Home Again After a brief stint in Queensland to renew fellowship with their churches and friends, the Nathan, Tomoko and their children are back in Japan and hard at study. The Japanese language is no joke, even though it may sound funny to us. Catch up with their latest news by clicking the button below.
Our dear praying friends, The big prayer points right now are … 1. Kay goes into hospital early tomorrow morning (Friday 8th September) for her first hip op. 2. Then comes the recovery time. Please pray she will mend well. Also, I have changed my return ticket to October 19, so I can be chief […]
Answered Prayer & New Challenges We have seen wonderful answers to prayer during the First Season of Ministry 2017 last March and April, which was recorded in the last edition of the IRFA News and Prayer Notes. I will be leaving for India to commence the second season of ministry 2017 on the 15th September […]
The Evans family is still in Australia and while most have responded well to the treatment of their intestinal “bugs” Rose still isn’t doing too well. She’s on a second series of treatments and isn’t feeling good at all. Please pray for them, and praise God for other good things He’s doing for them.
Joy and Sadness Having finished the first season of Ministry in India for 2017 and spending a further week upon my return trip home in Perth WA, I arrived safely home in good health and a few days earlier than planned. I have just heard that our dear friend Rev. Dr Karmal Rai, Principal of […]
Are you a Missionary? Someone defined a missionary as a “person called, prepared and guided by God, to be what God made him to be in a cross-cultural context.” Obviously the key is the “cross-cultural context” otherwise we’d all be missionaries and the word would just mean a “Christian.” Of course we know that all […]
Building Bridges On the last Sunday of May, Rev. Kōji Esaki preached at our church. In the afternoon our children’s ministry, Crayon, was held. Nine children came including Tomoko’s cousin’s daughter and five classmates of our children. They enjoyed making snacks and had fun together. Half of the children had not heard the story of […]
Missionaries! Frustrated? Missionaries aren’t supposed to get frustrated, are they? Aren’t they – like Pastors – a class apart that is exempt from normal human emotions? Rest assured, they are human and they do get frustrated. What are some of the main reasons? 1. The local people’s complex language and strange ways of thinking and […]
April 21, 2017 – Quick Update. Hi Everyone, Thank you all for your praying, especially for the Easter UKWATA conference. The turnout exceeded the organizers’ expectations – around 500. Because they were late in starting and the programme was tight, they cut me back by one session. But, from talking to the youth after the […]
A Voice from Africa A missionary with years of experience in Chad, Africa, writes, “During our years in Chad we received cassette tapes (that shows how old we are!) of services from our home church. One day I sat down to listen to a service which had been recorded several weeks before. As I listened […]
