Goals for 2012

January 29th, 2012

This is our second weekly prayer update, and if you’re getting this one, then you’re on the list to get them every week. If you’re cutting back on your email and don’t want to receive emails so frequently, that’s totally fine, just let us know, and we’ll take you off. You can still receive our bi-monthly newsletters. For those of you who have committed to praying for us on a weekly basis this year, we can’t thank you enough! We’re so excited to see how God answers your prayers this year, and the things that He will accomplish.

This week Tomo and I talked a lot about our goals for getting to Japan, and things that we need to do to reach those goals. As I mentioned last week, the first thing we felt needed to happen was prayer, which is the reason for this weekly update. But there are other things that we need to do in order to get there, so I’d like to share them with all of you so that you can be praying for them. The basic stages that we’re looking at would be:

1. To reach 50% monthly support by the end of may to attend SEND’s Member orientation

2. To reach 75% at which time I’ll be able to quit my job in order to do full time support raising to raise the remaining support needed

3. Reach 100% by either December 2012 or March 2013 in order to arrive in Japan in time to start language school

The first big goal that we have is to reach 50% of our support by the end of May. This will enable us to go to SEND’s Member Orientation Program, which is mandatory before departing for the field, and only held once a year in the US. We tried to attend last year but were unable to get the required support. This year we’ve actually got a little further to go than we did last year because our budget increased with the birth of Titus, and the dollar hitting record lows against the yen. This means that it is even more expensive to send missionaries from the US to Japan, yet still absolutely necessary for the health of the church and spread of the Gospel in Japan. We’re still trying to prayerfully set a realistic target departure date. It’s tough to gauge how support raising will go this year, but we’re considering shooting for December 2012 (which would be ambitious) or March 2013, so that we could arrive before the start of the Japanese school year and I could start Language School right away.

This week I met with a guy who is interested in supporting us. He is going to come by some evening next week to hear more about what we’re doing. Pray that God will move in His heart to join our support team.

This week I need to make some appointments and follow up with people who have expressed interest in supporting us. We’re trying to get one appointment a week (still easing into things a bit, as life can get a bit unpredictable with a two month old baby).

We’ve got some off the wall ideas for getting up to 50% support by the end of May which I’ll share in next week’s prayer update. We’re working out the details now, but I’m excited and about some of the things that are starting to come together.

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Will You Pray for us Once a Week in 2012?

January 20th, 2012

We are praying that 2012 will be the year that God finally brings us to Japan, and as we look ahead to this new year, we would like to ask you to join us by praying for us on a weekly basis.

2011 was an exciting and challenging year. We entered the year with both of us working part time, in the most financially stable state we’d been in since we first got married, and able to dedicate a lot of time toward support raising. We were excited and hopeful that we would make some significant progress towards going to Japan. However, God apparently, had some other lessons and blessings (and still has some more) in store for us before bringing us there. We found out Tomo was pregnant in March which meant that not long after she had to quit her job, I had to go back to working full time, and we prepared for the joyous arrival of our son Titus on November 27. The last two months have passed in a blur of sleeplessness and constant smiling over how cute the little guy is. Overall it felt like the entire year happened in the midst of a whirlwind.

Now we’re starting to look towards the new year, again hoping and praying that God will send us to Japan, and planning out how we can be faithful to this calling, a calling that I feel only more strongly about as this support raising time goes by. Many have asked if I have considered that the long and difficult road of support raising may be a sign that God has a different path in store, but I have come to the opposite conclusion. It seems to me that virtually every servant of God in the scriptures was faced with long and difficult challenges. It would seem that most of the time God’s will is to put us through these trials to teach us and to strengthen us. I think that the easy path is rarely the one that God calls us to, but often the one we are tempted to choose for ourselves. So we press on, trusting, learning, wrestling, praying and seeking to serve God as missionaries in Japan, that one day through us, God would glorify Himself by saving the souls of Japanese who have never heard of His love for them.

