I returned to college filled with joy and praise for what God had done during the summer. The year went very well and one of the things that God led me to do was to start a prayer meeting at the college as He had led me to do during the summer. It was hard to see how few people would come to pray even though it was available three times a week and they could come or leave as needed during the hour and a half time that we met. Nevertheless I was greatly encouraged by those who did come and when no one came had wonderful time with the Savior, just Him and me.
As the year progressed God kept working in my heart, drawing me closer to Himself and developing the passion for Japan that He had placed in me. I began thinking about what I would want to do in Japan. I wanted to be a missionary, but doing what? Through several situations I began to realize that what I really wanted to do was planting churches. As I prayed for Japan I saw that there were still 10 cities (albeit small cities) that had no churches in them and hundreds of towns of villages. This was not to mention the many cities and towns that had only one church. My heart broke over those cities. "No churches!" I thought and began crying out to God for those places, knowing in my heart that I wanted to see churches started in those ten cities. By myself, I was dreaming the impossible, but with God . . . this is more than possible!
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