Dear Prayer Partners
Thank you for your prayers and here is a short update.
1. The first service in the community centre where we are hoping to plant a daughter church went very well. We had a simple worship service singing well-known Japanese hymns and a 20 min gospel message. About 40 came. Some were new Christians. Some were from our church and other churches and others were non-Christians who were interested. A very encouraging start. We will have our next one on 15th April. Please pray for God to build a church here.
2. In the next few months we plan to re-visit all the temporary housing sites where we have had evangelistic events and have a mini-worship service with hymn singing, simple clear gospel sermon, free food etc. We have done this at one already and it was successful in that it was well-attended and we had good meaningful conversations with many we have met before. One man said he liked the Franklin Graham meeting and our meetings but when he goes home it is all Buddhism so life is complicated. He was one of the first we met after the tsunami picking through the mud where his house once stood. There are many like that who have been confronted with the gospel for the first time and are thinking about it.
3. Rod goes to India 2-19th April to take Christine out for halfterm. Esther will join them. Glenda will stay here and starts university English teaching on 7th April.
4. Please pray the new believers to grow and for the church to flourish as it lives by faith in the gospel.
love in Christ
Rod and Glenda Thomas
Thank you for your prayers and here is a short update.
1. The first service in the community centre where we are hoping to plant a daughter church went very well. We had a simple worship service singing well-known Japanese hymns and a 20 min gospel message. About 40 came. Some were new Christians. Some were from our church and other churches and others were non-Christians who were interested. A very encouraging start. We will have our next one on 15th April. Please pray for God to build a church here.
2. In the next few months we plan to re-visit all the temporary housing sites where we have had evangelistic events and have a mini-worship service with hymn singing, simple clear gospel sermon, free food etc. We have done this at one already and it was successful in that it was well-attended and we had good meaningful conversations with many we have met before. One man said he liked the Franklin Graham meeting and our meetings but when he goes home it is all Buddhism so life is complicated. He was one of the first we met after the tsunami picking through the mud where his house once stood. There are many like that who have been confronted with the gospel for the first time and are thinking about it.
3. Rod goes to India 2-19th April to take Christine out for halfterm. Esther will join them. Glenda will stay here and starts university English teaching on 7th April.
4. Please pray the new believers to grow and for the church to flourish as it lives by faith in the gospel.
love in Christ
Rod and Glenda Thomas
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