Items for Prayer April 2013 1. Ask for God’s blessing as Roger Inoye and Dan Maxton come to Japan in March and April to visit Rengo churches and pastors. Pastor Dan Maxton from LifeBridge church in San Diego will stay with us April 5-13. 2. Ask God to bless our April 3-5 Field Council with his presence love and vision. 3. Thanks for praying for John’s ministry of training small group leaders. John will launch…
The Unreached of the Unreached The Japanese are the second largest unreached people group in the world. Over 1,500 towns and villages (and 36 cities) in Japan still do not have churches. Because of this burden, a rural church planting seminar was held in early March in Sendai City attended by 25 missionaries and Japanese from all over Japan. John represented CPI by presented two seminars on the Heart of the Leader and Effective Models…
Recently one of our partnering churches asked us to send some comments on the theme for their mission meetings. That theme was The Heart of Missions. We thought many of you would be helped by this. We shared that there are several ways to approach this topic: 1. A Big God has a Big Heart for Missions – God knows the fallen nature and the mess people and the world is. Even though we did…
One of the most influential books for John is Born to Reproduce by Dawson Trotman. Trotman, or Daws as he was known, was the founder of the Navigators, instrumental in helping Billy Graham with their evangelistic follow up materials. In printed form Born to Reproduce is a short booklet about being a spiritual reproducer by sharing your faith in Christ with others. For years John listened to the cassette tape often as it was always…
Several month ago a very bright 11 year-old wrote us some interesting questions about missionaries. Here are our answers. 1. Overall- What do you do? What is your typical day to day routine or schedule? Does it vary or are you doing one or many specific tasks right now? Our overall thrust and vision is: Advancing church planting and gospel renewal movements. We are working to help Japanese start, develop, and multiply churches which are…
Just returned from Tohoku yesterday. Several memorable items stand out Telling two homeowners that we have some funds for materials to rebuild their homes. Reviewing 2 years of God’s faithfulness to my ministry partners Dean and Mr. Abe. Meeting a man who described how he saw his mother die right in front of him. Praying for peace and blessing with so many disaster victims. Tomorrow we are participating in a 24-hour prayer day for the…