God's Fingerprints in Japan

Tonight at Bible Study, Pastor Hisashi started talking about the traditional Japanese tea ceremony and how it links to Christianity.  He explained it in detail and taught the women's Bible Study this earlier today.  I already knew about this connection because there was a research conducted in Hawaii several years ago about this.  I shared this with Junko and she was surprised.

The church and ministry in Hawaii (Aloha Ke Akua Ministries) did this study and they released two documentary DVDs.  The DVDs are about finding God in traditional Japanese culture, so that Japanese people can identify with God as a Japanese God and not a foreign God introduced by westerners.  The DVDs are called "God's Fingerprints in Japan."

I used to own them but I didn't bring them with me to Japan.  (Doh!)  But luckily and thankfully, Aaron has a copy of them with him.  But I also managed to find links of the videos online.  I wish I could put the videos on this blog site, but I couldn't figure it out.  So instead, the links are below.  Both are very interesting!

God's Fingerprints in Japan (Part 1)

God's Fingerprints in Japan (Part 2)

And the website to the ministry's site is here: Aloha Ke Akua Ministries