Posted in Team Updates on Jul 9th, 2009
Hey, just a quit update to say those of us from South Carolina have made it back safe and sound. The trip was uneventful, and it actually took less time than heading out there. Albeit, only a couple hours at most, but it felt notably shorter. Anyway, we’ll have to await someone from the Boston [...]
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Yesterday was a true blessing. We went over to Shin-Uruyasu (sp?) and prayed in some of the residential areas, and we also went over to a Christian school in another part of town (sorry, can’t remember its name).
At Shin-Uruyasu there are about 5 very small churches (little more than small groups), that have been struggling [...]
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Posted in Team Updates on Jul 6th, 2009
OK, so I have two days to cover. So, yesterday was Sunday. I have to say, a lot happened. Since the church service we attended didn’t start until 2:30 PM, we went for a little cultural experience and visited the Ramen museum.
That’s a picture of the inside of the place (sorry it’s a little blurry). [...]
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Posted in Thanksgiving on Jul 5th, 2009
“LABO” is a group. It is basically a shortened name for “Language Laboratory.” In short, they are a group of Japanese kids of varying ages that are learning English. Needless to say, that helped a lot with communicating with them! We had an absolutely wonderful time with them all. The age span really was from [...]
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Posted in Thanksgiving on Jul 3rd, 2009
Greetings once again! Whether it be morning, evening, or somewhere in between for you while you read this, I would like to wish you well, and extend the gratitude of the whole team to you for your cares and prayers! (yes, I put those two together purely for my own amusement)
We visited Yasukuni (I think [...]
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Posted in Thanksgiving on Jul 1st, 2009
We went to Waseda University today. We joined with with some members of a local church (Chuo Chapel) to bring Christ to the students there. We broke into groups and talked with some students as they were available. Some didn’t really want to talk to us, but others did, and some were [...]
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