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ALL: There have been no Mission To The World updates for a couple of days. GC ______________________________________________________ Dear Friends and Family, Thank you for praying. It's been an amazing week. At different times we were very concerned about the power plant and the conflicting reports were quite hard to follow. At this time it seems like it's safe to be in our area and God is opening up amazing windows for ministry. The people are open in ways that I have never seen before. On Friday night Kunihiro, one of my non-Christian students, a businessman in his thirties, said after...

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...

Dear Friends, About four hours ago, after a intense effort over the last few days, our team/church/presbytery sent our first truck to the disaster area filled with supplies: food, water, fuel, blankets, medicines and other supplies. Wayne, Pastor Mamoru Otake and team member Tom Wilson are driving. Their destination is Iwaki, Fukushima. This city is on the southern edge of the disaster area. Based on the information from our Chiba team, who had just returned as we were loading, we were able to prioritize certain types of items, and feel so confident that we sent exactly what will help them...

10am Japan time (13 hrs ahead of east coast time) Dear Family and friends, Thank you so much for praying! We have been going north to help where we can, and just a few minutes ago, we located a Japanese pastor, a good friend of ours, who is just 8km outside the evacuation zone, in a city with over 5,000 evacuees who are receiving very little govt assistance. We are mobilizing today for a trip tonight to take as much as we are able. The critical need is gasoline to get there, water, and diesel fuel for those there who...

SEARCH KEYWORD: japandaniverson 3/15/11 Update from Country Director, Dan Iverson: Three of us went north into the devastated areas Sunday at midnight with a packed two-ton rental truck with 1,000 liters of water, gasoline, blankets, food, warm clothes, etc, that many people donated. We distributed supplies to a small church, an elementary school housing displaced people, and drove around town (Ueda town, Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture) giving water to people. We found that people were so desperate for water that when we ran out, they wanted the not-so-clean spill-over can water. It was very sad to run-out with people still...