Hello!
So I want to take the time to say that I did a few updates to my website so you can go check it out!
Also, I finished my mission story report booklet and it is now in its final stages of editing and proofreading and all of that good stuff. So hopefully an electronic version will be available on my website by this weekend and a binded printed version will be out by the end of next month! Also! I will be writing a 1,100 worded story which will be a small excerpt from my mission story booklet and will not only be published in Insight Magazine, but it will be a cover story for July's Ultimate Workout mission trip edition! So I'm excited for that to come!
But down to a deeper more serious side of things...
Right now, I am uploading a story to my website I would like you to read. It is about a young man who decided to follow God even in a place where he was considered a terrorist for doing so. In some places in the world it’s illegal and often dangerous to share one’s faith with others. So I encourage you to go and read the very short story entitled "Pray for Me".
You can visit my website at www.sourmilkproductions.com and the story will be under 'Studies & Writings'.
Until next time, God bless you!
-Aaron Nakamura
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Haiti: The Impact on Seventh-Day Adventists in Haiti
Hey Guys,
In this post I'm relaying what information I received from Maranatha about how the recent Haiti disaster affected the Seventh-Day Adventist community in Haiti.
- Maranatha Matters - January 22nd, 2010 -
**Maranatha Responds to Urgent Needs in Haiti
The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12 has brought untold suffering and devastation to one of the world’s poorest countries. While immediate rescue efforts continue to some extent, the focus of relief efforts has turned to supporting those displaced by the earthquake.
According to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, the church has been hit hard in Haiti. Current estimates indicate that 115 churches have been totally destroyed and 60 more have extensive damage. Five schools were also completely destroyed.
The impact on Adventist church members has been massive. Nearly 600 members lost their lives and countless others sustained major or minor injuries. Some 15,000 Adventist families lost their homes and 27,000 Adventists have gathered in makeshift refugee centers at church properties. Before the earthquake, Haiti had more than 335,000 Adventists worshipping in 470 churches. There were 100,000 Adventists living in Port-au-Prince.
Maranatha Volunteers International has received an official request from the Seventh-day Adventist world church to deliver immediate infrastructure support to Haiti.
Maranatha and ASI [Adventist Laymen's Services & Industries] will immediately ship 185 One-Day Church structures to Haiti to be used at the refugee centers for temporary housing. At the appropriate time the buildings will be moved and used for permanent churches.
The church members in Haiti need your support. The infrastructure that took years to build was destroyed in seconds. If you would like to help provide temporary housing and future churches for Adventist Church members in Haiti, please click here.
Volunteers will likely soon be needed to help in Haiti. If you would like to be placed on an interest list for helping in Haiti, please click here.
In this post I'm relaying what information I received from Maranatha about how the recent Haiti disaster affected the Seventh-Day Adventist community in Haiti.
- Maranatha Matters - January 22nd, 2010 -
**Maranatha Responds to Urgent Needs in Haiti
The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12 has brought untold suffering and devastation to one of the world’s poorest countries. While immediate rescue efforts continue to some extent, the focus of relief efforts has turned to supporting those displaced by the earthquake.
According to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Inter-America, the church has been hit hard in Haiti. Current estimates indicate that 115 churches have been totally destroyed and 60 more have extensive damage. Five schools were also completely destroyed.
The impact on Adventist church members has been massive. Nearly 600 members lost their lives and countless others sustained major or minor injuries. Some 15,000 Adventist families lost their homes and 27,000 Adventists have gathered in makeshift refugee centers at church properties. Before the earthquake, Haiti had more than 335,000 Adventists worshipping in 470 churches. There were 100,000 Adventists living in Port-au-Prince.
Maranatha Volunteers International has received an official request from the Seventh-day Adventist world church to deliver immediate infrastructure support to Haiti.
Maranatha and ASI [Adventist Laymen's Services & Industries] will immediately ship 185 One-Day Church structures to Haiti to be used at the refugee centers for temporary housing. At the appropriate time the buildings will be moved and used for permanent churches.
The church members in Haiti need your support. The infrastructure that took years to build was destroyed in seconds. If you would like to help provide temporary housing and future churches for Adventist Church members in Haiti, please click here.
Volunteers will likely soon be needed to help in Haiti. If you would like to be placed on an interest list for helping in Haiti, please click here.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
So today I am up bright and early. Woke up at 6:30am or so. I don't have any classes today but I woke up and once I'm awake, I'm awake.
So I flip open my macbook and head to Yahoo!'s home page. BAM! Right on the front page is "Strong new earthquake hits Haiti." It struck just this morning! Wow...
