This year the Japan trip was full evangelism and street worship. We had 12 people on our team. A few came for only a few weeks, but they left an impact in the people that they where around. Five days out of the week we would do street worship and evangelism. We started doing it during the night time because we realized how many people go out during the night. This led to many great conversations about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. We talked with people of all different religions, and some who didn’t believe in anything. On Sunday we helped out with the church service at a church called LOMI. This summer the church had close to fifteen new people come to church and three of them gave the lives to Christ.

“I remember talking to this Muslim guy who was very closed off to talking about how Jesus was the son of God, but he and his friend had so much fun playing music with us they just wanted to stay. He said to me that this was the greatest night of his life and that he didn’t want it to end. I told him that this joy did not come from us, but came from Jesus and the joy did not have to end with us leaving, but that Jesus would go with him everywhere if he wanted Him too.”

Another thing we did this year was go to Sea of Trees which many of you might know as the suicide forest. As we walked through the area we thought would be scary and dark, we soon realized that it was a place of beauty and life. As we walked through it we could see God in this place. We could see Him speaking through His creation to us. At one point we stopped and just decided to have a worship service in the middle of the forest. This is possibly a place where God had never been worshiped before, and the crazy thing is that when we worship it seemed the forest started worshiping with us.