In this edition Tomo’s church in Japan teams up with some high school students at our church (including Dave’s little brother Sam) to host a summer English camp, and fellow missionaries and family Jon (Dave’s brother) and his wife Maki (Tomo’s sister) come to the US for home service.
by David Robison
One of the most difficult problems the Japanese church faces in growing is simply getting people through the front door. Japanese people tend to look at Christianity with suspicion, seeing it as a foreign or western institution. Very few would be comfortable visiting a church. However when Tomo’s church, and the team my younger brother was a part of partnered together to host a “Joy English Club” at the church, the result was that dozens of children and their parents came into the church and heard about Christ.Read more…
by Tomo Robison
As many of you already know,David’s younger brother, Jon is married to Tomo’s older sister, Maki. We all met at the same time when David and Jon came to Japan for the first time in 2003 and stayed at Maki and Tomo’s house for 6 weeks. Jon and Maki got married about a year before we did. Now we’re all part of the Robison clan and we’re all very happy about it. Read More…