Monday, June 30, 2008

Let's slow down


I have been frantic in trying to move out so fast but we still don't have a renter and well we have time to just take our time. I was pushing and pushing and it was causing a lot of family stress. I have to admit that dad doesn't always know what is right. Pray for us as we are almost there and I just need to be patient.

Friday, June 27, 2008

I'M NOT STRESSED OKAY!


Whew, we are all good yep it's just hunky dorey here in the Bolinger homestead. I am not stressed, I am not stressed. As long as I have peanut butter I'm good yep! Praise the Lord for Trials. 1 Corinthians 9:27 (NIV) "I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize."
Did Paul mean he sometimes beat his head against a wall in the prisons to get his mind back into focus? I have thrown in the towel and the dishes and the couch and everything else. We are still not done. I was hoping and praying to be done by Friday the 27th but it isn't looking that way. We are so close. I believe God is allowing us a few more days to hang out and take our time. We still don't have a renter. Pray for a godly family to rent our place. So we may have it through July one. We have almost finished painting, and we just need to vacate and clean the carpet and were done...moving that is. There is still packing and sorting to be done. We are just shifting the location of packing to another location. There is a good amount of stress but I am learning to take time out and play with the kids and take a nap and not try to do everything all at once. Well I gotta go blog ya later.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

The Garage Sale is Finished






We are soooo blessed by God. He gave us great stuff from many at Calvary and MCA. God bless you all who donated. We are so blessed by all who served and helped us. You have great reward in heaven. There were CCCM folks, CC Cerritos/Artesia people and there were Lakewood First Baptist family even Mariners folks saw some action there slaving away. The heat was intense but the shade of trees and the breeze that God brought to cool us down with made it just bearable. The Lord also blessed us with great customers who bought stuff and a lot of it. We were blown away at how much was made. Let's just say a months rent is in the bag. Glory to God. All glory to God who is sending us to Japan to plant a church. Thank you all who participated and thank you all who prayed and slaved away with us. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

I got my VISA wahooooo


Here it is. Check it out. I got my VISA this week. What a Blessing were going to Japan. I am still in shock about all that has transpired. God is good and he is a blessing God.

Koki's here Pray for him




Hey look who I picked up at LAX? It's Koki Akatsu from CC West Tokyo. He is here studying English for two months and will be staying at CC Perris Valley. He is going to have a blast. A blast of heat that is. Man is it hot and Perris Valley is over 100F. Pray for Koki to have a great time and to learn lots English.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Suicide up in Japan

The following is an article in the Kyodo News today. I was depressed reading it. There is no hope for the Japanese outside of a relationship with Jesus Christ. Read on if you must but by all means don't click away without praying.

I saw a video today "Ministry without limbs" they said that there are 60 million Cambodians with 600,000 being Christians.Then it dawned on me the Japanese are 127 million people with about the same number of Christians. Incredible, 60 years of God's servants going to Japan to preach, teach, beg and plead with the Japanese to Convert but there hearts are open yet unwilling to shed the cultural bondage. May God Break Japan and bring her to her knees. Even here Japanese Christians can't assimilate fully into the church without being extricated from their brethren by birth.

◆ Suicides in Japan remain above 30,000 in 2007, depression top cause
TOKYO, June 19 KYODO NEWS
The number of people who killed themselves in Japan in 2007 surpassed 30,000 for 10 years in a row, with depression topping the list of reasons for suicide, a National Police Agency survey showed Thursday.
The number of suicides in the reporting year came to 33,093, up 2.9 percent from 2006 and the second highest after 34,427 recorded in 2003, the survey said.
Suicides believed derived from depression accounted for 6,060 or about 18 percent of the total suicides in 2007, followed by 5,240 over physical ailments, 1,973 over debts from multiple lenders and 1,656 over other debts, said the annual survey.
By age bracket, people of age 60 or older formed a record high of around 37 percent of the total number of suicides.
The readings underlined the seriousness of social conditions in Japan which may lead to a person committing suicide. Japan's first suicide-prevention guidelines, formulated in June last year, proved to be ineffective in reducing the number of suicides. Critics cite the lack of specific measures envisaged under the guidelines.

The survey was the first of its kind since the National Police Agency revised the categorization of reasons and motives for suicide in 2007.
Under the new categorization, suicides committed in 2007 were divided into 52 reasons. Up to three reasons could be listed for each suicide committed in the year, based on notes being left, medical records, remarks posted on the Net and contacts with people close to those who killed themselves.
By age, suicides committed by people aged 60 or older increased 8.9 percent to a record 12,107, followed by 7,046 for those aged 50 to 59 and 5,096 for those aged 40 to 49.
Suicides by those aged 19 or younger decreased 12 percent to 548. Among those, 10 killed themselves apparently due to bullying and 25 due to discord with friends.
Males represented about 71 percent of the total suicides in 2007.
People without a job accounted for 18,990 or 57.4 percent of the total in the year, including those who made a living on a pension 4,982 and jobless people 1,756.
In the 2007 survey, Yamanashi Prefecture posted the highest suicide rate of 39.0 per 100,000 people among Japan's 47 prefectures in 2007, replacing Akita, given as 37.2, as the worst prefecture.
Akita, however, still tops the 2007 list of prefecture-specific suicide counts by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, which compile data based on where those who killed themselves lived.
The police count suicides by where they took place. Yamanashi has the Aokigahara Jukai wooded area known to be a magnet for those wishing to commit suicide.
In June 2007, the government formulated suicide-prevention guidelines, featuring a target to cut the suicide rate by more than 20 percent by 2016.
The package was formulated at a time when the number of suicides topped 30,000 in 2006 for nine years in a row. It was Japan's first comprehensive anti-suicide guideline based on the basic suicide prevention law put into place in October 2006.
==Kyodo

