Day One

Ok so I know it’s been like a hundred years since I wrote on here. (Not really but you get my point) I really do miss it. Honestly I just got really busy with the Holiday season and then it felt like it had been too long to just jump back in like nothing happened. So TADA here I am jumping back in.

A ton has happened bad days and blessings, Fun days and sad ones. But it would take me a month of Sundays to explain it all so I won’t. I will tell you that I want to do the 100 days of photos challenge and I think it will help me continue to write plus I love, love, love photos. So here we go.

Day 1: A photo of yourself with 15 facts.

1) This is a photo of me during the summer of 2006 in Japan.

2) I love Japan and have been there several times; sometimes for missions, sometimes for visits. I have family there that is very close to my heart.

3) Unless you live under a rock, and probably even then, you’ve heard about the widespread devastation Japan is facing after the earthquakes and tsunami.

4) My heart is utterly broken for these people.

5) Over 10,000 people have been confirmed to have lost their lives. 17,000 people are still unaccounted for and assumed dead.

6) Over 202,000 people are living in makeshift shelters and the elderly are dying from poor conditions.

7) It is still winter in the impacted area of Japan and there are food shortages and no gas to replenish supplies, with no supplies butane heaters are beginning to be unusable and people are dying from the cold weather.

8) The Nuclear reactor situation continues to worsen.

9) People living within a 30 Kilometer (roughly 18.6 miles) radius are being asked to “voluntarily” evacuate. This is increasingly difficult due to lack of transportation.

10) People working on the reactors are being exposed to very dangerous levels of radiation and it is feared that the reactors are leaking radioactive water that could affect surrounding farm lands and potential food supplies.

11) Radiation levels in Tokyo’s water have been deemed undrinkable and dangerous for infants; there is no more bottled water. Tokyo’s population is 12.9 MILLION.

12) I am raising funds to send to a Christian organization in Japan called Crash Japan. Go to http://www.crashjapan.com/ to contribute.

13) Less than 1% of the population of Japan is Christian.

14) How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” Romans 10:14-15

15) I want to get a team together from Lubbock (or anywhere really) to volunteer in Japan with CrashJapan. Comment on the bottom of the page if you want to GO!