Highlights from Fukushima's BBQ Party:
- Meeting neighbors!
- Rambunctious children! Several of whom are not yet students, but who are talking about joining the school...
- Chatting mothers!
- Overhearing a conversation between two young boys: "Hey, are you going to come to Sunday school at the church this Sunday?" "Hmmm...I'm not sure. You?" I love hearing people who aren't Christian yet inviting each other to church. :)
- Meeting an older gentleman who is a handbell instructor for the city--who teaches handbells both to groups that have traveled around the world and as a volunteer.
- Overhearing the church member who came to help us casually chatting with neighbors and inviting them to eat and hang out with us...and then later seeing her good-naturedly smack one of the boys, whom she apparently knew...creating that all-around family-like atmosphere.
In other good news and highlights: two new students today promised to come back next Tuesday for Bible study!
This week has been...so good!! The kids' ministry seminar that happened Monday somehow feels like a lifetime ago though...this morning I woke up and thought about running, but decided that I felt like I'd been run over by a truck. Cindy said earlier, "I wonder if I'm ever really going to wake up and feel alive today...?" It is definitely time to sleep...more later!
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