August News

Thank you for your encouragement and prayers. Things are going well and we are praying each of the six churches will be able to develop a church planter and church planting plan in the next two months. Please pray with us and that God will give us a large harvest of souls. Our desire is to be used to help people find their way out of the dark and into the marvellous light of Christ. We had lunch with one of the key pastors in the network who had introduced us to many others in the network. He and his wife will take a 3-6 month sabbatical starting in Sept. We met the key leader who will take the reins during their absence. We are praying the pastor's absence will enable more lay leaders to grow up quickly in the mother church.

Mike's back

I appreciate anyone who reads this blog. For the last week I have been in a lot of pain with my bad lower back. Things are going great on the ministry front! Mitch came to church after not being able to for a long time. He never has Sunday off but this was Obon, the Japanese equivalent of Thanksgiving and Halloween rolled into one.