From Pearl Harbor to Calvary by Mitsuo Fuchida

Author:Mitsuo Fuchida
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-03-22T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE—I Receive a Letter

More than two years passed. Then—one day I received unexpected foreign mail!

It was a letter from America. Wondering who could be writing to me, I opened it. I discovered it was from the Sky Pilots of America International! I read:

Dear Captain,

“I have for the past two and one-half years been acquainted with your conversion and loving loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ and your tireless efforts in evangelizing your homeland of Japan, that your people, too, might enjoy the glorious salvation through our precious Redeemer.

“So for these past months I have been praying the Lord to make it possible for me to contact you that I might suggest the things that the Lord has laid upon my heart. I definitely feel that Sky Pilots of America International, of whom the Lord Jesus Christ is the commander-in-chief, will appeal to your interest. We are a seven-year-old missionary organization building boys and men into a military army for the Lord Jesus Christ, an army which fights with the Sword of the Spirit of God the warfare that He has given us to do.

“Our dear and mutual friend, Bob Hamilton, who is a Sky Pilots officer, flying air life as a navigator from the mainland to Tokyo, will tell you more about our Sky Pilots’ work. This is what I have in mind. For the past four years we have known that we should aim our efforts toward the Orient, to help train the Japanese and Chinese and Korean boys of today who are the leaders of tomorrow how to fight the good fight with faith.

“Inasmuch as the Japanese boy and man loves and enjoys regimentation, we feel that one or two men like you, building an army for the Lord Jesus Christ in Japan such as we are building in North and South and Central America, will help to do in one generation a better job for Christ than has been done in any previous generation.

“I would like you to pray about accepting an appointment from the National Headquarters of Sky Pilots to be Commanding Officer of our Japanese Sky Pilots Missionary Movement, and help us raise up Christian leaders and officers who will in turn train the boys how to be loyal Japanese citizens of a new Christian Japan.

“I would love to hear from you as the Lord lays it upon your heart to prayerfully consider this matter, and should He lead you to further assist us in this work, we would be very happy indeed. We feel that the boy is the key to solving of the entire problem. Tomorrow, the men of today will turn everything over to the boys of today—our schools, our churches, our properties, our governments.

“We beseech you in prayer to help us teach the Japanese boys how to be the pillars of the church, the school, the home, and the government of our nations of tomorrow.

“Please write soon.”

The letter was signed,

Yours for more Men Missionaries

Sky Pilots of America International

Elmer B. Sachs.

Questions crowded my mind, which needed to be answered.

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