Thursday, July 9, 2009

New Sister!

Yesterday Joel, Debi and I drove down to Hitachi, Ibaraki (about 2 hours and 45 mins away) to see our friend Kaori get baptized. Kaori has been studying the Bible for a few years now. I got to know her last year when I went to Cambodia. She was in my international group and we both were from Japan, so we did lots of different things together during that mission trip. She is a very kind and gentle girl, and God has grown a beautiful faith in her heart.

Kaori has been thinking about getting baptized for about a year, but delayed her final decision in order to give her parents some time to get used to the idea and accept her decision. We were so happy that she decided to join the family that we took the afternoon and evening off and made the trip to surprise her. Praise God for bringing this daughter into his fold!


Please pray for Kaori and her commitment to live the rest of her life as a child of God and in the grace of Jesus.