About
Shinsei no
Sato
Shinsei
no Sato Christian Church is
located in
Omura City, Nagasaki Prefecture, population 90,000. Omura is famous for cherry trees.
The church was founded in 1984. We have been in this church building since 1999. In theological terms, we are an Independent Charismatic Church.
There are ten to twenty people at each worship service. We are a wide age group, 0 to 70's.We are close to each other like a family in Christ, and have a homey atmosphere.
The fellowship is bilingual, Japanese and English, since some of us are from foreign countries. It's a good chance to learn English for free here, also.
Pastor Garrott is a "tent maker", who has another job besides preaching. His other job is teaching English in a college and elsewhere.
If you are interested in our church, please visit us. We will always welcome you!
(We are not related to Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or the Unification Church at all, but if you have problems because of these groups, feel free to talk with us.)
You
will notice that we have a unique
symbol
(logo). This
actually came to us in a dream, and is expressed in the stained glass
windows
at the front of our sanctuary. Simply
put, it is the cross of Christ
superimposed on the flag of Japan.
We feel this states, simply and powerfully, that Christ is the hope of Japan, and that He claims it for His own. In the stained glass, the background is a rippley blue, indicating the living water of the river of life that God intends to flow out of every believer.
Bible translations are an important and
often
divisive
issue. In Japanese, we use the Shinkaiyaku translation because we feel
it is the
most readable of the Japanese full Bible translations, and because in
the New
Testament at least, it is the closest to the original language of the
currently
available translations. (The pastor’s wife teaches Greek.)
In English, we use the NIV for the most part, not because it’s the most accurate but because it’s most ubiquitous. In practical terms, it’s also because it’s the English version in the bilingual full Bible the pastor uses for preaching his bilingual sermons!
Shinsei
no Sato Christian Church is
located in Omura City, Nagasaki Prefecture, population 90,000. Omura is famous for cherry trees.
The church was founded in 1984. We have been in this church building since 1999. In theological terms, we are an Independent Charismatic Church.
There are ten to twenty people at each worship service. We are a wide age group, 0 to 70's.We are close to each other like a family in Christ, and have a homey atmosphere.
The fellowship is bilingual, Japanese and English, since some of us are from foreign countries. It's a good chance to learn English for free here, also.
Pastor Garrott is a "tent maker", who has another job besides preaching. His other job is teaching English in a college and elsewhere.
If you are interested in our church, please visit us. We will always welcome you!
(We are not related to Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, or the Unification Church at all, but if you have problems because of these groups, feel free to talk with us.)
You
will notice that we have a unique
symbol
(logo). This
actually came to us in a dream, and is expressed in the stained glass
windows
at the front of our sanctuary. Simply
put, it is the cross of Christ
superimposed on the flag of Japan. We feel this states, simply and powerfully, that Christ is the hope of Japan, and that He claims it for His own. In the stained glass, the background is a rippley blue, indicating the living water of the river of life that God intends to flow out of every believer.
Bible translations are an important and
often
divisive
issue. In Japanese, we use the Shinkaiyaku translation because we feel
it is the
most readable of the Japanese full Bible translations, and because in
the New
Testament at least, it is the closest to the original language of the
currently
available translations. (The pastor’s wife teaches Greek.) In English, we use the NIV for the most part, not because it’s the most accurate but because it’s most ubiquitous. In practical terms, it’s also because it’s the English version in the bilingual full Bible the pastor uses for preaching his bilingual sermons!
