Today we were blessed in so many ways at Koganei! During the first service, Yuuki shared his testimony and Nobu sensei gave the message. We were already super excited to see old friends from Peninsula who came on Friday night, but on Sunday we got to see even more! The Okada and Ishimaru families visited, as well as Aya and Genta Takemoto and Tomoko Kanda. We were even surprised by the Hattori family and Sanshiro Kaneko!
After the first service ended, we split up to share in the youth and children's Sunday School. Bradley got to share his testimony with the youth; Sato, Hitomi, and I taught "Everything Will Be Alright" to the kids. For the second service, we sang "Oceans" again and I shared some stories about school and how I see God through my students.
We had a delicious hiyashi (cold) udon lunch during which we shared about our experiences in Yamagata at Oecho church. When it was finally time to end, we said goodbye and headed to a VBS meeting to find out what we would be doing for the next three days. Even though there were only 16 kids and almost the same number of staff, the church members put a lot of thought and prayer into every moment of the camp. Each message and activity is carefully discussed because there is such a driving need to help these kids come to Christ; some of them have no Christian community to encourage them to grow. This could be the only time they hear the gospel!
We finished Sunday by finding out that we would be helping with worship for the VBS, so we buckled down and practiced four songs. We spent a long time learning the melodies in hopes we would be ready by Monday!
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