Looking Ahead in 2015

Looking back God orchestrated several new avenues for ministry that shaped what last year looked like. Along with our local evangelism, Elaine’s outreach ministries to women, partnering with Rengo churches and leaders, and leadership for the Japan mission God shaped some new openings for significant ministry development in Japan and beyond. CPI in its 20th year embarked on several regional seminars training at least 300 leaders throughout Japan. Several leaders came to us for spiritual…

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Begin 2015 with Prayer

GOD ANSWERED God blessed with great Christmas activities and events like the Christmas Tea., Agape Group party and others too Agape Group – There is growing enthusiasm among some who attend especially those who were resistant several years before. God is at work. PRAYER PARTNER SPOTLIGHTS After spending some vacation in the US for Christmas, we return to Japan on Jan 1 and hit the ground running. Elaine resumes her busy monthly schedule. CPI has…

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Regional Impact

Well you prayed and it happened. We were planning to have maybe 50 people at this year’s last Church Planting Institute (CPI) regional training seminar in Tokyo. When registration closed there were 98 listed. This made it the largest regional training seminar of this year, or any year. What a way to celebrate 20 years of CPI! We offered two seminars one on Church Planting Next Steps and another on Walking in the Gospel for…

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Prayer in December

GOD ANSWERED God was very good through November blessing the Rengo meetings and Church Planters Summit. Our fall Field Council was a great time of sharing and planning, and John’s preaching at Nerima was very effective. Elaine’s Christmas Tea as usual was a highlight for the ladies for the year.  PRAYER PARTNER SPOTLIGHTS Keep praying, Elaine has a big charity party preparations for December 8th. Ask God to bless our relationships with the Agape Group…

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Pray for Unreached Japan

For many years we have partnered in the CPI Leadership Team with Dan Iverson missionary with Mission to the World (a fellow JEMA member) of the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA). These are adapted comments from one of his letters…      “The statistics for those spiritually lost in Japan make me weep. 70,000 new churches are needed. Is this “Mission Impossible”? These numbers here show why Japan continues to be listed as the second largest…

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If the World Were a Village of 100 People

A small book written for children by David J. Smith broke down the de-mographics of the world’s population into a understandable size for children to comprehend. Here is what such a village would look like: 49 would be female and 51 would be male. 20 would be children. Of the 80 adults, 14 would be over 65 years of age. There would be 60 Asians, 12 European, 14 Africans, 8 South Americans, 5 North Americans,…

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