Dear partners in missions,

We appreciate your support to us & to the ministry in Japan. In these few months, we were challenged in many ways & many a times, we were reminded to pray & TRUST Him. Just to share a few testimonies:

1. Christmas CD Project 2007
WK is in charge of this project of creating a Christmas CD for distributions. But, he felt that I do not want to just distribute stuff to people. So, after much prayers & seeking the Lord, and later talking with some people, he decided to use this CD as a tool to witness & create opportunities for outreaches. Praying, too, that this will help to start some new cell groups in Japan. And, would be a good resources to Churches.

2. TMC (Tokyo Metro Church).
That's the name! To see cell churches grow in the marketplace! But, in fact, the theme is TMC, too. i.e. Transform My City! Yes, that is what we want to see God working in all the cities in Japan - Transform lives. We have been working with some groups, and, God has been doing amazing things! Here's a few lives that was transformed!

a. *Short version*: Two guys got saved. One is Shin and the other is Yuki. It is an awesome thing to partner with another. The mentor got mentored. Pray that Shin and Yuki will walk the walk and talk the talk. (full story is attached.)

b. Southern Baptist intern, Brian led Kazuo Kitamura on May 23.Brian was doing "5 min. Free English" at Shibuya, Kazuo approached him.Brian found out that Kazuo was seeking help, so made dinner appointment.They talked about 3 hours at that night, Finally Kazuo prayed to receive Christ.He came on June 7th seminar. Now he wants to get baptized. He is actually a son of a leader of a major cult in Japan. Now he is working for that organization. But he decided to move to new apartment and leave that job. I know it is a big decision. Please pray for spiritual protection for Kazuo. He is mid 30s and has two kids.Brian led Korean student, Thomas Yu last week. Thomas also came to the seminar on June 7th. Brian will continue to have "Bible study" with him.

c. Fumiko, the company presidentKenji who works for Yahoo at Roppongi also showed up at TMC seminar on June 7th.He brought a Christian lady. She used to be "professional POP singer" appeared on tv.Through her husband death, she became a Christian. Now she is a president of real estate company. She has a lot of property around Akasaka. We talked briefly after the seminar. I found that she is very much interested in new way of church planting. She could be a great resource for future TMC ministry. Please pray that we can meet her again to talk about how we can work together.

PLEASE PRAY with us as we are seeing God leading us to reach the Marketplace thru' TMC.

3. Developing new tools
Recently, WK was working on a new evangelistic CD that contains testimonies of baseball players. It was a challenge to translate it, and more challenging to have the japanese text to fit the timing of text in English! But, Praise God for providing some great Japanese Christians narrators!　You can see the English version here: http://reversingthecurse.org/index.html Pray with us as we put the Japanese version onto it.

4. NewLife Movement.
This is working with churches mainly in Tokyo, Sapporo, Yokohama & Fukuoka areas. Partnering with mission teams to reach these areas & helping the churches. Presently, we have teams in Tokyo, Yokohama, Shizuoka and Fukuoka. Pray that God will use them greatly to reach the people. We also have a short term worker helping a church in Yokohama area. She has 10 high school students in her group. Pray for her as reach out to them.

5. Back Home.
-Josephine & Angela are OUT for summer break (already).
-Pray for us (especially Jaine) to help them to use their break wisely. They LOVE to read, now. Pray with us as we learn to educate them in God's way.
-Jaine received a letter from the Principal of the Japanese Public school. We are invited to help with the English learning for the school. (In the past, Jaine would go there to read English books to the students.) Pray with us as we seek God in this area.
-Please pray, too, for Jaine's mom's group, that God will open their hearts.


6. CM 2007
WK will be going to Korea to join a big student conference that is expecting 20,000 conferees. More info here Pray for him as he will be sharing with some people about the missions needs in Japan. And, to be refresh spiritually, too. Pray, too, for our family that stay back in Japan! That Josephine, Angela & Jaine will not fall sick.

Thank you for praying with us!

We'll share more, and, do let us know how we can be praying for you, too!


Till another Japanese hears the Good NewsWeng Kong, Jaine, Josephine & Angela