Last of It

So DTS is over! The joy, sadness and excitement all rolled up together. Most of the other students just went home today I get to stay around in Japan for a little over two more week’s then I will be going heading back to the USofA. Please be praying for me, I think, I am going to apply for staff here on the YWAM base, but I will need to raise a lot of monthly support to do that, and I have no idea where it will all come from, so please pray. Anyway nuff about that, the last two weeks of DTS we were back in the class room again one week the speaker was Matthew Toller speaking about ‘the seasons of God’ talking about how you should/need to know what season you are in with God so you can partner with what He is doing and not go against it. Then the week after that it was a lot of stuff about going back to ‘normal life’ after being in bubble of a DTS. So yes that is a quick summary of things, I am excited to see everyone back home, I will see you all soon.
Jonathan

Fireworks!!!

Back from Tohoku

So we are back from Tohoku and know I will tell you what we did up there. First we had a 9-10 hour drive to get there. which was kind of a fun ride... kind of. I do want to say the rest stops in Japan are awesome (some of them there are new ones and older not as good ones) They have ginormous bathrooms, a food court, and a shop to buy snacks, drinks, gifts and souvenirs. o and at ever rest stop they have a stamp that is unique for each stop. (I got four!!)

(This is one of the rest stops we stopped at)

So once we got there we were helping out through TBC (Tokyo Baptist Church) they have a house were they do outreaches from, we stayed there and work in the area around it. If anyone from TBC reads this, again thank you guys sssooo much! I was so blessed to get to help out.

 Alright so what we did up there.

We did a lot of prep work in some empty lots-
-Pulling weed
-Weed eating
-Digging out big rocks
-Digging out parts of trees
-Picking up trash

So we were getting the lots some what ready so they can rebuild the houses, but I am not 100% sure, they said this is what you are doing and I said "sweet ok!"

But the lady (Yoko ) in charge of directing outreach teams that come said we did a good job so I am stoked.

And then on the last day we had a BBQ for all of the people in the area just to bless them back ( the whole time people from the neighborhood would keep bringing us food, ice cream, cookies, tomatoes   things like that ) and hang out with them. It was awesome just to get to sit around, eat and talk with everyone.

one night we got to go to a festival that was going on. It was so crazy amazing!!! the fireworks were the best I have ever seen and we had a sweet place to see them from, it was like they were going off right in front us, sssooo good. I have videos that I still need to put on my PC so I will post the good ones later on.

So to end this post, if anyone is thinking about coming to Japan to help with the clean up/rebuild do it. Even though it has been awhile there is still tons of work that needs to be done. The thing that Yoko said was the people who come and help out now are mostly from other countries. She said at the start there was tons of people from other parts of Japan coming to help, but I guess that it is kind of back to norm for people. So I just want to say even though it was a while ago and for most of the world has gone back to normal there is still a lot of work and rebuild that needs to be done. So again if you are thinking about going... go.

Thank you everyone and God bless

Offline

So we are going up north tomorrow ( 7/30 ) so I will give everyone a update once I get back in tell then thank you all for your prayers.

So just some random pics

Last Week/This Week

So this week and last week we have been doing street evangelism/worship/just getting to know people and make friends. Today we are doing a party/get together for every one that we have met while out and about. So that is what we are doing right now next week we are going up north (Tohoku ) to help out. I don't know what it is that we will be doing, but it will be next week that we go. So if you can all be praying for the time that we will be there and for the trip there and back.

The Philippines

So some of what we did in the Philippines first we stayed at the YWAM base Olongapo. And that base is set up for other YWAM teams to come and do outreach and for girls to come and stay and be disciples instead of what they were doing which is working in the bars ( door girl, dancer, talking to customers and prostitution )
 So what we did when we where there-
-We help/ministered to the kids/teens on base.
-We made friends/showed God’s love to the girls on base.
-Went out and did street evan and prayed for people.
-One day we went to a street kids Church thing (not sure what the place was for sure) did worship, prayed for all of them, then we stayed around and got to play/hang out with them.
-There was another church we got to go to and speak/do worship/pray for people.
-Hiked for 1 ½ hour to get to a tribal village got to spend half a day there speaking/worship playing with the kids.
-At night we would go out to the bar areas and some people would prayer walk around it and other people would go in to the bars and talk to the girls, form friendships, get to know them, and if they are open talk about Jesus.
-One day we did a 24 hour prayer room for the Philippines and the people there.

That is what we did in a nutshell one thing that was awesome six days after our team got there a YWAM team from New Zealand got there and we got to do a lot of things together which was amazing. And when we were there (the last day) we did a “party” for the bar girls(the night before we went out to invite them) super cool time to just chill and talk with them. But one girl decided to leave the bar and come live on base!! Praise God!

Well that is me update if anyone has any questions please ask. O and if you are on Facebook and I am not your friend add me there are a lot more pics on there then here.

Thank you everyone and God bless