I woke up early in the mornng to pray for Kamaishi... and also take pictures. This is truly peaceful and beautiful, but the 4 meter tsunami came from this very direction and devastated a major portion of Kamaishi.
Saturday, we helped clean the inside and outside of the New Life Kamaishi Church. Sunday AM, we worshipped with them.... The tsunami became the occasion for this man be baptized. He comes to the church almost daily.
Sunday evening Pastor Koiwai and the team prepared a delicious soup (onabe) for some men who are still trying to deal with the disaster. One man lost everything- house, place of work and car.
The two pastors fellowshipping and enjoying the soup. Pastor Yanagiya and his wife need an outpouring of Christ's grace. These 'healers' need healing.
Don't forget the people of Tohoku- the area devastated by the tsunami March 11, 2011. Do pray for Kamaishi, New Life Kamaishi Church and Pastor Yanagiya and his wife.
"Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort."
2 Corinthians 1:2-7
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