May Prayer Spotlight

MAY PRAYER SPOTLIGHTS 1. Thank you for your prayers while Elaine’s niece visited us last month. It was a great time. 2. The Rengo National Evangelism Team meets on the 8th – Ask God for wisdom, strength, creativity and vision as we equip and support 9 current Rengo church plants. 3. For Spiritual Mentoring – Elaine is mentoring one woman, John with one man in Sonship, both by Skype as they live several hours from…

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Next Steps in Nagoya

We built it, tested it, and then we were ready for the road test. This was the Church Planting Institute’s three day foundational Church Planting Next Steps seminar (formerly BootCamp). This time we did it in Nagoya, Japan’s third largest city and home of Toyota’s Lexus. There were 38 in attendance with two training tracks; one for Japanese church planting leaders and another for missionaries. Participants hailed from many parts of Japan and missionaries from…

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Godzilla and Me

I love Godzilla, like anyone in Japan. I remember watching Godzilla for the first time as a grade school kid on the Thursday afternoon movie, The Big Show. I am a great Sci-Fi nut and they had all the greats on the Big Show. We did not doddle home from school on Thursdays. Because in those days without VHS recorders, DVDs, etc., if you missed it you would have to wait a long time to…

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