Today's Verse
You close to Me, quickly become enlightened in this teaching of the truth of God.
If you quickly become enlightened in this one matter, everything will proceed accordingly. (V:14-16)
Tenrikyo Canada Church Celebrates Its 90th Anniversary
On December 1, 2024, Tenrikyo Canada Church conducted its 90th anniversary service. On the same day in 1934, Canada Church was established as a directly supervised church of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters. The service drew followers from all twelve church affiliations present in Canada—mostly people living in the country but also…
Boys and Girls Association Activity Guidelines 2025
The Boys and Girls Association leaders’ first meeting of the year was held on January 27 at Dining Hall 2 in the Home of the Parent. Attending the meeting were heads of directly supervised chapters and diocese chapters as well as nurturing committee members from those chapters and district chapters.…
Young Men’s Association Activity Guideline 2025
On January 25, Tenrikyo Young Men’s Association held its monthly meeting at Yoki Hall. The meeting was attended by chapter chairmen from directly supervised churches and dioceses as well as members of the steering committee. This year, the association will continue to promote the same guideline as last year, “Purifying…
Women’s Association Activity Guidelines 2025
Tenrikyo Women’s Association hosted a seminar for the chairwomen of directly supervised chapters and diocese chapters at Moya 38 on January 27 and 28, 2025. The association announced that it will maintain the existing slogan for spiritual maturity as in previous years: “Let’s follow the Divine Model and become the…
New Year’s Address by the Shinbashira (Full Text)
Happy New Year, everyone. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to you for working on various tasks of the path last year. The final year of the “three years, one thousand days” has just begun. A little over two years ago, in the autumn of 2022 (Tenrikyo 185),…
Spring Grand Service 2025
On January 26, the Spring Grand Service was conducted at Tenrikyo Church Headquarters with Successor-Designate Daisuke Nakayama serving as chief officiant on behalf of the Shinbashira. The Grand Service commemorates the day when Oyasama withdrew from physical life—namely, the lunar calendar date of January 26, 1887. In the Service prayer,…