Easter Baptism, Celebration Service, & Praise Report from Japan

Happy Easter.  Jesus is risen!!  Easter Sunday is probably the most important Christian event each year as we celebrate our Lord Jesus’ victory over death.  Now it’s even more exciting when we can witness that victory through the new lives birthing into the Kingdom.  So on Sunday, April 8, there are seven people declaring their faith through water baptism: Yi Chang (益昌), his wife Yu Ju (玉如), their son Wei Chieh (韋傑), their daughter Jo Yun (若韵), Yu Ju’s mother Chin-Lan (金蘭), Sharon (月霞), and Vern & Dee’s 2nd boy Joseph.  Six of them will be baptized in beautiful Kahala Beach Park and Joseph will be baptized at church in the evening.  So please come to the beach baptism at 11:30am and give your love and support to these “new-born babies” in the Kingdom!

Also, come to the 5pm service as well and listen to their powerful testimonies.  Invite your friends to come as well, and please let Pastor Mei Li know how many friends are coming so we would know how much food we should prepare.  If you are bringing a dish to share in the evening, please also let Pastor Mei Li know so she can coordinate.

In addition to the exciting celebration that we are having here in Hawaii, I want to let you know God is also doing wonderful thing in Japan as well.  Please read Brian & Yuka’s praise report below, and let us rejoice together on both sides of the Pacific!

Aloha,
Will

 

——Praise report from our missionaries in Japan—–

Hi, everyone.

My sister just called me that my brother in-law’s grandmother accepted Jesus as a personal Savior!!!
She is 85yrs old.
My sister wrote her testimony last year and shared with in-law’s family.
Ever since she read it, she kept saying, I want to go to church and read bible.
My brother in law’s family lives in Ibaragi ( right by Tokyo).
Grandmother never traveled outside of Ibaragi, so he went to pick her up and brought her back to Sapporo.
Today, they went to church together and was baptized, too!
She said, I am 85yrs old and now I will live happy life!!!

Thank you for all your prayers for us and our family!
We are so excited that so many new friends will be baptized tomorrow, too.
We can’t be there, but we will be united in the Spirit.

Love, joy and peace

Yuka & Brian

Healing & Revival Gatherings with Pastor David Lin on Jan. 8, 12, and 15

Happy New Year! At the beginning of 2012, New Life have invited Pastor David Lin to spark the Holy Spirit fire to kick start the New Year.  We will have three meetings with Pastor Lin, on Sundays of 1/8 and 1/15 starting at 5pm; and on Thursday of 1/12 starting at 6pm.  Please see the flyer for more information about Pastor Lin.  And if you still want more information of Pastor Lin’s ministry, you can go to his website (English site link; 中文網站連結).  Don’t forget to invite your friends and family to come as well!

New Service Time on Sunday 5pm

Starting today (5/1), our worship services will change from Saturday evenings to Sunday afternoons (5pm)!  After 7 years of gathering on Saturdays, the Lord has now opened door for us to meet on Sundays.  I believe this change also mark a shift, a breakthrough even, in the spirit realm!  Praise the Lord!!

Another change that comes with the change of service time is no more dinner served before worship.  It is a new season, and the Lord is doing new things.  We need to adjust according to the newness of this season and follows the Spirit more closely.  For the old wineskin is no longer fit for the new wine.  Yes, Lord, we want Your new oil and new wine!  Pour it out, and fill us until we can’t take it anymore!

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins.” (Mark 2:22, NKJV)

Healing & Deliverance Conference Recap

New Life International Christian Fellowship invited Pastor Tony & Tina Chong and Tina’s sister Lily from Sozo Ministries last month to teach and minister in the area of healing and deliverance.  The Lord has imparted much understandings and anointing through them.  Many people were healed and set free; others were baptized in the Holy Spirit and received the gift of tongues.  Praise the Lord!

Here are the links to download the mp3 and handout files for the seminars:
Seminar #1 (MP3, Ch) (Handout)
Seminar #2 (MP3, Ch) (Same handout as seminar #1)
Seminar #3 (MP3, En/Ch) (Handout)
Seminar #4 (MP3, Ch) (Handout)
Seminar #5 (MP3, En/Ch) (Handout) (Prayer)
Seminar #6 (MP3, Ch) (Handout) (Prayer)
Seminar #7 (MP3, Ch) (Handout)
Seminar #8 (MP3, Ch) (Handout)
Seminar #9 (MP3, Ch) (Handout) (Pryaer)
Seminar #10 (MP3, Ch) (Handout)
Q&A Session (MP3, En/Ch)

Below is a short clip of the seminar on the last evening (3/27/2011):

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Chinese New Year Celebration Service, 2/5/2011

Mark your calendar!  New Life Church is celebrating the 2011 Chinese New Year on Saturday, February 5th.  You are invited to come celebrate with us.  Dinner will starts on 5:30pm and the service/program will begin at 6:30pm.  Invite your friends and family to come too!  Happy New Year & Gong Xi Fa Cai!!