7/8/09
So Christ really has been laying it on my heart to reach out to the girls at WBU through a women's bible study. i am a little nervous about it and giving it to Him and allowing him to use me to reach the girls at WBU! It is amazing how much Christ has been able to show me and just showing me I am capable of doing this for Him. Last semester I struggled with wanting to reach out through a girls ministry, but I was stubborn and said no. But not anymore :) I know I can do it and I feel Christ has a plan for the girls of WBU! I am excited about going home and being involved in FBC Plainview and our WBU BSM group. God has amazing plans for this semester and it continues to blow me away as I am seeing all these amazing things this summer! :D Anyway so today was campus ministry today and I was going to have lunch with one of my Japanese friends, but she was unable to join me so i had lunch by myself. My teammate brian joined me and one of his contacts did too! We were able to sit down with her and retell her why we were here and we actually got to help her with her Christianity class! She had certain passages in the new testament that she was assigned to read and has to write a summary on them. I am excited about this because I know a few of my other friends have this class as well. Perhaps they will allow me to help them understand the passages! Our Father is great! :) So after campus ministry today we went to our station to do 5ME and another intern, Dustin joined us to reach our station! We were able to talk to about 15 people in an hour a a half and God really worked through that! I was able to talk to 2 people who knew about JC! One of the women I spoke with knew a lot about the bible, but was hesitant to believe certain stories in the bible. So I was able to talk to her and share with her some of the stories that she was uncertain about. God really spoke through me during this time! Then after she left to get on to work a man came to me and wanted to practice his english. I chose to be bold and went directly to why I was in Japan and why i was doing free english lessons. He stayed and talked to me for about 45 minutes which is not normal for 5me! this was such a blessing and I learned that he learned his english from the mormons and he has been confused with what they believe and what i was presenting to him. He is interested in studying with Brian my teammate and I so I am happy that he would like to do that. the only problem is he works 24 security shifts every other day, so please pray that we will get the opportunity to meet with him. Tonight for dinner I went with one of my intern friends to eat at a sushi bar. He ate many different things than I did, so that we could try the different ones :) My favorite was the crab! lol I learned how to say no wasabe in Japanese from one of my friends, so now when I go again I can ask for no wasabe! I like it and all, but I love the sushi more without it! :D Today was a great day and Christ really blessed our team!
prayer requests:
-the many contacts we have on our university
-our friends in the Christianity class at Seikei and an opportunity to help them with their reading passages from the Bible!
-the woman i spoke with today during 5me... clarity in stories in the bible
-the man i also spoke with that has been mixed in with mormons
-mitaka station and 5me!!! It is picking up!
-our remaining time in japan and reaching out to these precious people
Hay
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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7/7/09
Tuesday is my day off and I have been busy updating my blogs like I do every week and i have been replying to emails! Thank you so much for all the emails and all the support you guys have given me while I have been here in Japan! I love opening my email account and seeing the prayers coming in through the emails! It means the most and i thank God for giving me such amazing brothers and sisters who support the sharing of the Gospel in this nation! Thank you! :D Today I got to spend a lot of time with the Lord and able to relax and refocus for these coming weeks! They are going to go by so fast and I know i am going to be sad when we finally leave. it will be a bitter sweet moment for me because though I am excited to go back to WBU!!! i am sad to leave this nation! God has a plan and as you can see and read slowly they nation is turning to HIM! So today I watched the movie "UP" and it was hilarious :) It was great to sit alone and relax and fall asleep and wake up and watch more of the movie and so on :) I washed clothes today :) I know I have mentioned this before, but I enjoy washing clothes and just the chore of washing and drying and folding and putting them up :) I am funny I know! i have been told, so you can think it too! lol So I know yesterday i shared with you that I have given my relationship situation to Him :) It is exciting because I know God has the perfect man for me :) So I have chosen to stop dating for a while because I know I am not where I want to be with God when I do begin to date. I feel like I do not need an earthly relationship yet if I have yet to fix the most important relationship with HIM! Maybe it is a personal thing and hard for you reading this to understand... but hey i get it! :D Even though today was my day off and I didn't go out to our station, my teammates shared with me that today was such a good day at our station! They were able to talk to over 20 people during 5 ME !!! that is huge for us and our station is really picking up :) Tonight during prayer and worship our team of 30 in the apartment enjoyed some time together singing and praying for these Japanese hearts!
