I thought when we moved from Colorado at Christmas time to Alabama, our medical procedures were behind us. Not so. Timothy finished decompression treatment for his back last week. Gabriel had all 4 wisdom teeth removed just a week ago. Tonight, if the expected tornadoes don't interfere, Timothy will have his sleep apnea test. Didn't mention dentist in there, did I? Let's just say, I have another visit to schedule after the healing is completed, and that won't be everything…

Gary has traveled to Moscow this week to represent our ministry to over 700 pastors at the Russian Fellowship of Evangelical Christians annual meeting. He is sharing about our vision and the upcoming worship conference later this fall. We are also giving them music resources for 3 of the songs on our website. The response has been tremendous.

Please pray that Gary would be able to sleep well. Jet-lag has been an issue this trip.

By Kevin Laverman - WorldVenture Missionary in Japan - Shiogama, Japan (Near Sendai)



I still haven't returned from tsunami ground zero. That is to say, although I've been back several days already, the reality of the scene is still with me. The incredible amounts of mud in once beautiful homes, the cars tossed around like toys, the shell-shocked people moving about sadly, the piles and piles of everything imaginable from the lives of so many now gone, the…

By John Houlette - WorldVenture Missionary in Japan — Tokyo, Japan

A team of four JBF missionaries, Janet Brown, Greg Swenson, Paul Sadler and John Houlette, will be travelling north of Sendai this week, 4/27-5/1, to do relief work. They will be serving at an evacuation center in Ishinomaki, delivering 200 rice cookers, New Testaments and tracts.  They will also visit  Kessennuma.  Ishinomaki is roughly 30 miles from Sendai and Kessennuma 95 miles. …

I grew up strong

in the wild grass

grander stouter

prouder than any tree

in my domain

reached my…

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Glenn and Kathy Kendall Update #197 of March 29, 2011, Cote d'Ivoire

BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED

What if you were a young American lady transplanted into a foreign African…

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Glenn and Kathy Kendall Update #196, March 24, 2011, History in the Making,

Cote d'Ivoire

Yesterday we saw history in the making, the evacuation of Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote…

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Glenn and Kathy Kendall Update #195 of March 22, 2011, Mali,

Chains of Gold* is a tree that blooms this time of year, towards the end of the dry season.  This tree is very difficult to transplant, to foster to grow…

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Glenn and Kathy Kendall Update #198 of April 15, 2011, Kenya

In 1983 four students began classes at NEGST (Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology).

Now there are over 800 graduates from over 30…

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Glenn and Kathy Kendall Update #194 of March 15, 2011, Guinea

Life When One is NOT Under the Mango Tree

These past days we have again been with our son, Nathan and his family.  Aren't we…

Glenn and Kathy Kendall Update #193 of March 7, 2010, Senegal

Below is the text from our update.  If you would like to see the pictures, here is a link to the PDF file.

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Life in Senegal is not just lived on a…

By Janet Brown - Missionary in Japan Coordinating Short-Term Teams - Tokyo, Japan



One month in Review

April 11 was exactly one month after the 9.1 earthquake followed by a massive tsunami, in northern Japan. The tsunami damaged the Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima. Since then there have been over 1500 aftershocks, but no more tsunamis. The Nuclear Power Plant is still struggling to cool the reactors.  Tokyo has gone through a gas and…

By Ken Taylor - WorldVenture Missionary in Japan — Toyko, Japan

It has been 3 weeks since the triple tragedy in Japan. From a human level, one cannot escape the feeling of despair and helplessness. But from a spiritual perspective, we are all the more dependent on God and sense His presence moment by moment. 

Following are deep impressions the Lord Jesus Christ has given us:

RADIATION LEVEL

With…

The annual Mahajanga hot run half Marathon (13.1 miles or 21.98 Km) took place on Saturday, April 2nd.  I had trained for it by running on the beach barefoot - what a joy.  I had also had a few practice shorter runs at 3 PM in the afternoon to hopefully get use to the heat (85-90 degrees Fahrenheit).  Tuesday, before the race I had to make a 1,350 kilometer drive into the country on secondary roads and arrived back in Mahajanga Thursday…

“Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the LORD." (Leviticus 19:14)

 

It has now been a full three weeks since the earthquake and the disaster has now claimed more than 28,000 deaths and missing persons.  And it is the final day of our relief mission to Shiogama.  Yesterday our team was joined in the work by a deaf pastor from Yamagata and a member of his congregation.  They stayed over with us in the cabin and…