A new season has begun with old Jesus Soldiers leaving and new ones arriving, the weather (I haven't experienced real seasons changing before! It's quite exciting to actually notice the season is changing! :D), the start of the new school semester, doing campus evangelism a little differently, having more of the church members involved for doing messages and leadership roles, a new room that I moved into, etc. So many things going on it is tiring yet exciting to be a part of it! Time truly flies, I am already on my 9th month here in Japan and it feels like I just got here...
This week was the start of the campus ministries again and it was good times! It was good to see the students we haven’t seen in a while and reconnect with them. This semester I go to Kandai on Tuesday and Thursday, and on Wednesday I go to Kansai Gaidai still. I am excited for this new season; I just hope that the Jesus Soldiers can work well together and just have fun together! 
We also went to this all girls school (Osaka jo gakuin 大阪女学院) for morning prayer on Thursday and it was awesome! This is a mission school and most of the teachers here are Christians, but I say 99% of the students are not. A couple of the J-House members graduated from this school (Yaeko, Rie, and I forgot the others o.O) but also one of the teachers, Baba Ayako-san (who recently accepted Christ and got baptized at J-House!) also works there! Pastor Katsuya gave a message about “what’s your life’s purpose?” and we got to sing “How Great Is Our God” in front of 700 students! Though no one sang and no one really said anything, I could tell that it was just something refreshing for them instead of the usual hymn, quiet chapel time. Ayako-san told me on Sunday that her students really enjoyed it and said it was like a breath of fresh air! Hallelujah!! I hope this could be a start of something cool for J-House in the future! A youth group!!! :D
This past week Sarah and Deoni came and Sam will come in a week or so. It’s only been a couple of days but they are really cool people. Just glad to have another Californian here with us :D
This coming up week I have to do my message during Big Wave, I just hope that I will be able to speak with confidence and excitement. It’s 30 minutes total (with translation) so about 15 minutes. I have done that before at CUMC, but I feel kind of nervous that there will be people who have never heard the gospel or never experienced what I will be sharing. I guess you can say it will be half testimony half teaching. I will be sharing from 1 Samuel 14, the story of Jonathan and his armor-bearer and how they took a huge risk by revealing themselves in front of the Philistines, but through that allowed God to show them something miraculous. (If that made any sense…which is why I will be working on this diligently all week before Friday)
Anyway, I am hungry now… time to look for some food! Mata ne~
(eating dinner/dessert outside on the roof with Jonie, Ji ah, and Sarah)
(I normally don't eat desserts as much, but this was really good!!)
(We had some time before we went to Osaka jo gakuin and we stopped by this cathedral and it has a picture of Mary in a kimono...interesting...)
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