Time flies and many wait to hear
February 18, 2008
Okinawa family gravesite
February 16
Boy time flies. Since the last update personally I had a birthday, Tak and I had an anniversary and celebrated Valentines Day.
This past week we were in Okinawa and were able to visit with the Miku family, have a meal with them and then with them and his parents as well as have worship together on Sunday. The two children, ages, 5 and 1, sang praises to the Lord with us; the five year old joined in reading the Bible out loud together and then we had a great time around the table listening to the Lord through his word.
Also, Tak and Mr. Miku went to the park on Friday morning and took a homeless man a boxed lunch and had worship with him. It was really cold and windy. I think that worship was short because they were all so cold!
Pray for the all the people in Okinawa Prefecture to hear the gospel. Many are isolated because they live on small islands, some islands have only a few hundred people. But, these people are included in the ones we are to take the gospel to. Pray for ways, wisdom and workers to get the gospel to every person on those islands.
On one of the islands we saw more graves than people. Each of the graves represented not one person but entire households (see picture above) who had gone into eternity without Christ. As I looked at them my heart ached for those who were still living there but who had yet to hear the gospel. Please pray for national Christians to have a vision to reach their people. Pray for more laborers. Pray for people to have open hearts to the gospel message.
Many people from all over Japan come to Okinawa to enjoy the beauty of the islands. Here are two ladies dressed up in traditional Okinawan kimonos.
