Few Important Notice on RJC 2011

Join RJC Conference Live!!!
There is an opportunity for you to join the RJC conference live on livestream. Below is Don Wright's message. I'm sorry that Hikikomori workshop is not on the livestream list. But I think it is still impactful and meaningful to just be able to login to listen to some of this! Pick what ever you like from the list!!! It helps you to keep up with the missions even when you are not on the field!

The plenary sessions and several seminars will be broadcast. Be sure to check the RJC website for the Ustream link.

If you can’t join us for the RJC Conference, plan on attending through the live stream service.
The Times (Pacific Standard Time):
Thursday, 7:15-9:00 pm, Keiko Marshall’s powerful testimony
Friday, 9:15-10:00 am, Don Wright and others will share exciting reports concerning RJC blessings.
10:30-11:30 am, Seminar, Understanding the Gospel Within The Japanese Culture: God, by Yusaku Ota.
1:30-2:30 pm, Seminar, Understanding the Gospel Within The Japanese Culture: Sin, by Jack and Keiko Marshall
3:00-4:00 pm, How Japanese Leaders Met Jesus.
4:00-5:00 pm, Keith Webb presenting Overcoming Spiritual Barriers in Japan, plus other reports.
7:15-9:00 pm, Special music by Noboru Morishige and address by Yusaku Ota.
Saturday, 9:15-10:00 am Message by Jack and Keiko Marshall
10:30-11:30 am Basics in Ministry: Sharing The Gospel by Jack and Keiko Marshall
1:15-2:15 pm Seminar, Understanding the Gospel Within The Japanese Culture: Christian Life, by Yusaku Ota.
7:00-9:00 pm Saturday Night Alive-A Time To Celebrate featuring Christian Hula, JxJ dance, Noboru Morishige, and others.

Pertaining Hikikomori Workshop
M (the hikikomori girl that you prayed for in 2009) had sent me some of her crafts, and I brought them together with me to RJC Conference for sale. I hoping to take this opportunity to discuss the needs of employment for hikikomori once they are free from the bondage. Please keep this in your prayers, and hopefully we will be able to clear all her crafts here in Seattle, and the good sales will restore confidence in her.
The workshop will be on Pacific Standard Time, Feb 18 1:30pm-2:30pm, (Malaysia Time, Feb 19, 6:30am - 7:30am; Japan Time, 5:30am - 6:30am).

Bless the RJC missionaries with the Dedication Cards signed by IFJ (I Follow Jesus) Campers!
I brought the dedication cards that the youths around Japan had written which I collected last year to the conference. I am planning to dish it out to the missionaries, so each of them can adopt one or two dedication cards, and start to pray for these youths, and begin a spiritual journey with them!

BLESS YOU!!!

Today the RJC Pre-Conference begins!!!

Today the RJC Pre-Conference begins!!! and the Lord greet me with a wonderful snow in Seattle this morning! :-) I always feel that snow is special, being to come from a tropical country. The first time that I saw snow was when I visited M-chan, then the second time was when I went to Tokyo for my entrance exam. It became more often then as I settled in Japan... ^^ Yet, snow at the early morning of my birthday, its another remarkable birthday gift from God, isn't it?
Pray for Dan Brannen and Don Wright who organize this portion of the conference and pray for those in vocational ministry who will be attending today’s sessions.

Keith Webb will teach in the afternoon concerning leadership coaching.


p/s: and I get to meet Jeremy Yap tonight!!! yeah yeah~

Prayers and Updates for Feb 2011

There are a few things that I would like to share with you and have you to pray with me!

1. Translation of Heart4Japan.

How about 日本への思い ?
need your feedback from those who are Japanese! Thanks!


2. The RJC conference (Reaching out Japanese for Christ) is around the corner Feb 17 -19!　ｋeep the participants and speakers in your prayers! For His will to be done!



3. Hikikomori Workshop on Feb 18
3a. My healthI arrived in Seattle yesterday, and not feeling good at all. I go to the washroom/toilet one/twice in an hour, excessive urine and pooh... no diarhea though. Feeling extra tight and pain at my abdomen, the pain is effecting my lower back too. Celia and Izumi suggested that could be a jetlag experience. It could be a travelor symtom, as I tend to get symptoms much frequent these days, probably too much of traveling and not enough of rest...... not sure. However, is Feb 14 now, and 4 more days to go for the workshop! Do pray for me that I will adjust quickly!
3b. M-chan (the hikikomori girl that you prayed for in 2009) had sent me some of her crafts, and I brought them together with me to RJC Conference for sale. I hoping to take this opportunity to discuss the needs of employment for hikikomori once they are free from the bondage. Please keep this in your prayers, and hopefully we will be able to clear all her crafts here in Seattle, and the good sales will restore confidence in her.
3c. Adopting youths with a passion for Christ in prayers
I brought the dedication cards that the youths around Japan had written which I collected last year to the conference. I am planning to dish it out to the missionaries, so each of them can adopt one or two dedication cards, and start to pray for these youths.

4.Things to work out in Japan

4a. I am leaving Seattle on Feb 21, and will reach Tokyo on Feb 22. Then I will prepare for the Hikikomori study group on Feb 25. Please pray for the participants and the flow of the program!

4b. I have another conference on society and health in Nara on Mar 4-5. I am taking this opportunity to visit Nara Fukuin Kyokai (Nara Evangelical Church) before or after the conference. Do pray for the Heart4Japan connection.
4c. Then I will go back to Tokyo to help out in our department organized conference, Behavioral Sceince and Medicine Japan on Mar 11-12.
4d. After that, my family and friends will come for a visit for a week.
4e. After that, we will have another hikikomori study group

4f. After that, I am planning to leave to IFJ (I follow Jesus Camp) on April 1-3  in Kansai area, hopefully will visit some churches too.

4g. Then, I will come back to Tokyo. Starting the new semester, at the same time, will have another hikikomori intervention for 3 weeks (Apr 4 - 23).


Will write more about item four when I have time. But meanwhiｌe, guess this is enough for now! Thank you for praying!