Help for Japan

Hello everyone, Me and Melanie want to thank our class for for all the support you have given us. Mylee is doing well and looks forward to meeting everyone. She will be 2 weeks old tomorrow so we aren't quite ready to bring her to church yet but hopefully soon. My brother Todd Bridges has a friend who is a pastor in Tokyo named Yoshi Owasaki. Todd has been to Japan with him and met him when he went to Christ For The Nations. A couple of the ABS classes are planning to help with a monetary gift and he asked me if I would share it with our class. Yoshi's congregation is eager to reach out to those who are suffering all around them from the Tsunami/earthquake. In Japan there is a lot of idol worship and this is a great time for the people to come to know the one true God Jesus Christ. By providing a monetary gift, Yoshi and his congegation can get supplies and meet the needs of the people who have lost so much!More importantly they can share the love of Jesus with the people. I am pretty sure they will be collecting money through the Sunday of April 10th. If you want to write a check be sure to make the check out to Valley View Baptist. As far as I know we won't be at church Sunday morning but Todd is in the ABS class that meets right after us. You can give the money to him or his wife Jess. It is not an obligation but if you feel the Lord leading you to give, know the money would go directly to meet the needs of hurting people. Thanks!