Japan Day 4

Today we started English classes. I'm teaching 4th, 5th and 6th grade, and we had four students in our class; Asato, Minori, Makato and Yuuto.

Class was alright. It was really hard to get me and Maria's four students involved. I think we need to shift our lessons to focus less on teaching english and think more about just having fun and enjoying ourselves; english can be on the side. Hopefully try to mix some like, children's worship songs or something in there too, but who knows...

Every morning we spend about 90 minutes together spending time in prayer and worship. Two high-school kids, Nozumo (or Non-chan) and Akira joined us! It was really encouraging to see them come and to get the chance to pray/worship with them. Bommy and Maria tried to translate them, and we tried to stick to songs that were really simple or that we had translations for. They seem to really enjoy having us around and take a good amount of time to hang out with us. Akira just started coming to church last year too, and he seems to be pretty involved with the community here. Pretty awesome.

This morning I prayed that God would continue to remind me of His love for me, and that my response would be to love God above all else, and love those around me. That this love would go beyond words and actions and would be unconditional, uncompromising... And that the people of Japan would see this love and understand the depth of God's love for them.

Today we're going to be handing out fliers for our outreach on Thursday in Toyohashi City, which will then lead to our worship night on Saturday. I pray that God will move through these things... that He will speak through us, love through us, use us to absurd measures for His glory. I also pray that how our team can love and serve each other would be a testimony to God's grace.

All in all, this trip has been an incredible blessing so far, in being able to see how God has been working here at THCC. And it has also been eye opening to see where there are needs and meet all different kinds of people who are desperately in need of God, and might not even know it.

And, still an overload of... everything. Okbye.