Report, July 2000

Dear everyone,

Hope this will find you well.   I wanted to send this mail with a big news,
but I do not have one yet.  We may make a contract with a buyer of our
property next week.  I would send a mail after we get a new property and move
to the new location.  But that will be too late for a July report.   If we
sell our property and get a new property this month, we have to change our
schedule for visiting U.S. congregations.  It would take a couple of months
to renovate the new property.  That would be from the middle of September to
November.  Initially we planned to visit U.S. congregations in November.  We
may need to change our schedule.

We are doing very well.  Our worship attendance was four (Kaoru, who was
baptized last month, Yoshiko, Mari and myself) until recently.  I have a
good news.  Yoshiko's daughter (about 25 years old) started coming to study
the Bible with us and to learn about God.   She has been seeking truth and
tried to find it in and many books and religious organizations, but she has
not been fulfilled.  I fervently pray that God will gently lead her to truth.

I have learned to pray more than before.  While in school, my prayer life was
terrible. In school, I guess I thought somehow I could handle classes by
myself.  In real life ministry and fight against Satan, this is not so.  I
realize that I have to pray to God to fight a good fight.  I usually get up
very early morning to go to my office and pray to Him & meditate on the word
of God.  This is the beginning of a day I go to a battle field against Satan.

This is a short report, but I hope the next report will be full of good news.  I really appreciate your prayers and support.  May
God continue to bless you.  Through your life, our Lord Jesus may be
glorified.

In His service,
Masa