On our third day, we went to Oginohama Elementary School emergency shelter.
The people of the Oginohama fled to the elementary school. Through the calm bay a tsunami of over 15 meters came. This area now flat was full of homes. They haven't started cleaning up the area because there are bodies still among the ruins.
This day we again served them yakitori (teriyaki on a stick).
While we were serving at the elementary school, we went to a Buddhist temple that also served as a shelter and served them some yakitori, soup, coffee, cookies and the love of Christ.
I asked Pastor Kumada if when he was first started his yakitori business he ever dreamed he would be serving yakitori to folks who had experienced such devastation. Never, he said. But the men at this shelter said, Please come again. They had never said that to any other volunteer before. Christ's grace works in such amazing ways. Through a simple hot meal..... By the way, Kuma chan (friendly bear) his wife and their 7 children were also in a shelter for one week.
