Phil is one of my friends there right now.  Great Video.  

#7 Japan IverUpdate    Mar. 16    10am  Japan time (13 hrs ahead of east coast time) Dear Family and friends, Thank you so much for praying!  We have been going north to help where we can, and just a few minutes ago, we located a Japanese pastor, a good friend of ours, who is just 8km […]

From Ken Joseph (Missionary in Japan) Dear All, Today the team took supplies to Ishinomaki which is one of the most devastated areas of the Sendai. We first went to find out if the Ishinomaki Eiko Kyokai was all right and to deliver supplies to them. We found a Church with no water, no gas, […]

I am heading to Japan to help my dad’s church with the task of bringing the whole Gospel to the Japanese people in this hard time.  We are going to minister to minds, hearts and souls as we provide for basic human needs and share the hope we have in Jesus. We have four people […]

Dear Family and friends, Three of us went north into the devastated areas Sunday midnight with a packed 2-ton rental truck with 1000 liters of water, gasoline, blankets, food, warm clothes, etc, that our church members and lots of non-Christian friends donated. People were most desperate for water. We distributed supplies to a small church […]

#6: IverUpdate      Mar. 15, 2011    12:30pm  Japan Time * Carol interviewed on NPR.  A Christian AP correspondent had done the telephone interview. The portion NPR used on this NPR podcast will be interesting to you. * Safe, 1st trip to devastated area with needed supplies; 18 hrs up and back. Exhausted. Displaced people stunned, […]

The stats on Japan’s spiritual poverty, and especially the affected area: The areas affected by the earthquake and tsunamis of Miyagi, Fukushima, and Ibaraki are some of the most spiritually needy places in Japan. With over 4.9 million people yet only about 9,000 active Christians (about 0.15%; about 1/6 of 1%). Fukushima has the lowest […]