It’s my (Tomo’s) turn to write the blog again and I have a couple exciting news!
1. David and I had our first Partner Development appointment together last week!
We had a nice time sharing about Japan and our ministry vision (which is to evaluate the spiritual needs of the Japanese people, plant new churches where there are none, and disciple Japanese Christians.) We are looking forward to meeting with more people to share about Japan!
2. I was made an Approved Candidate with SEND!
For the last several months I’ve been in the application process for SEND International, the missions organization that David is already a member of. I’ve finished the part 1 of the application and now in part 2. Right now I’m working on my personal doctrinal statement, where I have to state what I believe in my own words with Scripture references about 16 topics that SEND provides. The only things I can use to answer these hard questions are the Bible and a concordance. So far it’s been very challenging. I have a general idea about most of the topics but writing it out in a way that makes sense to someone else and providing Scrpiture references for it is very hard. Having to do it in my second language adds to the challenge too.
Also, I was officially invited to come to Candidate Orientation Program in January to complete the application process. This also means a trip to Michigan! I hear it can get very cold in Michigan in January, but I’m pretty excited to see different parts of the US (so far I’ve seen Southern California and some parts of Northern California, Grand Canyon and the Mojave Desert.)
3. My mom’s coming to visit this week!
She’s arriving Thursday, 29th and will leave on the 9th of November. I’m very excited to see her and hang out for about a week and a half!
So that was a little update on what’s going on in my life. I hope everyone’s having a great week!