Merry Christmas (prayer letter)
Here's a copy of my latest prayer letter for those of you not on the email list. Hope you all have a great Christmas. Come back to the blog next week for updates from Japan. Dear friends, family and supporters, It's Christmas Eve and I've been enjoying the opportunity...
First Foreign Geisha
Check out this short article about a non-Japanese person who's become a part of a very-Japanese part of society: Japan Today - News - Japans first ever foreign geisha debuts The interesting thing to me is that it says she's spent half of her life in Japan, and yet the...
Weekly Re-cap
These weekly updates will be a lot more interesting when I'm in Japan doing stuff. At least I hope so. These days as I'm in transition things are a little quiet on the news front. But here's a brief re-cap of the week anwyay: I finished my TESL course work on Monday....
Look What I Got in the Mail Today
Yes, that's my passport, complete with my visa stuck in it. Less than two weeks now...
3 Things
1. My car is as good as sold. This is good. 2. I have another blog that some of you might not know about HERE. It's much older than this one, so if you want to read about my life the past few years (ie you're bored), well, there you have it. More recently, it's become...
Weekly Re-Cap
I don't have much to say as far as new news goes, but here's a brief look back at the week and a look ahead... I am only one assignment away from completing my correspondence course in Teaching English as a Second Language. I plan to get it finished today or tomorrow....
Teaching Methods
With my move to Japan less than 3 weeks away (eek!) I've got lots of little things to do, as well as some not-so-little things. The visa application is out of my hands, the plane ticket is booked for the 28th, and just yesterday I shipped two boxes of stuff to Nagoya....
Weekly Re-cap
I'm writing today from my friends' house in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Here's some bullet points re-capping the week in life and ministry-related stuff: My Certificate of Eligibility arrived yesterday, basically meaning I've got the OK to work in Japan. Since I finally had...
My Latest Prayer Letter, Wherein I Share Some Very Exciting News
The following is a copy of an email I sent out this morning to my supporters. I share it here for those of you who aren't on the mailing list: Dear friends, family and supporters, I've been waiting a LONG time to write this email! I received word the other day from...
More Good News
Sorry for the lack of a weekly re-cap yesterday, but I was away at a wedding. The good news is that while I was away an email was sent to me from GP HQ, officially giving me financial release to go to Japan! In other words, my support raising is complete for this term...