Tom Duddy says that branch members are safe after a tsunami began hitting the Hawaiian islands around 3:00 a.m. local time on Friday morning. An 8.9 magnitude earthquake near the Japanese coast triggered the waves, with hundreds of deaths reported in northern Japan.

 

It was overcast when we got dropped off in Rockport, Indiana. Peter Coleman and Joe Bulger and I decided to share words we’d received. We had just finished a prayer time, which is what we do before we go out to do some mission work. We don’t really have a script, because we rely on the Lord to give us what to say.

 

Last March, Claire Mysliwiec, Joe Bulger and I were out walking in a middle-class neighborhood in Evansville. We were almost past this one house when Claire said she was moved to knock there.

 

Gerry and I have lived in Allendale for three years. One of the first neighbors we met was Miss Eula. She is 82 years old, lives alone and doesn’t get a lot of visitors.

 

When the apostles Paul and Barnabas returned to Antioch after their first missionary trip, the Bible says they gathered the community together and told them all that God had done through them. Can you imagine what that meeting must have been like?

 

The Buffalo branch hosted a gathering in which Catholics, Mennonites and nondenominational charismatics joined together for prayer and a Lord’s Day meal on February 5th.