Japan Missions – Day 2
No alarm clocks were needed as the Japan team experiencing jet lag woke up at 5 A.M. feeling like the sun should be falling down soon. The morning was quite surprising as they woke up to the sound of a chainsaw next door… Wait. No worries. Maurice is just sleeping in. John Paul was already up with his morning coffee started and his jogging shoes on ready for his morning run. Shannon, Jonathan and Jeremy were ready early and spent the morning in the word and other literature of which Maurice and John Paul joined them in when they finished their respective morning rituals. Tak and Lana finished up some last minute preparation in anticipation for the day.
Next, pancakes and eggs (mmmmmm) at the Royal Host made for a rather large and needed breakfast. As our new friend Karen put it: “You always wake up hungry when jet lagged.” Never spoken so true Karen. After breakfast the team drove from Tobu Narita over to the city of Togane where they would spend the rest of the afternoon.
Stop one: The Heyoshedie neighborhood. Here is where the team met for a short morning worship together in order to give praise and thanks to God, to give him glory and to ask for his will to be done. The team then spent the next hour and a half or so in prayer over the neighborhood and the next hour and a half passing out New Testaments. Lunch at Jonathan’s and then stop number two: another neighborhood in Togane that this narrator can’t seem to recall the name of. We spent about the same time on prayer and the passing out of New Testaments. Tak tried sharing with a lady at her house who “already had a religion” while Jonathan and Shannon shared with another lady who was “91 years old and was just sitting down to take a rest from her walk.” She was more receptive and took the literature we passed to her. The team passed out about 600 New Testaments total.
After that much walking, the team stopped for beverages at a small coffee shop in down town Togane where the owner was a fellow believer in Christ. Jeremy played the guitar and they sang a few songs, then headed home for dinner at the mall (sushi for some of us including the protected whale) and finally rest at the hotel in preparation for another day.
