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10 days and
counting | Returning
to Japan
Ten days until we leave for Japan!
Today I asked the kids what they were most excited about.
Eryka: “Getting
back my doll.” (It has been in storage in Japan for
the last year.)
Eryn: “Seeing
my friends again.”
(We will be living about 1 ½ hours away from our last place,
but we will still have opportunity to visit from time to time.)
Josiah: “Meeting soccer friends from the soccer camp I went to 2
years ago.”
Evangeline: “Getting back to normal
life.” (You’ll have to ask her what that means.)
Myself: I’m looking forward
to traveling by bike and subway and relaxing in the hot springs!
Most of all, we are looking forward to getting back to where
God has called us to be His witnesses. We don’t know exactly what our life and ministry will
look like this time, but we are expecting God.
PRAYER
REQUEST:
We would appreciate your continued
prayer for the financial situation of Alliance
missions. Giving to the Great Commission Fund over the last several months
has been very good, for which we praise the Lord. However, Alliance
Missions remains in a financial crisis.
Last July, our mission budget was
cut by about 52%. That was followed by several smaller cuts. This month, we
were told to cut another 24%. That leaves just a very small fraction of
what we had just a year ago. Funds for evangelistic outreach, renting
facilities, training Japanese leaders, helping new church plants – these
funds have been eliminated. At this time, we are looking at zero-budget for
a new church plant.
We remind ourselves that God does
not sit in heaven wringing His hands in worry; neither should we. We would
appreciate your continued prayers though, for provision and also for
creativity in seeing new ways of church planting which don’t demand
money.
FUTUTURE
HOME
For the next 10 months or so, we
will be living in the mission office (pictured above). The far right is the
office and chapel, the middle is a small guest apartment, and the left will
be our apartment. For those
interested in seeing a satellite view of our future home :
Google
map of our future home in Japan
Warmly,
David & Evangeline Kindervater
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