May, Increasing Capacity and Balancing the Gifts
Sarah McKisic • June 7, 2021
“Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.”
Romans 15:7
May, a month of increased capacity, rebalancing, and waiting on the Lord. We are at a point of holy frustration. Aware of the more, God dreams within sight, and yet a knowing that we mustn’t rush ahead. Waiting upon God for every detail, provision, and idea while shedding our own. He is the one we are here for, for His glory and His will. So we slowly build and care for the things He has given us; our families, our Iris team, 21ccc church, and the ones we are discipling, worshipping with, and inviting in for meals. Those are the key focuses for us in this season with time spent in the presence the highest of all. Many more meals were had, times of going deeper in the word with hungry new believers, team worship nights and sleepovers, and growing in connecting in family and marriage.
In the coming months we will be transitioning to move to a residential part of Tokyo, called Nerima, near our Iris Cross Culture team. It is a little over an hour by train from where we are currently living. We also have hopes to start a summer outreach, rent a space for weekly meetings to worship with unbelievers and hungry ones, and build more closely as a team. We’d love to have space for a Japanese person or family to live with us for discipleship/ministry and language learning, space to hosts many more meals with the unbelievers we are getting to know, and space for a cafe space to open up to those in our neighborhood. We have seen others in Japan see many saved from a garage cafe and we have a dream to open up our space even more to invite others in for community, love, and conversation. God has great plans as we move to this new area. Giving away our things and moving here to Japan was the first offering and dream, now we are stepping into the next layer and are very expectant to dream bigger with Him.
As always please reach out if we can pray for you in anyway. We love you and we are thankful for you! See below for some of our current prayer needs, a place to support if you feel led to partner us in this next step, a May video recap, and a screenshot of an email update sent from Iris! Bless you,
- The McKisic’s
Some Key Areas to Pray for:
Housing and the right person to move in with us and join our team!
Financial provision for the move, new monthly costs, and cafe/hosting space
Grace for us and the kids in transition (paperwork and setting up to go smoothly)
For us to all quickly get the Japanese language
To know what and who God is calling us to invest time and money into
Unified and strengthening in our team as we build and pioneer
SALVATIONS!! we want to see many encounter Jesus and hungry believers to give God their all.
Wisdom for discipleship and knowledge of the word of God
