Lifehouse International Church is an international

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& other parts of Asia. It is an

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church and partner with the ARC Network of Churches.

History

Jesus Lifehouse International Church Yokohama Praise

The church was founded in 2002 by Rod Plummer and his wife Viv in Tokyo, Japan, with a team of 16 people. The church was originally named Jesus Lifehouse simplified to Lifehouse as they started to plant Churches in other countries. Lifehouse Tokyo has seen consistent growth every year growing from the initial team of 16 people to over 2,500 in 2020. Warren Bird
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Beliefs

Lifehouse is affiliated with the

, which belongs to the Pentecostal tradition of Christianity. Lifehouse International Church
WHAT WE BELIEVE
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Music

Lifehouse Church uses primarily original songs in their services, which is

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and sung bilingually in English and Japanese. They have released several albums of bilingual worship music in recent years, which are available on Amazon Music, Apple Music, iTunes, Google Play, and Spotify. Albums include Revival, Direction, Overcome, Running Only After you, No Limit, All or Nothing, In Your Name Forward King of King and Celebrate.

Conferences

Lifehouse church holds a conference annually.

Lifehouse Conference

The Lifehouse conference is each year and is designed to promote the cause of the local church in Japan and across the world. The conference is attended by up to 3000 people from various countries. Lifehouse Conference 2017

Tohoku Homestay Relief Program

In 2011 Lifehouse Church initiated a free

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program. Tōhoku Relief HomeStay is a Relief Program administered by LifeHouse International Church together with support and partnership from Air New Zealand, Qantas as well as partner Churches and HomeStay partners in New Zealand & Australia. for school and university students affected by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. 210 students were sent to America, Australia and New Zealand during August and September to stay with

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families and attend English schools free of charge. Lifehouse Church worked with many partners to organize the program including

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New Zealand, Berlitz Language, ACC International Relief,

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, the New Zealand Embassy and local churches throughout Australia, New Zealand and America.

References

External links

Lifehouse International Church website
{{Protestantism in Japan Australian Christian Churches Churches in Tokyo Christian evangelical denominations in Japan Pentecostal denominations