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…
We are 240 miles from the epicenter and our area sustained little damage but we are very much affected here in Machida-city Tokyo. Tokyo has only sustained 6 deaths, our neighboring prefecture (state) Kanagawa has had only 3 deaths. Farther north in the Tokyo area, Chiba prefecture has had 15 deaths, Ibaraki has had 19 deaths. The true death toll in the affected areas of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate are will not be known for…
1. Please pray for rescuers as the first 72 hours (3 days) are the most critical in finding people. That ends today. As you may have heard highly trained rescue teams from all over the world have been arriving. Encouraged as a military flight just went over my house, a cargo plane, and I know where it is going. Atsugi naval air station, about 5 miles from here, has been more busy than usual today.…
We are very thankful to God that a Christian relief organization based here in Japan was able to make great progress today. Christian Relief, Assistance, Support and Hope (CRASH) is a network supporting Christians to do relief work in Japan and around the world. CRASH equips and prepares churches and missions to be there to help their communities when disasters strike and coordinates Christian volunteers to work with local ministries in the event of a…
Among the hundreds of thousands affected by the earthquake and tsunami are only about 9,000 Christians in worship in 145 churches. One pastor shares his heart for his community and Christ’s church in the area devastated by this earthquake and tsunami. His Fukushima prefecture has 145 churches and 2,658 weekly worshippers for over 2,000,000 people. Pastor Akira Sato is a Conservative Baptist Pastor in a rural areas near Fukushima city and wrote a letter yesterday…