Street Stories - A Ringside Seat To Over 4 Decades Of Taking Jesus To The Streets Of The World

When Brother Bill, Brian, and I landed at the Tokyo International Airport, we met up with Pastor Steve. We all left the airport and made our way to a nearby hotel where we grabbed some sleep before our arduous 227 mile trek to Sendai. Although severe jet lag was fighting against us when we awoke the next morning, we knew we had to get going to redeem the time in Japan for the work the Lord had called us there to do. Tokyo is a fascinating city with a unique culture and an exploding population of over 14 million people. As a reference, New York City in the U.S.A. has a population of 8.2 million. We had never ministered in an international metropolis that was almost two times the population of New York City, the most populated city in the United States. We knew it would be a while before we could travel to the earthquake and tsunami ravaged city of Sendai and surrounding areas. So, we decided to hit the streets for Jesus in Tokyo. I had always heard stories of how incredible the train system was in Tokyo, so we all wanted to take a train ride around this great city. We made our way from the hotel to downtown Tokyo where we struck up a conversation with a stranger who offered to help us navigate the very complicated train routes. We went inside the train station and looked at the map outlining the different train routes around Tokyo. I had never seen anything so confusing in my life. The train routes were so complex I thought of it in comparison to a bunch of spaghetti, so very hard to tell where the trains were going.

As we continued looking at the map of the train routes, I noticed one route was very circular and it

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