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...

Still trying to get more students and survive the summer heat. Youth camp is coming up soon. So many members from the church will be attending that. We recently had a bowling outreach for the youth service. That was fun and we got to reach out to a young man. Thank you all for your continued prayers and support. God bless...

Dear church family, thank you for all your prayers and support. Nothing much has been happening as of lately. We all are planning to meet each other as the Cathcart family soon. I finally passed my driver's test. So now I am able to drive in Japan. This gives me and Bethany freedom to travel to many places now. Please continue to pray for my friend and a pastor at the Ikoma Bible College who recently had a stroke. God bless...

                           John Cathcart

  Well, its a great time having all my family here. Getting my tracks for my English class passed out. It's still the rainy season in Japan. The church here is doing great. They are getting ready for their youth camp coming up. Thank you for all your prayers and support.

   Happiness

To be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your possessions, but not contented with yourself until you have made  the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except falsehood and meanness, and to fear nothing except cowardice; to be governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet nothing that is your neighbor's except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ; and to spend as much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors--these are little guideposts on the footpath to peace.      ---Henry Van Dyke

We had a good service this last Sunday. A lot of youth got to hear the Gospel message and the meaning of life. Before that, we had an interesting scavenger hunt in one of the local shopping centers. Not much going on as of lately. Still trying to get my classes growing. My sister will come over with her family and visit with us about a week before going to Hokkaido. Hope all is going well there at Last Chance Chapel. Thank you for all your prayers and support.

                                                       John Cathcart...