th. Pray for contacts with new people. 2. We will be inviting our Agape group for a special Christmas dinner party on 11/23. Pray they would move closer to Christ. 3. Elaine will end November very busy as she prepares for the year-end Christmas Tea on December 2nd. 4. In addition to…
It sounds like a mouthful but it is very cool. I have been active with the South Kanto Church Multiplication Network for the last two years. Pastor Nakano of the Crossroad church joined this network when it started after the tsunami in 2011. There are 5 churches from various denominations involved. The goal for this three-year program is to see each of these 5 churches daughter its own new church. Crossroad has targeted a nearby…
SKIN-SHIP Last month brought planning for our Rengo church planters summit in November. We were talking about what program to have with our dozen church planters. We knew they needed a time to chat, a time to learn, and a time for coaching on their personal and ministry lives. We talked about how uptight they might be about sharing especially after the formal Japanese annual meeting. One suggested that we give them all a ticket…
CPI CONFERENCE (Nov 11-15) SPECIAL PRAYER NEEDS (4 weeks and counting) 1. Registrations are nearly 260 at this time. Pray for each one that God may bless them as they prepare to come. 2. Ask God for special blessing on the gospel renewal curriculum project. We hope to have a new manual ready by November. John and Elaine and very heavily involved in this. 3. Pray that God would fill one key position related to…
1. Elaine has a special outreach on Sat the 19th at the Crossroad church making cards with ladies. 2. Lots of meetings in September, all good meetings. We even spent some time hanging out with friends we have not seen in a while. 3. Elaine has had a great time restarting her classes after the summer break. 4. Our financial support has been very strong the last several months. Thanks for your prayers and generosity.…
Transformation is by its nature a continual process by which God redeems his creation from the results of the fall. The reason we believe in transformation is that we have a transforming God. God does not change but he has a plan to transform the entire universe. When we talk about transformation we talk about revival, renewal, restoration and reform. In understanding this task there are some key belief assumptions. The belief that Scripture is…
The CPI National Conference is being held November 13-15 near Hakone. WANT TO BE INVOLVED? Already a ministry team of volunteers is preparing to come to Japan to assist in the program, office work, and children’s programs. This team could use more members. If you are interested please see videos, brochures, and more at the website http://japancpi.com/. Please pray that this volunteer team would recruit the required workers for the conference.
Excitement oozed out from my phone handset as I talked to a Japanese speaker about the theme for this fall’s CPI National Conference. I could tell he was smiling and he was very excited as well. “Do Mission” sounds somewhat odd in English but it is great Japanese English. Japanese often use the phrase DO ___. In an Ishinomaki shopping mall I recently saw a sign saying “DO MALL.” We had stumbled on a timely…