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Posted on 03/18/2011 7:18:11 PM PDT by Gamecock
Subject: Tom back safe/relief supplies delivered
Dear friends,
Thanks so much for your prayers. Tom just got back home safely a few minutes ago. The shipment was successfully made and they are all safe. Praise God.
After driving several hours yesterday, they slept on the ground in sleeping bags at a rest area in Ibaraki Prefecture and then traveled on. As they traveled they got a call from our MTW country director saying that they could not go beyond the 50 mile radius from the nuclear plant that the American government has set, according to our sending agency, Mission to the World. One option was to take the load to another place instead, but the Japanese pastor volunteered to drive on alone. So Tom and Wayne waited in a city just outside the 50-mile radius while the Japanese pastor made the delivery. Praise God for safe travels and for getting the supplies to the people desperately waiting there.
Our church is continuing to gather goods for more and more trips. Another truck will go out tomorrow night, this time most likely to one of the places in Sendai that was one of the hardest hit by the tsunami. It was very hard to find trucks, but the LORD has provided and we are gearing up for the upcoming trips. More and more people are bringing things to send. People are thrilled to be able to send things. God is using His Church as a 'city on a hill' in the community. A couple of camera men from a news station even were there all day yesterday as the truck was prepared to leave. We pray God will use all this for His glory here.
May God continue to bless and have mercy on the desperately hurting people here and strengthen His Church to show glory in beautiful and compassionate ways.
God bless you and keep you,
Tom, Teresa & Ian Wilson MTW Missionaries to Japan
Japanese Article on the PCA's MTW work (I think that's what this is....
Orthodox Presbyterian Church Relief Efforts
Samaritan's Purse Update for 18 Mar 2011
Sorry for the late update. This evening I took my 13 year old daughter out to dinner....
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Thanks for this information. MTW is also on Facebook.
Thanks for posting, please keep us updated.
Thanks for posting this. I hope people continue to give as much as they can.
Forwarded your thread last night to Greta on FOX. She just did a segment on Samaitan’s Purse tonight.
(She has traveled with SP before and may eventually go to Japan.)
She has posted their web address on Gretawire.com for people to contribute.
She preceded it with a segment from Sendai, interviewing an American living there...
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