(This morning I will go to Japan and I am looking forward to meeting the Japanese people. Please pray for me. Heavenly father's blessings to you. I will see you in two months.)
So to start... This is my room. Everything is in chaos as people prepare to leave for their outreach locations. I haven't had a moment to breathe today!
To start our Japan plans, we will be staying at a church in Chiba!
Here is the church's mailing address. I will only be staying there for two or so weeks. Air mail will arrive in about 5 days. It's expensive, so if you want to send something please wait!
Ichihara Shalom Church
Goi 4871-1, Ichihara City
Chiba Pref., Japan 290-0056
http://church.ne.jp/ichiharashalom/index.htm
Check out the website!
So here is the schedule:
1. We arrive in Japan, and take the train to Chiba. The city is across Tokyo bay. The bay is about 4mi in width, I believe.
2. We will stay at Ichihara Shalom Church there in Chiba for two weeks working in maintenance and/or using it as a base of operations.
3. After Jan 4, we will move into the Tokyo Metropolitan Area for two weeks. The YWAM base is located in Shibuya, ontop of that we have several other contacts. It is a possibility we will go into international schools and work with students there who are learning English.
4. From Tokyo we will take the shinkansen (bullet train) to Osaka. There in Osaka we will be hosted by a church which has worked with YWAM in the past.
5. Then from Osaka, fly out and return to Kona to debrief (Feb 15).
Shinkansen path: Tokyo to Osaka.
This is my crazy Japan team. This is actually only half of them, but I love this picture because everyone in this picture is posed in a way which represents one aspect of their character. For instance, Sydney is making the "cute" victory sign with her fingers. She does it in every picture (It's hilarious to see that almost every Korean or Japanese does this), and yet she is too busy to look at the camera.
This is a song my sensei "Yukako" taught our outreach team. She is Japanese from the northern part of the main island. It is the Japanese version of an originally Korean song dubbed "The Blessing" song. Yukako really helped our team with some insight into Japanese culture. She also was gracious enough to set aside time with me so I could work on speaking the language. She'll be doing her outreach in Boulder, Colorado. I have been there.
I'm really excited to see what is going to happen in Japan. We've had some great prayer times and already God has moved to reveal potential problems for our team. Please keep all of us in your prayers, as I believe there will be a lot of opposition waiting to mess with us in Japan. I believe, however, that in the end we will see how God's works prevailed.
Peace
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