Timothy and Amanda's Wedding at Tokyo Baptist Church

Mohammad, or Mamali, has lived in Japan for about 15 years, the same amount of time as Mansur. Both of them come from the same country and lived in the same neighborhood in Tokyo for quite a long time. After Mansur became a Christian at Tokyo Baptist Church (TBC) he started to share his faith with a few Iranian friends. He invited Mohammad to attend a service at TBC and Mohammad kept going to church on Sundays until he became a Christian as well. Back then, Mansur moved to Kobe and could no longer support Mamali, who at the time had no English ability to even understand the pastor's message completely. However, God is good, and sent great friends to help Mohammad in his walk with the Lord. Judy, the pastor's wife, decided to choose a Christian name for Mamali and since Mansur was known as Paul, she thought that Timothy suited Mohammad quite well. Since then, he has been known as Timothy, though I still prefer to call him MAMALI, which in Iran is a cute nickname for Mohammad!

After about 4 years as a Christian, the Lord has blessed Mamali with a beautiful American lady named Amanda. Their story is quite interesting, but too long to be shared. Mansur and I just remember how he suffered with his feelings towards her, not even being able to build a friendship since his English was not good and her Japanese was not that great either. Once we went to his place and saw a pile of dictionaries on his desk, noticing that writing her an e-mail was quite a hard homework for him. But, God is good, and has decided to put these two people together for his glory. We pray that they may live happily, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit! AMEN!

Amanda walks in with her dad! They look happy... Unfortunately, her mom was not able to attend the wedding! ZANNEN!

Don't they look great together???

Judi Folds and Mansur read a Bible verse from Proverbs!

Hamid also joined us in Tokyo, but came back to Kobe right after the wedding. Mansur and I could stay a whole week in Tokyo! We had a lot of fun with some of our old friends!

This is a very special shot, with our pastor Dennis Folds and his wife, Judi. In July of 1999 Mansur was baptized at TBC by Dennis!



Our dear friend Miho, from Kobe, is now living in Tokyo and attending TBC. She has developed a special friendship with Amanda, but the funny thing is that she had met Mamali a few years ago when he came to visit us in Kobe. Back then, no one had any idea he would be getting married to Amanda! I don't think we even knew about Amanda at the time. Interesting how things work out, NE??!!!

This is us, the love birds!!! KAWAII NE?!!!!