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Day 11, 12, 13 & home

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Saturday, May 6 - recap Just wow, wow..wow...it's been almost a week since I have been home. So much gratitude and thankfulne1s for the time Hitomi and I had with Chad and Haruka, our Ekklesia ohana who traveled on the ship, our co-pastors Talo, Nori, Steve, Yuki and Yukina and the hundreds of people we met and blessed and were blessed by.  Got home Monday, May 1 at around 1030amish after leaving Haneda aiport Monday May1 @ 955pm..ground hog day.  Took like 15 minutes to get through Immigration and Customs and it was packed.  But..since I got to airport like 3.5 hours before flight, my 2 bags (1 was all omiyage) were like the last to come off the plane.  LOL It was so good to be home.  Did my laundry, took a nap, went to Ala Moana and did a walk, much shorter than our 6-8 miles per day in Japan and jumped in the water.  When I was showering at the beach, the shower brought back memories of Japan..it was made for short/smaller people..lol.   Back t...
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Updates 9 & 10 - Nagasaki back to Tokyo (Kinshicho) to Sendai back to Kinshicho

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 Entered on May 1, 932am.  Leaving Japan tonight Day 9 Thursday, April 27 Got up ready for the next God-venture. Catched train from Omura Station to Uramaki station near tourist attractions.  Got 2 free bentos from hotel (not sure they were for us..but all G...lol!) Good morning Nagasaki View from Omura Station Nagasaki hotel Free but not free breakfast bento..oops..lol Uramaki Station - near museum and 1 legged tori Nagasaki - the 2nd location of the 1945 atomic bomb tragedy.  Wars are so tragic, yes this act of war ended the war of the current time, but the enemies war(satan), not of flesh and blood, on humanity has continued on for the last 78 years since the end of World war 2.   Oppression, depression, suicide, homicide, genocide, identification issues, addiction, deceit and ultimate desctruction of the human race continues to occur daily and its not just because of an atomic bomb. Hitomi and I visited Hiromishima in 2019 and now 4 years later we are h...
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Updates day 7 & 8 - Sendai to Tokyo to Nagasaki

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 Wow, wow....continued wow! Today is Saturday April 29, in Kinshicho for the next few days till we leave.  Hope you have enjoyed this journey with us.  God has been so faithful, present and glorified. Aloha God aloha People! Day 7 Tuesday, April 25 We leave Sendai (but will return on Friday) to make our way down to Ueno.  Shinkansen #7, about 1.5 hours to the epicenter of Japan, Tokyo area.  Tokyo is made up of so many bustling and busy areas all connected by train stations...thousands and thousands if not hundred of thousands of people all in different areas of Tokyo (like Uneo, Shinjuku, Shibuya, Akihabara, etc)...its definitely not like the places we have been up in the North.    Smiles in front of Ueno station We have this down time(lol..if you want to call it that) because our team is on it's way to Busan Korea and we not on the ship with them. So we wanted to do a couple things before we meet them in Nagasaki.   1) get some rest (sort o...
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Updates on Day 4, 5 & 6 – Miyako via Morioka to Aomori then Aomori to Akita then to Sendai

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  1200pm Tuesday – April 26 Day 7 Heading down to Tokyo (via Ueno) from Sendai Wow…that’s a all I can keep saying to myself is wow.  It has been such a surreal but real time on this journey that Hitomi and I got invited to almost 7 months ago.  We had a de-brief on Sunday while in Aomori (day 6 Sunday 4/24) and we are so blessed to be traveling with a great group of people.  All gifted and talented, called, anointed and appointed in their own way for the Lord and their main purpose is in line with the greatest commandment given by Jesus – Love God and Love people.  Just WOW!!! On Saturday, April 23 day 4 we left the group in Miyako to make our way North to Aomori.  Aomori is the farthest north we will be on this trip. It is almost the most northern part of Honshu island (main island of Japan) and it is the closest to Hokkaido island and only a shinkansen a way to Hakodate (a city south of Sapporo).  We caught our shinkansen to Aomori and got in at a...
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