The international mission board has interns that come volunteer for a period of several months, and over the summer a lot of college students or recent graduates come serve. They are broken up into teams and go work in different areas of the city (which is ridiculously big). I teamed up with one of these teams for several days and joined in their ministry.
We did similar ministry throughout the week, including the 5 minute English, prayer walks and distribution. We also were able to visit a college campus and prayer walk it, then go out and talk to students on campus. Our team was able to establish some great connections with several students and will be meeting them again in the near future.
The last time we did 5 minute English was by far the best. A guy named Takashi came and talked to us for a while, and during that time we were able to hear about his life, share some of the Gospel with him, and pray healing over him. He was very moved-especially by the prayers, and met up with me later in the evening. He also came to our church service the next day, and would like to meet up with the team to hear more about Christianity. Something he said during church was something like "if there are all you Christians being so nice to me, there must be a God". It meant the world to him to be around people who cared for and about Him.
I got to pray over so much of the city even as I was sightseeing, and I loved getting God's perspective and God's heart for the city, and it was great to see the body working in Tokyo.
There is much darkness there though, as less than 0.5% of them are Christians. There are more Mormon missionaries in Japan than Christian missionaries. With a Godless culture comes darkness, and currently there are few laborers trying to reach a huge number of people. God is in control however, and there is hope for Tokyo. He can change the entire country in a second, and we should pray for (as well as go to) Tokyo and Japan as a whole.
Here is a picture of Takashi and myself:
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