A special meeting for Pastors wifes
In September we organized with a pastor's women-meeting with the guestspeaker Judi Fold's from Tokyo Baptist church. She gave testimony about how she has recognized as a pastor's wife at the side of her husband that her major task is to support her husband through her daily prayers. It is a prayer which contains the following points: she asks God for *wisdom for her husband *daily strength from the Bible *joy in his ministry * the right decisions he has to make everyday *a good witness for her husband before God and men *his health *the blessings of his sermons and finally she thanks God for his love to her. Judi and Dennis are the 'senior' pastor of a big church in which on every Sunday about 1400 people come to worship. The church has a total of six different services on every weekend. That day Judi has encouraged our pastor's women to pray more specific and faithfully for her husbands. It was good to see that many pastor's women from different congregations joined sshared and talked together. This meeting is going to continue next year, maybe in Sept. If you are a pastors wife, please come and join us.
Let´s celebrate! At our last missionaries- meeting we have celebrated some jubilees. The missionaries Barbara and Günther Wolke celebrated this year their 30. and I by myself my 20. years jubilee. I am thankful for these 20 years of ministry in Japan. Ulrike has baked us a wonderful cake. Ulrike, thanks for your love to us!
