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Updates on MOL Trade Show at Tokyo Big Sight

"The team led by Pastor Caleb consists of members from the adult net. They were here to promote MOL under the Singapore Tourism Board booth at the JATA World Tourism Congress & Travel Fair 2006, held at Tokyo Big Sight at Odaiba. Check out our booth!
The fair was pretty crowded and we performed tricks we learnt from Project Smile and handed out MOL flyers. I went down after school and on Sunday to help out. We have lovely volunteers from Shinjuku Shalom Church such as Travis, Takako and Kumi to help out as well.
Looking forward to the next team (last team to do promotion) led by Nira and then it will be the actual team that will be at the MOL performance! I am going to see familiar faces like Clara, Cheryl, Gwen, Joy and Carol! Can`t wait to see Pastor Khong in action!"

-edited from Chloe's blog: http://prancinpony.blogspot.com/

シンガポールって、どんな国！？

シンガポールって、どんな国！？

彼らがシンガポールのフードや服、ダンスなどを分かち合ってくれます♪

楽しい時間を
一緒に過ごしましょう！！
そして、シンガポールのユースたちと友達になろう！！


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Singapore Night in Japan??


Watch this space for this upcoming friendship and cultural exchange event in Saitama, Japan!

If you are a Japanese and want to find out more about Singapore Night, please drop us an email.


Arigato, our friends from Shalom Saitama Church, for doing this beautiful invitation card! =)

Tokyo Raiders & Adult Teams : Teambuilding

Quote of the Day:
"What is your favourite Japanese thing?"
Amidst answers such as sushi, ramen, sake, little twin stars, Japanese fashion etc. was......

"Japanese yen".

(Just for laughs)


Our MOL Tokyo Blog readers, what is your favourite Japanese thing? =)

Team B: Gospel Story by Ms Hayakawa

Any Japanese friend out there who can help us translate the story? (Just tag at the tagboard or reply in the comments below) Ms Hayakawa tells gospel stories over radio in Osaka, so blessed by her sharing. :)

Team B teaching "I love you Jesus" at Saitama Shalom Church BBQ

Team B: Things We Learnt From Japan Trip

Team B: Day 6 - VIP Club Prayer Meeting

Team B: Day 5 - Street Magic @ Shibuya!

Team B went to Shibuya to do Starbucks ministry... we went to the starbucks next to the famous shibuya crossing. each of us bought a cup of coffee and settled down at 2 tables. apparently... we experienced some cultural shock. starbucks in tokyo are so different with starbucks in singapore. the max no. of people gathered around a coffee table is 3 persons. starbucks are soOooooooo quiet! people hardly talk. and i suppose we are the loudest group there, trying to do some magic tricks to attract attention. hahaha... but we failed, everyone is doing their own thing. no one looks at us! except the starbucks staff that told us we cant take photo in starbucks (so people, if u go starbucks in tokyo.. do not take photos there.. err.. but we did!).

Of course! God has already planned greater things for us. Far more then we can imagine or asked for. After 30mins in starbucks. Ps Jimmy was challenged by God to go to the streets to share MOL.

"WHAT??!! go to the streets?? perform magic that we only learnt yesterday to stranger?? We cant speak japanese!"

Well... many of us had to step out of our own comfort zone to promote MOL. We prayed in the middle of Shibuya for boldness and courage.. and we went!
We moved out in team of 2s and 3...
- Aunna & Chia HUi
- Chee Chiong, Kian Boon & Kaiyun
- Nirelle & Jerome

Starting the conversation was the hardest as we do not know their language and were uncomfortable talking to strangers. But we did it anyway. before long, the one-day old magicians show-case their tricks and the youths there were so facinated. then we tell them more about MOL... good way of creating awareness.

We just had our debrief and all of us are so glad we did it anyway, despite all the barriers. Its a good learning experience for all of us, walk out of our comfort zone to serve this nation.

Headed to Shinjuku Shalom Church, at Shinjuku of coz. Duh!

Ps Shingo is our latest magician! he is a super fast learner, showed him the trick once, n he can do it already. *clap clap* Thanks for bringing us to yummy ramen lunch and the christian bookshop. we really appreciate it. arigato!

