2026 June is through!
A Mother’s Prayer when we aren’t there
6:09 PM “A Mother’s Prayer” Being a mother or grandmother means loving deeply, even when your heart feels scattered across different places. It can be hard to let go and trust, but prayer is never “just” prayer; God hears every word and holds every loved one with care. When your heart is full of concern, His…
Stateside Musings
God created so many flowers and fish in this wonderful world! Well we have been able to see so many right here in the desert or in our kids’ yard. Hope you can enjoy them as much as we do! Have you ever seen an owl in the wild? We got to watch some siblings…
Year Quickly Closing
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. Isaiah 46:10
GIRL’S DAY IN JAPAN
Celebrated on March 3 every year, Girl’s Day is a day on which Japanese households with young daughters decorate their homes with ornamental dolls. These dolls have been traditionally used to pray for a girl’s prosperity, health and successful marriage. The third day of March is considered to be a day of purification, on which…
2018 July Newsletter
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. This month a thought from our son Richard who is a pastor in Virginia. “In Luke 14:23 the master in the parable told his servants to invite people to…
Vicki’s Views of June
Tour of Northern Most Point of Japan: Soya Misaki
(above) – old WWII bunker
Wakkanai City Breakwater
Queen Anne’s Lace
Northernmost point Marker
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Isaac the trumpeter at Teshio Riverside Park
Of Interns and Youth!
And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. II Timothy 3:15 Both of us were raised in a Christian home where the Bible was read and honored as God’s Holy Word. What a privilege to have…
Piano survived atomic bomb
(2010) A group of Japanese musicians were loaned a piano from its owner Yoko Matsuba, an 84-year-old survivor of the nuclear bombing. The piano was used in a concert which took place in the autumn at the United Nations headquarters in New York in order to promote global peace and the abolition of nuclear weapons.…