2003 Previous Broadcasts, English Page 3

September-December 2003
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Guest	OA Date	Prog.	Description
	Week 1	#907	"Prayer and Healing at Yatsugatake Chapel" -- *Eric Froyland* This week we visit a chapel that was recently completed at the Yatsugatake Central Plateau area of Nagano Prefecture, a resort area called the Hara-mura Pension Village. The chapel was constructed as a retreat and prayer center, as well as a counseling facility. Made of all natural materials, it's admired by the locals and by an unending stream of visitors. In this program we talked with chapel pastor Eric Froyland and his wife about why they wanted to build this kind of facility.
	Week 2	#908	"An Underwater Photographer's 'Vital Sea'" -- *Haruyoshi Kaitō* Photographer Haruyoshi Kaitō recently had a collection of his underwater photos from the Izu Ōsezaki area of Shizuoka Prefecture published under the title of Vital Sea ("Inochi no Umi") by Shogakkan Publishing Company. After having begun underwater photography at the age of 40, Kaitō came to believe in the existence of a Creator God through the variety of undersea creatures he encountered in his work. In looking back, Kaitō comments: "It wasn't because I was such a worthy individual. Clearly, it was the undeserved grace of God toward me." In this program we talk with him about sea life and about the road he has traveled thus far in life.
	Week 3	#909	"A Duo of Twins: 'Tamarino'" -- *Tamano & Rino Sasaki* This week's guests are a pair of identical twins who have been doing graduate-level vocal studies in the United States. After receiving the news that their mother had been diagnosed with cancer, they quickly returned home to be with her and, at the same time, have completed a music CD project. The CD features some unique combinations of Japanese traditional tunes with hymns, all in a contemporary style. In this program, we bring you their refreshing musical sound, as well as story of how they both became Christians while studying overseas.
	Week 4	#910	"Christian World News #9" This week's program is the next in our regular series of news reports from around the world, courtesy of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in the United States. This time we bring you some interviews with Christian football players in the U.S., and a report about one young girl's efforts to raise money for children in Afghanistan. In addition, we discuss some news articles from the pages of recent issues of Israel Today magazine.

Guest	OA Date	Prog.	Description
	Week 1	#911	"A Tiny Life" -- *Hidenori Kumai & Keiichi Kataoka* The story of Pastor & Mrs. Kenzō Tsujioka -- founders of the "Pro-Life Japan" organization and pioneers in Japan's anti-abortion movement -- has now been published as a manga comic book. Today's guests are Hidenori Kumai, who wrote the dialog, and Keiichi Kataoka, illustrator for the book. Amazingly, while Kumai was working on the story line, he and his wife sensed a leading to adopt a child of their own and did so before the book was published. What kind of drama was going on behind the scenes of this project? In this program, we talk to both guests about their experiences.
	Week 2	#912	"Children Are Our Treasures" -- *Hideo & Mari Shimamura* We continue with last week's discussion of the dignity of human life by welcoming Pastor and Mrs. Hideo Shimamura, who first appeared on the program in 1997. With two children of their own, the Shimamuras have been raising two adopted children, as well. Recently, they adopted a third child for a total of five children. We pick up their story where we left them in 1997 and they share with us about the blessings and joys of raising children.
	Week 3	#913	"Eh? Your Pastor's a Boxer?!" -- *Makoto Hirata* This week's guest is Pastor Makoto Hirata, who oversees a martial arts program he calls the "Pogona Club Gym" inside his church. Several years ago, as a result of taking his son to karate lessons, Hirata himself decided to take up one of the newer marital arts forms -- combinations of karate, kick-boxing, etc. As a result, he currently participates in tournaments, gives lessons and is often invited as a speaker on the subject. He says he's often asked, "Why would a pastor who's supposed to preach love want to be a boxer?" How does he reply to such a question? In this program we ask him to share this thoughts about this and much more.
	Week 4	#914	"Christian World News #10" This week's program is the next in our regular series of news reports from around the world, courtesy of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in the United States. This time we bring you a report about a church in Canada that operates a drive-in movie theater, and the story of a Christian trucking company in the U.S. In addition, we discuss some news articles from the newly-published Japanese-language edition of Israel Today magazine.

