Hi Friends,
Sorry, I haven’t been posting. We’ve been getting home late and I’m just tired. Thanks for all the prayers though. We’ve been seeing some great open doors.
Wed. was divide and conquer day. We split up into 3 groups doing various activities throughout the day.
I went with Brad & Sean to an English Chat Club at a Chemistry Company in Hamamatsucho. The afternoon class was designed to help the workers to learn some practical english they could use at the company. We were role-playing calling the company and the workers had to take a message from us. It was fun.
We returned later that night for a free chat club where we just talked English (slowly) and helped them with their English. That was fun. And talk about technology. They had a video conference system akin to the Cisco System seen on the TV show 24. Awesome stuff. The chat via video was able to bring in 7 people from Tsukuba, 2 from another office, and 1 more from another location. It was awesome stuff.
Hopefully a few of them will come to our Hawaii Party on Sunday 10:30-4pm. おいのりしてください。please keep us in prayer.
Wed. afternoon we had free time so Brad, Sean, & I went up Tokyo Tower and got some great pictures.
Photoshop helped me put 40 pictures together to get this panorama…
From Thursday I took off for Okinawa. I’m attending a Transformation Okinawa Conference put on by local pastors from Hawaii and connecting with people for future mission opportunities in Okinawa.
My first experience in Okinawa, beautiful flowers lined our arrival.
The Beautiful countryside of Okinawa. Much more laid back than Tokyo. Reminds me of Shizuoka except even more rural.
The Conference Pastors & other leaders
賛美します。 Worshipping with over 500 people at Naha Baptist Church
Quick stop at Heiwadoori for dinner with Roy Toma
Stay tuned for more…
Pastor Arlen
PS- it might help to learn a little bit of Japanese, and I suggest this excellent website to assist you.
