New Year's Day

New Year's Day we met at Goshogawara Church for the annual Ajigasawa/Goshogawara Church New Year's Service. Joy thought it was rather hard to get out of bed and go to church so early in the morning after staying up so late - but, as I pointed out, if we were going to skip something we should have skipped the night before. Unlike churches in North America and Brazil, the common Christian practice in Japan is a New Year's Day service NOT a Watch Night service on New Year's Eve.

Only one Ajigasawa member was absent!