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Moving Sale Garage Sale Yard Sale


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Here is the address of My sisters house where we will be having the garage sale. Come and get it. It is all here. I think and then some. We begin at 7am. This is our last sale and we are moving next week.

So Saturday June 21st 7am the Bolinger Garage Sale. Check us out. Thank you
God bless. If you can't make it then please pray we get rid of everything.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Tommy Ruiz




Tommy Ruiz is a dynamo. Anyone who hangs around with Tommy knows he is always in motion. He is a gifted worship leader and Bible teacher. He is Pastoring CC Ginowan, Okinawa Japan. He has a beautiful wife and 4 kids. He is also dean of the CCBC Okinawa which is a blessing to see all the seeds that are being sown into the hearts and lives of the Japanese people. Tommy is a master blogger and will blow you away with video and picts and You Tubes he does it all. Pray for Tom as he is seeking the Lord about another Church plant. Pray for CCBC kids to hear the call to reach out to the Japanese people. Pray for more churches to be planted. http://www.calvarychapele3missions.blogspot.com/. This is Tommy's blog
Here is the Church link: http://calvaryginowan.com/default.aspx
They also have a thrift store that is a blessing to the community there in Ginowan.
http://koinoniathriftstore.com/default.aspx

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Pastor Travis Takamiya



Travis is a great guy that is surprisingly athletic and agile. He can preach the word and sing like the angels. As Pastor of CC Tokorozawa he is personally involved in the getting out and meeting the towns people. He is married to Dawn and has two children Erin and Evan and they are really fun like their dad as well. Dawn is fun yet someone has to reign in the wild horses. Pray for this family that God would use them in a mighty way to reach the lost of Japan. Pray that God would provide their needs and even provision for the future events and a Church building.

see his website:http://www.calvarytokorozawa.com/japanese.htm and a new site: http://worship.calvaryjapan.com/

Pastor's Conference & Sushi

The Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa Senior Pastor's conference was a great time to hang out in Murrietta and enjoy the fellowship. Travis Takamiya from CC Tokorozawa was there. Tommy Ruiz from CC Ginowan, Masaru Oshiro from CC Naha, Rick Barnett form Okinawa,Mike Silva from CC Iwakuni, Francis from Rwanda, Chizuo Sakurai from CC Kokubunji, Tak Anma from CC Hamamatsu, Katsumi Santo from CC West Tokyo, and there were two Chaplains from the Marines on Okinawa one is Dennis Wheeler, I can't remember the name of the other guy, sorry. Also in the pictures is Pastor James Stewart from Oklahoma City and Lance Cook from CC Lahabra. We were able to bless the guys with some sushi and entertainment and just hang out fellowshipping. God is so good.






We had a great time with the other pastors from japan they are such a blessing. I am hoping to introduce you all to them. All of them have sacrificed so much to go and serve the Lord in some very hard soil.

We celebrated Pastor Tommy Ruiz's birthday early and he had to wear this funny Sumo cap and take a picture. It was a humbling moment to say the least. Tommy is a trooper he works with CCBC in Okinawa so he is used to this, I think.

Pray for these guys that God would continue to bless them, their families and their churches.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Santo San is here wahooooo


This is Pastor Katsumi Santo from Calvary Chapel Nishi (west) Tokyo. He came for the pastors conference and stayed at our house. He is great with kids and is such a sweet soul. We enjoy his laid back attitude and just a desire to fellowship and build everyone up. We can learn a lot from him as he has been around a long time. He is the oldest remaining Calvary Pastor. He was born again in CC San Francisco while he was working at a restaurant there. When he came back to Japan he joined up with a dear pastor named Mike Kohama. An elderly gentleman who loved Jesus and the Calvary Style. Mike was one of the ones who orchestrated Pastor Chuck and Skip Heitzg to come to Japan many years ago.

Santo San doesn't like to be called pastor and he treats everyone like a long time friend. He says come to Japan and bless the people there. He loves coffee and tortillas. Not in that order but mostly he loves to talk about Jesus and laugh a lot. I am so happy for his friendship and I look forward to his leadership in the years to come. You can see the website and watch their youth play worship and listen to Santo Preach the word. http://www3.calvarychapel.com/hoya/

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Heart Transplant on Saturday June 7th at 7:30 pm



http://www.darwinisdead.com/Creation%20Science%20Fellowship%20of%20Calvary%20Chapel.htm
That link will take you to the website with the details about me speaking and sharing Rachel's testimony. It should be fun. Come and hang out and fellowship.
God bless. Dan