Christian, husband, and father. Catch me singing worship or running sound at PAZ Tokyo East on Sundays. Sharing experience from 11+ years of life and ministry around Tokyo.
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Again, thank you so much for your prayer and financial support. Your partnership makes testimonies like these possible. This testimony is fresh from the Life Group that we started in March 2021. This first Life Group is expected to finish their program towards the end of 2022. We are excited
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Thanks to your support and prayer, over 20 participants were able to focus on deepening their relationship with Jesus last weekend. The Holy Spirit came to do His work, and our Encounter retreat was a smashing success! Many were grateful for the opportunity to laser-focus on God, leaving the
Recommendations
Here's a practical list from my day-to-day that might add a bit of "better" to yours. So, these aren't affiliate links. They're the helpful cogs of my real life lately. “[God] Your love makes everything better.” 🎶 -Chris Renzema Sublime Bible
Reflections
You can put as many multiverses in movies as you like. But, ultimately, a good judge will never resolve all the tragic messes that drive the infinite, million-dollar drama of the Marvel cinematic universe. Fortunately, God graciously provides perfect, rectifying justice for our own world. It's alarming
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April headlines for you from my corner of Japan-land: At home, I swapped Japanese-language anime episodes for documentaries on the lives of Christian men and women. * T’was a good choice. * The father of the modern, global tourism industry was a Christian businessman in the UK named Thomas
Update
Hope the sky is blue and the sun is shining for you these days! For me, this Sunday ended up being a more difficult day emotionally than I expected. Stress from several minor challenges added up: * An outreach to elderly English learners at the Tama city hall fell through (due
Update
It was a rude awakening at 11:30 last night. Jarring, shaking, the building was swaying. A bottle of vitamins tumbled off my desk and crashed onto the floor. Two or three people were shouting something just outside our building. The largest earthquake I've experienced in seven years
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It's snowing right now in Japan, the second time this winter. It's a blessing our winters are mild here. Commuter train and other public transport companies can keep their tight schedules on time (often to the minute) with little interference from snow each year. Just found
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おはようございます！(Good morning! Hopefully, that's relevant to you. 🤔) 2022. Writing it down just to cement the muscle memory of it. ２０２２。二〇二二 Here is a fun fact for you. Japanese characters take up more horizontal space and more memory when typed out on your computer. Actually, they'
During my undergraduate studies at ORU, there was an infamous class called Spirit-Empowered Living. It was a required course for all the undergrad students. You couldn't help but hear the stories coming out of the class. At the time, Dr. Mark Rutland was teaching the course and
If everything required to be an effective, Godly leader were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. Brave men and women have been vying to capture the "Winning Leadership Formula" for millennia. All domineering dictators,
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