End of Week 1

Hi all. It's been quite a first week! I feel exhausted already.

Anyhow, I've been eating lots of great things. Definitely one of the biggest blessings has been the food.

Here's a katsu curry I had for lunch.

This is a kalbi yakiniku rice burger from Mos Burger. It was delicious. It was also half the size of an in-n-out burger though. But 350 yen. So almost twice as expensive as an in-n-out burger.

Anyhow, I met this guy named Wataru this week. He's leading an bible study here on campus. I had seen his poster for International Bible Class and sent him an e-mail about it so then we met up and talked and I got to hear more of his testimony and what he's been doing on campus.

It was pretty nuts. He wasn't a good student or anything in high school so his chances of getting into Doshisha were pretty low but he prayed about it and felt that it was only by God's grace and blessing that he's a student here now and that God was planning to use him here on campus. He has a vision for forming a more seeker friendly bible study on campus since currently there isn't one. Since there isn't a cultural tradition of Christianity as there is in the United States, becoming Christian requires breaking out of the cultural norm so Christians tend to be quite serious about their faith.

Anyhow, Wataru had a vision for forming a more "seeker friendly" fellowship at Doshisha, since the Christians here are either "very Christian" or not Christian at all. Since there are a lot of international and exchange students at Doshisha all the time as well, he wants to minister to them and have both Japanese and English bible studies. Anyhow, he only started his fellowship last year and it has since grown from just him to 30 students! But he was praying for some international student to come and help him and teach him more about running this type of fellowship. Anyhow, I find it pretty amazing that I'd find his poster then and be able to meet him and tell him about InterVarsity, so I'm excited to see what coming to some of his bible studies will be like.

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. "Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:33-34