Five years ago I wrote a blog on the psychological scourge affecting a large number of young people, hikikomori. I have not heard much good news from five years ago until now. Last week Elaine and I had lunch with Pastor Koichi Hirano and Pastor Nobuo Watanabe at their Setagaya church’s new café. We had not talked with Pastor Hirano for several months and he shared some amazing stories. The Hikikomori are the Japanese most…
Do you miss us already? We left the US for Japan on July 7th. We have been settling in and getting ministry geared up for another term in Japan. We have just completed our ’09 US tour of our partnering churches, one of the best. For six months we shared messages, hung out in small groups, met up with pastors and missions sending teams, and recruited future short-term and long-term missionaries. We also had key…
This year our November brought our yearly ministry planning for the mission and a fun time of celebrating Thanksgiving together. This year it was earlier than the traditional US date (but later than Canadian Thanksgiving Day). We are so thankful to have our new missionary, Lori Harms with us. Also the Asian Director and his wife were also able to celebrate with us. We are looking for more people to join our Japan Field Team.