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Thank you so much for your support and prayers for

Hope Miyagi Tsunami Relief Project since March 11,

2011. With your love gifts and encouragement

throughout the years, we were strengthened as a church

Greetings from Yukimasa Otomo, Representatives of Hope Miyagi

(↑) Woodstock Church Team

Crossway Team (→)

Morgan Hill Bible Church

at Adatara Bible Camp

Christmas in Shichigahama, Christ Centered Community Church, C4 team

Kim san in Shichigahama, exercise fun Saki Sugawara at Nipperia

With Chu Kosaka and his wife

Traditional songs and instruments

played by Konno brothers

Endos and

Shonan Christ

Church ladies visiting

Team Taiwan sharing

Kameari Church Gospel group

Anemone trio

Our Last Newsletter -No.12

2017. Spring

Shiogama Bible Baptist Church

Brandon Lau Family

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and have been able to serve in our communities for the

last six years. God has blessed us and sent us out with

his love and words of Hope. We are coming to the end of

our Hope Miyagi Tsunami Relief project as of March,

2017. However, even though we won’t accept any

more volunteers as Hope Miyagi, as Shiogama Church

we will continue serving our communities by visiting and

doing monthly events with our NPO "Bread of Life" Food

Bank. We would like to continue pouring water on the

seeds many of you have helped to plant in the hearts

and lives of our friends. I would like you to take a look

at our food bank ministry information and join us in

anticipation of the great harvest to come. This is going to

be our last newsletter. Thank you so much for being a

part of Hope Miyagi. We cannot find enough words to

sufficiently thank each one of you. God bless you!

House Church Updates

Watari (from Kogos)

Last April, cooperating missionary Jungmi Lee joined

our Watari house church. Church planting and the

Tsunami Relief project have been our main ministries.

Temporary housing units were closed in June, 2016, and

God has led us to a new location for our monthly events.

People who used to live close to one another and who

became good neighbors are now spread all over and

they feel so alone and desolate. Hope Miyagi events

have been helping to give opportunities to get together

again and to regularly see each other over tea and some

fun activities. The Social Welfare Council of Watari Town

has supported us since September, 2016. It is a great

opportunity for people to get connected and feel a part of

their new community. The "Bread of Life" food bank has

been blessing the community with Costco bread and

food items. We, along with volunteers, deliver food items

to those who are in need. They are happy to receive

these things and they welcome us as we visit them. We

work together as a team with the Okitas, leaders from

Keisen Sennan Chapel, to pray regularly for our dear

friends. The Okitas have been a great encouragement to

us. One lady made a decision to follow Jesus! God is

sending volunteers for Kids club! Good things are

starting to happen! This is just the beginning! Please

pray for God’s blessings and for continual support and

encouragement for Watari!

Sendai Konan (from Otomos)

Thank you for your love and support and for your

prayers! We appreciate each one of you. We met so

many friends and families in the Nipperia Temporary

housing units and we hosted events in the meeting room

every month. There were 200 units there, but in

September of 2016, all units were closed. Hope Miyagi

received words of appreciation from the town leaders for

what we have done since the tsunami. We had great

opportunities to reach out to the communities and share

love and bring the good news of Jesus Christ! We invited

the friends from Nipperia to our house church events and

in that way sought to continue our relationships. As the

years passed we didn't get to see much of those we met

through the Samaritan’s Purse project. However, through

the "Bread of Life" project, we once again have a reason

to go visit and deliver bread to those friends. May God

continue blessing this new food bank ministry. We

would like to see God using us to reach out to the

families and friends who lost so much in 2011.

Regional Reports

Sakuragi Park Ministry, Sakuragi Smile

Yasu has continued building good relationships in the

community and going to the Tuesday Park outreach.

Many came to the Sakuragi Smile Christmas party where

we shared the good news of great joy. Christ Centered

Community Church from Hawaii was there to bring the

fun of a Piñata!

Shichigahama Town

It has been a year since our Shichigahama friends

have moved to their new homes. Hope Miyagi hosts

monthly events for the new communities in two public

housing complexes, which have meeting rooms where

we can hold these events. We began to meet in the

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meeting room of the government housing apartments in

Shobuta, but God closed the door for us to continue

meeting there. As we prayed and asked for another

place to meet, God led us to a new evacuation center

across the street from the apartment building. It even

has more space! So we ended up inviting more friends

in the community and our gathering has been blessed in

the broader sense! I learned to see that when God

closes one door he opens another! I was blessed to be a

part of Hope Miyagi in order to give the residents

opportunities to get connected with one another and to

bring encouragement to those who live by themselves.

