Dear church and family, thank you for all your prayers and support. We just started our 40 days in the Word, at Nara Lifesong church. Pray that this will be a success and that many people will come to know the Lord as their Savior through this study. English classes have been going good and it is growing slowly. I had some sad news that recently happened. One of my good friends and students had recently passed away. Please pray for his family as well as his two daughters whom I am currently teaching. Please continue to pray for the salvation of my students. Thank you and God bless...

   Dear church and family, thank you for all your prayers and support. We recently had a international party for the youth, where different people shared about their home country. We also had a member of our youth group recently got saved. It seems that the Lord is adding weekly more members to the church. Please continue to pray that more people will get saved in our church and that my English students will be able to come to church. Thank you and God bless...

                               John Cathcart...

 

      Dear church and family, thank you for your continued prayers and support. We had  a good Christmas outreach to the youth where some people got saved and some said they would like to make the church their home church. We also had a good New Year's dinner at some friends house and recently we had a Nabe party for the youth group. The church seems to be growing daily. God bless...

                                                        John Cathcart

   Dear church and family, thank you for all your prayers and support. We are getting ready 

 

for Christmas here in Japan and also it is getting very cold. Recently my sister and some 

 

church members went up to Minami Sanriku to deliver some warm clothes and did some 

 

Christmas parties where they shared about the Bible. We have quite a few Christmas 

 

events going on this month. Pray that people here will understand the true meaning of 

 

Christmas. My English classes are going good. God bless...

                           John Cathcart...

   Dear church family, thank you for all your prayers and support. Recently we have shown the movie

Passion which I believed laid the foundation for one of our church members that got saved this last

Sunday. Also there is another person who is asking a lot of questions about the Bible as well. Pray

that he may get saved. Getting cold here in Japan, but recently now have a stove to stay warm.

Classes are going well and the students are interested in the Bible lessons. God bless...

                                                     John Cathcart...

Dear church family, thank you for all your prayers and support. Things have been going well here. Seems like weekly our church is growing in numbers of people who come to attend. My dad is coming soon and he, Bethany and a friend of ours will be taking a trip up to Minami Sanriku. They will be going to see and witness to the people that were left homeless after the Tsunami. Our church on the 28th of this month will be showing the movie Passion. Please pray that many people will be touched after seeing the movie. We had a good service last Sunday, where Caleb shared this verse in the Bible. Psalms 103:2-5 "Praise the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits-  who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's".  God bless...

                                             John Cathcart...

Hello from Japan. We just recently had a great youth camp last week. About fifty three youth showed up at the camp from seventeen different churches. It was a great time learning about servant hood and a time of refreshing and feeling God's presence. A lot of youth were dramatically impacted by the event. The church is doing well here. We had a good message from Caleb this last English service. Might be a chance I will get a new student to join my English classes. That may lead to others coming too. Thank you everyone for your continued prayers and support for us. It is truly appreciated. There are great things happening. Pray for an upcoming youth volunteer excursion  to Minami Sanriku. The youth are going to volunteer their time for several days. We have a baptism for some youth in the church this Sunday. Keep them in your prayers. Thank you and God bless...