Happy 4th of July! We decided to postpone hanabi festivities at the park until the weekend since our schedule is packed during the week. It's been raining a lot so we may not get the chance to play with the fireworks.
This morning, the team had the opportunity to spend some time at the "English moms" meeting at church (English moms = mothers from the community who are taking English classes at the church). Akane and Collin got to share a little bit about their lives and growing up and Pastor Kondo was able to share the Gospel during the meeting.
This morning, the team had the opportunity to spend some time at the "English moms" meeting at church (English moms = mothers from the community who are taking English classes at the church). Akane and Collin got to share a little bit about their lives and growing up and Pastor Kondo was able to share the Gospel during the meeting.
After that, our team was driven to Momoyama University, also known as St. Andrew's University. This school is a Christian school and Takashi Kusumoto, from HBC, attends that school. He had originally arranged for us to go and visit a club on campus, but the professor in charge changed his mind because the professor didn't want any "missionary" work done at the school. He also didn't want any "promotion" of HBC so we weren't allowed to go. Though Takashi was disappointed, he still thought that it would be a great opportunity for the team to visit some of the students at the school. Later on, we found out through God's providence that the team was able to go to the school and visit some students who wanted to do some cultural exchange. It's strange that the most unwelcoming school that we visited was a Christian school.
Later on, we got to share Christ with a few other students that came by to visit us. The students that we met at the school seemed the least interested in the Gospel, despite going to a Christian school. Hopefully, our trip this year opened some doors for future STM teams to visit the school and develop some more relationships there with the students.