Author: Eric Panich

We, Alive International congregation, had a wonderful retreat last Saturday and Sunday! This time, I preached in Japanese and my translator translated from Japanese to English for the congregation. Can you find my family members in these pictures?

What an exciting first day for our new ministry at a big shopping mall called Unimo! This Sunday morning, Eri and I went to Unimo located near our house for our new ministry. We found a good Hawaiian café as our ministry place. Then we prayed together and talked about our…

This present was a surprise to me. The other day, Naomi, one of my neighbors who attends my English Conversation Club at my house, gave me a present. It was a Bookmark. She said that she just wanted to show me how thankful she was to join the club through the bookmark. I was surprised at…

What a wonderful opportunity for our international! My friend, Fred, gave his testimony to the kids yesterday during morning devotion time. I translated. He talked about his immigration experience from Vietnam to Canada and how he met Christ! It was a wonderful testimony! Thank you, Fred!!!

Thank the Trinh Family, who joined English Tea Party at my house yesterday! Seems to me, every one of my students and my neighbors were quite happy to meet Fred & Rebecca and their five kids, who just flew to Japan! Fred and Rebecca geve their testimony to the attendees. Praise…

Our tiny Christian international school, Covenant Community School International (CCSI) run by my team, celebrated seven students as our graduates two days ago. It was quite wonderful ceremony for everybody there. One of the reasons why it was wonderful was their uniqueness in many ways: each one of graduates had a…

Yesterday, I had my English classes at a community center. 5 students were attending. After one-hour English conversation time, I gave 10-minutes bible message to them. I picked 1 Corinthians 13:8: “Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away. As for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it…

9 people out of 30 members of Toke Japanese congregation gathered together to pray to God. Most of them were ladies who are members of this congregation. We studied the Word of God -it was from 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 about Love, and I taught them about that-  I believe that…

Yesterday, we had a farewell party for him at Covenant Community School International (CCSI) where Eri works and our kids go to. Joel, 19-year-old American boy, came to Japan in this January from USA as short-term missionary for the school and spent 5 months with our CCSI kids. We are…

Edward Yang joined my English Conversation Club today. Edward and I met in Lethbridge when I was on staff of EFree. He came to my place from South Korea yesterday and helped me out for the club today. My five neighbors were REALLY excited to have Edward and tried to speak English to him….