West Kanazawa Church News

Today, I was the speaker at our main church (shown here), where, on average, I speak about once a month, otherwise being in other area churches at least twice a month. We also had a great adult Sunday school class. (See the previous article.)

Last Sunday, the West Kanazawa church (membership about 35) voted to call a new pastor, who will be coming in April. Pastor K., with whom we have worked closely for about 12 years, will be retiring. We and the church will miss him and his wife greatly. But we are also thankful that the Lord has provided a new pastor for the church. There are very few pastors in Japan; so God's provision is in many ways an unexpected miracle. Most of the other churches where I speak do not have pastors. At the moment we do not expect these changes to affect our ministry in any negative way, but one never knows. Had the Lord not provided a new pastor for the church the opposite would likely have been the case. So we praise the Lord for his provision.