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Japan Photos and an Update

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Hi, I took over 500 photos in Japan. I have chosen a very small amount of them to show you today. These photos are some of my favourites and I think to illustrate our time in Japan well. Each one has a very small caption explaining the photo a little. I hope you enjoy them! As for an update, I have officially published an update to my GodFundMe page. You can click the link below to read it. That's all from me for now! Until next time, God bless! Darcy-Rea http://www.gofundme.com/bible-schoolhis-hill Waiting to board our flight to Japan. We flew out of Siam Reap, Cambodia. We had a seven-hour layover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We walked around for a while, got some lunch then found a spot to camp out for a few hours.  When we got to Japan we had a three-hour bus ride. It was beautiful but I couldn't help but sleep for most of it.  On our first day in Japan, we got to do some exploring. This was at a beautiful place called Oshino Hakai.  We also

Japan; A Missionary Graveyard

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Hi, My older sister, Jordy, and I just spent the past month in Japan. I had written a whole blog post about some of the things we had done in Japan. But after I had written it I had some good conversations, read some other blog posts and decided to write about something a little deeper and way more important. Instead of writing about the adventures and places we went I decided to write about the church in Japan. The churches in Japan are suffering!!! You heard me right. The churches in Japan are really suffering at the moment. Their numbers are dwindling and missionaries are becoming few and far between. This problem is far more tragic than any of the tragic natural disasters that have hit the country in the past. This problem has eternal repercussions.  The country has often been called "The Missionary Graveyard"! So, what's going wrong? Why is this happening? Our view of Mount Fuji by from our picnic spot. First of all, let me start this out by saying that Ja