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A Child Shall Lead
By jpnnana | December 12, 2004
Dear Praying Friends:
We hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. We did. Our volunteer, Johnny, was here and joined us as we ate turkey, played games and had fellowship with missionaries and Japanese friends. Johnny blessed our friends and church folks as well as produced a bookmark and a brochure for our cluster. This was no small feat. Soon these materials will be printed and hopefully into the hands of people across America who will advocate and pray for the Japanese who live in cities, towns and villages with less than one million population. This group being targeted by the JGPNetwork includes about 50 million Japanese.
Volunteer Johnny
On August 1 the children in Togane met for worship. As we prayed together, the children shared the names of friends that they wanted to come to know Christ. Ko requested prayer for his friend, Ta, whose mother had died suddenly at age 39 of a heart attack. He prayed for Ta to know Jesus who could heal his hurting heart. As we prayed for Ta, Ko continued sharing with his friend both during school and play times. On Saturday afternoon, December 12, Ko brought Ta to the children’s worship at his house. Ko’s mother and Mrs. M who were leading the worship presented the gospel to Ta who accepted Christ as his Savior! Praise the Lord! These two ladies had witnessed to Ta’s mother; however, she died without accepting Christ. Pray for the salvation of his father who although a doctor was unable to save his wife when she collapsed. Pray he will not only allow Ta to be baptized but that he also be saved and follow Christ.
The Christians know that abundant seed sowing brings an abundant harvest so they continue to share their faith realizing that although many times of the seed falls on hard soil, sometimes the seed finds receptive fertile soil. This past Wednesday, December 12, was such a time. Mrs. Se was witnessing to a lady next door to her company. When Mrs. Ya heard the gospel this time, she opened her heart and accepted Christ as her Savior. Pray for her as she follows Christ and is baptized at the Christmas celebration. Many new Christians will be experiencing their first Christmas as God’s children. Praise the Lord.
Across Japan our Baptist missionaries, Japanese partners and volunteers have distributed several hundred thousand pieces of literature (i.e. digest Bibles, tracts, cards, CD’s) these last couple of weeks. Pray that all these materials, as well as the witness of those who passed them out, will be used by the Holy Spirit to draw many to Christ this Christmas. Pray for God to bless the outreach activities that take the Gospel message to the Japanese throughout Japan this Christmas season.
Continuing to Claim His Promises and Praise Him,
Tak and Lana Oue
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