Wednesday, 27 February 2008

Hokkaido 9

Well it is time I finished the Hokkaido report. One of the main reasons to go to Hokkaido was to pray on the land and learn from the local Christians how they saw God at work in the island. Abraham and his wife took us to a mountain where many religious groups had places of gathering as they all seemed to understand that this was a special place spiritually. We prayed, read from the bible and even left some verses on the mountain.

The rest of the day we played tourist visiting a lake that froze over in the winter and was was reported to be the coldest place in Japan where they held a winter festival on the first Saturday in February. There was a huge bonfire, lots of food stalls, a concert ice tents to stay over night - about 150 people came to do this - and a hot bath that Joon Samuel and I just had to try.

3 comments:

david said...

mmmmm I need a good furo right now

Jon said...

someone seems to be having too much fun up there haha

aren't you supposed to be saving the heathens or something?

Bruce Stewart (施樸樂) (ブルース・スチュワート) said...

This is a brilliant blog and there is wonderful information and photos of Hokkaido. But what has been happening in the last three months since the last post? Keep up the writing!