Seinen kai: small steps with a big God

"Lord I have heard of your fame;
I stand in awe of your deeds, O Lord.
Renew them in our day,
in our time make them known;
in wrath remember mercy."
Habakkuk 3:2

The Lord continues to affirm what I know of Him and have heard spoken of through the Holy Scriptures and by those who fear Him - i.e. that He is awesome and that He does mighty things through small people and in seemingly insignificant places.
Tadaoka, the town where I live and work, is so small and so quiet that it often seems to be cut off from the rest of the world. Our church congregation is by no means large, but those who attend are faithful. The majority of our church family is in the 40-55 year age range; there are also a handful of early 20s and a few really young children. Over the past few months, I have been getting to know the other young adults (seinen kai) and I am so thankful for the encouragement and support that they provide. I've been able to hang out with all the seinen kai members one on one but we've never all hung out as a group. I don't know how it happened, well, ok, its because the Lord is amazing, but our little group seems to be picking up momentum.
Two or three weeks ago, the daughter of one of the church members moved to the area from Korea and we've had the pleasure of getting to know her as she joins in our Sunday and mid-week fellowship (there's a picture of her in my last post). Then this past Sunday, a guy came to Sunday worship who none of us had ever seen before. Come to find out, he's working in Tadaoka as a Junior High English teacher and he heard about our church because he visited the Korean restaurant in town owned by one of the church members. Because he's Korean-Australian (to the best of my knowledge), he wanted to check out our church. On Sunday, we decided that we should all hang out and everyone was game for doing dinner on October 16th. This is so exciting for me, for us. To the best of my knowledge, we've never had an official seinen kai here at Rakuen and the mere thought of what God could do with this group of people is ridiculously encouraging to me. I'm really praying that God will give us a sense of community and ownership as we begin to fellowship as a group and share each others lives. Also that we would have a sense of unity and that God would bless us with a vision of where and how He would have us serve.

"Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." 1 Timothy 4: 12