Today was Sunday which in most countries means CHURCH!!! Well we had our own church service today in the park! It was lots of fun :) We brought out the guitars and had a great worship service in this huge park! It is amazing to see how Christ will draw Japanese to him! We were able to share with many people what we were doing, why we were there and so on! It was a blessing for sure :D So while we were at our church we got to have a bible study and it went really amazing :) We looked through Acts 1 and 2 and talked about what it is really implying about our lives and our calling to Japan. Summary = greatness :) So we had a Japanese christian share his testimony with us today during our church service and it was amazing :) Brought tears to my eyes!
After our church service today we had park ministry time till about 3:30 when we would head to our train stations. WELL! The Lord had some different plans and he let the rain come down!!! It poured and when I say poured I mean rained like I have never seen rain before! There were so many families at the park under trees and their food and their tents and everything was gonna get wet. Apparently this pouring of the rain is so normal though because they bring out more stakes for their tents, get their whole family inside, let the fire just get put out by rain, pull out tarps for the food and act like it is not raining! It was amazing to me... so anyway our team really had a hard time with park evangelism, so I just decided to prayer walk until I found an undercover place to sit down and pray for people :) I found a great place to sit and pray so I sat their and was able to pray for the families, the many families!!! God blessed us with a few families who joined us under the covered area and we were able to share just a little bit of God's love with them. :D I met a new friend aka dog :) and he was cute and he even had a raincoat on! His owner was able to ask why we were there at the park and one of my teammates and I were able to explain to him we had our own church service this morning at the park and pointed in the direction of where we would be next Sunday if he wanted to join us! :) Well we were able to sit and stay dry well some of us! :)
Today was a scheduled bible study at our train stations if we had contacts! Well my team and I didnt have contacts that could come so we went ahead and went to our stations to pick our locations. We were able to find our 5 minute english location, our spot for our bible studies and our karaoke church!!! I am so excited our first team comes TUESDAY and we are so ready! They are a group from California and they are a choir.... AWESOME!!! So I found out my day off and it is TUESDAY :) So I am pretty excited ready to rest and enjoy my day in Tokyo.. I haven't decided what I will do, but I will figure it out! :D Anyway so I have some prayer requests to share!!!
PRAYER TIME!!!
-We had a girl come to Christ from Korea!!! She lives here and goes to school and her parents were Christians and HOW AMAZING is she that now she is!!! Please pray for her heart that she will follow through with baptism and sharing with her family and friends :)
-Our journeywoman has a contact that she has been working with the past year and a half and this girl has just continued to turn away the Gospel but really allowed our journeygirl to pour into her! This contact told our girl last night that she felt like she could now see clearly. Everything she was learning about was now clicking in her head and she was seeing the Gospel clearly! How amazing is that!!! Please pray for her heart and that she will continue to seek the understanding of all these lessons! Praise God!
-One of our girls was wearing a japanese shirt we wear given that says jesus christ loves you! in japanese! anyway a man read it and came up to her and with astonishment was like me? and was so excited :) :) how amazing is it that Christ would use a shirt to get one of his children to question the love he has for them! Please pray for this man to understand the tracts we gave him and put it into the mail for us to come invest in him the word of God!!
Thank you guys so much! I love yall and thank you for reading :)
Haley Michelle
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