2006 DEC 30 Last night, I finally connected with pastor Yuya Kuwahara and his wife Liz (from Misaki Church in Chiba, Japan) at the the evening session at the dome. We had a great time! This morning I had breakfast with them and some of the ISI folks (Leon, Asako, Yu Chen). Most of the folks at Urbana were fasting after breakfast until dinner. I definitely got hungry and was really looking forward to dinner. After our morning Bible study, I spent the rest of the day attending a variety of talks on Business As Ministry (BAM), including micro-finance start-ups, branding, and tentmaking. They were all really interesting and I had no idea this a relatively new movement that was started at Princeton University in 1999. I learned some interesting facts about micro-finance: 1] Half a billion people have participated in micro-finance loans; 2] 95-98 percent have repaid their loans; 3] the repayment rate is dramatically higher than the credit card industry percentages for payback.
After all the BAM sessions I went to another hotel and participated in a two hour Japanese and Korean worship event hosted by JCFN. It was really good! People were really energized to be there, especially so late in the night. I was really encouraged to see Japanese and Korean students worshiping together with such enthusiasm!
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