Our weakness and God's strength

I know all of us have a weakness and it is so easy to dwell on them and give and say "whats the point to keep moving on."If you have been dwelling on your weakness for some time now may you now stop dwelling on your weakness and staring praying. thinking, hoping in the strength of God.
Don't dwell on the things you cant do but on what God can do. I cant tell you how many people in my life telling me of the things I cant do because of my weakness. Satan loves to point out the things that we cant do and things that are just too hard to do. I pray if Satan is telling you all these negative things that you will rebuke Satan and say "get behind him Satan and by God's grace I will do great things for God."
For us as Christians God gave one of the best things we could ever ask for and that is the Holy Spirit.
Jesus talks about the Holy Spirit in John 14 and promises that the Holy Spirit will always be with.
Remember this verse when Satan try's and reminds you of your weakness....."I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father." John 14:12. Such beautiful, awesome words from Jesus.
We are able to do greater things because Jesus went to the Father and He lives in the Father and the Father lives in us and He is with us. Jesus has over came the world and the world has no hold on Him. With the Spirit of Truth living in us we truly can do the imposable because it is our Father working through us!!!
God really does know how to comfort His children!!

New Start to a new Year!!

I know the beginning of every new year people make new promises but give up very quick. Have you thought of something this year on what you want to do or change in your life? Have you already gave up on that and said you will start next year. I know I have already given up on what I wanted to change by going to In-N-Out  three  time in a week when I was back in CA.
One thing I love about God is that He never gives up! He makes us promises and always comes through. There have been so many times I want to give up on God and try to do the things of my flesh. Every time I fail and I get into my flesh God is always next to me saying "I haven't given up on you" "My grace is enough". How true is that in our lives? That out God will never give up on us and He has given up on us and that He is grace is sufficient for us and His power is made perfect in our weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9).
God has me back in Iwakuni, Japan and one thing I prayed to God was that I will not let my fears and my weakness be an excuse to not do the work God that He wants me to do. We have no excuse to just live these ok, half effort, fearing, lives because Gods grace is sufficient.
May this be a challenged in our life this year that every time God says "go" in our life that we will "go" that every time He says to "love" we will  "love" every time He says "stay" we will "stay".
Last year I chased fully the desires  of my heart that God has given me and that is why now I am here in Iwakuni, Japan doing things I thought would be only just dreams in my head. CHASE the desires of your heart that the Lord has put on your heart! Make sure it is from the Lord and chase it!!! Don't let laziness and fear get in the way of something great, something that you thought would only be just a dream, something awesome that God has for you!!! GOD HAS NO LIMITS!! Keep that close to your heart!
Let this year be focused on God and His grace. We can do so much more in this life then we believe we can because God is for us.


Please keep praying for the church here in Iwakuni, Japan. Pray that many people here will be saved this year. That the eyes of the lost will be opened and they will come and know a God who has something so much more for them!!! 

Amazing

http://www.churchleaders.com/children/childrens-ministry-videos/157833-11-year-old-shares-christ-in-every-book-of-the-bible.html

this is one of the amazing thing that God can do through a child. Raising up children in God's word can shake you up!!

The Importance of Children's Ministry

I found a video sermon about the importance of children's ministry. If you are involved with children's ministry/youth ministry or wanting to help with children's ministry/youth ministry, I recommend you watching this video. About an hour long video, but it is worth it!

May God continue to bless His children and fill them with His Spirit!!!!

here is the link:

http://www.churchleaders.com/children/childrens-ministry-videos/147544-The-Importance-of-Children%E2%80%99s-Ministries.html

enjoy (>w<)b

Update on the fellowship room

Before                                                                                  After 

 One of the main things we did this week was painting the floor so that the floors would be nice and give it more of the cafe feel to it.

 Before

After

We are almost done with the room! We are so excited  that the room is almost fully ready so we can have fellowship in here on Sundays after church and during the week!!
We still have to finish up the kitchen and we are still waiting to get more tables and chairs so we could have places for people to sit, feel relaxed and have great fellowship.

Pastors conference

 Had the chance to go to a pastors conference last week in Japan up in the mountains outside of Tokyo. I got to meet and talk to some of the pastor here in Japan. It was a blessing to learn from these men of God who have a heart for Japan. The theme was Grace. It is so important for us to always be reminded about God's grace! It was a blessing to be reminded that God wants to give us His grace and we don't deserve it at all. I learned a lot more on God's awesome grace and also learned a lot more on ministering to the Japanese, serving in ministry, being a missionary, and learning church planting.

 It was a blessing to get to meet up again with some of my old Okinawa friends. Please keep these guys in prayer as they are all serving God in different parts of Japan now so that the people in Japan can all call on the name of the Lord.

 Here are some pictures of where we had out pastors conference!! Such a beautiful place up in the mountains. 

New fellowhsip/cafe room!!

Before picture (Old)

After Picture. (New)

 

We are planning on changing this room into more of a cafe feel to it. We already painted, removed the carpet and now we want to put new tables in this  room so we can have a nice room for fellowship and coffee. 

Our new Kitchen in the fellowship room!!

Before Picture After picture

Please pray that this room will get done soon so we could have nice place to invite people in for fellowship!