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Mary Jane
Fandrich
You have given
Midori and Eric great honour for coming from so
many places and so far. We have my uncle, my
father's youngest brother William Saadeh here and
his wife Alice. They have come from the United
States. And my cousin John Azraq and his wife
Samiya have come from London, and Grace and Raja
Hajjar my cousins have come from Lebanon. We are
very very pleased that they have made so much
effort to join us tonight.
When God created
the world, and created man, He said that it is not
good that man should be alone. So He made man to
sleep and took a rib from man and made a woman to
be a helper, suitable for man. So God determined
from the beginning that the human family would be
the foundation of all human society.
Today we have
seen the formation of a new family unit and have
presented it to God for His blessing. The chance of
Eric and Midori meeting were very little. Eric,
born the fifth child in a city in Canada, Midori
the first child in a town in Japan (Editor's
correction: Midori is actually the second
child). The chance of their meeting was very
small but God determined to bring Midori to put her
trust in Jesus Christ, and then to bring her to our
family. I rejoice that Eric has been given such a
good wife.
Midori is mature,
self-confident, and capable. She is a practicing
pharmacist. She determined on her own to travel to
Britain to study English, and after a year
proceeded on to Canada. She arrived the day after
Roger's wedding and the great snowstorm of January
2, 1999. She thought that was normal winter weather
in Canada! She came to Knox Church to study English
and to study in the Japanese Bible study. She came
with others to our home for Christmas celebration.
Then she came to Christina and Stefan's home and
was very happy with our family. Soon she was in the
kitchen with me learning how to make cakes and
puddings and teaching me how to make very rich Miso
soup.
I am happy she is
joining our family. We are all so happy to meet her
good mother and father and her aunts and her uncles
and her grandmother. We are happy that Eric has
found such good friends, so I propose a toast to
Midori - Kanpai!
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