Another Super Typhoon on it's way

There is another typhoon heading our way.  Right now it's in the Philippines.  Please pray for them.
It is slow moving at 3 knots per hour.  If it keeps its course, then it will be here in Okinawa on Thursday (I think).  God bless.  We're back in the blog world for now.

Harvest Carnival: RESCHEDULED for Nov. 20

Hey everyone, we had to postpone our Harvest Carnival due to the weather.
The new date will be Saturday, November 20th. Same time.
Please let others know. It will give us more time to get more candy too.

Hope you can join us on the new date!

Summer VBS August 2nd-6th

Join us for an exciting Summer adventure!

The adventure begins Monday, August 2nd.

Registration is free!

Click below to download the registration form.

English Form

Japanese Form

Passion Week Services

You are invited to join us for 3 special services this week as we worship the Lord during what is traditionally called "Passion Week" or "Holy Week".

Married Couple's Valentine's Dinner

This Sunday night we had our Valentine's Dinner for the married couples. It was a real blessing and a lot of fun. It was a great turn out, we had 40 couples come out for our special event which included dinner, games, an encouraging message and more fun games. I wasn't able to get around to all the tables to take pictures (sorry). Everyone looked great and the Lord blessed us with a wonderful night.
The youth group and a few fearless adults helped to watch the kids for everyone as a fund-raiser for their missions trip to the Philippines. Thank you Lord for a wonderful night!

CC Okinawa Men's Conference

Some of the guys got together today to watch the 2010 CC Men's Conference (Southern California) DVDs. We were blessed with a great time of fellowship and great teaching from God's Word. We watched 9 of the 12 teachers and had a full day strengthened as men of God.

Kadena Chapel hosts local pastors

 

 

 

 

This past Tuesday, the Kadena Air Base Chaplains hosted a fellowship lunch with tour of the F-15’s.  A group of local pastors were blessed to attend.  We got to sit in the cockpit of the F-15!  too fun.  It was a good time to see the other brothers that are ministering for the Lord on Okinawa.

Harvest Carnival 2009

Please pray for our Harvest Carnival.

We want to be a bright light for Jesus in outreaching to our Okinawan neighbors and family.

We also want to provide a Christ-centered alternative to Halloween for our own kids.

Please come by and join in the fun!

Special visitors

During the summers off from college, Jessica comes home and has blessed us over the years by leading in worship for us on Sunday mornings. God has given her a beautiful gift and we are so grateful she has been willing to serve everytime and bless us all.

Jessica's sister, Jennifer and her son, JJ came back home too for a visit. JJ and Ben-Ben would make a great tag-team WWE team some day in the near future (maybe next year?). It's always great to see the girls with mom, Makiko-san.

We were also super blessed by a visit from the Schultz'. Rob and Becky are retired from the Navy now and are serving on the mission field. They came one Sunday and shared the neat things that God is doing in and through them. They have become very dear friends of ours and we are excited for them in this new venture of faith. ( I guess Jessica was thirsty)

Yahoo... look who's back! Yasutomo, Juan, Stomer, Yasuromo, Miyagi-san... whatever you want to call him... add driving school boy to your list. Stomer's back for a bit from college in Tokyo and is taking classes for his driver's license. I wonder what name he will use for his license and if he will break Japanese culture and smile big for the photo like he is here with Roy. It's great to have our brother back.

PCS season stinks

Every summer, we experience something the military calls "PCS season". PCS stands for Permanent Change of Station (at least I think so) and every year, there are a good handful of families that come and there are good handful of families that leave us- that's the stinky part. If we had our way, we'd keep everyone with us. Over the years, we have been so blessed with some incredible folks that love the Lord and have served Him here with us and this year was no exception.
We said "see you later" to the Wayman's and to the Coates' on this day.

We got to dedicate baby Noah this Sunday. God blessed Andre and Regina with a baby while they were here - and they thought they were done! Ha! Lisa Freeman's smiling the most right now. :)

We're going to miss the Coates. Ryan, Brandess and Caleb - we love you guys and will be praying for the newest member of the Coates family. Thank you for everything and always letting us use your house! Send some pics when baby arrives!

Everyone loves the Newlons

Here's Yumi with Ken & Cheryl at recent farewell dinner we hosted for our departing families.

To say that the Newlon's will be missed is the understatement of the year. They were friends with everybody! We miss them dearly in so many ways they have impacted so many here on Okinawa and our lives in wonderful ways. We are grateful to the Lord for them.

Yoko's crew and Newlon's

We miss you Jennie!

The Phipps' crew and Newlons (look at all those great smiles! I love this picture)

Asiah mini concert

We were so blessed a few Wednesdays back when Asiah came and did a mini-concert for us here at Calvary Okinawa.
She was on island for a series of concerts and outreaches but was gracious enough to stop by and bless us.
Enri translated for her into English even though Asiah is bilingual. Enri and her have been friends from gradeschool.
Enri was our connect to having Asiah come :)

Look it's our very good friend and bro in Christ, Pastor Vee from Daichi Baptist Church. It's always a joy to see our brother and to hear of the great things God is doing in and through his ministry on Okinawa.

Josh was invited to play for a special song and did a great job. We had a great night where God was glorified through all that was sung and shared. Thank you Asiah for blessing us!

Special Mini Concert This Wed. 08/19 Asiah

Hey everyone, we're having a special mini-concert on Wednesday Night, August 19th @ 7pm

If you can join us, it will be awesome. Bring a friend. Asiah is a professional Japanese Christian musician and will performing songs from her newest album, Pure. She will sharing her testimony in Japanese with English side-by-side translation, so bring your Japanese speaking friends! See you at 7pm!

Youth Bowling!!! It was super fun and the food wasn't too shabby either!

Youth Servant Sunday

Youth Servant Sunday

Youth Servant Sunday

Some gentle reminders about upcoming events!

Baptisim Pictures

The individual baptism pictures will be posted tomorrow!!!

Pastor Rick shares some words about Baptism and we have a moment of prayer

Baptisim Pictures

Fred led us in worship

We eventually had to move to the trees for some shade

Hanging out before the baptisms' begin... Amy was super smart bringing that umbrella!

Beach Baptism pictures

We were blessed Sunday to take part in several beach baptisms'. It was really HOT but so rewarding to see how God works in others lives. Pictures will be posted soon!!!

Youth Bake Sale

The youth bake sale went VERY well. We were very blessed by the members of our church. Thank you to all! Ya'll have such giving hearts, we truly appreciate it! AND thanks to all the youth ( and parents) who provided for the bake sale!

Sunday: After service - lunch together

there was so much work to do but God provided for it all - volunteers and food to feed them!