新宿シャローム教会の英語礼拝E-Cafeのホームページです。 TGIS stands for Thank God It's Saturday! Website for Shinjuku Shalom Church E-Cafe English Service

2010-11 Winter

2011.03.05 TGIS Weekly Blog (Posted by Wayne)

Hello everyone and welcome to the TGIS blog for Mar 5th, Sat.
We started off with a strange game of translating a word from Japanese to English and picking up a bonus card. It was mainly about fish as the game master is crazy about fishing.

We moved on to worship as the lovely Mamiko led us to worship to Jesus. We all sang with gusto and reverence.

The PA were manned by Shin, Miki, and Aki

Then Riko finally gave us her personal testimony of how she became a Christian and showed a video of an Olympic runner who finished dead last in the 400 meters because of a torn hamstring. He didn't give up and was helped by his father, just as our Heavenly Father takes care of us when we fall. There was not a dry eye in the room.

The message was on our purpose in life is to be a blessing. The scripture was in Acts of Peter and John healing the crippled beggar. "Silver and gold have I none but such as I have give I thee in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk." We might not have much money, but we do have Jesus in our lives and we are to be a blessing to others around us especially for that one life. Kumi was the great interpreter. 

Lastly, Mamiko led us in the last song, hymn #365, Shall We Gather At The River! That was the joke of the day. If you want to know what that means come out to our next TGIS. See you there! May Jesus make you a blessing this week!
2011.02.26 TGIS Weekly Blog (Posted by Ronnie)

Hi everyone! Thanks for coming to TGIS this week.

This was what happened today!

Ice Break
Today Kumi led us in Ice Break. 
She prepared many riddles to ask us.
Here are a couple that she asked. 
1. Why is 6 afraid of 7?                         Answer: Because  7 ate 9.   (Because 7 8 9)
2. What key cannot open doors?           Answer:  Donkey or turkey
3. How many men were born last year?    Answer:  Zero. Because only babies were born. 
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Worship
Today Mamiko-san led us in worship.
1. You are good
2. Awesome God
3. Sing
4. Take it all

Testimony
Chloe, one of the early core TGIS member, who went back to Singapore two years ago, visited Shalom and gave a testimony on how we should put our trust in God and believe He will always help us.

Message
Wayne shared about the importance of prayer from the scriptures of Acts 12.
The passages of Acts 12 talk about how the early church members prayed earnestly Peter's safety while he was captured in prison. One night, an angel appeared before Peter and let him out of the prison. 

This year's theme at Shinjuku Shalom Church is "For One Life", so let us start praying for someone this week.

Fellowship
Wow, today we got a load of a fruity vinegar beverage. We have hundreds of them piled up on the wall. Very interestingly, these drinks are all expired by two weeks. The company that made this vinegar beverage gave its expired stock to our church. Thank God it was still tasty and my stomach didn't get sick!


See you next week! Bye!

2011.02.19TGIS Weekly Blog (Posted by Yue)

Hello,everybody!
Im really sorry for writing too late....
Here is what happened to TGIS on 19th...
 
Icebreak
Lisa lead the game this time,
we played a type of "message passing game".
W took turn drawing picture on the board instead of  saying a message.
It was difficult to understand what each picture was trying to represent. 
We had a lot of fun!
Thank you so much, Lisa! 
 
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Ronnie lead the worship time.
We can sing the worship song with perfect lyrics,
Tank you Ronnie, PA team!
 
Message
Pastor lead this time.
 
W have many times to make a big decision in our life.
like,what should i do? should i change the job?, to whom should i get married ect...
 
Nbody wants to get the worng way,
So how can we decide?
 
Samuel 5:23~
"so David inquired of the Lord,and he answerd,...."
these passages is about how David defeated the Philistines.
 
See,
we need to ask God through prayer.
God knows everything, so its no wonder that He knows your answer.
 
 
After the service,
we enojyed chatting with lots of snacks=)
 
 
Wll, everybody is welcome!
W are looking forward to seeing YOU♥
2011.02.12 TGIS Weekly Blog (Posted by Ron)

Hi everyone!  Sorry for the late blog!

here is what happened on 2011.02.12.

Ice Break
Today Yumi introduced a new game to TGIS!  It is word search!!!
We divided into three groups. Each group got a word-search sheet.
All the words are mixed up in a pool and we had to find all of them as fast as possible.
It was very fun~~~

Here is something similar to what we did

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Worship
Sam from Singapore led us in worship today!!!
He shared scriptures before each song, explaining how each song touched his heart this week.
Thank you Sam for the great worship!