Now pretty much everyone knows about what has happened in Haiti. There was a 7.1 earthquake (correct me if I'm wrong) just last week and it just flat out devastated the country. According to the article, over 200,000 people have died and another 250,000 are injured from the 7-magnitude earthquake and here they are struck yet again. I think many, if not ALL of us have asked at least once "Why is this happening to them?" If you read about Haiti's history in the past seven or eight years, they have just been devastated year after year with multiple natural disasters over and over with these ones, being the first big earthquakes they have had throughout that stretch.
Almost every world relief organization has aided to the desperate country. You've probably heard of the texting of "Haiti" to 90999 for the Red Cross. If you're a christian Seventh-Day Adventist, you've heard of ADRA (Adventist Development & Relief Agency. Now, Maranatha Volunteers Int'l is stepping up to help.
Although Maranatha is not involved in immediate disaster relief, they encourage the support of those organizations specializing in disaster response. Maranatha stands ready to provide construction support in Haiti when it is appropriate to begin reconstruction. They are communicating with the Seventh-day Adventist world church in regards to the needs facing the church in Haiti. A special fund has been established to raise money for the reconstruction of churches and schools in Haiti.
In 1974 and 1980 Maranatha was involved in several phases of construction at the Adventist Hospital in Port-au-Prince. In 1985 Maranatha helped build a school in the northern city of Cap Haitien.
If volunteers are needed to help with reconstruction efforts, They will notify interested people through their website and by e-mail. If you are interested in possibly volunteering, sign up at this website.
Keeping Haiti in my thoughts and prayers and I pray you do the same,
-Aaron Nakamura
So I flip open my macbook and head to Yahoo!'s home page. BAM! Right on the front page is "Strong new earthquake hits Haiti." It struck just this morning! Wow...
Now pretty much everyone knows about what has happened in Haiti. There was a 7.1 earthquake (correct me if I'm wrong) just last week and it just flat out devastated the country. According to the article, over 200,000 people have died and another 250,000 are injured from the 7-magnitude earthquake and here they are struck yet again. I think many, if not ALL of us have asked at least once "Why is this happening to them?" If you read about Haiti's history in the past seven or eight years, they have just been devastated year after year with multiple natural disasters over and over with these ones, being the first big earthquakes they have had throughout that stretch.
Almost every world relief organization has aided to the desperate country. You've probably heard of the texting of "Haiti" to 90999 for the Red Cross. If you're a christian Seventh-Day Adventist, you've heard of ADRA (Adventist Development & Relief Agency. Now, Maranatha Volunteers Int'l is stepping up to help.
Although Maranatha is not involved in immediate disaster relief, they encourage the support of those organizations specializing in disaster response. Maranatha stands ready to provide construction support in Haiti when it is appropriate to begin reconstruction. They are communicating with the Seventh-day Adventist world church in regards to the needs facing the church in Haiti. A special fund has been established to raise money for the reconstruction of churches and schools in Haiti.
In 1974 and 1980 Maranatha was involved in several phases of construction at the Adventist Hospital in Port-au-Prince. In 1985 Maranatha helped build a school in the northern city of Cap Haitien.
If volunteers are needed to help with reconstruction efforts, They will notify interested people through their website and by e-mail. If you are interested in possibly volunteering, sign up at this website.
Keeping Haiti in my thoughts and prayers and I pray you do the same,
-Aaron Nakamura
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Teaching in 2
Greetings!
"www.sourmilkproductions.com" has always been the website of a small group of my friends and I. It was a website we used to post pictures of all of our latest events, announced future ones, posted videos, and anything and everything that had to do with that of what we were called: Sour Milk Productions. It was our official high school youth website for our church and a link led from our church's website to the sourmilkproductions.com website.
This week, after looking back and reflecting back on last summer's mission trip, this past new year's, and looking forward to the future, I decided to take the website private for myself (afterall, I do pay for the website). It is now launched and it will feature simply things such as 'About Me' to upcoming musical performances, mission trips, ministries I'm involved in, articles... I can go on... but you can find all updates about me and my life both socially and spiritually on that website! So check it out and check back at it often!
www.sourmilkproductions.com
"www.sourmilkproductions.com" has always been the website of a small group of my friends and I. It was a website we used to post pictures of all of our latest events, announced future ones, posted videos, and anything and everything that had to do with that of what we were called: Sour Milk Productions. It was our official high school youth website for our church and a link led from our church's website to the sourmilkproductions.com website.
This week, after looking back and reflecting back on last summer's mission trip, this past new year's, and looking forward to the future, I decided to take the website private for myself (afterall, I do pay for the website). It is now launched and it will feature simply things such as 'About Me' to upcoming musical performances, mission trips, ministries I'm involved in, articles... I can go on... but you can find all updates about me and my life both socially and spiritually on that website! So check it out and check back at it often!
www.sourmilkproductions.com
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