East District Blessed Families gathering at Hachioji Peace Center

Successful Event

33 Filjap East District members showed up and participated in an event " Peace Step Festival " held at the Hachioji local church on July 16,2023 . Hachioji church leaders and staffs welcomed such big group of Filipino community in one of their major events for the first time and a great opportunity for Filjap to collaborate with one of Japan's big local church from now on.

An influencer christian pastor was one among the guest speakers, inspired the members with his powerful message , passion, and advocacy on founding a homeless rehabilitation program .The main event started at 2pm and ended around 4pm, however , most of the Filjap members stayed until 7pm and enjoyed the bonding moments together with free coffee, drinks, and cakes in the cafe and lounge areas within the building .

This is a successful gathering marking a long-term engagement with a local church from now .

Future Plan

Filjap has always been renting different venue facilities for family gatherings and Sunday Services in the past. This time , the FFWPU Hachioji Church is now offering their church owned facilities to be used by Filjap events/gathering from now which is a great blessing to our community. This is indeed a great timing to collaborate with local Japan church and build more relationship with other Blessed Central Families in Japan.

Hachioji Church is actually planning to organize series of English Sunday Worship Service coupled with Music Ministry in the afternoon of Sundays from now . The 3rd Sunday of the month can be allocated for Filjap to collaborate with Hachioji Church.

More details of content of face to face gathering will be announced later.

Currently, there are 8 Filjap Blessed Families that are connecting to this church in addition to other Filipina sisters affiliated locally . This means that Hachioji Church is already familiar with Filjap Community. Also prior to the pandemic, some Filjap brothers have already organized some DP Seminars for English speaking guests using Hachioji Church facilities.