Tokyo Multicultural Church blog

Video about TMCC vision

dale — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:21:12 +0000

View a short video (3 min) by Matthew Little about the vision for Tokyo Multicultural Church.

Note that the launch date for TMCC is now early 2013 instead of late 2012 as stated in the video.

Donations for launching TMCC top $10,000

dale — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:46:34 +0000

As of the end of February 2012, Tokyo Multicultural Church overseas partner church donations have reached $10,300!

To launch TMCC in the first part of 2013 we will likely need $15,000 for initial rent, damage deposit, realtor fees, and moving in fees (excluding furnishings, sound/video equipment, etc.). So we are about 70% of the way there!

A special thank you to our four overseas partner churches and to others who have donated!

Click here for info on how to donate to the TMCC church planting fund.

Click here for info on how to donate to Dale and Ann’s support account.

Prayer walk held at Kinshicho for TMCC on Jan 12

dale — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:05:31 +0000

We led a prayer walk for Tokyo Multicultural Church (TMCC) around the Kinshicho station (Sobu and Hanzomon lines) on the evening of Jan 12, 2012. There were seven of us from Musashino Chapel Center, English Department–the primary partner church of TMCC.

As we walked in two’s and threes’s we prayed for the future place of TMCC, more partners for TMCC, and wise planning for TMCC over the next year. After walking and praying, we gathered for some discussion and a final short time of prayer at a nearby coffee shop–and for warming up!

Our goal is to launch TMCC in early 2013, after Dale and Ann complete a year of tsunami recovery ministry in northeastern Japan.

Donations for launching TMCC reach $9000!

dale — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:31:00 +0000

As of the end of November 2011, Tokyo Multicultural Church overseas partner church donations have reached $9000!

To launch TMCC in December 2012 we will likely need $12,000 for initial rent, damage deposit, realtor fees, and moving in fees (excluding furnishings, sound/video equipment, etc.). So we are at 75% of our start up goal for facility rental. Praise the Lord!

Click here for info on how to donate to the TMCC church planting fund.

Click here for info on how to donate to Dale and Ann’s support account.

Donations to TMCC surpass $8000

dale — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:11:55 +0000

As of mid-October 2011, TMCC partner churches have donated over $8000 toward our TMCC church planting project fund!

Click here for info on how to donate to the TMCC church planting fund.

Click here for info on how to donate to Dale and Ann’s support account.

TMCC now has four overseas partner churches

dale — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:57:30 +0000

As of October 2011, TMCC has four partner churches in the USA, one each in California, Connecticut, Michigan, and Maine.

Two more US churches are considering the possibility of becoming overseas partners.

Our first North American partner church has joined us!

dale — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:37:27 +0000

Cayucos Community Church

In January 2011, our first North American church joined Tokyo Multicultural Church as a partner church. Cayucos Community Church is an Evangelical Free Church in California. Welcome aboard, folks at Cayucos Community Church!

Several other churches are considering becoming TMCC partners.

Next prayer walk for TMCC is Feb 10

dale — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:06:49 +0000

The next prayer walk for TMCC is scheduled for the evening of Feb 10, 2011. Dale and Ann will be in Tokyo at that time, and will help to lead the prayer walk. The prayer walk will once again be in the vicinity of Kinshicho station.

Prayer walk for TMCC at Kinshicho

dale — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:51:00 +0000

Kinshicho station area office buildings

The English Department of Musashino Chapel Center (MCC) held a prayer walk on Nov 25 (US Thanksgiving) for TMCC, in lieu of their normal Thursday evening prayer meeting. While walking around the Kinshicho train station area–the TMCC target area–they lifted up before the Lord this exciting new church planting project to be launched in the fall of 2011.

Find the latest TMCC prayer requests at the “pray” menu item at the top.

MCC (English Department) is the primary partner church of our TMCC church planting project. See the “partner church links” on this blog. The MCC church planting planning committee is working with the Dale and Ann in developing the strategy for launching TMCC.

TMCC and scattered peoples

dale — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:14:06 +0000

The vision of TMCC includes ministering to the diaspora—the scattered peoples of the world. Sadiri Joy Tira, a seminar leader at the Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, South Africa (October 2010), emphasizes that every nation is affected by migration. Even Westerners are part of this diaspora. He states,

“Westerners think people who are moving or migrating are only from the two thirds world—refugees, international students, victims of calamaties, etc. But Westerners are actually the most widely scattered people.”

May TMCC become a church that intentionally ministers to the scattered peoples of the world who live in Tokyo!