Hello~ This was a about 2 months ago.
BUT....MY SISTER LAUREN GOT MARRIED~~ yay yay yay
Our family is very happy with her and it was an amazing wedding filled with peace and joy!

I was bridesmaid so I tried to be available and help with anything she needed. I think I am getting better at being bridesmaid as I attend different wedding. I like it :) Being near someone who radiates so much joy and happiness is good ;) (my turn will come....someday HAHA).

It was such a beautiful day, my sister said she wants to do it again IT WAS THAT GOOD!
Usually brides are stressed our or overwhelmed but the wedding was such a great family atmosphere accompanied with gorgeous weather, it was truly a perfect day!

Weather forecast said that typhoon will be hitting that day but with many people's prayer and God's kindness and sweetness, it passed quicker. The ground wasn't wet but the leaves were very greenもう最高（Awesome in Japanese）

Here are some pictures ;))))))

(Mom, Me & Lana, Daddy)

 "THE HOLLANDS FAMILY"

Bridesmaid
From Left;
Lana, me, Lauren and Steph

Lauren has beautiful voice :)
Her middle name is fragrance in Japanese and truly she releases the fragrance of the LORD in her singing, she is an inspiration and living testimony of God's goodness and bigness.















I think Lauren is lucky and also Keiichi (her husband) is lucky <3

Ever since I know Lauren I can truly say with my whole heart that she is looking more and more like Jesus as she grow older!
I totally see God's power being released through her. She is woman with authority and integrity.
She is becoming more and more into who God created her to be and I get touched looking at her life. Enemy is for sure afraid of her, she brings freedom through her voice, she brings forth and releases who God is in the room. She pulls people into the holy of the holies. She leads people into praise and worship to the one true King!
I am so excited to see what God is going to do through her. I am also excited to see Lauren and keiichi glorifying the Lord together as one unit! There is sweet anointing on their life. I can sense the favor of the Lord :)



I am one lucky girl to be surrounded by people who are like Christ.
I am so happy and THANKFUL (it's almost thanksgiving ;) ) for the people God brings in my life.
He is so good, so faithful, so kind, so generous in His provision. He gives more than enough!
I love my life, I love Him and He loves me and there is no place I rather be ;)

Prayer Room

Hello!
We just started a prayer room at our base here at YWAM Tokyo.
It has been a journey and believe it will continue to be.

Because I felt the Lord directing me to prayer even before we began this prayer room, I jumped into it when I heard we are starting prayer room as a community.

We are pioneering different ministry, Cafe, Universities, Arts and Evangelism.
This prayer room as well we just begun pioneering.

Every Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning and afternoon, wednesday morning and thursday morning and afternoon we have prayer room running.
Because I decided to make prayer room my priority I meet up with others who have heart for the prayer rooms on friday and we lead each of the prayer room sets.

SO I had this privilege and honor of leading my first prayer room.
It was fun! It was challenging and yet very refreshing.

I felt the Lord speaking to me about our base growing in the prophetic and exhortation.
Therefore in the morning I gave out paper that I cut into shapes of T-shirt and wrote people's name on it. People got T-shirts of someone else's name written on it and they prayed and asked God what they needed to hear that day. They write it, draw it do whatever they feel led to and they pray for the release of this truth that they have written down to come alive. We pressed in and interceded for each other and when we felt the release from God, we gave the paper to the person. Then when we receive the paper that someone written a words for, we receive the word of truth and meditate on it.
Some of us repented for unbelief, celebrated this truth of who God calls us, and soaked in His love.
Personally I got messed up by what was written on mine, I felt breakthrough and Lord healed me through His words. It was really good. It is amazing how God touches you through the things you prepared for. After wards we hang the T-shirts on a clip that we had put in the church, it was so good to see everyone else's too!

Then in the afternoon we worshiped and praised the Lord. 

And whenever anyone felt in unction or sense from the Lord speaking then they prayed at the front. Then we did what it's called "rapid fire" where each of us line up and pray a short prayer. 

So when one person came up and prayed a prayer we went forward praying in agreement with what was said declaring and pressing in in unity. It was also very amazing. 

Agreement and unity in prayer are so powerful!

I love Him who is faithful to use someone like me. He is so committed and gentle. He is sweet and powerful. Even when I was restless He brought me such peace to just enjoy the time He has given me and just enjoying Him with everyone. 

Leading worship & Rapid Fire

We are planning on having a blog later on on our journey of prayer room! 

