Summary: Listen to these audio interviews from Rev. Dr. Jonathan Blanke and Cindy Charlton. Rev. Blanke is a career missionary with LCMS World Mission, and teaches New Testament classes for seminarians and college students at Japan Lutheran Theological Seminary and Japan Lutheran College. Cindy Charlton is a former LCMS missionary from California, currently living and serving at Izumi Lutheran Church in Fukushima City, Japan. She lives about 50 miles from the severely-affected northern coastal city of Sendai, Japan. These two share their perspectives of life in Japan in the week following the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that has left a half-million people homeless and caused tens of billions of dollars in property damage and economic losses. Listen to Rev. Blanke’s interview Listen to Cindy’s interview Learn more and support the LCMS relief efforts in Japan Audio interview courtesy of KFUO Radio AM 850
