We have good things happening at the café we set up here. It’s a place of discipleship and daily work for our national staff as they provide a consistently good experience for community members. A recent highlight was the commitment to Christ by one of the staff members. She went from lukewarm to on fire …
We started the English Café four years ago to teach English to Japanese women. Since last year, many women have started attending and more have joined this year. We hold it twice a month. The women really enjoy the chatting time and learning some simple English words. We have started looking at stories of Bible …
I often wondered why God led me to this place in Asia, working in a hospital. I felt the Lord saying to me, “You may not understand now, but someday I will show you.” A few weeks ago, while preparing a presentation the hospital had requested, I suddenly remembered that my maternal grandfather had lived …
A couple of weeks ago a teammate and I went for breakfast at a chai place that we normally go to. Over thelast months, I have shared the good news with the workers there a few times. I arrived a little bit earlier thanmy teammate and sat down at an empty table. Shortly after, a …
In recent days we have faced several hard, complex situations. We needed the Lord’s help to walk with a light heart and to be full of His hope. Sometimes we just needed to become like children with a childlike joyful faith. My sister and I found a chorus that talks about swinging on swings and …
Our life these days is in the café we opened recently. We are here day in and day out with little bits of other interesting endeavours tucked into the folds of our café aprons. Meaningful conversations are happening, and deep relationships are being forged. We hope the café will be like a community garden where …
Last week my wife and I had an urge to go to a local park where we had not been for a long time. When we got there my wife saw a lady she knew. While they talked, I sat on the grass a few meters away. After a few minutes a young guy came …
My wife and I took a short trip to another city with a friend and ended up running into one of my friends there. This man told us that his wife was currently in a place near where we live to help her sister who had a premature baby. My wife and another woman went …
Our friend, Angel, invited us to her village. The word ‘village’ in the local language is packed with meaning. Almost everyone who lives in the city has a village. This is where they are from and where they call home – the place where their big extended family networks. For some, especially those for whom …
I recently returned from a vision trip to a country in Asia to discern if God may be leading me there long term. While only in the country a month, I felt I connected well with the small team serving there and I look forward to joining them in the future. They included me in …
