Siding: Day 3

Howdy from Hokkaido! The entire front of the church entrance and north wall is done now. Tomorrow they will work on the higher up north wall and the back of the building. Thanks for praying.















End of day three.

Siding: Day 2

Greetings! Here are some photos of the second day of the siding work. Pictured is siding worker Mr. Inoue. He has been working alone the first two days because his company is so busy right now and has the other workers at other locations.












- Bro. Alan

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Siding: Day 1

Praise the Lord! We are finally getting the siding done on the church entrance portion of the building! Here are some pictures from the first day.













Please pray for the workers safety and for us as we try to witness to them.

We see the new siding going up and think, "Boy, it sure looks good and it would be nice to get the other part of the building done now too!" But, we don't mind waiting for awhile to be able to get the other part done.

Thank you all for praying for us here in Shibetsu! Take care.

Serving Jesus,
Alan
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Alan meets the Mayor

Well, it has been a little while since I "blogged." Gomen (sorry). The weather(April snow) is quite different from the last posting! Ha! It has been 28c or about 82f which is a scorcher for Hokkaido, Japan! We are enjoying the warmer weather and it is a bit unusual for our area. Normally, we only have warm weather like this in August for a couple weeks. We have been saying "it looks like its going to be a hot summer!" We shall see.

Recently, I started helping in the six public elementary schools in the area teaching english to the 5th and 6th graders. It is only for a few hours 5 or 6 times a month, but it is a great opportunity to get to know a lot of people in a hurry! Recently, I got to meet Shibetsu's Mayor and it was put in the local paper. Ha! Mrs. Nishio (our church member) saw the article and gave it to us. Evidently, it is customary at times for new city employees to have a meeting with the Mayor. Our family and Shepherd Baptist Church was mentioned in the article... not bad... free publicity! Haha! Please pray for this outreach to turn into new relationships, new visitors at church, and new folks hear about and come to the Lord.

April 2nd

April showers...er...ah, I mean snow...brings June flowers!



Happy April 2nd. What a way to start the month. Ha!

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Winter is back!!!

Well, the driveway and roads were clear!


It seemed that temperature-wise spring was upon us! But, however, winter is back for now. Haha! It has been snowing and blowing for a few days now. That is Hokkaido for ya!



Alan from "Snow-kaido"

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Two New Students

Praise the Lord, recently we learned we'd be getting two new students for our English class and today was their first day. These two girls are sisters. We met their mom and them at a local park last summer. We were out on a Saturday passing out church/Gospel info packs house to house. After that we went to a park to let the kids play and to try to make some new contacts among the kids playing. That is where we met them. Now, all these months later they are now in our English class. Pray that we can reach them with the Gospel. It takes a lot of time! It takes a lot of prayer!
Left: front - Ayuka (7), back - Erika (10)





Also pictured is Malachi and Mizuki.

Also, I finished framing part of the church auditorium ceiling (sorry no picture of that today), and we got approved for another 3 years on our visas.

Have a great week!

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"This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24