Life in Tokyo Update, 2022

Life in Tokyo Update, 2022

Hi from Tokyo! We hope you are all doing well! As some of you know, Cody and I moved from Osaka to Tokyo the end of last year and we wanted to give you all an update on what we have been up to. Graduated from Japanese Language School Moved to Tokyo New Friends and Connections Church Plant (launched!) and Outreach Prayer Requests Partnering with us Please let us know how you all are doing too! We love you all and miss you. Ok, let's get started... :) Graduated from Japanese Language School: In September, we graduated from the YMCA Japanese Language School, completing their two-year program. We feel so blessed to have been able to attend the YMCA for two years and are so thankful to all our teachers and classmates who helped up along the way. Thank you to all of you as well, who prayed for us, encouraged us, and helped contribute to our tuition. Through our time at the...
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The call to 日本 (Japan)

The call to 日本 (Japan)

If you know Danielle or me even a little, you've probably heard us talk about Japan. Well, the season is quickly approaching! Our Seattle apartment is a testament to that! As of last week, we've officially started packing boxes to be shipped to our new home: Osaka, Japan. Why Japan? That answer has been brewing for a number of years, starting back in the early 2000s. Ever since I encountered the Holy Spirit I have always felt a call to Asia. The thought never felt foreign or forced, but instead, entirely natural. It was as if this call was implanted within my core at the moment of my first "yes" to the Lord. Perhaps due to my relatively minimal exposure to missions, or simple naivety in my young age, I had always operated out of an assumption that my call to Asia was a call to China. I had heard of the underground churches in China and was inspired by...
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Testimony: Safety nets and self-destruction

Testimony: Safety nets and self-destruction

Hey, everyone! Its been a little while since I've posted anything, but there's lots going on! I'll be sure to share soon, in the mean time we received this great report from an individual who went through Prophetic Deliverance with us around nine months ago, and wanted to share it with you all. Check it out!:   "I had the delight of going through deliverance about 9 months ago. It was something that God had caught my attention with a few years prior. So, when the opportunity arrived for my husband and I to go through deliverance, we jumped at it! The session itself was saturated with peace. I knew in my heart that things would be different going forward. But honestly, I didn’t know what that would look like and I had no idea just how different things would be. For me, the first month after the session was honestly hard and really disorienting. I felt raw and fragile, like a wound had been reopened. ...
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