This term I am working with a different church—Tokyo Urban Church. Pastor Sakai, two of his college student members, and I had already been doing campus ministry together. I will help the church with evangelistic outreaches such as teaching English and gospel music. I have already had my first experience in leading the worship service all in Japanese.
I am once again the national director for the Global University office which is called ICI here in Japan. That was the old name for International Correspondence Institute which came under the auspices of Global University in recent years.
Also, I am continuing campus ministry. This year I am ministering at the University of Tokyo each week. From May 29-June 4, our ministry team hosted a summer missions team from the Chi Alpha church at Southern Illinois University. This church has been sending teams to work with us for the last 6 years and this year’s team of 12 got to see fruit from their ministry. They ministered at 3 campuses and different churches and saw 7 people pray to receive salvation. Hallelujah!
In the midst of all of this, remodeling of the new Chi Alpha Student Center was going on and was finished at the end of May. September 14 is the projected dedication service. We still need to raise funds to finance this project. If you would like to give, let me know and I'll send you more details.
I would like to request pray for our staff—Ayame and Yuri. There is no support-raising structure available to them although we missionaries provide them a small monthly stipend for working with us. They help with planning, translating, teaching and discipling students, but they sometimes feel isolated. We missionaries have the prayer supporters and I thought it would be great to ask for prayer supporters to support them. If interested in praying for them on a regular basis, let me know and I’ll provide more specific details in how to pray for them.
Thank you so much for your prayers and support. I appreciate you all so much.
