Mount Hakusan as seen from Hakusan City Hall this past Sunday
Happy New Year from Ishikawa, Japan!
For us, it was a quiet new year — especially compared to last year — and we’re thankful. Now we’re getting back into the swing of things after a bit of a break. Here’s some of what’s going on…
Creating new Waypoints manga, with a goal of posting 5 or 6 this year.
An English version of the manga we did with ZOE Japan.
Leading worship at Immanuel Komatsu Church this coming Sunday (1/12).
Praying and seeking God’s direction for how we can better serve local churches and our community.
Preparing to expand our missionary team.
On that last note, we’d like to introduce you to our new teammate, Mickey Veach. Mickey has been appointed by Global Partners as a missionary to Japan, and visited us last February. We also got to connect with him in the US during the summer.
Mickey is now in the middle of support raising and training, with the hope of joining us full-time here this fall. You can check out his first newsletter (and subscribe) HERE. I’m sure Mickey would appreciate your prayers!
Thank you for your continuing prayers and partnership with our mission in Japan! Here’s to a great 2025!
With Mickey at a Japanese garden in Michigan last summer
Thank you for praying for our busy season of travels, connections, and ministry! We just returned earlier this week from GP’s Asia-Pacific conference in Australia. We’re thankful for a good time of re-connecting with our fellow Global Partners missionaries in the area.
And now it’s the Christmas season! Christmas is a big opportunity for outreach at Japanese churches. Our Waypoints manga booklets will be distributed by various churches and ministries throughout Japan, so please pray that they will be effective. Please pray, too, for us as we do Christmas preaching and music ministry the next two Sundays at the Immanuel churches in Kanazawa (12/15) and Komatsu (12/22).
As we approach the end of the year, we want to say a special THANK YOU for being a part of our lives; for keeping us in your prayers; and for your giving which allows us to be a part of God’s mission in Japan.
Hope your fall is going well. As we near the end of the year, it’s time for another big semi-annual JapanLog newsletter. Please follow the link below to view/download the PDF:
Thank you for your continuing prayers! It’s been just over a month since we got back to Japan from our partnership development time in North America. It’s been a time of settling in, finding our rhythm again, and getting back to work.
On the Drawbridge Creations front, after some fresh promotion, we’ve been getting quite a few orders from missionaries and churches for our Waypoints manga resources in the lead-up to the Christmas outreach season, and have had to order more copies of the booklets from the printers.
Our schedule for the rest of the year is looking pretty busy, with travel and conferences and special ministry opportunities. We’d appreciate your prayers for health, safety and readiness!
Here are some dates to keep in your prayers:
11/10 – Preaching and music ministry at Immanuel Komatsu Church.
11/13-15 – Renown Conference (in Shizuoka), where we’re promoting Drawbridge Creations.
11/16-19 – In Yokohama for meetings with missionaries and church leaders.
11/24 – Preaching/music ministry at Immanuel Fukui Church.
11/29-12/9 – Global Partners Asia-Pacific missionary Conference in Australia.
Thank you as always for your prayers and partnership!
PS – In case you missed it, please check out the latest Drawbridge Dispatch HERE.
Thank you for praying for our month+ in Ontario. We were blessed to be able stay in one place all month and make day trips to various churches and camps in the area, giving us a pretty productive month of partnership development. We’re thankful we could reconnect with partners and churches we hadn’t been to for many years (or for Yoko, ever), as well as make a lot of new connections at camp meetings.
We’re now in the US, in the middle of a short whirlwind tour that took us from western New York to Pensilvania to Delaware, with plans to make another stop in Pensilvania, then Massachusetts and Maine before heading back to New Brunswick, Canada next Thursday (Whew!)
Please pray for safe travel, rest, and for God’s blessing on our ministry on Sunday (in Lock Haven, PA) and Wednesday (in Jonesport, ME).
We are scheduled to return to Japan on September 30, and have been given the green light, but we are still in need of more financial partners, so if you’re not already, would you consider becoming one? Click HERE for more info, or feel free to email us with any questions.
