1 More Person Accepted Christ at Toyo

This one was more recent, Wednesday of last week. We had arranged to join an English Speaking Society (ESS) for their lunch meeting to help them practice their english that day. There were about 100 people in the club, and we were going to each be put into a group with about 10 of them, and they were all going to be talking almost solely to us. So basically, we decided it was time to hit 100 people with the gospel all at once. And the topic of the day was self-introduction, and since a Christian can't fully introduce themselves without talking about God, it was perfect. So as the meeting went on I took a look around and everyone was either talking about God and Christianity, or actually getting into sharing the gospel with their group. I could tell God was present and working through all of us that day. As expected, many of them kindly listened to us and got a bit interested, but it was a very commercialized situation, so it was hard to connect with people and no one really seemed too interested in becoming a Christian at the time. At least from my point of view, that is.

After the meeting was over, though, Bo called me over and introduced me to Macha, and told me that he was very interested in becoming Christian based just on what he understood about Christianity in the short time that bo had to briefly talk about Jesus. On a side note: There was no real reason for me to call Bo over, he could have led Macha to Christ on his own and then introduced me afterwards, but for some reason he felt inclined to introduce me. So basically, God decided to hand me a gift of getting to watch another person come to Christ. God is just too good to me. back on topic: So Bo and I lead him through a more detailed explanation of the gospel, got to the prayer to accept Jesus suggested in the KGP and asked him if that prayer reflected how he was feeling. The ENTIRE time he was eating up every word we told him about God. The only way I can explain it is that God placed a desire in Macha to get to know Him, because Macha could not get enough of what we were telling him.

After reading through the prayer he said, "I can pray this right now?", and Bo and I were just like... of course! So we lead him through the prayer, and then did a bit of follow up to confirm what he had just accepted into his life. And somehow I guess he didn't have class for the rest of the day, cuz we got to hang out with him for a very long time. Bo was able to give him a Bible written in Japanese and English, and, this is the best response I've ever heard, he said, "I will read this all tonight!" Of course he was joking a bit, but it was just very refreshing to hear him be so excited about getting to know God better.

And the best pa0rt for me is with Macha, we were able to set up plenty of times to meet with him again and introduce him to Japanese Christians who would be able to help him grow after we leave, and he was excited the whole time. It was awesome.

So I guess I would request that you all pray that Macha would continually seek after God with the hunger that he had starting off.

And now I think I'm done updating for the current time. 3 posts is more than enough. Oh ya, in case you were only planning on reading this latest entry, just so you know I posted 3 new ones today if you want to read them all.

Upcoming posts hopefully soon: Tokyo Disneyland trip and wrap up from our last week on campus.