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Prayer:

1. Thank you for praying for Althea Sidney. She came back home Sunday night! Wow! Do a little dance like Ray S would do, please!

2. At the Walnut Creek RJC conference some of you met Pastor Luis Shimba of Brazil. He asks prayer that if it is the Lord’s will, he would be able to purchase an apartment in Londrina.

3. Campus Ministries:
We get a number of Japanese campus ministry reports each month, too many to include all. Here are a few to pray for:

Japanese Student Connexions at the University of Minnesota, a once-a-month special event with meal, devotions and friendship. Jim Tilus

Sunday Afternoon Fellowship with food, fellowship, song, testimony and prayer. Takako Kuyama in Seattle.

Friday evening Rice of Life outreach in Pasadena, CA. Rice of Life

Prayer and Events:

All Nations Returnees Conference begins in Saitama, March 20-22. Pray! More information at More information.

Pacific Northwest RJC Conference, March 28 at Northshore. The theme is “Preparing to Go.”

The Story of Toyohiko Kagawa, Before The Dawn” will be shown in Japanese with English subititles. April 11, Sat. 2:00PM Armstrong Theater (Torrance, CA) 3330 Civic Center Dr. Torrance $10; April 25, Sat. 1:00PM Starplex Cinemas-woodbrige (Irvine, CA) 4626 Barranca Parkway Irvine $10.

See attached Kagawa Poster.

Prayer and Mission Trips:

Cheryl and Daisuke Ikegami are leading a group of five non-Christian Japanese students to Phoenix and San Francisco, March 9-30.

Roseline Yong will soon be going to Japan for an extended ministry with Heart4Japan and working on the “hikikomori” problem.

Resources:

Hopefully you all are aware of “The Hope,” an excellent video in Japanese and English. You can find this at http://www.thehopeproject.com/. There is also a helpful study guide in English at Study Guide.

Patsy Oda has several excellent pdf files: “Differences Between Buddhism and Christianity” and “Miracles are Free.” If you would like them, contact Don Wright

Church Planting Ministry Opportunity:

Gordon Kaneda is the pastor of Lynnwood Japanese Church in Washington. He is part of the Japanese Church Planting Network, and he invites us to get involved. If you would like them, contact Don Wright.

November 12, 2008 RJC E-Mail Report

1. Resources
2. Great Ideas
3. Ministry Opportunity
4. Prayer Items

Resources

1. THE BOOK OF HOPE:

A GREAT (free) CHRISTMAS GIFT: GIVING THE BOOK OF HOPE AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT is a great way to make the receiving of the Book of Hope special to the children and young people who receive it. Wrapping the Book of Hope in wrapping paper or rolling it up like a newspaper and tying it with a ribbon and explaining that the message in this book tells about the greatest Christmas present of all, God’s gift to us, is an excellent way to give out the Book of Hope.Whether you are having English class Christmas parties, Christmas Program outreaches, or other forms of Christmas outreaches, the Book of Hope is a tremendous gift to give to children or young people who have been impacted by your outreaches.Book of Hope is the story of Jesus, taken from the four gospels. It is available in two versions, the Children’s edition and the Youth edition. The Book of Hope is free. All you have to pay is postage from within Japan. The Children’s edition comes in boxes of 200 each, and the Youth edition comes in boxes of 100 each.TO ORDER the Book of Hope please contact us by EMAIL.

2. Movie: Good Soil.

This is a 22 minute movie about a Christian samurai who has to decide between his family and his faith. It is designed for Japanese in Japanese with English subtitles. Available at Amazon.

3. Evangelistic Internet Sites: Secrets for Life and Student in Japan

Great Idea: Food Parties

We have had a few “Japanese Food Parties” where we invited the Japanese students and their friends to come teach us how to make authentic dishes. These parties have created multiple new friendships which I believe directly translate into things like the 3 Japanese students who signed up and paid money to spend a weekend with a bunch of Christians! (Steve Sakanashi)

Ministry Opportunity:

The King’s Academy (a junior and senior Christian high school in Sunnyvale, California) is looking for a missionary in Japan to host a high school missions trip in April of 2010. It will be a 10-day trip made up of ten outstanding junior and senior high school students who are interested in missions. There will be 2-3 adult chaperones along as well. The dates would be approximately April 3rd-13th with some flexibility. The purpose of the trip is, of course, to be of some service to the missionaries we visit–to help in some way. Another purpose would be to expose our students to the Japanese culture and the make them aware of GLOBAL outreach and also the spiritual needs of a country beside their own. If you are interested, or know of a missionary that might be interested, please respond to dreinman@tka.org .

Prayer Items

Parliament Christmas Banquet 2008” Monday, December 1, 2008, at Hotel New Otani Tokyo sponsored by “the International VIP Club.

”We are expecting 500 people to come, including congressmen, business leaders, ambassadors, medical doctors, lawyers, professors, artists and so on. Please pray for us and this strategic evangelistic event in Tokyo, Japan, and that some of the influential Japanese leaders would get to know Jesus. Andrew Ichimura, Chairman, International VIP Club

Pray for the RJC Conference preparations.

1. Midwest RJC Planning Meeting, Nov 22, 2008
2. International RJC Conference, Feb 19-21, 2009
3. Pacific Northwest RJC Conference, March 28, 2009

September 17, 2008 RJC E-Mail Report

Mission Trips Questions

Praise and Prayer Items

Service Opportunities

Conferences and Meetings

Mission Trips Questions

1. A one-day RJC Conference, March 28th at Northshore Baptist, Bothell, WA. The tentative theme is “Preparing to Go” or “Journey to Japan.”
2. Using the materials from this conference we want to develop an RJC Academy on-line study course to prepare those going.
3. We would like your input on this exciting new training. Here is the simple questionnaire:
   1. Give us some detail about trips to Japan that you have been involved in.
   2. What kind of training material would have been helpful?
   3. What plans are you aware of for future ministry trips to Japan?

Prayer and Praise Items

1. Pray for the 27th Japanese Christian Women’s Luncheon in Bellevue, WA on September 19th. Rev. Shohei Yamato will be speaking on “Where can Japanese people find salvation?”
2. Two confess Jesus in Washington. This was a great team effort: Talk Time and English Bible at Northshore with Liz and Paul Godwin; Pacific Northwest JEMS Conference; conversations with Setsu Kuroda (JCFN); Passion of Christ Video. And now two students are professing their faith.
3. A student from Tokyo came for a summer program in Minnesota. She came asking searching questions, went to church her first Sunday in Minnesota, Now she is back in Tokyo, confessing faith and attending a Japanese Bible class!
4. There are a number of missionary candidates who are raising support to go to Japan. Evan and Audrey Eusey, Michael & Rina Vanderpoel and others. Please pray. For more information about the Euseys, please contact them at evan@yuushii.net

Coming Events

5. Don’t forget the Equipper’s Conference, Dec 27 through Jan. 1st at Calvary Chapel Conference Center, Murrieta, CA.This conference is intended for:
   • Japanese Christians who are eventually going back home
   • Japanese Christians in North America who serve the Lord
   • All Christians who are reaching out to and serving Japanese Christians
   • Christians in Japan who want to receive and help returnee Christians
   • Those who are interested in ministry to Japanese people.

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