Dear Family, Friends, and Partners in the Gospel, It’s an exciting season in our lives, waiting for little Baby Lee to make an appearance!  Our due date is this week, and we’re thankful to be feeling ready to welcome a child into the world.  Being pregnant in Japan has been a rich experience, and many…

Dear Family, Friends, and Partners in the Gospel, We recently said goodbyes to the Tokyo Trek7 team of six interns, who have now returned to their homes in the States.  We spent six weeks together as we grew to love and appreciate them and watched God at work in and through them.  The Trek7 program…

Dear Family, Friends, and Partners in the Gospel, Thank you so much for your prayers and support as we completed our first term of full-time language study!  The class was hard work, but the firstfruits have taken the shape of a few simple words of God’s amazing love.  Graduation with Teachers and Classmates One of…

Dear Family, Friends, and Partners in the Gospel, Thank you for keeping up with God’s work in and around us!  The last update went out in late May, so we’d like to take this opportunity to highlight some praises and requests that you can lift up in prayer: Language Learning Lunch with classmates in five…

Dear Family, Friends, and Partners in the Gospel, Hello!  How are you this Spring day?  I (Jo Beth) sat down at the kitchen table to type this letter, but I couldn’t stop looking out the open window.  An evening spring storm is about to roll in, and the wind is rich with the scent of…