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haha hey guys it is your truly Samuel Kim again :]

Andrea really wanted to blog today but the internet went down in her room so God has given me the privilege of giving you guys an update of our mission here in this beautiful country of Japan.

As you all know today was the sabbath today. If you think that our days back home are long of having a youth service and EM service and bible studies, it is even longer in Tomei International Church. They have a total of four services back to back. It is quite exhausting for the Pastors and for the members. Nonetheless, God pours out overabundant blessings for every single service! It is so exciting to see God working here in this petite but Christ centered church.

Today during the main service Andrea and I had the opportunity to give our Testimonies. It was a nervous but blessful experience for both of our christian walks. We got to profess our love for our Lord and to encourage the congregation here of how God led us to the Japan missions team. We both got to talk about our passions and the hard work we did to raise money for the trip.

Another blessing today was that my sister and I had the privilege of seeing one of our mother's close friends today. She is a christian artist that has been performing for 30 years. Her name is Choi Myoung Ja. The entire congregation got to hear her beautiful performance and be motivated to continue to strive for our God. she reminded us to be thankful to God for all of the blessings he is giving in our lives even in the mist of our sufferings. She was adamant about her belief that our hearts should always be thankful and faithful to our God even though our world, our health, our worldly possessions, and even our families are not doing so well. It was such a big encouragement for me to feel thankfulness to our God today. It reminded me of my lack in devotion and love for first and formost our God, my parents, my friends, and our beautiful church.

Enough about me! How about a little update on our team in general. To tell you guys the truth, Our team is struggling a little bit to love each other, but WE KNOW our God's grace is enough to cover all of our sins. We are continuing to rebuke and love each other by looking over each other's sins. We humbly and urgently ask you for your continual prayer for our unity as a missions team. We will be starting our second and final week of english camp tommorrow and we are all very excited. All of our members are working hard to prep and be ready to teach these children.

Our park and soccer field/running track is really helping to ease our stress levels and give us endorphins to blow of some steam for a lack of a better term. Thank God for providing us such a nice place to work out and fellowships with one another! We are all thankful for that place.


Some prayer requests we have for you guys:

1. Our unity as a group and as representatives of our church back home and God to have attitudes and actions that reflect God and strive for his character.

2. Pray for Andy and Alice as they take up the mantle to lead us to give them patience, Christ's love, and wisdom.

3. Pray for the children, parents, and the church members here. (everything= their faith, love for God, their evangelical heart for Japan)

4. My sister's leg, It has gotten better thanks to God and your powerful prayers. We ask that you continue to pray for a full healing

5. We ask that you pray for Pastor Young, for his energy and recuperation from an arduous journey back to the states. Pray for his health but more importantly for his love for our God so that he can continue to love and serve us back home with vigor and strength.

Thank you so much for reading and prayers

we love you guys!

your brother sam

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please do comment and say hi so that we may be encouraged by you guys. thank you.