{"id":2237,"date":"2018-09-05T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2018-10-03T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T20:28:42","slug":"bamba-newsletter-september-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/bamba-newsletter-september-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamba Newsletter: September 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Japan!<\/p>\n<p>Though their summer break has gotten longer in recent years, Japanese children still only have about six weeks off and have homework to do during that time. The summertime in Japan is<br \/>\nalso filled with many festivals, most of which center around Shinto celebrations. We are always excited for a chance to invite some of the kids\u2019 friends over. During this summer, we had one of Olivia\u2019s friends, Sayaka, over. She, her sister, and her mother enjoyed playing games and making ice-cream sundaes. Their mother was touched by the peace and calm that she felt in our house, and she was curious about all of the Bible verses we have displayed throughout our home. Eryn was able to explain some of the verses and tell her about God\u2019s love that is for all people. Please pray with us that the verses Sayaka, her mother, and sister heard will grow in their hearts.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2238\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/sharing-the-love-of-Jesus-with-Olivias-friends-and-mom-at-home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2238\" class=\"wp-image-2238 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/sharing-the-love-of-Jesus-with-Olivias-friends-and-mom-at-home-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/sharing-the-love-of-Jesus-with-Olivias-friends-and-mom-at-home-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/sharing-the-love-of-Jesus-with-Olivias-friends-and-mom-at-home-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/sharing-the-love-of-Jesus-with-Olivias-friends-and-mom-at-home-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/sharing-the-love-of-Jesus-with-Olivias-friends-and-mom-at-home-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sharing the love of Jesus with Olivia&#8217;s friends &amp; mom!<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In July, our church participated in a gospel concert orchestrated by a group from America. Olivia and three of the children that attend our Sunday school also performed. It was amazing to see all of the children singing praises to God. Even though several of the children&#8217;s parents from our Sunday school are not Christian, they let their children participate for the experience of singing in a gospel concert. Over 200 people attended, many of them hearing the gospel message for the first time. Please pray with us that the seeds of the gospel planted in the hearts of the people who attended the concert would take root.<\/p>\n<p>During the summer, Hiro also had the opportunity to visit one of our churches on the small Japanese island of Kyushu. He spent time with the pastor and his wife, encouraging and praying for them. The Pastor, Hiroshi, has frequently been visiting a detention center, talking with people from all over the world who are being held at the center because they overstayed their Japanese VISA and are no longer allowed to remain in Japan. He has wanted to start a church there for several years, but the government has always refused. However, after seeing Hiroshi\u2019s constant care for the people there, the government finally permitted him to hold monthly church services at the center! There are so many people interested in attending that he has had to hold three separate services. Please continue to pray for this pastor and his wife as they share God\u2019s love with the people at both their church and the detention center.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2239\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/gospel-concert-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2239\" class=\"wp-image-2239 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/gospel-concert-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/gospel-concert-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/gospel-concert-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/gospel-concert-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/gospel-concert-2.jpg 1713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2239\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Gospel Concert<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thank you so much for answering God\u2019s call to share his light and love with people all around the world. Your partnership touches the lives of so many Japanese people. Your faithful prayers and support bring hope to the spiritually dry country of Japan. We pray God will continue to bless each of you as you have blessed so many!