Supporting missionaries has a couple of “personal” benefits. As a business guy, I invest in a lot of different areas: I own one business, but own pieces of other companies and investments etc. I get to put the majority of work behind one effort but still get to use other resources to make a large variety of things fruitful. I see this being true in supporting you as well: I get to put the majority of effort on the road to church planting, but I also get to spend some of my time and money supporting you can seeing great fruit there. It would be easy to give a majority of my life to the Gospel, and then come home at the end of the day and keep little parts of my life for myself. No! I don’t want to do that! I want all of my life to reflect God’s glory, I want to humbly serve a mission that’s not my own, and I want not just the major things but every minor thing to reflect that glory. It also gives me a ground-view vision of who I’m serving. This may be somewhat selfish – I want to see who God is using with “my” money, but at the same time, I want to partner with you, celebrate God’s movement in your life and in Japan, and labor for the Gospel with you and not just write a check to fulfill a duty. Sometimes that’s what God asks for, but thankfully I get to see you act. It opens me up to a mission field I honestly didn’t think existed before you came along, and I’m glad I’ve gotten to see that.