Dear Last Chance Chapel, friends, and family

    Thank you for all your prayers and support. Things are going well here in Japan. There has not been much going on. The humidity is slowly going away. :) It will be time to get some firewood for the winter soon. I do have some prayer requests. I will be needing a new or used car soon next year, since this car I am using right now might be on it's last year of running. :/ Also I need more English classes or something, because the cost of living is high in Japan. It will be a time of reflecting whether I should continue this ministry or not, but I know if this is God's will for me to be in Japan, He will provide. Also, if I am able to continue living in Japan, I will be able to help my brother and his family get settled in when they come to Japan next year for the ministry. Thank you for the prayers for me, the churches here, and my students. God bless... :)


John Cathcart

 A picture of the kids at church playing games.

Dear Last Chance Chapel, friends, and family

    Thank you for all your prayers and support.Things are going well here. I got some new students recently. It is humid this time in Japan. In August, we will have a youth camp for the members of the church and maybe their friends. Sorry I don't have many pictures to post up, but I have some. God bless...


John Cathcart

Dear Last Chance Chapel, friends, and family

    Thank you for all your prayers and support.Things are going well here, but I miss home. I have some good news. I recently got my three year extension visa. :) I would send a picture of it, but because of privacy reasons I won't post it. So it looks like I am going to stay in Japan a bit longer.

 Classes are going well. Getting some new students. Please continue to pray for them for their salvation. It would be great if the Japanese people would have their eyes open to the gospel. God bless...

John Cathcart

Dear Last Chance Chapel, friends, and family

    Thank you for all your prayers and support. Well, still waiting on my visa situation. I have until the end of June to receive a reply about whether I am allowed to stay in Japan or not. Please continue to pray about this.

 Classes are going well. There are many challenges that I have though, because I teach a wide variety of ages. Teaching the younger ones is especially a challenge. Recently we had an event called Hello Kids, where we reached out to the community near the Life Song church in Tenri. I did a Bible presentation with my felt program. Thank you once again for keeping this ministry in your prayers. God bless...


P.S.  Pictures of my 3 or 4 year old class facing the camera. One of my best classes. :)
The other is the Bible presentation.

Dear Last Chance Chapel, friends, and family

    Thank you for all your prayers and support. Well, it has been about a week since my sister Bethany moved to Russia for the mission field. It will be a new chapter in our lives with both of us in two different countries. I just recently got some good news. I am able to stay in Japan for another two months. :) I am still waiting for a reply about extending my stay in Japan for three years. I hope it will come.

  Classes are going good. Always have student behavior problems though with the kids. :/ The two adult students that got recently saved, still need some more time. They still don't understand the salvation message. A lot of my students don't understand why they need salvation. So with these two adult students, I am going to show the Jesus movie in Japanese. It will be their first time watching the film. God bless...

P.S. The pictures are a recent event that I went to along with my sister. It was the anniversary of the head of the Bible College in Ikoma. My great uncle Coote married the pastor and his wife.

Dear Last Chance Chapel, friends, and family

    Thank you for all your prayers and support. I got some good news. Bethany is back from Russia for about a week and two of my students accepted Jesus into their hearts last Saturday. I hope my students understood, though since it was done in English. :/ 

 

    Some sad news is that one of my students passed away. I hope that she accepted the Lord before she passed away. We cannot pray for her anymore, but we can pray that her friends and family will become saved. Me and my students are going to miss her. 

 

    This week might be my last week in Japan, because I am waiting for a renewal of my visa and there has been no reply. :/ Both mine and Bethany's visa expire this month. So keep us in your prayers. Thank you and God bless...


John Cathcart

Dear Last Chance Chapel, friends, and family

    Thank you for all your prayers and support. Things are going well here in Japan, but we have our trials. Lately we've been having troubles with no mail coming that we are waiting for. On top of that, our internet is cut off for two weeks. We are still persevering.

    Recently I had four students graduate from elementary school. They are now entering the grade from twelve years old to fifteen year old. Three of my student's graduation I attended at their school. It was very embarrassing being the only foreigners there, but hopefully coming there made an impression on the kids. Pray that they will start coming to my English classes so I can minister the word of God to them. God bless...


   John Cathcart