been absent for a while....sorry.

here is a tranquil picture of the East China Sea to ease you anxiety 

Man has it been an incredibly busy and blessed summer. many things happened. stay tuned for more posts

June

I have been working on making my own pasta (the above is store bought)

A Okinawa treat, taco rice....everything you expect IN a taco BUT  on RICE!....weird I know, but its good.

Pastor Rick saying a couple things at the CCO Anniversary 

some dude chilling on his roof...he looks like he was asleep (couldn't look to long, I was driving)

the Magnusson's getting ready to check in their luggage

June was a very busy month and thus a reason why I have not been able to post anything to the blog.

At the beginning of the month Tommy and the family went state side for the month. This of course gave me a grip of things to take care of while they were gone (every moment was a blessing).

I was able to teach English at two preschools that Joanna usually teaches at, this was very scary for me at first since I really don't like teaching English and entertaining kids at the same time, BUT, the Lord gave me joy each day that I needed to teach!

Some people left the island and others came back to the island. The Lord called Joe and Samantha Magnusson back to the states, they were a huge blessing to the church body and the bible college kids. The Lord brought back two people to us, Keegan Davis and Yuko Nakatsu. Keegan will be going to language school while he is out here with us and Yuko will be coming along side us to help with the Bible College and English classes that we are offering to the general public.

Then Calvary Chapel Okinawa (CCO) had their 10 year anniversary, it was a blessing to be part of some of the work that the Lord has done with the body over there.

Solar eclipse

you can kind of see it

Yesterday morning on our way to the gym it was darker than normal (it wasn't because of cloud coverage), odd right. Tommy looked up and saw that the eclipse was going on. All of us were like, "woooooahhh..." (or maybe that was just me...). We were blessed to be able to look at it without the special glasses due to the cloud coverage (still dangerous, I know). Either way it was cool to see.

Graduation

The spring semester of CCBC Japan is no over! It was a great semester with great students, the Lord is going to do a great thing with all of the students. Above we have our three graduates; Aya, Yuko, and Chala. Lord do a great work with these incredible sisters!

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).