<\/p>\n<p>Your Missionaries to Japan,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hiro, Eryn, Justin, Ax, Hunter, and Olivia Bamba<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from Japan! Though their summer break has gotten longer in recent years, Japanese children still only have about six weeks off and have homework to do during that time&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":2110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1,4],"tags":[268,108,109,308,319],"class_list":{"0":"post-2237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-missionary-newsletters","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"category-world-missions","10":"tag-268","11":"tag-bamba","12":"tag-hiro-eryn-bamba","13":"tag-newsletter","14":"tag-september","15":"entry"},"title_es":"Bolet\u00edn Crook: agosto de 2018","content_es":"<h2>Nueva oportunidad<\/h2>\r\nSiempre es un d\u00eda emocionante para People to People cuando Dios abre nuevas puertas. Nepal es una naci\u00f3n con la que hemos estado involucrados de diversas maneras a trav\u00e9s de los a\u00f1os. Cuando experimentaron un terremoto de 7.8M en abril de 2015, que mat\u00f3 a casi 9,000 personas, muchos de ustedes asistieron a trav\u00e9s del alivio de desastres. De hecho, me un\u00ed a TEAMS Outreach en septiembre de ese a\u00f1o. Mientras realizamos actividades m\u00e9dicas, vimos la devastaci\u00f3n y hablamos con personas que hab\u00edan perdido a muchos miembros de la familia. Hace unos meses, conoc\u00ed a Bryan Nix, director de People to People Ministries, en Katmand\u00fa para sentar las bases para lanzar el programa de apadrinamiento de ni\u00f1os. Tambi\u00e9n nos reunimos con el gran equipo de misioneros, Danny y Judith William, Chase, Kristina y Mercy Granstaff, y Gopi, Marites y Anya Kumar, que trabajan con iglesias locales en todo Nepal. La mayor\u00eda de las iglesias todav\u00eda est\u00e1n luchando para apoyar a sus pastores, por lo que esperamos la oportunidad de ayudar a los ni\u00f1os del pastor en su educaci\u00f3n y sus necesidades diarias. Hay muchos desaf\u00edos en esta naci\u00f3n que son solo 1.5% cristianos. Sabemos que el patrocinio de un ni\u00f1o va m\u00e1s all\u00e1 del regalo mensual. Sus oraciones por cada ni\u00f1o y su familia les recuerda que una familia global los respalda en su ministerio. Es un gran est\u00edmulo para ellos.\r\n<h2>Diciendo S\u00ed sin remordimientos<\/h2>\r\nMuchos refugiados llegan a Malasia porque, log\u00edsticamente, es f\u00e1cil llegar a la tierra y el crecimiento econ\u00f3mico ofrece muchas oportunidades para los trabajadores no calificados. Se enfrentan a muchas dificultades porque no tienen derechos de trabajo, ni cuidados de salud adecuados, y los ni\u00f1os no tienen acceso a la educaci\u00f3n. Recientemente, la Comisi\u00f3n de Derechos Humanos de las Naciones Unidas report\u00f3 150,000 refugiados registrados, pero ese n\u00famero no refleja el n\u00famero total de personas que viven en Malasia. En Kuala Lumpur, el pastor pregunt\u00f3 a una de nuestras iglesias, Life Harvest Assembly, si permitir\u00edan que algunas de sus habitaciones se usen para una escuela para refugiados de Myanmar. El primer a\u00f1o fue libre de alquiler, pero al a\u00f1o siguiente consideraron que deb\u00edan pedir una peque\u00f1a cantidad para alquilar. Con esta solicitud, el individuo decidi\u00f3 mudarse fuera de la ciudad, pero sugirieron que consideraran hacerse cargo de la escuela. El pastor May Kow fue contactado para considerar este esfuerzo, pero ella fue muy honesta y dijo que no estaba lista para decir que s\u00ed. Todo esto ocurri\u00f3 d\u00edas antes de que asistieran a un retiro de pastores. El retiro se convirti\u00f3 en un encuentro con Dios; durante tres noches se despert\u00f3 con el desaf\u00edo: \"\u00bfTomar\u00e1s esta responsabilidad?\". Durante dos noches no se rindi\u00f3, pero en la tercera noche, finalmente dijo que s\u00ed; ella dijo inmediatamente que sinti\u00f3 la paz de Dios y durmi\u00f3 tan profundamente durante toda la noche. El 4 de agosto de 2018, yo, junto con los Directores Regionales Tim y Beth Salley, tuvimos el privilegio de asistir al 10 \u00b0 Aniversario del Cen\u00e1culo de Aprendizaje de Refugiados de Myanmar y una cena de recaudaci\u00f3n de fondos. Fue un programa maravilloso con varias actuaciones de diferentes edades de ni\u00f1os. Un momento destacado fueron los videos de estudiantes que han sido reasentados en los Estados Unidos y Australia; asistiendo a universidades y sirviendo en iglesias locales. Sus testimonios atribuyen su \u00e9xito en los pa\u00edses de acogida a la preparaci\u00f3n que recibieron acad\u00e9mica y espiritualmente en MRLC; especialmente por la parte del Pastor May en sus vidas. Un par de d\u00edas despu\u00e9s, durante el almuerzo, nos re\u00edmos de la incertidumbre de comenzar pero, con un coraz\u00f3n lleno de elogios, el pastor May dijo que \"S\u00ed\" result\u00f3 ser la respuesta correcta. People to People contin\u00faa teniendo el privilegio de ayudar a MRLC a trav\u00e9s del programa de patrocinio. Puede ir a nuestra p\u00e1gina web en give.iphc.org\/children, seleccionar Malasia, Asia Pac\u00edfico y elegir un ni\u00f1o para apoyar. Tambi\u00e9n puede llamar a nuestra oficina al 405.792.7129, y lo ayudar\u00e1n. Sea parte de su incre\u00edble viaje desde un refugiado hasta que sean reasentados. No est\u00e1n seguros de su futuro pa\u00eds de acogida, pero conf\u00edan en el Dios soberano que han llegado a conocer. Contin\u00fae rezando por Life Harvest Assembly ya que impactan su futuro a trav\u00e9s de MRLC.\r\n<h2>Testimonio de la provisi\u00f3n de Dios para el pr\u00f3ximo movimiento<\/h2>\r\nCuando me mud\u00e9 a mi casa actual hace dos a\u00f1os, sabiendo que era por un contrato de arrendamiento a corto plazo, le coment\u00e9 a Dios: \"Seguro que ser\u00eda bueno cruzar la calle\". Ha sido una incre\u00edble serie de eventos para ver a Dios. traer al due\u00f1o de una casa descuidada para verificarlo despu\u00e9s de siete a\u00f1os. Estoy agradecido de informar que estar\u00e1 listo para mudarme a fines de a\u00f1o. Gracias por su apoyo, gracias por sus oraciones y gracias por estar siempre conmigo en las oportunidades que presenta mientras viajo en Asia para People to People. Las generaciones est\u00e1n aumentando para impactar a las naciones. <em><strong>Debra Crook<\/strong><\/em>","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/05\/Newsletters.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Ar-A5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/missions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}