Field Reportby Kathy Ross The old year ended with a bang. At Christmas outreaches in Missouri and California, more than a hundred people said yes to God’s gift of eternal life in Christ. The New Year started with another bang. Two big projects came to completion—Hugh’s book on Genesis 1-11 and The Journey Toward Creation video. Also, a return trip to Japan proved fruitful beyond anyone’s wildest expectations. Reasons To Believe, Japan, is rapidly taking shape under the expert guidance of veteran missionary Timothy Boyle. As Hugh traveled back and forth between Tokyo and Osaka, Nagoya, and Kobe he saw encouraging signs of spiritual breakthrough. The international congregations he addressed in Tokyo and Kobe are thriving. Creative outreach endeavors such as a downtown Tokyo student center and the Kick Back Café (a Christian coffee house and discussion place), where he spoke and answered questions, are drawing capacity crowds. Key leaders of business, industry, academia, arts and entertainment have come to Christ and are drawing others too. Hugh met believers and truth seekers in such places as the National Astronomical Observatory, the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the American School, the largest English language school in Japan. At Harvest Ministries television studio below Mt. Fuji, he was interviewed by two enthusiastic hosts for a popular half-hour program beamed by satellite to three continents, including North America. The Japanese translation of The Creator and the Cosmos came off the presses literally hours before Hugh’s arrival. Wherever Timothy (the book’s translator) and Hugh went, they sold all the copies they could carry with them. People were thrilled to discover RTB’s website and begged for a Japanese language section, which we will launch as quickly as we can with volunteers raised up during this trip.
I had the opportunity to travel with Hugh to the National Prayer Breakfast (see “Pray-ers” column for more details). On the way to Washington, D. C., we stopped (between floods) at the Christian Broadcasting Network studios in Virginia Beach, where Hugh was interviewed for a “700 Club” program. Most of the CBN staff, including Hugh’s interviewer, Terry, learned about Reasons To Believe only recently from your letters recommending Hugh as a guest. Thanks for spreading the word.
FROM CANADA We await word from our ministry associates David and Liz Block, and their son, Aaron, about the birth of their twins. Meanwhile, please join us in praying for Liz. She needs rest and healing from a variety of health problems. The Blocks’ new e-mail address appears below.
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Meanwhile, on other fronts, RTB volunteers have carried the torch. Alan Graas
continues as a guest lecturer at Elderhostel Ecco in Oakhurst, Calif. Marj
Harman led a five-session course Sunday mornings at Evangelical Free Church,
Diamond Bar, Calif. In Hartford, Connecticut, Chas DeSiena presented a series
of outreach seminars on science and the Bible at Wintonbury Church. John
Morgan led a noon-hour Bible study and a 4-week course at a Lutheran Church
in Virginia. 
