MTW Missionaries in Nagoya, Japan
Every year the Sunday before Christmas the church celebrates Christmas. We have traditional worship in the morning. Then we all share a potluck style meal. After the meal we have an additional service that would be compared to Christmas Eve … Continued
Our church has a tradition of holding a candle light service at a local hospital. The connection to the hospital is that a doctor in our church worked there for 30+ years. It is a sweet time and many of … Continued
Since our church’s Gospel Choir is actually part of another group we all gathered for a Christmas Sing Off event. It was really neat for all the Gospel members from the various choirs to gather and sing for each other. … Continued
To help save some energy and planning we decided we would host a “Traditional Christmas Meal” for the adult English classes, cooking class members, sign language class, and moms from Kid’s Club. It was a lot of work trying to … Continued
After the English Christmas Party the Kid’s Sunday School held their annual Christmas Festival. The kids saw a puppet show depicting the Parable of the Lost Sheep, played games, ate/made cake, heard the Christmas story, and played. The event was … Continued
Christmas is a wonderful opportunity to introduce the Gospel. Most Japanese think Christmas is a time of Kentucky Fried Chicken and Santa’s Birthday so they are always interested to hear the true meaning of Christmas. We have a lot of … Continued
This year some of the ladies from our previous church came to our house for a Traditional Christmas meal. It was good practice for next week’s event! I also had the ladies play “Dirty Santa.” It was interesting since the … Continued
Since T-Day is a normal day in Japan our team gathers the Saturday after for a tradition Thanksgiving get together! As always the food and fellowship are fantastic.
We are so thankful for you and encouraged by you. May you have a blessed Thanksgiving!
The perfect shirt for cooking class arrived just in time. Thankful for Woot’s international shipping! And, in case you were wondering none of the students understood the shirt.