haley's great blog of fun: October 2006

sambi fest

Sunday night we held さんび (worship) Fest at Mihama. There was a stage and we just worshipped the Lord open air.

A Gospel group, KOMI, performed. Dude, there is no way you could've listened to them and not boogied.

Tim (Haku Geijin) performed hiphop in English and Japanese, Candance sang and she's pretty much the half Korean Whitney Houston, Nicky and I did a couple of songs, dudes from the Bible College went up, it was awesome.

It's a blessing to be in a place where we can freely worship Jesus, unlike India and other places around the Middle East.

Also, you can pray for this homeless man Aaron met this morning. He went to Tom's house for breakfast, and through Aaron and Yoshi just talking to him he accepted the Lord and wants to come to church tomorrow evening. I didn't catch his name, but I've been calling him Eisa-san. Just pray that he would understand that he's not a "conversion project" for Christians, but that he's somebody that God loved enough to let Jesus die for him.

kinser fest

Yesterday (Saturday) CCBC helped run this kid's festival at Kinser marine base. I've never injested so much sugar in my whole life. I feel like I'm about to fall over in a diabetic coma, kinda like that gecko we found in the cake...anyway.

They had some pretty fun games. There was one where you had to sling marshmellows at a guy playing goliath.

Moses' fishing hole.

Cupcake walk. I don't think anyone under 18 played this game for the first 20 minutes.

I also did Moses' Bopaloon Bash. Pretty much you have these pool noodles and you have to hit balloons up in the air without letting them hit the ground. Well, the college students start playing and 15 seconds into the game it gets boring, so the natural thing to do with a big long object is hit somebody with it. Basically, hours of anarchy. We all did sword fighting and beat eachother senseless with the noodles, and I think some of the guys started lancing each other like knights. And I'm pretty sure I got javelined a couple of the times.

Our group often gets described by people as "fun", but I'd lean more towards mentally insane. So some of us kinda took a sabbatical to the beach and the playground.

Brad's new best friend.

Go Keeganz!

skate outreach

Friday we met up with the CC Lahabra crew at the seawall skatepark for their outreach. Seawall is pretty sweet.

This is way faster and more dangerous than it looks, and it's too nauseating to even be fun. I'm sportin a chunky ankle now because of that thing.

Lahabra's got a real heart for the youth. They had some contests, gave away some boards, and most importantly the Word was preached. I know God planted a lot of seeds in the kids' hearts.

Amazing people section:

Micheru, Doug-e fresh, Joojster, Mitch Lahabra, and Candace Lahabra

Keegerton, Yoshinator, and Ayuuuuuu

Hire-san and Robato

FINALLY I have a pic with Sandra! This chick will blow your mind with her crazy awesomeness. Serious.

McKayla, one of my favorite 6th graders. She can school most guys her age at basketball and skateboarding and everything.

Uhh Jeremy?

updates

Yesterday a group of us went to Okinawa Christian University to help with an English class. It's not really Christian though, only by name. And it's like 99.999999% girls...aiyayai. So they were supposed to come up with 20 questions to ask us, and my first questioner was your typical giggly fashionable Japanese chick, and her question was by far the weirdest one I've ever been asked.

"Can...you...touch...bug?"
I'm all, what the? "Like...would I want to or...?"
"Hee hee hee"
"Sure."
"What do you...like...better? Cockroach...or lizard?"
So trying not to laugh. "I'm gonna go with the lizard."

So that was weird, and yet cute. I was able to talk so a couple of the girls about comin to the Koinonia Cafe, so you can pray that they'd actually make the trip.

Also, keep this weekend's WORSHIP FEST in your prayers plus our upcoming MISSION TRIP to South Korea! Wahooo

And here's a self portrait of me in Japan:

There is far far too much delicious cakie in Okinawa.

moving day

Yesterday was good times. A group from...dang, I forgot. La Habra? Well, they're from California, but they're here in Oki to do skateboarding ministry! We've got a couple of chicks staying with us at the D-house. They are chou kakkoinaaaaaa...

So we all met up at Pastor Rick's (Pastor of CC Okinawa City) to help his family move to a bigger house. They just had their fourth kiddo so they definitely needed more space.

Monique and baby Ben. I missed her testimony last night, but I heard a recap from Nicky. God's definitely got His hand on this girl's life. She has a real heart for the orient, especially Japan. And right now she's living in Tokyo and doing ministry there. Pretty much Mo is awesome and we love her.

Then we went wall jumping again. Sorry mom.
And we saw a couple of seasnakes, but jumped anyway. Sorry dad.

Little jump.

Fat jump.

pix courtesy of jerm's sweet action camera

And, おめでとう Keegan for finally taking the big plunge too!!

lester fest

After we cleaned, we chilled...

And went to Lester Fest (military base).

They had one of these thingies which I had been wanting to go on forever. Amazing.

Then Shannon got really mad at Nicky...

Some of our guys played and did a great job.

And there were some flippin sweet hula girls. Check out that one chick's crazy long hair.

We <3 Japanese kids games. There's also the Bang game and Chopsticks. So fun.

Then we went to Mihama where a lot of the youthgroups were passing out Franklin Graham stuff.

Then Nicky and I drew on each other's bananas. If this isn't an unveiling of personality I don't know what is.

church cleaning

Every Saturday we walk to Calvary Chapel Okinawa to help clean the building before Sunday morning services. They've totally hooked us up with the apartment we're staying in and are even taking care of the bills. They've been an awesome blessing, so it's our joy to serve them!