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Name: The Boek Family in Tokyo
Interests: We are interested in living our lives in the reality and light of eternity, all of which, comes simply when we let Jesus be our passion, then we get out of His way and let Him be LORD!
We also desire more than anything, that everyone would know Jesus and the power of His resurrection and the transforming life that comes from a saving knowledge of Him. If you happen to come to this site and you do not know where you will spend eternity...we would be so honored to introduce you to Jesus, He made the way possible by His sacrifice on a cross so that you may know for certain where your eternity will be spent. All of eternity...all for the asking!
Expertise: JEREMIAH: cleaning the house, studying, giving the kids their baths, eating unagi sushi, riding bikes, hugging his wife.
GEIGY: baking chocolate chip scones, reading books to the kids, staying up late, finding the best deals, procrastinating, taking walks.
CALI: taking care of her brothers, drinking mocha blasts, reading mystery books, taking the trains, ichatting with her cousins, being the family clown.
JAZZ: living life on the edge, reading his Bible with Papa, practicing his soccer drills and headers, looking adorable and being the life of the party, just call him "bike fanatic" - like father like son.
JUSTUS: being sweet and full of life, riding bikes with "brudder", wrestling anytime, anywhere.
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AIM:  Geigy - 5injapan@gmail.com
AIM:  Jeremiah - bereanboek
Yahoo:  5injapan@gmail.com
Member Since:
8/28/2004
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|    We have some wonderful folks at our church who recently opened up their own cafe at the next train station from Machida. It is called "The Gospel Cafe" - and it is their hope and prayer that the Lord would use this place to draw all kinds of people the reality of Jesus. Please pray for A-san and S-san as they seek the Lord regarding their new business venture. They also have live music at the cafe, and one of our Worship leaders goes their on Wednesday afternoon to play. We visited recently when Mom and Dad Boek were there.
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| Hide is one of our closest friends here in Japan. He is such a picture of a life transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit. It is wonderful to see him growing in his faith. Jeremiah has had the pleasure of discipling him and meeting with him for prayer and bible study.
He recently gave a short devotional for our children's ministry event. It was his first time giving a devotional. He was nervous but did a great job. We are so thrilled at all that the Lord is doing in his life.
Enjoy the pictures!
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| How is it possible that it's already November? This time last year, we were packing all our bags and getting ready to go home to California for our short two month furlough. Time sure flies. There's been lots going on, so I'll try to speed catch everyone up. Thank you for your continued support and love... we are eternally grateful.
October was fast... so I'll cheat and put out our November prayer request and update email that some of you have gotten already. I will, however, add pictures so enjoy.
Hello friends,
It now seems that fall is in full swing here in Tokyo. It is our family's favorite season so we are all thrilled with the cool crisp beautiful mornings. We have finally put away the "sempuki" (Japanese for fan) and time to pull out the kerosene heater. Thank you for thinking of us and standing with us in prayer. We appreciate you all beyond words.
Here are some October happenings...
1. Grandma and Grandpa Boek were here for a month. It was such a joy to have them here with us. We were able to work together in an outreach concert with all the Boek family. Grandma and Grandpa sang, Jeremiah gave the message, Cali translated and Geigy cooked the chili and cornbread. It was a great time and so great to work together in ministry. They left the first week of October and we already miss them.
2. Our ladies bible study started in October. Michiko-san is helping to co-lead the bible study with Geigy. It has been great to watch her grow in leadership and to have the ladies begin to grow under her leadership.
3. Cali turned 12 this month. She is growing up to be a responsible, capable, and talented young lady. We are so proud of her.
 
4. We had our children's ministry fellowship night this month. We had a great sleepover and we got to sow into the lives of young people in our church. We had a great night together. And the next day was our Fall Family Picnic. It was a great time together hanging out with our fellowship and growing in our "koinonia." So beautiful.  
5. FEVERS AND FLU - all three of our kids' classes have been closed due to tons of kids being sick. Our boys have been hit with fevers. They've been home all week and will be returning to school sometime next week. Thank you for praying for us, please continue to pray for health and safety for our children. The latest newspaper article said that up to 1million people in Japan have been infected with the N1H1 virus since July. That's a lot of folks, and the winter months is still upcoming. Please pray.
6. We had our Fall Masquerade outreach on Oct. 31st. We helped with this Horizon Language School event. Cali translated in for the Children's program, she is so great. 
Our prayer requests:
1. Please pray for God to guide and direct us in regards to upcoming ministry changes that we have been praying about. More on that later...
2. Health and Safety for our children as we approach the winter season.
3. Please pray for us to have wisdom as we research schooling options for Cali for Junior High. Cali will be graduating in March from 6th grade and we are now trying to figure out what to do for Junior High. We are looking into a homeschool academy online, and also at a private Christian church school. We covet your prayers for discernment and guidance we listen to the Lord's leading.
4. Please pray for us as we plan our Christmas outreaches. We are now getting dates for all our ministries to host the Christmas events. And it's still not to late to come to Tokyo for Christmas or part of December and join us in brining the Good News of Emmanuel (God with us) to those who still have to hear. Email us if you are interested in coming.
5. Jeremiah will be starting a leadership training session, please pray for the men and women who will be attending.
6. Ladies Bible Study - we currently have one lady who attends who is not yet a believer, please pray for her to come to Christ.
Blessings to you all and Happy Fall!
:)The 5 Boeks. | | |
| Thank you for all your prayers. Jazz and Justus are still battling fevers but they are both responding to medication. Praise the Lord for that. Cali is well and should be ready for school on Monday. Justus' class goes back on Tuesday and Jazz is suppose to go back on Wednesday.
We're trying to keep everyone healthy around here, so we've done a lot of fun cooking together.
When are kids are sick, our Japanese tradition is that they get Anpanman (an anime cartoon character) bread and fruits therapy pudding. Here's our little Juice trying to get his fever down.
We also made some yummy taco soup. Mind you sour cream is extremely expensive here in Japan, about $3 for a little Dannon yogurt sized cup, but a friend from the military base gave us some so we were very happy.
And then we had Make-your-own-Pizza Nite. Thought you might want to see our creations....
  
We'll keep you posted on our happenings. Thanks again for praying for our little dudes. | | |
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