BUT RIGHT NOW, WHAT CAN YOU DO? (A reminder from Saturday’s post) BE IN PRAYER – 1. Ask God to grant wisdom and strength to the 454 churches in the area and the 86 missionaries assigned in this region. 2. Pray for CRASH relief efforts as they assess needs and resources and begin mobilizing people for relief efforts. 3. Pray for the spiritual needs of this region. The areas affected by the earthquake and tsunamis…
CPI Gospel Renewal Training Month canceled due to the earthquake. On March 11th at 2:26pm Stu and Ruth Ann Batstones, our speakers for the month, were inbound to land at Narita airport at about 5pm. After the earthquake Narita airport was closed so they were diverted to Yokota airbase, an emergency landing field. At the time of the earthquake John was on the road to rendezvous with them at the airport. When the expressways were…
Maybe the situation in Machida, Tokyo continues to improve. Traffic is better as workers arriving today said it took less than yesterday. There is gasoline but you have to wait in lines over one mile long. The city hall made an announcement that we could be without power for rolling outage. Later they announced it was canceled. Some are reporting panic and runs on the stores. Maybe in some areas but we do not see…
There is a growing concern for radiation into the environment as they continue to lose progress in taming the nuclear power plants. Please pray. Dear Creator God of the universe please grant your divine wisdom to these very intelligent engineers and other dedicated workers. God we thank you for those many others who have come to advise and assist them in this crisis. God give them unity of purpose and clarity of action. Strengthen them…
I just posted several items on our website about our neighborhood situation, local affects of the earthquake, new prayer items, a local Japanese pastor’s prayer, Christians bringing relief, and CRASH mobilizing volunteers. Do not miss anyone.
Today Elaine went out through the neighborhood. Later we both went out through our neighborhood to prayer walk, talk to people, and scout out the effects of the greatest earthquake to hit our area. PHYSICAL DAMAGE We saw some damage to the roof of a local soba restaurant. Apparently they lost some traditional Japanese roofing tiles. In walking through a neighboring apartment complex we noticed large numbers of garbage bags with many broken dishes and…