My good friend Jon Mobely (aka Jonny Magic) is arriving in Japan this evening for a very busy week of outreach, video production, website consulting and fellowship with his bearded missionary friend (yours truly). We at Grace Church Sapporo are extremely thankful to him for sacrificing his time to come minister with us. We have been handing out flyers all … More Jonny Magic Japan Outreach this week…will you pray?
The powerful “Multiply” webcasts about disciple-making with Francis Chan and David Platt are available for free viewing for another 25 days. Click here for the Nov 9 webcast from Birmingham. Click here to view the Nov 11 webcast from San Francisco.
“From the beginning of Christianity, the natural overflow of being a disciple of Jesus has always been to make disciples of Jesus. “Follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men” (Matt. 4: 19). This was a promise: Jesus would take His disciples and turn them into disciple makers. And this was … More Multiply: Disciples Making Disciples by Francis Chan
Exciting news!! The “Creation to Christ” story (also known as “C2C”) is now available in Japanese. This project was completed by the Grace Church Sapporo translation team (led by Hiraku Sabaki & Nozomi Juday).C2C is a way of clearly presenting the gospel via the redemptive story of the Bible from creation to Christ’s resurrection. Some free, downloadable, … More “Want to hear the Bible in 10 minutes?” | C2C now in Japanese!
Mako (age 15, L in photo) is faithful to pursue her school friends with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Last weekend 2 of her friends (pictured) believed in Jesus & are now being discipled. Praise God! Please pray for their faith to grow as they will most likely be rejected by their families and classmates. Most importantly, pray they can clearly proclaim the gospel with clarity to their friends/family before being cut off and rejected (common cost of discipleship in Japan).
How do you study the Bible with your children? How do you consistently share the gospel with them? How do you equip them to make disciples? We do not claim to be experts but thought this was worth sharing. We recently began the “Creation to Christ” Bible study with our children. It has been a … More Discovery Bible study with our children
If we are not making disciples, are we true disciples of Jesus Christ?
Check out this video of Francis Chan and David Platt discussing a disciple’s obedience to make disciples as evidence of true saving faith.
Francis Chan’s upcoming book “Multiply” is available for pre-order on Amazon.com with release date of 11.01.2012. The chapters can be downloaded for free here.
Check out the resources for disciple-making at the Multiply website: http://www.multiplymovement.com
A few highlights from tonight’s ministry training w Pastor Toyoharu Kamidate at Grace Church Sapporo:
Vision: “We Christians in Japan must proclaim the full gospel w clarity & make multiplying disciples who start multiplying churches! Lets pray to increase Christians in Hokkaido, Japan from 0.4% to 1% and then 10%!”
“Christians aren’t responsible for Japanese to believe in Jesus. That’s God’s role. We Christians are responsible for the people of Japan to hear the full gospel w clarity! That IS our role”
“Christians, you must be bold in proclaiming the full gospel with clarity! Do what it takes to be prepared. Practice sharing with your spouse or your kids or to yourself in the mirror. We must proclaim the full gospel with clarity!”
… More Kamidate Sensei casts vision for gospel multiplication in Japan.
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What Jesus commanded His disciples to do in both English & Japanese.
NOTE: For those of you who are visual, there are a number of photos at the bottom of this post. Enjoy! Dearest Ministry Support Family: Greetings from the Cooper family in Sapporo, Japan! We have reached the 3-month mark of our 1-year mission at Grace Church Sapporo and cannot believe how much we have seen the … More Coopers in Sapporo, JAPAN | Oct ’12 Ministry UPDATE
Coopers On A Mission 