2025-26 Davar Winter Bible Seminar
Crossing the Jordan
12/29/2025 (Mon) – 1/2/2026 (Fri)
I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you (Gen 28:15).
These are the words God spoke to Jacob in a dream the night he left his father’s house to travel to Haran, where Laban lived. This land had been promised to his descendants since the time of Abraham, his grandfather, when God swore by Himself to give it to him and his descendants. Several centuries passed before Jacob’s descendants, the Israelites, took possession of the land, and many crises challenged that oath. Even after Jacob returned from Haran, a famine forced his entire family to flee to Egypt, where they became slaves. However, God’s oath always comes true. When the people who left Egypt made a golden calf and worshiped it in the wilderness, Moses spoke to the Lord.
Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: “I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever (Exod 32:13).”
We can apply this oath of God to ourselves in Christ, who are spiritual descendants of Abraham. What promises and blessings has God given us through the redemption of Christ? Just as the inheritance He vowed to give to Abraham’s descendants, these blessings have already been granted to us and will never be taken away. About a thousand years after Abraham’s time, when the nation of Judah was destroyed and its remnants were taken captive to the distant land of Babylon, God said:
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans of peace and not of harm, plans to give you hope and a future (Jer 29:11, trans. mine).
So, what kind of “peace (shalom)” is sworn for us who have already received eternal rest in Christ? Aren’t we being deceived by Satan and living as if we were still in the wilderness, not yet crossing the Jordan River? Come, let us cross the Jordan River together and enter the Promised Land flowing with milk and honey.
Speaker
Rev. Toru Asai
Rev. Toru Asai was born in Japan in 1952. While pursuing a degree in physics at Nagoya University, he received God’s calling to come to the U.S. In 1982, he began attending Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with a major in Biblical Studies. He continued his graduate studies at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, and received an M.A. in Semitic Languages and a Th. M. in Old Testament Studies.
He taught Hebrew and Akkadian (also known as the Assyrian language) at Fuller Seminary as part of the adjunct faculty. He was ordained as a pastor in 1996 by Grace Fellowship Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has been pastoring Davar Kingdom of God since 1996. His book “Kami no Katachi ni (In the Image of God)” was published by Japan Newspaper in 1994. He is married to wife, Masami and has one daughter, Jun.
Schedule
12/29/2025 (Mon) – 1/2/2026 (Fri)
Fulltime Participation
- The fees cover lodging (room/bed), three meals a day, and the use of the facilities.You can apply as either a full-time or a partial participant, but discounts are only for the full-time participants.
- Children under age 3 are free, and no children under age 11 can attend without their parent or guardian.
- Adults (Age 12 and above) : $400
- Children (Ages 4-11) : $200
Partial Participation
- $30 per each session for adults and $15 for children (ages 4-11).
- Meals are included in morning, afternoon and evening sessions, and lodging (room/bed) in night sessions. The fee for the use of the facilities is included in all sessions.
How to apply
You can email this form to camp@davarkg.com or send it to the address below. We accept checks and payments through PayPal.（Apply by 12/7）
Directions
Pine Springs Ranch
58000 Apple Canyon Rd.
Mountain Center, CA 92561
From Los Angeles / Ontario:
Take Freeway 10 East to Highway 79 exit. Follow Highway 79 South (toward Hemet) to Ramona Expressway, then turn left. Continue on Ramona Expressway until it ends at Florida Avenue (Hwy. 74). Turn left and follow Highway 74 up the mountain to Mountain Center. At the junction, stay to the RIGHT on Highway 74 for about three miles. Turn LEFT onto Apple Canyon Road (large green sign). Pine Springs Ranch is at the end of Apple Canyon Road, three miles from Highway 74.
Contact
Please let me know if you have any questions.
