My poor frisbee :(

My poor frisbee :(

This last weekend marked the end of our first week in Japan; time is going by pretty quickly! My first visit to campus was on Wednesday, where I began to acquaint myself with the layout. At Gaidai, I met several of the Christian students on campus. Gaidai has seen several students come to know Christ over the past month or so, so it was very exciting to meet quite a few students at the lunch we had.

Most of the time on campus is spent meeting and talking to students, trying to build relationships, and develop community that reflects the love of Christ. One of the ways that I have tried to do this, is to find people who are interested in playing a game of Ultimate Frisbee. This is played every week at Griffith university, and I think it’s a great way to connect people, and to have fun, so I brought a frisbee with me from Australia, with the intention to try and play in Japan.

Friday saw the first attempt at frisbee, and quite possibly the last for my poor frisbee. We didn’t have enough people to play a game of Ultimate Frisbee, so we just threw around the frisbee on campus. It turns out that plastic frisbees weren’t designed to hit tables, rocks, poles, concrete, and walls. Hopefully with my tape-covered frisbee, we can try and have an actual game of Ultimate next week.

Sharing faith with the students on campus is a little different to Australia, but many of the Japanese students like the idea of Christianity, and want to have a belief in God, but if you ask them how they can, they don’t know. On Friday evening, one of the girls at university prayed to receive Christ, and we were very excited to welcome her into the Family of Christ, and to know that she has placed her trust in the love of God, and the sacrifice He made for us.