The English Page with Excerpts
Suicide Rescue
Interview: Pastor Yoichi Fujiyabu
Rev. Fujiyabu of Shirahama Baptist
church works to save people from suicide
and to give them a new purpose forliving. His Church is located in
Wakayama Pref. on the sea coast along
Shirahama Kaigan which is known forpeople commiting suicide. With thesupport of his church members andoutside financial help, they have saved over 400 people
from taking their own lives.

Homosexuality and Me (Final)
Since being diagnosed with AIDS in December of 2008,
it would not be strange if I were to suddenly die. At
one time I had contracted several sicknesses at once
when my immune system was down to one twentieth
the normal level and I had to immediately go on arigorous medication program.
In countries like Japan where we havemedication to control HIV/AIDS we are
fortunate to be able to live a fairly
normal life whereas in other countries
people are dying because they have noaccess to medical treatment. God has
been good to me...

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Book Reviewby Dr. Satoshi Nakajima
Raising Gender-Confident KidsIn this book Dr. Melvin Wong states thatgender identity and sexual orientation isformed in early childhood and gives parents
practical advice on how to raise their kids
right and to be gender-confident.

Movie Reviewby Tim ColeThe Help (2011)
The setting is Mississippi in
the South during the 1960's
when
African-Americans
were segregated on buses,
in schools, restaurants andtoilets. A white woman and journalist from theNortheast comes into their world and starts tointerview African-Americans house maids and begins toexpose the prejudice.
Positive elements are the faith that the oppressed
women in the story hold toward God and how viewers
are provoked to search their own hearts of any
prejudice held against others. Rated PG-13 due tolanguage, some nudity and violence.

Marriage Encounters No.7
This is an interview with threepeople-- recently married Yuichi
and Ritsu Fukushima andPastor Ken-ichi Kusaka whoheads up a marriage ministry
called "Abraham's Servant" forbringing
Christiancouples
together. Both Yuichi and Ritsu
had led a life into their 40's as singles but with the helpof Abraham's Servant, met and decided to marry.

Ask Pastor Hori
Q. I have my doubts about Japanese
psychiatric medical care.
Though you try to talk to the doctors
about your problems, it seems they
can't be bothered and only prescribe
medication.......
Do you think psychiatric care in Japanis behind the times?
A. Doctors tend to prescribe too much medication... andwe would do better if patients arm themselves withmore knowledge about their sickness and get a second
opinion instead of placidly relying on pills...

Business Crisis Leads to Faith in Christ (Part 2)
Interview: Koji & Rika Kobayashi
One day our younger daughter in lower elementary
school came home shouting "No God! No God! There's
no God!" And she added, "My friends all say that there
is no such thing as God!" Trying to comfort her, I said,"Yes, there is a God." But then it made me realize thatmy child at a tender age was spending half of everyday
battling in an environment that denied God.......
We thought we were doing home schooling for thebenefit of our children, but to our surprise, we foundthat God's intention was also to work on our marriageand to bring more unity between us as a couple...

Testimony of Leslie Lung (Part 1)
How I lived as a Woman.
While growing up, I used to wonder why
I wasn't a normal boy and more "girlish".
Boys in school picked on me andconstantly played pranks on me whichcaused me to turn away from my male
identity. I was hurting inside and felt
myself gradually being torn apart andaway from my maleness. In the end, the boy in me
seemed to die altogether...

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