day twenty-four

6/20/09

Well today I was able to catch up on a little sleep because our volunteer team had their debriefing this morning. Brian met with them and our M to talk about everything that went on during their time here. It went very well and they were able to reflect and offer great advice for next summer. They would like to come volunteer next summer which is so great to hear! Rachel and I met them around 2 pm to do one more round of 5ME at Mitaka station :D The leader of the volunteer team mt a contact yesterday, the one that wanted to meet for bible study today. So Brian and him went to meet our new contact for the first bible study! How exciting and it went amazing! He accepted Christ yesterday and is so excited to already dive into the WORD! Two of our volunteers met a Christian photographer today who was able to introduce them to another Christian in the area. it is so amazing to see how God is slowly bringing his people to us! Everyday we have been able to meet someone who is a Christian and or who prays to accept JC. So our GOD is amazing and just wanted to clarify that again :) Tonight is Brushy Creek's last night so we went out to eat sukiyaki and let me tell you it was amazing! Sukiyaki if you don't know is unlimited beef and pork strips that you cook yourself at your table. You have an hour and a half to eat unlimited meat and unlimited vegetables and noodles :) So i loved this and let me tell you I ate so much! Our team blessed us with this meal, which was greatly appreciated. I had an eating competition (imagine that) with one of the guys on the team, haha. Tonight their was a GOSPEL concert in Tokyo! How amazing is this :D There is black gospel that tours around and some Japanese people pay lots of money to join the choir and sing with them. Sad thing is these Japanese that join them are not all Christians... :( Our interns that didn't have teams went to the concert and invited their contacts. From what I heard it was a great black gospel concert and their was definitely God being praised, but it was still a lot of lost people. Tonight was a great day and fun night with Brushy Creek. They leave in the morning!

PR-
.The BC team's safety home and their obedience to come to Japan
.The two contacts they led to Christ and the bible studies that will soon start up
.Those who attended the gospel concert who yet do not know who JC is, that the concert will have opened their eyes and started a spark.
.Our week off as a team with no volunteers serving under us

thank you so much for investing in my summer through prayer

haley :D