I hope you can check it out sometimes and if you have a burning of starting a prayer room GO FOR IT! It is so important for us to come and pray together. It is fun and at times stressful but God is growing us and encouraging us and building us to become intercessors. 

"He saw that there was no man and wondered that there was no one to intercede..." (Isaiah59:16)

You don't have to be called to be an intercessor, we are all called to pray and stand on the gap! 

Yay So thankful that even I can pray and intercede on behalf. 

THANK YOU JESUS! 

Love Fall

Fall season believe it or not is my FAVORITE season, it has not happened yet but I love when the trees start dressing up with its colors, so pretty :)
Food in the fall is amazing in Japan! 焼き芋(sweet potato)、栗(chestnut)、モンブラン(mont blank cake)、かぼちゃ(Squash)、さんま (Pacific Saury) and so much more!
All to say that fall is an exciting season for me!

It has been exciting time with my family also.
My older sister Lauren is getting married this weekend!
My dad came back from finishing his crosswalk, he walked across Japan carrying a cross. Glad He is back safely.
My dad is also turning 61 this week!
My younger sister Lana is back for 4 weeks from Australia where she is staffing YWAM.

So our family is in celebration mode but also comes with tons of work!
Getting married looks like TONS of work! I am so glad that I am in church community where people are so willing to help out with the wedding! Fellowship of believers, SO good!

I am also very thankful for the community I am placed! I serve God with an amazing people!
I get cultural shock and I do not relate with all that they talk about (90 percent of our community is North American) BUT I love each and every one of them, they are so precious and beautiful in my sight.  I am so lucky to be given so many brothers and sisters who loves the God first! THANK YOU JESUS and to know that they have come to serve the nation I was born and raised in. MAN I am thankful for the workers He is sending in Japan. MORE LORD!

God is so faithful and kind, He extends mercy and grace that never ends!
He is providing for all my needs and at times He gifts me with things that I don't need but He does cause He just loves giving me good gifts! He is a wonderful father.

What are you thankful for today?
Share your thanksgiving and let's celebrate what He is doing! yay yay yay

Hi-b.a. Camp

I just came back from week of camp called Hi-b.a. which is a ministry I am part of.
Hi-b.a. (High school Born Again) is youth ministry that came originally from the states but it is also in Japan. I attend international Hi-b.a. and serve there as volunteer staff.
We do our rallies at a place that is right beside the school in Tokyo called Christian Academy in Japan.
I graduated there and as a high school student I've attended Hi-b.a. and it has been a place where I received refreshment, confirmation and encouragement from the Lord.

SO it is really good and awesome that I get to be part of something that was influential in my life.

Here's are some picture from camp!
This year I was privileged to give a message at the first night session. I was extremely nervous but God worked in me and showed me my weakness and lack of trust in the Lord so it was really good for me to be broken before Him. It was good for my relationship with the Lord and it felt good to be honest and vulnerable in front of the students it was an amazing experience!
It ended up encouraging the campers so PRAISE THE LORD!
He can us ANYBODY! WEAKER THE BETTER haha More evidence of God's faithfulness and goodness and greatness of His abilities COME ON!

WELCOME!

FOOD WAS SO GOOD

FUN FUN FUN!

BEACH

WORSHIP BAND真剣に賛美しましたw

Time of worship!

Wonderful time for congratulating the senior! by featuring Alice in the wonderland ;)

Wonderful Staff <3

Amazing Camp !

God is faithful and good. He loves unconditionally and He never runs out, He does not stop loving us no matter what He has decided and He will forever stick to love us.

It was so refreshing to see campers being touched by His love for the first time, having the revelation that they are not rejected but accepted by Him.

They all have grown not only in the knowledge of God but passion to pour out the love that has been given to others and most importantly back to Him. 

I am excited to see the growth I will see more as I grow alongside with them this year. 

So pray for these students and also staff that are involved at hi-b.a. for wisdom and patience, knowing what God has for us instead of what we want or make it happen, His ideas are better ;)

Also pray for me as I continue in my outreach phase! God's good during this week while I was gone to camp other Dts Students and staff did local outreach and they saw 4 salvation! THANK YOU JESUS!

Pray that God will continue to do the things that He does, restore, reconcile, save, heal and redeem!

AMEN

Love You guys. 

It's been long time once again haha PHILIPPINES

Hello people YES you clearly know I am not good at blogs but I will NOT give up I will keep trying!

I just now came back from outreach trip to the Philippines, this was my second time to lead a team to Philippines it was different experience once again and it was amazing what God has done through each of us!

