This building was an evacuation center. About 200 people was there. But, Tsunami hit this building and killed many of them. Hope Japan and Christians who came back from the world met together here. We had a service here. Local pastors and missionaries were constantly giving care for the victims. They are also very muchContinue reading “At Kamaishi”
Yasuko, a ventriloquist, did a great job. 八十さんが腹話術で2つの出し物を披露されました。
Today, Team A will go back home. チームAの皆さん、お疲れ様でした。Thank you for your great works! As I take back to Sendai (our meeting place) and bring the other half of Team B, Team B will do three events today. チームAとBが交代している間に、チームBの先発隊は３つのイベントを行います。
This place has almost no outside aid. Our visiting here touched their heart. One woman said, “I am sorry for debris that cause trouble for American people”. We gave hat for the elderly and stuffed animal for the little one. ここは昔は船しか交通手段がない場所。人々は独立的である事を誇りに思っています。その分よそ者を迎える事に抵抗感があるようです。 私達は祈りました。すると快く迎え入れて下さいました。 オレゴンの皆さんの手づくりの帽子やマフラーをとても喜んで下さいました。震災後に産まれたという赤ちゃんは、ぬいぐるみを握って離しませんでした…皆さんの贈り物が癒やしのためび用いられています。ありがとうございます。
(No spell check and grammar check functions are avairable. Please enjoy unedited, LIVE report). 100 years old house, Akkera-kan(あっけら館), is our base camp in Iwaizumi 岩泉町. Rev. Birkner has a church here. But the builing (…well, it is a tiny room) is too small for us to stay (She is the only one Christian inContinue reading “Our base camp”
日本語は下。We went to the northern end of Tsunami disaster zone, Noda village. There were 18 units in this temporal housing complex. All, except the two units, are the relative. Most of the residents were still not home yet, but six people showed up for our public event. One woman said, she wanted to attend thisContinue reading “Noda village event 野田村のイベント無事終了”
今日は時間がなくて日本語訳ができません。お手伝いできる方はメールを下さい。 We moved our base camp to four hour north to Iwaizumi, Iwate. A beautiful autum mountain drive to come here. 3G Internet connection is on and off here. We failed to connect Google Navigation (we lost just a bit). I will post this report while I have a good internet connection. An American missionary,Continue reading “Ama-chan”
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