Up until now, meetings and discussions for the entire network have been held online (Skype, email, phone), but on this day, for the first time, core members from inland and local staff from the coast met face to face for a meeting.

A Skype meeting was held based on the field trip on the 21st. It was decided to establish the 3.11 Iwate Church Network to serve as a contact point for future support activities in the disaster area and for volunteers from outside the prefecture. Since it is a church network,…Read More

In response to the many offers of support from outside the prefecture, Kondo (Morioka), Otsuka (Morioka Minami), Sasaki (Kitakami) and Wakai (Mizusawa) discussed how to respond via Skype, and decided to make a field trip to the affected coastal areas on the 21st.