Okinawa Franklin Graham Festival

On November 3, 4, and 5th, Franklin Graham came to Okinawa for a Evangelistic Festival. It has been nearly a year of planning and hard work - but it finally came down to these 3 nights! God blessed the entire thing from weather to providing parking, helpers and just the awesome experience of seeing hundreds come to Jesus. It was great.

Pictured here is the International Committee. It was a true honor and blessing to get to work along side so many of the other pastors here on Okinawa. Some have been ministering for over 20 years here. God brought a neat group together and I was humbled to be a part.

The estimated attendance each night of the Festival was about 6000 people. Over the 3 days with the children's events, nearly 2000 people came forward to make a commitment for Christ. Please continue to pray for Okinawa.
Look! Marre and Kumiko Ishii from Committed Fellowship Tokyo came down to perform each night at the festival. They did a great job along with so many other gifted artists... also our very own Tim Newell performed too... check out pix at Tom's blog.

The man. Justin Peterson. Justin had one of those "Back Stage Passes" because he, along with a good handful of guys from church worked the security for Franklin Graham. Here he is coming to get me because I snuck in to take a picture. Where's Franklin?