Yeay! I don't know what all to tell you about I put up a few really neat pictures on Face book but only 16 I'm taking a lot of pictures too so I'll have a lot to show when I get home. Oh and also pray specifically for me, all day today (saturday) I kept being dizzy for no apparent reason, It could be jet lag or it might be that I'm just not drinking enough water, I pray that it is one of those two simple answers. Hmm our apartment is awesome you should check it out......um I typed that without thinking, I want to post a photographic tour soon on Face Book so just wait for a bit then you can check it out! hurray there is a tatami mat room it's so cool and a dinky shower room and all sorts of funny things that I've only seen in animes before now. This is all sort of a babbly post but I just don't know what I should be focusing on.
Praise: Henry is a Genius when it comes to speaking Japanese, I thought I was good, but I'm totally not.
Pray for: Me and dizzieness,
me to remember peoples names! we've all been together for like 4 days and I'm still forgetting 4 team peoples names all the time! I just called Dean Duane, I'm retarded when it comes to name remembering and names are really important to Japanese people.
Sunday we get to go to go to an all Japanese Church so that will be awesome.
Showing posts with label Japan Project status update. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan Project status update. Show all posts
Jun 28, 2008
So hurray I'm on my way!
Praises:
Money is at $6115 out of $5000!!!!!!!
that's 122.3% Wow
So I'd like to share how day one went that is getting on the plane and how God is already providing for this trip. My flight out of Grand Junction was at 6:48am so I arrived at the air port at 6:15 am and they said “sorry check in is closed” so dang I was late. But then some one nicely gave us a request for a seat pass, but that didn't help because they over sold the flight by 3 seats. Yeay I was going to be not on that flight. The two fellas who were also bumped had good results the first guy got on a flight leaving in just like half an hour and the next guy actually ended up arriving at his final destination two hours earlier so like the baker who was with Joseph in prision I thought some thing good will happen for me. The Awesome counter guy told me that I'd end up landing at 5:00 pm which was three and a half hours after I was supposed to be there!!! So dang right? No. They Delta refunded me my ticket price TIMES TWO! So I got $500 and waited around in GJ for 5 more hours. So I deposited the check and wrote a check to Campus Crusade for Christ.
Then When I arrived at Santa Ana I took a cab and the cabby had no idea where Vanguard University was and when I asked if he had a map he said of course “no” so I had to remember the Mapquest map that I had seen of the directions from two days before which I had not printed out. So some how by God's Grace we made every single turn correctly the first time!!! (which is slightly less impressive when you know that it was only 3.5 miles. But awesome none the less!!!)
So praises for what God has already been doing.
Prayer requests:
(I'm writing this on 12:30 am June 26 but I don't get to post it until I'm safely landed in Japan)
Money is at $6115 out of $5000!!!!!!!
that's 122.3% Wow
So I'd like to share how day one went that is getting on the plane and how God is already providing for this trip. My flight out of Grand Junction was at 6:48am so I arrived at the air port at 6:15 am and they said “sorry check in is closed” so dang I was late. But then some one nicely gave us a request for a seat pass, but that didn't help because they over sold the flight by 3 seats. Yeay I was going to be not on that flight. The two fellas who were also bumped had good results the first guy got on a flight leaving in just like half an hour and the next guy actually ended up arriving at his final destination two hours earlier so like the baker who was with Joseph in prision I thought some thing good will happen for me. The Awesome counter guy told me that I'd end up landing at 5:00 pm which was three and a half hours after I was supposed to be there!!! So dang right? No. They Delta refunded me my ticket price TIMES TWO! So I got $500 and waited around in GJ for 5 more hours. So I deposited the check and wrote a check to Campus Crusade for Christ.
Then When I arrived at Santa Ana I took a cab and the cabby had no idea where Vanguard University was and when I asked if he had a map he said of course “no” so I had to remember the Mapquest map that I had seen of the directions from two days before which I had not printed out. So some how by God's Grace we made every single turn correctly the first time!!! (which is slightly less impressive when you know that it was only 3.5 miles. But awesome none the less!!!)
So praises for what God has already been doing.
Prayer requests:
(I'm writing this on 12:30 am June 26 but I don't get to post it until I'm safely landed in Japan)
Jun 16, 2008
Only one-ish week before I leave!
God has been doing awesome things (as usual, He doesn't charge extra for awesomeness) any you will be pleased to see the following info:
As of Sunday June 15,
Support is at 97.6%
And that is 4,880 of $5,000
So praise God for bringing so much support! Now it's time to be a packing. I've got a prayer request or two for this. I only received the detailed packing list last week on June 12, so I've not had much time to start getting things for the list and there are a lot of things that I'm still going to need!