Prayer:
-please continue to lift up the hearts of the Japanese people!
-that one more person will hear HIS name :D
-Mitaka station and the sudden outburst of great numbers during 5me
-the volunteer teams that are here with us right now at other stations
-Tx SS will soon come in a week or so! prayers for them!
-all the single girl interns and allowing Christ to take charge of their husband!
-motivation for the final 3 weeks!!!
haley
Tuesday is my day off and I have been busy updating my blogs like I do every week and i have been replying to emails! Thank you so much for all the emails and all the support you guys have given me while I have been here in Japan! I love opening my email account and seeing the prayers coming in through the emails! It means the most and i thank God for giving me such amazing brothers and sisters who support the sharing of the Gospel in this nation! Thank you! :D Today I got to spend a lot of time with the Lord and able to relax and refocus for these coming weeks! They are going to go by so fast and I know i am going to be sad when we finally leave. it will be a bitter sweet moment for me because though I am excited to go back to WBU!!! i am sad to leave this nation! God has a plan and as you can see and read slowly they nation is turning to HIM! So today I watched the movie "UP" and it was hilarious :) It was great to sit alone and relax and fall asleep and wake up and watch more of the movie and so on :) I washed clothes today :) I know I have mentioned this before, but I enjoy washing clothes and just the chore of washing and drying and folding and putting them up :) I am funny I know! i have been told, so you can think it too! lol So I know yesterday i shared with you that I have given my relationship situation to Him :) It is exciting because I know God has the perfect man for me :) So I have chosen to stop dating for a while because I know I am not where I want to be with God when I do begin to date. I feel like I do not need an earthly relationship yet if I have yet to fix the most important relationship with HIM! Maybe it is a personal thing and hard for you reading this to understand... but hey i get it! :D Even though today was my day off and I didn't go out to our station, my teammates shared with me that today was such a good day at our station! They were able to talk to over 20 people during 5 ME !!! that is huge for us and our station is really picking up :) Tonight during prayer and worship our team of 30 in the apartment enjoyed some time together singing and praying for these Japanese hearts!
Prayer:
-please continue to lift up the hearts of the Japanese people!
-that one more person will hear HIS name :D
-Mitaka station and the sudden outburst of great numbers during 5me
-the volunteer teams that are here with us right now at other stations
-Tx SS will soon come in a week or so! prayers for them!
-all the single girl interns and allowing Christ to take charge of their husband!
-motivation for the final 3 weeks!!!
haley
FORTY!
7/6/2009
Today is Monday so as always we have meetings today! :) We shared with each other and I will share these prayer requests later in this blog! So living with 29 other people and 13 other girls you can imagine we often have a messy apartment!!! This morning was def one of those mornings when the clean freaks get frustrated with the dirty crazy kids! :) So that was a great and fun start to this morning! Def interesting to say the least, but eventually things got picked up and our apartment looks like people can actually live in it again :D Worship with all the interns and the goTokyo high school interns is so crowded BUT so amazing to see that many people praising our Father! :) It is a fun experience to squash into one room and sing together!!! Tonight after worship and bible study Katrina and some of the interns and I went to TGIFridays! This is my first American meal in a long while... I guess since May, so I was so excited :) i have enjoyed eating Japanese food and it is delish, but i needed a little American! Tonight all of the gals joined together for muffins and movies and it was SO much fun! Mondays are not only meeting days, but fellowship time for all of us interns here! We ate some amazing banana nut and mixed berry muffins that one of the girls mom brought her! We also watched the movie, "He is just not that into you" together in our kitchen :) this is such a funny movie, but it allowed all of the single girls here to pull together and be a support system for one another during our single stages in life. We all know Christ has our perfect man and we are here to be together and support one another until we are given that man! God has just shown me so much about relationships this summer and though I hate to say it... I needed it! Took a small slap to the face, but i see what he wants for my future with my husband and how I am giving it ALL to him! I don't need to worry about who or when my husband will come :) God has an amazing man who is going to be able to deal with my crazy self and we will run to our Father together!!!
