Catching up #3: Konishi Family

Catching up again, introducing you to the Konishi family that we met at the end of 2009. I met the Dad and his 2 girls at the park back in October. They soon started coming to Oyumino Kids bilingual kids program on Sunday mornings.

When all the kids started practicing for the Christmas program in November, the Konishi kids got excited and kept coming regularly. For Christmas worship on Dec 20, the family stayed for worship for the first time!
They have continued attending Oyumino Alive Church regularly, even after we left for America. Please pray with us that through the community of Japanese and missionary believers at Oyumino Alive, they would come to know God as their Creator and Heavenly Father!

Catching up #2: Saying Goodbye to our Church

Catching up again from our busy last week in Japan (in January) here is a photo from our last Sunday at Oyumino Alive Church that we have been working with the past 2 years. Oyumino Alive is a new church-plant of Oyumino Christ Church (PCJ) that was the first mission church established by our team over 15 years ago.
We have a diverse congregation primarily composed of Japanese, but also including Filipino, Korean, African, and American members. Our Sunday morning worship is bilingual (Japanese & English) and has attracted a number of Japanese families with overseas experience.
The last 2 Sundays in Japan, church members stayed after to make special hand-made gifts for our supporters in America. We were blessed by their efforts - plus we had lots of fun fellowshipping together.

We had a community dinner at the church building our last night and we were blessed to have some of our non-Christian Japanese friends join in - and get to know the local community of Japanese believers as well!
I had the opportunity to share about God's faithfulness to us in our trials, and the hope that we have in Christ! It was such a special night together with these dear friends. May God Continue to bless and guide Oyumino Alive Church ... for His Glory!