Anxiety and panic were the feelings that seemed to rule my heart Monday. Part of it was realizing that Christmas will be here next week and I don’t feel the least bit ready. I don’t even have the lists started to finish shopping for final gifts and Christmas dinner too. My in-laws are coming, but…
At the beginning of 2012 Cindy and I began our journeys between the Tohoku Region of Northeast Japan, which was affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami, and our residence in Osaka. The trip one way is around 750 miles. Since then we have served in the disaster area 6 times. We normally stay between…
Cindy Ruble will never forget that day in 2007 when the morning was interrupted by the earth rumbling and the house shaking. One earthquake followed another that day in West Sumatra, Indonesia, where she and her husband, Eddy, were ministering as Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel. Just two years later another major earthquake would shake…