BJapan, one of the main ministries that I work with, has a 24/7 Christian radio broadcast over satellite channel Friendship Radio. We're also trying to be of practical help to the many small, struggling churches in Japan. I wrote up a little flyer for Back to the Bible to use in their PR efforts on behalf of BJapan. I'm also making it available here as a .pdf download. Here it is.

Please take a look at it, and if your church or S.S. class or cell group, etc., is willing, perhaps you could print up a stack of them to be handed out! Thanks so much.

Though I love living here, I gotta admit that much of Tokyo is not exactly pretty. One of the common eyesores are the tangle of electric lines that you see pretty much every where you go. But after just a short time, you start mentally blocking the mess out and don't really notice it anymore. (hmmm..., if I were a preacher I could make a sermon out of that!)

But for some reason I was looking up while walking home from church on Sunday afternoon, and noticed this huge rat's nest of wires that I was walking under. First reaction was to look to see if any pigeons or crows were up there waiting to commence target practice on unsuspecting pedestrians. Next, I noticed a little white tag way up there. A closer look warmed my heart.

It was the Usen company tag on their wire. Usen is a big media conglomerate. They started off doing cable radio, then satellite radio, and now are huge on the internet and a whole bunch of other stuff, too. BJapan's Friendship Radio is a channel on their cable and satellite system. Usen's only religious channel, and Japan's only Christian run media outlet. (Japan outlaws religious groups from owning over the air radio and TV stations; PBA, for example, has to buy their airtime from commercial stations.)

So I'm standing there, looking up, for quite a little while. Odd sight, no doubt, to all the other folk walking by. And I swear, I could almost see the electrons taking the shape of Bible messages and hymns and all, zipping through that wire at the speed of light. Go, guys, go -- get that message out! Finally got started out for home again, still kinda happy inside. Now them's some Power lines!