11/9/07 Friday. LIFE: Starting well. This morning, we visited "International Christian School" with 1,000 students pre-k through high school. They just moved into their brand-new location on Wednesday! Wow, it is so sharp with the most impressive facilities. Much of it felt like our new schools in Carmel, but they had even more funding to make it the best quality. How exciting to see such an excellent Christian institution here. How exciting, too, because Alan on our team was on the original founding board that had the vision for and launched this school 15 years ago! The students and faculty we met were all so eager and optimistic about their future, as they should.
LIFE: Ending well. As we have completed our work projects today, we took opportunity to visit with the retired pastor and his wife, for whom we built the first railing. They invited us into their home and were so appreciative of our efforts. She couldn't have been more hospitable; making us comfortable, providing tea and the best of their cookies and chocolates. He is deaf and their English is poor, but our translator helped us understand that he was a Buddhist monk that converted to Christianity over 60 years ago and that he had served at this mission post for 60 years. He has been retired for 10 years and they will likely live out their days on this mountainside on the property where they had served so faithfully. We told them that we respected his years of outreach to Buddhists and pastoral ministry to the Church.. and that like Jesus modeled service by washing feet, we were honored to serve them in this project. What a blessing!
Tim & Takako at Buddhist temple
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