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Takidashi Community Cookout & Bingo

June 23, 2012

It's Saturday at Grace Mission Tohoku and that usually means it is Community Cookout (Takidashi) day, where the mission cooks for the community and play bingo. You would think that it's been so long after the tsunami and lives are back to normal what is the need for having a cheap meal like this? Well today was a perfect example of the blossoming f...

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Mudout and Farewell

June 21, 2012 • Leave a Comment

There are tons of homes in Ishinomaki that still need to be gutted and cleand out, this process is called "mudout." Initially I did not understand why it was called mudout because the home that we were working in already had much of the debris removed. And while we were there we had to take out drywall, installation, removing nails and screws. It w...

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Onagawa

June 19, 2012 • Leave a Comment

On Sunday evening Virginia took the Missouri and South Africa teams to see one of the nearby cities which had considerable damage to give us a sense of the magnitude of how the tsunami had wiped out city areas. Up until this point for me I had not seen any major areas of devestation. A few homes here and there which were in the mist of being worked...

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Fellowship as one in Christ

June 17, 2012 • Leave a Comment

After a long five hour multiple train drive through Japan, I finally arrived in Watanoha. Greeted by Virginia from Grace Mission Tohoku and warmly a team from South Africa. It took me no time to feel at home with all the people who are volunteering. And to my luck we would be going to have sushi on my first evening on mission. So my first Sunday...

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Japan - Volunteering with Grace Mission Tohoku

June 15, 2012 • Leave a Comment

I will be spending my first two weeks in Japan volunteering with a partner with CrashJapan called Grace Mission Tohoku, http://gracemission-tohoku.org Their mission is to rebuild community, homes and businesses for the people in the Tohoku region. So this can mean I could be anything from cooking, gardening, fishing, teaching English, or just serv...

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