Today, even though it's a Monday, is the last day of the weekend here...Japanese people have this habit of planning all days off full of random (and, I confess, for me usually unpleasant) things. I went into the weekend knowing that we had a Monday holiday, and also knowing that there was already a day-long seminar planned and a financial meeting after that. :( While it's good for Japanese practice, I wasn't expecting anything restful.
However, the seminar went beyond my wildest expectations! The speaker was a young pastor who is working on a lay-leadership program in Hokkaido, and there were so many times today when he brought up things like prayer, studying the Bible simply because you like it, and even spiritual gifts and the different roles church members have. There were at least a few times when Cindy and I looked at each other and said something scandalous like, "I love him!" :) But in reality, it was so truly exciting that at random times I wanted to stand up and do a jig. There have been multiple times over the weekend that I've seen God bringing people to Nozomi church who are ready and looking for so much more than the Sunday-morning Christianity that they are accustomed to right now. And here is this pastor at least starting to talk about discipleship! Really, prayers for him and the work that he's doing, and these churches in general would be lovely!
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That's so cool! Is he traveling to a lot of churches?
I don't think so. :(
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