Yabuki Breeze Blog

Sad story from this last week that hit me hard. I took a student to the airport to go home this week that I first picked up 6 months ago from an affluent country in Asia. He was an short term English student who happened to be a PhD student. We saw him occasionally at different events but lost track of him as the year went on. Anyway, as we were driving to the airport, I asked him what he planned on doing when he got home, he told me he was planning on quitting his PhD program and getting a job so he could “demonstrate.” “Demonstrate?” I asked him to clarify. He said, “yes, demonstrate against my government.” I was surprised. He is a humble young man, seemingly not too taken to passionate expression. I wasn’t sure what to say.. so I asked, “What kind of job will to do?” He said, “Self-Sustenance.” I was thinking he meant self-employed and I asked him to clarify. He said, “You know, living off of the land, planting vegetables, etc.” All I could say was, “Oh…” I asked why he was doing this. He said, “People from my country have so many things, everything a person could possibly have and yet our people are not happy.” Like Emerson and Thoreau, he sought the peace and meaning by chasing simplicity. At that moment, I realized something. He was a man who was looking for something while here. Something that would sate the angst that he felt living in modern Asian society. I have no doubt God could have filled that void, but I was not sensitive enough to his need. I didn’t sow broadly enough, thinking he would not be interested and so I missed an opportunity. I was sad. I learned alot from the conversation. I needed to salt all my conversations with the Hope that I have in Jesus so if God is working in someone, like this young man, he could identify himself to me.

• A new student Andrew from Nepal made a decision to follow Jesus through one of our volunteers doing Discovery Bible Study with him. God was influencing him in many way through many people and when he read the Bible he recognized what he was looking for.
• We are praising God that several of some of our closest students finished school this last weekend. Still we will miss them dearly. Vritant, Fernando and Bibianna specifically said that we all were their family in Texas (they even said it in a caption on facebook). Cynthia and TCU was showered with many blessings by the team over there. We are very sad to see these very special friends go home.
• We are excited that our student friend, Greg from East Asia welcomed his family to the US to join him after 6 months apart.

Tags: Asia, Bible Study, Discovery Bible Study, Family, ISI, Nepal, Rest, Student, TCU, Texas, volunteer, Vritant, Welcome

Today I had the honor of sitting at church with some really cool people. Tillie Bergen, the iconic founder of Mission Arlington was there. Mission Arlington has become a model for outreach into a city of lost people who are struggling in life. Tilly shared that through their ministry of giving over 238 churches were started in the many apartments and areas that they serve.

James Walker, the President of Watchman’s fellowship was there. Watchman’s purpose is to keep a “watch” on cults and other religious movements and to provide tools for believers to deal with these.

Dr. Shahid, director of Good News for the Cre@scent World, was there. He shared about how God is working in the Is#lamic world right now at an incredible rate, unseen in years past. He also share of the need for people to serve the women of Isl4am who are among the least touched and possible very open people around.

Then there was were leaders from Catholic Charities(the Arlington Chapter has an office in our church and one of the main refugee receiving and community reaching charities in the nation ), Arlington Pregnancy Center (have touched over 35,000r 35,000
English: Contemporary English Version (1999) - CEV
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WP-Bible plugin moms), Trinity Kids (a group that has camps and activites that shares Christ’s love to abused kids (identified by CPS) in the area). Then there was little ole me sharing about the ministry to international students that we are a part of.

One of the many blessings of being at Fielder is that they put a huge emphasis on members getting involved in their community. We, the main local ministries that Fielder Road Baptist Church supports, had the opportunity to share in front of the two services at Fielder Road Baptist church about what we do and how people can get involved. (Podcasts from the church) And the result… many people did come up and did want to learn more about how they can be involved. It was wonderful to watch. We were able to pass out nearly 580 flyers, and 18 people signed up on the spot. Several of our team and partners were there to help with the booth we were given including the Phillips, Ron, Ruthe Ann, the Aherns, the Weddles, etc. And the kids… the Phillips kids and the Yabuki kids were going all over the large entryway of the church making sure everyone got the chance to learn about ISI through receiving a flyer. It was an amazing thing… I was really touched by the openness of people to get involved… Praise the Lord for the Body trying to be the Body.

Tags: Fielder, volunteer