Monday, April 12, 2004
We had a great weekend. On Friday our friends and ministry partners Ron and Lisa Wetter from San Jose took us out to eat "shabu-shabu". This is a great Japanese dish of meat and vegetables which are served sliced raw on a plate which you dip into a pot of boiling water in the center of the table and then into various sauces before eating. It was all-you-can eat and I ate too much!
Saturday was mtg day, with a men's mtg in the morning and an elder's mtg in the afternoon. I also finally got a great anti-virus program running on the church email server (clamav running on our hosted BSD server at pair.com) which has virtually eliminated all virus attachments to email sent to ygbc.org email accounts!
On Sunday we had an awesome Easter service (pictures to follow). The building was packed out and my Japanese friend Shigenari Abe visited church for the second time with his wife and boy. We took them out to eat lunch and then came back to church for an easter egg hunt in the afternoon. Please pray that they will keep coming back and become believers. There was also a baptism service in the afternoon and three more new believers were baptised! The Japanese man who ran forward to become a Christian last week has now returned to his job in New York city, but I heard that he was also baptised this week in the Morning Star Church in Times Square.
Please continue to pray for us as we prepare to move to Manila next month. I received word from the landlord over there that we can move into our new apartment for only 2 months deposit plus one month's rent in advance. We have almost enough to live in Manila comfortably now but we are still praying for the intial moving expenses, plane tickets, visas, and school tuitions.
Saturday was mtg day, with a men's mtg in the morning and an elder's mtg in the afternoon. I also finally got a great anti-virus program running on the church email server (clamav running on our hosted BSD server at pair.com) which has virtually eliminated all virus attachments to email sent to ygbc.org email accounts!
On Sunday we had an awesome Easter service (pictures to follow). The building was packed out and my Japanese friend Shigenari Abe visited church for the second time with his wife and boy. We took them out to eat lunch and then came back to church for an easter egg hunt in the afternoon. Please pray that they will keep coming back and become believers. There was also a baptism service in the afternoon and three more new believers were baptised! The Japanese man who ran forward to become a Christian last week has now returned to his job in New York city, but I heard that he was also baptised this week in the Morning Star Church in Times Square.
Please continue to pray for us as we prepare to move to Manila next month. I received word from the landlord over there that we can move into our new apartment for only 2 months deposit plus one month's rent in advance. We have almost enough to live in Manila comfortably now but we are still praying for the intial moving expenses, plane tickets, visas, and school tuitions.
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