These days are very full and so the weeks go by so quickly. Just a quick update about Toshi, he is doing much better we hear. He was finally released from the hospital and is now able to eat blended rice. For a moment there, he was quite discouraged and they were afraid they were going to have to move him to a hospital in a bigger city,because they didn't know how to help him, but just at that time, the doctor discovered that he was doing better, although the progress was a bit slow. He is recovering now in his parent's home since there are more people there to take care of him. So thank you to those who have prayed for him and asked about him, we are happy to say that he is improving.

Like always, there is so much to say, and I don't really know where to start. The DTS is going well and they have a few more weeks here before they will leave for outreach. We have been busy searching for housing like crazy these days as we are outgrowing our current housing. It's exciting to grow and yet with it always comes a bit of stretching. We have decided on a name for the new prayer ministry starting here, All Nations House of Prayer. Jesus said" My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." It's real fitting because all of us are from different nations, we are praying for Northeasterners to go the nations, and we continue to pray that the nation we live in as well as those that surround us would come to know His lovingkindness and mercy. We are still searching for the right place to have it because we want it to be easily accessible to many people in our city, and close to us as well. We need so much wisdom these days about so many details.

With this prayer team, we pray together and also go on outreaches in the surrounding area. One thing that I am loving to do these days are the outreaches that we go on throughout the week. Sometimes we go to the bazaars and pray for people, last week we went to a slum near the monastery. There are twenty families there and they are from many different places, and most of them are either Muslim or Hindu. One thing that we want to do there is just to share about basic health care. They were sharing with us that their children are always sick, but then they drink the water from the dirty river behind their houses and a lot of the children looked quite dirty. So next time we go, we want to ask them if we can teach them a few sessions of health care. These kind of things are exciting and we have found that God is increasing love in our hearts for the people here as we continue to pray for our city.