Wigtake prayer requests:
-motivation in this last stress of the summer
-volunteer teams that just arrived (3) and their work here
-new contacts and getting the gospel presented to them soon
-free bible study scheduled for this week!
-some stations are still without solid contacts
-exams are soon on our campus' so our contacts are busy studying
-basketball club is coming to a close soon
-distribution and getting closer to reaching all of our area
PR's:
-the hearts of the Japanese! More and more people are hearing about JC! Pray that the are receptive to the word and can understand the importance :)
-interns and our relationship with the high school interns. that we will show Christ like love to them even in the hard moments
-3 more strong weeks or telling people about how amazing God is!
hay hay
Today is Monday so as always we have meetings today! :) We shared with each other and I will share these prayer requests later in this blog! So living with 29 other people and 13 other girls you can imagine we often have a messy apartment!!! This morning was def one of those mornings when the clean freaks get frustrated with the dirty crazy kids! :) So that was a great and fun start to this morning! Def interesting to say the least, but eventually things got picked up and our apartment looks like people can actually live in it again :D Worship with all the interns and the goTokyo high school interns is so crowded BUT so amazing to see that many people praising our Father! :) It is a fun experience to squash into one room and sing together!!! Tonight after worship and bible study Katrina and some of the interns and I went to TGIFridays! This is my first American meal in a long while... I guess since May, so I was so excited :) i have enjoyed eating Japanese food and it is delish, but i needed a little American! Tonight all of the gals joined together for muffins and movies and it was SO much fun! Mondays are not only meeting days, but fellowship time for all of us interns here! We ate some amazing banana nut and mixed berry muffins that one of the girls mom brought her! We also watched the movie, "He is just not that into you" together in our kitchen :) this is such a funny movie, but it allowed all of the single girls here to pull together and be a support system for one another during our single stages in life. We all know Christ has our perfect man and we are here to be together and support one another until we are given that man! God has just shown me so much about relationships this summer and though I hate to say it... I needed it! Took a small slap to the face, but i see what he wants for my future with my husband and how I am giving it ALL to him! I don't need to worry about who or when my husband will come :) God has an amazing man who is going to be able to deal with my crazy self and we will run to our Father together!!!
Wigtake prayer requests:
-motivation in this last stress of the summer
-volunteer teams that just arrived (3) and their work here
-new contacts and getting the gospel presented to them soon
-free bible study scheduled for this week!
-some stations are still without solid contacts
-exams are soon on our campus' so our contacts are busy studying
-basketball club is coming to a close soon
-distribution and getting closer to reaching all of our area
PR's:
-the hearts of the Japanese! More and more people are hearing about JC! Pray that the are receptive to the word and can understand the importance :)
-interns and our relationship with the high school interns. that we will show Christ like love to them even in the hard moments
-3 more strong weeks or telling people about how amazing God is!
