Hangin' out

I was recently back up in Hokkaido for ten days to attend our annual Field Council meeting. All of our career missionaries (and short-termers alike) seemed very positive at the end of the week, for which I am very grateful. May we never say God doesn't answer prayer. We also had the joy of having Robert Morgan (Pastor of Donelson Fellowship Church, and an insightful writer) with us for most of the week. He shared with us in our morning devotion times and spoke a couple of other times as well. It's always refreshing to be on the receiving end of the spiritual feeding when you are so often on the giving end.

I was able to spend a lot of time with my friends up there, both missionaries and Japanese. I couldn't have asked for nicer memories to take with me when I left.


Top: Mika, Hollie, and Kenji Bottom: me, Atsushi. We went to eat one night at our favorite Indian restaurant. If you've never tasted Indian food you're really missin' out!


Top: Atsushi, me, Hollie, and David Snow Bottom: Megan Snow, Mika, Haruka, and Anna Snow.
Atsushi, Mika, and Haruka are Christians so as you remember to, please pray for a continued deepening of their faith and relationship with God. They are among a great minority of believers living in a spiritually blinded nation. David, Anna, and Elizabeth Snow (taking the picture) are siblings, and Megan Snow (along with Daniel, Andrew, Jake, and Noah) are their first cousins. They are of course missionary kids! (love the MK's!!) Please pray for them as well. Being an MK carries with it a load of stresses and interesting experiences that can either benefit you or harm you far into the future. Pray that they will have the ability to adjust and learn well from their backgrounds as they grow up.


Noah, Daniel, and thier mom, Linda Snow. Isn't Noah the cutest? Nathan and Linda Snow have five kids, if you can't think of anything else (and surely you can)...that is reason enough to pray for them :-) They are sweet parents, friends, and missionaries.


I was very excited to be able to attend our association's Hokkaido area women's retreat. I believe this was the best attendance to date with 26 women from seven churches.