Posts Tagged ‘ Japan ’

We are safe – Please Pray for Japan

Hello Family and Friends, We first want to say that we (Seth, Hannah, Ezekiel, Malachi and the greater NORTHSTAR family) are safe and our area in central Nagano has not been effected. Although we have had some earthquakes in our area they are only small shakes and rattles compared to what the North East part [ READ MORE ]

Rainy Day in Norikura

  • April 20th, 2010
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It’s a rainy day here in Norikura, we went for a walk this morning and now we are just hanging out researching about Okinawa[ READ MORE ]

Starting to Grow

We hope your all doing well and enjoying your start of the summer. Here in Norikura things are going well and we are enjoying some down time before the summer season really gets going. We have been talking and talking about starting a garden (hatake in Japanese) to grow some of our own vegetables and [ READ MORE ]

Spring BBQ

So a few nights ago the staff decided to have a BBQ at NORTHSTAR. The only bad part was that it started raining that day and so we couldn’t have the BBQ outside. Instead we had it on the front steps of NORTHSTAR which is still outside but out of the rain. It was a [ READ MORE ]

Worship at Azumino Family Chapel

This last Sunday some of the NORTHSTAR staff got to lead worship at our home Church called Azumino Family Chapel. Given the fact that we are a hospitality based lodge we are normally not able to go to Sunday service so we have our own service usually held on Thursday nights. Michie, Sarah, Anni, Amanda [ READ MORE ]

お久しぶり • It’s been a while

I guess you can say that life has seasons and these last few weeks and months have been challenging. Some of you may have heard about Dan Junker and how he was diagnosed with cancer in the fall. After we found that out everyone at NORTHSTAR was pretty shocked that something like that could happen [ READ MORE ]

Family in Japan

This winter will have short term staff coming from all over the world to volunteer at NORTHSTAR. They will help us mainly teach Snowboarding and run our camp programs from Jan. to Mar. We are really excited to have my sister Sarah coming as one of those staff. I have been in Japan now for [ READ MORE ]

First Snow of the Year

Last night we got our first snow of the season here in Norikura where we live. The entire village is white now and it has been snowing all day and the forecast is calling for snow again tonight. Last night we actually only got about 10cm (3″) but with all the snow we got today [ READ MORE ]

Fall 2008 Update

       Wow, seasons change fast. I can’t believe that we have almost finished our Fall season and will be starting our winter season in just a little wile. Snow has started to fall on Mt. Norikura and it’s been freezing where we live. Being in the mountains, it’s pretty amazing to see how [ READ MORE ]

A Nice Fall Day in Norikura

Today was an off day for us here in Norikura. The fall season is here and it’s amazing to see the the vegetation seem to catch fire on the mountain. As we were walking around the village today we couldn’t help but feel very very blessed to live and serve here. [ READ MORE ]

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