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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The Justice Ministry has unveiled unmanned facial recognition gates that will be introduced at Haneda airport on Wednesday to speed up immigration procedures for Japanese citizens. The system can judge whether passport photos match images of travelers taken by cameras at the gates in about 10 seconds, the ministry said Friday. The system will kick
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What a whirlwind of a week it has been! Last week, had the opportunity to be at 6 different churches in 5 days (Sunday-Thursday) including a night for a missions conference just north of Cincinnati. Then, we had the chance to be with two different churches in TN this past Sunday. We also heard that two
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It was fall in Tokyo, and Saki Arai needed a gun. Saki manages the Bistro Hibino and wanted to hunt wild game for her farm-to-table restaurant. If Saki lived in, say, Tulsa, instead of Tokyo, getting a gun would have been almost as simple as buying a gallon of milk. She would visit one of
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After our meetings in Georgia on Sunday, we have had the opportunity to be at a missions conference in Tennessee both yesterday and today. Before we head to a missions conference in Ohio on Thursday, we are also scheduled to present at another church in TN on Wednesday. We greatly appreciate your prayers for our
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Twitter has rolled out a limited trial of 280 characters for some of its users. In announcing the trial, Twitter specifically noted that most Japanese tweets had 15 characters while most English tweets had 34 characters. They also noted that only 0.4% of Japanese tweets hit the 140-character limit whereas 9% of English tweets do. Ostensibly
