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

appeared to go around and around Tokyo. We told the man at the ticket counter to sell us tickets for this particular train route. The stranger helped us with the boarding process and just like that, our train full of people blasted off for a trip around the city. Back in the USA, in New York City, Washington, D.C, and other major cities, we would bring our 8-foot wooden cross on the train and play guitar and sing praise songs about Jesus. We decided to do on this train in Tokyo what we had always done in America. We didn’t have a cross with us, but I slung my guitar strap over my shoulder, steadied myself on this moving train, and began to play songs about Jesus. “Lord, I lift Your Name on high…” Brother Bill was helping me sing while Pastor Steve and Brian talked to the passengers about Jesus. I quickly found out that the Japanese passengers onboard were not familiar with such outward displays of praise and worship to the Lord, especially on a train flying around Tokyo. It seemed they were very territorial and not used to anyone invading their space. Some of the younger passengers smiled and nodded their heads in approval while we sang about Jesus, but the older ones grimaced and did not like these American coming onto their train and ministering. The train had made a few stops along the route as passengers came and went and I continued playing guitar and we continued singing. Suddenly, at about the fifth train stop, the train doors opened, and a large Japanese policeman rushed through the door and onto our train. He was shouting something in Japanese that I obviously did not

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