Guest	OA Date	Prog.	Description
	Week 1	#915	"The Joy of Painting With India Ink" -- *Yoshie Andō* Yoshie Andō is the wife of the pastor of Yokohama Okamura Church in Kanagawa Prefecture and the recipient of numerous awards for her India Ink paintings. After graduating from an art school, she became interested in water color painting and studied it for awhile. Later, as other things in life required her attention, she put her painting aside and didn't do any at all for quite a long time -- that is, until five years ago when she was diagnosed with cancer. As a result of this struggle with illness, she began to paint again. This week, we talk with her about how God's creative power in Nature impresses her and about the sheer joy she experiences when she's painting.
	Week 2	#916	"An Encounter With Aromatherapy" -- *Yoshimi Maejima* This week's guest, Yoshimi Maejima, is currently working as a professional "aromatherapist" at a women's clinic in Yamanashi Prefecture -- the first clinic in Yamanashi to offer aromatherapy treatment to patients. However, four years ago, she says, the future seemed so bleak that she could not have even imagined her life today. At that point, two life-changing encounters occurred and eventually brought her to the place where she can now say that all that happened before was not in vain. In this program we talk with her about aroma therapy and about how she came to faith in Christ.
	Week 3	#917	"The Missionary Is a Level-5 Shōgi Master!" -- *James & Christine Milby* James Milby came to Japan as a missionary and began his work as an English conversation teacher in a church's weekday ministry. However, eight years ago he became interested in the game of Shōgi and has now become a Level-5 master of it. Milby says that the game is a great way to go about creating good relationships with Japanese people. What is the message he wants to share with the Japanese people he meets? He and his wife join us in our studio for an interesting discussion.
	Week 4	#918	"Christian World News #11" This week's program is the next in our regular series of news reports from around the world, courtesy of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) in the United States. This time we bring you a report about some mothers who work as story-telling volunteers at an elementary school in Taiwan, and a story about a church in Canada that has a unique outreach ministry that they call "Kingdom Assignments." In addition, we discuss some news articles from the September issue of the Japanese-language edition of Israel Today magazine.
	Week 5	#919	"The Man That Crossed America on His Hands" -- *Bob Wieland* Even though he lost both of his legs in the Vietnam War, Bob Wieland made a 2,800-mile journey across America to raise money for the world's poor and he did it by walking on his hands. Consequently, he touched the lives of people all over the country. To encourage the people of Japan, he recently came here to participate in a local running event. In this program, bring you a look at that very moving race. (Re-broadcast)

Guest	OA Date	Prog.	Description
	Week 1	#920	"The Tea Ceremony at Okanoue Chapel" In October, a charity event featuring "sado" -- the Japanese tea ceremony -- was held at Kasukabe Evangelical Free Church's Okanoue Chapel in Saitama Prefecture. The event was a huge success and featured the traditions taught by four different schools of tea ceremony. About 300 people who would ordinarily have no connection with a church were in attendance. In this program we show you some scenes from the event and talk with pastor and tea ceremony master Toshio Takahashi about why they do the tea ceremony at church. We also talk about the rather surprising connection between Christianity and Sado.
	Week 2	#921	"The Gospel From Israel to the World" -- *Gavriel Gefen* This week's guest, Gavriel Gefen, was born into a Jewish home in America. However, at the age of 17, he and his whole family immigrated to Israel after having become believers in Jesus Christ. His parents then became involved in missionary activities that sent them from Israel to places like China and Africa. In 1997, however, Gefen's father died in an airplane crash while on a mission trip to the Congo. Shortly after this, Gefen founded Keren HaShlichut, an agency, he says, that sends Israelis as missionaries out to the Gentiles "to bless the nations with the light of God's Word." In this program we ask him about what it was that led him into the work he's doing.
	Week 3	#922	"Life With Pro Golfer Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Part 1" -- *Ritsuko Nakajima* Ritsuko Nakajima, wife of pro golfer Tsuneyuki Nakajima, recently published a book entitled Rope: From Barrier to Bond, which chronicles Nakajima's comeback from a slump and talks about their journey together as a couple. In this first of two programs featuring the Nakajimas, we focus upon Ritsuko as she shares with us about life from the time she became a Christian in college, to her courtship and marriage to Tsuneyuki, and about the events that led to his slump as a professional golfer.
	Week 4	#923	"Life With Pro Golfer Tsuneyuki Nakajima, Part 2" -- *Ritsuko Nakajima* This is the second program in a two-part series about pro golfer Tsuneyuki Nakajima and his wife, Ritsuko. In this program we focus on a recent period of time which brought about great changes in the lives of the Nakajimas. We also take a look at some scenes from their daughter's recent wedding and hear some of Tsuneyuki's own comments about their lives, made at his wife's book publication party.

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