{"id":19,"date":"2022-01-01T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T06:34:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Vision<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Having received Christ's love, we want to respond to the call to love our neighbours and live in a way that the love of Jesus flows into our communities as pure like water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201dHe has shown you, O mortal, what is good.\n    And what does the Lord require of you?\nTo act justly and to love mercy\n    and to walk humbly[a] with your God.\u201d Micah 6:8<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2577.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2577-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2577-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2577-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Hikari Community Canteen is held once or twice a month in Kanazawa City. It is a welcoming space where people can enjoy delicious meals together and feel at home.\n\nAlong with serving food, the cafeteria also creates opportunities for connection through international exchange, art activities, and shared experiences. From children to seniors, we hope this will be a place where anyone can think, \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll stop by,\u201d and feel comfortable doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Noto Disaster Relief: We provide support twice every two weeks, focusing on providing community cafeteria, lunchbox delivery, emotional care as well as multicultural exchange activities. since this support started on January 19, 2024, we have been providing warm and fresh meals to the people in the affected areas while also working to build better relationships with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Food Pantry: Commencing in September 2024 in partnership with the NPO Bread of Life. Based at Kanazawa Christ Gospel Church, we gather essential foodstuffs and daily necessities for effective distribution across disaster-affected areas in Toyama Prefecture, Kanazawa City, and the Noto Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Our staff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"546\" height=\"312\" data-id=\"353\" src=\"http:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Koen-Team-picture-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-353\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From left to right: Chi-Kei Cheung, Joyce Chung(coordinator), Mandy Chong(Representative), Matt Wong(coordinator) \u3000\u3000<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u30d3\u30b8\u30e7\u30f3 \u3000\u30ad\u30ea\u30b9\u30c8\u306e\u611b\u3092\u53d7\u3051\u305f\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306f\u3001\u96a3\u4eba\u3092\u611b\u3057\u306a\u3055\u3044\u3068\u3044\u3046\u547c\u3073\u304b\u3051\u306b\u5fdc\u3048\u3001\u30a4\u30a8\u30b9\u69d8\u306e\u611b\u304c\u6c34\u306e\u3088\u3046\u306b\u5730\u57df\u306b [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":514,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lightnsaltnetwork.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}