hay hay
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
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7/5/09
Celebrate it is Sunday :)
Today was a great time at church in the park and we are so excited about our teams that are here with us right now! We now have three teams that are with us this week! We have a college aged group from different cities in Missouri, a World Changers group, and an intern from last summer brought a team for this week! We also have a team from Cincinnati that has been here for 3 weeks but is leaving this week. Today was such a blessing!!! i know in my blogs I seem to say this a lot, but i truly mean it every time that i say it! During park ministry today i was sitting with a few girls and we were reading the WORD :D and a lady with her 2 children came up! After a little short talk in english we had an intern who studies Japanese in college come over and talk to her! Come to find out she is interested in bible study! We were so excited about this because she lives at the exact station that one of our M's live! We were able to play with her precious children while she talked on the phone with our M! God blessed us tremendously :D While she was on the phone she trusted us to watch and play with her children in the park while she was on the phone for at least 20 minutes! i had so much fun playing with the handsome little boy :) I love children and it breaks my heart that some of the Japanese children will grow up not knowing who JC is, but I pray that this mom will learn and accept our JC!!! After this great moment of God's, we sat there so blessed and talked about how amazing our father is! It started to sprinkle a little later, so we packed up and headed back to the cave for dinner. Tonight was a rough night in the patience category! With 30 people living in one basement and can get really loud and though we love each other we still get annoyed!!! :D
pr's -
... the mother we met at the park today and her connection with our M
... the sweet children and their future possibly investing in Christ!
... praise HIM for such an amazing day that was blessed with people he brought to us!
... patience!!!
... our 3 teams that are volunteering this week with us! obedience :)
... Cincinnati team and their safety home after 3 weeks serving with us here!
... the contacts these teams made and connecting with them after they leave
haley
Celebrate it is Sunday :)
Today was a great time at church in the park and we are so excited about our teams that are here with us right now! We now have three teams that are with us this week! We have a college aged group from different cities in Missouri, a World Changers group, and an intern from last summer brought a team for this week! We also have a team from Cincinnati that has been here for 3 weeks but is leaving this week. Today was such a blessing!!! i know in my blogs I seem to say this a lot, but i truly mean it every time that i say it! During park ministry today i was sitting with a few girls and we were reading the WORD :D and a lady with her 2 children came up! After a little short talk in english we had an intern who studies Japanese in college come over and talk to her! Come to find out she is interested in bible study! We were so excited about this because she lives at the exact station that one of our M's live! We were able to play with her precious children while she talked on the phone with our M! God blessed us tremendously :D While she was on the phone she trusted us to watch and play with her children in the park while she was on the phone for at least 20 minutes! i had so much fun playing with the handsome little boy :) I love children and it breaks my heart that some of the Japanese children will grow up not knowing who JC is, but I pray that this mom will learn and accept our JC!!! After this great moment of God's, we sat there so blessed and talked about how amazing our father is! It started to sprinkle a little later, so we packed up and headed back to the cave for dinner. Tonight was a rough night in the patience category! With 30 people living in one basement and can get really loud and though we love each other we still get annoyed!!! :D
pr's -
... the mother we met at the park today and her connection with our M
... the sweet children and their future possibly investing in Christ!
... praise HIM for such an amazing day that was blessed with people he brought to us!
... patience!!!
... our 3 teams that are volunteering this week with us! obedience :)
... Cincinnati team and their safety home after 3 weeks serving with us here!
... the contacts these teams made and connecting with them after they leave
haley
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7/4/09
HAPPY JULY 4TH!!! in America :D
Today was a small team day that is for sure! Rachel was with her mom while she is in Japan another day and our high school girls were invited on an overnight adventure with a group that IMB Tokyo is connected with. They had an amazing time interacting with the children there! the were able to dress up in the cultural outfit of the Japanese and looked beautiful! i would like to put on a kimono sometime while I am here in japan! Anyway so it was just Brian and I today for ministry so we did mall ministry. This is basically a ministry that we just go as Christ leads us in whatever direction speaking to people he leads us to and or praying over particular people we see somewhere. So we went to 3 stations in order to do this. It was a great amount of time shared in prayer today and though we didn't have many conversations with Japanese people we were able to set up plans with our contacts later in the day. I know Brian was able to go and play some basketball tonight after our ministry time was over! At each station we walked around the area and just watched people and were able to pray for needs that were shown. It was a good day invested in prayer and I feel like I got a lot out of it! :D Oh in one of the stores I actually splurged and bought me a frog! For those of you who don't know, i collect frogs stuff and had to buy it because now I have a frog from Japan! lol :D When everyone made it home tonight to the apartment we had a fun movie night together to celebrate fourth of July...! We did some small fireworks outside of our apartment, but didn't make too much of a scene since this is an American holiday! We watched the hangover tonight and earlier before everyone made it home I watched the proposal by myself. It was such a funny and cute movie and love story! Marriage and love has been a huge topic in our apartment lately.
