July 28: Meeting, meeting, and more meetings

Hi everyone back home. Yesterday (Wednesday), the AGAPE team had meetings after meetings about the Yamanakakou VBS and the FMTC camp. Sato, Joanne, and Emi woke up REALLY early in the morning yesterday at 4:00 am. Joanne and Emi went for a 30 minute jog around the church at 5:00. The weather was good, but the humidity made it really hard to run. Surprisingly, everyone on the team was up by 8:00 eating breakfast. We intended to have the AGAPE Team meeting at 10:00, but since everyone was ready early, we had our meeting at 9:00. We practiced our worship song and the first two skits for VBS. For lunch, the people at Koganei made yummy tsukemen for lunch which everyone enjoyed. They also served dessert, which was a matcha jello with whip cream on top and red bean in the middle of the jello.

After lunch we had the Yamanakakou VBS meeting, talking about who was split into what group and what we should do during the bus ride.

After the meeting, we had about 30 minute of free time which everyone went downstairs to practice a few games that Joanne prepared for the kids at VBS. Then we had a short meeting about the FMTC camp. Besides Sato, Joanne, and Emi, the rest went out exploring. Sato was working on Jenny's testimony and Emi was working on Joanne's testimony. At 6:00 pm, we had dinner with people from Koganei and Sakuragaoka church. The dinner that night was dry curry. It was a little spicy, but delicious. Dessert was grape fruit and mizu youkan, which was also good as well. Why does Japanese food have to taste so good?



During dinner, the team got to have fellowship time with the people from the different churches.










At 7:30, we joined the prayer meeting which Paster Nobu lead worship and Emi gave her testimony.












After the prayer meeting, Pastor Nojiri took the AGAPE team shopping to get lunch for today's trip to Yamanakako.

It has been raining lightly in the morning, which is a little sad, but because the sun is not out, it's cooler than yesterday morning. In about 30 minutes, we will be leaving for Yamanakako. We are all looking forward for the VBS and are excited for what God has planned for us.

Blog post by Emi Takemoto