Archive for March, 2011

Loneliness at the Fukushima disaster area!

By Christine Huber Tim and Yas showed pictures and told about the trip to Fukushima. Yasu preached 3 times on Sunday.  Fighting back tears, he told us many experiences from talking and interacting with the people there.  The people in Fukushima prefecture are suffering– not only from the very destructive earthquake, the tsunami, many deaths and hurting people, and the radiation [...]

Questions/Answers for Potential Volunteers

  CRASH JAPAN is coordinating the Christian churches’ effort to reach out together to the disaster victims.  Here are some questions that potential volunteers with CRASH JAPAN might have.  (See www.crashjapan.com   ) We are working together very closely with this Christian organization.  If there is anyone who would like to volunteer, please contact us!! Questions About Volunteering  When [...]

Supplies are delivered to Iwaki City!! More volunteers are needed…

Thank God for cell phones!  I have been able to keep up with Tim and the group of 5 who left at 5:30 this morning, taking the church van and a rented 2-ton truck,  to deliver supplies that our church and neighborhood people collected to send to the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear radiation disaster areas.  God protected them, and provided [...]

JOINT EFFORT–Taking Relief to Disaster Area!!

It was a joint effort—all of us working together in amazing unity.  We were all getting very tired, but it didn’t matter to anyone.  Everyone was working with SUCH amazing love and care, thinking about all those precious people who are now in such desperate need after the huge earthquake and tsunami, and nuclear radiation [...]

Japan Earthquake-Tsunami Relief—YOU can help!!!

March 11, 2011–we were all shaken up–the biggest earthquake we have ever felt here in Japan.  Things were falling out of the cupboard and shelves and smashing on the floor, we didn’t know if the whole building was going to collapse or not.  Since then we have felt many aftershocks, and other earthquakes.  Not long after [...]