Snowing again

We first met Shino at the Aomori Christian Center when she was an exuberant High School Student on her way to America for a homestay. We met her again on her return when she attended the trial resurrection of the English camp in 2000. Her decision at that camp to follow Jesus was the deciding factor in our decision to keep going.

John led her to the Lord but, of course, she was baptized at another church in her own city. She grew in the Lord, went to Tokyo and had almost disappeared from our lives. But then in 2004, a colleague who knew that I was working with students and that John was praying for God to send someone to Hokken University in Aomori City wrote to tell us that Shino was coming home to study nursing at that very same Hokken University. Shino and I have been meeting regularly to pray together ever since her return.

Shino playing with the Pastor's son during a break

at a recent KGK/IVCF Seminar in Morioka

There is neither heaven nor earth,

Only snow

Falling incessantly.

- Hashin

Shino wanted to take photos of the snow on our way down to Morioka for a seminar the other day - and it was beautiful. But there was A LOT of it and by the time we took the wrong road and got turned back at the mountains an hour out of Morioka I'm afraid my nerves were like rubber bands. But it was a good time of fellowship - there's nothing like a long car ride for camaraderie.