"And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven." Luke 21:11
From Belind's Desk: Last summer, just after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, I was able to participate in several Operation Safe children’s trauma training seminars. Last month, during our spring break I had the opportunity to go up to Ishinomaki and actually participate in the program itself.
Please click on the image to watch this movie. Please allow time for it to download. This is in QuickTIme format. Other formats are available to download via links below.It was one year ago today, that a 9.0 earthquake, followed by a Tsunami, struck the Northern East coast of Japan.
As part of Grace Christian Fellowship on Ome-shi, Tokyo, the founding church of the CRASH disaster response network, we are here to remember this day with a very personal connection.
We have spent many hours in the CRASH Japan offices assisting, as well as, God calling us to focus on the church here, so that we could enable Pastor Jonathan to focus on the CRASH ministry. It has been your prayers and support that have made this possible. In a very real and tangible way, you have been an extension of this ministry.
This short movie shows many scenes you have not seen, nor will see, on any American TV. It is very hard for us to watch without tears. This is something that is very close to "home" in our hearts and minds.
If you wish to support us, or CRASH, information is on our website for us, and in the movie for CRASH.
God bless you as you join us in remembering one of the most moving, intense and yet blessed, knowing that God has placed us here for such a time as this.
Thank you for rememering us and Japan in your prayers!
-John and Belinda
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"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth." 3 John 4
Ezekiel in chapter 2 of Ezekiel, receives a clear call to enter into a ministry that he was not expecting. He finds himself in a strange land asking God, “Why am I here”. I was not there to hear him verbally ask that question, but given the circumstances, the fact that he was raised up to serve in the temple, and now, through the rebellion in the hearts and minds of the Jewish people, they are held captive in the land of Babylon. God comes to Ezekiel with an amazing vision, and answers his question, “Why am I here?”
"And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven."
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth."