"I will bless the Lord at all times;

His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
My soul will make its boast in the Lord;
The humble will hear it and rejoice.
O magnify the Lord with me,
And let us exalt His name together.
I sought the Lord, and He answered me,
And delivered me from all my fears.
They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces will never be ashamed.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
And saved him out of all his troubles.
The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him,
And rescues them.
O taste and see that the Lord is good;

How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!"

Psalm 34 1-8 NASB 

     So God got me through another airport experience. =D When I got to the airport in South Korea I was told that Japan might be upset that I did not have a printed ticket of when I would be going back the United States. I did have a ticket that I could show on my computer but it would still be a pain to have to deal with customs. However no one asked me about it and I was able to go on my way...

Then... I realized I lost my passport during my two hour hang out at the airport... 20 minutes before my bus was arriving to take me to Kichijoji. (the station that is next to Mitaka, where I currently live)

So I sprung to the information section and was told that the passport had been found. (Praise God!!!) I knew that I had little time but somehow, by God's grace I gathered my passport and made it with six minutes to spare by the bus stop.

 

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    I have to say that it has felt like a whirlwind since I got back to Japan. There seems to be so much that I want to do while I am still here and so many things happening. The day after I arrived we had a friday night live. This is an event we do at the cafe once a month. It was a really popular evening, and I enjoyed the rush of orders constantly coming through. I thought, why can't every day be as busy as this night? lol I don't think we have enough staff for it to be that busy every day... The music artist,

Tats Shioya, engaged his audience and was having people clapping and singing along through some of the songs. Here is a small clip. ^-^ I have about two seconds of stardom. (I am in the kitchen)

     I love Friday Night Live and the other events we have. There are some great opportunities to share the gospel through these events through Christian music and testimonies. =) Please pray that our next Friday Night will be full of people who will hear about Christ! Unfortunately I will not be working that night because I have another opportunity to go to a different event. Did you know that Francis Chan is going to be in Tokyo October 4th? Chan ( Oct. 4th) and David Platt (on Oct. 3rd) will be speaking at this free event! We will be taking *hopefully* a big group of people to these events! Please be in prayer for us as we try to work out details. I can't seem to get the link to work but you can copy it and past it if you want to see the Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/events/197796980388989/

 

This is a picture from this past Saturday of Ken Totushek teaching guitar to our cafe worker Maiko and Chen, a singer who comes and plays at our cafe. It was not a friday night live but he still did a concert afterwords.


Basically a lot of events coming up and flying by!