There are friends from this community who come to

church and enjoy fellowship there. We would like to

continue these good relationships with our friends by

visiting them and also through the food bank ministry.

Thank you for remembering Shichigahama in your

prayers! (Hiromi)

Shiogama and Urato Islands

Hope Miyagi is helping the Hatanaka family and the

NPO “High-Five” on Nonoshima Island. Weeding,

planting seeds, building a deck, making a tool box,

digging the water ditch and other things. It has been a

great encouragement to the Hatanakas and to those who

live on the island.

Oshika Peninsula

(Oginohama, Kobuchihama, Yagawa)

Our friends in Oshika are Oyster farmers who are busy

shelling oysters from September to March. During the

other months, they clean the ropes and buoys for their

oyster farming and work on the many other preparations

for harvest. Other fishermen grow sea pineapples and

Wakame seaweed. They use clamshells for harvesting

oysters and then they use oyster shells for harvesting

sea pineapples. Very interesting! When we go there with

volunteer teams, there are lots of helping hands. Our

help is so small and limited; however these fishermen

are happy to see us coming to help. During the tea and

lunch break, they share their stories. It often seems

there is not enough time to simply listen to their stories.

We have been learning to make listening more of our

priority instead of just doing the work.

Hiromi, Hope Miyagi staff

It has been 6 years since the March 11 earthquake and

tsunami. With your love and encouragement in both

actions and prayers, Hope Miyagi has been serving the

disaster-hit communities, becoming the helping hands of

Jesus. I look back at our photos and blogs over the last

year of 2016 and am reminded of how God has blessed

us with teams and individuals who came and helped. We

made visits together and got our hands dirty in order to

help farmers and fishermen. Volunteers came alongside

our hurting friends and they listened to their stories. I

saw many receive encouragement through that. Hope

Miyagi sponsors a simple event every month, serving tea

and doing a fun activity together. Jesus goes with us and

he lives inside of us, listening to these friends' stories

during the event. We share his peace and a love-filled

atmosphere because of His presence. There was always

someone to go out with me as a team and that was a

huge blessing and encouragement for me. It has been 4

1/2 years since I started serving as a Hope Miyagi staff

member. I have received healing and encouragement for

my own soul through serving and meeting people. I am

very thankful God brought me to serve here. Right now

there is so much unknown for the future, but I trust Him

who led me this far, that he will direct me now according

to His perfect will. Thank you to those who specifically

supported me in my monthly needs last year. All my

needs were met and I appreciate you very much. When I

heard that Hope Miyagi will be coming to the end, it was

very sad news. I would like to continue to visit our friends

and keep in touch with them. Shiogama Church will also

continue serving the communities through the food bank.

Recovering and healing of hearts has really just started. I

would appreciate your on-going prayers for each

precious soul you have touched in the past, that they

would meet Jesus in His time.

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Michio Sugawara, "Bread of Life" Food Bank

"Bread of Life" volunteers have delivered bread and

food items to those who are in need and to families who

experienced the tsunami. A new Costco store in Tomiya,

Miyagi, is providing us bread 7 to 8 times a month. A city

office gives us a call when they need food items for the

people who are in need of support. In October, we

hosted an educational outreach event for the World Food

day with Japan International Food for the Hungry. About

100 people participated.

We face difficulties in gathering funds and meeting a

target group who are really in need. We would like you to

consider helping our food bank in two specific ways: one

is to become supporting members. The second is

providing us with food items. For more information,

please take a look at our last page (in Japanese).

Prayer Requests

* People who experienced the tsunami in Shichigahama,

Wakabayashi, and Watari have moved from temporary

housing to their new permanent homes within the last

year. Things are settling down now, but their hearts

are weary after the stresses and strains of these last 6

years. Pray that Shiogama Church will continue to

encourage those who are in need.

* God will bless the relationships we have with people

who experienced the tsunami. Pray that the "Bread

of Life" Food Bank will be a help to meeting the needs

in the community.

* God will bless the Miyagi Mission Network, not only in

Miyagi but in all of Tohoku, and that he will bless the

church network throughout Japan, resulting in more

churches being started.

* For Christians who are serving in Tohoku, especially for

their physical and spiritual health.

Contact Information

HOPE MIYAGI

Shiogama Bible Baptist Church Disaster Relief Project

Representative:

Yukimasa Otomo

(Shiogama Bible Baptist Church Associate Pastor)

Address:

2-11-45 Kasagami, Tagajo, Miyagi

985-0831, Japan.

TEL: 022-362-7468 FAX: 022-362-7497

Contact:

Yukimasa Otomo

contact@hopemiyagi.org

Web Site: http://www.hopemiyagi.org

Facebook: hopemiyagi

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