requests:
-pray for our team and motivation during the long days
-pray for our new contacts and our meetings with them coming up
-pray for our high school girls while they are connecting with the connected group
-future spouses for all the interns, that Christ will prepare them
-pray for our families at home and their holiday together
thank you so much for investing in my life through prayer
hay hay
HAPPY JULY 4TH!!! in America :D
Today was a small team day that is for sure! Rachel was with her mom while she is in Japan another day and our high school girls were invited on an overnight adventure with a group that IMB Tokyo is connected with. They had an amazing time interacting with the children there! the were able to dress up in the cultural outfit of the Japanese and looked beautiful! i would like to put on a kimono sometime while I am here in japan! Anyway so it was just Brian and I today for ministry so we did mall ministry. This is basically a ministry that we just go as Christ leads us in whatever direction speaking to people he leads us to and or praying over particular people we see somewhere. So we went to 3 stations in order to do this. It was a great amount of time shared in prayer today and though we didn't have many conversations with Japanese people we were able to set up plans with our contacts later in the day. I know Brian was able to go and play some basketball tonight after our ministry time was over! At each station we walked around the area and just watched people and were able to pray for needs that were shown. It was a good day invested in prayer and I feel like I got a lot out of it! :D Oh in one of the stores I actually splurged and bought me a frog! For those of you who don't know, i collect frogs stuff and had to buy it because now I have a frog from Japan! lol :D When everyone made it home tonight to the apartment we had a fun movie night together to celebrate fourth of July...! We did some small fireworks outside of our apartment, but didn't make too much of a scene since this is an American holiday! We watched the hangover tonight and earlier before everyone made it home I watched the proposal by myself. It was such a funny and cute movie and love story! Marriage and love has been a huge topic in our apartment lately.
requests:
-pray for our team and motivation during the long days
-pray for our new contacts and our meetings with them coming up
-pray for our high school girls while they are connecting with the connected group
-future spouses for all the interns, that Christ will prepare them
-pray for our families at home and their holiday together
thank you so much for investing in my life through prayer
hay hay
friday = 37 :)
7/3/09
So today was another amazing day at our campus! It was just Tori Jordan and I with Brian having the day off and rachel spending time with her mom! We were so excited for rachel and her mom being in Japan! So today I had lunch plans to meet with one of the 2 girls Brian and I met on Wednesday! This was such a huge prayer request and lunch went amazing! She and I went to eat in the cafeteria and I got a new dish that I hadn't had before! She laughed at me saying I was adventurous and I was so full after I ate! We enjoyed great conversation while we had lunch together and I was so excited that afterward she gave me a sweet hug and asked for lunch again another day! Our Father is so amazing :) He continues to bless our days here in japan and send people in our direction that are seeking after something more! After lunch my new contact had to go back to class so I headed out to my home on campus- the soccer fields :) i went out there and prayed over the guys out there playing soccer! I though about getting out there and playing with them, but I was in a dress once again and the girls this time weren't in dresses playing! Maybe another time that I am on campus I will go out there with them! Anyway so while I was out there praying over them I was able tot talk to one of our guy friends we had made a few weeks ago and ask about his girlfriend. His girl asked Christ into her life a few weeks ago, but has yet to respond to brian or I for bible study. At 2 today the three of us went to one of our Christian faculty members classroom and were able to help the students learn english! They have a test coming up soon and we were able to do review with them! I had so much fun because that is like another home for me :) For those of you who don't know I am going to school to be an education major, so of course I love being in the classroom! After this class we left between classes and went and had a snack before returning for the next class! I was so excited to be in this particular class because I have a few contacts in this classroom that I hang out with! So I got to see my friends and help one of the same guys I helped last time on his test! they had reviews over clothing, movies, music, and other American things! It was fun to interact and be able to teach them about myself and help them understand things in the USA! After both classes were over we headed toward the station for me to go meet one of my friends at Starbucks and the girls went to our park to pray over it! It ended up that she was unable to come and meet me in Shibuya, but says soon she hopes she can! This contact was passed on to me from a friend that i got to school with at Wayland. My friend met her last summer when he was serving in japan on a 10 day trip, so I am trying to connect with her now that I am here! Christ has a plan :D I ended up going to dinner with Katrina and Caleb at another favorite place to eat here in Shibuya! It was a fun night :)
PRequests:
-contact with sister in Christ from 3 weeks ago, that she will not be scared and will contact us for Bible study!
