Newsletter Archive
Newsletters 2025
#19 — 02.05.2025
Topics: Unfamiliar homeland, cultural insights from our vacation in Thailand, first steps in the mobilization ministry
#18 — 10.03.2025
Topics: Last days in Japan, vacation, start of my home assignment, first appointments
Newsletters 2024
#16 — 28.11.2024
Topics: Visit to Osaka, mission trip to Shikoku, new pastor found, Fumie and persecution of Christians
#15 — 09.09.2024
Topics: English camp in Asahikawa, KGK retreat, pilgrimage traditions on Shikoku, doryoku – try harder!
#14 — 31.07.2024
Topics: Home assignment, tensions in the church, Mrs. Sone’s story, spiritual resistance
#13 — 01.07.2024
Topics: Breakthroughs in the pastoral calling committee, spiritual growth in our discipleship group, a husband finds God, children in need
#12 — 07.04.2024
Topics: More and more churches without pastors, hierarchy in the Japanese language, Jesus builds his church
Newsletters 2023
#10 — 21.12.2023
Topics: Christmas in Japan, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Advent crafts, God builds his church on Hokkaido
#9 — 20.11.2023
Topics: Country life and rural exodus, osusowake, no children in Japanese churches, God creates opportunities for youth work in Kitami
#8 — 06.11.2023
Topics: Pray for Café COEN, cell group and student meetings
#7 — 10.10.2023
Topics: Autumn concert, family visit, trauma from childhood abuse – not uncommon in Japan
#6 — 25.08.2023
Topics: Church festival (megumi matsuri), start of our discipleship group, first contact with Christians at Lake Toya
#5 — 14.07.2023
Topics: Summer heat and summer festivals (matsuri), barbecue with neighbors, prejudice against Christianity
#4 — 10.06.2023
Topics: Bible study with students, preparations for the OMF field conference, OMF Japan’s new church planting strategy paper
#3 — 05.05.2023
Topics: Julian’s first sermon in our Japanese church, our cell group, short-term mission trip to Kyushu (Fukuoka, Beppu, Nagasaki)
#2 — 05.03.2023
Topics: Horenso, new contacts in Kitami, ministries in church, student retreat, history of the Christian Students’ Fellowship in Japan (KGK)
Newsletters 2022
06.12.2022
Topics: Opening of Japan’s borders, new encounters, God brings us together with a PhD student from Ethiopia
12.11.2022
Topics: Start in Kitami with fasting and prayer, beginning of ministry in the Kitami Megumi Church, beautiful nature in eastern Hokkaido
10.09.2022
Topics: Testimonial in Oasa Church, graduation from language school, move to Kitami
22.08.2022
Topics: Prayer in Japanese (inori) , looking for an apartment in Kitami, ancestor worship and Obon (the Buddhist festival of the dead), cucumber horses and eggplant cows
04.07.2022
Topics: Onward to Kitami, facts and figures about Kitami, our new church
27.06.2022
Topics: First visit to our new place of operation, our testimony in Japanese at the Hokkaido Bible Institute (HBI)
06.05.2022
Topics: Mission trip to Ikoma, Osaka, and Kobe, our center visit (vision trip through OMF’s mission sites), experiencing a strong earthquake in Sendai
26.02.2022
Topics: Entry permits for 12 OMF missionaries, 40 days of fasting and miraculous guidance, God connects us with a nationwide network of missionaries, baking cakes with neighbors
25.01.2022
Topics: Snowy winter in Sapporo, center visit postponed due to COVID, cultural experiences with neighbors (Hatsumode)