Mark 10:30

Mark 10:29-30 (New International Version)

²⁹ “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel ³⁰ will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.

Oh my gosh.

SOOoooo Good!

This verse just hit me yesterday.. that no matter where we go, where there are believers, we have FAMILY! Every church, every house of prayer, every missionary.... Family.

I love you :)

My Flight

PS - Me and my flying buddy took a unique route from the rest of the team and had a 19 hour lay-over in New York City. I had never been there and was quite excited.

We got to venture downtown and meet an old IHOP friend (Paul Eastman) who is helping run a Justice House of Prayer in downtown financial district.

So very cool!

We attended a 3 hour prayer meeting of theirs, ate some local food.

The prayer meeting was awesome, some good harp-n-bowl.

I felt a great and tangible hope for NYC, and I fell in love with the people and culture even in that short time, just as I am so far in Japan.

Then we stayed with Paul and he drove us to the airport in the morning.

Had a nice 14 hour flight :)

PSS - Were not exactly staying in Tokyo, its a suburb nearby, but we will be traveling there.

Talk later, limited computer access for myself.

I LOVE YOU JESUS!!! THANKS FOR SENDING ME!

In Japan!

Hello everyone :)

MAde it into Japan yesterday, and just got done doing some shopping for our stay here.

Had some amazing time with the Lord today, about to do some team worship time and prayer, and going to a prayer meeting locally tonight.

Met a really nice local woman today in the store. I was smiling so big the whole time/...

I love this place! !

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So were staying with our friend Jennifer Gracey, whose place was quite the mess when we arrived (not her fault, she inherited quite a messyness from people who were staying before) and we have spent much for the morning serving her by cleaning up the place. It looks great!!

My time with the Lord has been great.

Pray for Unity, Boldness, Endurance, Quick-Adapting/Maturing, Joy and Breaking of Hearts for the Locals.

Lovingly Jeffrey Simonson!

Tickets Acquired!

I have a 37 hour trip from Kansas City to Tokyo!

including a epic 19.5 hour layover in JFK!

HERE WE GO!!!

Plus Fifteen hundred!

God has come through! Booking my tickets tonight!

Blessinsg on that, have a long day ahead, but wanted to spread the good news, Gotta go nap now and get ready!!! :)

New Team Member!

A new member was added to the team today! :)

Paul Kim !!!

Oh I see the rain!

So last night my friend from Kansas City came and picked me up for a night to hang out (he is older than me by a few decades). We went out to dinner which was amazing and then took me to a mens group he is apart of. It was awesome! Got to be real with some fellow men, share about IHOP and my Japan trip and speak some of the Father's heart to fellow struggling brothers.



Iron sharpens iron.

May God bless those men!



Onto today!

The enemy is trying to attack, ha. I got the debt collectors from two different angles trying to yell down my throat for some things that were supposed to be taken care of.

Praying protection and grace and making a few phone calls, but not worried. :)



Onto MORE good news!:

Got to hear awesome testimonies from back in California.

I was talking to my friend who is just finishing up a Youth With a Mission (YWAM) EMT-Crisis Response school in San Fran, when I got to ask about her sister, Allison, who attends Biola University. She then mentioned how some "house of prayer people" had recently came and rocked her school and planted amazing seeds among good soil, even changing her life. Its then that i realized that my room mateshad gone on that ministry trip... and were apart of the group sent to Biola.

A few questions later and my Team Japan leader, Toni-Lynn, remembers completly meeting and praying and hanging with Allison for a few days!



Jesus is so rad! That my current room mates would be able to go and change my friend's life in California! Wow!



Also the other night, God showed me another aspect of His majesty; He showed me that a flame of fire never stops moving. It is constant energy, constantly consuming, constantly wanting to expand. The ultimate expression of passion. Thats my GOD! The All-Consuming Fire!



Prayer requests:

• That I would be SLOOWWWWW to offense.


• That i would increasingly hear the Fathers voice, in all ways