Missionary: Priscilla Abbott
Tarami Dendosho (Tarami New Church Development) had its first worship service on July 2, 1989, in the Kikitsu Seaside Town housing development facing Omura Bay. Six members of the congregation meeting on the campus of Chinzei High School in the next town Isahaya were the charter members of Tarami Dendosho. P.C.U.S.A. missionary Priscilla Abbott has been pastor of the congregation since its founding. Church school classes begin at 9 a.m. and Sunday services begin at 11 a.m. each week.
Since 1989 the congregation has grown to nine members. Only two members live in Tarami Town's Kikitsu Seaside Town housing development, so weekday meetings have low attendance. A few weeks after celebrating their fifth anniversary, Tarami Dendosho had its first funeral and first baptism a week apart. The person baptized at that time, Yoko Shojima, is now a student in the theological department of Kwansei Gakuin University in Nishinomiya. She had been a student in the Sunday School in West Isahaya New Town housing development when Priscilla Abbott first came to Isahaya. in 1982.
The newest member to join the congregation is Chimari Kawazoe who was a student at Shikoku Christian College (now Shikoku Gakuin University) when Priscilla Abbott was on the faculty there. All the present session members have joined the church since it moved to Tarami from Chinzei. There are many school and neighborhood activities on Sundays, so both church school and morning worship attendance is low. Average attendance in May, 1997, was one for church school and six for morning worship. Please pray for the congregation, the pastor and their witness in Kikitsu Seaside Town.
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