We’re just starting to get our feet back underneath us, just starting to be able to establish something that resembles a routine since we’ve become new parents. We have basically had to take a few months off from support raising, but we’re now looking to start up again. And we want to start with prayer, and continue in it, which is where you come in, once again. I believe that prayer is absolutely essential to us getting to Japan, and if we are to raise the remainder of our support this year, we’ll need lots of it. The first thing we want to establish this year in our support raising journey is a weekly prayer update. If you are a financial supporter, or a prayer partner, you will automatically begin receiving it, but if you need to cut back on the email you receive, just reply and let us know, and we’ll take you off of the list. If you are not a prayer partner or financial supporter (or don’t know if you are!) and want to pray for us this year, fill in your email address below (and leave a comment!).

Finally, we would love to have more communication with all of you, and would love to be praying for anything that you are going through. Please feel free to respond to any of these prayer updates with prayer and praise requests of your own. If you have something you want everyone to pray for, let us know and we’ll include it in the next prayer update email (but not on this public blog).

Thank you all so much for your prayers!

 


 

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Titus Kenji Robison

December 10th, 2011

Titus Kenji Robison

On November 27, 2011 our son, Titus Kenji Robison was born. He weighed 8lbs 3ozs, and was 20.5 in long. We are praising God for a safe and healthy delivery, both Titus and Tomo are doing great. We pray that Titus will grow to know and love Christ Jesus, and that he will grow to serve God diligently.

It was originally our hope to be in Japan by the time Titus was born, however as always God’s plans are higher than ours. We are looking forward to moving to Japan sometime in the Summer or Fall of 2012 to begin missionary work with SEND International as a family.

Thank you for all your prayers and support!

 

 

 

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A Vision for Japan: Planting Churches to Reach the Nation

October 16th, 2011
Since the 16th century, missionaries have been struggling to share the hope of salvation through Christ with the Japanese. Yet today it is estimated that less than 1% of the Japanese have received Christ. I am not aware of any other country that has had so much missions activity and shown so little fruit. Truly Japan must be considered one of the most puzzling and difficult nations to reach with the Gospel. Yet I believe God can and will work in Japan, and I believe that there are specific things that must be done by this generation of missionaries and Christians in order to reach Japan with the Gospel.

In order for the message of salvation to spread to every corner of Japan, a Church planting movement needs to be started. Churches must be started which have at their core an understanding of their responsibility to bring others to salvation and make disciples of Christ. These churches must be counter-cultural, willing to challenge cultural norms and comforts which do not align with the Gospel. Yet at the same time they must be distinctly Japanese, redeeming and embracing elements of Japanese culture which do not conflict with the Gospel. I believe that once this is accomplished we will see an indigenous Japanese church rise up to take the gospel to every corner of Japan, and beyond.

From the earliest stages of church planting, new Japanese churches need to be instilled with a heart for the millions of lost around them, and a vision to see God work through them to fulfill the great commission in Japan. Most Japanese churches currently lack this vision. They are focused inwardly on the care of their own members and their own personal spiritual growth. These areas are vital, and cannot be overlooked, however as long as this inward focus remains the exclusive or primary mission of the church, then Japan will never be reached with the salvation of Christ.

Part of the reason that the Japanese church remains inwardly focused, is that it is cultural to be so. It goes against Japanese culture to share personal religious beliefs with other people who don’t hold them. It goes against Japanese culture to reveal areas where you are different form the rest of society. Essentially evangelism itself goes against Japanese culture. But the problem also extends to discipleship.  It goes against Japanese culture to be open about ones faults, or to confront others about their faults. In Japanese culture religion is typically prioritized after career and family, and practiced with the same mentality as a hobby. In a society that is significantly busier than America, little time remains to attend Bible Studies, or for many to even attend a Sunday service. A realignment needs to occur whenever someone in Japan comes to Christ; a practical realignment which reflects the recognition that Christ supersedes family, career, and even culture, that He is over all these, that He redefines and redeems them.

Yet we cannot go and start Western churches in Japan. To do so is both ineffective and dishonoring. In order for the church to grow and thrive in Japan, it must be distinctly Japanese, embracing Japan’s rich cultural traditions and art forms, redeeming them to bring praise to God. God does not want Japanese Christians to stop being Japanese. He wants them to glorify Him in a Japanese way. God is most honored and glorified when every culture on the planet takes their arts which they have been refining and perfecting for thousands of years, and turns them towards Him in order to express their delight in Him. I believe God enjoys the vast variety of multicultural praises that are turned towards Him, and that these will be preserved and perfected throughout all eternity. Japanese churches need to be started which are instantly recognizable as both culturally Japanese, and at the same time living the radically counter cultural Christian life that is distinct in every country where Christianity thrives.

