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 […]
Dear Friends Thank you for your continual partnership in the work that the Lord has called me to in Timor Leste. Here is a brief summary of my journey in Timor since the Lord first led me there, an update about what is ahead for 2017 and some specific prayer requests that we urge you […]
Dear praying friends, Thank you all for your continued backing. This spell home has been a great time with the family, plus overhauling the English version of the course-book. Tomorrow (Thursday 17/03) I head back again to Tanzania. God-willing, I should be in Australia next in the second week of June, in time for my […]
