God provides...again

Probably most people who've hung around CAJ for any time have Thrift Shop bargain stories they can tell you. I could tell you the time we got some brand new snow chains for our car for a song...but I won't, I'll tell you about today's bargain.

When we returned from Australia in July we discovered quite a few things that our boys had outgrown. The biggest of which was our 11 y.o.'s bike. Bikes aren't cheap, but they are also a pretty important part of transport here in Japan. So, we added it to our hope-to-find-at-Thrift-shop list. Not many bikes are sold at Thrift Shop, so it wasn't a sure thing by any means. However, yesterday we found this 18 geared bike for sale! New, it cost around $AU250. We bought it for about $AU60. The owners had almost despaired of selling it; it had been displayed for some time on a noticeboard at CAJ. It is like it was just waiting for us! 

This is just another story to add to the multiple financial provisions we've received since David quit his job in 1999 so we could come to Japan as missionaries. Praise God!