Tag: Yokota

  • Nonogaki Reports – October 2019

    Teaching Japanese students English – Oct 9 I teach Japanese junior high school students English at tutor school. I have made an arrangement that they can have an email correspondence with students at Harding Academy where Paul Goddard teaches. I do not know how it will turn out to be in terms of spreading the…

  • ALBRIGHT JAPAN TRIP – AUG 6-SEP 10, 2019

    his past Tuesday, September 10, marked the halfway point of this trip. Over the past five weeks, we have worshiped with six congregations from as far north as Hachinohe, Aomori, and as far southwest as Kojima, Okayama. The time in between has been dedicated to studying and lesson preparation. We were asked to cover three…

  • NONOGAKI REPORTS – MAY 2019

    MAY 17, 2019 – A KOREAN MAN FROM A PRESBYTERIAN BACKGROUND Recently a Korean man from a Presbyterian background started coming to our congregation. Regardless of his background all of us welcome him. I began to learn about his life. He is married to a Japanese woman and has a daughter who is 17 years old.…

  • NONOGAKI REPORTS – MAR 2019

    MARCH 5, 2019 – ANOTHER GOOD BOOK TO READ I have been reading a book whose title is 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do.  This is a really good book for me.  I have learned a lot from it. I knew something was not right with me, but I couldn’t tell exactly what it was. …

  • NONOGAKI REPORTS – JAN 2019

    JAN 19, 2019 – READINGS Leaders Eat Last is the book I have been reading recently. Its author is Simon Sinek. Last year I read his another book, Start With Why. Leaders Eat Last is about leadership as the title indicates, but it is more like his observation on what is happening in the US in relation to leadership.…

  • Nonogaki Reports – August 2017

    The Time Is Limited – Aug 16, 2017 Recently a couple of older Japanese preachers and ministers passed away.  Probably next year and the following years more of them will pass away.  This is the fact of life.  Death comes to everyone.  This makes me think that I have to raise up and educate men…

  • Nonogaki Reports – June 2017

    Brother Stephen Carrell Leaving Japan – Jun 29, 2017 On 6 July Bro. Stephen Carrell will fly to the US and leave Japan for good.  He came to Japan with his parents, former missionaries, Bill and Norma Carrell when he was a little baby.  He grew up in Japan until the age of 16.  Later…

  • Albright Japan Trip – June 20 ’17

    As I begin writing this report, we are three days away from leaving. I’ve delayed writing this because of our schedule of activities, but must finally put an account of the last six weeks of activity. Josephine and I took an overnight trip to Kamakura and Enoshima. This was the location of government in Japan…

  • Nonogaki Reports – April 2017

    Training a young Christian man to preach and teach – Apr 11, 2017 There are two tasks Japanese ministers are facing.  One is, of course, to reach out to people and bring them to Christ.   The other one is to train Christian men to understand sound doctrine and be able to preach and teach…

  • Nonogaki Reports – Feb 2017

    A New Sign for Americans on Base – Feb 23, 2017 A new sign for Americans on Base has been set up in the parking lot.  It is facing the Rt. 16 and the Yokota Air Base.  Americans who drive on Rt. 16 can visibly see the sign and will notice there is a Church…