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A person who used to attend the same church as Pastor Joseph Sanbonmatsu sent an e-mail and said that he is now living in Australia. He said that he wants to use a Yasuragi song, “Negev-no-Nagare (Streams of Negev)” in his Japanese church in Auckland.
God is using Yasuragi songs in Australia.
Gifts held Charity Concerts for the Japan Orphanage at the shopping center in Kochi City yesterday. They performed two concerts. Several people had tears and some of them talked to the member of Gifts. Especially one lady who lost family member a couple of years ago came with tears in her eyes and said “I am not alone. Right?” She was touched by song entitled “In the shining light”. She received comfort from the Lord. They raised 43,157 yen for the orphanage. We give thanks to the Lord!
Praise team “Grace” and “Faith” of Yokkaichi Zion Church visited and held a concert at special nursing retirement home “Ise Asama En” on April 28th.
In the Praising, God manifested his presence, and there were some people who were deeply touched. They will visit the place again and hold a concert in December. We give thanks to the Lord!
The Gospel Group “Splendor” held a concert in front of Osaka City Office as a licensed performer of Osaka. There were many people stopped, listened closely, and received their flyers of Splendor. One person who saw their website was interested in seeing their performance. So, she came to the concert. It was very good weather, they got sun tan, but God blessed their concert. One person who relates to Osaka prefecture office gave them his business card and asked them to do the concert in front of the Osaka Prefecture Office. We give thanks to the Lord!
Gospel unit “PATOLIS” held a street live concert at the Tokiwa Park and in front of the Asahikawa Train Station on April 30th. People listened to their concert from beginning til the end. The audience bought their CDs, and gave them some sweets. A lot of people listened and they received a lot of good reactions.
One member of the audience said “Do you come only once a year? If I knew about this I would ask my friends and bring them with me to your concert. Praise the name of the Lord!
“Gifts” held inside concert last night in Tokushima. They performed two times, in that concert one lady who was listening in the corner of the room came to tell them “I my physical condition was bad, but it became well while I was listening your performance”. The Lord healed her through their praise. We give thanks to the Lord.
On Sun 29 April, the Church of Living God in Kitakyushu gave a J Gospel Concert at Izutsu Kurosaki Shop in Hachiman-Nishiku. Many people gathered and listened to our performance attentively. Some of them took our pictures, and youth group gave a big hand to us. “What a beautiful song!” “My soul is made peaceful.” One lady, who listened to our music until the end, said, “I was very touched and moved. What a wonderful song!” Also the staff of the department store listened to our performance attentively. It was very blessed by the Lord. It was a wonderful concert.
“Gifts” performed a live on top of Bizan Observatory in Tokushima yesterday. As soon as they sang, the audience gathered from nowhere and many people stood in front of them. 5 copies of CDs were sold. Some of them were Christian. They were so touched. Thank you.
Last Saturday, when Pastor Sanbonmatsu and Harumi of Gospel Seed performed their live at Ikebukuro East Gate Park, a person of their mother church, who moved to Chiba, came to see the performance. It was reunion in 9 years, and they said they continually visited at our church’s website and Gospel Seed’s blog. They were so surprised because there’re many praising teams of TLCCC.
“Gifts” sang gospel songs within the site of a certain temple in Shikoku. They got permission and explained about their performances in the devastated area. So a monk recommend the use of a roofed place. There were about 20 or 30 people stopped and heard their music. And the audience erupted into applause.
Kansai praising competition was held at Culture Salon, Mitsunaka Hall, Hyogo on Monday, 30th April. It was a fierce battle with 3 teams from pre-primary school category, 27 teams from adult category. As a result, Teva from Mount Zion Osaka church won from pre-rimary school category. Splendor got the 1st prise and is going to sing at Hakuba. The second prise went to Truth from Kobe Antioch church.
In the Kansai Charismatic holy meeting held yesterday, annointment ceremony was held for Pastor Jerusalem of Itami church and Pastor Israel Shibahashi of Nishinomiya church.
Please pray for the Lord’s work with them.
A Christian who came from other church came to our healing gathering in April seeking for her atopic Symptom, the cause of which was unknown. Her atopic Symptom was healed 3 days after the healing prayer. We give thanks to the Lord.
In a new staffs welcoming ceremony at a Christian hospital with more than 600 staffs in Okinawa, new staffs were introduced by slides. “Kagayaku Hikari no Naka o” by GIFTS was used for the BGM of the slide show, and people liked it. “Yasuragi no Uta” is used.
“Kokoro (Heartful) Gospel Concert” flyer has been handed out during a street live in front of the Nakano Station. Many people stop and listened to our performances, and they received the flyer. Also we got an encore.
“Kokoro Gospel” will be held on Sat. 18 August at Za-Koenji2. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. The curtain rises at 6:30 p.m.
The Summer Hakuba Camp’s application has started. Please apply for the camp and visit us at
The Summer Hakuba Camp’s web site (We’re sorry it’s now only in Japanese)
