My Dietary Experiment in England
While I was living in England, I tried the diet of Mohandas K. Gandhi. I lived on fruit and nuts for a month.
Japan is an island country in East Asia. Christianity was first introduced into Japan in 1549. It is rich with great saints and martyrs.
While I was living in England, I tried the diet of Mohandas K. Gandhi. I lived on fruit and nuts for a month.
[Japan; the late 1980s] After a year in Japan, I observed that nobody, including myself, was having much success with evangelism. I became convinced we needed Power From On High.
I wrote this Haiku poem after a session of Contemplative Prayer.
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; the late 1980s] My missionary friend Tom and I made our own Christian pamphlet in Japanese, and then handed them out on the streets.
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1991] One winter night, Tom and I showed up at our old Bible Study group at the Baptist Church in Japan. They told us to “Stay warm. And try to get something to eat!”
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1991] On a bitterly cold night, Tom and I slept in a Buddhist shelter for homeless people.
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1991] My health problems had worsened. I convalesced for a day or two at a Doya, which is a cheap flophouse.
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1988] 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.
[Adventures in Faith: Japan; 1991] Tom and I witnessed an old man being beaten to death. We stood between the murder and his victim.
[Adventures in Faith: India; 1991] My friends and I went on an overnight outreach journey. We brought no money and no supplies. We helped the people we met. It went well, but we all got sick.