Sanctifying service at a new apartment

Mr. & Mrs. Kim live in Hawaii and stayed in NYC for a while mostly to help their daughter move to a new apartment.  We are always thankful to them who pray earnestly for our churches, helping us and cooperating our ministry in many ways. 

We are pleased to have them attend our Sunday services while they were in NYC.

On the last Sunday during their stay, we were invited to hold a sanctifying service at the new apartment their daughter would move in.

We are so grateful that we worshiped the Lord, singing praises, praying and confessing the words of God together.

We praised the Lord, hearing that this new and neat apartment in a very nice location was the answer to their prayer !

Worship service after the Thanksgiving Day

Once the Thanksgiving Day is over,  the streets are full of  Christmas decorations.

We invited Mr. & Mrs. T. to Thanksgiving dinner at our apartment, and Mrs. T. who belongs to another Japanese church came to attend our service today as she does once a month.

She told us that  she'd like to attend with her husband our morning service which is held in our apartment in New Jersey sometime soon.

Her husband is from Central America, and our common language is English.
We make preparations in prayer to have a service with them.

A New Year service at the Sea of Galilee

On Sunday, Nov. 6, a new year service was held by the Israeli team by the Sea of Galilee !

The given scripture for the new year is James 2:17:

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.

 I look forward to the coming work of the Lord by exercising our faith as an individual and as a flock !

I appreciate the grace and blessing we can receive through the Israeli team !

NY charismatic meeting blessed

We are thankful that the meeting held on Oct. 18 was blessed in the presence of the Lord. 

In the seminar on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, Pastor Akimoto talked about the will of God for the gifts of the Spirit in the latter-rain revival;
in the message, he talked about the topic on God's hope from Romans 15:3, including some specific testimonies and sharing the experience of the coup at Istanbul, Turkey on the way back from the mission trip to Patmos.

Before this meeting started, some people showed up with their prayer requests, sparing their time from work.

We are so grateful for the intercessory prayer for us.

Participated live in the meeting of "Pray for the peace of Jeruslaem"

On the first Sunday of October, the Day to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, a meeting to pray for that was held at Tokyo Antioch Church.

In the first part, missionaries at Brazil, New York, Czech and Cambodia took turns to pray; 

we are grateful  to pray with one accord worldwide.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　

In the second part, the video messages were shown, sent by one of the promoters of this prayer movement, Dr. Robert Stern and Rev. Thomas Sandal of ECI(European Coalition for Israel)

Also, Pastor Paul Akimoto delivered a message from Psalm 122:6 regarding the prayer for the peace of Jerusalem, which was very inspiring. 

If you are interested, please check out the YouTube video of this meeting on the homepage of Tokyo Antioch Church.

A place for the coming charismatic service with the U.S. Team

We are thankful to have found a place for the charismatic service to be held on Tue., Oct. 18.

It is a newly built rental studios located in the center of Manhattan; 

we were able to rent the most convenient studio among them,

which is also used by Living Word Church on Sundays.

Place: 519 8th Ave., New York, NY 10018    (12th Fl., Studio A)
        (between 35th & 36th street)

Date & Time: Tuesday, October 18th, starting at 5:00 pm

May the Lord's blessing be richly poured on those who are coming !

A Christian lady comes again, seeking healing

A lady who goes to another church came to our worship service the week before, 

seeking healing for her relatives.

She has come again to attend our service this Sunday.

In the delivered message, she was listening with joy to the healing testimony of Benjamin, the second son of Pastor Akimoto, who was healed of the brain damage.

This time she has come back with a piece of paper with the names of the three ill relatives of hers written on.

Thankfully, she has told us that one of those relatives began to move part of his body although the doctor said that he could not move at all due to paralysis.

We have praised the Lord for that and will continue to pray for them.

(There was a big traffic congestion in Manhattan, which was rare in August. Later, we found out that a Dominican Parade had been going on.)