February Things (Robin & Yoko prayer letter)

by | Feb 2, 2023 | Ministry News

Mount Haku as seen from Hakusan City

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your prayers! Here are a few things we’d like you to know about this month:

Things we’re thankful for right now: 

  • Some new unexpected support partners.
  • Some new church ministry opportunities on the calendar for the coming months.
  • We’ve got a visitor from Global Partners HQ coming here Feb. 21-23.
  • We’ve connected with a couple of new artists to work with us on some of this year’s Waypoints manga.

Things we’d love for you to pray about:

  • Please pray for us and our collaborators as we prepare stories, art and blog content for season 3 of Waypoints, our current Drawbridge Creations online manga series.
  • Please pray for our health and safety as we do some traveling later this month and in early March…
  • We’re planning to be in Tokyo from Feb. 27 to Mar. 1 for JEMA Connect — a time of connecting with missionaries from various organizations working all over Japan. Pray that this can be a good time of networking and promotion for Drawbridge Creations.
  • We’re scheduled to visit Nagoya from Mar. 4 to 7, to reconnect with our former church and other friends, and to do some more promoting of our ministry. Please pray for good networking during this trip as well.

Thank you again for your interest, prayer and support for the mission in Japan!

Robin & Yoko

Happy New Year from Japan!

by | Jan 7, 2023 | Ministry News

New Year’s decorations at a nearby hotel

Hope your new year is off to a good start!

2023 is shaping up to be a big year for us. It looks like there will be more travel, visitors, in-person events and meetings than the last couple of years. We’re also hoping to build better relationships with local churches and the community here in Ishikawa. And of course, our online manga ministry, Drawbridge Creations, is still a big focus for us. Waypoints is currently on a short break as we work with our collaborators to prepare for season 3, which is scheduled to start in April.

Please pray with us as we plan, prepare and seek God’s direction for the coming months.

Thank you as always for your continuing prayers and partnership!

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas from Japan!

by | Dec 18, 2022 | Etc.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your prayers, support and encouragement! 

We safely arrived back in Japan on December 2 after three months of midterm partnership development in Canada. We’re thankful for God’s grace and protection during our travels and ministry, and that we could connect with many of you while we were there. We appreciate your partnership throughout 2022, and look forward to sharing our missions journey with you in 2023.

Merry Christmas and happy New Year!

– Robin & Yoko in Japan

In case you missed it, click HERE for our latest newsletter.

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Our Fall-Winter Newsletter

by | Nov 24, 2022 | Ministry News

Hi everyone!

Hope you’re staying warm! Please check out our JapanLog fall-winter newsletter in which we talk about our time in Canada, our return to Japan, and what’s next in 2023:

Get the PDF HERE!

Thank you for your prayers and partnership!

– Robin & Yoko

November News From Yoko

by | Nov 8, 2022 | Ministry News

Dear Partners,

Time flies! Quickly 2/3 of our time in Canada has passed. October was a busier month for us, so it was a little challenging health wise.  But thankfully we have been blessed through reconnecting with partners and meeting new people. We have received a lot of encouragement. 

One of the highlights of October was an arts-related workshop at Kingswood University.

Thank you for your prayers for this opportunity! We could have great experience! It was about visual story telling with comics and we did some fun collaborative art exercises too. It was a small group and a first opportunity for us, but everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves. We have been wondering if this kind of workshop is possible as an in-person ministry of Drawbridge Creations in Japan. This experience helped us to see more possibility.

Here are some prayer points for November:

1. We are scheduled for four more appointments with churches this month. Please pray for God to bless these opportunities and that we will have a  good finish of midterm partnership development.

2. We will go back to Japan on December 1st. Please pray for smooth and safe travel back to Japan. 

3. We need God’s wisdom as we figure out how to effectively move forward with Drawbridge Creations. Please pray for God’s leading and provision for this ministry.

Thank you!

– Yoko (and Robin)

Year-End Giving
Please consider supporting Drawbridge Creations
by helping us reach our $10,000 US year-end goal.

Click HERE for giving info.