Weekly Updates

Rosie’s test results (final exams not Covid) came back positive. Most of them were in the upper 90%. She has done very well with her language school and has one final project to complete next week, and she will be done with her two years of language school. On Friday night, our younger son, Amos, […]

This past week, I had the chance to visit Nagoya for several days and meet with some of the leadership there. You can here about some of the details of that trip in last week’s podcast. This week Rosie is taking her final exams in language school. This is a big step for her. On

We have been continuing to make preparations for furlough over the weekend, and we were able to get our family photo done. We will be getting the new prayer cards made and prepared so we will have them on our arrival. This week, when you receive this email, I (James) will be in Nagoya to

My Apologies for the last email that went out. We do not typically just send a picture with no explanation! There was a problem with our website, but it is fixed now. Thank you for your patience! It is hard to believe that it is already February, we are rapidly approaching our furlough next month.

Over the last week, ideas have been coming together for a new opportunity to share the gospel here in our city. Recently the coronavirus has been taking off again, and the Tokyo area as well as three other large metropolitan areas have gone into a state of emergency. Our area has not had as much

This past Friday, we did a live update from the field about where we are going to be heading for our church plant later this year. We are excited to announce that we will be heading to Nagoya. If you would like to watch the update that we did that is about 30 minutes please

This past Sunday, in the afternoon we grabbed some shovels and started going around the neighborhood to shovel some snow. A couple that runs a flower shop a couple doors down came and helped us as well. We were looking for a way to serve the community, and we are grateful for the opportunity that

This past Sunday, I was given the opportunity to preach the Sunday morning service since Bro. Hill was a not feeling well. He is on his way to recovery right now but I’m sure he would still appreciate your prayers. This year has had quite a number of twists and turns, but we appreciate your

This past Sunday we had the Christmas concert at our church here. Thank you for your prayers for this event. Although we had a handful of people who cancelled due to illness, we still had a very good turnout. We had multiple people who said they had come to church for the very first time,

This past Friday evening we had a welcome party at the church, which was a time for us to invite people who have visited us to come so that we could share with them the vision of the church and to show them what their next step is. We had a good turnout and are