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A person who is in charge of a cable TV magazine named “JCN plus” in Chiba pref. saw Gifts’ home page, and made a telephone call to Gifts. He said, “If you are scheduled to have a concert in Chiba, we would like to advertise it on our page titled “Places where you would be able to enjoy music for Christmas”. The notice of the concert has been appeared on the December 9th issue of the magazine. And now they are receiving inquiries by phone from many people who want to know about the concert.
One member, the TLCCC Kita-kyusyu Living God Church, who had a dragging foot causing of a pain was healed. She hurt her ankle on Saturday. When she came to a Sunday service, she was prayed for healing. Firstly, she could not lift up her foot because of the pain. However after that, she could lift it up and she felt comfortable now. “It is marvelous.”, she said. When a pastor called her and asked her “how is your foot?” She was pleased and said “Yesterday I went to the church service dragging my foot because of the pain, but the pain has been gone. I was healed.” Then I remembered when she was leaving church yesterday, she was not dragging her foot but walking normally. I give thanks to the Lord. Because God healed her.
On Saturday night 3 December, Splendor Gospel Club had a concert in a youth hostel in Osaka. When the concert started that many people came to the lobby, and stayed to listen to their performances to the end. They practiced sign language together. When the lyrics of “God is love” had been sung, almost all audiences made letter L with their fingers. There was call for an encore, and everyone was very delighted. We give thanks to the Lord.
“The Europe team count down” have been uploaded. Please have a look!
http://astone-blog.jp/europe/
Pastor Hannah Onuki, Yokohama Joy in the Heaven Church, had a lumbosacral strain. Whenever she had been woken in the morning, she felt a sharp pain in her back so that she couldn’t get up. Even though she had attended the bonesetter’s clinic every day, her backache was getting worse and worse.
She thought that she would join the Tokyo Charismatic Meeting, however the situation wasn’t available. She gave up to attend the meeting. Instead of that, she made up her mind to see the online worship service. While watching it, she heard the word, “Your backache is healed”, as the word of wisdom and the word knowledage through the Holy Spirit. She had received the word.
Next morning, when she was awake, surprisingly, she could get up and walk. Her backache was healed. Praise the Lord.
The second impressive opening movie of the church’s web site was uploaded. The title of the video is, ‘Arbel Mountain, on which Great Commission was told, and the Sun setting into Sea of Galilee’. Please have a look.
http://tokyo.antioch.jp/movie/201112-op02/index.html
CM for ‘Kokoro Gospel’ has been uploaded. Please have a look.http://tokyo.antioch.jp/movie/201112-cocoroCM/index.html
The coming Thanksgiving, Praising and Revival Camp has been scheduled to be from Monday, 26th to Saturday, 31st March 2012. Seminar of Pastor Merlin Carothers will start at 10 am on Wednesday, 28th March at the worship hall of the church as usual.
Yokkaichi Zion Church’s praising team had a concert at an outlet park named ‘Jazz Dream Nagasaki’. When brother M was dancing with Yasuragi no Uta music, many people gathered to see the dance. Dance was very popular. Children danced, too. Praising team, Shirushi to Fushigi and VOICE also praised.
When we gave CD of Gifts and True Vine to the one in charge of ‘Jazz Dream Nagasaki’, he said, ‘ I will listen to it now. Please come again anytime!’ We give thanks to the Lord.
On Friday 2 December, Osaka J-Gospel Club held a gospel concert at a Children’s nursing home in Fukita city, Osaka, in collaboration with the Gospel group named “Splendor”. And the Club is taken place to give snacks as present to children every year in December. This is the eight concert enjoyed singing and communicating in sign language together. They were able to see children’s lovely faces. Also they had given out 20 copies of tracts. Give thanks to the Lord.
On November 27, Women’s group had a tea party, and practiced some gospel songs. There were 25 people gathered together. Some of them were newcomers. They had a time to have some souvenir snacks, and to enjoy talking while they were eating some pork miso soups and rice balls. After that, they practiced some gospel songs for the contest. Two women could share their testimonies. The gathering was a blessing.
Today’s Gospel Live TV features “The last minute Information on Kokoro-Gospel.” The program will be broadcast live from Hotel Hyatt Regency Tokyo in Shinjuku. It starts 6:00 p.m. Please don’t miss it!
On December 3, the gospel group Gifts was invited by “Mitinoku-Kosumosu-no-Kai” in Miyazaki Pref., and had a Gospel Christmas Concert for one hour. Many people from another churches gathered together. There was a audience of about 70 people listening to the music earnestly to the end of the concert.
Many people was moved to teas, and a lot of CD singles were sold. Some of them asked to invite “Gifts” to their churches, and a Care Center staff asked to sing their songs in the facility. Another said that they was touch by the Holy Spirit strongly. We give thanks to the Lord.
The Hakuba Film Festival will be held in Hakuba Synergoi Camp, 2011. From today, we’ve started to accept applications for the festival. If you would like to submit your video or film, please give us your name, content and your church name, and send it to the email below. The deadline is January 15, 2011. We look forward to your entries.
For registration, email:gltv.jp@gmail.com
On Thursday 1 December, there was a concert by Taro Kaji at Hakozaki Christ Church where the gospel group Gifts had a concert last year. He is a professional gospel singer in Japan. The gospel group Love & Springs also had a chance to sing two songs before his concert.
While they were singing the lyrics of “Shuno-moto-he-ikou (Come close to the Lord)” and “Kagayaku-hikarino-nakao (In the Dazzling Light)”, the audience listened to their performances attentively. Some of them even shed tears when they heard the music. In the walking of the new year, God led the group to sing in the Interdenominationalism. We give thanks to the Lord with all our hearts.
On December 2, some mothers of the teaching staff in the Southern part of Okinawa prefecture and the women teaching staff hosted the gospel group Voice. This group belongs to the Okinawa Jerusalem Church. The gathering was titled “Christmas Gospel Concert – Experiencing peace and healing through the gospel”. They sang for around 20 minutes. There was an audience of about 30 high school teachers gathering in it. Some of them said that it was a very good concert, and they said that they could not help being moved to tears.