-the boyfriend of the new believer that he will see something else in us on campus and wonder what it is that we have and what his girlfriend now has in her
-seikei university and our faculty members
-the classrooms we help teach english in and the time we get to invest in these students
-my friend that we will be able to connect soon since she couldn't make it tonight
-my friend that i had lunch with today :D
-soccer boys and ministry opportunities
hay
So today was another amazing day at our campus! It was just Tori Jordan and I with Brian having the day off and rachel spending time with her mom! We were so excited for rachel and her mom being in Japan! So today I had lunch plans to meet with one of the 2 girls Brian and I met on Wednesday! This was such a huge prayer request and lunch went amazing! She and I went to eat in the cafeteria and I got a new dish that I hadn't had before! She laughed at me saying I was adventurous and I was so full after I ate! We enjoyed great conversation while we had lunch together and I was so excited that afterward she gave me a sweet hug and asked for lunch again another day! Our Father is so amazing :) He continues to bless our days here in japan and send people in our direction that are seeking after something more! After lunch my new contact had to go back to class so I headed out to my home on campus- the soccer fields :) i went out there and prayed over the guys out there playing soccer! I though about getting out there and playing with them, but I was in a dress once again and the girls this time weren't in dresses playing! Maybe another time that I am on campus I will go out there with them! Anyway so while I was out there praying over them I was able tot talk to one of our guy friends we had made a few weeks ago and ask about his girlfriend. His girl asked Christ into her life a few weeks ago, but has yet to respond to brian or I for bible study. At 2 today the three of us went to one of our Christian faculty members classroom and were able to help the students learn english! They have a test coming up soon and we were able to do review with them! I had so much fun because that is like another home for me :) For those of you who don't know I am going to school to be an education major, so of course I love being in the classroom! After this class we left between classes and went and had a snack before returning for the next class! I was so excited to be in this particular class because I have a few contacts in this classroom that I hang out with! So I got to see my friends and help one of the same guys I helped last time on his test! they had reviews over clothing, movies, music, and other American things! It was fun to interact and be able to teach them about myself and help them understand things in the USA! After both classes were over we headed toward the station for me to go meet one of my friends at Starbucks and the girls went to our park to pray over it! It ended up that she was unable to come and meet me in Shibuya, but says soon she hopes she can! This contact was passed on to me from a friend that i got to school with at Wayland. My friend met her last summer when he was serving in japan on a 10 day trip, so I am trying to connect with her now that I am here! Christ has a plan :D I ended up going to dinner with Katrina and Caleb at another favorite place to eat here in Shibuya! It was a fun night :)
PRequests:
-contact with sister in Christ from 3 weeks ago, that she will not be scared and will contact us for Bible study!
-the boyfriend of the new believer that he will see something else in us on campus and wonder what it is that we have and what his girlfriend now has in her
-seikei university and our faculty members
-the classrooms we help teach english in and the time we get to invest in these students
-my friend that we will be able to connect soon since she couldn't make it tonight
-my friend that i had lunch with today :D
-soccer boys and ministry opportunities
hay
36 :)
7/2/09
BAPTISM DAY!!!
