I haven’t been quite as regular posting here as I’d planned, but this last week I’ve got a bit of an excuse. I’ve been getting ready to go visit Japan for three weeks. In fact, I’m quite literally just about to head out to the airport, but I figured I’d better giver you all an update first.
The Jesus Film Project coordinates numerous short term mission trips throughout the year, and as an employee of the Jesus Film Project, they allow me to go on one trip per year, up to two weeks in length, and still get paid to do it. They’ve been putting on a Christmas distribution project to Japan for the last three years, so I always signed up to do that one; this will be my fourth year in a row, and that’s what I’ll be doing the first two weeks. The project is titled “Love Japan” and consists of distributing as many multimedia CDs as we possibly can. From past experience this ranges between 10,000 and 15,000. The CDs are essentially a multimedia tract. They contain Southern Gospel Music (which is strangely popular in Japan), Christmas songs, portions of The Jesus Film and other coll things. The purpose of the CDs is to sort of act as bait to get Japanese people to attend Christmas outreach functions put on by local Churches and Campus Crusade for Christ. A few years ago one guy that we gave a CD to started attending a church in Tachikawa (where we’ll be based) and is going to be getting baptized while I’m over there, which is reall encouraging.
I’ll be staying an extra week to visit with Jon (my brother). My mom, sister and friend will all be flyingg out that week to, and we plan to do some sightseeing, go snowboarding in Nagano, and visit as many Onsens (Japanese hot springs) as possible.Should be an awesome time.
Keep checking back as I hope to update this often with pictures. Please be praying for the safe and timely arrival of all the team members. We’re flying from all over the US and are arriving in Japan on three different flights.
Mata ne! (See you!)