Japan's Cities, Towns & Villages
Summer is approaching and volunteers from America are preparing to come to Japan to work with our personnel. Young people are coming from Texas to work to reach university students in Kyushu. Others from Tennessee are coming to work in the smaller towns. The volunteers speak English. The Japanese usually speak only Japanese. But that [...]
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The Hakata Dontaku festival happens every May 3rd and 4th. On the first day our team stood on a sidewalk offering free Bibles to people as they walked by. In a period of 2 hours, at least 1000 people had to have passed by us. But only 17 accepted the gift of God’s Word. We [...]
Golden Week in Japan starts this week and it is the longest stretch of vacation for the year for many Japanese employees. Some companies will even shut down for the week. Several holidays occur during this week. One of those is on May 5th, a holiday known as Kodomo no hi. This is a celebration [...]
This is the month when the Japanese celebrate the beauty of the cherry blossom trees and when spring begins to manifest itself all over the beautiful land of Japan. Flowers are blooming, the weather is getting warmer, once barren trees are being clothed again in green, and celebrations and festivals are being put on and [...]
A narrow, concrete stairway that shoots straight up a steep hill would probably peek most peoples interest. Curiosity got the best of David and he had to follow the steps that were beckoning his attention. He didn’t realize at the time that he had started to climb a small mountain, just a few blocks east [...]
Our new ISC couple is doing their part to make new connections and share the gospel with new friends. The Sengmanys have actively contacted several whose names were on an international exchange bulletin board, listed as wanting to speak English. One particularly strong friendship is with Rom, a 39-year old single man. They meet weekly [...]
The Rainers have been in Shizuoka City for a month now. They have started the marathon of learning the Japanese language and though at times they feel like they’re already in a sprint, it is providing an opportunity for them to learn to rely totally on the grace of God. In this very early [...]
January was a busy month for the new missionary family, the Shadburnes, in Okayama. This young family meets each Sunday morning at Starbucks for worship. The “church that meets at Starbucks” started with their family and has grown by two as a mother and son now join them each week. This family lives in the nearby [...]
Christmas, 2008, seems like a long time ago now. But we did have opportunities for outreach. A-san, our house church member, introduced us to several of her friends. We all gathered together for Christmas Candlelight worship. Using house-church style worship, we read scripture for an interactive Bible study. It was the story of the visit [...]
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