This is a disaster update from Pastor Yoshiya Kondo in Morioka city, Iwate, whose coastal towns were hit by tsunami.
When I walk the coastline, I see fishing boats stranded in the city. Every once in a while I see fish as well. Salmon, brevoort, and tuna were carried into the city with tsunami (Although I’m not sure if they’re from a fish market or the ocean.) We were rewarded for our work with canned food from Sanriku yesterday. They said that tons of canned food were washed into the house probably from a factory. Also yesterday, when one of the people who were working in the house got a stomachache, he looked at his feet and found a handwarmer that was washed away with the mud. He stuck it on his belly and got back to work. There’s provision on top of a mount of mud.
The Sanriku area of Iwate, which is called “the countryside of the countryside”, has been sending out people and things. I hope that not just things like these that get washed into this area, but our prayer, God’s workers, and believers will also be washed into this area, and not just now but stay there, and start new churches.