The goal is to start a Japanese movement, one which is led by Japanese churches and ministers who are energized and motivated to move to new areas of Japan and plant new churches, to share the hope of salvation with non-believers and develop intimate Christ honoring relationships with believers. As a missionary, I believe God has called me to be a part of starting such a movement. I am excited at the prospect of being called to start these distinctly Christian, counter-cultural, Japanese churches, to disciple and train Japanese lay people and ministers, to build up the church in maturity and equip it for the great work of ministry that lies ahead. My sincere prayer and hope is that the church in Japan will grow and expand, and that the message of Hope in Christ will reach every lonely, broken and longing soul in Japan.

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The Benefits of Being a Missionary from a Small Church

September 23rd, 2011

We’ve been support raising for a long time, and often wonder why God isn’t doing things faster. We want to be in Japan right now, working with Churches, learning the language, reaching out to tsunami victims, sharing the gospel and starting Churches — but instead we’re still here, raising support. We attend and serve at a very small church, which has made support raising difficult for us. Many have suggested that we should find a larger church that has more resources to send us to Japan. However I believe God has us where we are for a reason, and every once and awhile He gives a glimpse of why.

Recently a missionary in Japan, who is doing a lot of ministry in the Tohuku area where the Tsunami hit hardest, said something interesting. He said that because of the economy, most of the missionaries coming to help out were from large churches in America, because they are the ones who have the budget to send missionaries. However this missionary said that he would like to see missionaries from small churches coming to Japan for two reasons.

1. Most churches in Japan are very small. Ministry in a small church is very different from in a large church. Large churches have many people and resources. They are able to put together programs and find specialized people to commit to working in a single ministry. Often large churches can hire full time worship leaders, multiple pastors, youth leaders, Sunday school directors and administrators. The churches in Japan have none of these luxuries. Small churches in the US are much more similar to Japanese churches. As I’ve served in a small church God has blessed me to be able to work in many different ministries: leading Bible studies, Youth Group, serving as an elder and even filling in to preach from time to time. The longer I am here, the more experience I get serving in a small church and the more prepared I’ll be to serve in Japan in a Church with limited resources.

2. People from small churches have to persevere through longer periods of support raising. I used to think this was a negative. However the missionary said that missionaries who got their support easily often had a difficult time adapting to the hardships of ministry in Japan. The truth is, Japan is an extremely difficult country to do ministry in. Things happen slowly, and much patience and diligence is required before much fruit is seen. A long term mentality is needed, along with the mindset of patiently relying on God to work and provide. If support raising were easy for us, and happened quickly, we would be going to Japan perhaps expecting that ministry there would also be easy and happen quickly. However practicing patience and perseverance through support raising in a difficult economy with a limited number of contacts in reality is a blessing as God cultivates in us the character qualities that a missionary to Japan needs to have.

I believe God is putting us through a tailor made missionary training course, designed to prepare us for exactly the type of ministry He will involves us in Japan. He knows all of our weaknesses, He knows all the areas we need to improve in, and He is putting us through situations to refine us and equip us for the work He has ahead.

CORRECTION (9/26/2011): The original post cited the source as a friend of Tomo’s, however it was actually a missionary who relayed this information to Tomo’s friend.

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Indigenous Missions

July 29th, 2011

Indigenous Missions is a bit of a hot topic right now. The idea is that in many cases it is more effective to support the work of national believers in a foreign country rather than sending foreign missionaries. In certain contexts this is indeed true. In many countries there is a growing, organized, Christian church full of believers eager to go into full time evangelistic ministry. But Japan is not there yet. There is a great shortage of full time workers. Pastors are in incredibly high demand because there are not enough men stepping into leadership. The Christian population is minuscule. The church has barely enough resources to survive, much less grow and expand. In fact I once asked a man who was working for an organization that is involved in indigenous missions in Asia if they were doing any work in Japan, or if he knew of any any agencies that were sponsoring indigenous missionaries in Japan. He responded that they were not, nor did he know of any. Merely sending money to Japanese believers is not enough to bring about fulfillment of the great commission. We need to send people, Christians who will give up their lives to love, serve, encourage and build up the church throughout strategic areas of Japan.

