Church Activities

This week we started back many of our programs.  This was the second kid’s club we held.  Both our kids have really taken to folks in the church.  We are immensely blessed by them!

E at choir practice!

明けましておめでとうございます！今年もよろしくお願いします！ Happy New Year from our church family to yours!

The week after Christmas all the young people in the church gather together. Unlike America, Christmas is not a recognized holiday and so most everyone is working. It is not until the New Year’s Holiday when everyone has about a … Continued

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