Harvest Official Opening

Nov 15th was a day prepared for over a year. The building renovation had proceeded rather slowly over the 17 months since taking possession. And we never felt we could have a grand opening until we were able to welcome people. God had sent 3 teams to help. One to clean out the garbage, one to hang drywall, and a team at the last minute to paint and clean. So altho the place still only had plywood floors and unputtied drywall(albeit painted), the parking lot was done and the building was warm and bright and clean.

Rain poring down did not dampen people's spirits as we celebrated God's goodness and committed to preaching the gospel.

To God be the glory.

English class at Harvest

English Lesson at Harvest. By Kathryn

My first time at an English lesson in Japan. At first, when all the mums and children started arriving, I thought it was going to be a lesson for mums, but soon I found out that it was the children that were doing the lesson and the mums sat around and chatted like a little coffee group which was quite nice. Four children were present for the lesson. They had lots of energy and were quite enthusiastic about learning English. There was a bit of a distraction with fresh snow outside waiting to be disturbed but nonetheless they were a lovely class to be with. We started the lesson with introductions and the children thought it was very funny that my nickname was Kat. Then we went through the alphabet doing letter sounds and saying a word that had the letter sound in it. We also did flash card that the children flipped over and had to say the word shown on the card. Finally, we sang an action song which was really nice. It was a great experience to see what happens at an English lesson and it motivated me a bit more to complete my studies in New Zealand and possibly come back to Japan to teach English some day.