March 2016Volume 14, Issue 1

Reaching and Training the Next Generation

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can Chi Alphapastor has ev-er addressedthe Japan As-semblies ofGod pastors. Itwas a greatway to helppastors seethat the mostopen age

endedinJanua~.wefound ways to stay con-nected with students dur-ing their winter break. InJanuary, we had PowerPraiseNight. and in Febru-ary we hosted a Valen-tine's Day chocolate out-reach party and a starWarsmovie marathon. Weinvited friends and hadstudents bring their non-Christian friends to these"party" events.

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2016 Chi Alpha Campus Ministry TrainingSeminar with Dale & Jan Crall at CentralBible College Chapel, Tokyo

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pan to the gospel are uni-versity students.

said farewell to our gradu-ates and to staff memberMahna as she moves toPortugal to get married.Thismonth Haruna Mukai

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dents, mission-aries, college

FromApril until July,we willhost 4 summer teams andseveral workers. We praythat from these teams Godwill raise up new career

Valentine Chocolate Cooking Class at the even highChi Alpha Student Center, Tokyo school students

who represent- missionarieswho will retumed 20 universitiesand 32churches. Many stayedlate each night for person-al prayer and ministry.

In preparation for the startof the new school yearthat begins in April. onMarch 3-4 we held a na-tional Chi Alpha CampusMinistryTrainingSeminar.Dale and Jan Crall, whopastor Hilltop CampusChurch in Peoria, Illinoisand are the district direc-tor for Chi Alpha in Illinois,were invited to be ourguest speakers.

to serve long-term in Ja-pan.

Your prayers and sup-port are integral in

reaching Japan with theoosoel of JesusChrist andraising up the next genera-tion. Thanksto you, youngpeople are being reached.discipled. and sent out toreach others!

Our strategy for expandingcampus ministryhas beento build bridges betweenthe local churches andlocal universities.We areexcited to see what Godwill do in the upcomingschool year as

Chi Alpha Japan team (clockwise): me,Amanda, Haruna, Yuri, Joyce, Mahna,and Nick.

several indicatedthat they want toreach out to theirlocal universitystudents. God israising up workersto reach Japan!

When the Japan Assem-blies of God nationalleadership heard that Pas-tor Dale Crall was comingto Japan, they invitedhim to speak at the na-tional pastor's retreat heldFebruary 22-24.Thiswas Thismonth we

Chi Alpha Student Center PROJECT#5635

PraiseGod, thisproject has been completed! Thank YOU for your aenerositv.