To Love All Life Given by God

Acts 17:25b

Resurrection, That Is “After All.” (Matthew 28:5-6)

But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. He is not here; for he has been raised, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay. (Matthew 28:5-6)

We celebrated Easter for the second time in the COVID-19. In the fog of the novel coronavirus that lasted for more than a year, what we had been cultivating collapsed one after another. We experienced many such “after all.” Many people are overwhelmed by the “after all” that what they have accumulated steadily is torn apart.
Easter was celebrated with the bloody cry of the people in Myanmar. Myanmar’s people are about to experience such a “final” that democracy, which has risen in pain for the past ten years and has finally taken shape, is being crushed and destroyed at once.
Are our painful “after all,” their sad “after all” the human “after all”? No, we want to believe that it is by no means “after all.” That the resurrected Lord has risen, stood up, and walked ahead of the tomb, a place where everything seemed empty. In Myanmar, “this is not the end” and “this should not be the end”, and on the people who believe that and go on the path of CDM (nonviolent disobedience), the resurrected Lord Jesus will surely shed light. The women heard in front of the grave the truth for all people’s lives that “darkness could not overcome the light, life could not be trapped in the grave, and death was swallowed by life.” Today, we are listening to the very sound of that morning.

Kano Yoshitaka, Moderator

Notice of Christmas Holidays

Notice of Christmas Holidays

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Typhoon Hagibis Japan Situation Report

Typhoon Hagibis Japan Situation Report

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The typhoon Faxai and Hagibis that hit Japan consecutively in September and October left great damages in vast areas of East Japan. ACT Japan Forum has been conducting support activities in Minami-Boso of Chiba Prefecture. Here is the situation report. TyphoonSituationReportTyphoon Hagibis Situation Report ...
On Christmas

On Christmas

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Notice of Summer Holidays

Notice of Summer Holidays

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There is Posterity for the Peaceable. (Psalm 37:37)

There is Posterity for the Peaceable. (Psalm 37:37)

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Futami Masayoshi, Chair of Treasurer Committee Mark the blameless, and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the peaceable. (Psalm 37:37) NCC held the 70th Anniversary Missionary Conference in July this year, and adopted the “NCC Mission Declaration 2019.” The word "peace" is used seven times in the declaration. Every midsummer of August, we fully realize the preciousness of "peace" on many occasions in our country. Our hearts are awakened to the preciousness of peace at this moment, not even in retrospect to the memorial of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the walk to defeat. However, ...
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