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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. Pray for the new Japanese
church starting in Denver, Colorado the middle of September.
3.
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
RJC
Resources
1. 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).
2. BBN (Bible Broadcasting Network) transmits the Gospel in eight
different languages on the internet, one of course
is Japanese. This is a good tool to share with Japanese non-Christians. http://www.bbnradio.org/
Web Site
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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
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www.rjcnetwork.org
September 3, 2009
I Remember!
Actually I could have said, “I don’t remember much, but….” This happened during our
earlier days of mission work in Japan, before we even dreamed of RJC. It
started with an email from a pastor in Minnesota. He told of a young high
school girl who had been staying at their home. She had just decided to
become a Christian. Her parents had visited the pastor and his wife
previously to say, “Please help our daughter become a Christian.” Then I
believe the parents came a second time and they also had become Christians.
The
letter asked me to go visit the parents in Tochigi Prefecture. The father was a dentist, and they
were the only Christians in the whole town. I did contact them, made
arrangements to visit, and headed out. It was so exciting to meet them and
to pray for them and encourage them. I am afraid that I didn’t continue the
relationship. I should have. I would love to know what happened to them. Is
there now a church in the community, a cluster of Jesus-lovers because of
God’s grace and the faithful witness of a pastor in Duluth, Minnesota?
And
now we are still encouraging people to reach out, love Japanese, share
Jesus, and send them back to be witnesses. That was a long time ago, but I
still get excited to think of all the connections that the Lord puts
together so that people, many of them in small unchurched
towns and villages in Japan, will hear of His Love!
Thank
you Jesus.
Two Opportunities:
1.
Please consider leading one of the break-out sessions at the International RJC Conference,
Feb. 18-20 at Bothell, WA. The sessions will center on the parable of the sower, the seed and the soil and how this relates to
our ministry with Japanese in the USA and Canada. For more details see: http://www.rjcnetwork.org/?page_id=170
2.
If you would like to feature your
ministry to Japanese at the coming RJC conferences, please send me one or
two powerpoint slides
right away.
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.
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