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It's hard for me to organize all my thoughts about my 2-week trip to Tokyo with OMF (Overseas Missionary Fellowship). When people ask me about how the trip was, I know that the 3-word summary would be: "It was great!". But I suppose people want to know a bit more than that.

For a high-level summary of the trip, just read the stuff in bold. I don't mind if no one reads the non-bolded stuff, it will be for my own personal documentation. :)

If the feeds from the slideshows are not working, press F5 to refresh the webpage. You can click on the slideshows to see a bigger version of the slideshows and to be able to read the captions. The slideshows do not start from the beginning so, after clicking on the slideshow, click "view album" in the upper left corner. Then click on the 1st picture.

This trip was not just a sightseeing/vacationing type of trip. It was a Christian mission trip (with some days of sightseeing included as well). There's things/thoughts about my trip that Christians will be interested in and things/thoughts about my trip that non-Christians will be interested in. To be honest, I don't have the time, energy or desire to make separate slideshows/blogs for the Christians I know and the non-Christians I know. :)

So I tried to keep in mind that not everyone reading this will be a Christian and I have tried to avoid using too much "Christian-ese". I think (I hope) I've kept things understandable and readable for both audiences and that there are posts that both would find interesting. But let me know if there's anything unclear or if it is fuzzy why people think the message of the Bible is so important. There's a blog entry called "Why I became a Christian" that should be (I hope) easy to understand? There is also a blog entry that addresses some questions that friends who are not Christians may have and/or conversation topics that may come up as a result.