One day, I had an invitation from one gospel choir in Tohoku to do the workshop and share a gospel message. The member is about 20, and most are non-believers. The leader of the choir told me that she used to go to church. I didn't bother to ask her the reason why she doesn't go any more. They made flyers and advertised to many places. Those non-believers even visited the church to invite people. By their hard work, 150 people had gathered in an 80 people capacity room. Their request was to finish everything in two and half hours. I thought is was a pretty though request in such a short time, however since I was there all the way from Tokyo, I tried my best to answer their request. Almost all of 150 people were a beginner to sing gospel. First, I share the formation of Gospel and then, I had them actually sing the gospel. I told them to move their body, feel the rhythm, take steps and sing out laud. Tohoku has changed! Even the elders followed what I was teaching. I picked an easy number " I've got peace like a river", I share the meaning of the lyrics, taught the melody, and practiced with humor, and just in hour, we were singing the song with unity. After that, in joyful atmosphere, I shared the gospel message from the theme "expression" and used scriptures from the Bible in John 7th, " out of his heart will flow rivers of living water." All these people, who probably hearing the story from the Bible are their first time, listened my talk eagerly. After the meeting was over many had come to me to talk. One of them was a young Municipal assembly committee. He was one of the leaders who are against building a dam because of the environment issue. He said he was encouraged by the story of living water and asked me to come to their meeting one day. There was also a catholic minister who is in charge of a church, which was built over 100 years ago. He also asked me to visit their church and have a concert there. Many people had come to me and responded to me "It was first time listening the story from the Bible, but I would like to hear it again!�h They were all grateful. That night, I was in hot spring thinking about what just had happened. Was Japan ever so easy to preach the gospel? The new era is here and something new is happening! The stone is crying out!! (Luke 19:40)

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