Boom! Did you hear that? Boom! Is that fireworks? Boom! No, its a huge drum. https://youtu.be/pu3pShr2LiA For the past week, all around the city the deep earth shaking bass of drums could be felt. Tuesday kicked off the Kurayami Festival at the Okunitama Shrine. Which is a week long festival held during a string of …
A conversation on Reaching Japan
Tackling the deadliest day for Japanese teenagers – BBC News
Tackling the deadliest day for Japanese teenagers - BBC News: This week in Japan many students have a bleak outlook on life as they consider the impending start of the new semester. Sadly, this week is historically known to have the highest rates of suicide among Japan’s youth. Please pray for the youth of Japan, …
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There are many important reasons to support missions and church…
There are many important reasons to support missions and church planting in Japan. Here are five of them. http://ift.tt/1Ioyfsa http://ift.tt/1MOznVz
Unto Us a Child is Born
As I write this it’s been exactly 1 month since the birth of our son Takumi Oliver Glosson. We got the name Takumi (拓実) from the word for church planting in Japanese, kaitaku (開拓). Takumi means to go forth fruitfully which pretty much represents our feelings at this time as we are making plans to …
Day 4 in Tokyo: One Day SOMA
Today was the first day of the One Day SOMA seminar. It's a one day seminar that they have done in the States, Europe and Australia and now Japan. Because of the need for translation however, they "One Day" seminar is actually stretched over 2 days. Jeremy and I arrived early to help setup and …
Day 3 in Tokyo: Countryside Tokyo
Today was an adventure. One of the things that Jeremy said he wanted to do on this trip was to see some of the Japanese country side. Since we didn’t have much time I decided to take him to the mountains of Tokyo where I used to live. We left around 7am and rode a …
10 Days
In just 10 days from now I will be touching down in Tokyo. I never foresaw myself making 2 trips to Japan in 1 year but i’m thankful for how the Lord has worked. During our time with Yoshito this spring he hinted at how great it would be if we could come back at …
Tokyo Vision Trip Recap
It's been over a month since we returned from our spring trip to Japan. I said elsewhere and I'll say it again, "This trip was the most successful mission trip I've ever been part of. " That being said let's review what made our trip a success. Our first objective for this trip was to …
A Message to Our Partners
Earlier this summer we set out on a vision trip to Tokyo. In many ways this trip was a success and could not have happened without your prayers and support. Here's a video we shot during our trip expressing the need for missions in Japan and a bit of what I learned on this trip. …