Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, Thank you for your prayers for safety over the last several days. both the trip to North Carolina on Sunday and to Florida on Monday ended safely. In Florida, I, along with Jeff Bush (VBM director), Dallas Brown (missionary to Burkina Faso), and Sam Quinn (missionary to India) had the opportunity […]
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A powerful earthquake rocked northern Japan early on Tuesday, briefly disrupting cooling functions at a nuclear plant and generating a small tsunami that hit the same Fukushima region devastated by a 2011 quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. The magnitude 7.4 earthquake, which was felt in Tokyo, sent thousands of residents fleeing for higher ground as
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Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, This past Sunday, several students of the OGTC and I had the opportunity to be with a church in Jonesboro, GA and help with their Open House Sunday. For the event, there were representatives from different areas of public service including the police department, fire department, and school district. Praise God for the
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In Chichibu, Japan, two hours northwest of Tokyo, there’s an odd museum; perhaps the only one of its kind. It’s called the Chinsekikan (which means hall of curious rocks) and it houses over 1700 rocks that resemble human faces. The museum houses all kinds of jinmenseki, or rock with a human face, including celebrity lookalikes
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Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, Thank you for your continued prayer support! God has continued to allow me to be in vibrant and growing churches for meetings. Both the church Sunday morning and the church Sunday night (both in Georgia) are considering supporting the ministry to Japan. Do you know which Japanese car is manufactured
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This weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the Toyota Corolla, one of the world’s best-selling cars. Since the first model went on sale in Japan on Nov. 5, 1966, about 44.3 million Corollas have been sold globally through the end of September, including the Corolla Fielder station wagon and other variants, the Japanese automaker says.
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A rooster has become an unlikely draw for visitors at a Japanese zoo after dodging death three times, earning him a reputation as a lucky bird. The male chicken, named Masahiro, has become something of a local celebrity in Osaka, even serving as an honorary “chief” of the local traffic police last month, the Kyodo
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Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, This past Sunday, I was at two churches – one near Augusta, GA, and the other near Anderson, SC. The church I was with Sunday night said they would begin supporting the ministry! Japan often has mini “booms” or short intervals where the entire country directs its attention to anything
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Nestlé Japan is known for its wide range of unusual Kit Kats, which come in a variety of unusual flavors and special local releases, but sometimes, at the end of the year, it’s the original chocolate wafer that becomes one of their most sought-after products. The Japanese tradition of giving “otoshidama” money gifts at New
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Dear Pastors and Prayer Partners, God has allowed the past several meetings to be fairly close to home base and that has been a tremendous blessing. This past Sunday, I was able to be with a potential supporting church. Your prayers make a difference, and I greatly appreciate them! Did you know there is a sister
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