Our mission interests
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We’re with a church planting mission, so that’s what we do: we plant churches where there aren’t any churches. Right now, we have a vision to see churches established in the area south of Kyoto.
There’s a number of ways we want to do that, and a number of things we’re interested in to try to make it happen.
- House church
- Leadership training
- Deaf communities
Why we do what we do
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We do what we do because we believe that God is at work in this world.
We believe He’s still doing what He’s always been doing: looking for and rescuing people who have rejected Him or who don’t know Him.
We believe - and we wouldn’t believe it if He hadn’t said it - that He wants to do that through us. Read more about Why we do what we do
God's Mission Needs You!
Submitted by Simon on 2009-06-01- 901 reads
Without mission, there would be no church – but without the church, there would be no mission. Can we help your church to be more involved in mission?
Simon and Henrietta Cozens have been church-planting missionaries in Japan from 2006 to 2008 as single people, and got married in the south-west of England in February 2009. While back in the UK this year, they can offer your church a mission experience.
- Would you like your Sunday congregation or mid-week groups to see the Bible with fresh eyes as a book about God’s mission?
Mission
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We’re missionaries.
It’s an odd word these days - “missionary”. It conjures up images of pith helmets, jungles or rain forests, Victorian explorers spreading “Christianity, commerce and civilization.”
And we work in Japan! Does Japan really need missionaries?
But “missionary” is still a really good word to describe what we do - we’re driven by a mission and a purpose. Read more about Mission
To all my friends in closed countries
Submitted by Simon on 2008-08-22- Simon's blog
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I've just had a nice few days holiday. I'm relaxed. But just before I went, I got an email that really annoyed me.
Mission hierarchy
Submitted by Simon on 2008-07-27- Simon's blog
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There is a hierarchy of sexiness for mission work. There shouldn't be, but there is, and it goes like this:
Vories timeline
Submitted by Simon on 2008-04-16- Simon's blog
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It's been - and still is - a busy month. Much to report and not much time to report it. Meanwhile, I've been doing some research, and I've put together what I think is the best and fullest timeline of Vories' life and mission (5M PDF) available.
Religions and rules
Submitted by Simon on 2007-07-20- Simon's blog
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I've got loads of blog posts in the mental queue, it's a Friday night, and the cricket is washed out, so let's make a start…
Horribly depressing thoughts for the day
Submitted by Simon on 2006-10-23- Simon's blog
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I'm sorry that I only blog when I'm depressed. That doesn't mean that I'm often depressed, it just means that depressing things give me the energy to rant. I have three or four happier blog posts on the go but they require more research than a good old-fasioned rant. And I've been saving this one up for weeks…
Free books!
Submitted by Simon on 2006-07-26- Simon's blog
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Oh, if only I'd found this earlier; a bunch of good books, including The Iguassu Dialogue, One World or Many, and Doing Member Care Well, all free to download. Some downright awful books in there too, but beggars can't be choosers.