Tadaima

We are back in the states, recovering from the exciting yet exhausting time in Japan. Please continue to pray for health for us as we return and face entering back into U.S culture. Please continue to pray for the connections we made with students: 1. that they would continue to stay in contact with us and with the local missionaries, and 2. that the Holy Spirit would soften their hearts so that they would enter into a relationships with the true and living God.

We are so thankful for all your support; whether prayerfully, financially, or through personal encouragement. Thank you so much. We will post sharing dates at a later time.

Arigatou Gozaimasu.

~ AndyMo

12 day countdown...

Only 12 more days until we depart for Japan. Please continue to keep us in your prayers.

• Next week is finals and graduation: please pray for our studies to be balanced with our emotional, spiritual, and all other prep needed for our departure to Japan.
• Please continue to pray for our health and rest.
• Please pray for team unity; both interpersonal relationships and spiritual unity.
• Please pray for peace for our families as we depart for this 6 week mission trip. Support from our families is a huge source of encouragement.

Romans 12:

¹ I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. ² Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Gifts of Grace

³For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. ⁴For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, ⁵so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ⁶Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; ⁷if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; ⁸the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.

Marks of the True Christian

⁹Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. ¹⁰ Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. ¹¹Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. ¹² Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation,be constant in prayer. ¹³Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.

¹⁴Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. ¹⁵ Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. ¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight. ¹⁷ Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. ¹⁸If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.¹⁹Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it^[i] to the wrath of God, for it is written,"Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord." ²⁰To the contrary, "if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head." ²¹Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

We're Official! :)

The Japan Team Mission trip was presented before the BIOLA mission board today (not the first time) and has been OFFICIALLY PASSED! PTL!

On another note, 50% fundraising is due April 20th. Currently, the team as a whole stands at 14% fund-raised. Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we try to raise our funds.

Thank you for supporting us! Your love and prayers are deeply appreciated. Feel free to comment below with words of encouragement or how we can be praying for YOU! Our heart is for God to be glorified everywhere! So your prayer needs are important to us too. <3

May God be blessing you in your joys and trials.

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A.M.

Senbazuru 千羽鶴

Check out the Thousand Crane Project, hosted by the BIOLA Japan Team!

https://sites.google.com/site/biolasenbazuru/

If you have further questions or would like to participate as a volunteer in this project, please contact Andy. <3

1 John 4:10-12

¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹²No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

This is our Team Verse. May God be glorified in our love for one another, and in how we love on the students at Hokkudai.

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Andy