Senior, visiting a senior

I have  old Christian couple friends, Ana and Rick,  in San Francisco.  About a decade ago, I  guess Ana saw our news paper add and called me, saying "Please visit my parents in San Jose. They are Japanese. They don't know Jesus".  So I visited Ana's parents,  Rick and Nancy. Actually they were Niseis(Second generation of Japanese imigrant), but especially Nancy spoke Japanese with no accent. Nancy soon accepted Jesus and went home about 8 years ago.

Then Rick sold his house and went to his daughter's house in San Francisco. Ana sometiomes called me and asked prayer for Rick's salvation. Rick had never confessed his faith in Jesus.  While after Rick moved to San Francisco, he entered a skilled nursing facility in San Francisco Japan town.

Recently, I received a phone call from Ana. So Cynthia and I visited Rick. This time we accampanied T-san, 103 year old lady.

We found out, Rick was now a Christian. Ana and John were there too. I introduced T-san to them. They were so surprised on learnng T-san's age, even though Rick was 97.

Actually Rick was under the hospice care. I think he will go home soon. However, I said to him, "Rick, do you remember me. I am a Japanese pastor, Abe Ishihara. I used to visit your home in San Jose. Your wife was still aleve in those days." Then it seemed he remembered me.

T-san was great. She spoke to Rick, " You are only 97 years old. You are youger than I. Gambare, gambare! ( Have confidence to live!)

I mentioned about T-san 's salvation to Ana and John. They were amazed very much.

We were  in peace, because those seniors were under the care of our Lord Jueus.


On our return, we went to San Francisco Japan town and had fellowship with some coffee and cake. It was another wonderful day.

(Photo:  at San Francisico J-town with Ana, John and T-san)