Third Floor A/C Unit

Winter is the best time to have a new A/C Unit installed, the workers are not so busy and you get a brake in the price. So we ordered a new unit in the Children’s ministry. It will be a dual unit (two blowers) and also it has a heater unit installed for those cold days (like today, can you believe it, it is still cold in Okinawa). The kids are going to be blessed this winter, Praise the Lord, thank you Jesus!

Restoring the Guitar

About 5 months ago I was searching at a recycle shop in Okinawa (one of my favorite things to do) and I came upon this old beat up guitar. The body was good and solid, but it was dirty, missing some tuners, no strings, or fretbar. I knew that it was going to be a good guitar but needed some work. I have been shopping around looking for another broken guitar to get some parts off of it. But with no good results. Finally I found the parts that I needed and thus started to work. It was really dirty, I need to put some guitar polish and oils to restore the finish. Once I put the new strings on it was ready to play. Whalla! It sounded beautiful! Here is some spiritual juice; that is the way God found us, in the recycle shop of life. We were all beat up, not really worth anything, but then God purchased us. He cleaned us up, put in some new parts, and there you go. We are a new creation in Christ.

Fellowship at the Newell’s

After dinner we spent some time at Pastor Tim and Ayu’s house. We bought some snacks, played some games, and just hung out. We have a good time, a late nighter. We still have to drive home, and make sure we wake up early for classes Tuesday morning.

Miyazato Soba: Nago City

This is a down to earth big soba shop in Nago City. That is all they really specialize in “Okinawan Soba”. It was packed with noodles and meat. A great price, only 500 yen ($5.50) for a large bowl, and 300 yen for a small bowl. They also had spaghetti for 400 yen and Curryrice for 400 yen too. As you can see from the pictures it was a lot of food for a low price. This will definitely be a destination place when we visit the Newell’s in Nago.

New Style: Pineapple Park

They have done some new work on the “Pineapple Park” in Nago City. But the pineapple is still the same, absolutely delicious! It is always fun bringing up a big group. Only one problem, I ate too many pineapple products, but it was sure good!

Hey, Goya Man!

Yoshua is one of our Japanese Bible College Students. He used to work full time but gave us his career to attend Bible College. This was his first major outing with the group. As you can tell he was a little excited. This is a “goya” cut out. What is goya? Well, thank you for asking. Goya is a famous vegetable that grows well in Okinawa. There are many health benefits of eating goya. It is said to keep you cool in the Summer, and also to help lower “high blood pressure”. Amost all Okinawan’s eat goya, it does take some time to get use to it, in the west it is known as “bitter melon”.

Nago Adventure

Monday we celebrated President’s day, so the Westerners were off work. We all caravanned up North for some “fun in the Son”. The weather was cloudy and at times it rained but all in all, an excellent adventure. Tom Cotton said “I think Justin had to use the restroom”.

Valentine’s Love Feast

The Love Feast was rockin! It was such a blessing to get the body together for a potluck and some great fellowship and music. We re-designed the Sanctuary to be more like a mini banquet hall. Different people shared in their musical talents. It was a blessed time.

New CCNago Signs

Pastor Tim just had the new signs for the church installed today, they look great! Please continue to pray for the new work in Nago City. We know that God wants to do a great work up there, but the enemy does not want it to succeed. Please pray from Tim, Ayu and little Masaki.

Serious About Marriage

It says it all. For many of us we know our brother Josh Perry, he has been gone for some time serving the Lord and America on deployment. He will be coming back soon to Okinawa, and soon to be married. He sent some pictures to Trevor, but I think that this is the only one that I can put up on e3missions. We miss you bro, come home soon! God bless you!

Friday Lectures: Chaplain Arthur

Chaplain Arthur is the Head Chaplain on Camp Futenma. Eder assists him as one of our interns there. It was a blessing to have him come and speak to us. Afterwards we made him an “honorary Bible college student” by giving him an official CCBC Okinawa hoodie.

A First

It was so encouraging to hear Tamiko’s testimony and Emi translating for her in Japanese. It is wonderful having the Japanese and English students together. We are all learning Japanese more as we pray, talk and do our best to converse in another language. “Thank you Jesus for bringing these students to us”.

Happy Birthday Andrew!

Andrew’s Birthday was Monday but we celebrated it at the Koinonia Cafe on Wednesday night. Andrew is not one, but we only had one candle (better than nothing huh). The picture of the 4 guys, I don’t know why I put it in there, it just looked good. They were so happy to be a part of Andrew’s Birthday I guess. God bless you Andrew and Happy Birthday buddy!

Finishing up with Prayer

At the end of the night we surrounded Andrew and spent some time in prayer for our good buddy. He is so blessed! The Bible tells us “He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord” (Prov.18:22) We are so blessed for you Andrew and Kayo, we love you both so much. Please leave a wedding greeting for this wonderful couple.

Corny

Andrew is from Iowa and he is a proud “corn eater”, he talks a lot about corn. So Trevor made up this game; He has to find a few other people and challenge them to a “corn eating competition”. He found three challengers, 1 girl and two guys, all Japanese. Sorry, Andrew lost, the second guy from the left one.

Where is my Finance?

Another one of our games was the Andrew had to walk up to 10 different people and ask them “have you seen my finance”? Tamiko is in the big picture, but as you can see Kayo and Andrew are in the back. It was really funny, he had to point out “this is not my fiance, but this one is her in the back”. He had some good responses, a lot of fun.

Neely Games

At Neely’s bachelor party we blind folded him and took him to Mihama and he had to do these crazy games and skit. In this one he had to find a random person and sing to them a love song that he wrote to Kayo. We just happened to find this couple who were taking pictures who will be getting married this week. Andrew sung this long song for them, they liked it!

Andrew’s Bachelor Party

 Monday evening we celebrated Andrew’s Bachelor Party. The guys got together and made him hi “prison outfit”. Please do not be offended it was all done in fun. We all understand that it is freedom and not bondage that he is getting into, but we just all wanted to have a lot of fun. Andrew was a good sport, we all had a blast! Pizza, chips, and soda, a perfect combination.