Japan Missions - Day 4 (Sunday service)

Today I go to Sunday service at Kurume Bible Fellowship near CRASH headquarters. The hundred-some congregants are mostly international, and the songs they sing are in English for the most part. The service focuses on the earthquake and finding answers after it, and the presider quotes 2 Corinthians 12:10, “For when I am weak, I am strong.” It is clear that three months after the earthquake, relief efforts are still in full swing and the church is doing all it can to help its congregation deal with this disaster. An African man at the church goes up to talk about the weekend trips he is organizing for those in the working world who can’t take weekdays off to volunteer. After the service I go up to talk to him, and he tries to describe the devastation he’s seen on these weekend trips, but halfway through he breaks down in tears and walks away sobbing.