Konnichiwa to all our friends and family! This will be our last update from Japan.

We praise God and give all credit to God for all the ways He had worked through the events. THANK YOU so much for your prayers and support! The partnership this past month helped many Japanese students to hear the Gospel and many to be further discipled to become Kingdom workers!

FUNKY PARTY:
We collaborated with some Christian dancers at J-House to evangelize to non-Christian dancers. As well, we did a dance drama that pictured the Gospel and the Father's love. Many were moved by the drama and lead to many open doors to share the Gospel. God was so faithful as He invited people to hear the Gospel. During the praise time, everyone at Funky Party gathered in one big circle and sang a song about loving each other with the love of Christ. It was not planned so it was a very blessing surprise! Praise the Lord!

After Funky Party, we were able to share the Gospel and our testimonies with all the new students that came!

AMERICA NIGHT
Thank you soooo much for praying!! About 85 people came to this event! We almost ran out of food. There were so many people who came that we didn't even know too well so it was a good time to tell them about Jesus. We used the 4th of July theme to get Japanese students to come and shared about American culture. We were also able to do some funny and serious dramas about Jesus.

SUNDAY SERVICE
It was a bittersweet time as we worshipped with J-House and Japanese Christians for the last time. We loved praising and singing many songs that we know in Japanese! We praise God because there were a few students we met in the last weeks who came to service. One student named, Joshua, who is a baby Christian didn't like church too much but after going to J-House, he wanted to commit to coming to the church. We had a few members give their testimonies. This service was a special service where we got to wear Yukata's (Japanese traditional clothes).

SAYONARA (Good-bye) PARTY
After both services, J-House had a Sayonara party for us. We testified about how we came to Japan to share about how Beautiful Jesus is in our lives. Many students we met came and we were able to share our last words with them. Afterwards, we took a billion pictures with all our friends :) As you can see, many were sad because we might not see each other again. But, we encouraged one another that we will continue to fight the good fight whether we are in Chicago or Japan!

This is Pastor Katsuya, the senior Pastor of J-House. His vision and prayer for Japan's revival challenged our whole team. J-House is closing in on their 10th year of ministry. Please continue to pray that our brothers and sisters here would be faithful until the end.

Our CFC alum, Jonie, is now serving at J-House in Japan as she works. She was a great encouragement to our whole team. Please pray that our CFC alum would continue to train up Kingdom workers here in Japan.

Lastly, our team would like to thank all of you who prayed with us and supported us in the past month. We really felt your prayers at work and we couldn't have done anything without them. Please continue to pray that when we get back home, we would still fight and love Jesus. Please pray that we would apply all the lessons that God wanted us to learn here in Japan. All of us don't want this trip to just be a good experience but one that allowed us to love Jesus more and our lifestyle to reflect Christ!

Our arrival info:

July 8, Wednesday

United Airlines #886 ORD 8:45PM. (It is the domestic terminal)

We will be arriving a little earlier but we need to get our baggage so we ask everyone to come by 8:45pm. :)

Thank you so much!!

Japan Team 2009