Update from the Mays

Thank-you for praying for us during our two-week Singapore trip. We fell in love with Singapore. With everything written in English, and only three subway lines to contend with, it was easy for us Tokyoites to get around. East meets West in Singapore, enabling us to eat food from all over the world.

Amanda's home church, The Peoples Bible Church, warmly received us, transporting us to and from the wedding, to church services and the airport. The three-day retreat with the church people gave us an opportunity to appreciate our Singaporean brothers and sisters in a deeper way. Getting to know Amanda's family better and meeting about 80 of her relatives at the wedding was a highlight. We feel honored to be related to the Ng family. Henry and Irene (Amanda's parents) are highly respected as senior pastor and we came to admire them even more as we got to see them in action.

Aaron and Amanda are finally on their official honeymoon, staying at a mountain cabin in Sisters, Oregon. They will be working at Multnomah Bible College this summer and will be able to move into their own apartment in mid-July on-campus. I'm sure they would appreciate your prayers as Aaron finishes up his last year of school and as Amanda looks for full-time employment.

Alecia continues to teach at Belgrave English School until her return to college on August 27th. She is learning flexibility and patience as her students range from age 2 to 14.

Gerald is quite busy this summer with the added responsibility of "holding down the fort" at Family Forum Japan while Tim Cole, the director, takes a short home assignment. Gerald is also teaching a “continuing education” theology class again for 8 weeks this summer and fall. The course is designed to better equip Christians to “rightly divide the word of truth”exposing them to the breadth of the Bible’s major teachings. Please pray for his 8 students as they work through this potentially life-changing study.

I'm leading a 4-week Bible study on the book of Acts for a group of seven ladies. I'd appreciate prayer for one of the unsaved ladies in this class, Sachiko, who is active in church but hasn't yet received Christ as her Savior.

We had a great gospel concert on June 21st, joining in with 300 other voices to praise God through the energetic thrust of black gospel. Our own little black gospel choir of 12 members has been asked to sing at a local City Festival on July 13. It will be the first time for our small choir to perform on our own aside from the big concert. Several of the members are unsaved, but are open to the Gospel.

Thank you for remembering us in prayer. We are powerless without prayer.