Also just to make things fun I'm going to be moving all of my stuff from my apartment to my parents house because my roommate is, Lord willing, going to be buying a house and moving during my trip. This is awesome (as usual) because now I don't have to cover rent while I'm in Japan! Praise God! So things are going to be a bit busy and confusing just pray moving and packing goes smoothly.
Also pray for my team, we've only just begun contacting each other through facebook, pray that the team solidifies as loving brothers and sisters in Christ quickly so that we can be an example to those whom we are impacting. God bless you.
As of Sunday June 15,
Support is at 97.6%
And that is 4,880 of $5,000
So praise God for bringing so much support! Now it's time to be a packing. I've got a prayer request or two for this. I only received the detailed packing list last week on June 12, so I've not had much time to start getting things for the list and there are a lot of things that I'm still going to need!
Also just to make things fun I'm going to be moving all of my stuff from my apartment to my parents house because my roommate is, Lord willing, going to be buying a house and moving during my trip. This is awesome (as usual) because now I don't have to cover rent while I'm in Japan! Praise God! So things are going to be a bit busy and confusing just pray moving and packing goes smoothly.
Also pray for my team, we've only just begun contacting each other through facebook, pray that the team solidifies as loving brothers and sisters in Christ quickly so that we can be an example to those whom we are impacting. God bless you.
May 31, 2008
Post before the Casas Por Cristo trip
So I've fantastic News about funding the Lord has sure been demonstrating that He wants me to go on the Japan trip!
Support is at 58.9%
And that is 2,945 of $5,000
Praise God Almighty! For his provision and for His will to be done. Also pray for this coming week (June 1-June7) I will be on Living Hope Church's mission trip to Juarez Mexico helping build a new home with the Casas por Cristo (check them out here). So It will be pretty much impossible for me to know what blessings arrive in the mail while I'm gone.
Thank you for your continued prayers! Pray for the family that we will be helping in Mexico and continue to beg for the hearts of the Japanese people.
Support is at 58.9%
And that is 2,945 of $5,000
Praise God Almighty! For his provision and for His will to be done. Also pray for this coming week (June 1-June7) I will be on Living Hope Church's mission trip to Juarez Mexico helping build a new home with the Casas por Cristo (check them out here). So It will be pretty much impossible for me to know what blessings arrive in the mail while I'm gone.
Thank you for your continued prayers! Pray for the family that we will be helping in Mexico and continue to beg for the hearts of the Japanese people.
May 26, 2008
Progress
Oh my how rude of me, I told the whole gang at Living Hope to check out this blog and didn't have this post up for them to look at. My apologies to you all. Here come the numbers:
Support is at 42.7%
And that is $2,135 of $5,000
Praise God as support nears the 50% mark! God will be pulling everything together here soon as the trip draws closer. Continue praying for the Japanese people, for their hearts, their minds and for the students whom we will be impacting.
Support is at 42.7%
And that is $2,135 of $5,000
Praise God as support nears the 50% mark! God will be pulling everything together here soon as the trip draws closer. Continue praying for the Japanese people, for their hearts, their minds and for the students whom we will be impacting.
May 10, 2008
The Lord is providing really quickly wow.
So since I checked the mail on Thursday the support that the Lord has provided has gone from 8.4% and skyrocketed up to 22.9% of the $5000 goal! Praise God
Please continue to pray for funding and to tell your friends to send me support too =]
Please continue to pray for funding and to tell your friends to send me support too =]
May 9, 2008
The end is near. Hurray!
Today is my last day of regular classes at Mesa State College. I shall do my best to begin updating my blog most regularly.
Current Japan Project facts:
Starts: June 23
Ends: August 7
Cost: $5000 (though this may drop a little)
We'll not just be on the campus of Sapporo University like I thought when I wrote the support letter. We will be bouncing around all over the place and I don't know the specifics. But we will be making friend ships and sharing the Good News of Jesus with students.
Fantastic Praises: Finances in the last 48 hours Ive bumped up from 4% support to 8.4% That is going from my base deposit of $200 to $420.
Your Prayer Homework: Pray for God to continue to bring in the funds to do His own work. I mean how embarrassing would it be for God to not fund His own ministry?
Current Japan Project facts:
Starts: June 23
Ends: August 7
Cost: $5000 (though this may drop a little)
We'll not just be on the campus of Sapporo University like I thought when I wrote the support letter. We will be bouncing around all over the place and I don't know the specifics. But we will be making friend ships and sharing the Good News of Jesus with students.
Fantastic Praises: Finances in the last 48 hours Ive bumped up from 4% support to 8.4% That is going from my base deposit of $200 to $420.
Your Prayer Homework: Pray for God to continue to bring in the funds to do His own work. I mean how embarrassing would it be for God to not fund His own ministry?
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