Well, I finally got some photos from the other team members from my trip to Japan last December, so I'm posting them here for you guys to take a look at. Enjoy!
This is our Team from December 2007. We distributed 16,000 multimedia CDs, containing Christmas Songs, Gospel Music, testimonies, and clips from the Jesus Film depicting the Christmas story.
Bill, one of our team members, distributing on a walk way above the Shiodome Subway station, but below the monorail station.
Japanese School Girls in their British Navy inspired school uniforms.
I'm not sure if this is a Buddhist or Shinto monk. THis was taken by one of our (daring) team memembers (these guys don't like their picture taken) at Asakusa, where there is both a prominent Buddist Temple, and Shinto Shrine.
Ron, our team leader, and my old boss at Jesus Film, handing out CDs.
Yes, they have Micky D's in Japan, or as its called there: "MacunoDonolodo"
The Church in Tachikawa that I've goneto work with 5 times ofver the last five years. Let's see if I can roughly translate the name:
Tachikawa = The name of the City in TokyoEkimae = "Near the Station" or maybe "Accross from the Station"Kyoko = "Church"
The near the station part usually gets a bit of a laugh from Japanese people, because it's usually attatched to the names of things like convinience stores, or Pachinko Parlors, it's almost more of a marketing term. So to use it to describe a church sounds funny. And it usually implies that whatever is "Ekimae" is within eyesight of said station. Now, the church is about three blokcks from Tachikawa station, one of the largest stations in Tokyo, however it's no longer visible. It was when it was built, but the surrounding area now has many much taller buildings.
If anyone who speaks Japanese can correct me on this, please do (Tomo, Jon, or Yoshie).
A shot of the church service in progress. As you can see, most people dress somewhat formally, and what you can't see is that the songs are mostly Hymns sung with accompaniment by a church organ, much like many traditional churches here in the US
Me standing out as I usually do when in Japan.
Well done, David! You already know a lot about Japanese language, culture and church.