{"id":2476,"date":"2019-02-25T09:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2019-05-01T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:20:26","slug":"bamba-newsletter-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/bamba-newsletter-february-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamba Newsletter: February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear families and friends in Christ,<\/p>\n

Everyone looks forward to the New Year, a new beginning, and a chance to start with a clean slate. As Christians, we are thankful for the new beginning we have in Christ, an opportunity to live with Christ forever as a new creation. We are so very thankful for each one of you who are partnering with us to share this wonderful news of love and forgiveness with the Japanese people. We encounter so many people each day who have never heard of God or Jesus and His love for them. Thank you so much for your sacrifice of prayer and support to help us share the gospel with the Japanese people!<\/p>\n

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Bible Reading for Japanese Kids in ESL Classes<\/p><\/div>\n

Eryn had a Christmas baking class at home in December. There was a record number of 65 kids in attendance! We had to divide the kids into five different classes to have room for everyone. We started baking at 8:30 a.m. and finished at 6:00 p.m. The kids had so much fun baking and decorating brownie Christmas trees. We were able to talk about the reason everyone around the world celebrates Christmas and Jesus\u2019 birth while we were baking. The children enjoyed looking at all of our Christmas decorations, including several nativities, which they had never seen before.<\/p>\n

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Christmas Baking Class<\/p><\/div>\n

We offer children’s English conversation classes in the afternoons after kids get out of school. We have around 80 kids who attend weekly. During class, we read English books to help the kids get used to the flow of English. We just finished reading a children\u2019s Bible storybook. The children listened intently to all of the stories; they had never heard these stories before and were amazed when we told them they were all true. None of the parents are Christian or have read the Bible, but they were pleased to hear all of the moral lessons the children were learning in class. Please pray with us that the stories will stay in their hearts and the children and their parents will be drawn to learn more about this Jesus who was the center of all the stories they heard.<\/p>\n

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Pastor Yunoharas<\/p><\/div>\n

Hiro visits our IPH church on the small Japanese island of Nagasaki several times throughout the year to encourage and support the pastor and his wife. They had a great time of encouragement and prayer at the end of last year. The Japanese pastor, Yunohara, has started holding church meetings twice a month in an immigration center in his city. This center is a holding facility for foreigners who have overstayed their VISA for Japan and, therefore, are not allowed to enter Japan. It is a miracle that they allowed him to hold a service there at all. It took much prayer and perseverance, but over the course of several years, the immigration officers and the prisoners saw God\u2019s love through Hiroshi\u2019s words and actions during his regular visits to the detainees. Pastor Yunohara\u2019s work has touched so many people that it caught the attention of a TV station and they did a segment on him and his work at the immigration detention center. The segment was broadcast all over Japan. Please pray with us for the opportunities this will open up.<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for your prayers and support. We are so blessed and honored to be able to partner with you to share God\u2019s love with the Japanese people!!<\/p>\n

Your Missionaries to Japan,<\/p>\n

Hiro, Eryn, Justin, Ax, Hunter, and Olivia Bamba<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dear families and friends in Christ, Everyone looks forward to the New Year, a new beginning, and a chance to start with a clean slate. As Christians, we are thankful…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1,4],"tags":[336,108,280,340,109,308],"class_list":{"0":"post-2476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-missionary-newsletters","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"category-world-missions","10":"tag-336","11":"tag-bamba","12":"tag-february","13":"tag-february-2019","14":"tag-hiro-eryn-bamba","15":"tag-newsletter","16":"entry"},"title_es":"Bolet\u00edn Janssen: Febrero 2019","content_es":"

Un hombre de dios<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n\"\"<\/a>\r\n

No hace mucho tiempo, un hombre con una gran visi\u00f3n dej\u00f3 esta tierra para estar con nuestro Se\u00f1or. Su nombre es George Loar. No mucha gente sabe de \u00e9l, pero seguramente nuestro Se\u00f1or lo conoce bien. Fue un pastor fiel en los Estados Unidos y ten\u00eda una gran pasi\u00f3n por establecer iglesias en Ucrania.<\/p>\r\nNo lo conocimos cuando comenzamos nuestros esfuerzos de plantaci\u00f3n de iglesias en Kiev y sus alrededores en 1997. Con el tiempo, escuchamos su nombre y sentimos curiosidad por este hombre que, tantas veces, viaj\u00f3 al extranjero para comenzar a establecer m\u00e1s y m\u00e1s iglesias en todo el mundo. Ucrania. No vino solo, sino que siempre estuvo acompa\u00f1ado por algunos hermanos mayores en su iglesia. El pastor George y su equipo no rechazaron los lugares lejanos sino que, a\u00f1o tras a\u00f1o, visitaron las nuevas iglesias, incluso hasta Crimea. Finalmente, despu\u00e9s de algunos a\u00f1os, est\u00e1bamos en Ucrania al mismo tiempo que su equipo estaba all\u00ed y nos conocimos. Su apariencia alegre y amorosa nos caus\u00f3 una gran impresi\u00f3n y nos sentimos muy cerca de \u00e9l y de todo su equipo. Hablamos mucho sobre la obra de nuestro Se\u00f1or y lo importante que es hacer posible seguir plantando iglesias en Europa del Este. Su deseo era reunirse con todos los nuevos pastores y plantadores de iglesias e ir personalmente a ver el progreso y el crecimiento de las nuevas iglesias. Esta fue nuestra estrategia tambi\u00e9n. Despu\u00e9s de muchos a\u00f1os de cumplir su visi\u00f3n, ya no pod\u00eda venir. El viaje fue demasiado para \u00e9l y su equipo. A partir de ese momento nos mantuvimos en contacto frecuente con \u00e9l, y \u00e9l nos pidi\u00f3 que visit\u00e1ramos sus iglesias regularmente y envi\u00e1ramos informes. Est\u00e1bamos muy ocupados en Ucrania en ese momento, no solo para ministrar en las iglesias que hab\u00edamos ayudado a plantar, sino tambi\u00e9n para visitar las iglesias del pastor George. Esto nos llev\u00f3 a Crimea y al sureste de Ucrania, que ahora est\u00e1 separada del pa\u00eds principal. Recuerdo la fe sincera de los pastores en las iglesias de la aldea en toda esta \u00e1rea. Los cristianos eran tan serios. Sab\u00edan lo que era la vida, tener que trabajar en las minas, donde en cualquier momento pod\u00eda ocurrir un desastre. Muchas veces, estuvimos en una conversaci\u00f3n profunda con los mineros para tratar de mostrarles a Cristo. Ahora hay una guerra, gran incertidumbre, y la vida se ha vuelto m\u00e1s dif\u00edcil para todos. Recuerdo una vez en particular cuando busc\u00e1bamos una peque\u00f1a iglesia en un \u00e1rea forestal y de repente nos enfrentamos a guardias fronterizos rusos apunt\u00e1ndonos con sus armas. Fuimos extremadamente r\u00e1pidos para explicarles que est\u00e1bamos perdidos y no ten\u00edamos intenci\u00f3n de cruzar la frontera. Nos escucharon cordialmente y nos ense\u00f1aron el camino correcto. Esos recuerdos que nunca olvidaremos. Habr\u00e1 un tiempo muy pronto cuando nos reuniremos con nuestro hermano George nuevamente y adoraremos a nuestro Se\u00f1or juntos, mientras revolvemos los buenos tiempos que pasamos en Ucrania. \"\"<\/a> Ben y Marianne Janssen<\/strong><\/em>","author_name":"Hiro, Eryn, Justin, Ax, Hunter, and Olivia Bamba","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Newsletters.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Ar-DW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}