Kyokai Dayori club

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On any given day, our mailbox is filled with flyers, advertisements and brochures (chirashi) advertising homes, services, and products. Each chirashi is hand-delivered into our mailboxes. Lots of mornings I'm awoken by the sound of scooters as people come to deliver their chirashis in our neighborhood.
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Although we usually don't pay much attention to our chirashi mainly because we can't read them, we hear that many Japanese faithfully look through and read each one. So I guess that's why the chirashi system lives on.
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For the past three years, we too have been chirashi deliverers, although we call ours "kyokai dayori" (church's diary). It's basically a mini-devotional that shares about the Christian faith and daily life. It's written by staff members of Nishinomiya Chapel, the main founding church within our three church network.
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Through the years, we've seen many people come check out Gakuentoshi Chapel through these kyokai dayoris. Most recently a young businessman who came to GC through the kyokai dayori has put his faith in Christ and will be baptized next month, but more on that in a later post.
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As I mentioned, these chirashis and kyokai dayoris are hand delivered. We deliver over 6,000 kyokai dayoris every month. To help us with this enormous task, faithful members from Nishinomiya Chapel come out every month to help us deliver and prayer walk through our town. We've dubbed ourselves the "kyokai dayori club".
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Summers can be unbearably hot and humid, so we've delivered at 6am to beat the heat. Here we are enjoying some McD's after our 6am delivery. By the way, McD's in Japan is better!
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