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Prayer Items
1. Pray for the two RJC
Conferences coming the fall:
Southern California RJC,
September 12, at Gardena Valley Baptist Church
Midwest RJC Conference,
October 9, 10, at Orchard EFC, Arlington Hts, IL.
2. Yoke
Fellowship page is an excellent place to sign up for a new 24 hour a day
prayer chain for Japan! http://sm-intl.org/index.php?option=com_yokefellowship&task=2
3. Join
in an International Prayer Event on September 4th. It begins from 9:30pm - 11:30pm (Hong
Kong time) (Sep 4, 6:30am - 8:30am PDT Time). This event
is sponsored by Heart4Japan and Roseline Yong.
She is inviting people to join her in prayer after that till 3:30am (Sep 4,
12:30pm San Francisco Time). Her skype is roseline.yong (yangjinhong@gmail.com).
4. Pray for Martin Bennett
and the Fuchida Film progress. This is the
amazing story of the man who led the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The movie can
make a powerful testimony in Japan and around the world. If you want more
information, let me know.
Praise Item
1. Luis Shimba reports that on August 29 he will baptize Mrs.
Suzuki, 81 years old. Pastor Shimba serves the
Fourth Presbyterian Church, Londrina, Brazil. He attended the February
International RJC Conference in Walnut Creek.
RJC Resources
Operation Japan is a great tool
to help you pray daily for Japan and Japanese. It is available in book
form, and in the interactive CD format. For more information, please
contact me (dw).
PBA (Pacific
Broadcasting Association) broadcasts the “Light of the World” radio
program in Japanese. This is a good tool to share with Japanese
non-Christians. Hear it at http://www.voiceblog.jp/pba/.
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www.rjcnetwork.org
August 22, 2009
I’m Still Amazed!
It continues
to happen. I’m amazed again at how the Lord connects people for the advance
of His Kingdom in Japan. This last week JoAnn and
I had coffee with Dawn Birkner, a missionary in
Kagawa, Japan. She has a great burden for the unchurched
towns in Japan. She desires to mobilize church-planting teams and praying
people. The next day I had an email from David Spurdle
who shared about his desire to mobilize people to pray for the unchurched towns and cities in Japan. (See the side-bar concerning “Yoke Fellowship.”
Then
yesterday I was amazed by another connection. When we met Dawn, she shared
about a woman from Kagawa who just married a young farmer from the Midwest,
USA. Yesterday I was sitting across the table from the younger sister from
Kagawa! And she was on her way to a Christian camp here in Washington where
she will hear the gospel for the first time.
I am amazed
and excited to be part of the network of people reaching out to Japanese
here in the USA and Canada. And I am excited about how this is impacting
Japan!
Web
Site
· New Material
1. Prayer Page: Be sure to check the prayer page
regularly for updated information. http://www.rjcnetwork.org/?page_id=5
2. Retired Japan
Missionaries. Many missionaries retire from mission work in Japan, but are
able to continue their ministries back home. We want to highlight these at http://www.rjcnetwork.org/?page_id=111.
If you are one of these former missionaries, or know of them, please let me
know.
3. Missionaries Raising
Support. We also now have a page for Japan missionaries and missionary
candidates to make known their support needs. http://www.rjcnetwork.org/?page_id=173
Register
Today
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Be sure to sign up today for the Southern California RJC Conference
on September 12. http://www.rjcnetwork.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_civicrm&view=Events&Itemid=2
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In the
Midwest USA? Sign up now for the First Midwest RJC Conference, October 9, 10 http://rjcmidwest.wordpress.com/registration/
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If you are
interested in signing up for the RJC Academy Japan 101 class starting this
fall, please let me know right away.
Reports
Patsy Oda
shared her testimony at the International RJC Conference in February. She has
written several booklets in English that may be of help to you: Multitudes of sincere, intelligent
people follow the religion of their culture, assuming that all religions
are based on similar beliefs. But on the contrary, the basic
beliefs of many religions have nothing in common. For example,
Buddhism denies the reality of God, soul, heaven, and miracles. Christianity
declares that Jesus is God who came to earth to save human souls and to
give them the miracle of eternal life in heaven. "Miracles are Free" and "Differences Between Buddhism and
Christianity" are available as pdf files.
If you would like these,
please let me know. (dw)
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