Spring 2021 Update

Thank you for always tracking with us! Here's the link to our latest newsletter. 

Thank you for your love and prayers. We are thankful for each and every one of you!💗

2020 End-of-Year Update

Happy New Year!

2020 was a year that we will never forget for more reasons than one. As with all of you, we had to make many adjustments to our everyday lives. Our ministries also looked a bit different from the time Japan declared its first State of Emergency in March.

You'll find a link to our latest e-newsletter here, which tells you in more detail about some of the new and wonderful things that took place during the past few months. Despite everything, through everything, we could see God working. 

We are so thankful to be here and to be able to be your hands and feet here in Fukuoka, Japan.

Thank you so much for your love and prayers!

Spring 2020 Update

Hey!

Here's our Spring 2020 e-newsletter, finally being sent out towards the end of Summer - doh! >.< For those of you who didn't receive it into your inbox, click here to see the full newsletter.

Thank you as always for your love and prayers. We wouldn't be here without you~! :)

Grateful to be serving our wonderful God together with you in Fukuoka, Japan <3

Winter 2020 Update

Here's a link to our latest newsletter.
As always, thank you for your prayers.
Stay healthy!

Christmas Update

Merry Christmas!

Here's a quick update we sent out on Christmas Day (maybe Christmas Eve in the US?).

We celebrated Christmas together as a family on the 26th, after our final event on Christmas Day. Our kids were blessed with many presents sent by many of you. Thank you!

We really are so grateful and honored to be here and to have been able to share about Jesus Christ's birth with many here.

Thank you for your continued prayers and support that allows us to be here.

May you have a wonderful CHRISTmas celebrating our Savior's birth and an amazing New Year full of God's goodness!

Fall 2019 Update

Click here for our Fall 2019 Newsletter. Warning: it's pretty long! But we have a lot on our minds and hearts right now, a lot going on in life and ministry. We wanted you to be able to have a real glimpse of what's going on and be able to pray for us generally and specifically, especially for those of you who like details and being able to pray for specific things.

Thank you so much for praying! We need lots and lots of prayer! :)

Quick Prayer Request Update

We sent out this prayer request in the bullet train. That was a first! :)

Here's a link to the email.

Need lots of prayer!!! Thank you for praying!

Home Assignment 2019 Newsletter

Four and a half months have absolutely flown by and in less than 24 hours we will already be airborne, on our way back to the other side of the pond. Our hope was to get a newsletter out to you soon after we first arrived. Unfortunately, this did not happen :( As Peter spoke about so often on Sunday mornings at so many different churches, we are often disappointed by hopes and dreams that do not materialize, and sometimes even by those that do. We are thankful that we are able to return to Japan to share of the living hope of Jesus Christ (see 1 Peter 1:3) to the millions there who do not yet have this hope, those who have not yet even had the opportunity to hear of this hope.

Here is a link to our latest newsletter for you. It doesn't have as many photos as usual but we really wanted to get it out to you before we left and that meant sacrificing photo collages!

Please pray for our arrival. We have natural and political storms to get through and then hit the ground running when we return. We have so many amazing photos I wish we could share with you!

We are so thankful for the partnership we have in Christ to share the Good News.

Thank you and God bless you!

New Prayer Card

We made it to the US in one piece, our house in Fukuoka is being taken care of by Chris, and after the initial few days of jet lag, general disorientation, culture shock, size shock, variety shock, choice shock, sticker shock, and many other "shock"s, we finally got ourselves organized enough to book a family photo session with Janice, and had a great time taking photos with her at a park nearby in Santa Clara.

After professional help from Janice, Marina, and lots of good advice from friends and family, I present to you the final version of our new prayer card. Ta da~ (Click on photo to enlarge.)

Please make sure you receive one when we come to visit your church! If we don't, make sure you get one from us when you see us. If we don't even do that, send us an email and we'd be happy to send you one.

And as a special thank you to our blog readers, here are a few more of our favorite photos from that day. (Click on photos to enlarge.)

As anyone who's ever tried getting kids to sit still for multiple photos will know, it's not easy!!! As anyone who knows our kids will know, they're really not good at sitting still! There's a reason why we don't have many photos of Sungjae and I promise you it's not because we excluded him^^; It probably didn't help that we were at a new park with lots of things to see and do and it was right before dinnertime... :P

This was a fun family one that started with Juhee and Jiyeon playing peek-a-boo behind the big tree. Obviously not an appropriate photo for our prayer card, but it was (kinda^^;) fun :)

And here below is the one you'll see at the beginning of most of our ppt presentations introducing our family, second runner up for our new prayer card.

It's always cool seeing our old prayer magnets on our friends' fridges when we visit and we look forward to giving you an updated photo! In our last one, Jiyeon was a baby. The one before that, Sungjae was a baby (don't think that one ever got printed/distributed though because it was right before we left for Japan in 2010). The one before that, on our first ever prayer card, Juhee was just over a year old. And now she's 11 and a half...

Many of you have been with us since the very beginning and some have just got to know us. To everyone on both ends of the spectrum and everyone in between, thank you for keeping up with us, your love, and your prayers. We really appreciate each and every one of you!

God bless!

Winter 2019 Newsletter

Here's a link to the newsletter we sent out on March 6th covering November 2018 - February 2019. That's so long... :(

Thank you for always tracking with us and praying for us! :)