Today we went to visit Bill & Pam Noar, Christar missionaries and the leaders of the Japan Focus Group. As we stood and waited for the train to Kudamatsu, we felt proud of ourselves for being able to get our tickets and find the correct place to wait… that is until we looked around and realized that we were on the wrong side of the tracks! With the train coming in a minute or two, we found ourselves running up the stairs and across the tracks to the other side! We did make the correct train, but we sure were scared there for a bit! Here in Japan, the trains run like clockwork. If your train is supposed to come at 8:43 and one comes at 8:41, don’t take it because it’s probably not the right train. It will come at exactly 8:43. (I think the US’s bus system could take a lesson from them.) I was able to go with Pam to a nursing home where she taught the residents how to make blueberry cake. It was a fun and interesting experience! They don’t make much cake in Japan and so this was new to them. In the afternoon we were able to sit and talk with Bill & Pam and get a better feel for the type of ministry they have in Japan. We talked about positive and negative things in Japanese culture and ways to make have a form of Christianity that is authentic to a Japanese society.

Pray for us and the Noars as we digest all we talked about this afternoon.

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