Category: Family

I am not joking about the 19734 miles either. I have been walking, biking, driving, bussing, and flying a lot in the past 3 weeks. The trip went like this NORTHSTAR >> Nagoya Japan >> San Francisco CA >> Portland OR >> San Francisco CA >> New York NY >> Tokyo Japan >> Okinawa Japan…

On the first Saturday night that I was back in Japan I had a little surprise waiting for Hannah when she came home from work. Check it out at Seth & Hannah blog. I hope you like it. In Him 摂 [ Seth ]

At the end of my trip I had the privilege of meeting most of Hannah’s emendate family and that’s pretty amazing because there is 10 of them. So I met Dad, Mom, sister Melissa, sister Naomi, brother John, and brother Stephan. The first night I stayed in a studio in the city near ground zero…

Hi Everyone,Things have been going good in Norikura Kogen and I have been keeping busy with designing some new marketing materials for NORTHSTAR. We had a camp here last weekend and did some leadership training with about 15 student council members. After that, I went to visit Hannah and her family in Tokyo. It has…

This is why we are here. To see people come to know there Creator-God. Today one of His people has made a confession of faith and chosen to be baptized. Yasuyo took this step of faith that has required her to go against her family and many of her friends. She has chosen God’s best…

Yesterday we had a little BBQ at NORTHSTAR for the local kids who live in the village. It was a great chance for all of us to spend time with the kids outside of class and just have fun. We played soccer, red light – green light, and just ran around to like crazy people…

As I was going through the photos and memories from my last trip to Okinawa I was thinking it would be good to share them with you. I think most people know at this point that I have been dating an amazing and wonderful young woman named Hannah since May. God has given us a…

I thought I would just say a quick hi from Okinawa. I am having fun visiting Hannah and seeing other friends here. The weather has been very wet for the last few days and is still raining now. NIKO, the youth camping trip that I helped out with went well even though it rained 2…

Well, it’s been a few days since my last blog post and I thought you may all want to know what’s been going on. So let me fill you in. The last week has been a busy one because this is Golden Week. Golden week is a Japanese holiday where everyone and their little toy…

We are down to the home stretch and we have just one week left before our yasumi (vacation) starts. At the moment we have a camp called 180 and they are from Matsumoto. Most of them are from Azumino Family Chapel. On Thursday we had our usual raihai (worship/prayer meeting) and invited our campers to…

Here are some photos and a movie from the last week or so, I hope you like them.