Buildings in Tokyo

This imposing edifice is the Ochanomizu Christian Centre,  Known to us faithful ones as OCC for short.  It is here that we have held several of our monthly Kanto meetings and also many of the open meetings of the DTS.

This Centre in the heart of Tokyo was founded by an Irish missionary who gave up so much including the love of her life to serve Jesus in Japan.  The basement meeting room still bears her name “Irene”

The JEMA (Japan Evangelical Missionary Alliance) office is in this building where I worked for a couple of years on the communications commission writing prayer pages for the missionary community.  If you follow that link and check out the CPI (Church Planting Institute) homepage you sill see what is probably the biggest missionary cooperation movement in the nation.

The ground floor of the building hosts McDonalds where many from the missionary community have dropped in to get their fill.  In my early days in Japan before they reformed the building I had a major culture shock in this McDonalds when I discovered while using the toilet that it was CO-ED or Unisex.  Now they have facilities for both sexes.

Right above McDonalds is the .  Christian Literature Crusade bookshop.  I was there that day to buy a gift for our friends the Auw’s who as I mentioned earlier were in Japan for their 25th wedding anniversary.

We have used this book shop over the years to buy tracts, videos, Christmas cards and Japanese Bibles for all of our children all of this has been due to the obedience of an Irish youg lady who came to Japan before I was born.  Thank you Irene Smith