Special Meetings in Nagashima...

Sunday, we had Pastor Oogawa from Osaka as the guest speaker for our outreach and revival Sunday. He has been the Pastor of Sendri Newtown Baptist Church for almost 40 years! He began pastoring at Sendri straight out of seminary at 24 and lead the church to grow from a handful of members to over 300 today. He preached on our "Certain Hope." We had over 30 in attendance Sunday morning, maybe closer to 40 but I lost count. There were a few new people and several who had not been to chruch in quite awhile. Mrs. Yamamoto was thrilled because her husband came to church with her for the first time. They are in their 60's and she has beed a Christian for a looong time.

Pastor Namba from a chruch in Kagoshima has cancer and will have surgery on Nov. 29th. This is the second time he has gone through the surgery and chemo process so he is already weak. Everyone is concerned for him and praying for him, when you add the fact that there is no pastor to replace him, we really need to pray for God to work in Pastor Namba's life and in the church in Kagoshima.

posted by Norman @ 4:50 PM