Additional Taiwan/Japan Update - 5/30 - Yutaka

Email received 5/30/10 5:48pm CST

Dear all,

Thank you for your prayer. What we experience has been the fruit of your work, prayer and kind support. I’ll periodically add my perspectives to the chronicles that Sue and others send.

Here are some random highlights. After some 40 hours on the road, we arrived in Tainan not feeling particularly anointed or awake. The church sent two vans which gratefully accommodated all people and luggage. Our driver, Eric, is a native of a neighboring district and has been with Living Waters about 4 years. He and Kevin, the other driver, were consummate servants-letting their work speak for itself—loading our luggage, answering questions and drawing little attention to themselves.

We arrived at Bus-7, the 1^st floor café that serves as gathering place for the church, income to give to missions and source of tasty curry rice. After being introduced to the church, dancers immediately went to the 11^th floor where they would help Susan Shen with the children. The entire group was some 77 people—an outreach Sunday. Kenon gave a brief version of his testimony and asked if anyone wanted to have Jesus be his/her friend. 25 non believing children raised their hands. The large group divided into interest groups: Kimberly and Stanton went with the soccer players; Joshua and Kirsten with those who painted cd’s; Jenna, Ashton and Abigail taught dance; Kenon went with the ping pong players.

Following lunch at Bus -7, the dancers immediately went to prepare for the dance seminar. What followed was phenomenal. Kirsten and Kenon led a warm up. The 20 or so dancers were game. Then as they portrayed different emotions/stories via dance, the Spirit broke in. Almost everyone was tearing up as dancers from our group and theirs walked across the floor to portray: anger, surprise, what you would do at the crucifixion then at the resurrection. We prayed for impartation at the end of the time. Our driver, Kevin, went down in the Spirit as Stanton and I prayed for him. The organizers gave us permission to stop well before 4:00. Everyone lingered on.

Following a brief nap, Sue, mom and I joined All Nations and Living Waters leaders for the biggest seafood buffet that I have ever seen. Living Waters treated us to dinner at one of the swanky hotels in town. We sat across Isabel Patterson and her childhood friend Myra. We also shared with Susan Shen, the elementary school minister. The sharing after the meal was very uplifting as people from New Zealand, S. Africa, Germany, and the rest of us spoke of the impact of the Living Waters church. Afterward, Floyd asked me to address some medical concerns of his.

The children had pizza at bus-7 then headed to the Chen home. I said good night to them as they headed to their rooms at about 10:00. They seemed quite heartened. We will be debriefing and discussing plans shortly over breakfast.

Here are some new plans: Tonight we will have about 10 minutes to dance. Tentatively, we will do Into the West. Tomorrow we will have another 10 minute slot in the evening meeting. Wed they are asking us to do another dance seminar.

Thanks again for your love.

Yutaka