We welcomed 20 American volunteers who flew to Japan two days ago. They will volunteer for CPI Conference (Church Planting Institute), a 4-day-church planting conference from today. Yesterday, we had time for supper together, and I introduced my team to them right after AIive International service. I saw three American…

My family and I had a wonderful time with our three interns for supper at our house five days ago. Benji and Elizabeth came to Japan in March this year, and Tara came a month ago. All of them are young and have a passion for serving here in Japan….

We Alive International had a wonderful 6th-anniversary service and party this Sunday, June 26. About 110 people joined in person at the chapel plus 10 people via zoom. I don’t remember when was the last time we had such a lot of people. Of course, it was before the Covid….

On 14th May, seven members from my team, the Chiba AO Team, visited Kaneda in Kisarazu City together as a scouting trip. This trip was the third time for our team to come here together. We visited a couple of places: A brand new Costco, the biggest shopping Mall in…

On May 7, last Saturday, Eri and I revisited Narita, but we did it with our AO Team this time! We visited a couple of places to walk together, pray, and research together for our future church planting. We took this photo in front of Mt.Narita Shinshoji Buddhism Temple. Narita…

We all were blessed to have Easter Service at the chapel, Easter Egg Hunting, and BBQ outside. Over 110 people joined, including ten to twenty newcomers and our non-believing neighbors. The average number of regular attendees is 60-70 people every Sunday, so the number on this day was incredible! I…

I have been praying for our international church planting with my team for over one year. I continue to talk about it with the team. We have three candidate places: Soga in Chiba City, Kisarazu City, and Narita City. All these three cities are located in Chiba Prefecture. The other…

We, AO Team, revisited Kisarazu in Chiba today to consider this place as our future church planting place. Last time, only Tom, Anthony, and I visited Kisarazu and met Ben, a Hong Konese businessman who has a passion for using his building in Kisarazu for missions. Today, not only three…

We were so grateful to gather together as a team on Thanksgiving this year! We could not gather at this level due to COVID 19 for many months; however, we finally made it on November 23! Each member brought their family, and we enjoyed our fellowship. We were thankful for…

We were SO glad to gather together as the whole Alive International at the chapel ground! This was the second time for us to gather as the whole congregation since Covid hit. We can usually gather up to 40-50 people in the chapel due to the restriction rule to the…