Blog Archive

Gallery nani 

Peter Bakelaar • Nagoya, Japan

August 21, 2025

In 2022, Mrs. M and her daughter, A, began attending children’s English classes at Nagoya Central Church. Mrs. M noticed my artwork on the church walls, and the biblical themes in the exhibition caught her attention and stirred her curiosity about Christianity. That curiosity led them to a workshop at Gallery nani on the theme …


News from Bangkok 

Tim Mills • Bangkok, Thailand

August 14, 2025

This summer, MTW Thailand hosted artist Sarah Esther Merry as a part of an internship at Grace Fellowship Prawet Church. Sarah Esther stepped into a number of spaces in the broader community to lead ceramic workshops, minister to college students, and encourage many through her kind demeanor and love for others. Our local team of …


Russian Book Club Turned Japanese Bible Study 

Ree Coulbourne • Shin Urayasu, Japan

November 28, 2024

Mami had studied Russian. Loved Dostoevsky. Would I be willing, she asked, to have a Dostoevsky book club with her? Mami could tell I was about to decline. “Could you help me by explaining all the biblical allusions in Dostoevsky? Could we learn the Bible through Dostoevsky?” I was pregnant and exhausted and soon going …


A Place To Be: Gospel Resonances in Classical Music 

Roger W. Lowther • Tokyo, Japan

October 26, 2024

Art talk for the Eliot Society by Roger W. Lowther


Patrick & Regina Lennox 

Patrick Lennox • Sanford, Florida

September 22, 2024

I am ordained in the PCA and serve with Mission to the World in partnership with Occom Ministries. The Lord has blessed me with my wife Regina and three children, all of them gifted by the Lord in creative ways. As an artist, I have explored various disciplines. As a musician, I am a guitarist, …