home sweet home?!
We are about to leave for our home assignment this week. After every two years on the field we need to go back to the Netherlands to report, mobilize, and raise funds. Our kids are excited. Thom and Berend have many good memories and vididly imagine everything they want to do–if it was up to them we would visit every amusement park in our little kingdom. Julie has no home land memories, but the idea of going to the place where grandma and grandpa are is appealing to her. Fleur & Lucile will have their debut. They have got Dutch passports for several months now, but have not yet set foot on Dutch soil. They are doign very well by the way!
We will terribly miss all of our dear Japanese friends. But we do look forward to having many opportunities to share about what God is doing in Tokyo. The first two years of the new church planting project in city center Tokyo felt like only several months, but much has happened. One of the most exciting happenings was the recent baptism of Sayaka. We pray all the sowing of the past years may bear much more fruit. If everything works out we do hope to visit the US, too, but not until sometime after New Year, to tell you all in person about the work in this city.