Tyndale Puppet Show

During our stay in Japan, our team has been doing evangelistic concerts. We played in churches and schools hoping that God will use the music ministry to reach the unreached. During our concerts, one of our most important message is presented through our puppet show. The puppet shows are mostly directed at children, but at the same time, it also speaks to the parents if they were also present at the time. The children love it especially with the cute puppets we borrowed from Tyndale and the wonderful music and voices uniquely done by our friends.

We currently have two puppet shows. One of them is the parable of the Good Samaritan where it teaches to love your neighbours even if it gets difficult. The other is the parable of the Unforgiving Servant where it teaches to forgive others. We believe, with these parables Jesus taught will be very effective in the nation of Japan where these teachings have been lacking. We hope that the message will be planted through our puppet shows. As the children learn from our puppet shows, we pray that God will teach them how to love those around them. We also pray that during this process that one day, these people will be able to have a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Kelsey

They say the camera adds 10 pounds...

"We were on NHK." This has become a handy phrase among our team as we continue trying to get into schools around the city. While at a kindergarten last week, our team was filmed for the NHK news. We were filmed singing songs with the kids and doing our puppet show! Our team didn't realize what a major step forward this was for the church in Tsugaru. While watching the clip back that same night, it was a small miracle that the church was mentioned nation wide. 

We pray that God would use even this small video clip to make people aware of the church and to hopefully continue to bring people out to our concerts while we are here. 

On top of the witness this clip has been, it has also been quite the souvenir. It has been sent all over Canada. It has been a good way to show people back home the ways that we are involved and our family and friends are still in constant prayer over the ministry here. 

- Rebecca

Lighthouse Cafe

Lighthouse Cafe put on an awesome cafe night for all who were willing. We had a great time hearing some of the performances from a couple outside people, including a world touring shamisen player who goes by Yoshi. Yoshi even invited Adam to jam out with him on a song.

The small cafe made for a great intimate setting filled with great music. Our Girls did a great job of cheering everyone up with an A Capella version of lean on me. Adam couldn't stand still when Yobu (Job) sang some of the teams favourite Switchfoot songs. Colin also got to share his own original song and Adam, Kaitlyn, and I got the privilege of closing off the night with a couple songs. The whole night was great for mingling and getting to knowing people and I would love to do another one.

"When the moon hits your eye..."

Made pizza from scratch for the first time. I now know how to make pizza dough... sauce is a different story - I wasn't in charge of making that. Had an interesting experience with onions. Usually when one cuts onions, they cry. I wasn't cutting onions, Soo Jin was. I began tearing up anyway 'cause I was making dough right beside her. But yeah... it took a while to make everything, but I'm glad that I was helping out, and learning along the way - one more thing to add to my repertoire of eggs, pancakes, and instant noodles! The final product turned out well - the pizza was great! And... don't know what much else to say, 'cause I'm not one to go on and on about food! So yeah, fun stuff!

-Job

"Together forever and never to part." -Rick Astley

It's been 2 ½ weeks that I've been living with the Japan team. This isn't my first time on a mission trip, so I'm not unfamiliar in living with a bunch of non-relatives under the same roof – biggest team I've been with was 10 other people! (That's not including my brother.) Anyway, living with the Tyndale team has been fine so far – no big issues... unless I'm the cause of trouble and nobody has told me yet! But yeah, I feel that the team has good cooperation just with living together – grocery shopping, shower schedules, washing dishes – everyone's open to do whatever needs to be done. Night times can be crazy – it gets to the point where everyone laughs at the most insignificant things, but it's hilarious. Yeah... I think that's about all I've got to say for now. Good times.

-Job

Amazed and Excited.

Japan has been such an experience and has not fell short of the expectations I had coming here. One of the most surprising things for me is how much I felt at home the moment we touched down. A lot of the residential housing and things looked very similar to when I going visit family in Trinidad and most of the other things were very similar to Toronto. It is so awesome to see what God is doing in Tsugaru Church and related Chapels. I can't wait to see what God is going to do next and the anticipation only builds as we participate in some of the activities that have helped the church get to its point today. I always doubted the effect of street playing and handing out tracks until I heard some of the Testimonies of some of the people here. We had our first concert on Saturday Night and we had a blast. The Ghents told us after how many new people and old church goers came that night. I can't explain the awe and excitement that comes along with seen a lot of what God has done, knowing that your currently a part of his work, and knowing that he's going to do so much more here.

Nick.

New Team

Check out the new team that arrives Saturday May 16. We look forward to all God is going to do through and in them.
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