MOL rocks!!!


Zzzzzzzzzzz... -kaiyun-

Team B: Day 4 - Saitama Shalom Church BBQ

When we woke up in the morning, it was raining heavily so we stayed in the guesthouse for a while to learn the magic tricks. Actually, I have not practised since last year MOL and it was really God's grace that I can remember and teach the rest at the last minute (we were busy with other things). Thank God as we began our way to Seitama Shalom Church, the downpour became a light drizzle. We practised the tricks on the train and had a lot of fun!

Seitama Shalom Church meets in the house of Pastor Matsumura (Nozomi's dad). There is a big horse-racing stadium behind the church. It is not popular and hardly used, so it is like a public park for the residents there. I hope the church will grow to a point where it takes over the place!

The BBQ was a new experience for us since in Singapore we usually have BBQ at night. The food was FANTASTIC! The pastor barbequed mushrooms, scallops, squids, prawns and many other food. We played games and taught the guests some action songs. One of the guests, Fukui was a calligraphy teacher so we got him, Ayumi and Eri to write our names. To return the favour, we performed magic tricks for them and Ps Jimmy shared about MOL. To end the event, we presented the MOL tickets to the guest, Fukui, Ayumi, Yukino, Yumiko and daughter, Yuko.

We then went to Harajuku to meet up with Rena from Shinjuku Shalom Church. :)
-- Chee Chiong


more more about Saitama bbq! it was a great time at bbq at Pastor Matsumura's home. Pastor Matusumura was so welcoming to bbq for us. Thanks pastor!

Our team wanted to make this bbq an open cell event and praise God it was lovely time with the church and their new frens. we had finger games, 'action' praise songs...guess wat, the lovely granny was happily clapping along with us! =D
we had our new fren Fukui to write caligraphy for us, initially he was quiet and shy...but but Team B kept asking him to write our names! He impression of us: warm-hearted and vibrant...waaahhaaaa TeamB wink wink! CC was our master magician followed by many newbie magicians(we just learn for few hrs only haha!!!). Never missing the chance, Ps Jimmy talked about MOL and gave out tix to 5 pre-believer frens. the bbq ended off with Singapore Mooncake...you shld see their cute expressions when they ate the durian 'ping pi'...wow, they love the mooncakes!

during the bbq i share with a lady my testimony and she opened up more about herself and her daughter....after hearing me, she shared that her daughter needs to receive Jesus! yesh! she's going to MOL to hear about God's love!!!

Well done TeamB!!!
-- Aunna

Team B: Day 3 - Tokyo Ekuleshia Church

Last stop for our "church-hopping" day: we braved the rain to visit Tokyo Ekuleshia Church. The church have members from different countries and they were very friendly. Ps Jimmy shared about MOL and we were encouraged by their response. After the service, we stayed to mingle with the members and some of us even performed magic to entertain them. We had lots of fun and made many friends.

Then, we met up with Chloe, a FCBC member from adult net. She was in my team when we went to support MOL last year. Now, she is studying Japanese in Tokyo. We went to eat at this place which served BLACK curry rice! :P

Team B: Day 3 - Tokyo Sunshine Church

Team B: Day 3 - Tokyo Sunshine Church

Today team B set out separately to visit three churches in the morning. Ps Jimmy, Kianboon and I went to Tokyo Sunshine Church, attended mostly by chinese PRCs residing in Tokyo.

Upon entering the auditorium, warm smiles greeted us from many friends that we befriended when we were here earlier in May. We came to share and encourage them about the G12 vision and were truly privileged to witness the forming of their first G12 group then.

Today, Ps Abraham shared their struggles about how they had been trying to raise up the 2nd level of leaders and spurred the church to persevere in the G12 vision no matter what. His wife, Sarah, shared the testimony of how they persisted in prayer for a brother that was stricken with leukemia. She truly demonstrated for us what it means to never give up!

After service, we were invited to join them for lunch, kindly prepared by their church members. It was there that we met with some influential Chinese researchers that were posted to Japan. According to Kianboon, one of them was a top researcher in Beijing, China. They had many questions for Ps Abraham, but we were appalled by how he answered each with the wisdom of God.

