| | It's the last little bit before the end of our Father's Day here. It has been a full and wonderful day.
We start off every Sunday by getting out of our house by 9am to drive across Tokyo to our Setagaya campus which takes us about 30mins. We had a great time at our 10:30am service. A lot of our folks are out for the summer. Such is the travails of an international fellowship, this one in particular, a lot of folks go home in the summer to visit family so our numbers go way way down. But it does make for a fun reunion in August when everyone comes filing back in to church.
The we set off for the drive back home around 1pm and after a quick bite to eat at our house, a 15-20mins power nap, it's time for our 3pm afternoon service in Machida. We had a wonderful surprise of having our other "adopted" son Kylan show up at church today. What fun! Kylan was a part of our fellowship here about a year and a half ago until he returned to finish his studies at UC Berkley. He is here in Japan for five weeks on a short term mission trip with Campus Crusade for Christ. It was so good to see him.
After both services, we are usually pretty zonked, so we headed home and had a wonderful Mexican feast complete with tacos and nachos. You have to know this about Jeremiah............he is addicted to Mexican food. I'm not the best Mexican food cook but he loves tacos and that is pretty easy to do and he is always happy afterwards. It was great, we had our candlelight Mexican feast, the kids took a "how well do you know Papa" quiz and in the end we were all busting out laughing.
We finished the night off by taking a family walk in the rain up the little hill by our house to the Baskin Robbins ice cream shop where they are having a sale right now. Buy 2 scoops and get a third free. It's so funny because they call it "challenge the triple" and of course the triple is so easy to finish :)
It has been a fabulous day. We are so blessed by Papa Jeremiah in our lives. He is truly the best of men. We adore him. And we thank God for him everyday. Please take time today to thank the men in your lives and to encourage them. And in the Tokyo Horizon Chapel tradition, every dad got a fabulous box of Men's Pocky, a true national treasure I tell you :)
My father died when I was young so I didn't really grow up with a father, and when I became a believer I asked God to give me father figures in my life. These men pointed me to Jesus, these men lived out their faith in front of me and challenged me to cling to my Heavenly Father. Thank you Dan Lambdin, my youth pastor. Thank you Richard Freeman, for accepting me. Thank you Curt Harlow, my college pastor. Thank you Richard Boek, my father in love. Thank you Ray Hobbs, my adopted dad. Thank you Chuck Fleming, for showing us ministry through your life. Thank you Jeremiah Boek, your life of sacrificial love and unfettered commitment shows me that some things in life are "done deals."
Happy Father's Day - or as we say in Japan "HAPPY CHICHI NO HI!"
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