In the spring of 2020, students of the Hiroshima Adventist Academy (HAA) were not able to return to the campus after their winter break because of an emergency declaration from the COVID-19 pandemic. When the world was consumed by anxiety due to the invisible virus, students voluntarily started to sing together virtually.
One of the praises, “We Want to Become a Tree of God,” was sung by 223 people. Not only did students participate in the virtual choir, 170 graduates and families of the school campus joined. Even a year later, this video clip still plays on YouTube. A non-Adventist Christian who watched the video sent a letter to the school and said, “I was deeply impressed by this video in such days of the pandemic.” We thank God for sending peace from Him to many people through the praises.
Forced to stay home due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, many graduates and guardians watched the videos of HAA through the Internet. One day a graduate posted a comment: “I watched the online vesper clip last night, and I noticed that it was held in our school!”
We want to continue to deliver praises and the gospel of God through our online channel and we believe God has provided a way to proclaim the Good News in this way, as Scripture says, “He has made everything beautiful in its time” (Ecclesiastes.3:11). Seeing such responses, the graduate class of 2020 donated new equipment for our digital evangelism as a commemorative gift.
Please visit the official YouTube channel of HAA. If you subscribe our channel, you can watch various activities of HAA as well as gospel messages and songs.
“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come” (Matthew 24:14).
News Article by Pastor Hayato Shimada, chaplain of Hiroshima Adventist Academy