How Many C&MA People in Japan? It's Complicated...

Here's our Global Ministries team in Japan! These are the Canadians working here with the C&MA minus Laura, who was nowhere to be found when it was time to take the picture. 

Here's some of our Global Ministries (Canada) C&MA team with some of the International MInistries (US) team at a joint prayer time in September. 

And here's a sampling of the wider C&MA in Japan. Workers from Brazil, Peru, the Philippines, the Japan Alliance Church organization, the Japan Alliance Mission organization, and a few visitors from the US as well. The Shaos, working with Chinese in Fukuoka and partnering with Chinese Alliance churches in Canada were not able to make it for this celebration. 

Our Retreat, Laura's Place of Service

Our Canadian C&MA team will be having a retreat at Torchbearers Yamanakako next weekend, and Steve and Jen Frentz, the directors there, as well as Laura will be joining us since they are Global Alliance Professionals working in Japan with visas provided by our mission. We're looking forward to a great time together.
http://www.torchbearersjapan.com/staff.html?lang=en

Thanksgiving



We had 26 people over for Thanksgiving turkey on Monday. Friends and neighbours involved in our programs here and other locations. The newly arrived Klassen family joined us along with Laura K. who is working with us, and three other special guests. 

The Covenant Players, a Christian drama team, have been bunking in with us once or twice a year for the past 27 years in Japan. Since they were here, they did a play on thankfulness for us, which sparked some good conversation around the table. While Kurt and Lia in the foreground are doing the play in English, Cathy, just on the other side of the door, is reading each line in Japanese as well.

Video Tour of Tokyo

http://twistedsifter.com/videos/hyperlapse-tour-through-tokyo-metropolis-by-christoph-gelep/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Twistedsifter+%28TwistedSifter+%29

Can You See the Difference?

The Current State of Japan

This excellent graphic was put together by international workers planning to come to Japan. I found it on their blog which is: https://trimmedtales.wordpress.com/

A Little Perspective

http://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/tokyo-is-a-mega-city#.qmdQ7rn4O