We can’t remember some of the early adjustments without talking about food! Strange food? No, just different food…in a land of almost 100% differences we tried as a family to say that things were different not strange–for they weren’t strange to those that lived here. ‘UUUyuck’ was never allowed to be uttered, although even we…
Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. II Thessalonians 3:1 These verses make an appeal for prayer to a local church…
From that title we are sure you get the idea–the food in Japan–the same or different you wonder! Browns that remind you of chocolate; dark creams that remind you of peanut butter; bottles that look like wine but have oil in them; vegetables that we have never seen the like before…and then there is the…
Beings we didn’t have a car the first couple years we were in Japan it was nice that at least the church was only about a 15 min. walk away (depending on whether we were walking with our children or not). It was a quiet neighborhood but opportunities to be with neighbors especially with small…
Here is a portion from the letter that included the following picture. Ken started working on simple S.S. lessons about 4 months after we arrived. It took quite a lot of time as you can figure out by the following sent to Vicki’s parents: I thought you might like to see what the rough draft…
Greetings again during our 25 days of 25 years of memories! We stayed with the veteran missionary family for 7 months. (Oct. 83-Mar. 84) The lower left picture is of the kitchen we shared with them. The right hand two pictures was our (Ken and Vicki) living/sleeping/studying area upstairs in their home. The 3 children’s…
Mansell Family 1983(Michael next to Vicki, Richard, & Alicia) Our Dedication service(sorry to blurry..we came in the ‘dark ages’when there were no computers) > Twenty-five years ago today we remember leaving the L.A. airport and watching the lights disappearing and knowing that we knew nothing of what the Lord had ahead for us in the…
Well we experienced a small short earthquake about 30 minutes away from us. If you go to the link above you can see numbers on the map. The 4 is Horonobe where we have one of our extension outreaches. The 2 is Teshio. It has been several years since we had one this close!! We…
A supporting church Pastor’s Wife sent us a copy of a letter she wrote her family. It was so good we asked permission to share it with you–We live in a wicked cultures, and sometimes it seems that all we can do is complain about it. I just want to share a couple of events…
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. “I’ve gone for 30 years now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can’t remember a single…