by Mike Costanzo | Aug 31, 2009 | Friends
This past weekend, the RTS MAC Class of 2010 (a.k.a. Mike’s classmates) threw a huge birthday bash for one of our own. Olivia (whose birthday was actually not this past weekend) loves water parks and water rides, and wanted everyone to experience the joy and...
by Mike Costanzo | Apr 19, 2009 | Friends
Ever since Facebook began to assert its unassailable hegemony over our friends’ social lives, we’ve been blogging less and posting less pictures than we used to. But, those days are over! Yes, friends, I found a way to LINK our blog to our Facebook...
by Mike Costanzo | Sep 16, 2008 | Friends, Jen
Welcome to our home! We’ve been promising for awhile that we’d give everyone a tour of our new little place, but it’s been pretty busy. Jen’s finally settling into a new job, and Mike’s getting into the groove with classes, so we figured...
by Mike Costanzo | Aug 21, 2008 | Friends, Video
If you’ve been reading our blog, you know that we’re avid amateur comedic filmmakers–in other words, we love to make crazy videos and post them on YouTube. 🙂 Well, while we were visiting our family and friends in Maryland, we got an email from our...
by Mike Costanzo | Aug 10, 2008 | Friends, Graphic Design, School
It’s been a very full month for me (Mike), but yesterday was officially my last day of summer classes at RTS this semester!!! Whoohooo!!! I still have some schoolwork that I have to do (rather a lot, actually), but it still feels good to be “done”...
by Jen Costanzo | Jul 22, 2008 | Friends, Moving
It’s hard to believe we’ve been in our new home for over a week now! It’s about time to get some pictures from our moving van-loading party up on our blog! Here’s Mike at the beginning of the day — the truck’s still pretty empty,...
by Jen Costanzo | Jun 14, 2008 | Extended Family, Friends, Travel
We arrived back in America on April 1st. The month was full of lots of really good reunions! Family & friends welcomed us back with… … flowers & balloons …cake …and with their charming company! Some special highlights were Jen getting...
by Mike Costanzo | Jan 12, 2008 | Friends, Missions, Travel
The day after we got back from Kyoto, we embarked on the second stage of our winter adventures. This time, we went to Sendai to stay with an OPC missionary family, Murray and Tsuruko Uomoto. We had met them briefly in May when we visited the Cummings, but we wanted to...
by Jen Costanzo | Aug 14, 2007 | Friends, Missions, Travel
We’re back from our whirlwind trip to Tokyo! It was a very full trip, and a lot of fun! We tried something new this time around and bought a special seasonal train pass called the “Seishun Jyuhachi Kippu.” It gave us 5 full-day passes to travel...
by Jen Costanzo | Aug 10, 2007 | Friends, Travel, Vacation
So just how have we been spending our summer vacation? Allow us to take you on a little tour of our summer break! Umi no hi (Marine Day) On Umi no hi (a National holiday in mid-July), we took off on a day-trip with the principal of one of the local elementary...
by Mike Costanzo | Jul 8, 2007 | Faith, Friends, Prayer
We’ve been thinking for a while now that about posting brief update on what God has been doing recently at Koriyama Baptist Church (our “home church”). This church has truly been a blessing to us in ways that we never could have expected. In...
by Jen Costanzo | Apr 3, 2007 | Friends, Wakakusa
About 7 months ago, we bade farewell to dear family and friends and travelled 6000 miles away. Since that time, God has brought many new friends into our lives. We wish we could have a big party and introduce all our friends to each other! However, in lieu of that,...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 30, 2007 | Friends, Missions, Travel
Yesterday Jen and I got back from Adatara Bible Camp, home of the 2007 Fukushima Prefecture Baptist Youth Camp. We went up on Tuesday night and left Thursday afternoon, and every moment was precious to us. The food was great, the scenery was pretty, and the weather...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 11, 2007 | Friends, Video
So as you already know from reading our blog, I (Mike) have recently discovered that I’m an artist at heart (granted, an extremely goofy one), and for the past couple of months have been making my own radio shows and comedy skits, etc. Well, as it turns out,...
by Jen Costanzo | Feb 4, 2007 | Day-to-Day, Friends, Travel
Last weekend, we went ice-skating and ended up taking lots of pictures. Here are some of the highlights! Candid moment with Jen… The rink was really crowded at times. It was a little freaky with so many people, but a lot of fun. This was only Mike’s...
by Mike Costanzo | Jan 27, 2007 | Day-to-Day, Friends, Missions
As many of you know from reading our email updates, we’ve been wanting to visit some new churches recently, and on Christmas Eve of last year we decided to try out Koriyama Baptist Church. From the very first day, we fell in love with this church. For starters,...
by Mike Costanzo | Jan 14, 2007 | Day-to-Day, Friends
It’s been a while, hasn’t it??? For avid bloggers like us, going a full two weeks without any updates feels a lot like going two weeks without doing any homework, and then trying to catch up all in one night!!! But thankfully, we’re not being graded,...
by Mike Costanzo | Dec 29, 2006 | Friends, Vacation
Greetings from the town of Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture! We’re here for the weekend, visiting our friends Kevin & Rebecca Dingle. They’re missionaries with the Keiyo Mission Team, aka “Chiba Team”–the same team that Jen worked with...
by Jen Costanzo | Nov 3, 2006 | Friends
Elijah Emily Talitha David Since we’ve arrived here in Japan, we’ve had the pleasure of congratulating four different couples back home on the birth of their new little ones! Praise God for the miracle of new birth! A prayer written by Sarah & Derick...
by Mike Costanzo | Oct 28, 2006 | Friends, Music
And now for one of the coolest and most surprising opportunities to happen to us since we’ve been here in Japan… As you remember, I work at a local Junior High School ( Takine J.H.S. ) four days of the week, and on Friday I teach at some local Elementary...
