Autumn Gathering

Japan Christian Link and OMF International are jointly hosting a half-day event in central London on Saturday 28th September at St Botolph-without-Aldersgate Church, a two-minute walk from St Paul's Underground Station. The event will take place from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Registration will open at 10.40 a.m.

The theme of the event is Partners in the gospel: Making disciples amongst Japanese people in London.

It will bring non-Japanese and Japanese Christians together to be equipped and to spend time praying for spreading the good news about Jesus to their Japanese friends, neighbours and work colleagues.

Through informal interviews (in-person and recorded) and panel discussions with Japanese Christians and others involved in ministry among Japanese people, non-Japanese Christians will be able to learn about some of the challenges involved with reaching Japanese people, as well as recent encouragements from ministry to Japanese people. Attendees will also be informed about Japanese-speaking churches in London and the South East of the UK, in order to raise non-Japanese Christians' awareness of the Japanese ministries that could be a useful resource and a valuable partner to help and support non-Japanese Christians in their efforts to bring the gospel to Japanese people.

There will be a mix of people coming along: some of whom have years of experience getting alongside Japanese people to speak about Jesus, others who have none or very little.

Most of the content will be delivered in English, with some parts translated from or into Japanese.

Booking for this event is now open. Here is a link to the preliminary programme for the event (subject to change).

Note that light refreshments and snacks (e.g. tea, coffee, squash, biscuits and similar) will be provided but please be sure to bring your own lunch. There will be an interval of around 45 minutes for lunch.

Please take care to come to the correct venue. There are at least three St. Botolph's churches in Central London, here is a link to the correct location on Google maps.

We're sorry if you won't be able to get to central London on 28^th September. We would value your prayers that this event will be a time of encouragement and that much fruitful gospel proclamation to Japanese people will come from it.