{"id":10884,"date":"2016-08-12T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/jss-newsletter-vol-4-no-2\/jss%e6%96%b0%e4%bb%bb%e3%83%9c%e3%83%bc%e3%83%89%e3%83%a1%e3%83%b3%e3%83%90%e3%83%bc%e4%bd%90%e8%97%a4%e6%98%8e%e7%94%b7%e3%81%ae%e8%87%aa%e5%b7%b1%e7%b4%b9%e4%bb%8b\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T14:19:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T18:19:47","slug":"newboard_sato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/jss-newsletter\/jss-newsletter-vol-4-no-2-en\/newboard_sato\/","title":{"rendered":"A Self Introduction of New Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Haruo Sato<br \/>\nPastor for Japanese speaking congregation, Japanese Gospel Church of Toronto<br \/>\nMy name is Haruo Sato, a newly appointed board member of JSS.\u00a0 I am a Japanese speaking pastor at the Japanese Gospel Church of Toronto (JGCT).\u00a0 I have been a pastor for more than 12 years at JGCT.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3173 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sato_IMG_0780-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Sato_IMG_0780\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sato_IMG_0780-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sato_IMG_0780-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sato_IMG_0780-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sato_IMG_0780-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jss.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sato_IMG_0780-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>During my ministry at JGCT, I have been helped by the counsellors of JSS.\u00a0 As a church we do spiritual care but some people who have problems in the legal and mental areas may need counselling.\u00a0 We have asked them to contact\u00a0 JSS for their help.<br \/>\nOur church is one of places JSS places donation boxes for the <strong>Holiday Drive<\/strong>.\u00a0 We also give some names of people who needs these gifts.\u00a0 The receivers are very happy to have Japanese food items and other gifts.<br \/>\nThere are native Japanese people who have troubles in their daily lives in Canada.\u00a0 They are not able to handle their problems by themselves because of a language handicap.\u00a0 JSS is giving great joy to those people who need help.<br \/>\nI was really inspired by the work of JSS, and I attended the AGM again this year.\u00a0 I was asked to be a board member and I accepted it.<br \/>\nI do not think I can help a lot, but I want to do whatever I can do to help those Japanese people who are in trouble and need help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Haruo Sato, a newly appointed board member of JSS.  I am a Japanese speaking pastor at the Japanese Gospel Church of Toronto (JGCT).  I have been a pastor for more than 12 years at JGCT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jss-newsletter-vol-4-no-2-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jss.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}