A Heart for the Japanese

A Heart for the Japanese

Well we are at the end of the road. Which way should we turn? Look there are steps I wonder if more houses up those stairs. Almost out of material to pass out. How do we choose who gets to hear the Word today? What if you dont leave a tract in that mail box [...]

Toukasan Festival in Hiroshima

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This weekend Hiroshima held it’s annual Toukasan Festival. Touka, is another reading of the name Inari, the deity of grain, and each year approximately 450,000 people participate in the festivities at the local shrine dedicated to this (so-called) deity. Because this festival marks the start of summer in Hiroshima, many people wear yukatas, summer kimonos, [...]

Overcoming being a foreigner

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As David was reading through 1 Corinthians last week, he came across a passage that seemed to jump off the page at him. It wasn’t a hallucination, anything supernatural, maybe not even spiritual, but because the Rainers are living, breathing, eating, and sleeping the Japanese language, this verse stuck out:”There are doubtless many different languages [...]