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AN INVITATION TO WEAR COLORFUL CLOTHING
ON PENTECOST SUNDAY! On Sunday, May
11th, we will celebrate the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit on all nations. As a witness
to the multi-cultural identity of the
Christian Church, you are invited to waer
clothing that is representative of your
native land or cultural background. If you
do not have any clothing that is represents
your culture, then please wear something red
that symbolizes Pentecost.
ADULT BAPTISM PREPARATION CLASS -
Pastor Barry will be leading a 4-week class
for any adult who wants to make a public
profession of faith in Jesus Christ and
receive the sacrement of baptism. The class
will meet in Pastor Barry's office at
10.00am on May 18th, 25th, June 1 and 8th.
To sign up for the class or receive more
information, please contact Pastor Barry on
pastor@gol.com
MESSAGE FROM
ASSOCIATE PASTOR SEARCH COMMITTEE
Tokyo Union Church
(Tokyo, JAPAN)* currently has a position
available to serve as an associate pastor.
The search committee is informing relevant
organisations of this position, and asks for
your sincere co-operation. If you or your
colleagues know of an applicable candidate(s),
please forward the following information:
Requirements
Education - Masters of Divinity (MDiv)
or equivalent
Ordained or ordainable
Provide leadership for a broad range of
ministries in our international,
English-speaking church
Direct inquiries to
tucapsc@gmail.com
With
anticipatory thanks for your consideration
and understanding. Please click
here
for the job advertisement and
here
for the letter from the search committee.
In
Christ,
Tokyo Union Church Associate Pastor Search
Committee
E-Mail:
tucapsc@gmail.com
ALPHA NEWS! We hope you
can join us for the TUC VIP Alpha Course
kick-off on Friday 11 April at 6.45pm at TUC.
Alpha is an opportunity for anyone to
explore the Christian faith in a relaxed
setting over ten thought-provoking weekly
sessions, with a day or weekend away.
For more information, please contact John
Visher on
visherjc@jcom.home.ne.jp, Kiki
Horinouchi on
kikuhorinouchi@yahoo.co.jp , Richard
Ascough on
richasco1963@yahoo.co.jp or Etsuko
Nakajima on
etsuky33@wf7.so-net.ne.jp. You can also
go on-line for general ALPHA information
(see http://alphacourse.org/ and http://www.alphajapan.jp/)
MOPS INTERNATIONAL
exists to meet the needs of every mom -
urban, suburban and rural moms, stay-at-home
and working moms, teen, single and married
moms - moms with different lifestyles who
all share a similar desire to be the very
best moms they can be! MOPS recognizes that
the years from infancy through kindergarten
are foundational in a mother-child
relationship and are filled with unique
needs.
MOPS is a smart, relevant, and caring
network, helping moms to be better women and
moms through trusted resources and
supportive relationships.
MOPS is about…
Celebrating Motherhood
Meeting Needs
Making Connections
Experiencing God’s love through
Relationships and Resources
Next meeting on 29th May, 2008 9:30 am
until 12:00 pm in the TUC Fellowship Hall in
the basement.
~Qualified childcare provided for little
ones~
Bring your little ones to have fun with
their own activities at the same time!
MOPS at Tokyo Union Church meets monthly
from 9:30 am until 12:00 pm, in the
Fellowship Hall in the church basement.
We look forward to welcoming you! Click
here for more
information.
You can also contact us as follows:
Email: TUCWS.MOPS@gmail.com (English and
Japanese)
Phone: 03-3953-4333 (English)
MOPS main website: www.mops.org
MOPS membership is 3,000 yen a year
PODCAST NEWS - due to some technical
problems, we have been unable to load
complete Video Podcasts of the Sunday
morning services to the TUC Podcast page.
These issues stem from the large size of the
files so a decision has been made to make
available only the sermon portion of the
services in the future. If you have specific
requests for the video recording of a
particular worship service, please contact
the church office or Kazunori Higuchi on
tuc-facility@gol.com
Audio Podcasts of the sermons are unaffected
and will be available as usual from the
Podcast page. We have now caught up with
the Easter sermons but this should be
completed shortly. Thank you for your
patience! Contact the webmaster for any
questions on the Podcasts on tucweb@mac.com
POLO (Parents of Little Ones) is an
adult education Sunday morning class. We
welcome all parents - no matter how old your
little ones are. On Sunday 3rd Feb, we'll be
discussing "Christ Figures in Literature and
Film" and then embark on a series of studies
from the book of Ecclesiastes. Please join
us at 9.45am in the basement library.
JAVA CLASS
- What is fasting? Have you ever fasted? Is
it safe and healthy to fast? What does the
Bible say is the reward for fasting? Fasting
seems to be a lost art in the world of
contemporary spiritual disciplines. And yet
Jesus said “When you fast…” not “if you
fast…” Join us in JAVA as we look at
what the Bible has to say about it. JAVA is
an informal adult education community. We
meet at 9:45 am, on Sunday mornings on the
fourth floor of TUC. Everyone is welcome.
