God you have been so good to me. Here I am at a coffee shop in Japan and I feel right at home. Flipping through your word beside my brothers and sisters taking every breath slow, pondering all your endless love. As I ended my long travel day of a two hour plane from Atlanta to Canada at 2am with a 3 hour layover, a 12 hour plane ride to Japan with a 1 hour bus, a two hour wait for the next bus followed by a 7 hour bus ride. Stepping on Japanese was great. Some of my feelings as I got off the plane are exited, confused, tired, and doubt. What are you doing to me God? I vowed to live my next year and life in you name. I am in Japan, a country I don’t know the language, living with people I’ve known for 10 days in a classroom above a Cafe with no background of community living…then I got to my first day of ministry and there I am starry eyed with the love for the people in the room and I felt my heart beat right into place. It was like looking at an all you can eat buffet after two days of fasting. Hungry. Let’s go build Gods kingdom anyway possible and fill this place with love. We are staying in J’s Cafe with long term missionary’s Rich and Cherri. It finally hit me what we are doing in this place or on the World Race. “Your gonna go try to turn Japanese people into Christians?” Ha. No. God has love for our group to go out and pray in these streets that have never been light up with the love of God. We are spreading the love of Gods Kingdom, getting people to come to the cafe, teaching of Gods word. Some have a bad view of Americans, maybe a smile can change that. We are in a town called Ishinomaki, witch in my first day I felt confusion on purpose. I felt the love but, I couldn’t quite get what God was saying to me, everyone here seems to be in good spirit. All of a sudden I could see some hurt in people. I pray for so many here, let’s pray is always the answer right? Right. Talking with God. I’ve learned that already you can’t fight yourself leave it up to him. I feel darkness in this town, they were effected by a tsunami in 2011. I can still feel it. God has turned my heart to him and love this place. We are helping Rich build up his Cafe and trying to reachout to people. I prefer the outdoor work, we also spread flyers to get people to come to different events that are held at the Cafe. We are eating like locals, the food is amazing the culture is amazing. I’ve learned so much already and exited for days to come. Shameless surender to you Pa!
