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Boys and Girls Association Activity Guidelines, Concrete Goals: 2023
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 and was attended by leaders from directly supervised churches and dioceses. This year’s guidelines for association activities are: “Let’s implement the teachings using Oyasama’s…
Young Men’s Association Activity Guideline 2023
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 started to promote the new guideline “Purifying our minds each day.”…
Women’s Association Activity Guidelines 2023
Tenrikyo Women’s Association held a seminar for the chairwomen of directly supervised chapters and diocese chapters at Moya 38 on January 27 and 28, 2023, attracting 244 participants. The association declared that they would promote the same slogan for spiritual maturity as in previous years: “Let’s follow the Divine Model…
The New Year’s Address by the Shinbashira (Full Text)
Happy New Year. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to you for working on various tasks of the path last year. I announced Instruction Four last year in preparation for the start this year of the “three years, one thousand days” activities leading up to the 140th Anniversary…
The Shinbashira Delivers New Year’s Address
On January 4, the Shinbashira, Zenji Nakayama, delivered his New Year’s Address at the New Year’s meeting of Tenrikyo Church Headquarters conducted in Dining Hall 2. The meeting was attended by 643 participants, including resident officials of Church Headquarters, head ministers of directly supervised churches, superintendents of dioceses, members of…
Spring Grand Service 2023: Followers Set Out to Make Decisive Efforts at the Start of the “Three Years, One Thousand Days” Season toward Oyasama’s Anniversary
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,…