God has brought more people for us to meet in Oct. One highlight
for October was a missions Diaspora meeting where we meet with missionaries
living in North America and South America working with Chinese and Japanese
people. The meeting was challenging in
many ways. There is a great task and
great harvest before us. Two things we
can always do: Pray and be Obedient to
God’s direction in our lives. (This can
be challenging.)
We have a new
President of the IMB. And it is the time
of year where a large percentage of the funding for our missions work is
given. We would just like to thank you
for your giving and your prayers because that allows us to be here in South
America.
The second highlight for October was a meeting with two leaders
from JEMS and a Brazilian Nikkei pastor.
We met in Lima to discuss how we could reach the Nikkei of Peru. Thankfully the Brazilian Nikkei believe that
God is leading them to help Peru by sending mission teams to Lima. Also, JEMS is going to encourage and
coordinate mission teams to come to Lima.
Having Japanese descendants coming to Lima to help share the Gospel is a
tremendous step forward. As we had these meetings we also met many more people
interested in working with the ministry of the Nikkei people. (Praise the Lord. This was a tremendous week of connections.) We could also use your help with mission teams. Please pray to see if God might be speaking
to you or your church about coming to Peru and helping in the sharing of the
Gospel to a group of people that historically have been closed to the Gospel.
The
baseball clinic has been scheduled for the second week of January 2015. (This will be our 5th Baseball
Clinic: We are very thankful to the dedicated men that God has called to this
ministry.)
Isaiah 40:31
but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be
weary; they shall walk and not faint.
It is very interesting how God works!!! We have been in Lima now for several
years. And now after we have committed
to move to Japan to coordinate the Nikkei work for South America from the
factory areas outside of Tokyo we are starting to see a movement of God’s
people to come and begin to work among the Nikkei people.
Please prayerfully consider a mission trip to
Bolivia, Paraguay, Mexico, Japan and Peru….The Nikkei need to hear the Gospel.
Also, please pray for Joy she needs to have some
outpatient surgery done. We are looking
into the best options for this.
And please pray for our transition of ministry and
the hand off of some of our work to others. Please pray for our logistical
issues as we will return to the states for a 7 month stay starting in June 2015
and for our new work location in Tokyo, Japan, in Feb 2016. We will still be working with the Nikkei in
the Spanish language. But we will need
to learn a survival level ability of the Japanese language.
Thank you for your prayers. We are seeing God at work and we believe that
when people pray things happen.
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people who are called by my
name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked
ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their
land.
