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"Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, "We have seen remarkable things today.""  Luke 5:26
                                                                                                                   Sharing the gospel with the future of Japan                                                                                                                                                                                      
 What we're seeing in the park is amazing!  It feels like if I told people they wouldn't believe me!

Have you ever seen a church without walls or roof, without planning or any apparent organization?
I,Cory, have gotten to witness this over the past three months as I joined in with an evangelism team that was led to start meeting in Triangle Park in the poor Nishinari district.  

It began with a dream about roses - roses that were beautifully packaged but were in a garbage bin. The wrong place for these beautiful roses!  There was an urgent call to take these roses out of the garbage bin and bring them to the banquet hall - for the tables of the wedding feast of the Lamb.

So we have been sharing the good news and praying with the people that come to the Triangle Park - believing that the Holy Spirit is leading and that he has a plan.  We have seen 8 baptisms in three months with more on the way!  We have seen healing and deliverance.  In some cases this has lead an insatiable appetite for God and his word!  In some cases the faith does not appear to take root, but in other cases it immediately bears fruit with people inviting friends and even acquaintances to the park.  People who would never enter a religious building get to hear the good news of the living Jesus in their own setting.

You may have questions about such a church.  I have questions too, but seeing it in operation is pretty life changing!

Two weeks ago I got to go on my first-ever evangelism trip!  I joined a different team of evangelists (Team Jesus!) on a trip to the Tokyo area.  We had the privilege of seeing several people believe in Christ.  One of them had been planning on committing suicide that day.  (Lord have mercy)  We got to pray with a lot of Jesus-followers as well and several of them found freedom or received healing.  The motto of this team is "The harvest is good!  The gospel is good! Come on harvesters!".  Also they say "It's God's job to gather the people, it's just our job to go!"

At the end of the trip we got to encourage a young man named Yutaka Nakajima who has received a big vision for church-planting in Chiba.  He is the eldest of nine children of a Japanese MB pastor.  We had the honor of sharing the gospel with 400 children at the kindergarten where he works (photo above) and the privilege of joining in with his weekly outreach at the local train station.

I want to invite you out into the harvest fields where Jesus is working.
The harvest is good!

Thank you for praying, 
Cory and Masami
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Top: Cory's evangelism trip to be with Yutaka in Chiba. Yutaka has been doing street worship/evangelism every Friday evening last couple of years. 
Bottom Left: Monday Church group in the triangle park in Nishinari
Bottom Right:  Thanksgiving Dinner with a couple of students from  Monday Dinner Group. 
 
Praise Items
  • Thanks for new baby Christians and a growing park church
  • Thanks that the evangelism trip went well
  • Thanks that our health has been protected
Prayer Items

- For more chances to preach on the streets
- For God to send people to us who are seeking Jesus
- More opportunities to disciple those who have chosen to follow Jesus or/and get baptized. 
- For a foster son (5 years old) joining our family around Christmas time
 
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