Prayer Letter

Dear Pastors, Friends, and Faithful Supporters, At the end of April/Beginning of May, Japan entered golden week. This year two weekends and three holidays aligned. If people took off work on a Monday and Friday, they would have had 10 consecutive days off (Saturday through the following Sunday). While we didn’t do any major church […]

Dear Pastors, Friends, and Faithful Supporters, How is it already April?! The time is quickly flying but we are honored to send you an update on what is happening here in Japan. Toward the beginning of April we not only celebrated Amos’ second birthday, but also our 5th wedding anniversary. God has been really good

“Wars and rumors of wars.” Maybe this phrase has come to mind with the recent war which began Ukraine. Our heart breaks as we see the news pour in of unjust actions. Just as the media began covering the invasion in Europe, the domestic news began talking about extending the Covid special prevention measures (again).

At the end of January, the Omicron variant began spreading rapidly in Japan. Aichi prefecture (our state) requested for special prevention measures to be put in place. These measures allow the local governments to place restrictions on businesses and the measures went into effect on January 21st. The government is also calling on people to

On December 12th, Owari Baptist Church officially launched! Since our launch date was in mid-December, we didn’t have much time to turn around and promote our Christmas services. But we still had first-time visitors at two of the three Christmas services we held on Dec 24th & 25th. It is a tremendous privilege to preach

In our last letter, we wrote to you about getting the keys to the church building and our scheduled move. Things have been moving along smoothly as we head toward the official church launch on Dec. 12th. The space we are renting for the church is not extremely large by American standards, but it suits

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

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

We are now just a few short weeks away from our scheduled departure for Japan on August 31. Much has been in motion since our last letter that we would like to share with you. Vision Baptist Missions and the Our Generation Training Center hosted the World’s Cheapest Mission Trip last month. For this event,

Our time in the States is flying by, and we are looking forward to returning to Japan at the end of next month. During June, we had the chance to visit churches in several states including Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia. We gave updates and shared plans for the next term on the field. We