Shyusai: May 1st, 19:00
Kokubetsushiki: May 2nd, 12:00
Place: Memorial Hall Fukuyama
2493 Senda, Senda-cho, Fukuyama-city
Head Administrative Office is going to hold a farewell ceremony on May 27th, 13:30 at Yatsunami Hall in Konko.
Reverend Eric Cherry, Director of International Office of Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregation (UUA), visited KIC today. UUA has supported and given prayers for Konkokyo congregations in the areas affected by the Great Earthquake. Reverend Yamada, KIC Director, expressed his appreciation for their support. We had a great conversation and shared the desire to create world peace. KIC staff appreciates the friendship with UUA.
In Brazil there is a group named “Wakaba”, which means “young leaves” in Japanese. The group was formed in 2004 by Reverend Katsuyuki Kajiwara, Head Minister of the Konko Church of Curitiba to nurture young people.
In March 25, the 14th Contest of Japanese Drum was held and “Wakaba” won a prize!!
Please check the video below when “Wakaba” won! Enjoy Japanese drum!!
On March 11th from 1:30pm to 3pm (JMT), a special service will be held at Konkokyo Headquarters in Okayama, Japan, to pray for recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake and for the comfort victims’ spirits.
You can see the service only in real-time.
How to see USTREAM as follows:
1) Search “USTREAM Japan” by Google Chrome or Firefox.
2) Put “konkokyohonbu” on the top blank bar and click the enter key.
3) When you see some of Konkokyo programs on the list, click “konkokyohonbu (Konkokyo Crest)”. Then you will see the program.
Let us pray together through the internet.
Between the 18th and the 24th of November, a group of staff from KIC went on a trip to North America. The group included Rev. Shinji Yamada, Director of KIC, Rev. Masafumi Kimoto an intern of KIC and Rev. Shinji Kawasaki, Deputy Director of the Outreach Department at the Konkokyo Head office.
The itinerary included visits to the Vancouver Church in Canada and churches in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco in the USA. The group had discussions with ministers and members of the Churches as well as an administrative meeting with office staff of the KCNA was held at the San Francisco Church.
The main topics of the meetings were: “What kind of problems we are facing concerning the situation of world outreach activities?” and “How we have to improve: and what trials do we need?”.
The group also eagerly mentioned about the necessity of outreach materials and publications in English as well as the importance of the outreach vehicles such as animation and music of Konkokyo, cultivating human resources, and so forth.
At the conclusion of the meetings, we shared the common wish that all of us would do our best to promote world outreach, keep in touch more tightly with Headquarters, KIC in Japan and KCNA. Thus, the trip was very beneficial to all involved.
This year’s KCNA conference was hosted by the Los Angeles Church and was held at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The theme for the conference this year was Toritsugi Mediation: what is it, why we do it and how we do it. 続きを読む
In Brazil there is a group named “Wakaba”, which means “young leaves” in Japanese. They perform Japanese drums and the Japanese dance Yosakoi Soran.
The group was formed in 2002 by Reverend Katsuyuki Kajiwara, Head Minister of the Konko Church of Critiba to nurture young people.
On July 31, the 8th Japanese Drum Championship was held in Brazil and “Wakaba” became the champions!! Also on the same day, the 9th Yosakoi Soran contest was held and “Wakaba” won third prize!!
Please check the videos of “Wakaba” winning! Enjoy Japanese drumming and dance!!
Japanese Drum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWZdWxTzPF0
Yosakoi Soran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-KITNpFz6w&feature=channel_video_title
