Japan Trip Details and Support Info

Taking God’s Love & Power to Japan!!!

Dear Friends & Family,

We hope you are all super blessed. We are doing AMAZING! Daily, we’re BLOWN AWAY at God’s goodness towards us and excited about all the things he is doing in the world! As mentioned in our update, we are going on a mission’s trip to Japan in March. There were several trip options and all students selected their 1st, 2nd and 3rd choices. Our first choice was Japan, which only had 10 spots, and with over 100 students that also put down Japan as their first choice we feel blessed and honored to have been chosen to be part of this team. There were 3 things that “highlighted” this trip to us above the others. First, Japan is a very unreached nation. Our heart is to go where many have not heard about the love and power of Jesus. Secondly, our focus will be on spending time with small groups of people or one on one. Although we love ministry that focuses on the multitudes, we were excited about having more personal, intimate contact with people. Our third reason for selecting the Japan trip is that it is being led by Eric Johnson, the mission’s director at Bethel. We are excited for the opportunity to develop a closer relationship with Eric as our hope is to partner more closely and long term with Bethel missions in the future. The following paragraph is a description of some of what we will be doing in Japan:

“Bethel Church has been building a relationship with Japan for the last 18 months. This trip will deepen this relationship. Our goal is to empower, teach and activate the local church. There will be opportunities for us to do street ministry where we will be praying for the sick and will do prophetic ministry. Japan is known as a place “where ministry is really hard”. We believe that God wants to display his power. So our team is getting ready to go and release the supernatural power of God into a nation that he loves.”

Our trip will be from March 10-20, 2007. We really would value your prayers that God would be honored and that people’s lives would be transformed. We are excited that there is a team of long term missionaries there that will be able to follow up with people and water seeds that are planted. The cost of our trip (for both of us) will be $2800-$3600 US depending on airfare prices. If you would like to partner with us financially, the details are below.

We love you all. Please stay in touch. Our new emails are:
crystalstevensis@gmail.com or aaronstevensis@gmail.com

Aaron and Crystal

**Financial gifts or letters of encouragement may be sent to: Aaron & Crystal Stevens, 18848 Country Hills Dr., Cottonwood, CA 96022. In order to receive a tax-deductible receipt, please make the check payable to “Bethel Church” and leave the memo area of the check blank. Include with the check a separate slip of paper that includes our full name and our specific trip location. This will ensure your gift is designated to us. This gift is non-refundable, and if for any reason a team member or team does not go, the money will support another mission trip sponsored by Bethel Church.
**Payment deadlines: Our first and largest payment (approx. $1,800) for our airfare is due on January 10, 2007 and our final payment is due on February 16, 2007.
**As a side note: if any of you would like to give towards our school of ministry tuition at any point, you may follow the same instructions above, only attach a note saying it is for our tuition. We will be graduating from first year in May, 2006 and also attending second year (Sept 2007-May 2008). Tuition is $3000 each.

Please feel free to call us if you have any questions! Aaron’s Cell (541) 913-5223, and Crystal’s is (541) 515-1167