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Oyasato Seminar’s Course II was held in December in both mission headquarters in the U.S. mainland and Hawaii–from the 22nd to the 25th and from the 26th to the 29th, respectively. The course drew 12 students at the former venue and five at the latter. From the Overseas Department, Kunihito…
The last Monthly Service for the 165th year of Tenrikyo was conducted at Church Headquarters on December 26 with the Shinbashira presiding. In his prayer, the Shinbashira touched on the steps we took during the outgoing year–a year in which we not only laid the groundwork for our spiritual construction…
Oyasato Fusekomi Department of Tenrikyo Language Institute, in which students study Japanese while learning and implementing the teachings, conducted its monthly practice of sprinkling the fragrance of the teachings on January 11 in Yamato-Koriyama, a neighboring city of Tenri. A total of 21 students from seven countries and regions participated.…
Tenrikyo Church Headquarters held its annual New Year’s meeting in the Assembly Hall following the evening service on January 4. Attending the meeting were 691 resident staff members of Church Headquarters, head ministers of directly supervised churches, superintendents of dioceses, members of the Assembly, and committee members of Tenrikyo associations.…
On November 25, Tenrikyo Federation for Foster Parents held a convention commemorating its 20th anniversary, which drew about 220 members. Tenrikyo–at the level of local churches in particular–had been taking an active role in fostering children even before a national system for foster parents was instituted in 1948. This is…
The November Monthly Service of Church Headquarters was performed in the Main Sanctuary on the 26th. The morning was overcast and chilly, and many of the followers, who began arriving in the precincts an hour before the Service was scheduled to commence, came bundled up in jackets and scarves to…