July & August 2019 Update

This month was a busy one as it continued SOS (Summer of Service) starting with a missions trip to Kagoshima, which is on the island of Kyushu, which is the island where I was born! I was personally born in a city called Miyazaki which was just a few hours away from Kagoshima! But I did not go especially because I had a few traveling buddies with me that relied on me to stay, but next time I’ll go visit some family. Something fun that happened when we were there is we got stuck in another city because of severe rain fall. It was interesting and really took a lot of trusting in the Lord and just being flexible to how the Lord would lead. But once in Kagoshima we stayed with a Calvary pastor, Rob Wunderlich, and his family. We got to join him in ministry and really experience a different church in Japan. We had a cafe night where we shared testimonies and worshiped the Lord. We had many fellowship times and just really joined into his family there in Kagoshima. There were interns there that I had served alongside when I was in bible college so it was also good to see them again. All of them also took time to visit with us and take us around in Kagoshima showing us some history there. Kagoshima was actually the first port that Fransis Xavior visited on his trek to spread the gospel in Japan during the 1500’s. After this trip to Kagoshima there was one more week left of SOS and we finished off with some sad goodbyes as we saw our new found friends and family in Christ leave and go back home! But I know that God has ordained these people to come and see the work of the Lord in Japan and that one day we will cross paths again to encourage one another again if not here or there then for sure in the air! 


    The end of SOS marked and started a time of relief and rest as all this planning that I had done came to an end. Without any shadow of a doubt I can say the Lord got me through it all and man, God is good! But immediately after SOS had finished, I had another long journey ahead as I went off to America to see family and friends. So all in all it was a blessing to see all of you not only to be encouraged but also to encourage others to the call of the Lord! I got an opportunity to lead worship and even teach in the Youth in Calvary Houston and I got to talk to some youth and even encourage them to walk in a real relationship with the Lord. I even got to talk with some people about Japan and show them the need to share Christ! As my time wrapped up in Houston I then went off to Atlanta to visit Melisa’s family and it was all in all a great time of fellowship as we visited a few different parts of the USA. All in all thank you again for all of your support and please continue to pray for me as I continue forward in what the Lord is calling me to do here in Japan. 


    Coming back to Okinawa was a good time and really reminded me that I really needed that break to come back to America and just see another perspective in another country and now am ready to do even more for the Lord and am excited now for the next semester that will be starting in the beginning of September. I get an opportunity to teach 1st and 2nd Samuel and so far studying and reading other resources it has been fun just preparing for the semester at hand! Please pray for my students as well although I do not know who will be taking my class quite yet but pray that the class would benefit them on their walk with the Lord and that it would be understandable and even challenge them in their faith. I also am continuing to study pastoral ministry and am starting a bible study! Pray for me as I walk through new territory and a new ministry! I’ve never started a Bible study from nothing before so pray that it would be a fruitful time as I also have to figure out where to go and what the Lord wills for this bible study to become.
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