DC testimony Jonah Miyazawa

My Passion for The Lord


My name is Jonah Miyazawa and I go to Christ Centered Community Church. I have been raised in a Christian family from when I was born. I have been attending Collide for about 3-4 months and I enjoy it because it brings me closer to The Lord. Going to Collide really took me to another level in my faith. I have gone on a mission trip the Dominican Republic when I was in the Third Grade. Even though I wasn't as close to The Lord, that was an amazing experience to know how the Dominicans live in such poverty and no one to ask for prayer. I would say my relationship with The Lord then was way different now. Coming into this trip I really didn't know what kind of things we were going to do, but it turned out to be really fun. I expected to kind of blow through the trip and do easy tasks. But I thought wrong. I even thought just talking to people in need and random strangers was gonna be easy. When I wanted to talk to someone or pray for someone it was kind of hard going up to somebody.

The first thing that impacted me was probably the worship during mens ministry on Tuesday night. I have never seen anyone so passionate in worship and that has changed the way I'm gonna act from now on in any church that I go to. God really touched my heart during that service. Secondly the food truck really impacted me. This really showed how much people are in need. Helping people feels good because that's Gods plan. It was an amazing experience working with the Dream Center Staff. This shows how much we have to appreciate what we have because we take for granted what we eat and what kind of clothing etc.

Overall this Dream Center experience has had such a huge impact on my life with my faith in God. Like I said in the first paragraph I took a big leap of faith going on this trip. Going home now I will take more time out of my day to spend time with God (Devos and Prayer). My passion for God has changed drastically because of this trip.

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