ADULTS WERE THERE TOO!

I realized, in my Oct. 5 post for "Hawaii Calls", only the Uken kids are pictured. Adults really were there! It wasn't just the children that built the church; it just so happens that I posted the picture with only the kids!

See? This is my Dad with his cousin's wife, telling her to look at the camera.

They'd come out--unbelievers too--to help the Christians get their church--because they'd seen the good this foreign religion did for them--at least for Yoshi.

She no longer wanted to jump into the well to get away from demon spirits who insisted she be the next priestess. That is, that's what Seiko said his wife tried to do when they told her she'd been chosen for this special honor (being priestess is the highest honor of the ancestor worship system).

So, even if they weren't completely persuaded themselves of this Christian God, the adults of the village rallied together and helped put up the ribbing, the shell, and...a humble but very own meeting place for the Uken believers.

Thank You God!

The children were watching.

I wonder how many of them are grown now with families of their own and are thinking about this time when they came face to face with the working of a Living God in their lives? Please pray they will be sensitive to His voice and respond to the wooing of His Love.