With Japan office hours (9-5) beginning at 5 PM California time, Mark is grateful for the great internet at the house we're staying in which allows him to work with the Deaf team in Tokyo via webcam (see photo). They've completed the second draft of Matthew 11 and 12, and are adding introductory material for the Matthew 1-10 DVD.

One of Wheelchairs of Hope Core Values is local leadership. This applies to the board level as well as each community within Japan and overseas. This week a Japanese Christian businessman who ran the Bangkok operations of a large Japanese corporation, and who has now returned to Japan, agreed to join the board of directors. Mr. Tani's entire family...

On Friday, March 12, seven volunteers will be taking 8 wheelchairs from Tokyo to Thailand on the first Wheelchairs of Hope week long "reverse" missions trip. The men in the group of volunteers going are not affiliated with any church. Japanese missionaries to Thailand will be meeting them and helping distribute the wheelchairs in Chiang Mai...

Ministry Updates Most of our friends here are close to our age (which, by the way, Jason is now 35 years old - meaning he’s on the downhill slide to 40) and would be considered nominal, or cultural, Catholics. I was speaking with one friend about Lent a few weeks back and, not surprisingly, he said that he wasn’t doing anything and that the whole thing...

Left to right: Wendy Nelson, Nate & Cindy Hitson with baby Abigail, Jhonny Orozco, Laura Egli, Hans & Lindsay Nyberg, Daryl and Dan Collins Dan has been the Bolivia field leader since we arrived in 2005. Since our team was only our family it was an easy job. But now we have a team of 14 [...]