Masaki and Yoshiko

If you have read my newsletters in the past then you may recall me mentioning these newly weds here. Again this is Masaki and Yoshiko, Masaki is part of Teen Challenge, no longer a student but is now being trained up to be a director for the Teen Challenge program.

They were married in the mainland so all of Masaki's friends here in Okinawa were not able to attend the wedding so he had a little reception here the other day, it was a super cool blessing to hear how they met and how they were married AND where the Lord is leading them now as they commit themselves to Teen Challenge.

Our friend Tettsuya opened up his restaurant for us to eat at and, boy was it good. Lord bless both Masaki with his new step of faith and bless Tettsuya and his restaurant!

Saturday night lights

Calvary Chapel Okinawa ( I go to Calvary Chapel Ginowan) has started a young adults Bible study on Saturday nights (hence the name). It was a blessing to see other brothers and sisters from CCO.

The Mexican restaurant

The plate that Eder is holding is less then half f the amount that they give you. I failed to mention that the restaurant was all you can eat taco and taco rice, incredibly good, seriously. The place was super small and smelled kinda off, according to Eder that is what all Mexican taco bar places smell like that. After the eating we went to the beach to relax (it was our day off).

Eder and Manda

Eder and I have been best friends since our first semester in Bible college back in 2005 (time has definitely flown, believe me), he met his wife (Amanda) out here in Okinawa, which is a sweet story, it long so I will just sum it up....he was just faithfully serving the Lord and He brought her into his life....end story.

Anyways, the other day a group of us went up north to visit the Diaz family to be (Manda is pregnant) and the Newell family. Eder isn't posing under the Mexican flag because he is in Mexico, but because we went to a restaurant that happened to have VERY good tacos (not octopus, you'd get it if you know Japanese) and taco rice (look up if you don't know, it's native to Okinawa).