Osaka Central Church and East Church had HisHands training sessions from April 11 to 13, 2014. Pastor Norihiko Hanada, personal ministries director of Japan Union Conference (JUC), Pastor Hiroshi Yamaji, JUC HisHands coordinator, Elder Yoshio Ikeda, JUC publishing ministries director as well as Pastor Han SukHee, NSD HisHands coordinator, were invited as speakers.
The training was especially meaningful because it was a part of the West Japan Conference’s Osaka 14—Big City EvangelismProject. Pastor Han SukHee, the main speaker, inspired the attendees with the HisHands mission spirit and relationship-based evangelism of Jesus.
Pastor Yamaji taught attendees how to care for long-term absentees while Pastor Hanada talked about the team ministry of HisHands missionaries and church pastors. Elder Ikeda gave a lecture on door-to-door visitation.
Participants also went out for door-to-door visitationin pairs to implement what they had learned during the training. After the experience, they said that visiting houses in teams of two was a more interesting and meaningful experience than theyhad expected, and they pledged to continuously workto accomplish the mission given to them.