Skills to pay the bills

This summer we had seven short-term workers with us this year at our church. Three from Canada and four from the US. Karl who is from Canada had already been here with us from a year before. Naomi and I actually flew back to Japan with the four that came from the US. One of them is our cousin and the other three were our friends from the church my cousin goes to. The link to the blog about their experiences during this mission trip is here. We had a great time doing stuff during the summer.

We went tracting to several towns and small villages handing out "Power For Living" books and invitations to our church. We stuffed books in backpacks and walked along handing them out to people and putting them into mailboxes. I think we did this for four days. It was a lot of walking. The picture below is us getting ready for tracting. Along with the seven, Naomi, Hoshi and I helped.

We also had several outreach meetings where we sang songs and did skits. We made and performed eight skits during the three weeks. We became very good at preparing skits.

We had two retreats right after another and during the second one, which was in English, we climbed Mt. Iwaki. We drove up the 66 curves and half of us used the lift and half of us climbed from the parking lot. When driving up, a bunch of us piled into the back of the truck. It was fun.

The Elliots along with other people came from Ajigasawa church and a few English and Japanese speakers came from our church in Itayanagi. One of Naomi's Japanese friends and one of my Japanese friends came, too.

One night we had a chance to go bowling after a party. Naomi invited one of her friends and I invited two of my friends Hiroya and Takayuki. We all played three games and by the time we finished it was late at night.