"Huh? It doesn't hurt..."

Well, let me share a little of what happened with the team that came from Sozo Church in Texas.

That day we rented a shared kitchen near the train station for a cafe, and three of us from the team helped with the cafe, and the rest of us decided to go to street ministry.

We were inevitably the cafe team, enjoying meeting and building relationships with the locals, but around noon the street team came back excited.

They were trying to make a chance to talk to people on the street by playing guitar at the station at one point (they had taken two guitars from our house), but in fact, everyone was so busy walking away from the station that they decided to go to Ueda Castle, which they could see from a distance.

And here's where it gets interesting.

He wandered into Ueda Castle and came across a rugby team.
One of the players was from New Zealand and could speak English.
The team couldn't miss him, so Joey and Aaron approached him and started talking.

The rest of the team was a little further away and started talking to a group of teammates who were with them. It turned out that they had just lost a game.

I quickly asked,

"Didn't you get hurt? Any soreness in your body?"

No one responded.

Soon after, the leader of the group pulled one of them out and said, "Oh, by the way, you hurt your wrist, didn't you? He pulled one of them out.

Can I pray for your wrist?
Alec prays briefly, then asks, "How's your wrist?
How's your wrist?"

I move my wrist fearfully and ask, "Huh? It doesn't hurt..."

Then this is strange, and so is the leader,
He said, "Actually, I have a sore leg too."

The Texas team tried to pray again.

But Justin, the leader of the team, had an idea.
Justin, the leader of the team, thought of something and asked the person with the healed wrist to pray for him.

The healed wrist person put his hand on the painful part of the leader's leg and prayed the same way Justin did. Then, lo and behold, when he stepped on the spot and ran to check, the pain disappeared completely and he was healed too.

Then another player with a sore shoulder came up, and he was healed too.

Joy and Aaron had no idea this was happening. He was still talking to that person in New Zealand.

Joy got an impresion from God and told him, "God wants to restore the relationship between you and your father." When I told him, he looked surprised and wondered why he was being seen through.
Two seconds later, Justin, who had been away earlier, came over and Justin also told him what God had shown him.
He said, "God wants to restore the relationship between you and your father."

Two identical words.
This stunned him in New Zealand. Joy and Aaron were surprised, and of course Justin was too.

He was perplexed and told him how much God loves him.
He also told him that his roommate is also a Christian and is always sharing the gospel with him.

But unfortunately, time was up there.
The rugby team had to go and we couldn't talk any more in depth, but we hoped and prayed, believing that he would encounter Christ through his roommate.

2023, summer memorandum.

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