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It started out like any other earthquake. The hanging light began to swing. The house began to rumble. Pam and I looked up from our Bible Study time and for a split second, felt frozen. Would it stop like all the other ones? But this one seemed different. Clanging, major shaking! We jumped up and ran to the front door. Harry came running to open the door from outside to help us exit the house. Was the 2-story Mission Office building going to crumble? High electric wires looked like jump ropes going around and around. We ran to the open street and stood staring at the buildings all around us in the compact neighborhood twisting like rubber bands. Feeling like we were standing on a waterbed, we tried to keep our balance. For minutes it continued. Then a slight calm, and quiet came. Should we go back inside? read more >>>

Features

Spreading the Gospel to a Mountain Town

I stood in front of more than eighty people, mostly young children with their young mothers, feeling as if I were in a dream. Kathy and I, and Pastor and Mrs. Takahashi of Mihara City, and a few of the people from the Mihara Alliance Church had just finished presenting the gospel at a Christmas gather in the utterly church-less mountain town called Daiwa. For a few years, Kathy and I have worked with the Mihara church to do monthly gospel meetings here .... read more >>>

“Sunday mornings, you can see people lining up outside of buildings, just waiting for them to open. What are these businesses that have such an excited clientele who will wait to get in and get a prime seat?

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Pushing Back the Darkness

In his pre-council address, "Pushing Back the Darkness - Why, Where, and What It Will Take", Vice President of International Ministries of the C&MA asked this important question:

If we as the C&MA were to stand before God and He were to ask us, 'Why are over one billion people still without easy access to the gospel?' what would we say?
Those people are just not responsive. Too much cost and too high risk for what? They’re just not ready yet.

Lost people matter to God and he wants them found!

Less than 1% of the Japanese believe in Christ, their Savior.

The 126 million people of Japan matter to God. He wants them found.

News Briefs

> VIDEO - Introducing the Tokyo Area Alliance Churches

> Sengendai church celebrates the baptism of a young man!

> Harry and Jane Landaw move forward in setting up a ministry in the most devastated NE coast of Japan, as the mission and national church work together to purchase a building in the area.

> The second of The Alliance Seminar series, aimed at founding Alliance people in the history and theology of the C&MA, held in November. more info here>>>

The Japan Alliance Mission shares the gospel and makes disciples

in order to plant multiplying missionary churches.

Japan Alliance Mission 2-36-3 Higashi Tokorozawa, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama-ken 359-0021