In a manner of speaking, our ultimate goal is to start an indigenous missions movement in Japan, by planting reproducing churches, discipling and training believers, ultimately sending them out to reach their fellow countrymen. Foreigners can’t reach the entire country, but we can enable and prepare national believers to. SEND’s goal is to establish reproducing Churches and through SEND we hope to start churches that grow to maturity and multiply, sending out their own into ministry to take the gospel throughout Japan.

This is essentially what has already happened in the Philippines, in part due to the faithful ministry of SEND missionaries there. The Evangelical population has grown to the point that they are now not only reaching their own people, but sending out missionaries to reach surrounding countries. SEND has changed gears from primarily sending foreign missionaries to the Philippines to facilitating sending Filipino missionaries throughout the world. This is really what we want to see happen in Japan one day, Lord willing in every country SEND is operating in. But to get there we need to go there, and for us to go there we need people to send us there.

If you are interested in sending us to Japan, leave us a comment, or click here.

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So what is Buddhism all about?

July 13th, 2011

Since I’m going to be living in Japan and starting (Christian) churches there I’m trying to get a better understanding of the people and culture. I recently read a book called “Beyond Buddhism” by J. Isamu Yamamoto.  Having never really taken the time to study exactly what Buddhism is about, it was very enlightening (heh) to read up on it.

The Buddha’s life is surrounded by myth and legend, making it somewhat difficult to piece together an accurate biography. The earliest written accounts were written around 300 years after his death. It’s generally accepted that Sidhartha Gautamma (The Buddha) was born in the sixth century BC in India. For all you Sunday School students out there, this was roughly around the time of the Babylonian captivity. Siddhartha was born a prince, into a life of wealth and privilege.

Legend has it that it was foretold that if Siddhartha remained in his fathers house he would grow up to be a great ruler, but if he ventured out into the world he would instead become the Buddha, a remover of ignorance from the world. Desiring that his son follow in his footsteps, he ordered that Siddhartha never be permitted to see any suffering or evil, and prevented him from leaving the palace grounds. Despite this Siddhartha managed to sneak into the city and witness the suffering of the common people. He decided to leave his life of wealth behind and search for truth.

After many years of meditation, wandering and leading a life of asceticism, Siddhartha one day sat under a fig tree to meditate. There he was tempted by Mara, an evil spirit, to pursue worldly things. After resisting Mara’s temptation, Siddhartha discovered the Four Holy Truths, and attained enlightenment. From then on he was the Buddha. The Four Holy Truths are:

  1. All life is grievous, self is a temporal creation cursed with suffering until deliverance is achieved.
  2. Suffering is caused by false desires of the senses have been deceived into clinging to the impermanent world.
  3. Deliverance from suffering is achieved when ones desires are suppressed, abandoned or rejected.
  4. The Noble Eightfold Path: right understanding, right aspirations, right speach, right conduct, right livihood, right effort, right concentration and right mindfulness.

Buddhism is based upon three central concepts: Samsara, Nirvanna and Karma.

Samsara is the belief in a a perpetual cycle of reincarnation. Buddhism teaches that all life is suffering, and thus being forced to continually live life over and over again is the worst fate imaginable, because it is nothing but an endless cycle of suffering.

Nirvana is the end of the cycle. It is to cease to exist and be aware, to no longer be an individual but to be one with the universe. It is the only escape from suffering, and it is what all Buddhists hope to attain eventually.

Karma is the belief that ones choices in life whether to do good or bad, will be rewarded or punished in future lives. Thus if you do good in your current life in your next life your situation will be better. If anything bad happens to you in this life it is punishment for something you did in a previous life.

Some Buddhist sects teach that the only way to reach Nirvana is to live the life of a Buddhist monk, which most Buddhists are unwilling to do. However if Buddhist layperson gives financially to the monasteries, and lives a moral life in accordance with the Buddhist ethic, in their next life they may be born as a person who is willing to enter into the monastery and be free of their worldly desires, and one day reach Nirvana.