Testimony
Today Kumi shared about her rough week at work. Her co-workers, who are professors at a well-known university, had a big argument during one of their meetings.  Kumi was surprised how grown-ups can have so much negative feelings buried about something and then explode them in public. Kumi prayed much about the people who were arguing, and one of them actually wrote an apology e-mail to everyone for his/her behavior. This professor is a Christian but he\her was not really acting like a Christian for the past few years. Everyone was surprised about the professor's e-mail and Kumi embraced it and asked the professor to pray together one day. After that e-mail and after much praying, everyone in the department started to respond positively to resolve the conflict and the bitter feelings between each other. Thank God for working in each one's heart.

Message
Today Wayne gave the message and Kumi did the interpretation! Thank you both!

Fellowship
Wow, we had a bunch of chocolates on the table today because in two more days, it will be Valentines' Day.  Thank you Wayne for the box of chocolates and thank you Sam for the chocolate cake. I am so sorry I didn't take a picture of it but many other ppl did.. =P


Hope to see you next week

God bless,




2011.01.29 TGIS Blog (Posted by Wayne)
 
Hi Everyone again and welcome to the TGIS blog. We had another power packed meeting at Shinjuku, where everyone is welcomed.
 
We started off with the smiling Kumi as she introduced Riddles for our Icebreak. Boy, did it break our heads, I mean the ice. Sam's team won for the most correct answers. They were actually the scholars team as intelligence rules!
 
Our worship was led by Sam as we sang some new and some familiar songs to the Lord. He read some scriptures and we catapulted into the presence of the Lord.
 
Kumi was also our emcee and introduced Aki for his personal testimony. He talked about growing up in a Christian home, but by the time he was in high school he wanted to do his own thing. It was in college after attending a Christian camp he met Jesus in a real way and now he is serving the Lord with all his might!
 
The message was on The Lord Looks On The Heart, as we studied about King Saul the kind of man he was. Israel wanted a king like the other nations around them. They rejected the Lord in asking for a king. Saul was an impressive person: tall, dark, and handsome. The Lord gave Israel what they wanted, outward appearances. As we found out Saul was selfish, impatient and wanting to take matters into his own hands. He did not obey the Lord and his kingdom was taken from him. It is better to obey than to sacrifice. The Lord is looking for a person after His own heart. He does not look on the outward appearance, but the heart after God! David was that man. We need to be like David. Then we can be For One Life.
 
We closed with song about Lord I Give You My Heart which matched perfectly with the message. That was a blessing. Then we had fellowship and food. There were 2 new people who came. So please come out and join us to worship Jesus together!

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2011.01.15 TGIS Blog (Posted by Wayne)

 
Welcome to the TGIS (Thank God It's Saturday) blog for this week January 15th Saturday. This is what went on.

Icebreak 
We started off with this neat game where 3 people are involved. If Akiko the game master said you're a rabbit then the middle person will hold up his two hands to make ears and the right and left person will hold on to the middle person and stomp their outer food saying pyong! pyong! pyong! We did this for and elephant, snake, cow and AKB 48. It was a fun and refreshing time.

 

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Worship and Testimony
Next we had Pastor Elmer and Mamiko worship leading us into the presence of Almighty God. This is what TGIS is all about to worship Jesus the King of Kings!
We had a refreshing testimony by our new brother Sam who has come to work in Tokyo. He talked about how he was born into a Christian family and moved from Hong Kong to Singapore. He got his college degree at Cambridge Uni in the UK. His early life there was only a head knowledge of Jesus, but in his college years, he came to know Jesus with his heart.

Message
The message was done by this guy from Hawaii,but I forgot his name. Anyway, he talked about the theme For One Life and in our lives we need to know what value, priorities, and commitment is all about so we can make a difference for one life. He also talked about triage in a disaster prioritize: red means critical, yellow-caution or serious and can become critical, green-minor or walking wounded and black is dead or imminent.


Again the interpreting from English to Japanese was by our sister Kumi.
We closed with a last song by Mamiko, and fellowship time.
We had 4 newcomers and we thank them for coming.

So please come and join us this Saturday from 2 pm.

God bless you.

2011.01.08 TGIS Blog (Posted by Ronnie)

Hallelujah! Happy New Year! Welcome to the first TGIS service of 2011~

We had an awesome fun time today!

Icebreak

First we had icebreak led by Yumi~  We played Fruit Basket!

We ran around fighting for chairs! haha, everyone had a good exercise.

