『もうひとつの東京タイム。』 "ANOTHER TOKYO TIME."

My Perfect Sunday

My Perfect Sunday

Published July 16, 2008

With few Christians in Japan, Sunday is not a day of worship. It is, however, the only day most people have with their family. Until a couple of years ago, students had school on Saturdays and ...

Roger and Gaynor

Our Dear Family and Friends,
We have just finished watching the final of a brilliant game of tennis at Wimbledon between Federer and Nadal. It's great that it is at a decent hour here!

We are both well and being kept rather busy with our trips into Basel to meet up with people, spend time at Centrepoint volunteering (each once/week for 2 hours) and also the Friday morning tea. German classes have stopped running for July and August so we have to think of other creative ways to move ahead with the language!

We spent a last Tuesday lunchtime with our Youth Pastor David and his wife Simea talking about the upcoming Youth Camp in Denmark and the role they would like us both to play. There will be around 65 on the camp altogether. I am a little excited because we just might get to dip our toes into the ocean! Our accommodation will be in a boarding school.

Thank you for your prayers, support and interest in our ministry here. We value you all immensely.

With love,
Roger and Gaynor


Praise Points

- We are very happy to have warmer weather and the enjoyment of being outside much more. We still cant quite get used to the summer break being in the middle of the year.

- Continued good contacts being made in Basel. We are spending more and more time in Basel and this is proving to be most worthwhile. We have begun volunteering at Centrepoint and find this is a great way to meet newcomers to Basel.

- Roger has enjoyed putting on a 6 part DVD Australian Drama Series at Centrepoint (2 nights with 1 night to go) with 6 - 8 guys attending and really enjoying the series and being together.

- Roger attended a Tuesday Seminar Leadership Advance which looked at the subject
RAW BEAUTY: Finding and Fostering the Potential in Others

- Wonderful response and great encouragement to us both from many of you after last months prayer points - thank you!


Prayer Points

- Continuing planning and meeting with strategic people in Basel, working out ways to move forward in our ministry here.

- We have been invited to go on the Young Peoples camp from our German Church again this year. It will be for 2 weeks and will be held in Denmark, so a bus ride of 13 hours. We travel early on 26 July and come back overnight on the 10 August. We ask you to pray for good contacts with the young people and leaders. We will need to pay something towards the camp, so please pray some support will come in specifically for this. The young people will be paying 379 euros each for the 2 weeks.

- The second stage of Leadership Advance is the weekend of 31 Aug - 2 Sept. Pray for Derek Webster as he prepares this and that God will lead more people to participate.

- Roger as he gets to know the men better who attend the movie nights. Pray that God will open up opportunities to speak about faith in Jesus.

Book: The Reluctant Communist

1,000 yen and 500 yen commemorative coins

Heads and Tale: Designs for 1,000 yen and 500 yen commemorative coins for featuring "The Tale of Genji" are unveiled Tuesday by the Finance Ministry. The upper images are the fronts of the two coins. KYODO PHOTO

I am a Father - Shogo Hamada

A Father’s Day Quotation

“Real Fatherhood is leading in faith, through faith, to faith. If no faith is required it is not Fatherhood in the truest sense. It may be parenting and is most likely mothering. Most fathers mother because they do not have the faith to lead in faith, through faith, to faith......”

Ken Nielsen

Note: Some mothers father, if they have been fathered, and most fathers mother since that is what they have received. Mothering and Fathering are functions and not titles. Mothering and Fathering are not gender specific. Mothering is natural and requires no faith while Fathering is spiritual and only comes by faith.

Happy Father's Day

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Slide Show: Slimming Japan

Japan, a country not known for its overweight people, has undertaken an ambitious campaign to slim down its citizenry. Go to Article

Just a Little Rogayn

Our Dear Family and Friends,

This year is racing by. Cheryl reminded me on the phone this morning that we are coming to the longest day of our year and those of you in Australia to the shortest day!! That's quite too much for us to take in!

We trust all is well with you and the activities you are involved in. We again thank you for your prayers for us and our ministry here. As we've said before, and will continue to say, we couldn't be here without the faithful prayers of people like you.

We are both well and enjoying the warmer weather (even though one night last week the overcoat had to come out again!). The colours of spring/summer in Europe have to be seen to be believed. It is quite something.

Please send us a quick email with news about you and if you would like us to pray about something specifically, please let us know.

With our love,
Roger and Gaynor

Praise Points

- We are feeling particularly encouraged and excited about our work here and the contacts we are making. We have much to thank God for as we continue our ministry here in Basel.

- Good venue to hold our monthly Mosaic Gatherings in Loerrach which Derek Webster has been running and speaking at. The next gathering is this Wednesday 11 June.

- We had our first Nooma Night at a Starbucks Cafe in Basel on 27 May with 14 in attendance, but most were Christians. Nevertheless this is a start and at least gives the Christians an insight in to how simple reaching out can be. (Please see our blog for more details about what Nooma is all about).

- Good phone conversations with family and friends in Australia which we find particularly encouraging and helpful.

Prayer Points

- For God's leading as we continue to move forward in our work here, to know exactly what God wants us to do in the coming months, and for good ideas as we bring people together.

- Our good friend Cheryl sent Roger a DVD series from Australia for his birthday. Roger is organizing 3 Thursday nights to show the series at Centrepoint in Basel, for men only, beginning 19 June. Pray for good numbers and for the men to enjoy being together and that there will be good relationships developing.

- Roger is attending the Swiss Baptist AGM this coming Saturday near Zurich. Pray he will have the opportunity to share something of our work and to enthuse those who attend these meetings.

- For wisdom for us in the one-on-one times we have with either new followers of Jesus, or with those who are not yet but close to being followers of Jesus. You give them a name when you pray (eg man's name for Roger's contact) to make it real and personal.

We hope to keep our working blog up to date each week. Please check it out to see what we are up to - http://rogngayn.blogspot.com