Thank you so much for prayerfully and financially partnering with us in this church planting work. After our time in quarantine last month, we began hunting for a location for the church plant. We looked at several different properties, but they were not good options. One day while driving around one day, I saw a […]
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On Thursday, we get the keys to the church location! We are excited that this process took only about a month. Thank you for praying throughout this process. Now we are on track for a launch in December (12/12). Please be praying with us as we prepare do begin pre-launch work. On a personal note,
We’ve got a building! In less than a month, we went from finishing up our quarantine to signing the contract for a place to rent for the church. Get the details in this episode. Listen on the go
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Last week, we wrote to you about our ongoing house hunt in addition to the ongoing negotiations for the church building. Well, we are in the final steps to getting the church place to rent. Our real-estate agent, Mr. Watanabe, was able to negotiate the rent down about $100/month. Lord willing- we will have a
Contracts (10/12/2021) Read More »
The talks continue. We shared briefly in our update last week about a potential building to rent for the church. On Saturday, we met with the owner and real-estate agent to go over some details and then submitted our application. We are currently trying to negotiate the price and figure out some details. Our real-estate
Let’s make a deal (10/5/2021) Read More »
Thank you for continuing to pray for us while we are looking for a place to rent for the church. So far, we have been able to look at several properties, and one has particularly stood out. It is above a meat shop (sans the smell). While nothing is official just yet, we are working
Summary We are actively on the hunt for a church building. In this episode, you will learn about the progress we’ve made as well as the current coronavirus situation in Japan and how it will likely impact our upcoming church plant. Summary We are back in Japan! Hear about how God sent people we didn’t
We are now out of quarantine and out looking for a place to rent for the church plant. Although there is a lot of information online about properties, we have also found that there are many places that are for rent but not listed online. This includes a lot of walking around and driving around
*slowly drives by* (9/21/2021) Read More »
Barely outside of our grasp. That is what if feels like to be two days away from the end of our 14-day quarantine. Thankfully, the place we are staying has worked out very well for our family. That being said, we are definitely ready to be out and about. With the end in sight, there
Barely beyond reach (9/14/2021) Read More »
With great pleasure we are writing to you from Japan! It has been somewhat of a process getting here, but the Lord has been good to us. On August 31st, we boarded a direct flight from Atlanta to Tokyo and arrived 13 hours later. Because of the time change, we landed on the afternoon of
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