Our reasons for going to Philippines was to reach the bar girls and stopping prostitution there.
We went to the bars at night and spend time loving on them, letting them know that they are loved by Jesus and that they are precious in the kingdom.
We also went to the countryside of the Philippines and reached to the tribal there, we went to couple other different ministries in the Philippines and encouraging the body of Christ, and also loving and caring the base that we stayed at. The base has many girls living and working majority escaped the bars to get equipped to learn other ways to get jobs and getting discipled learning/knowing more about Jesus :)

Isn't that neat? I am so blessed and honored to be able to work for the kingdom just loving Him first and loving on the people around me no matter where there are at. JUST LIKE JESUS.



Here are some pictures to show you my trip with my team

My Lovely Team from YWAM Tokyo DTS :)

I love each and every single one of them and each of them were totally being the light in the Philippines

The Kids at the base where we stayed at. This is our base's third time going to outreach in the Philippines and everytime we stay at this base and one of our highlights are being able to love the people here at the base and partnering with their vision in saving girls/ladyboys from prostitution.

This year we also had New Zealand team with us and we worked together in ministries & evangelism!

They were an amazing team that brought refreshment to us ;)

Others are people (workers, disciples, staff) that lives at this base! 

They have become family to us :)

These are some of the bar girls from "Escape bar" 

The girls are very open to the word of God many of them call themselves Christians and Philippine is known as a Christian Nation and so the truth has been spoken everywhere here. 

It was good to just love on them and have fun with them praying for them and encouraging them to live their lives worthy of His calling. Many of the girls I met was under 22 and they already have kids and their means to work is for their children's needs.

None of them enjoys the job but they often say they have no choice. 

Pray that they will return to God and rely on every needs from Him!

We had an open air where we did many skits/worship/short messages to spread the gospel it was great! 

Many people actually gathered around and stayed for the whole thing! 

Our team was able to reach to people and pray for people. 

One person was saved that they from one of the guys evangelizing to him! Praise the Lord!

And OFCOURSE I would find a Japanese! Hehehe 

Praying for Jojo, guy that I met during open air, he is a dancer. He was even on a show with his crew! 

People we met during evangelism! 

Left:Junior High students Right: Family! 

(we were doing a treasure haunt one of the girl got orange clothing, another girl got ice cream, another girl got cones and another girl got the number 2 walking around the mall we saw a family and sure enough the girl was wearing orange they had two ice cream with cones ! haha) We prayed for them and it was great ;) GOD IS SO GOOD

They have Bible study every week at the bar!!! Isn't that awesome!? We went there and we did worship, testimony from former prostitute and short messages, afterwards we got into a small group and prayed for the girls many were touched! 

Haha We went on a hike to tribal church, it was amazing beautiful and adventurous!
It was worth the walk. City girl like me had a little rough time ;p But the view was gorgeous!


We also went to Kingdom Kids where many street kids are and they have ministry where it is basically like a Children church! Majority are children and older kids are discipling younger kids and it is so precious to see faith like a child right in front of you!

We finished are outreach with Dance party at the base and it was pouring rain which made the party way more fun!!!! We praised God and had fun and loved on each other.

Saying goodbyes was tough and it was hard for the people there as well but we believe in faith that what we have done will bear eternal fruit! We did 24hr burn which also was an amazing time for all of us. Students loved it, learned from it and they grew just this two weeks so I am looking forward to rest of what our local outreach here in Japan will look like!

Continue to pray for me and support me in the ways you can ;)

I love you all and appreciate all that you do for me !

It's been long time...

I said I was not well with updating blogs haha
Life has been wonderful! Went through some tough season but God is good.
One thing I love about God is that He can heal me.
I can ask in my prayer for Him to break me and get rid of all the junk...that would probably hurt.
But God can heal it anytime. Knowing that I can ask Him to break me and mold me to what He wants me to be.

This morning I was just praying for Japan and especially Tohoku area.
Felt such sorrow and pain. I wish I could be there. I want to be there. I hope to be there soon.
I want them to be healed, I want them to feel release from their pain and wounds.
I want to lay hands and pray that they may feel the Father's love.
Tohoku part of Japan is still left destroyed but I wonder how much more of the heart's of the people are being destroyed through this. I can only imagine the fear and the sorrow they go through.

In spite of all that I know that God is still good, He is good King and good God.
I can trust in Him that He is going to make and build something beautiful.
He is good, He restores, He rebuilds, He makes something new, better for His glory.

I trust in the future of Japan for He has made for His pleasure and WE WILL receive Him with Our whole heart!