Jarretts Ministry

Dear Friends and Family:

I wanted to give you an update on Laura's trip to Japan. Praise God that all of her requested funds have been received, and we have ordered her ticket for August 15, 2006. The support funds raised were to meet her estimated initial travel and living expenses. It is believed that she will earn enough money from teaching the conversational English lessons to cover additional living expenses, according to those who held the position this past year.

This morning, she took two packed bags of winter clothes to the airport to accompany the youth group ministry team from Castleview that is headed to Sapporo, Japan. They are going for nearly three weeks to the same church where Laura will be ministering for the next year. Please pray for safety and successful ministry as the team ministers in the name of Jesus. I'm going to pray that God will double the size of the churches where the teams focus on evangelism. Pray as God leads you.

Updates and specific prayer requests from the team can be obtained from the Castleview Baptist Church website.

The following is a prayer request dated April 29, 2006, from a Japanese pastor in a different area of Japan which highlights some or the spiritual warfare going on there:

From Shigeru Takiura, Pastor of RPCNA Japan Presbytery in Kobe city.

I again want to ask your favor of praying for the Christian freedom in Japan.

Please pray that our Christian primary school kids would not be

Dear Family and Friends,

This August, I will be leaving to go to Japan. I went to Japan two years ago with my youth group on a trip for two weeks. I completely fell in love with Japan, and God has placed a burden in my heart to go back ever since then. I will be living there for a year in a city called Sapporo. While there, I will teach conversational English. Along with teaching English, my other responsibilities will be to work with the youth ministry, serve in the outreach ministry- planning, performing, tracts distribution, etc., and also to study Japanese.

I will be living at a church with the pastor and his family. Pastor Kamidate and his wife have 4 daughters, and live at the church in an upper apartment. This church is the same that the youth group from my church has been partnering up with in the summer to do short term mission trips and that I visited before.

Japan is a country that needs God. In Japan only one out of every two hundred people is a Christian. The main religion there is Buddhist. Japan needs to hear the truth about God’s love and the relationship that is available to them through Jesus Christ. God has placed a burden in my heart to share this truth with the Japanese people, and I pray that this year in Japan will give me many

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 7, Number 5

February 13, 2006

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks so much for your prayers this past week. Let me tell you what a remarkable turn around has occurred with the young HIV+ woman with an unwanted pregnancy. She had also been the victim of assault. You may recall that she had refused all intervention on behalf of the child as well as her own health.

I must also give praise for the skills of my Kenyan colleague, Kays Muruka, whom I have been training for the past three years. He spent a great deal of time talking with the young woman. Even though she was refusing care, he was also sensing that she wasn’t eager to leave the hospital; so he told her that he would like her to stay for a few more days which she readily accepted. He and a chaplain, Pastor Helen, spent time with her each day. They began to see a change in her attitude in response to their kindness and interest.

This young woman has had a good education. She speaks English easily and fluently. She admitted that her problems arose from her wayward behavior. Promiscuity and alcohol had led her into a life of prostitution. She had already had one child who stays with her mother. As our staff began to counsel her and treat her so kindly, she began to warm to the idea of giving the child away; but this culture dictates that her father must consent