We joined in their Power station, basically a time for prayer and praise that takes place every Sunday. We were very touched as Sarah led the congregation to pray for Pastor Khong and the Magic of Love. It was truly an encouragement to witness a local church acknowledge and advocate what God is working through Pastor and MOL. She also challenged the church to rise up to pray and reach out to the Japanese.

Ps Jimmy shared with the church on how to seek God in prayer. I also had the opportunity to share my testimony on how God blessed me with favor when I exercised faith to pray for my new job.

I give thanks for the good relationship that we've established with Tokyo Sunshine Church. So as Ps Jimmy have shared, let's continue to P.U.S.H. together, PRAY UNTIL SOMETHING HAPPENS!

Team B: Day 3 - Tokyo Baptist Church

We started the day with worship and prayer along the Sumida River. We prayed for the vagabonds and that our hearts be open to hear what God wants to say to us as we go forth to the churches.

Tokyo Sunshine Church - Ps Jimmy, Nirelle & Kian Boon
Saitama Shalom Church - Chee Chiong & Jiahui
Tokyo Baptist Church - Aunna, Kaiyun & Jerome
Tokyo Ekuleshia Church - All of Team B

Updates from Tokyo Baptist Church
This is international church with people from many nationalities. All services are in English and the service worship is vibrant with a big choir team. Afer the service, we mingled among the church members to promote MOL. Thank God for His favour, we had a few friends who received us with gladness. We had the priviledge to explain to some that magic is actually an illusion, the real magic is God's love for us. I got to know the friendly Yoyo who is keen invite her friend to MOL and she'll cover MOL team in prayer. - Aunna

The church choir is awesome. We shared Magic Of Love with them and we met a few friends from Singapore as well! I saw a lady holding a board that says "Prayer Request" I went up to her and talked to her. She is very friendly and she's a Taiwanese. She shared about the lukewarmness of christians in Japan and felt very helpless about it. She was very touched when I shared with her the purpose of the Singapore team. She hope to see more christians rising up to serve n youths knowing their purpose. I prayed for her and her church and was very blessed when she prayed for me and the MOL. It was fruitful trip! - Kaiyun

Team B: DAY 3-We visited 4 churches today-Seitama Shalom Church

We visited 4 churches today, Tokyo Baptist Church, Tokyo Sunshine Church, Saitama Shalom Church and Tokyo Ekuleshia Church. 3 of them have services at the same time so the team was split up into 3. Chia Hui and I went to Nozomi's church, Saitama Shalom Church. Pastor Matsumura asked me to share my testimony, about G12 and Magic of Love. As I shared, I can tell that he was very excited about G12. The youths there will be having a BBQ for their friends tomorrow morning. They invited us to perform magic and share with their friends. Hope it will not rain tomorrow. :)

To be continued....

Tokyo Raiders : Updates from 17 Sept, Sunday

Sponsored MOL tickets
Our first attempt to get friends and family to sponsor MOL Tokyo tickets was a bang! We managed to get 17 sponsored tickets yesterday morning within half an hour, and we would be continuing our efforts next Sunday too.

Adult and Youthnet teams come together!
The actual MOL trip in October is an interesting mix of people from the Adult network and Youthnet. For the first time both teams met yesterday morning. We enjoyed getting to know one another, and also sharing about our excitement in going Tokyo! Stay tuned to catch the new faces and voices on this blog!

Team B Update: Day 2 => Promoting MOL!

This morning, I had the priviledge to go with Ps Jimmy to this VIP club lunch at Yokohama. We had hard time meeting Ms Kaji who is supposed to bring us there. The train stations are confusing... Thank God the lady waited patiently for us...about 50 minutes late! Thank God we reach Yokohama Sky on time for lunch.

VIP lunch is for a group of christian businessmen to meet, pray and share about each other's upcoming christian activities. Ps Jimmy had a few minutes to promote MOL. Quite a few have not heard about MOL before but thank God we had a chance to join them and explain that it is about the magical love of God.

