GT Fin

--Thank you all so much for partnering with myself, Hi-BA International, Hi-BA Japan, and YWAM for these past two weeks. GT is officially over and I could not have made it through without your constant prayers and support. The entire 2 weeks were definitely go, go, go, but the Lord gave all of us grace and rest throughout the action packed weeks. Our average wake up time to go and pass out tracks to the high schoolers was about 5:45am and our average bed time was about 11pm so it was an intense few weeks.

Ryutaro-san, on fire for God, his own family, surfing, and God's children

--My favorite part of GT was not necessarily the program itself but rather the relationships I had the opportunity to build with so many people including: the international Hi-BA high schoolers and GT students/staff who are all extremely on fire for God, the Hi-BA staff from all over Japan specifically Ryutaro-san, Tsuguru-san, and Masaya-san who are three Japanese men, family men, and christian men who are on fire for the Lord and who I believe are going to be important players in the Christian revival of Japanese high schoolers and of Japan.

My GT team, such a blessing

-- I learned and experienced a lot through GT. I got to see how the japanese people reach out for Jesus Christ, I got to experience and see hungry high schoolers go after kids their own age for the sake of the gospel, i got to see many japanese high schoolers come into relationship with Jesus Christ, i got to show the love and relentless pursuit of Jesus Christ for His children through the skit we did which is below, i got to act like a fool passing out thousands of invitations/tracks to high school students, i got to submit to authorities that God placed over me that i wouldn't normally/regularly submit to, and best of all i got to experience the love, grace and rest of God on a regular basis.
--Thank you all again for all the love, prayer, and support that you have given me. I also want to give a special thank you to my home church, The Chapel in St. Joseph, MI for supporting me financially and continuously praying for me i would not be where i am without you. I want to also thank my kind and loving family, my mom and dad (Karen and Frank Bock) for stepping out in faith and supporting me, as well as Jenny Ryan my sister and Blake Ryan my brother-in-law and my nephew Grady for being such a joy and blessing in my life I love you all so much. Also to my Aunt Paula for writing me such encouraging emails, I have truly been blessed by them. God bless, check back very soon for a new blog on our upcoming outreach to the Philippines.

In this skit i got to be Jesus, and the girl who is carrying the bag

 is throughout the skit being labeled with labels like: boring, not cool, not

 good at anything, and not worthy etc. She begins to feel the weightiness

of all these labels and finally breaks down. She then realizes that Jesus

died for all these burdens and that if she takes them to the cross,

she can walk in her true identity which is a loved daughter of God. 

Based off of Matthew 11:28-30