Apr 10, 2011

My uncle, Bill Iverson, (the guy who built the water purification systems we took to Japan) just wrote this email to me and I decided to edit and  post it because I really saw this in Japan and see the need more than ever for real Gospel Community centered Church planting in the Tohoku area… “I didn’t think there would ever be a day that I would...

Apr 8, 2011

In this Video Rev. Mori from Global Mission Chapel in Iwaki talks about how God has protected His church even though they are only 18 miles from the nuclear reactor. When he was asked why he was not leaving his community like many of the other government and business elite who did, he responded that now was not the time for surVIVAL but the time for reVIVAL. He...

Apr 6, 2011

Apr 4, 2011

A great letter from team member Tim Bentson Eight of us landed in Japan to work with Oyumino Christian Church that had started their own relief effort to help the people of Tohoku suffering from the 9.0 earthquake, tsunami and the possibility of nuclear fallout. The Oyumino Church had been renting trucks, buying supplies of all kinds and taking them to the...

Apr 3, 2011

Here’s a great video by Shane of our last few days in Japan serving the people of Ishinomaki… They also served us so well and we are humbled to come along side such wonderful people and watch God’s redemption unfold through the love of Jesus. ...

Mar 27, 2011

I want to share one story that really moved me. Because there is no water, electricity or gas still in some places, no one has had the chance to take a bath. Rev. Mori (Global Mission Chapel) had a great idea of how to minister to one of the shelters filled with the elderly and disabled, some of whom had been discharged from the hospital with no where to go. He...