Worship

1. Freedom we know

2. Inside Out

3. Mighty to Save

4. One Way

Testimony

Everyone shared how they spent their New Year's eve. Some spent at a church praying.

Some spent watching TV. Some spent at a restaurant with friends.

Messeage

The theme for Shalom Church this  year is "For One Life".

The key scripture is the following:

Matthew 16:26

What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul.

From this verse, one can understand how valuable and priceless is a person's life. There is nothing that we can give in exchange for our lives. Let us rejoice and live our life to the fullest and for God's amazing mission.

Hallelujah

Fellowship

Today we had a lot of snacks! Hirose-san, who always buys the food for us, brought us Mr.Donuts for today because she said that we need to eat something special for the first TGIS of the year!

Thank you Hirose-san for your warm service.

See you all next week!

God bless!

2010.12.25 TGIS Blog (Posted by Wayne)

 
Merry Christmas TGIS fans. We had a fantastic time this past Saturday Christmas Day. For the first time ever we had a joint service, TGIS/Chinese Service/Christmas Celebration. Let me tell you about it. It was epic man!
 
To start off we had this kinda easy Christmas quiz with some hidden trick questions that mostly everyone could answer 98% accurately, but that 2% was tricky! Want to find our the answers? You have to come to next year's celebration.
 
Next we were led by the multi-talented Kayo as she played the piano and led worship to our Lord Jesus Christ. She sang the traditional Christmas carols of Joy To The World, and Silent Night. All the songs were tri-lingual: Japanese, Taiwanese, and English. It was totally awesome. Thanks alot Kayo!
 
Then we had a sports performance of yo-yo by Miki. He is only in Jr. High with 4 months under his belt, he did some amazing tricks on the yo-yo that takes the pros years to master. Thank you Miki.
 
We had a special treat it was the new Chinese Service AKB48 led by Yusuke (Panpan), his lovely wife, and Kohshin-san (Kwanjing) doing the number "I Want You." It was hilarious. All the people were rolling on the ground. Encore!
 
The message was given by our beloved Pastor and leader of the free world, Elmer Inafuku. He talked about the Christmas story, How Jesus came to earth as a baby, the mighty Son of God. It was God's gift to the world as we believe that Jesus died on the cross, shed his blood for our sins, and was raised from the dead, we can all have eternal life. So let's receive that gift from Jesus. And that's what Christmas is all about!
 
We ended with a candle light song, God Bless You as we sang his praises in Japanese, Chinese, and English thinking of the very first Christmas of the baby Jesus lying in a manger.
 
Then it was banquet time! The food was so delicious and plentious. It matched our appetites. I know of this lady she went back 7 times to eat, you know who you are! It was a fun joyous celebration we could have with the Christians and newcomers. There were over 56 people in attendance. We had people from Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan, US, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, Hawaii, Japan, Waseda, ICU, Eikaiwas, and the likes. Thank you Jesus for coming into our lives, Happy Birthday! Please join us on Saturdays at 3pm Kotobuki Building. (2 pm free English conversation) Next Saturday January 1st there will be no meeting, it's a day off. Looking forward to the New Year. God bless us everyone!

2010.12.18 TGIS Blog (Posted by Mamiko)

 

Hello, wellcome to TGIS Blog again! Please look at this and guess how we enjoyed today.

 

Ice Break

Today Yue led the Icebreaker. We made up two group, and Yue gave a word to the front person of each group. Yes, that was the "Shiritori"word-chain-game.But today, we had to draw something instead of the word. Yue said,"Not only a noun, but also an ajective or a verb could be OK."Wow, that demanded us an advanced technique and ability of drawing abstract..and of course a large vocabulary! The room was filled with silence but actually, we were very excited. When the time was up, Yue judged which group won. Then we all laughed out loud. Thank you, Yue-chan. Wait, nobody drew the thing that ended with the letter "x"...:)

 

Worship

1 One Way

2 You Are Good

3 Running with Giants

4 Mighty to Save

 

Message

Wyne shared a great message for Christmas.

This month's theme is "Good News for all the people".Firstly, we should be happy. The important things are the timing and to trust in God. We should stand in a good attitude. We always be with Jesus. Do good thing for a person a day. Don't be afraid. For, JESUS IS A PRINCE OF PEACE.

Let' open the Scripture Luke 1:77-79, Acts 10:38, and 1 Timothy 6:18.

 

Fellowship time

We had many candies and drinks, and also Robert brought us some cookies, sandwiches and the TOMOE-AME for Tomoe!!


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