Calvin's Baptism at Oyumino Christ Church

Last Sunday, Oyumino Christ Church (which normally meets in 3 locations) gathered together for year-end Joint Worship with over 200 people in attendance! The service included the public profession of faith and adult baptism of a young couple, the covenant baptism of their two kids, the infant baptism of 3 other babies (including Calvin), and the transfer membership of another young couple. What a celebration!


Our MTW Team Leader and pastor, Dan Iverson, baptized Calvin ... in Japanese!
Here is Calvin with the other two "men" who were baptized. Mr. I and his 4 year old son.
Here is Calvin with our Japanese pastor, Dedachi-san and his daughter Seira (same pronunciation as Sarah in Japanese) who was also baptized.
Here is Calvin with his little friend Martha, daughter of another missionary family the Nolls.
Pfeil Family photo of five after worship. :)

Thanksgiving....yes a month late!

We had a fun Thanksgiving party with our friends about a month ago. I know, we are slow to put the pictures up, but anyway, here they are!

Sara-Beth and I had such fun cooking for our Thanksgiving feast! We sent all of the kids over to the Noll's house with the guys while we cooked. It really worked out well for us! :)

This was the crew. We served about 23 people (including kids!).
Somehow, we fit in our living room.

Jon explained about the first Thanksgiving.

We finished out the evening with a fun group game.

We had to get a group shot before everyone went home. It was such fun to share this holiday with our friends...even though we missed our family in America.