Aomori

This week we’re praying for Aomori! (pronounced Ow-mori)

Aomori is the northmost prefecture in Tohoku area. It’s famous for apples and they experience heavy snow during the winter especially on the western side. Traditions and customs have a powerful hold in this prefecture. It is home to Nebuta Festival, one of the three major festivals of the Tohoku area, and mountains that are important site for worship and many spiritual mediums.

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• Population: 1,479,358
• Towns/villages with no church: 47
• Church/person: 1:19,725

March 3: Pray for God’s blessing on each of the 75 churches, that they will overcome the religious obstacles and severe climate, and that Christians will daily experience His power.

March 4: Pray for good cooperation among the churches throughout the prefecture, especially through Misawa Christian Cooperative Evangelistic Fellowship and the Aomori Evangelisitic Broadcasting Fellowship.

March 5: Camping ministry at Aomori Christian Center. Life Line on Aomori TV. May God touch may through the camping program and the TV ministry.

March 6: A total of 2,688 students are attending Protestant educational institutions, along with 913 children attending 12 Protestant kindergartens and five day-care centers.

March 7: There are few Christian health and social ministry services. Pray that many in the midst of failing health will look to the Creator for help.

March 8: Pray for Hiraka town with over 20,000 people and for Nakatsugaru-gun and Shimokita-gun with no churches. Sannohei-gun has only one church for over 83,000 people.

*All information and prayer requests taken from “Operation Japan -Prayer Guide- Third Edition” -Japan Evangelical Missionary Association, 2005. To purchase a copy of “Operation Japan” book or the Interactive CD version, go to: http://www.jema.org/joomla15/index.php?option=com_banners&task=click&bid=10.