Day 15 - LBF Final - All Teams

95 students and 34 OB packed the Shibuya Hi-b.a. Center for the final rally. 37 students were new. All teams were present, and worked together to pull off the last rally of GT2009.

Day 14 - Yokkaichi Rally 2 - Team D

After tracting in multiple locations around Yokkaichi, the team did laundry, bought food, prepared for the rally, went out to eat lunch with a missionary family (the Beans), helped out with an elementary English class at the church, then headed out for the second rally. The location was relatively close to the station, and a large clean venue. When I was paying for the room and receiving the keys, the lady in charge informed me that she was an alumnus of hi-b.a. and that she had attended camp when she was a teenager!

Unfortunately, no one came directly from tracting, but 3 boys and 6 girls still came to the rally through church contacts. The pastors at the church had been praying for hi-b.a. to come to the area for the last ten years, and thanked us with tears in their eyes.

-PAUL

Day 14 - Fujisawa - Team A

There are no Fujisawa regulars to begin with, so when two new students showed up by tracts, Ryutaro-san said it was a miracle. Then we witnessed a bigger miracle when 7 more people come in by tracts, three of them who did not receive the tracts at Fujisawa that morning, but at other rally locations earlier on in the week! Two hi-ba students came to help from Machida, and some came from the church. What an encouraging rally!

Christian led the worship, David gave his testimony, Lillian interpreted, Caroline was the MC, and everyone talked to students.

-HYUK

Day 13 - Yokkaichi Rally 1 - Team D

After helping out with some toddler English classes at the church, we quickly got ready for the rally and headed out by car. 7 boys and 5 girls came to the first rally in Yokkaichi. 7 OB and staff, plus 8 GT people made the room feel small. Ryutaro-san came from Kanto to give the message. MC combo was Keita and Hikari, Jacob gave his testimony interpreted by Daniel, and the overall atmosphere was very lively. The rally ended at 7:15pm, and we were asked to stay for the church's seinenkai meeting which started right away at 7:30pm. Daniel gave his testimony, and the team sang some songs. We were involved in small group discussions with the 13 young adults that attended, then headed off to find a sento and dinner at 9:30pm.

-PAUL

Day 12 - higashi kurame - Teams A,B,C

6/17/09
Day 12

Wednesdays are our days of rest. Devotions were held at 9:30. At 10:45 we started to head over to Kurume Christ Church. Lunch was served, but not until all the teams arrived. Team C had already left before us, Team A had to arrive from Shibuya. Lunch was Spaghetti and Lasagna both of which were amazing. Members of KCC generously prepared the meal for us. When everyone was done with lunch an exhibition of the skits started all of them are great and each were very different from the others. From the skits we went into a session of worship with Hyuk and Kengo. Dave lead us in a time of praise for the things God has done in the past week and a half. Derrick had us pray for things that would happen in the next couple days. We went back to worship. Leaving this everyone was really mellow. Team time was next and we talk about our favorite form of water and our favorite animal. The answers were quite interesting. B team took a walk down the river before supper. When we got back for supper there was Chinese food set out as well as some leftovers. All the leaders went into a meeting so the "kids" had to wait for them to be done in order to leave. One more thing we had to do before we left, sign a thank you note for the church. When the leaders were done we took a big group photo and then started the 10 minute walk back to the hostel for an early bedtime.

- peter

Day 12 - Team D travels to Yokkaichi

Leaving Harvest Christ Church if Gifu, Team D traveled to Yokkaichi in Mie-ken. Stopping along the way for a conbini lunch at a seaside park, the team brushed up on janken skills.

-PAUL

Day 11 - Yokohama - Team B

6/16/09
Day 11

Our last morning in Chigasaki. We had to get up to leave at 5:45. Dave came to take us to the station. He also took our stuff with him in his car. We arrived in Yokohama ready to repeat yesterdays success. That did not happen. I handed out roughly 10 and I didnt hear many stories to the better. The japanese staff member said that Yokohama is hard to tract well. Hosanna was the only one who had major success. We went to
Yoshinoya which is the closest you could ever get to a Japanese fast food place. With actual Japanese food and not burgers. We arrived and had free time or nap time until lunch. Convenient stores seem to have become our staple for lunch. Downstairs from where we were eating is where the rallys are held. We set that up and had a meeting. Derrick shared his testimony and reminded us that God has control of our future. Instead of having devotions we prayed about our futures in pairs. Rehearsal started for our second skit. The only trouble that we had was with
rehearsal was laughing. We prayed right beforehand for the rally and specifically for Linsey's fever. People came in and continued to come in. We had about 30 kids with probably 20 first timers. Chikara also came (a classmate from CAJ). It was nice to be able to see and talk to him before he left. When the rally ended it was pouring. Our leaders chose to get to Higashi Kurume and then to figure out supper. They did give us the option of where to go in the area though.
Good night all.

Peter