KAREN & FERRIS LISKE - PART-TIME RETIRED VOLUNTEERS

It is amazing how much difference a godly retired couple can make on the mission field!

HOW WE CAME TO WORK WITH THE JAPAN MISSION

I felt called to be a Foreign missionary since I was a 9 year old boy. My involvement in church, school Bible clubs and chaplain's assistant in US Army in Germany was good preparation for missionary work.

But through events and circumstances after Moody Bible school I became pastor in churches in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio for 34 years. I continued education in college and seminary ending with a Masters of Divinity degree.

About 2 years before retirement my wife Karen and I became acquainted with Neil an Peggy Verwey of the Japan Mission. They spoke at our church in St. Marys, Ohio. In 1990 I helped build the first building Japan Mission undertook on Ikoma mountain in Japan, which became the new headquarters building.

Karen and I have been to Japan to work with the Japan Mission 7 times (2 to 3 months at a time), helping with building, maintenance and witnessing wherever God grants an opportunity.

The last two years I have been involved with Christian Wedding Evangelism. Thus far about 5,000 non-Christian wedding guests have heard me say, "religion may make you look good on the out side but Jesus makes you good from the inside out." I have seen and heard them sing from their bulletins, "What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and grief to bear".

To God be the glory!

Ferris Liske