Well, there's nothing more I hate to do than breaking up a vibrant fellowship on Sunday morning, but the, I'm so honored and happy to be here this morning at the Cornerstone. And I just wanna thank you for having me here and standing at this pulpit means a lot to me because I know, Milton and other men here, preach the word faithfully from here, and it is a great privilege to be at this pulpit to, be able to speak to you this morning. So, thank you. my name is Dace G Ocara, and Mike told me, I forgot to mention this in the first service, but we have a prayer card.
At the back somewhere he has placed. So if you'd grab one and for us and pray for us and be greatly appreciated. Again, as Mike mentioned, I graduated with him from the seminary in 2000 and I have been Back, ministering in Japan in Osaka, Japan for the past 12 years. We just came back here, last summer, and as he mentioned, I'm working on my school, and I'm not sure why I'm back in school again, but yeah.
It's been, it's been good. The Lord has been, good to us and blessed us with different opportunities. And again, one of those opportunities of being here this morning with you and, We have been ministering at a local church there in Japan called Hamadera Bible Church, and we are now switching our transitioning our ministry to a local church ministry to a more of a training focused ministry. And so I'm in the transition, getting my education done and looking forward to going back on Lord of Wales possibly next year, if not the year following, depending on.
how the Lord directs all things for us. I'm with the family this morning. I, my wife sitting in front and two sons, and youngest daughter is at, at the Sunday school, and I have the oldest one back in our home church up in Lancaster, California. But we have a family of 4, a family total of 64 kids, and ages from 13 to 5....
