Back!

Hi all,

Thank you so much for your great support! I am now safely back in the US just settling back into life. Since coming back, I have gone and shared about Japan and CBI at the Desiring God National Conference on missions this year, started a new job, found a new apartment, and a number of other things that have made this a crazy time of transition. While my time in Nagoya has come to a close, I'm excited for all the ways God has grown me and continuing to see the fruits of what He has done even after I leave Japan.

I have just started working at Google as an Associate Product Marketing Manager and will be soon relocating to San Francisco. A major factor in this decision has been a heart and leading towards marketplace ministry over the past year or so and a growing heart for reaching the city. An overwhelming majority of my coworkers in my program at Google also live in the city and I hope that through forging relationships with them, God can use me and others in gospel opportunities to reveal to them the height, width, depth, and breadth of the love of Christ.

As I begin a new job at Google with free meals, free shuttle service, company laptops and smart phones, and even free massages, I ask for prayer that I might be able to be in the world but not of the world. That I might continually have an eternal heavenly perspective in mind despite the many material temptations around me and material blessings God is providing me with this year. While these past 2 months I lived on an annual budget multiple times smaller than the starting pay at Google, I was so blessed by God's providence through you my supporters to have more than enough. I was able to be generous with others and bless them with my excess and I pray that this might show them even some small part of the love of Christ. I personally was blessed by many other missionaries who often bought me meals or cooked for me, even though some of them have an annual budget of less than $30,000 a year. It's hard to imagine how many career missionaries have budgets even lower than that, operating in even poorer parts of the world. Their example is both challenging and encouraging, and I pray that I will continue to think about their example and the good news that motivates their generosity as I move to be generous with others as I return to the states. Their generosity would not be possible without their supporters, and I am so thankful to all of you who have provided for me financially to go on missions and hope that you will join me in continuing to consider giving to global missions.

I hope that I can visit many of you over the upcoming weeks and months and share more about my missions experience. While I have given of my own time and money to go to Japan, I know I have received so much more back from my time with CBI in Nagoya. Through the mentorship and fellowship with other believers to the opportunity to serve CBI accomplishing a plethora of miscellaneous needs to being able to minister to the Japanese, I feel like God has grown me tremendously in a very short amount of time. My time in Japan was short but as I learned about how much God has grown the CBI ministry within 6 years, I have hope that our faithful and awesome God might use the small amount that I was able to contribute in Japan and grow it multiply it to produce fruit 100 times over in the future.

Thank you all for your support!

Blessings,

Kevin