{"id":305,"date":"2011-05-05T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/worldmission\/?p=305"},"modified":"2011-05-05T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T15:13:33","slug":"tears-of-joy-tears-of-sorrow%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/serveglobally\/2011\/05\/05\/tears-of-joy-tears-of-sorrow%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears of Joy, Tears of Sorrow\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><em>By Jim Peterson, Covenant missionary to Japan<\/em><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2011\/05\/G-Walter-Japan-05-04-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-306\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2011\/05\/G-Walter-Japan-05-04-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a>May 3rd was a day of celebration  for the Japan Covenant Church. We gathered at the Covenant Seminary and  celebrated the 60th anniversary of this denomination. Our guest speakers  were Gary Walter, President of the ECC, and Curt Peterson, Executive  Minister of the Dept. of World Mission. They both brought profoundly  encouraging messages that seemed just perfect for the occasion. And yet  as encouraging as they were, I was even more profoundly moved as we  worshiped together in song, both in the morning and the afternoon. The  morning worship team was made up mostly of members of the Covenant  Church in Nagaoka.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/jhpeterson\/?p=498\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/serveglobally?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=305&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jim Peterson, Covenant missionary to Japan May 3rd was a day of celebration for the Japan Covenant Church. We gathered at the Covenant Seminary and celebrated the 60th anniversary of this denomination. Our guest speakers were Gary Walter, President of the ECC, and Curt Peterson, Executive Minister of the Dept. of World Mission. They both brought profoundly encouraging messages that seemed just perfect for the occasion. And yet as encouraging as they were, I was even more profoundly moved as we worshiped together in song, both in the morning and the afternoon. The morning worship team was made up mostly of members of the Covenant Church in Nagaoka.\u00a0 Continue Reading Report This Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[67,29],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-japan","tag-missionary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tears of Joy, Tears of Sorrow\u2026 - Serve Globally Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/serveglobally\/2011\/05\/05\/tears-of-joy-tears-of-sorrow\u2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tears of Joy, Tears of Sorrow\u2026 - Serve Globally Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Jim Peterson, Covenant missionary to Japan May 3rd was a day of celebration for the Japan Covenant Church. 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