Ministry Day

Today:
*We went to Shibuya and prayer walked the area after a short orientation on the area with Gary. Amy and I paired up and prayer walked through the major intersection of Shibuya, around the outside of Shibuya 109 (a famous nine-story shopping mall), and into the red light district. This area is full of "love hotels." It was very oppressive to walk through this area. We found a small Shinto shrine at the end of the main stretch, and decided to pray to Jesus inside of it. While praying in the Shrine, we noticed a man crouched down on the steps of the main alter-of-sorts. So we talked to him and were able to share the gospel with him. Amy and I had been praying that God would lead us to a Japanese person who knew some English, and He was faithful- because this Japanese man was very good at English!

*Met back at Hachiko and went back to the Government Towers since it was clear and sunny today. We had a much better view of Tokyo than the other day, and were able to get a better idea of how vast Tokyo really is. I even met some Congolese people!

*We decided to split up into groups- one to go back to the hotel area, and another to go around Yoyogi park (think the 'central park' of our area of Tokyo)and Harajuku. So Andrew, Gary and I were the latter group. We had a great time walking around, and in Yoyogi park we met a man playing volleyball with his dog. Yep. We had a wonderful conversation, played volleyball and ran around with the dog, and were able to give him a DVD of a Christian baseball player, Matt Murton! The man said that he would play the DVD on a projector at his work. How awesome! Andrew gave him his email address, and we hope to talk to the man again. His name was Kenji, so please pray that the Lord will work in him! We also met a young guy named Yuuske and had a good conversation with him about his neat tattoos, baseball (gave him a Murton DVD as well), and exchanged contact info. It was a great evening! Got lost on the way home, but had fun in the process of finding our way.

God is working and guiding us! Today was an encouraging day. There are many details left out because it's going to be an early start tomorrow, and I should get a shower and some sleep. Matane!(See you soon!)