Thursday, May 11 - Friday May 12

Today we drove to North Carolina to meet Merry Sensing who lives in Morrisville.  We arrived about lunch time.  Merry is Japanese and we’ve known her since the early days in Japan.  She has a dog named Sukoshi which means “a little bit” in Japanese. She invited a friend over and the four of us had a lunch of tonkatsu, which is fried pork cutlet, Japanese style. We had a nice conversation.  Merry’s husband is not yet saved. They live in a new house on a corner lot with the entrance on the back side where the garage is. 

 About 4:00 pm we left to go to Fayetteville and see Ruth and Bob Bunting, friends of ours from IBC back before we moved to Japan.  They are both retired and still funny.  They have a dog named Gizmo who was not too friendly.  

After dinner we played a  card game called Hand and Foot, new for us.  Once we got the hang of it, it was pretty interesting and moved quickly.  We stayed the night and slept on a wonderful mattress.  Would like to take that home with us to Japan.  

Bob, Ruth and Gizmo 

 We left the Bunting house about 9:00 AM and drove south to Lattimore/Shelby area of North Carolina, West of Charlotte.

Along the way we saw the Bread of Life Baptist Church

We stopped in to Ambassador Baptist College to visit the campus.  The Dean of Men, Mr. Dillon, met us and gave us a tour of the place.  Graduation was last week, so there were very few students around.

It is a beautiful campus, which I believe is all paid for.  There are several dorms for the ladies and the men in separate locations. 

We talked with the President, Dr. Beal, for a few minutes.   Then Mrs. Dillon, Dean of Women, took us on a short tour of one of the ladies’ dorms.  Looked to be very nice and efficient, easy to keep clean.  Sara should do well there come the fall.