Frontline Fridays are one of our ways of keeping you in touch with our teams. During the iGosian Mobilization Season we aim to post on Fridays some updates from selected teams. Our hope is that you will find yourself eager to hear news from the front lines and ready to engage the work as you pray for these teams.

The first team of 2015 departed DFW on Monday of this week, arriving in Tokyo after a quick little 13 hour jaunt over the Pacific. These three JSIs are busy preparing the way for our Kansas/Nebraska Super Summer team to arrive next week.

Speaking of Tokyo, these JSIs mark the first iGo team in Japan since 2010. The inaugural iGo student team served in Sapporo, Japan in 2001. In fact, iGo teams served in Japan every summer for our first 10 years of training and mobilizing. Tokyo was also the landing spot of our largest team ever – 189 students and adults on the 2008 Texas Super Summer Global team.

We have always loved our work in Japan and we are excited that God has opened the door for us to send teams there again. Please pray for these JSIs as they get settled in:

Pray for God to open doors in Japan for the gospel message to be proclaimed and heard clearly (Colossians 4:3).

Pray for these 3 students as they get used to their surroundings and begin to build relationships in the city (1 Thess. 2:8).

Pray for the M’s that have partnered with iGo that they will be encouraged in their work as our students serve alongside them (Philippians 1:3-6).

Bonus Update: 

iGosia officially begins the annual tourism season tomorrow. iGo staff, Jimmy, and some amazing volunteers are on their way to Webster Conference Center as I type to get things ready for Base Camp to begin tomorrow. Please pray for them as they travel to and from Kansas and train and mobilize this team.

Double Bonus Friday

iGosian Road Trip Tips: 

1. If you stop at Braum’s for ice cream and they are out of your favorite flavor…just go to the end of the line and hope to get a different ice cream scooping specialist the next time around.

2. Fill up the tank BEFORE you get on that one long tollway. Trust us on this one.

3. The best way to express your dislike of tollways is to unleash the bees from the hidden hive on the trailer when you have to stop and pay the toll.

4. Feeling a little tired or maybe just road weary? Have some electricity.

5. Backseat drivers are never welcome. This is also true of backseat, backseat, backseat, backseat drivers in 15 passenger vans. This principle also applies to music selection and temperature control in the van.

Let the iGosian Summer begin!