NGU

Our first two weeks on campus has been Epic! We have been visiting  Nagoya Gakuin University (NGU) which consists of 4000 students. It is a small campus, a university known   as an exchange university where many of their students have a desire to travel overseas to study. It was originally established as a Christian university but sadly has lost its Christian roots.

Our overall objective is to pioneer a Christian movement  by establishing student contacts and encouraging  the very few  Japanese  Christian students to step up in leadership. We hope to see some of the Christian students step up and be involved in Student Impact (Life) , so we can see students come to know Christ.

The NGU team consists of David Prabhakar, Ben Gibiec (who joined the team on 5/12/09) and myself.  We have been busy familiarising ourselves with the campus and learning how to break through to the students in Japan with the assistance of the staff from Student Impact.

God has provided abundantly through the staff contacts that Student Impact has established.

Praise God for :

-          Mesuda Sensei, an English professor at NGU whose desire is to see students come to Christ. He has opened up doors for us to attend English classes and as a result we have met many students.

-          Maiko Jimbo, coordinator of foreign studies at NGU. She is a personal friend of one of the staff from Student Impact. She is very passionate about her job and has a genuine desire to assist her students in many ways and through her serving heart for her students, she has opened up more opportunities for us to meet students by allowing us to sit in on English conversation classes.

We have found the English classes as a great way to meet students that we decided to establish our own English conversation classes during lunch times. We have seen some new students come in where friendships have been built and great conversations have taken place.

During the time where we are not attending an English class or running an English class we have done walk-up evangelism, meeting random students with the purpose to establish student contacts.

Hospitality nights are held on Friday nights, where we invite students to hang out with us. Our hope is to build rapport with the students where we hang out and do dinner and karaoke.

Prayer Points

Praise God for people we have met and established friendships with. They have been very friendly; some have been open and responsive to spiritual conversations

-          Tetsuya

-          Atshushi

-          Mitch

-          Karin

-          Hiromi

-          Ayami

-          Mayumi

-          Serima

-          Miki

-          Kengo

-          Hiromi

Pray that God will continue to work in their lives and that God will provide for more opportunities to have spiritual conversations and sharing of testimonies. Pray that through this, the students will be encouraged and challenged about Christianity.

Praise God for the Christian Students

-          Isamu

-          Tetsuya

-          Minz

-          Park

-          Dream

Pray that God will keep them strong in their faith that they will continue to encourage and support each other as Christians. Pray that God will provide for the pioneering of the Christian movement, that someone will step up to do ministry on campus so many students come to Christ.

Praise God for the team and the support that we have received. Pray that God will continue to grant us wisdom, boldness and knowledge so we can connect with the Japanese students and share our faith with them.