So
I've been surprised to find out that once summer vacation begins, Japanese
Christians become this active. Here's a snapshot of Christian happenings in the
next half-month or so. Please pray that God would change lives this summer.
August
20-23: Challenge Camp.
60 students
gather to be challenged to serve and to personally evangelise.
August
24: Evangelistic Bible study with Japanese contacts from Sydney.
Pray for soft
hearts towards Jesus and good conversations at local fireworks afterwards.
August
27-30: Summer School.
90 students
gather to hear how God "likes" them (Facebook reference).
Praying for
Yoichi from Chuo University to be saved, and for 10+ others who don’t yet know
Jesus.
September
3: Excursion to trick art museum with the Tama area Christians.
Pray for good
relationships that will flow into our monthly prayer gatherings for campuses in
the Tama area.
September
9-11: Chuo University camp.
In addition to
the Christians who will be in attendance, continue to pray for Yoichi.
September
13-14: Block leaders camp.
Pray that the
leaders will refreshed to serve in Semester 2, which will begin in the
following month.
The
above prayer requests are actually from Naomi Smith, an Australian whom I first
met at a Japanese church in Sydney and is currently a staff worker with
Japanese university Christian group KGK. The most notable point is, we both
came from Sydney to Japan around the same time, we are both here for God's
mission, and we are both in the same area! I am honoured to support her in
prayer as she gets busy on field in this time. She will be giving numerous
talks, seminars and training sessions. I hope you'll join me in supporting her
too :)
I
won't be directly involved in any events like these this summer vacation. One
because I kind of overbooked
this vacation before I knew it, and two because I'm not formally a
university student yet. But looking forward to getting involved next year! Pray
I will be an encouragement within the Christian community.
Gooo Naomi!
ReplyDeletefor an unchristian place there seem to be heaps of events :) thats good!