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Great Sunday in Mito

The momentum that was building there for Wheelchairs of Hope (see 6/23/08 update) resulted in a stunning Sunday at Mito Bible Baptist Church. After a stirring message from Pastor Kawasaki in the morning service, we had lunch, and then rolled out the covering for the floor to get ready for the wheelchair...

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-02-2008
Reaching into the Japanese community

Praise God for a great board meeting. They just keep getting better. Momentum is building with the successes in Mito with Pastor Kawasaki as he prepares for a “wheelchair cleaning day” at his church this coming Sunday. Two bike shop workers, a father of a disabled child who also runs a wheelchair rental...

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-22-2008
Ibaragi NHK publicity

Pastor Kawasaki (Vice Chair for Wheelchairs of Hope) was interviewed for 10 minutes on Ibaragi NHK (for you in the U.S. , its the equivalent of NPR in your state). As a result, he has had so many wheelchairs donated that he’s having to turn down offers. Pray for more storage area. We are thankful for...

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-14-2008
Chiang Mai

Praise God! Thai airlines faxed permission yesterday for another wheelchair to go gratis with a passenger to Chiang Mai. Pray that we’ll be able to line up someone at the airport to meet him and take the chair.

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-08-2008
Annual Meeting

Pray for Mary Esther. Tomorrow is the Wheelchairs of Hope annual meeting, their first as an official NPO entity. Preparation has been crazy, but God has the neatest people helping to pull it all together. Pray that tomorrow will be, over and above the business, an opportunity to revel in all that God...

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-23-2008
What a wheelchair means

Thanks for praying for the cleaning day. Many people came and worked, shared lunch and prayed together. We now have 20 chairs cleaned, wrapped and ready to go to the Philippines April 28th. What seemed impossible at the beginning of the day is now a reality. One of the more tedious jobs during wheelchair...

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-13-2008
Tomorrow

Tomorrow is another wheelchair cleaning day. We hope to finish preparing the last of the 20 chairs a Filipino Short Term Missions Team will be taking back to Manila with them when they return on the 28 th of this month. It is exciting to know the chairs will be distributed by church members in the Philippines...

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-10-2008
PAL

The wheelchair project is continuing to grow. We will be sending 20 wheelchairs to the Philippines next month. Philippine AirLines (PAL) will be flying the wheelchairs from Tokyo to Manila gratis. We have much to be thankful for. I was able to meet the director of the PAL Foundation, and went to church...

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-23-2008
A Day in the Life of

2/29/08 Mark’s been gone for a week now. I’ve spent extra time enjoying special friends from Deaf church and also the missionary community. I’ve not cooked one single real meal. Yesterday was an amazing day. With a Wheelchairs of Hope board meeting in the afternoon, I left early to run errands in the...

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-01-2008
NPO!!

It’s official! At yesterday’s visit to the Bureau of Legal Affairs Office I heard the words “It is finished.” With that, Wheelchairs of Hope learned that the application/registration process was completed. We now have official NPO status here in Japan. Please continue to pray for Japanese leadership...

Posted to Mark & Mary Esther Penner (Weblog) by Anonymous on 02-21-2008

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