Buddhism is founded upon a very bleak outlook on life. However I believe it’s understanding of this life is not far from the truth. The Buddha understood that this world is a very broken place, and he saw no hope of it ever getting better, to him the only way to escape suffering was to rid yourself of all desires and eventually to cease to exist all together. Through the Bible we understand that this world is indeed a bleak and hopeless place, broken by the wickedness of man, and condemned to suffer for all eternity. However it also tells of a marvelous loving God who went through incredible lengths to rescue those who repent of their sins and believe in His Son. Buddhism offers an escape of suffering through the cessation of all desires. Christ offers not merely an escape from suffering, but from the deserved wrath of God, and ultimately the fulfillment of all desires through an eternal relationship with our creator. In Christ we have hope.

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Didn’t qualify for Member Orientation this year

July 6th, 2011

I know this post may come across as sort of a downer, but it’s not like that. The last few weeks have been a bit of a roller coaster with hopes rising and falling, frantic planning and lots of prayers. But somewhere in the middle of it all I felt like God was telling me to just let it go, that He had a plan and it just wasn’t what I thought it was.

First off thank you for all of your prayers. Second, please keep praying; we are still as committed as ever to getting to Japan, and even if we do have to put off our departure date till 2012, there’s still a ton that needs to happen before then. We’re at 34% of monthly support, so in order to leave by next Summer we’ve got to raise something like 5% a month, which is far above the rate that things have been going the last year. The need for the gospel to reach Japan is as great as ever, and there have been few periods in Japan’s history when it has been this open to the gospel.

We will certainly not be idle over the next year as we continue to prepare to serve God as church planters in Japan. We’re expecting a baby in December, and Tomo was actually a little relieved that moving to Japan before the birth was taken off the table. We’ll have a little more time to prepare for our new arrival without having to worry about packing up and moving across the Pacific. I’ve been serving as an elder at our little church here in San Juan Capistrano, and I feel as though God has given me a greater opportunity to serve the local church and learn how it needs to function, for which I am constantly grateful.

Thank you again for your prayers, we need them; and we need your partnership and support; and Japan needs the Gospel. Lord willing you will join us in meeting those needs in the coming year.

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Update: Now we Need 50%

June 16th, 2011

First off thank you all so much for your prayers. It’s been pretty amazing to see God answer them each day the last three. But we need to ask you to pray for something a little bigger.

Due to a miscommunication in the SEND office, we were given the wrong amount to shoot for. In order to qualify to go to MOP we need to reach 50% by July 10. In other words we have a new deadline, and a higher target. If we don’t get an additional 16.5% (previously we were trying to raise an additional 8%) of our support by July10, we’ll almost certainly have to push back our departure to Summer 2012. More on that in a minute, but first, the good news.

Praises

1. Each day of the last three, God has provided one new supporter comitting $40/month. As you recall in the last Prayer update I mentioned that we needed to get one new $40/month supporter each day until the end of June, and asked that you pray for God to provide. That was Tuesday, three days ago, and sure enough, each day someone has decided to start supporting us at $40/month, or increase their support. I have been blown away to see God answer so clearly thus far. Now however, I need to ask you to pray that God provides two supporters each day for the next three weeks.

2. Due to God’s provision if we qualify for SEND’s Member Oriencation (by getting up to 50% by July 10), we will be able to afford to take the three weeks off of work needed to attend. I meant to ask you to pray about this, but forgot. It’s something we’ve been praying about for awile. When we started planning on going to MOP this Summer we realized that we wouldn’t be able to afford to take three weeks off of work. Technically to avoid having to push back our departure date we needed God to work two miracles: providing the supporters, and providing the finances to enable us to take time off of our jobs. As of this morning it looks like He has taken care of the second one, and that if we do get enough support to qualify to attend MOP we will be able to take the time off of work as well. So this was a huge answer to prayer.

