Start of Okinawa Christian School

There was no Christian school in Okinawa when my parents started their ministry on the island, yet in its pioneer stage as a mission field, WWII having just ended. (Yes; that's a LONG TIME AGO!) But God saw us peon missionary children who needed education and started a school--it began as a handful of kids being taught by one missionary teacher & ended up growing to a student body of several hundred by the time my sisters & I got there. Then God saw we needed college education too so made financial provision for that.

Let's see...the school on the field, started for missionary children, ended up being the school to which Filipino, Chinese, Indian, Korean, etc..., businessmen sent their kids to also, so I had the privilege of growing up in a pretty international environment. I also remember in 2nd grade looking forward to going to public school on furlough because that would probably mean more witnessing opportunities, different from my Christian school where even unsaved classmates would claim to be Christians to keep from being left out. Of course that changed in jr-sr high when it seemed "more cool" to rebel, to fight the status quo...yes, that happens on the mission field too.