DREAMS. DREAMS. DREAMS. Quick! Who is
the person who had the most dreams recorded
in the Bible. What role do dreams play in
our walk with God. Does God still use dreams
to communicate with His people? How do you
know if your dream is from God. Come join
JAVA class as we explore this issue. JAVA is
an alternative adult education class. We
meet Sunday mornings from 9.45am on the 4th
floor. Everyone is welcome.
MUSICIANS, SINGERS, AND MUSIC RESOURCES
from many cultures are needed for
practicing "TUC global worship for a global
God" (Sermon
Podcast 9 Sep 07, on the TUC
Podcast site). We are looking for those
particularly from the non-Western world,
including a concertina/accordion player for
a tango hymn from Argentina. Contact Hisashi
Yukimoto at hisashiy2000@yahoo.co.jp or talk
to him at the 1F reception counter on Sunday
mornings.
TUC PODCASTS -
have you ever missed Sunday worship and
wanted to hear a recording of the sermon?
Are you an ex-member of TUC, moved away but
still want to keep in touch with the message
from TUC? Is your first language not English
and you missed the meaning of a part of the
sermon or, do you simply want to replay the
sermon and hear it again? Now you can with
the addition of Podcasts to help you!
Podcasting is the distribution of audio or
video files over the internet. You can
subscribe to a Podcast and listen to it or
watch it when you want on your iPod or home
computer. You will automatically receive new
episodes. The TUC Podcasts are audio sermons
and video recordings of entire Sunday
services. Beware that the video podcasts are
very large files and they make take a while
to load if you have a slow internet
connection.
Instructions for use: A) iPod users -
please go to the
TUC Podcast page and click on the
"Subscribe" icon. It will add the TUC
podcast to your Podcasts in iTunes. You can
also click
here to take you to the TUC Podcast.
Alternatively, simply search for "Tokyo
Union" when you are in iTunes Store and you
will find it
B) Computer users. If you don't have
an iPod, you can either listen to the
Podcast from iTunes which you can download
from
www.itunes.com or jump directly to this
link and play from your internet
browser. Remember to follow the instructions
in A) to add the TUC Podcast to your iTunes
Podcast list
WEEKLY PRAYER
GROUP
The weekly prayer group is held every
Wednesday. Please join us in the 2nd floor
classroom from 7:30--9:00pm (or for as long
as you can stay). (Please enter TUC through
the back door.) Everyone is welcome! For
more information, contact Jean Wilson at
(03) 3803-3417 or write
jinko@gol.com
EVENING
PRAISE
The Evening Praise service is normally
held on the first Sunday of every month at
4pm in the sanctuary. On May 4th, the
speaker will be Ken Owusu and on June 1st,
the TUC Youth will be leading with Pastor
Barry with Holy Communion. The Evening
Praise service features guest speakers or
preachers and more contemporary music than
the morning services on Sunday. All are
welcome!
VOLUNTEERS
NEEDED!
If you have time to give on Sundays or
on weekdays, please contact the church
office on 03-3400-0047 or email
tuc@gol.com
FLOWERS: Would you like to donate
flowers (¥3,000) for a specific Sunday? A
sign-up sheet & flower envelopes are in the
lobby. Please write your name, indicate the
occasion and amount contributed. Flower
arrangers are also needed
COFFEE HOUR HELP NEEDED
We're looking for more volunteers to help
host coffee hour after our 11am service on
Sundays. Please contact Suresh Kukde on
3752-6919 or 090-3345-1898
THE POWER OF PRAYER: Understand how
the power of prayer can work in your life by
attending the the Prayer Group which still
meets every Wednesday at 7.30 pm (2nd floor
classroom) and by joining the Prayer Chain.
The latter is a group of people who are
contacted by email, fax, or phone to pray
for the leaders and ministeries of TUC and
for any prayer requests they receive during
the week. Contact Mary Foster at
tucprayer@yahoo.com.au with your
prayer requests. For the weekly Prayer
Group, please contact Jean Wilson on
jinko@gol.com
THE PRAYER CHAIN is a group of people
who are contacted by email, fax or phone to
pray for the leaders and ministries of TUC
and for any other prayer requests we receive
during the week. Contact Mary Foster at
tucprayer@yahoo.com.au with your prayer
requests.
WEBMASTER
If you have any comments or suggestions
concerning this website and would like to
send them directly to the
webmaster, please feel free to do so.
Any relevant content including digital
photos would be greatly appreciated. For
general information about the church, please
email to
tuc@gol.com
ABOUT
KOINONIA
Due to the new Personal Information
Protection Law law which came into effect on
1st April 2005, we have had to remove the
link to the Koinonia archive since these
publications generally contain specific
information about people from our church. In
addition we will also be removing the
announcements section from the bulletins
from the downloadable bulletins in the
archive. If you would like to receive an
on-line pdf version of the latest Koinonia,
please send an email to
tucweb@mac.com and we will email the
file to you on return.
These changes are being made to comply with
the new legislation but also to protect
information from "outsiders" of the church.
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About TUC
Tokyo
Union Church was founded in 1872(!) and is an ecumenical and international
congregation of English-speaking Christians located in Tokyo, Japan.