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Pray for the Tokyo Littles -- PTL #37: May 25, 2008
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Part time interim pastoral ministry
We are pastoring the English department of Tokyo Musahino EFC for one year while the pastor takes a much needed one year sabbatical in the US. Our English department is parallel to the Japanese department of the church. We have one worship service each Sunday and the Japanese department has three.
• Under some difficult circumstances, the senior pastor of the Japanese department retired at the end of March. Pray that the Lord will lead the Japanese department pastoral search committee to just the right Japanese senior pastor by March 2009. In the meantime, ask God to bring strength and health to the Japansese department through the lay ministry of church members and through the interim ministry of local pastors.
• The pastoral couple of the English department who are on sabbatical in the US need to make a decision about when to return to Tokyo. Pray for God to make his timing clear to them and to our English department.
• Our English department is hoping to plant another congregation in Tokyo, this time on the east side of Tokyo. The idea is that we (Dale and Ann) would plant a multi-cultural church with worship services and ministries carried on in multiple languages (Japanese, English, Portugese, Philippino, etc.). Pray for wisdom as we present plans in the fall for this exciting and unique church planting project in Tokyo.
Teaching theology
This year Dale is featured in the annual special lecture series at Japan Bible Seminary. On June 5 he will be giving a four hour presentation on "Contemporary Evangelical Theology and Alister McGrath." Pray for wisdom in his preparation and his delivery (in Japanese). The developing world of evangelical theology in Japan is seeking models for doing theology. McGrath is a foremost evangelically oriented theologian in England who is being closely studied by evangelicals here in Japan.
English speaking short termers needed for evangelism!
Pray that God will supply three evangelistic English class teachers (singles or couples with no kids at home) to serve as salaried short term missionaries for the academic year Sep/2008 ~ Jun/2009. Ministry locations are Nagoya and Tokyo. These short term tentmakers may be either Canadian or American who have English as their first language. Contact us if you or someone you know might be interested.
Kristy: Missionary children education ministry
Kristy has once again joined the Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission, this time as a Professional Associate. In August she joins the staff at Christian Academy in Japan (Tokyo) as an academic guidance counselor.
• Give thanks that God has provided this ministry and employment for Kristy for the next 1-2 years. She still plans to pursue a graduate degree in cross-cultural counseling.
• Pray that God will supply Kristy's monthly financial support needs of CD/US$300. The remaining income is supplied by CAJ.
Summer 2008 home assignment
This summer we take a scheduled short home assignment. After a few weeks in BC, Canada (Dale's home area) during late June, we will be based in Maine (Ann's home area) for July and August.
• Pray that visits at our supporting churches might enhance our missionary partnership with each.
• We are thankful that the Lord has supplied us with a vehicle to use during the US portion of our home assignment.
• At the end of the summer we plan to settle Bryan into LeTourneau University in Texas. Pray that the Lord will give both Bryan and us peace as we all adjust to another family separation.
• We are thankful the Lord has supplied an interim pastor for the English department at Tokyo Musashino EFC to fill in for us during our summer home assignment.