I just got back from the October trip and am partially recovered from travel, work, and jetlag. Many asked me after I returned how my trip was. My reply was that the travel was smooth and the impact with leaders changed paradigms and moved momentum forward, but personally as a teacher and mentor the trip was particularly challenging. Part of the challenge means more recovery on this end. But it was worth it, and I…
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September seemed like a revolving door of visitors at our home in Illinois. John’s college friend from campus crusade dropped by, then a Japanese church planter, at that time Phil and Katie Tsai, new missionaries to Japan, joined us in mobilizing for outreach to Japan, then we had our local small group over. John is off to Asia this month to flip the script and meet with people in South Asia and Japan (see below).…
Thank you so much for praying for me and my teammate Phu Pham’s trip to Bangkok to meet with our South Asia partners. Last year there were 12 key leaders and this time we nearly doubled with 23. They were eager learners and workers. They picked up the missions strategic trajectory we launched last year and turned the 4 priorities into four working teams. The teams were 1) strategy, 2) training, 3) assessing new missionaries,…
It was very hot in Tokyo in August. A few days before I arrived they announced a new record high. The day I left for Bangkok they announced that the new record high had already been broken. We are talking over 107 degrees! The entire month in Japan was high humidity and temperatures over 90 degrees, including the evenings. HOT!. Elaine and I don’t miss living in Tokyo for that. I was in Tokyo just…