Saturday's Cake class

Well, it’s now a little after midnight Sunday morning as I type this right now… Saturday was a long day, but very productive!

VBS was of course over but many of the children and mother’s returned to the church around 2pm for a cake decorating class that I taught. During this past week at VBS Yoshie announced that I would be teaching a cake decorating class, many of the mothers were interested. But the icing on the cake, no pun intended, was the offer Isaiah and Frank made… they offered to babysit the mother’s children while they took the class. It was great for them because the kids already knew us from VBS and of course the Moms trusted us and were very excited about the class. What Frank and Isaiah didn’t know, nor I for that matter, was that the cake class would run 1 hour over… By 5 o’clock Frank and Isaiah were beat after playing with the kids for 3 hours and Isaiah had changed one too many diapers… it was a first for him and he has now sworn that it will be a very long time before he has children.

The cake class was a lot of fun and the ladies all enjoyed themselves. I showed them how to mix and bake a cake, make a filling for the cake and fill it, ice it and decorate it. However, it was incredibly hot, even with the 3 airconditioners I had running the butter cream still managed to run a little, and I blew a few fuses. I believe today may have been the hottest day so far or at least the most humid, but all in all it was fun! It was amazing that 6 out of 8 of the ladies were not believers, and they had such a wonderful time and felt very welcome at the church. Seeds were planted and I hope and pray they will come to fruition.

After we had cleaned up, it was a little after 6pm, Isaiah, Frank and I were kindly invited to one of the church’s most wonderful Christian widow’s home, Omurasan. She is fluent in multiply languages including English and she was also the humble servant who took me to the hospital last year during my escapades with a stomach virus.

We enjoyed a wonderful evening of traditional Japanese cuisine, fellowship, games and a lot of laughs. Later a friend from the Church; Akiko, who is the sister of the husband of the couple we are currently staying with and her friend from Hong Kong; Tracy, joined us for some continued games. At around 10:15pm Isaiah, Frank and I made our ways back to our various homestays after Omurasan was so kind to drive us to Tachikawa station being that it was a 20 minute walk from the house or a 5 min drive, so we could catch our trains and monorail to our destinations. Frank and I arrived about 11pm at our home stay, after our 15 minute walk from the station to the home we are at.

It was a great day of blessings and fellowship. God is so good and it is such a joy to be among Christians from different walks of life but all brothers and sisters in Christ.

Well church is in about 8 hours so I must go, Frank and I will update again tomorrow. God Bless!