Days 2-3

Sunday was a great day of welcome. The Lord blessed Isaiah and I with wonderful hospitality of from these people. They welcomed us with arms wide open and it was really neat to see a lot of them again.

Isaiah had stayed at the church that night so we had no commute for the morning, which was nice. However we did get up early to go to the bread shop down the street from the church, but after walking in heavy rain in shorts, t-shirts and sandals we soon discovered it had not opened yet.

Sunday was also the first day with our homestay the Kato’s. They are a wonderful family and all are Christians which is rare in Japan, the husband and wife and their four children, whom are really cute and sweet. But boy do they have energy, they wore Isaiah and I out yesterday. They then fed us some authentic sushi for dinner with misu soup, it was great.

Monday we helped carpet the church. We did the second floor and the flight of stairs upto the third floor. Very tiresome but great. We had to rip up the old carpet and scrap all of the padding and glue off the floor. I was one of the sweepers, and to this day I still don’t understand why the Japanese continue to make brooms so short. The broom I used today was like 2 feet long so I was hunched over all day, I felt like a midget. God’s humor I guess, what better way to work in a church but in a constant state of being prostrated… a very humbling experience. It was so much fun working with everyone, it’s amazing how the body of Christ just comes together like a puzzle even though we’re all so different and yet at the same time so alike. God is so good! We then got to spend time at Sensei Takahashi’s home with his family for dinner and we had a wonderful time of fellowship.

Oh and for any of you who are worried about the little earthquake we had, don’t be. We didn’t even feel it. Japan may be an island but it’s not that small. The church didn’t even shake and Isaiah and I didn’t even hear about it until about midnight that day, so it obviously wasn’t too out of the ordinary. It is a shame though that a few lost their lives. God’s time table though not ours.

Well please pray for us, as tomorrow we begin passing out our flyer's for our upcoming VBS program and preparing for it. We have much to do, the time is going fast and there are very few of us to run the program. I would write more but it is very late and I am quite tired. May the Lord bless you all!

P.S. Oh and feel free to check out Isaiah's blog the link is below. I believe he has picture's up for today, I haven't had a chance to upload some.