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Subject: Tom back safe/relief supplies delivered Dear friends, Thanks so much for your prayers. Tom just got back home safely a few minutes ago. The shipment was successfully made and they are all safe. Praise God. After driving several hours yesterday, they slept on the ground in sleeping bags at a rest area in Ibaraki Prefecture and then traveled on. As they traveled they got a call from our MTW country director saying that they could not go beyond the 50 mile radius from the nuclear plant that the American government has set, according to our sending agency, Mission to...

Dear Friends, About four hours ago, after a intense effort over the last few days, our team/church/presbytery sent our first truck to the disaster area filled with supplies: food, water, fuel, blankets, medicines and other supplies. Wayne, Pastor Mamoru Otake and team member Tom Wilson are driving. Their destination is Iwaki, Fukushima. This city is on the southern edge of the disaster area. Based on the information from our Chiba team, who had just returned as we were loading, we were able to prioritize certain types of items, and feel so confident that we sent exactly what will help them...

10am Japan time (13 hrs ahead of east coast time) Dear Family and friends, Thank you so much for praying! We have been going north to help where we can, and just a few minutes ago, we located a Japanese pastor, a good friend of ours, who is just 8km outside the evacuation zone, in a city with over 5,000 evacuees who are receiving very little govt assistance. We are mobilizing today for a trip tonight to take as much as we are able. The critical need is gasoline to get there, water, and diesel fuel for those there who...

SEARCH KEYWORD: japandaniverson 3/15/11 Update from Country Director, Dan Iverson: Three of us went north into the devastated areas Sunday at midnight with a packed two-ton rental truck with 1,000 liters of water, gasoline, blankets, food, warm clothes, etc, that many people donated. We distributed supplies to a small church, an elementary school housing displaced people, and drove around town (Ueda town, Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture) giving water to people. We found that people were so desperate for water that when we ran out, they wanted the not-so-clean spill-over can water. It was very sad to run-out with people still...

One Team Returns, Two More Headed Out First very successful run to Iwaki returned about 5:30 PM.(Monday afternoon - Japan time) From MTW Missionary Bob Drews: * We were able to deliver 1000 l of water and 60 l of fuel to Iwaki-Shi. A school/shelter near the church was housing 100 people who have no water, so most of the supplies were left with them. The young prefectural officer in charge was extremely grateful. No official help or supplies had arrived, so this was a great blessing. * At this point, it appears that shuttling supplies to this community would...

Dan, Dedachi and Rich Rainsford are leaving in about an hour to head north to a town named Iwaki, just 30 miles south of Fukushima (sight of the nuclear plant). After much prayer and searching for a place to help, they were able to contact a pastor in Iwaki who has asked them to bring water and gasoline. They have rented and loaded a truck with large tanks of water and about 60 liters of gasoline, along with a room-full of supplies like blankets, coats, boots, food. Their plan is to use back roads to enter some of the coastal...

This is incredible devastation. Please ask your church to take special offerings for this tomorrow. And pass the word to Christians to give and pray for this. We have already spent almost $1000 tonight renting a first truck and buying food to take north, Lord willing tomorrow night. This is a very small start on a huge and expensive project these next months. Pray that we can really help, and show the love of Christ in this lost land. One news report an hour ago said that in a hard hit northeastern prefecture a village of 17,000 people was missing...