Our whole group wore kimonos for a day as we visited temples and shrines to better understand the Japanese culture.

We visited to local schools to build relationships with teenagers and share the truth of Jesus Christ with them

We helped a local church with its outreach to students through a conversational english class

Team members helped serve at a ministry to mothers and kids at this play group

Sharing personal stories about how God has changed our lives was a great way to connect with others and share about Jesus in an understandable way.

These team members use a worldless skit as a tool to demonstrate how Jesus changes lives.

Brenden, Jeff, Brian & Jon make friends with a few local college students

Kelly meets her host family for the first time. Each team member stayed with a host family for a weekend

The power of and need for prayer became more real to us through this experience.

This is our team on top of the church building

We enjoyed a great meal together during our team debriefing

Students from our youth group joined those from a Japanese church to talk about the similarities and differences of being a Christian in the US vs. Japan. We pray that it was a time of encouragement.

It was great building relationships with Japanese teenagers.

It was fun to make friends with Japanese teenagers

Team members from our youth group met with the youth group from the church in Japan to discuss similarities and differences of being a Christian in America vs. Japan. We pray it was a time of encouragement.

We were able to go to a local University because of some of the friends we made. After eating lunch, we played worship songs in the open courtyard.