Dear praying friend,
\nSome quick updates.\u00c2\u00a0 Andy is enjoying Azusa again for the fall in southern California.\u00c2\u00a0 Ben ran 20th out of over 100 guys at the area Cross Country meet Saturday – doing well there.\u00c2\u00a0 Melissa is doing well in her middle school Volleyball team; they were down in Yokohama this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 Josh went with mommy and I to see a dinosaur exhibit today – he had fun and was glad to take home a little stuffed dino toy too.
\nMy leg still has some daily swelling to it, but seems to be making slow progress to normal.<\/p>\n
I want to ask you all to pray this week for 3 days of meetings I will be part of called New Life Macedonia Forum.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a twice yearly gathering of the 6 Korean men working in church-based or church assistance ministries we have.\u00c2\u00a0 In many prior years they helped Korea CCC and Korean churches to send thousands of Korean summer workers to come alongside Japanese churches during the Korea summer break in July to distribute Jesus film audio cassettes and videos, and other evangelism activities with local Japanese churches.<\/p>\n
Now Kazu and I are trying to help direct these men as they develop more training and year long programs assisting Japanese churches.\u00c2\u00a0 Our goal is to see more local Japanese involved in the programs some of whom eventually take over the ministry.\u00c2\u00a0 These outreach plans touch several areas of Japan: Tokyo, Tsukuba (northeast of Tokyo), Hiratsuka (south of Yokohama), Shizuoka, Hokkaido, Fukuoka and parts of Kyushu, and Okinawa.<\/p>\n
Pray for God directed wisdom and insight as we plan out the coming several months and years together.\u00c2\u00a0 Pray that we may develop more laborers to assist in these plans and for God’s provision of the needed finances.\u00c2\u00a0 Pray for insight how to be effective working alongside Japanese churches.<\/p>\n
Thanks so much for being partners with us in prayer!<\/p>\n
Steve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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