Charnwood Road Baptist Church

Pete Edi 2007

 October 2007

 Thank you for praying for us.

1.        Thank you for praying for Joanna’s baptism. As usual, we borrowed a tent from another church and held our Sunday service on the beach by Lake Biwa. The husband of one of the church members came to help set up on the Saturday and was “at the service” to take photographs. He walked around in the background with his camera. The weather forecast was not good but, in the end, we had a warm but fairly cloudy day (therefore less hot), until late afternoon when we were all back home, and then it started to pour with rain. Praise the Lord.

2.       Enya Chiho, in Calcutta for a few weeks, has been struggling with health problems and has been to hospital, but she seems to be getting better now. Please continue to pray for her. She comes back in mid-October.

3.       We have a visitor (also called Peter) from a church we know in the UK coming for a few days from 5th October. Please pray for a fruitful time with him.

4.       We are taking our summer holiday at home in October while the children are in school. Please pray for a refreshing and helpful time.

5.       On Tuesday 23rd October Kaori Church has an outreach meeting for ladies, walking together to the lake and listening to a message by Jocelyn.

6.       Pete will preach in Otsu Church (in our group) on 21st October, and the pastor of Otsu Church, Pastor Tanaka, will preach in Kaori Church.

Peter, Edi, Joanna, Andy and John Wilson

September 2007

Hello again from Japan.

1.       Joanna's baptism is on Sunday 16th September. Please pray for good weather and for the Lord's blessing on Joanna. She will be baptised in Lake Biwa.

2.       Chio Enya from Kaori Church went to India on 1st September for 6 weeks to work in Mother Theresa's centre. Please pray for her safety and health and her work there.

3.       We are in charge of a team of 16 people coming from Korea from 22nd to 26th September. Please pray for the planning of this, and that their programme will be blessed.

4.       Kaori Church has a meeting on Sunday 23rd for all the people in the church to discuss various things to do with the church. Please pray for the Lord's blessing on this.

Thank you for praying for us.

From Peter, Edi, Joanna, Andy and John Wilson.

 

August  2007

 Hello again - Greetings from Japan 

1.       Thanks to the Lord, and to our WEC colleagues, for their help with the missions simulator at the Jesus Festival on 16th July. The Jesus Festival was sort of like a one-day small scale Spring harvest/Keswick Convention for the Christians in Shiga prefecture. About 600 people came and about 200 of them went through the missions simulator, giving them a 15-minute taste of what it is like to be a missionary in a different culture. It went really well and we were exhausted afterwards.

2.       International Fureai Camp also went well, with good weather and a good attendance, 38 people including staff. Next weekend (4th-5th August) we all go back to the campsite for International Family Camp, where Edi is in charge of the kitchen.

3.       We are hoping that Joanna will be baptised in September. Please pray for her doing preparation classes.

4.       Parts of central England were hit by severe flooding in late July. Pete’s parents had about 1m of floodwater in their home. Clearing up and replacing damaged items will take months. Please pray for them.

5.       Please pray for health and strength to cop with the hot summer weather. Edi is trying to use the time to get a lot of English study done with the children as part of their summer holiday. They are co-operating at the moment, praise the Lord. Pete will carry on working through August and then we will take time off in October.

Thank you for praying for us.

Peter, Edi, Joanna, Andy and Michael Wilson

 

 July 2007

  (pews@hera.eonet.ne.jp)

Tuesday 3 July 2007-07-12

 Hello everyone

 Thank you for praying for us.

1.        Joanna will be going with her class on something called the “floating school” on 9th and 10th July. The children all sleep on a boat called Umi No Ko, which sails around Lake Biwa with parties of schoolchildren on board. Please pray for safety and a good time for her.

2.       The Jesus Festival takes place on 16th July, a public holiday. This is a day of meetings for Christians in Shiga prefecture. Edi and I are working with others on a “missions simulator”, which is a sort of very short (15 minutes) short-term mission trip into another country. Please pray for everything to be sorted out on time and for it all to run smoothly.

3.       Andy can go to primary school children’   s camp for the first time this year with Joanna. Edi will be working in the kitchen. It takes place 24th to 26th July.

4.       Please pray for International Fureai Camp on 28th July, a “gently evangelistic” one-day camp. Pete is leading it. Pray for people to come, for good weather and for the day’s programme.

5.       We are grateful to the Lord for 23 children coming to our children’s meeting on 30th June, and for Jeff Thompson’s help with various programmes.

Peter, Edi, Joanna, Andy and John Wilson

 

 June  2007

 (pews@hera.eonet.ne.jp)

Hello again. Thank you for continuing to pray for us. 

1.       Choy Kin Fai is due to come as a short worker from 13th to 20th June. He has spent time in Japan before, is married with a child and is thinking of full-time mission work in Japan. He is still on the waiting list for a flight and will not know until early June whether he will be able to come or not.

2.       Jeff Thompson, an American friend of Enya-san in Kaori Church, will be working with us for two weeks from 23rd June. Please pray for his time with us and for Enya-san’s involvement with the church.

3.       Pete will swap pulpits with Jurgen Gaub on 17th June, Pete preaching in Kusatsu, about 30 minutes away, and Jurgen in Kaori.

4.       On 24th June we will have a meeting after the service for people in the church to share ideas etc. Please pray for the Lord’s leading.

5.       After a long absence Mr Hosokawa now seems to be coming to church regularly twice a month with his children, who are very happy in the Sunday School.

6.       Mrs Urabe commented that she likes studying the Bible with Pete, and she usually learns something each time she comes. Thanks to the Lord as there is no way of knowing what questions are going to come up ahead of time.

7.       Please pray for Pete, not a natural teacher, teaching English to children on Wednesday afternoons. The eight-year-old boys class is a particular challenge.

 

May 2007

 Hello again. Thank you for praying for us.

1.       The WEC Japan field conference takes place from the evening of Tuesday 1st May to the morning of Saturday 5th May.  Please pray for good fellowship and God’s leading on all our discussions and decisions. This year Edi is in charge of the catering for the first time and Pete will be taking the minutes for the business sessions. Please pray for the Lord’s help in these.

2.       On Monday 14th May camp work days begin, running until July. The missionaries and Japanese workers go when they can on a voluntary basis to do the necessary cleaning and maintenance work at the campsite, ready for the camp season in the summer. Please pray for the work to go ahead smoothly and safely.

3.       On Sunday 20th May Pete will go in the afternoon to Nagahama Church to speak at the English and Spanish services. There are several factories in Nagahama, employing workers from South America and the Philippines, and these services are to reach out to them, and also to English teachers in schools. In the first Pete speaks in English and is interpreted into Japanese; in the second he speaks in Japanese and is interpreted into Spanish!

4.       On Tuesday 22nd May we have our ladies outreach meeting, the Waku Waku Kai. The speaker will be one of our field members, Candy Poon from Hong Kong.

5.       Edi has been asked to teach English at the local primary school again for this school year (which started in April). Please pray for continued inspiration for her, and for adjustment to new teachers and office workers.