We started off our morning with distribution in the Mitaka community! There were 4 of us today because rachel went to pick up a team of just one person from LA! We are excited about this and later I will share some amazing news :) Anyway so we did distribution in the rain and though we didn't get much done... we are happy we have continued to distribute through the hard times! We have seen at least 40 responses from the distribution! How amazing is it that these people are sending in the tracts wanting a free DVD!!! This is huge in japanese culture, very different from something they would generally do! We are excited that these people are seeking to find something more and we can offer them JESUS! :) :D After distribution today we had a short lunch and went to another station in order to meet one of new brothers in Christ!!! We are so excited for him! We had his baptism today and it was the most amazing thing I have ever been apart of! We all met together and drove to a river close by where we are baptizing our contacts this summer. It was such a blessing to see how exciting our friend was to be raised into a new life!!! Definitely brought tears to my eyes as I watched Brian baptize him! Such a blessing and our God is mighty to save!!! After his baptism that friends and M's attended we had a small party for him! We had cheesecake and grapes and muffins and watermelon and as you can see I was so excited! I got to help one of our M's put it all together and I can't even tell you how American I felt decorating everything :) It was like I was at my own house celebrating this wonderful spiritual marker in our friends' life! Such a blessing to be a part of today. So today when our teammate went to go and get the one man team she had a surprise waiting for her! The one person team was her MOM! It was one of the sweetest things ever and such a blessing for her! Today was just such a great day and GUESS WHAT! 4 people accepted Christ today!!! Two people did this during 5ME and two more during free bible study at two different stations! Our Father is moving in this nation!!!
PR's:
-rachel's mom being in Japan!
-girls and future husbands
-gotokyo high school interns and starting ministry
-the baptism today! what a blessing
-our new brother in christ that he continues to be on FIRE!
-Mitaka station
-the nonbeliever friends who joined in on the baptism today
haley michelle
BAPTISM DAY!!!
We started off our morning with distribution in the Mitaka community! There were 4 of us today because rachel went to pick up a team of just one person from LA! We are excited about this and later I will share some amazing news :) Anyway so we did distribution in the rain and though we didn't get much done... we are happy we have continued to distribute through the hard times! We have seen at least 40 responses from the distribution! How amazing is it that these people are sending in the tracts wanting a free DVD!!! This is huge in japanese culture, very different from something they would generally do! We are excited that these people are seeking to find something more and we can offer them JESUS! :) :D After distribution today we had a short lunch and went to another station in order to meet one of new brothers in Christ!!! We are so excited for him! We had his baptism today and it was the most amazing thing I have ever been apart of! We all met together and drove to a river close by where we are baptizing our contacts this summer. It was such a blessing to see how exciting our friend was to be raised into a new life!!! Definitely brought tears to my eyes as I watched Brian baptize him! Such a blessing and our God is mighty to save!!! After his baptism that friends and M's attended we had a small party for him! We had cheesecake and grapes and muffins and watermelon and as you can see I was so excited! I got to help one of our M's put it all together and I can't even tell you how American I felt decorating everything :) It was like I was at my own house celebrating this wonderful spiritual marker in our friends' life! Such a blessing to be a part of today. So today when our teammate went to go and get the one man team she had a surprise waiting for her! The one person team was her MOM! It was one of the sweetest things ever and such a blessing for her! Today was just such a great day and GUESS WHAT! 4 people accepted Christ today!!! Two people did this during 5ME and two more during free bible study at two different stations! Our Father is moving in this nation!!!
PR's:
-rachel's mom being in Japan!
-girls and future husbands
-gotokyo high school interns and starting ministry
-the baptism today! what a blessing
-our new brother in christ that he continues to be on FIRE!
-Mitaka station
-the nonbeliever friends who joined in on the baptism today
haley michelle
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