Working in concert for greater fruitfulness in Japan
A3’s tagline is "Developing Leaders. Multiplying Churches." At our core, that's what we're about. Each statement represents a key objective in our ministry across Asia. Both are centrally important to what we're trying to achieve toward extending the kingdom of God...
By Barbara Bauman
"She must be very frustrated with her children," I thought. I had noticed a young non-Christian mother near the door at a parenting seminar I was leading at a local preschool. Her distressed face said more than a thousand words, so I was disappointed when she got up to leave before the end of the seminar. She would not hear the points I was going to share later about disciplining children in love and communicating positively with them...
If someone says "missions is about cramming Christianity down other people's throats," how would you respond? Tell us!
Recently, a facebook friend of mine who is a pastor shared a status update about his daughter attending a missionary training program before heading to Asia for a short-term missions assignment.
Most of the comments from his friends were, as you could imagine, extremely positive, optimistic, and prayerful.
However, one friend wrote this bold question...
The JCGI Network of A3 hosted its annual conference November 24-26, 2009 with Dr. Robert E. Logan returning to Japan to speak. Grace Community sent a delegation of pastors and lay leaders from Sapporo to hear Dr. Logan; here's a report from A3 staff member Tim Clark on how the church was blessed by the conference.
Since coming home from the A3 JCGI anniversary celebration it's been fun to see the conference's impact unfold at Grace Community, helping this church that already does so well at leader development do even more. Dr. Bob Logan's teaching in ...
We had great plans for a December outreach. We invited couples whose weddings I’d officiated in 2008 to our home in Sapporo to experience American Christmas.
It was a big stretch, inviting people we didn’t know well. But that was OK. We had 25 couples to invite and wanted just three or four to visit our space-impaired apartment. And we thought it would encourage people to come since we, like them, were celebrating our “first married Christmas.”
But then the date of the party drew close and not even one couple had RSVP’d. We had bought turkey and all the fixings, no small investment in Japan! We just needed a few guests.
We prayed and decided to try Plan B. . .
Lunch here in northern Japan is very different from what I remember of my grade school lunches at Fernwood Elementary in Portland, Oregon in the 1970s.
I joined local school children for English time and lunch July 16 and 17, one week before summer vacation started. We had something fishy on Thursday and cold noodles on Friday.
Here are five of the many ways lunch at Seien Elementary School is different from Fernwood. How does your own grade school lunch experience compare? ...
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven...” Ecclesiastes 3:1
My friend and colleague, Bruce Johnson, A3 Vice President for Leadership Development is well along in the process of becoming the next U.S. Director for SIM "Serving in Mission." The Lord has masterfully orchestrated this surprise to Bruce, SIM and us here at A3. My sense is that what Bruce describes as a kairos moment has truly come to pass. A3, SIM and Bruce have all been well prepared for this Kingdom change. However, we simply didn’t anticipate it; it was a complete...
When the alarm rang at 4:42am this past Sunday we were both dreaming about time. Wakako was dreaming it was 3:30 and she had just one more hour to sleep. In my dream it was 2:30 so I had two more.
But we'd run out of time to sleep and were up early to leave in time for the 7:00am service at Sapporo Bible Church. It took 55 minutes to slide across town, avoiding the many plows working hard to clear snow that had just fallen...
The White Moon Celebration
The White Moon which is the Lunar New Year is one the main two big public annual events, next to the Naadam. It usually celebrated in February or March depending on the lunar calendar. It marks the end of Winter and the beginning of spring and the new yeaґs cycle. Prior to the holiday people clean and tidy their gers or houses to enter the New Year in order and cleanness. The White Moon Eve is celebrated in families eating a lot of food mainly buuz, meat, rice, salads, etc... symbolizing the prosperity of the coming year.
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For over half a century, A3 has catalyzed movements in Asia. Now, with doors open in the Middle East, North Africa, and the West, we have boldly stepped in...
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