On the second day, we had an orientation in the morning. We could tell that the team had done a great job learning about Japan and preparing for the trip. Michael shared a little more about Japanese culture, history, and what we have been doing. We also had a prayer time together. After that, we went to the new housing community around our church and distributed the flyer that had information on church and the upcoming fall festival (and several families came to the festival thanks to those flyers).
In the afternoon, we drove 3 hours to the west coast of Japan. Sakata city has our mission church and we have been visiting there regularly. We are so glad that the team got to go there to meet all the wonderful people!