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2012 India Team

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Current Events (updated 3/19/2011)

Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami

Relief Organizations:

Christian Relief, Assistance, Support and Hope (CRASH)
Japan Evangelical Missionary Association (JEMA)

Planned Missions Trips for 2011

Hiroshima, Japan: August 1 - 5
Teach VBS (Vacation Bible School) with Peter and Jenny Oh

Mexico: Sept 12 - 16
Partner with Baja Christian Ministries to build houses for the locals

Prayer Requests from Peter & Jenny Oh (in Japan)

At 2:46 PM local time, March 11, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Japan off the eastern coast of Miyagi, prefecture. This is the largest recorded earthquake ever to have struck Japan, and the fifth largest recorded earthquake in the world. Even after 24 hours, heavy aftershocks were still being felt throughout northeastern Japan, with no way of knowing how long these aftershocks will continue. Some experts have said that there could be strong aftershocks of up to magnitude level 8 for six months.Please pray that the earthquakes will cease.
The devastation from the initial earthquake was compounded by heavy tsunamis that hammered the east coast, and even after 24 hours, the eastern coast of Japan was still under warning for tsunamis. Sendai City was hit the hardest, both by the temblor and the tsunami. Some towns were entirely obliterated by the tsunamis. Please pray that these tsunamis will cease.
Casualty reports are still coming in. As of Saturday afternoon local time, the death toll had exceeded 1,000, with over 600 still missing. Pray for those who are trapped and injured, as well as those who are missing friends and family.
In Fukushima Prefecture, two nuclear power plants are under a state of emergency. The reactors are overheating at the number 1 plant, and at the number 2 plant, the reactor pressure has been rising. At the Fukushima number 1 plant, there was an explosion Saturday afternoon, 4 PM local time, injuring four workers. The evacuation around the Fukushima power plant 1 has been expanded to 20 kilometers. Radiation levels at the plant have been measured at 1,051 microsievert. One hour of exposure to that much radiation is the same amount that the average human receives in a year. Please pray that the situation will get under control soon, before anything more serious occurs.
Pray also for the weather. With radiation being diffused into the air, wind or rain could carry it into populated areas and expose people. Pray that any wind will carry radiation out to sea rather than into populated areas. What's more, bitterly cold night-time temperatures could prove life-threatening for those who are trapped.
Millions of homes in northeastern Japan are without power, and over a million homes in Ibaraki prefecture are without fresh water supplies. Pray for the power plants and water facilities to be able to resume their work, and pray for those who do not have these essential supplies.
Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in the coastal areas and the area around the Fukushima nuclear power plants. Please pray for them, and all who are having to stay in public shelters.
Relief workers are working around the clock to rescue survivors, but things are grim for coastal cities due to the continual bombardment of tsunamis. Pray for the relief workers, that God would grant safety and stamina.
Pray for the Christians of Japan, that we would be able to mobilize relief efforts and provide for people's needs, both physical and spiritual.
Pray that "normal life" can be resumed as soon as possible so that people can start to process and heal physically and psychologically.
Pray that many will come to have hope through our God, who is bigger than everything that has happened.
Pray for the protection of Christians and non-Christians alike, that they do not become the targets of cults and other religions during this time when many are in a very vulnerable state.

Living Water International, Honduras

On October 23-30, 2010, LSCC went on our first mission trip with Living Water International (LWI) to Honduras. We teamed up with the local LWI staff to build a well and provided hygiene training to the village. The focus of the project was transforming lives through the practical service we performed, and through sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with those we served.

World Vision

LSCC has partnered with World Vision since 2004 through individual child sponsorships that help provide children in need with clean water, food, healthcare, and education. In 2007, LSCC decided to support an area development program (ADP) in Malawi through a water development program and child sponsorships. Contact us if you are interested in sponsoring a child.

LSCC has expanded their support of World Vision by working with ADPs in India and China with plans to visit them in 2013.

Kiva

LSCC is helping individuals in poverty-stricken areas of the world in a sustainable way through microloans that will give these individuals the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty.

Join the LSCC Kiva lending team.

Peter & Jenny Oh

LSCC has partnered with Peter & Jenny Oh on their long-terms missions trip to Hiroshima, Japan. They will share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the Japanese people and plant churches in the Hiroshima area.

For more than 30 years, Pioneers' passion has been to see God glorified among those who are physically and spiritually isolated from the gospel of Jesus Christ—from Muslim bedouins in the deserts of North Africa and animist villagers in the jungles of South America to secular humanists in Eastern Europe and middle-class Buddhist urbanites in the sprawling cities of East Asia.

We invite you to explore Pioneers.org, to read stories of what God is doing among the unreached, to engage in the powerful enterprise of intercession, to discover opportunities for engagement that you may have never imagined.

http://risingsoninjapan.blogspot.com/