The key lady of the meeting-Ms Hayakawa (boss of JR line in Japan!) shared with us. She testified about how she came know God when her dad passed away and she was down and out. She wanted to commit suicide but someone came along and gave her a big sum of money. She asked Jesus how to use the money and she started JR line which means Jesus' Road for her. Every month, she will speak over Osaka radio station and share gospel stories. We will show you all the video of her gospel story when we get back, she is such a talented lady!

I am particularly impressed by her because she is a lady! She was poor at first but God said that He wwill make her influential one day and now she is well known all over Japan, especially in Osaka.

We went to Ueno tonight aand saw many KTV lounge and arcades. The one that surprised me most wwas the digital horse-racing course inside the arcade! Many people just sat there and kept inserting tokens, hoping to get back more. I wish these people are in church instead.

Tomorrow morning our team will be going to 3 different churches to publicise MOL. Pray for us to find favour and most importantly, to build deeper relationships with the churches there. I see our presence as part of the building of Jesus' Road in Japan.

Monday, we will be having BBQ with Saitama Shalom Church at 1030am. We will be leading some songs and sharing with the friends of the youths there.

Aunna

Team B Update: Day 2 => VIP meeting

Wow! getting the chance to attend a meeting with the business bigwigs in Yokohama. To see these big shot business people coming together in one faith was a great encouragement to me.

I was given an opportunity to promote MOL and clear some of their doubts about magic; some indicated that they will watch the show. Many more exciting journey ahead for the team...hmmhmmm

The speaker for the meeting was Miss Hayagawa. She owns the famous JR line in Japan.
So for those that had been to Japan do you know what does JR stands for..."Japan Railway"?....NO!!! is actually JESUS ROAD!!!..powerful sharing by her.

I was really encouraged by her.

Aunna and me also met up with the executive committee of the VIP club and we engage a little...haha...what a small world...the rep for VIP club in Singapore are actually Eric & Yumiko...people that we know. PTL!!!

Looking forward to tomorrow!!!

Pastor Jimmy

Team B Update: Day 1 => Asakusa

Team B Update: DAY 0 => Recce Time!

Team B Update: DAY -1 => Squeezy, Squeeze, Squeeze!

Team B Update: Day -2 => Chee Chiong the Frontliner!

Just For Laughs - Team A Tokyo Trip Bloopers!

Alright... through our trip we have been posting many updates and sharing. And now that we are back, before we present to you our formal reports, let's check out some light hearted and silly moments we had through the trip! Enjoy...

PS: This is just for laughs.. Just to let everyone know that we had loads of fun through the trip too! It wasn't just all works only. Hehe....

Introducing... The (new) Tokyo Raiders!

Team C has got a name - Tokyo Raiders!

Just in case you are thinking we are some bad guys who will create terror in the streets of Tokyo in 3 weeks' time, fear not. We may be bold and full of drive, but that is only because we seek to intrude your lives with just these - love and friendship. =)

Watch out for us on the streets of Tokyo from 3rd October!

MOL Blog reaching the nations!

Having just started the counter for MOL blog just last week, we have already clocked in 300 visitors till date, averaging 45 hits per day! This is encouraging statistics considering publicity of this blog has been done primarily through word of mouth.

Another amazing statistic is that our blog has reached the nations, even as far wide as Bulgaria! Especially encouraging are the numbers from Japan, estimating in at 10% of total visits! Other than just a blog used for updating each of the three teams progress, another of our aims was also to spread the word of what we have done and publicize MOL to our Japanese friends through this channel! We are on the right track! =)

Let's keep it going! Go.. Go... Go!!! Dreamers, Movers, Shakers for JAPAN!

Team A Update: MOL Sponsorship Tickets

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A final headcount of 12 MOL sponsored tickets were given through our trip to bless the youths we met to watch this magical show! We have also gotten their emails to keep in touch and have linked them up with some of our Japanese friends so as to bring them for the Magic of Love show in October!

Team B: Accomodation

Team B will be staying at KHAOSAN TOKYO ANNEX. It is just across the river from KHAOSAN TOKYO GUESTHOUSE, where Team A was staying. Actually, KHAOSAN TOKYO GUESTHOUSE is our 1st choice, but we want to explore other options for comparison.


