Konkokyo International Gathering, November 14, 2017
KCNA Activity Speech

                                                                                    By the Rev. Amy Uzunoe-Chin

Hello! I am Rev. Amy Uzunoe-Chin associate minister of the Konko Church of Portland and currently serving my first year as the Chief Administrative Minister of the Konko Churches of North America (KCNA) Office. It is an honor to be here once again with all of you.

Last year, was my first time back to Honbu in 13 years, and honestly I felt like nothing much had changed.  Everything seemed to stand still in time while the world around this sacred ground had changed and grew. However, I realized that this is not a bad thing; I don’t want it to change. The pure foundation of this Konko Faith should not change, and this was comforting to me. 続きを読む →

Kami/Deity Is Already There for us

By the Rev. Michiyo Iwasaki
Konko Church of Shizuoka

(From the April 2018 issue)

Treading on a Path the Founder Once Walked Too

The most important thing I would like to learn from the faith of our dear Founder is that “People Who are suffering are allowed to transform themselves into children of Kami/Deity.” I will explain:  “People who are suffering will be transformed into people with Kami‘s blessings.  They will be allowed to become Kami‘s true children.”  At our Konko church, I regularly pursue this objective with our dear members. 続きを読む →

Based Upon Gratitude ― ２

 By the Rev. To’oru Yoshioka
Konko Church of Iya

(From the September 2017 issue)

Based Upon Gratitude ― 1

 By the Rev. To’oru Yoshioka
Konko Church of Iya

(From the September 2017 issue)

Not Comfortable at Home at All

         I have been serving at the Outreach Department of the Konko Faith Headquarters’ Administration Office since February 2017. In that capacity, I’ve ministered to many people. I’d like to share with you one encounter.  It took place when I was serving at the Hiromae (Worship Hall) two years ago.   I happened to be sitting at the reception desk in the Hiromae. This was not my usual assignment as a staff member of the Hiromae Department, but due to an unexpected schedule change, I was there that day.  続きを読む →

Kami/God-Like Heart

By the Rev. Mitsuo O’oki
Konko Church of Yu’uki

(From the August 2017 issue)

Manners of Today and Kami/God-Like Heart

             On September 1, 2014, I was ordered to assume the position of the Director of Konko Tokyo Center.  Since then, I have been serving our Divine Parent as the Director of the Center, praying to our Parent Deity and seeking our Divine Parent’s true wishes and/or intentions.

In the latter years of his life, the Founder of the Konko Faith imparted, “I also have desires.  I have the desire to save people throughout the world.” (GII: Kondo Fujimori, 54)  Whenever I work as the Center’s Director, I consider it important to re-appreciate this teaching of our Founder.  However, I am forced to face my own limitations as a human being almost every single day.  Too often, I am so weak that I cannot act with a kami/god-like heart.  When I see my weakness, I see the laboriousness inside myself.  続きを読む →

Sowing Seeds of Joy

教　話

By the Rev. Shinko Takebe
Konko Church of Ko’oroen

(From the July 2017 issue)

In Order to Reap Joy

Have you ever grown vegetables?  Some of you are growing vegetables professionally, and some of you are growing them in your home gardens, I suppose.  Take tomatoes, for example.  If you sow a tomato seed, you will soon see tomato buds.  After the buds grow, you will see tomato flowers, and finally you will see the fruit, a tomato.  If you sow a cucumber seed, you will soon see cucumber plant buds.  After the buds grow, you will see cucumber flowers, and finally you will get its fruit, a cucumber.  These things may sound a bit too natural to you, but this is the Principle/Law of the Universe.  続きを読む →