3. Tomo is mostly over her cough. But still suffering from morning sickness :-( .

Prayer Request

1. That God provides an additional 16.5% of our support by July 10. Previously we set a goal of one new supporter a day for the next two weeks. Now it looks more like we will need 2 new supporters a day over the next three weeks. 1 Corinthians 4:8 comes to mind: “We are… perplexed, but not driven to despair.” I got two phone calls today while I was in a meeting. One was the call to let me know that we were accidentally told the wrong amount and that we needed to raise more than double what we thought. The other was a person calling to let us know that they wanted to increase their support by an additional $40/month. We aren’t sure what God is doing. But He is clearly doing something. If July 10th comes and goes and we have to push back our departure date till next year, then we trust that’s part of God’s perfect plan. But if it comes and we are at 50% we’ll know He worked a miracle. There could be no other logical explanation. This would not be the first time God has made a situation seem hopeless in order to demonstrate His ability to overcome obstacles that we cannot.

Judges 7:2-7

The LORD said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’ Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.

And the LORD said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ shall not go.” So he brought the people down to the water.

And the LORD said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.” And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.

And the LORD said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.”

2Corinthians 1:9
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

Thank you all, and God Bless!

Dave and Tomo

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June Prayer Update

June 15th, 2011

We’ve started a new Facebook Page. If any of you are on Facebook, please click here and Like the page to get updates! Dave and Tomo and Japan: on Facebook!

NOTE: We’ve learned that due to a miscommunication we actually need to raise more support than previously thought in order to attend MOP this Summer. We now need to be up to 50% by July 10. Please see the post above this one for an updated explanation of our situration, and please continue to pray that God will provide.

As always, I want to start by thanking you all for your prayers and support. It’s been a long journey so far, and many of you have been partnering with us since the begning. It is our sincere hope and expectation that one day, Lord willing, Tomo and I will be serving the Church in Japan. In light of all that is happening there now, we hope it will be soon, and invite you to pray with us that God will allow us to go to Japan shortly.

Prayer Requests

1. That God will provide an additional 7.5% of monthly support by the end of June. This is crucial. Unless we get to 40% of monthly support, we will be unable to attend SEND’s Member Orientation Program (MOP) in July, a required training that must be attended before departing for the field. If we do not get up to 40% we will have to wait until next Summer to attend MOP, and consequently push back our departure date till after that. Pray for David as he makes phone calls, and tries to find one person each day to invite to support us. We need one new commitment of $40 a month each day till the end of June to meet this goal.

2.  Pray for Tomo’s pregnancy and health. Tomo has been having a lot of morning sickness throughout most of the pregnancy, and on top of it has just come down with a pretty bad cough. Pray for healing, and that the morning sickness will ease up, and also that she will be able to gain weight, as its been difficult to do so with the nausea she’s been experiencing. Her due date is December 1st, and we’re not sure yet if its going to be a boy or a girl (we both want a boy!).

3. Pray for the outreach that Japanese churches are participating in the disaster areas in northern Japan. We’ve heard a lot of really encouraging stories coming out of there, and it seems as though God is begning to open hearts that were previously closed and unresponsive to the gospel. Pray for people to come to find salvation and hope through Christ Jesus, and that new churches will be planted in those areas.

A Word About Our Departure Date

Many have asked about when we will be going to Japan; we’re considering and praying about three dates. The earliest one would be September 1st. If we are not at 100% by then, we will wait here in America until after our baby is born, and then try to leave sometime in the Spring of 2012, again, if God provides the support. The latest we hope to leave would be late next Summer, 2012. Despite the slow going on the support raising, we still feel God’s calling just as strongly to go to Japan. And if God keeps us here, there seem to be many opportunities to be involved in ministry here that will only give us more experience, which, Lord willing will further prepare us to be effective missionaries in Japan. This entire experience has been very difficult, and yet at the same time we have seen God work in so many ways, and teach us so many things that we have little room to question why He hasn’t hurried things along, or sent us sooner. We’ll go exactly when He wants us to. But we’re praying that if He wills, it be soon!

Due to the rapidly approaching June 30th deadline, and the large impact it will have on our departure plans, I would invite you to please comit to praying each day till the end of June for God to bring us up to 40% of our comitted monthly support. Also, please pray that God would bring to mind someone that you feel would be willing and able to meet with us to hear about our ministry. If He does, please try to connect us. I would be greatly encouraged if you would let me know if you will be praying for us during the next two weeks.

Thank you all, and God Bless!

Dave and Tomo
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