Since I will be going 2 days earlier, I will also be exploring other options; 1st night in a Capsule Hotel and the 2nd night in Hotel New Koyo (japanese room). Looking forward to the experience! :)

Team B: Teambuilding at Changi Swensons

Thanksgiving by Japanese Friends

A special thanksgiving by our dear Japanese family in Tokyo!

More thanksgiving videos coming soon...

PS: Do pardon the quality of the video. We are working on it, but thought give everyone a sneak peek at this special thanksgiving. And we are still working on some language translation..=P

Team A update: Day 5 - We tried to visit the emperor!

Team A updates: Day 4 - Wasabe?? Waseda?? Wasade??

As we journey to the university to connect with the campus people and publicise MOL, many of us had a hard time pronouncing the name of this university(actually it was just me..haha)…. Is it pronounced as Wasabe? Waseda Wasade?

We reach Waseda University in the late morning after going to the central Business district of Otenbachi to deliever MOL tickets to Mr Arai San. He seemed quite a big shot..and even gave us a short overview of the biggest securities firm in Tokyo. Handing him the ticket was like a major business transaction….HAHA.

I was amazed at the size of this university when we reached. And furthermore its one of the best universities in Tokyo with 125 years of history!!! We only just managed to cover one third of the whole university from the late morning to afternoon.

It was a fruitful time as we managed to interview and talk to some of the university students. (THANKS to RENA!) We are compiling a report on the place as well as understanding how Japanese university student think with respect to life. In this process, we even managed to also invite one person to come for the evangelistic MOL and link him up with Rena to go together.

Love,
Ps Adrian

Team C : 1st Teambuilding Session!

Team A updates: Touchdown in Tokyo!!!

Finally we have arrived in Tokyo!! After a relatively long flight and 1hr plus of immigration clearance we made it. Be prepared also for body searches and questioning by airport staff. Haha...

On touch down we met up with Ps Shingo,Travis, Rika and Hiromitchi at the airport. Fortunately we have them to show us and lead us around in the complex train/subway system. Really thank God for them. Whats more they treated us in an all you can eat Sushi meal at only Singapore 14 dollars. Wow! Who says Japanese Food is expensive??!! Its even cheaper than our Sakae Sushii!

All of us are tired out with the travelling around and the long train ride. In the next few days our schedules are packed and we are preparing to do the following:

a. Publicity of MOL at adhoc shops that are willing to put up our posters.
b. Delievery of MOL tickets to our various clients
c. Publicity of MOL thru the church
d. Prayerwalk MOL location and parts of city
e. Spiritual mapping of Waseda University
f. Spiritual mapping/Research on Japanese Youths(Harajuku, Imperial Palace, Ginza)
g. Connecting with online friends and connect them to Shinjuku(so far only one person)
h. Connecting sponsored tickets with "needy" people
i. Ministering at Youth Service at Shinjuku shalom and G12 sharing.

Looking forward to a meaningful time in Japan! Do keep us in prayer.

Love
Ps Adrian

"It was a great privilege to be hosted by our Japanese friends. I do hope to not only share more about G12 to the church people, but also to learn from the Japanese more of their style of leading a churchas well as its their culture." - Julee

"Thank God for His protection and guidance as I make my way alone from Narita Airport to our hostel. It was pouring and pouring here is Tokyo and I kept praying that the rain will cease but it didn't for the most part of the day. Then God brought me back to Psalm 135 that why am I questioning His way. The respond I should have is to praise the Lord and trust in the Father's care. 'Your name O Lord, endures forever!'" - Joy

"Other than feeling tired out, upon reflection.. I sense a stronger conviction of God's heart for His people in Japan. About the lost who can only choose to hide and unable to express themselves freely because of the society's expectations and pressure." - Chris

"To me, this was a mad rush. From visa application to back to S'pore and to Japan. Besides all those, I know that God is going to do something special for the churches here and I am thrilled to see what is going to happen!" - Dy

"After a long tiring journey on the plane, it was really heartwarming to see our Japanese family awaiting us upon arrival. Their hospitality has been amazing and I totally feel at home with them! Am looking forward to catch up with them, and to share on what God is doing in each of our lives! As much as we come to bless the people here... I know I will learn something special from this Japanese family about a dynamic youth ministry." - Ee Jay