July!

Here is a run down of July so far in Oki:

July 4th was a blessing for the group here. The Futenma base chaplian's assistant, invited us all over to her house for a BBQ. It was so great eating good old american style hamburgers and homemade cookies. Afterwards we went to Kedena Airbase and milled around the festival. The fireworks were beautiful and the mass exodus afterwards was a challege in and of it'self! Within the next week or so we had lots of hanging out time with people who are leaving and coming.

On tuesday, the Amargo family celebrated Ina's birthday at the Futenma bowling ally and invited the whole church! It was such a blessed time of bowling and snacking. The Amargo family are all so joyful and giving. They made sure everyone was having fun, as well as making their daughters 18th birthday one to remember.

Tom Cotton flew out this week to visit his fiance` and then will fly home to attend his sisters wedding, we will miss him for a few weeks but we will see him back this fall. Ina Amargo, along with the whole amargo clan is heading out to Tokyo this week to get Ina settled in. She will be ministering in the Tokyo area with Megan. Her family is going along to see the sights, climb Fujisan and give her one more hug.

Also, along with everyone leaving, we also got some new faces around the Cafe. Adam and Jonathan showed up last night and are the first crew for S.O.S Japan! Jonathan is Joels brother, and Adam is a long time friend of both Eder and Joel. We are hitting everything Okinawa to get them introduced to the Island. But i think the wall of humidity is a pretty good welcoming party by it'self ;) They are the first group and we are excited to meet everyone else this weekend and next week. Please keep everyone in prayer as they are traveling or adjusting to the weather.

-The Spearmans