Items for Prayer for Japan and our ministry.
May 1-4 ¾ day work, ½ day enjoy the mountains/rest in Colorado. May 4 – visit John’s aunt, travel to Village Church Thornton, Co May 5 – John speak at the men’s breakfast, Elaine speak at the women’s tea May 6 – preach/teach at Village Church also an evening meeting May 7 – meet with pastor at Conifer Community Church to make video for the church May 7-11 – ¾ day work, ½ day enjoy…
April brings many more of God’s blessings during our Home Assignment. God has been working. Family – Much praise to God for his blessing of our four generation reunion last month. Japan Disaster Response Teams – The first team of the year has been very effective in cleaning houses, gathering people (100 at one meeting), and touching lives with the Hope of Christ. Learning – John was able to gain new insights by attending a…
We were in a church recently and they asked, “How is your support?” Well, we will need an increase of nearly $11,000 to end the fiscal year on April 30th at 100% support. We need around $900 per month to bring our support level to match budget. Help us deal with these “insufficient funds.” Unless more money comes in by 4/30 this will be the first year in a long time we were under-supported, and…
Some of you may be aware of a network called Churches Helping Churches which has been very instrumental in assisting pastors in the Tohoku area with support, retreats, and other ministries to keep them from falling apart or burning out. They have been partnering with Asian Access and JCGI Network all across the Tohoku area. One of those Japanese pastors cooperating with them is Yoshi Ohari which shares a thank you to all who have…
If you have not already you will hear a lot in the news about the recovery efforts after the triple disasters in Japan last March 11th. Much has been done but this is a 10 year project to rebuild the 86 communities affected in the greatest disaster for Japan since WWII. From a Christian perspective of missions – Japan has even farther to go. Before 3.11, for the Church of Jesus Christ Tohoku was…
One year after the triple disasters finds nearly 20,000 dead, 400,000 displaced, over 1 million buildings destroyed, and very little rebuilding. Much of the debris has been removed, equivalent to 120 years of the whole nation’s garbage. Encouragement has come as where Ishinomaki City had 7 churches before the disaster, now it has four more, and counting! Converge Disaster Response ministry is now focusing on long-term help for people and building community. The Samaritan Purse…
March will be a busy month with 13 people coming on Converge Worldwide teams. Yas Yoneda, Team Coordinator, along with Craig Nasson from Ludington MI arrive on March 16. A team of 5 from Canada arrives March 23 for two weeks. After Field Council, Asia Director David Jahnke, Nate Jahnke and Chloe Milhous will join the gang working in Ishinomaki. These teams will wrap up their work around April 15th. Pray that they would be…
Mar 2-4 Speaking at Meadows Christian Fellowship, Rolling Meadows, IL (Our Home Church) Mar 5-8 John at Trinity Seminary class with Dr. Ed Stetzer and others Mar 11 Speaking at Evangel, Wheaton IL Mar 13-15 John to attend Converge Ignite Church Planting Conference near Phoenix Mar 18 Four Generation Mehn Reunion Mar 24-25 Speaking at Fox River Baptist, Appleton, WI Mar 29 Attending Converge MidAmerica Banquet
1. Ask God to equip us to be great encouragers during our travels on Home Assignment. 2. Continue to pray for an answer to our financial support needs as we are over $850/mo. short and will not return as scheduled until we raise more funds. 3. Ask God to bless by granting us wonderful times with our families while in the US. 4. Ask God to grant good unity and clear direction as the Japan…
Though there is much work to be done, disaster victims do have time to thank those who have helped them. If you donated funds, worked as a volunteer, or prayed for disaster response ministry this video is especially for you. Thank You for praying and caring for Japan!