We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday with family and trust you did as well. As we enter the Christmas season, so does Japan. However, since Japan has significantly less Christian influence than the United States, most people give gifts or have parties, but do not know the reason why. We get to share the […]
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After a wonderful time with family over the Thanksgiving weekend, we had the opportunity to be at a church for their Missions month on Sunday morning and Sunday evening. Additionally, one new church voted to take us on for support as well! Tomorrow we will be headed to upper North Carolina for a meeting. The
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One of Japan’s well-known cities is Kobe because of its beef. Kobe beef is known by many around the world as expensive, top-of-the-line beef. In 1995, the Great Han-shin Earthquake struck Western Japan and over 6,000 lost their lives. Of these, about 2/3 lived in Kobe. This city is also well known in Baptist circles
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Sunday was an unusual day for us! The church we were scheduled to be with in the morning was close to home and because of the schedule, we were able to be at our home church (Vision Baptist Church) and teach Sunday school before heading to our morning meeting. The church we were with for
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The tasty Japanese seaweed nori is ubiquitous today, but that wasn’t always true. Nori was once called “lucky grass” because every year’s harvest was entirely dependent on luck. Then, during World War II, luck ran out. No nori would grow off the coast of Japan, and farmers were distraught. But a major scientific discovery on
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This week has been very similar to last week’s travels. We were with two different churches in Knoxville, TN on Sunday and beginning yesterday, we have been in a missions conference in Ohio. Tomorrow we will be in Western Tennessee for a meeting before heading back to Atlanta. On top of all these recent meetings,
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In Japan, a game of Red Light, Green Light might be more like Red Light, Blue Light. Because of a linguistic quirk of Japanese, some of the country’s street lights feature “go” signals that are distinctly more blue than green, as Atlas Obscura alerts us, making the country an outlier in international road design. Different languages refer to colors very
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On Sunday, we had the opportunity to be with two different churches in Tennessee before heading up to Ohio for a missions conference. We have spent most of Tuesday (today) driving back to Georgia. This past week, one new church sent in support in addition to another church voting to take us on for support!
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Many people will have heard that in Japan, exchanging business cards is very important. Business card etiquette — something I doubt very much even exists in my home country — is still strong in Japan, and one gets a chance to practice this protocol almost daily here. If you’re being introduced to someone, even outside
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What an exciting month October was! We had the opportunity to be at a total of 17 churches in NY, OH, TN, GA, and NC (we were in 5 churches during the first six days!). Even though two of our meetings last month had to re-schedule, the Lord opened up opportunities to present somewhere else
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