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Dear Friends, Family, Supporters and every one in between,
Most of you know that for a long time I’ve had a heart for Japan, and most of you have encouraged me to follow my heart to where ever God lead me and to do what ever God has lead me to do.
Many of you were shocked when I said I wanted to help Suicide victims and all of you prayed for me to follow God’s heart.

In January of last year many of you helped support me in making the first step to following the path God has lead for me. I set out for G42 Leadership Academy with a place in mind and a challenge for both my self and a self-issued one for God.
“You’ve told me where, you’ve told me why, but I’m ready for the HOW”
Like always God rose to that challenge in my time in Mijas Spain I began to dream big dreams about how I could help.
My ultimate goal became about opening a discipleship house under the guise of a rehabilitation home.
I want to take in suicide victims (People who may be considering or have attempted suicide) in Japan and teach them their self worth and empower them to operate as the mighty men and women they were born to be!
But to do this one needs funds and a platform and some sort of credibility.
While I have a long term goal of becoming a Cultural Anthropologist and going in through the government to help in Japan that still leaves at least four or five years while I’m in school that I’m not proactively doing something for my cause.
Thus I created Cause and Effect.

Cause and Effect is a grass roots humanitarian project that will lead teams to Japan to teach the practice of hope to the suicidal Japanese.
Through trust building, empowerment and community out reach Cause and Effect hopes to establish it’s self as a beacon of proactive change, deterring suicide and spreading hope.

While I was in Spain I dreamed and planned and prepared and when I got home I continued to dream and plan and prepare and for a while nothing seemed to happen.
Feeling at my wits end and desperate I began ask God again. “WHEN?”
And for a while I heard nothing.
I decided to just rest, letting God deal with this in his timing.
That’s when something amazing happened.
God brought my launch pad to me.
Some of you may know that while I fight crime and spread hope by night in the day I have a secret identity as a manager of a coffee shop. It’s not a glamorous job but it’s fun and it gives me a chance to meet and converse with lots of interesting people. Among those interesting people are two God sends, Josh and Elizabeth.
Josh and Elizabeth are the senior ministers of a group called Project Ignite.
Project Ignite started out a pro-life ministry and evolved into just what its name implies a fire-starting ignition, breathing life into all the ministries it comes in contact with. These guys are the real deal, between pro-life education, orphan ministry and campus crusades these guys are dynamic go getters and true Godly leaders, which is quite a feat since these ‘senior ministers’ are only nineteen year old college students.
One night when the shop was having a slow evening I got the chance to share my heart with Josh and Elizabeth about Cause and Effect, about how I felt this was a big part of my calling and I was able to share my disappointment that things were going so slow.
It was good that God had brought me some peers to vent to but the real miracle didn’t start until I got home that night.
I logged onto FaceBook to find Josh had sent me a message telling me that Project Ignite wanted to help me get the Cause and Effect website up so that I could focus more on getting to Japan than the menial things like paying for a website to get the word out.
Shocked as I was I accepted their offer and began to go through the process with them of building this website and in turn building my excitement back up for Cause and Effect and getting on with what God has been calling me to do.

So I unveil to you the Cause and Effect website.
http://causeandeffectjapan.org
Getting this website up is just the beginning the launch so to speak of big things for Cause and Effect.
I’m planning to go to Japan in November to meet with contacts and will be raising funds for that starting this month.
The total price for one person to go to Japan will be $2200, this includes airfare and hotel.
In the 9 days I plan on being in Japan I plan on meeting with local Churches and outreach programs as a good will mission. I want to extend Cause and Effect to them to help with what they need be it painting a kid’s church or actually helping out suicidal youth. I want to work in community and lead teams to be part of the community to develop trust and dependability so that when Cause and Effect begins our own work we won’t just be the outsiders who want to change the culture and community but we will be part of the community helping the community.

In closing I suppose I should mention that Cause and Effect will be accepting donations through Family Ministries for now and all donations are tax deductible.
I will also thank you all for praying for me, supporting and lifting me up in my journey thus far but hold on tight, because I’m just getting started.
Much Love,
Hannah Day