Monday, August 28, 2006
Missionaries to Japan
We had 2 visitors to church yesterday. SIngapore missionaries who spent 8 years in Japan.
Let me focus on the lady. She had a conviction in her heart when she was 13 years old, that she was going to be a missionary one day. Therefore she tried to prepare herself by joining all sorts of ministries in the church and went on short mission trips whenever possible. However, God never spoke to her again about her becoming a missionary for the next couple of years. Until she married a pastor and had 2 little boys - a toddler and a baby.
One day, she was packing her bag, ready to accompany her husband to Missouri, USA for his Master's in Theology. God spoke to her then. "You are going to be a missionary in Japan." Her life came to a full stop. She couldn't fathom the idea of becoming a missionary in Japan! She couldn't stand the culture! Especially the men! So she laid a fleece before God, in order to convince herself. She told God that she needed confirmation. That if He would send a Japanese couple to Missouri, which is a rather ulu place right in the heart of USA, and that the Japanese wife would teach her Japanese! So on they went. Hah! She thought that was too difficult for God.
But one day, her husband returned home and told her that a couple had invited them for lunch. She went, and when the couple welcomed them at the door, she almost died there and then. Why? Cos the couple was Japanese! She couldn't believe it, so she asked how they had arrived there. The lady replied that she had taken the plane. Hahaha! Anyway, jsut before the dinner ended, the Japanese lady asked if she was free. She said she wanted to teach her Japanese!! *grin*
And to top it all off, she was approached by another Ang Mo lady who asked if she was willing to allow the angmo lady to practice her Japanese on her! Haha! How much clearer can the sign be? Clearer in fact, as we learnt.
Several days later, God spoke to her again. "You are going to be a missionary in Japan." She once again laid the fleece down before God. "Dear Lord, if it is to be true, You will have to talk to my husband as well. Because the husband has to lead, and the wife will follow." (So you see, she hadn't talked to her husband about her struggle with Japan as yet.) That night, when her husband returned, he asked her if God had spoken to her. She suspiciously said yes. He then asked if it was regarding the country with which they were to enter. Bingo! She asked how in the world he knew! He answered that when God speaks to the husband, He will also speak to the wife. There will always be confirmation, double confirmation....
So on they went to Japan... to help bring the Japanese to Christ for the next 8 years.
Let me focus on the lady. She had a conviction in her heart when she was 13 years old, that she was going to be a missionary one day. Therefore she tried to prepare herself by joining all sorts of ministries in the church and went on short mission trips whenever possible. However, God never spoke to her again about her becoming a missionary for the next couple of years. Until she married a pastor and had 2 little boys - a toddler and a baby.
One day, she was packing her bag, ready to accompany her husband to Missouri, USA for his Master's in Theology. God spoke to her then. "You are going to be a missionary in Japan." Her life came to a full stop. She couldn't fathom the idea of becoming a missionary in Japan! She couldn't stand the culture! Especially the men! So she laid a fleece before God, in order to convince herself. She told God that she needed confirmation. That if He would send a Japanese couple to Missouri, which is a rather ulu place right in the heart of USA, and that the Japanese wife would teach her Japanese! So on they went. Hah! She thought that was too difficult for God.
But one day, her husband returned home and told her that a couple had invited them for lunch. She went, and when the couple welcomed them at the door, she almost died there and then. Why? Cos the couple was Japanese! She couldn't believe it, so she asked how they had arrived there. The lady replied that she had taken the plane. Hahaha! Anyway, jsut before the dinner ended, the Japanese lady asked if she was free. She said she wanted to teach her Japanese!! *grin*
And to top it all off, she was approached by another Ang Mo lady who asked if she was willing to allow the angmo lady to practice her Japanese on her! Haha! How much clearer can the sign be? Clearer in fact, as we learnt.
Several days later, God spoke to her again. "You are going to be a missionary in Japan." She once again laid the fleece down before God. "Dear Lord, if it is to be true, You will have to talk to my husband as well. Because the husband has to lead, and the wife will follow." (So you see, she hadn't talked to her husband about her struggle with Japan as yet.) That night, when her husband returned, he asked her if God had spoken to her. She suspiciously said yes. He then asked if it was regarding the country with which they were to enter. Bingo! She asked how in the world he knew! He answered that when God speaks to the husband, He will also speak to the wife. There will always be confirmation, double confirmation....
So on they went to Japan... to help bring the Japanese to Christ for the next 8 years.
# posted by Banana Saviour @ 11:23 AM 
