Our family plus a friend of ours held a concert at a tearoom in Kikuyo Town on March 22. The purpose behind the concert was to enable us (as well as other Christian friends) to be able to continue relationships with our unbelieving friends and acquaintances, as well as allow them opportunities to hear gospel truths in song. God blessed by sending us a full house!

The concert lasted around two hours, and we tried to have a variety of music styles and combinations to keep things interesting. Our children, Cameron (9) and Chloe (12) started the evening off with about 15 minutes of bluegrass style of music which they sang and played on their ukelele and guitar, respectively. Then Norman and his friend Blake sang old popular songs as solos or duets using a keyboard. Piano music by Susan in a Disney theme followed, with solos by Blake and Chloe. We ended up with our whole family playing various instruments and singing several kinds of music, including “Amazing Grace” in Japanese, “This Train” in English, and “This World is not my Home” in English. We printed out some words they could follow along with and take home with them afterward.

One of the highlights for those in the audience seemed to be the fact of seeing an entire family sharing the same interest. The “cute” kids were a plus, too! Even Melodie participated by playing percussion instruments.

My favorite part was hearing a comment from one of my English conversation ladies who said she got tears in her eyes when listening to a song about how we have no reason to worry because God holds our future.

I wish I could add a picture here, but we were so busy setting up the place, getting music in place, and calming nerves that we didn’t take one picture! Instead, I’ll just post a family picture that was taken about a year ago! 🙂