Welcome to the Japan Sendai team blog. There's four of us heading to Sendai - Mark (Forthy), John, Jen and James, and we're going to be serving this summer (1 July - 4 August) alongside the existing team of OMF missionaries there. Do pop back from time to time to see if any of our adventures have made it onto the page, and check our prayer requests here.
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Church
On Sunday morning we had our first experience of a Japanese church meeting. Aside from the obvious linguistic differences it was not dissimilar to what we are used to: we sang songs (written out for ignorant westerners phonetically in romaji, Roman characters), prayed, heard (or read!) a sermon (which John Taylor gave in Japanese) and shared the Lord`s supper. We also had to introduce ourselv... -
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Making Contact
Over the last few days we`ve been doing a lot of flyering for the International Cafes, and excitingly have received two responses (highly unusual success rate - 2 in about 500 at that stage!). We also had a slightly surreal encounter while delivering a few flyers on the way home late one evening... As Jen came to one door, it opened and an elderly man came out, apparently for his evening ciga... -
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The Plan
Before I start please excuse the brevity of this entry, as well as the probably numerous typos - there is no rule that says English students should be good at spelling, that is what poor hand-writing and spell-checkers were invented for. I only have about 10 minutes to cover so much! Our time of orientation with Elspeth and John Taylor (long-serving, wonderfully hospitable and lovely OMFe... -
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Orientation
Today, having actually got some sleep, the OMF guys risked a little more content with us. The highlights of the day began with breakfast (which, if you remember, not everyone made it to. But one person did. She is very good.), and the very good news that milk and cereal in Japan are highly similar to milk and cereal in England! Hurrah! We had a language session - let it be known that Japa... -
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Arrival
How many hours sleep have the team have between them in the last 48 hours? a)89 b)12 c)Too tired to work it out This is the first update from the Sendai team... we are writing collectively after our first day here, and John helpfully suggested we just write about what we have done so far, so here goes... We arrived at 1:30am and for the sake of directing our excitement at...