Ichibaku’s bulletin 
Bike ride to CBI
SUNDAY: June 16
Ichibaku: Claire (another summer intern) and I are attending Ichibaku Gospel Church. There are about 15 people at this church, and they were super welcoming and accommodated for us in every way possible. They wrote Romaji (Romanization of Japanese) underneath all the lyrics for worship and had one of the church members attempt to translate for us. However, the translator spoke very loudly so it was hard to focus on the message. For the future, I told the pastor that I could try translating for Claire, so that they wouldn’t need to worry about accommodating. After the service, Claire and I got lunch with the church, and everyone was so nice. They asked many questions to get to know us two better.
Since it was my first Sunday in Japan, I also visited All Nations Fellowship (ANF) which is a bilingual church that meets at CBI in the late afternoon.
Prayer Time
MONDAY: June 17
Prayer: We have 4 hours blocked for praying on Mondays. This was very much needed time to be reflective. It was difficult staying focused the entire 4 hours, but it was nice having blocked off time with the Lord.
Tutoring: I got to go to the Kang’s to tutor their two children, Isaac (9) and Sarah (7). The kids’ first language is Japanese, so I do a lot of speaking practice with them and try to talk about things they enjoy.
View off the Ruck’s balcony
TUESDAY: June 18
Tutoring: I got to rest for the first half of the day which was very much needed! I went to the Ruck’s late afternoon and got to tutor their two girls, Nora (6) and Judy (4). I don’t have much experience teaching young ones, so it was very new trying to figure out what to do with the girls. I ended up reviewing the alphabet with both of them individually at different paces. I had fun with the girls and got to have dinner with the family after as well.
WEDNESDAY: June 19
CBI Office: I started helping out at The CBI office and have been working on the distribution of the Japanese translation of Into the Redeemer’s Hand by Paul Tripp. I have also been working on organizing surveys for CBS which is the seminary school at CBI.
Tutoring with Keiko sensei: Keiko sensei is the teacher who teaches many missionaries here Japanese and she is amazing! She is helping me with Christian vocabulary, understanding sermons, and then conversing about the sermon. It was fun talking with her and I am learning SO much more useful vocabulary.
Family Dinners: The other two interns and I have been getting along with no issues. We heard that living together was super rare as summer interns, so we have been super thankful. We made dinner together two days in a row now and it has been nice eating in.
Working at a Starbucks with Lauren before I go to tutoring
THURSDAY: June 20
Tutoring: I was at the Rayl’s place to tutor their oldest, Paton, and he was so happy and ready to learn. I was attempting to teach him how to read and he was catching on so quickly and enjoying himself which made my job super easy.
Mentoring: Today we talked about how we often “shrink the cross” by pretending or performing. We pretend by spinning the truth in our favor to make our sin look better than it is. We perform when we try to compensate for our sins by trying to earn God’s approval. We looked through several different types of righteousness one could have and talked about which ones we related to.
“Performance – driven Christianity is actually a minimizing of God’s’ holiness. Thinking we can impress God with our “right living” shows that we’ve reduced his standards far below what they actually are.” (Thune & Walker 24)
Heart & Soul event: Board game night
FRIDAY: June 21
Aichi University: Claire and I joined Brooks (missionary) and Levi (summer intern with ANF) in their lunch outings at Aichi University. The four of us got lunch at the very crowded school cafeteria and prayed for the Lord to bring us an opportunity to talk to anyone. Since we were a group of random foreigners, we were bringing a lot of attention to ourselves by just being there. While we were eating, Brooks suddenly said hi to 3 girls who were asking each other why there were foreigners here. Then he asked them to sit with us to practice their English. They were so surprised and keep saying, “Eh?”, but they eventually came over to sit with us. It was awkward at first, but Brooks was very talented at making the conversation entertaining. We talked for a while and then I told them about the game board night we had later at Heart & Soul. I got one of the girl’s contact information and texted her the details. She kindly texted back that they would maybe want to come another time.
Heart & Soul Event: Every Friday we have an outreach event where we do something fun at the cafe. This week’s event was a board game night.
Helping sell CD’s for the event. 
Joshua Messick! 
Lauren and I working on our blogs late at Starbucks
SATURDAY: June 22
Saturdays are usually our days off, but we had a special concert for Joshua Messick at the CBI building that we helped out at. Joshua Messick is a professional hammered dulcimer and he played in the majority of the sound track for the movie, Mary and the Witch’s Flower. I helped with selling his CD’s for the event.
Overview:
Japan with Hannah 