Dear Prayer Partners
Thank you for all your prayers, and expressions of support both financial and in other ways.
Please pray for,
1. Mr Sato, a fisherman who lost everything and is reading the bible
2. The Agatsuma family who also lost everything and say they want to come to church.
3. Four different Endo families with whom we have had significant contact.
4. The Aikawa family who spent the night of the tsunami in our house and who we see almost daily
5. The many people who have heard the gospel in Shichigahama and Sendai to believe.
6. That God do great and wonderful things.
7. As a church we have submitted a request to OMF to receive funds from the Sendai Earthquake Relief Fund to start a preaching point/relief centre at Arai Machi staffed by church member Tadamitsu Nishimura, that it would be granted in full.
8. Praise for the cooperation and zeal and love we have seem among church members.
9. For us to be spiritually alert and obedient.
10. For the Lovestrands who leave us for home assignment in US.
11. For Glenda's English class ladies to be converted.
12. For Christine writing AS levels in Hebron, India.
13. For Esther applying for a loan for UK university
And as last month please continue to pray for,
14. The Japanese church and the missionaries to speak the gospel with boldness.
15. God to truly convert many to faith in Christ and churches to be planted in these devastated coastal areas.
For a map of the inundated area and places mentioned in our diary see
http://rodthomas.drivehq.com/mission/Submerged_Sendai.htmll
For old and recent pics see
http://rodthomas.drivehq.com/mission/Tsunami_2011.htmll
For some thoughts concerning evangelism in a disaster area see
http://rodthomas.drivehq.com/mission/Evangelism_and_the_Tsunami.html
Here is our video of the 3rd (small) tsunami
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox-VRFJ6f8c
Thanks again
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