At the Fall Planning Meeting – a Haiku poem
I wrote this Haiku poem during a planning meeting.
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Bringing a friend to Kamagasaki
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1991] Word got out. Tom and I were living in Kamagasaki. Our friends were curious. Some asked if they could come see the place where we lived.
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It Begins!
The aircraft made its final descent. Its wheels skidded onto the runway. And with that, I had arrived. I was in Japan. I was a foreign missionary.
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Preaching in the Open Air at Tsuruhashi
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; the late 1980s] After open-air preaching in a popular location called Shinsaibashi, our next open-air preaching destination was Tsuruhashi.
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A shelter for homeless people
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1991] We did volunteer work at a shelter for homeless men. It had the most beautiful chapel I’ve ever seen.
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Our friend Tanaka in Kamagasaki
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1991] We became friends with a Catholic woman named Tanaka. We esteemed her as a great hero of the faith.
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Sweet Victory at Awaji Island
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; the late 1980s] Tom and I went on a three-day evangelistic journey. We brought no money and no bag. Things went amazingly well.
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Murder In Triangle Park
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1991] One cold winter night I was with other homeless men around a fire, singing songs. Suddenly, one of them murdered the man right next to me.
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Discerning what to do next
[Adventures in Faith: The U.S.; 1990] My friend Tom and I had left Japan. We were back in the U.S. We sought God’s will for our ministry and lives. We made a decision.
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A homeless man, or an Angel of God?
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; the late 1980s] While traveling to a Pentecostal church in Osaka, I met a homeless man. He offered me food and drink. He may have been an angel of God.