SHE COULDN'T WAIT

"I want to give out the Gospel ON THE FIELD!" some missionary candidates say. But Saaya didn't wait for a starter's gun.

I can't keep up with this girl. I'd posted about visiting my sister's church down in Okinawa, and one of the college students had invited a friend to who he'd had repeated talks with. During my few weeks' stay at Joyce's, Saaya, unsaved at that time, talked with a visiting special speaker who ended up leading her to the Lord. My second week there, she stood and told of becoming a Christian.

When I got back home, I heard Saaya grew so much spiritually, she not only got baptized into church membership and became active there but decided to go to Bible School...the one 10 mins.' walk away from my home in mainland Japan! Last year, Saaya and I were able to take off for a trip Stateside. Saaya, together with Joyce and a close sister in Christ who joined them, gave testimonies to churches in the U.S. (Her name is pronounced, they were told, like the tail end of "Messiah".) Then, when our family moved down to Okinawa in Sept, one of the last things we did was to take some of our unopened things--boxes of tissue, bottles of oil, etc.--to Saaya for her last year of Bible School.

It was during that year, God solidified His leading for her marriage and Bangladesh missions. When Saaya graduated from Bible School this past June, her fiance was there. But she couldn't wait to get to Bangladesh to do her soulwinning, it seems.

A few days ago, she blurted out to Joyce, "I just have to tell someone!" She'd been witnessing to a friend from years ago and led her to the Lord!

Saaya...Joyce has been telling me about getting her visa and airplane tickets to go to your Bangladesh wedding! 

It sounds like all this has been happening in a short time because it's all in one article, within several paragraphs. But it's actually been YEARS, and much else has happened. That's the Christian's way of living: we walk one step at a time. It's just that some of us plod on straight ahead, while some of us are content to dawdle or skip around in circles or decide to take cat naps by the side of the path...

Anyway, would you pray for our "Messiah Missy"?