We met the Van Rooy family on Easter Sunday 2023 on the beach in Okinawa while attending the Easter sunrise service at Kadena AFB. My wife and I were visiting family who are school teachers for DOD.

In October 2001 I was deployed as an Army Reservist in support of Operation Noble Eagle to Washington DC. While there for a year I was blessed to worship weekly at Immanuel with Pastor Esget as the shepherd! It was truly home away from home. Coincidentally, I reengaged with a friend and his family who I knew from Kansas City who were members. God is good and truly works in mysterious way! To God be all glory!