Churaumi and Pine apple park

On Monday I was able to take the group that was with me at Tim's place out for some adventuring in Nago, we went to the famous Pine apple park as well as the third largest aquarium in the world (it currently houses three large whale sharks and a plethora of other aquatic animals.

English outreach in Nago

Last Sunday I was blessed to take a group up to Pastor Tim's house in Nago to help out with an English outreach. It was a total blessing for all of us. After fun and games Tim shared the gospel with his english students.

Surf outreach

us chilling and worshiping the Lord while we were inviting others 

Last saturday we had our first surf outreach; what we ended up doing was go to a part of the seawall, called 'junkyards'. The surf unfortunately wasn't the greatest, but the Lord still blessed it and brought a good amount of people to our area where we were able to feed them some food and talk with them. 

the sky as the sun was setting over the East China Sea

Pastor Andrew Neely

everyone praying for Andrew and his wife Kayo

We had a special Sunday night W2 (worship&word) as Andrew Neely was (for lack of better words) given  the title of pastor. It was great to hear some of the pastors around island give testimony of how Neely was when he first arrived here and how he always going out of his way to meet the needs of the congregation may it be teaching while Tom is gone to leading worship and locking the church up. I pray that the Lord continues to use you in a great way bud. God bless you and Kayo!

A rare moment

Jon is on the left, Jr. in the center along with our mother and me on the right.
That was such a long day.....I think this was shot right before we left
(I only assume from the tired smile I have on my face)

A couple of months ago I was able to visit the states for my best friend's wedding in Nevada. Since Eder and I are literally like brothers he invited my whole family to the wedding (dad wasn't able to get the days off unfortunately). Anyways this picture of us three Coronado boys all dressed up is definitely a rare moment and from the expression on our mother's face she was more than excited to have us all there for a picture. Thanks Jeremy for the picture!

Mr. Vee and the Inside Story

Sunday marked the 10 year anniversary of 9/11 and the 6 month anniversary of the earthquake/tsunami that struck Sendai/Tohoku region of Japan. We were blessed by the band and their willingness to just come and bless our congregation. After the band finished playing we spent time in prayer and heard a salvation message shared by Yoshua.

New Intern

This is Sam, he is our new intern. None of us know much about him but our other intern John Piper vouched for him and we gave the ok. God bless homie, God's gonna do some sweet stuff with ya while you're here!

Zakimi Castle

tried out my panoramic function.

The outer court of the castle

the entrance to the inner court 

the ancient rock work of the Ryukyu Kingdom 

some of the students

airplane view of the castle ruins with a description

outside of the castle ruins

there were pine cones and some of the boys got excited and had a war

tamiko admiring her photography 

the castle is a world heritage site. I didn't know that until I arrived

Every Monday while the Bible College is in session we have an adventure day, where we take the students to various parts of the Island (and generally the beach). Yesterday we took the students to Zakimi Castle in Yomitan Village. This castle was given to a warrior, named Gamasaru, who brought the various kingdoms in Okinawa together, and I guess he liked the stones from his previous castle because according to legend he had that one dismantled and used those stones to make this castle. Zakimi castle was even used during WWII as a missile base for the Japanese army. the view from the top of the castle was great! after visiting the castle we went to a phenomenal beach that is near by (one of my favorites) and spent a couple of hours there. It was a blessed sabbath day for us.

I'm a quarter-centurion

I was surprised with a morning jello cake in the morning

Then Hannah sung happy birthday to me over Facetime

Here is the jello cake

Eeeeee! I'm getting old.

Yes, yes, yes I am now 25 and I am so blessed to be able to celebrate my birthday with such great friends (both close an far away). I was even blessed with a ramen lunch (heavenly...if this stuff is good here on earth I wonder what the food will be like when we dine with Christ!)

Lord thank you for letting me live these years, allow me to continue on for your glory!