This is truly a beautiful time to be here in Japan.  Every spring, the cherry blossoms open up and for about two weeks all of the trees are in bloom.  Colby and I have been blessed to be within walking distance of a large park and have been taking advantage of the beauty of this time of the year.  Much to our delight it is also getting warmer these days and so we don’t need to run the heater quite as much.

This spring also marks a new transition for the Lighthouse Church here in Ube.  This Sunday will be the last time they meet in the old building before cleaning it up and locking it for the last time.  Next Sunday will be the first service at the Ministry Center that is on the property where Colby and I live.  There has been a flurry of activity these past few weeks between moving everything from the old building to the new one and getting the new one prepared.  In a couple of weeks we will have a work team from Atlanta coming over to do renovations in the sanctuary as well as in our apartment above it.  Once that is done, the church should be pretty well moved in.

This past Wednesday night Colby and I got the chance to help clean out the new building with some of the members of the Gospel Choir that some of the missionaries are involved in.  We had met them for the first time in 2007 when we came to Japan to meet each of the missionaries and so it was a joy to see these people again.  These are folks who have joined the Gospel Choir because they enjoy singing in English and like this type of music.  An interesting thing about them is that most of them are unbelievers as of yet and the missionaries have found this to be a great opportunity to witness in explaining the meaning of the songs.  Colby and I have been praying for them and were glad to finally put faces with names.

The missionaries have been praying that this year, they would see many of these people come to Christ.  Would you please pray with us that the Choir people would understand the message of the Gospel in these songs and come to genuine faith in Christ?

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