RUMIKO

So many things happened during those three and a half weeks in Okinawa, I couldn't write about all of them.

Here is one I missed:

I told you about having grown up with Sharon and Brian. My cousin Rumiko, now in her seventies, heard we would be at Gushikawa Baptist Church. She knew all of us in high school, and made the special effort to meet us.

Rumiko accepted Christ, went to Bible School, was led in marriage and children's work for decades until an accident left her husband bedridden. At Gushikawa Baptist Church she shed tears of joy as she listened to our song in testimony, "Little Village Church" (Little Brown Church in the Wildwood), of the establishment of the first few churches in Okinawa. Rumiko herself gave testimony in the fellowship session we had later.

When I got back to Iwatsuki, I sketched the photo from the day Rumiko came to Gushikawa Baptist, also the MK choir, and sent them to her along with a letter of reminiscing, of prayer, and of praise for God's faithfulness.

Little did we know that the very next month, her husband would be called Home. He would not need to fellowship at a little village church any more, but would live forever with Him Who is our eternal Dwelling Place!