2 Days Till We Head to the States!!!

Well can't believe it is almost time to go to America!!! It will be so great to be back home for a month! There is nothing as good as being with family and shopping at Walmart!! We have been busy this past few days with orienting our new missionaries and helping them to get set up in their new place. We've also been working to prepare for our speaking opportunities while we are in the States. We will be sharing with churches in Ohio as well as at home in Texas. Our good friends, the Morrison's, have invited us to share with their church on our second Sunday back and then on Nov. 11th we will be sharing with my home church, Central Baptist, in Hillsboro, Texas. They are praying about bringing a team over next year so we are excited to be able to go and encourage them in that!

The kids are really excited. Avery has been counting the days for the last "who knows how long"! She told me tonight it is only 3 more night nights until we leave!!


Well sorry for my rambling! I am new at this blogging thing so I kind of tend to go on and on. Okay...stopping now! More later!

The Saga Begins...

October 12, 2007
I have heard so much about these blogs that I finally decided to start our own! Just to let you know a little bit about who we are...My name is Melanie and my husband's name is Buddy. I have been married to this great guy since March 10, 1990! God has given us 3 wonderful children...Ashley who is 12 years old, Adam who's 11, and Avery, our little girl, who is now 6 years old!

We are missionaries with the Southern Baptist International Mission Board and we serve in Tokyo, Japan. We have been here since April, 1995. It is so much fun to serve the Lord here. It is amazing that we are actually paid to live here and to tell folks about Jesus. Japan is a wonderful country. However, with less than 1 percent of the people claiming to have a relationship with Jesus, we certainly have a big job in front of us. God is at work here, though, and we are seeing Him opening new doors for sharing the gospel and more and more people are coming to know Him.

Our assignment is to help facilitate volunteers from the States and other places who want to come to Japan for a short term mission trip. This has been a neat opportunity to see God use all kinds of different people to be a witness and to prayerwalk here in Tokyo. God used these volunteers to lead 14 people to Christ just this last summer (2007). It is awesome!


Well I guess this is enough for one blog...I'll save more for later! :)

Melanie