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Sowing Seeds
By jpnnana | March 28, 2004
Dear Praying Friends:
Spring is the air! Cherry blossoms are blooming. School is out for spring vacation!! Families and friends are flocking to the parks to view the flowers.The expressways resemble parking lots as cars clog arteries in and out of the city. Farmers have already begun flooding the rice fields in preparation for planting.
Gospel seeds were planted on Wednesday as eight children, ranging in age from five to twelve, gathered in the hall of the community center in Togane. Their mothers attended the worship service in the straw mat rooms nearby. Four of the children had never been to worship before so it was quite an adventure. Two had never heard of Jesus. The children learned that Jesus can forgive sin as well as heal physical sickness as they heard about four friends who brought a sick friend to Jesus to be healed.
A nine year old girl remarked that it is hard to believe a miracle but you could see the hunger in her eyes as she heard that Jesus loved her. Mrs. S who was helping with the children feels a burden to visit this little girl this week and witness to her. After worship, Mrs. Mo visited this girl’s non-Christian mother. Pray for this girl and her entire family to come to Christ. Thank you for praying for the children’s program last week You can see how God is working. We have it again this coming Wednesday so please pray for all of these children plus others to come to hear the gospel. Pray their hearts will be open.
Japanese youth, college students and young adults face tremendous stress which results in a great number suffering emotional and physical breakdowns. They quit school or work and stay at home, sleeping all day and staying up all night. The usual treatment is medication which doesn’t help them get well. They don’t know that Jesus is the answer to their problems. We were reminded of this again this week as Mrs.Ha asked the Christians to pray for and visit a friend’s son who has quit college. Ask God to help Su-san, his mother and brother believe that Jesus is truly the Way, the Truth, and the Life; the answer to their needs.
Many of the towns and villages in Japan don’t have access to the Gospel. As we read the testimony of a person who didn’t have access to the gospel being healed and then their entire town coming to Christ, our hearts are burdened for the Japanese who have no access to the gospel. We have a special burden for Noi-town and for Mr. Miga is who lives there and is terminally ill. Pray that God will heal his body and that he will be saved. Pray that his entire family and the people of the town will accept Christ as they see the living God at work in his life.
We want to say welcome to the new praying friend who joined us after visiting our website. Please visit our site and encourage others to visit, to read our prayer updates and to PRAY. Please share our prayer updates with your Sunday School class, prayer meetings, or wherever you find folks who will pray. Pass them along via email to those you know will pray. Thank you so much.
Some of you have written to say that you visited the site and took the prayer walk too. What an encouragement that is to us!!! What a wonderful way be part of what God is doing!!!
Claiming His Promises For His Glory,
Tak and Lana
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