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What Do <strong>CAT</strong>* Staff Do All Day?<br />
Support Churches<br />
~Grace City Church<br />
~Shin Urayasu Grace Church<br />
~Grace Harbor Church<br />
~New Community Church (Shinagawa)<br />
Worship Seminars and Conferences<br />
Worship Song and Hymn Translation<br />
Serve Communities<br />
Gospel Choirs<br />
Music lessons<br />
Community Concerts<br />
Tohoku Relief<br />
Missionary/Team Care<br />
Gatherings and discussions for artists<br />
The Heart of Mission to the World: MTW is a worldwide missional community, and through<br />
our love for the gospel of grace we collaborate in transformative church-planting and renewal<br />
movements.<br />
*Community Arts Tokyo is a Mission to the World ministry that specializes in creating community<br />
around the arts, and enjoying arts in the community.
Creating community around the arts...<br />
...enjoying the arts in community!
Music, Fellowship, Worship
Teaching music. Mentoring students. Loving families.<br />
Getting to know the local community. Growing the next generation of worship leaders.
March 11, 2011.<br />
Tohoku, Japan.<br />
Earthquake. Tsunami. Nuclear Crisis.<br />
16,000 lost their lives. 3,000 still missing.<br />
Several years later, the north-eastern coast of Japan is far from being fully recovered<br />
physically, economically, and emotionally.<br />
But there is hope! As soon as immediate needs for food, water, and shelter were<br />
being met, Community Arts Tokyo was bringing another form of relief: music.<br />
We continue the program even today with concerts, music classes, and Gospel<br />
choirs for all ages.<br />
“There is so much grief and pain in the hearts of the middle schoolers.<br />
But through the Gospel and through music, they<br />
get back dreams and hope.”<br />
~staff member Mami Amano<br />
Right top: a short-term team from Juilliard sharing music and dance with those<br />
living in temporary housing in Ishinomaki<br />
Right bottom: Children’s Choir singing in Liberty Music Program’s Summer<br />
Festival, lead by Japanese vocalist Kaori Oomiya
Started in 2010 with<br />
about 30 attendees (left),<br />
Grace City is now meeting<br />
in a larger location to<br />
fit the ~200 people<br />
attending every week!
Shin-Urayasu Grace Church
Caring for fellow missionaries and short-term teams
Worship & Arts<br />
Conference and Seminars<br />
Resources for the body of Christ in Japan,<br />
connecting churches, sparking conversations,<br />
encouraging believers.
Art Performance Parties<br />
& “Art, Life, Faith” Discussions
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Where?<br />
Each is the location of a<br />
ministry hub, and is the central<br />
location where I hope to find my<br />
future home!
Who?<br />
God was calling Ellie to Himself and to ministry<br />
in Japan long before she was aware of it.<br />
She was born and dedicated to the Lord as an<br />
infant just south of Tokyo. After a two-week<br />
mission trip to Japan during college, Ellie<br />
graduated with a bachelor of arts in music<br />
from Belhaven University and returned to<br />
Tokyo for a two-year term, building relationships<br />
with the Japanese as a musician, teacher,<br />
student, and friend. During that time, she saw<br />
God powerfully using music and the arts to<br />
encourage Japanese Christians (which make<br />
up only 0.3 percent of the population) and to<br />
function as a bridge between non-Christian<br />
communities and the church. Ellie is excited<br />
to continue serving in Japan as a long-term<br />
missionary with Community Arts Tokyo, supporting<br />
church planting through music and<br />
arts ministry. Please pray for Ellie and for the<br />
Japanese people she serves.<br />
Ellie Honea contact and donations information<br />
serving in Tokyo Japan<br />
Account #13330<br />
Phone: 434-709-7047<br />
ellie.communityarts@gmail.com<br />
Give Online: donations.mtw.org<br />
Mission to the World<br />
PO Box 2589<br />
Suwanee, GA 30024-0982<br />
Consider the online giving options at donations.mtw.org, or make<br />
checks payable to Mission to the World, subject line #13330, Honea
Wait...when is/was Ellie in Japan?<br />
~a timeline for the understandably confused~<br />
Born just south of<br />
Tokyo, Japan<br />
2 year missionary with<br />
Community Arts Tokyo<br />
1989 2010 2012-2014 July 2015<br />
2 week mission trip<br />
to Tokyo<br />
5 week mission trip to<br />
help the Community Arts<br />
Tokyo team<br />
during a busy summer<br />
Coming soon!—beginning service as a career missionary<br />
*as soon as 100% of support is raised
What Next?<br />
My first year back in Japan, I’ll be focusing on language study<br />
and serving with New Community Church: a churchplant<br />
that just hit the ground running March 2015 with Bible<br />
studies, small groups, and weekly worship in Shinagawa (a<br />
bustling area in the heart of Tokyo). I can’t wait to join them<br />
in sharing the Good News and exploring the role the arts can<br />
play as we grow in evangelism, unity, and discipleship.<br />
New life in Jesus<br />
Embracing diversity<br />
Witnessing disciples<br />
Community Church
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