Potluck Night

This night we had a potluck and a bit of an Easter service. It was just a time of fellowship, family, and food.

it's funny if you see the picture of the big group of Okinawans, they are all apart of Raiko-san's family. They're the best. They pretty much take up one third of the congregation.

Chapel

Iza, Nate, and I are helping at Futenma Chapel this month, but because of the busy schedule we have this month we'll only have two weeks to be there. But the kids are so adorable. we had 12 for the 3 of us. Iza was surrounded by children who just flocked to her and she's holding up Eder's favorite super hero.
We were definitely blessed.

" He is Risen Indeed"

It was a beautiful morning. We didn't have service right at the time the sun rose, but we all got up pretty early. Praise the Lord that He has given us hope in His life.

Mihama Outreaches

This past Saturday night we had another outreach which is the second one out of the semester here. What we do is go out on one of the street corners and play some worship sets. SO as we do that we hope a crowd might watch so that our bro's and sis's would reach out to them and pass out tracks. In one of the pictures you see that one of the men who was handed a track was reading it. It was good just continue to pray for their sincere seeking after God since many have been persuaded to be involved, we are now looking forward to the sunrise service in the morning this Sunday.

Good Friday

Here at the church we had dinner then a showing of the Passion of the Christ yesterday. We had dinner before the movie started, had worship, played the movie,then had Pastor Tim gave a short explanation of the reason Christ came to die and rise again.
The movie was all done in Aramaic and they had put up subtitles but they could only have Japanese subtitles. So those of us who spoke English had to either recall what they were generally saying or just guess.
It was still so very powerful. There was a good turn out of locals who came. Pray that the Lord use this holiday to bring many to Him through the love he showed by the death of His Son.

Tonaki- Jima

We went and saw and it was beautiful. There is definitely a need for the gospel although they live in such a beautiful place. There was a movie that was shot on this island that is supposed to come out this June so it will be positive publicity for the island. Aside from the beauty, there are so many ministry opportunities there because it is such a small island. We had the opportunity to do a vbs for the children's ministry though there were about only thirty or so children there that was probably the whole population of kids on the island. On Saturday there were about 12-15 kids who went up to accept Jesus as Savior. Keep praying that the Lord will keep those children and that hearts will be open to hear the gospel and that men and women will go and make disciples.

Please Pray

We are leaving for Tonaki Jima (image above) this morning and will be there this Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

It is a small island with the population of 400 hundred. They have no church on that island and the only experience they have had with anything remotely Christian is the Jehovah's witnesses and Mormons. We will be doing vbs type ministry for the kids and just evangelizing and passing out tracks. SO please pray for the whole team and the leader ship and the weather and our boat ride out and most importantly for the hearts of the people there and our own.
So please pray thank you so much, brothers and sisters.