{"id":263,"date":"2011-03-12T22:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spendyourself.org\/?p=263"},"modified":"2011-09-21T03:54:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T03:54:46","slug":"update-from-my-dad-on-the-front-line-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"Update from My Dad on the front line #4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Iverson #4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Mar 12\u00a0\u00a0 10:30pm\u00a0 Jpn Time\u00a0 (EST + 14)<\/p>\n

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Dear Family and Friends,\u00a0 Thanks for your prayers and care.<\/p>\n

Just as I wrote this, a fairly large tremor shook the church building again.\u00a0 # 130th or something since 2:46 pm Fri afternoon. Incredible.<\/p>\n

1. Donations for Japan Earthquake via MTW: see www.mtw.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Send to MTW\u00a0\u00a0 “93993 Japan Earthquake and Tsunami”<\/p>\n

2. This is incredible devastation.\u00a0 Please ask your church to take special offerings for this tomorrow.\u00a0 And pass the word to Christians to give and pray for this.\u00a0 We have already spent almost $1000 tonight renting a first truck and buying food to take north, Lord willing tomorrow night.\u00a0 This is a very small start on a huge and expensive project these next months.\u00a0 Pray that we can really help, and show the love of Christ in this lost land.<\/p>\n

3. One news report an hour ago said that in a hard hit northeastern prefecture a village of 17,000 people was missing 10,000 people.\u00a0 That seems impossible, and they had not confirmed it yet, but what is for certain is that the devastation is incredible. And the confirmed death toll goes up much every hour.<\/p>\n

4. Pray for us as people bring money and food and water and diapers etc to worship in our church plants here in Chiba 12 hours from now.\u00a0 We plan to load the truck and a couple vans, and maybe leave at 2am as daytime traffic bumper to bumper (so gov’t shut down the highways going north, only police and military can use, we have heard) We are tentatively planning on going to a an area south of Sendai and the worst devastation, and south of the nuclear plant problems (hard to get in further north … roads are blocked except for emergency vehicles).\u00a0 Pray we find a needy town and a church to partner with in a hard hit area on the coast in north Ibarki prefecture, or south Fukushima prefecture.\u00a0 Someone who knows the area and worst places on the ground will really help.<\/p>\n

Your CNN and other news is pretty much same as what we are getting here in Japan.
\nKeep praying about nuclear reactors, and that we and lots who are mobilizing teams to go in and help the devastated areas can indeed get in, and can get to where they can really help with the right relief materials and people.<\/p>\n

Well, I need to get some sleep and get ready to preach in 12 hours.<\/p>\n

Thanks for caring and praying for the now doubly needy people of Japan.<\/p>\n

Dan<\/p>\n

We had a great concert today with the group from Korea who arrived yesterday.\u00a0 Wonderful for Christians and non-Christians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Iverson #4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Mar 12\u00a0\u00a0 10:30pm\u00a0 Jpn Time\u00a0 (EST + 14) Dear Family and Friends,\u00a0 Thanks for your prayers and care. Just as I wrote this, a fairly large tremor shook the church building again.\u00a0 # 130th or something since 2:46 pm Fri afternoon. Incredible. 1. Donations for Japan Earthquake via MTW: see www.mtw.org […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[52,71,91,115,145,232],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-needs","category-tsunami-relief-in-japan-world-missions","tag-dan-iverson","tag-front-line-tsunami-stories","tag-help-japan","tag-japanese-tsunami","tag-mtw","tag-village-wiped-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}