This afternoon Pastor Kogure and I made a visit up to the town of Kurabuchi in the hills of western Gunma Prefecture. Technically, Kurabuchi has become a part of the city of Takasaki but it certainly doesn’t feel like that …
It has been several months since I wrote an entry in this “Gunma Harvest” journal. And it has been several years since we began to pray and visit some of the villages in the southwest part of Gunma.
During these …
(Photo: Akari Kogure, a high school student, is the reader for our “Audio Bible Japan” podcast which goes through the New Testament in a year. Her father, Pastor Kogure, is my colleague in ministry in Gunma, and is the …
As part of our Gunma Harvest efforts we began going door to door and passing out some literature in the village of Nanmoku in 2008. I’m not sure how many trips we have made into the village since then. The …
Well, today we had our second gathering for music at the community center in Shintomura. Here’s what’s happened since we wrote the last entry: we made up a nice flyer and had hoped to hand it out door to door …
On the map above the green areas represent where our Gunma Harvest work is taking place. You can see that we have been passing out tracts and trying to make contacts with folks in three villages that are in the …
(photo: L to R, Mr. Masuda, Pastor Watanabe, & Mr. Igarashi who were along today to visit homes.)
The town of Kanna in southwest Gunma was formerly made up of Manba Town and Nakazato Village. They joined together in 2003 …
Here you can see how Japan lies to the east of Korea and China. Gunma Prefecture is in the center of the main island of Honshu (the yellow area). 
Coming in a bit closer you can see Gunma as it …
The vast majority of Gunma Prefecture’s 2 million residents live in 12 cities on the flat area which makes up the northwest part of what we call the Kanto plains, a large plain stretching out in all directions from Tokyo …