August 15, 2009
We spent our first Sunday back in Japan attending the worship service at the Sayama Alliance Church. This is the church that we worked at in the 1990`s. Megan was born during our time there and we have many happy memories of church people loving her as if she was their own!
Even when we were serving there the desire of the member`s hearts was to have their own Japanese pastor and their own building. These 2 prayer requests have been graciously granted as Pastor Miyoshi and his wife are now serving full-time and on July 20th their new building was dedicated. The believers have been meeting in an office building since Alliance missionaries started the church nearly 20 years ago.
It was really wonderful to be able to meet so many of those believers again, along with some new ones and to rejoice with them in their new building. They are so proud and grateful to God for this gift of a newly renovated building to use as their church building and housing for Pastor and Mrs. Miyoshi.
