Reflecting on 2008
December/18/08 Filed in: Local Church Ministry | Relationship Evangelism
“God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.” (Ephesians 3:20)
As we reflect on 2008, we are overwhelmed with gratitude and appreciation for God’s intimate involvement in our lives and ministry in Japan. And we have never been more excited about what God is doing than we are now!
Our hearts resonate with the psalmist who said, “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!” And we joyfully proclaim, “Surely the sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plans to his servants” (Amos 3:7).
Nearly 15 years ago, God began to share His heart with us for Japan. For the past five years, we’ve joyfully sowed seeds of love and prayer in Japan as a married couple. God has given us a vision that salvation will come, that an awakening will take place in Japan:
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time… though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come.” (Habakkuk 2:3).
We cling to this verse, and are SO thankful that despite the uncertainty of what is happening in the world around us (economically, politically, etc.), God’s promise stands. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever! (Hebrews 13:8)!
In the natural, things may be difficult, but we serve a God who is greater than our circumstances. It is He “who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were” (Romans 4:17).
That’s why we feel that 2009 will be a season of harvest in the relationships that God has blessed us with and in this ministry that we’ve been entrusted. We praise God for you and thank you for sharing your lives with us. We are ever mindful of your sacrificial giving and prayers that you’ve invested in us and Japan and we humbly thank you.
May the Lord bless you richly as you celebrate our Savior’s birth!
As we reflect on 2008, we are overwhelmed with gratitude and appreciation for God’s intimate involvement in our lives and ministry in Japan. And we have never been more excited about what God is doing than we are now!
Our hearts resonate with the psalmist who said, “How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!” And we joyfully proclaim, “Surely the sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plans to his servants” (Amos 3:7).
Nearly 15 years ago, God began to share His heart with us for Japan. For the past five years, we’ve joyfully sowed seeds of love and prayer in Japan as a married couple. God has given us a vision that salvation will come, that an awakening will take place in Japan:
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time… though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come.” (Habakkuk 2:3).
We cling to this verse, and are SO thankful that despite the uncertainty of what is happening in the world around us (economically, politically, etc.), God’s promise stands. “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever! (Hebrews 13:8)!
In the natural, things may be difficult, but we serve a God who is greater than our circumstances. It is He “who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were” (Romans 4:17).
That’s why we feel that 2009 will be a season of harvest in the relationships that God has blessed us with and in this ministry that we’ve been entrusted. We praise God for you and thank you for sharing your lives with us. We are ever mindful of your sacrificial giving and prayers that you’ve invested in us and Japan and we humbly thank you.
May the Lord bless you richly as you celebrate our Savior’s birth!