ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Forest Grove Church</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <link href="../fg_styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </style> </head> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript"> <!-- function generalWindow(newDest,hh,ww,resiz,scroll) { winSpecs = "width=" + ww + ",height=" + hh + ",resizable=" + resiz + ",status=no,scrollbars=" + scroll + ",toolbar=no"; newWindow = window.open(newDest, "newWin" , winSpecs) ; newWindow.focus(); } //--> </script> <body bgcolor="#003300" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <table width="698" height="741" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td height="70" colspan="2" bgcolor="#336633"><img src="../images/fg_mainhead_1.jpg" width="700" height="70" border="0" usemap="#Map"></td > </tr> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td height="22" colspan="2" bgcolor="#7F4900"> <table width="700" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td class="mainNav"><a href="../about.htm" class="mainNav"><span>About Us</span></a></td> <td class="mainNav"><a href="../outreach.htm" class="mainNav"><span>Mission &amp; 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It is a place of tremendous beauty &#8211; parks, ponds, waterfalls, shops and lovely tourist retreats make it a popular destination. But beyond the beauty are the stone and wood temples and smiling idols &#8211; a reminder that the Lord Jesus is a foreigner in this place.&nbsp; It is to this land that the Lord has called our friends, Tom and Nancy Edwards to minister in His name.&nbsp; This past Christmas was an exciting time for the ministry in Karuizawa &#8211; a town which considers itself the &#8220;<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Christmas</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Town</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>&#8221; of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Japan</st1:place></st1:country-region>. On Christmas Eve, the Union Church opens its doors, and many non-believers stop in to learn about the true gift of Christmas. Nancy says it has become the &#8220;thing to do&#8221; to go to a Christmas Eve candle light service because of the beauty of such a service. What an incredible opportunity to present the Gospel! As each person leaves, they are given a gift of home made cookies, candy cane and a Gospel tract. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span></i></b>Tour buses even stop by the Chapel to see the illumination, and many tourists learn about Jesus. Over 20,000 Japanese tracts are given out at Christmas. Praise God for what He is doing there!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <st1:city w:st="on"> <st1:placetype w:st="on"> <st1:placename w:st="on"> <st1:city w:st="on"> <img src="../images/image005.png" width="472" height="268" border="1"></p> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The Edwards are a very loving and generous couple and have many young people they are mentoring. Young Japanese love American style weddings and church music, so many come for that and stay to hear the Word. But actually committing to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">one Savior</b> is difficult in a land where there are so many gods to choose from. There is also much family resistance when a young person chooses Christ and relinquishes the family belief system. It can lead to separation or rejection by parents, siblings or spouse and children. It can also lead to oppression and loss of livelihood.<o:p></o:p></span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on"><p class="MsoNormal"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p align="center" class="MsoNormal"> <span class="GramE"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">GREAT<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>NEWS</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">!<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Right now the Edwards are on home ministry assignment, to raise money for their continued work. They are hoping to team up with the ministry of Austin and Laura Krokos, whom they met through Forest Grove Church, to bring young Japanese students to the Master Plan Ministry ranch near Durango, Colorado, for Bible study and mentoring. They are currently talking with their mission about the possibility of redeployment for such a venture. It is their hope and belief that such a venture would benefit the Japan field church planting effort. Please lift up this plan and the wonderful possibility of joining these two ministry teams together. The Lord has blessed us to be part of this effort! Please pray for this great work that the Lord may bless it, and give generously to this wonderful ministry to the people of Japan during the month of April.<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p> <p align="center" class="MsoNormal"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"> Return to your home, and declare how much God has done for you! Luke 8:39</i></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" class="fgsub2b" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="fgsub2b" height="22"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="fgsub2b" height="1"></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><p class="h6">&quot;His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. 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