Dear
President Sumiyuki Watanabe
Vice-president Isamu Aota
Executive Director Yasuhiro Tateno
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our deepest condolences for the sufferings and losses that Japanese people have experienced for the extraordinary strong earthquake and tsunamis starting on Friday, March 11. We pray for Japanese people and for JELC with its congregations, especially near the earthquake area. We pray that God’s mercy and eternal hope in Jesus Christ could become widely known as strength and help to Japanese people.
Psalm 46
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Come and see what the LORD has done, the desolations he has brought on the earth. He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth. He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire. He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.”
In Christ
Lasse Nikkarikoski Pekka Huhtinen
Executive Director of LEAF Mission Director of LEAF
