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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We are thankful that our God answers prayer! Last week, our meeting for this past Sunday Night had to cancel. We prayed and asked the Lord to open up doors for us to be able to present in another church that evening. The following day, the Lord allowed us to get in touch with a
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As globalization makes headway, calls for increased ability in an international language like English become louder and louder. Although English is a compulsory subject in junior high and high school in this country, Japanese still have a hard time achieving even daily conversation levels. According to the most recent EF English Proficiency Index, the English
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We greatly appreciate your prayers for safety as we travel! On Wednesday we were in North Georgia for a meeting and on Thursday, we flew out to New York. As we were headed home from our meeting on Wednesday, we hit a deer, but the Lord protected us and there was very minimal damage to
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People often warn about the amount of cholesterol you get from eating too many eggs. But what if there were health benefits to eggs as well — like drugs that fight cancer, hepatitis, and other diseases? Japanese researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) did just that when they successfully genetically engineered chickens to lay
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Last week, we asked you to pray for Lord to open up an opportunity to present on Sunday night since our meeting was rescheduled. We are excited to tell you that He did! Thank you for your prayers! Because of this, we were with two different churches in North Carolina on Sunday. In addition to the
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