Greetings Dear Supporters!
God is faithful to answer your prayers. We have been given strength, safety, and sharing opportunities for the Gospel. In the morning we participated in Hamadera Bible Church's ABC class. Later in the afternoon we were given more opportunities to share about Christ in our round two with the students at OPU.
The faithful members of HBC provide an English class twice a month for mothers and their toddler-aged children from the neighborhood. The team was grateful to participate and support Kat, who led the class for the day. We sang English songs with the mothers and their kids and helped with signing out the moms and kids from the class. Through this class the church becomes a welcoming space for families in the neighborhood as well as an opportunity for those families to come into contact with Christian women from the church.
God is faithful to answer your prayers. We have been given strength, safety, and sharing opportunities for the Gospel. In the morning we participated in Hamadera Bible Church's ABC class. Later in the afternoon we were given more opportunities to share about Christ in our round two with the students at OPU.
The faithful members of HBC provide an English class twice a month for mothers and their toddler-aged children from the neighborhood. The team was grateful to participate and support Kat, who led the class for the day. We sang English songs with the mothers and their kids and helped with signing out the moms and kids from the class. Through this class the church becomes a welcoming space for families in the neighborhood as well as an opportunity for those families to come into contact with Christian women from the church.
After a delicious lunch with church members after the ABC class, we headed out to OPU to practice English with the OPU English club for a second time. The university students planned our hangout, and the team was in for a pleasant surprise!
The students had bought fireworks, "hanabi," for us to light and enjoy. We all walked from the school to a nearby park and at the park lit the hand-held fireworks. The team took advantage of the time to re-acquaint ourselves with the university students and further conversations centered on the Gospel. A highlight was that Tamie, a dear sister in the faith in Japan, was able to share her testimony with one of the students at the park. Afterwards, the team was able to eat dinner with a few students and further talk about God's work in our lives and just to get to know them on a personal level. It was overall a good time!
Please pray that our team would be faithfully working with one another to share the Gospel even though fatigue may hinder us. Pray also for the hearts of the people we evangelize to, that God may be working in them a heart of repentance.
Thank you again! You'll be hearing more soon ^.^
- Carissa
The students had bought fireworks, "hanabi," for us to light and enjoy. We all walked from the school to a nearby park and at the park lit the hand-held fireworks. The team took advantage of the time to re-acquaint ourselves with the university students and further conversations centered on the Gospel. A highlight was that Tamie, a dear sister in the faith in Japan, was able to share her testimony with one of the students at the park. Afterwards, the team was able to eat dinner with a few students and further talk about God's work in our lives and just to get to know them on a personal level. It was overall a good time!
Please pray that our team would be faithfully working with one another to share the Gospel even though fatigue may hinder us. Pray also for the hearts of the people we evangelize to, that God may be working in them a heart of repentance.
Thank you again! You'll be hearing more soon ^.^
- Carissa