Emi Matsumoto is a member of Higashi-Omi church. She also often helps the missionaries (in-cluding the field leader!) with their Japanese. Here she shares how she came to faith in Jesus.
"I was brought up in a Christian home, but myself and my brothers were born during the war and we never had the opportunity to get baptised. The pastor lived next door to us and so on Sundays and Christmas would come and teach us hymns and stories of God.
When I was at high school and university I used to visit a friend of my fathers’ who was a pastor at a church in Kyoto, but my heart was not open to God at that time; I didn't think it had anything to do with me.
"You will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." Surely these words were fulfilled for Miss Yamada when she passed into glory on April 27th, 2001...