Saturday, April 11, 2009

Bridge BBQ

So this past week we have been hosting some Japanese people for a program called Bridge. Bridge was started some 20 years ago as a way to create a bridge between Japan and Hawaii with the intent of bringing Japanese leaders here to teach them MiniChurch, church planting and church leadership. The program stopped for awhile so this was our first attempt in over 10 years. This year's program brought in 4 people from Kansai and Tokyo and to celebrate the end of the program we had a BBQ.

Now I'm a big fan of this program on the Travel Channel called Man vs. Food. There was one episode in which they went to Minneapolis and tried a burger called the Jucy Lucy (or Juicy Lucy). Basically it's two beef patties with cheese in the middle. So instead of the boring run-of-the-mill cheeseburger with the cheese on top, this one has a nice layer of gooey melted cheese on the inside. When you first bite into it your mouth behold the power of cheese.

Sounds easy right? We decided to see if we could recreate this famous burger.



Here's Abby crimping the burgers together



Can you see the cheese bursting through on the right?



Finally, the finished product

Of course, being the good host that I am, I let our honored guests from Japan try the first burger. Here's Konomi, a 21 year-old girl from Kanagawa taking the first bite. We didn't tell her about our secret surprise in the middle so she was truly surprised when she bit into it and got a mouthful of boiling, bubbling cheese.



Itedakimasu!



Halfway through the half pound burger

After everyone had their fill of food, the guitars came out for an impromptu kanikapila session. It was really fun to just sit around and play music. Music truly is a universal language. The really awesome part was that after playing a few songs, our jam session turned in to a worship session and we were praising God in English and in Japanese all at the same time!



Kei, Konomi and Mizue (Bridge participants)



Braddah G and JC doing it local style



Dural, Krystal and Keao pick a good song to play



It was a five man acoustical jam!

Good friends, good food and good music. What better way to spend an evening?

4 comments:

keao said...

that was really an amazing worship experience...hearing japanese sung in harmony with our english.

too bad that I didn't get to try a juicy lucy or steak for that matter. Next time, I'm making a plate.

hope4surf... said...

DUDE! Love anything associated with BBQ (hibachi for the guys from the east). Throw in the worship.....'mo betta!

Au'ryte!!! <>< :)

Derek said...

Thanks for sharing... that looks like good times... we just got back from San Diego, hanging out with the fam.... my oldest niece, Keilah, got baptized in a jacuzzi and we got to hang out and play lots of games together.

The juicy lucy looks like my kind of food! I might have to try that before May.

Unknown said...

it always amazes me how worship transcends all languages! oh yeah, a good burger too...yum!

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