Once at my daughter’s church in Seattle, the guest Sunday school speaker described the life and work of the late Japanese Christian artist Sadao Watanabe, under whom she had studied.…
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Tag: Japan
Ezekiel. Who Knew?
I was speaking with a Japanese lady who was describing how she had come to the Lord. She mentioned that in reading the Bible on her own (in her search…
Psalm 139
The young Japanese mother had never read the Bible before. The group turned to Psalm 139, and she read it out loud. When she finished, she sat perfectly still for…
The Wind Phone
In May of 2017 I learned about the wind phone. It’s a phone booth with an unconnected phone, located in Japan in the area of the earthquake-tsunami-nuclear disaster of 2011.…
“Until You Reached This Place”
The year was 2000. My husband, Mark, had quit his job (partly at my insistence) because he was literally pacing the floor in his desperation to get back to Japan…