The 3-11-11 tsunami in Japan: over 20,000 lives lost, to date is the most expensive natural disaster in recorded history at $235 million dollars, and has caused a crippling wake of depression resulting in a sky rocketed number of suicides. Nothing we can do can change the former two, but you and I can change the later by bringing hope. This video is the short story of an awesome group of people from Texas that I had the extreme pleasure to lead to Japan as a Real Impact Missions team leader. We sweated it out for 2 weeks helping to remove and bury the effects of the tsunami: the rotted subflooring, still damp and molding insulation, and crumbling sheetrock, doing our best to leave a wake of hope in our path. Japan's road to restoration looks different than most; taking the form of new wallboard, mold free homes and schools, and cleared fields where kids can play soccer again. It was a pleasure to aid the dedicated missionaries of Grace Missions Tohoku (GMT) and other organizations in Ishinomaki Japan that are there day in and day out, laboring to get the daily life in their community even just close to "back to normal". We thank God for the opportunity to go, and for the work of restoration that He is doing there.
