In November we held the Thanksgiving outreach with a concert and dinner, singing to God and preaching the Gospel. Luis preached from Luke 12 where Jesus talks about the hypocrisy of religion that sends to hell, telling that the only way to go to the Father is through Jesus. This was a shock for Japanese people because in Japan people believe in 1000s of gods and 1000s of religions, and religion as a way of life is very set.

Luis and some American brothers from KPBC started a weekly English Bible study. The first weeks it was just Luis and one brother, but praise God that last week we had five more brothers studying the Bible with us. We started in the book of Romans.

We are starting the ministry called "Bible and Arts." It will be a time for Japanese, Spanish and American people to get together and do arts like music, crafts, kids dancing, cooking lessons, etc. But every time that people meet for this artistic time, we will share the Gospel and foundations of Christianity with the participants or members. This is what we have been doing for this past year with music and the Bible, but we would like to expand it include a greater variety of arts and more opportunities to teach from the Bible.

Prayer requests:

1. Please pray for "Bible and Arts," the misnitry to build friendships with non-believers, strengthen their family time and above all teach them about the only God.
2. Pray for Nicola's pregnancy and the salvation of our future baby.
3. Pray for perseverance and a steadfast spiritual hunger in the men of the English Bible study.
4. Pray for God's mercy to break the hearts of people we are preaching to, and guide them to godly sorrow and repentance of sin.
5. Please start praying for our Christmas outreach.