Friday, February 23, 2007

Teaching English






Teaching English is going well. I have about 10-16 adults coming to my night class. Afterwards we hang out, play games, and talk for at least an hour. It has been such a great way to get to know people in the community. For most we are the first Christians they have met. The second picture is after a class some of the staff shared songs they had written. While we sang one of the adults who knew no English kept saying peace. He was wondering if the song was about peace. The crazy thing is that he knows no English and the song had just begun, later Gabe shared that the song was about having true peace from God. God totally was speaking peace to this guys heart, cause there is no way he would have known what the song was about.
Teaching the kids at school has been fun as well. They really enjoy learning and we often play games and hang out with them. The nice thing about Japan is that we can eat with the kids and we all share the same meal. This creates many fun times out of the class room.

Please pray for those in my adult class, and the kids that we see every week at the school. We so want to show Christ love to them, but the language barrier makes it hard. So we really have to rely on God speaking to their hearts through our actions and words.