After prayer meeting Feb. 19, Jaime began putting away the tables and stacking the chairs to get ready for the next day's ping pong ministry held in the same room. He'd told us about his trip to mainland Japan, and surprised us by telling us of some people he'd visited while he was up there.
Inori Takagi was someone I'd taught in Sunday School. In fact, several years ago, when I stopped in for an unannounced visit, she'd shed tears happy to see me. Despite the difficulty she experienced growing up in her Christian home, the Lord allowed us to have a good friendship.
When Inori was in elementary and learning to write the American alphabet, she copied a Bible verse in English and made a bookmark for me--of course, she herself could not read it! I kept her Labor of Love in my Bible, in the first page of Ephesians, the book I was memorizing when she gave it to me.
This spring, my sister Joyce and I will be going back to that church where the Bible School will be having a graduation service, and a former member of our Gushikawa Baptist Church will be graduating from Bible School this year. I wonder if Inori would come too? It's been YEARS since I've seen her.
