Ministry with an accent
MINISTRY WITH AN ACCENT When I arrived first time in the United States in 1977, we were talking in Japanese with Friends. American host family told us “We speak English here in the United States.” with rather hush tone. “Hey boys, Why don’t you start speaking English. After all, that is your purpose here in America? ” She was right and we tried to speak English with my friends in front of our host mother. As I enrolled into the college, our teachers had no mercy on our term papers. They expected college level English on each term papers. At that time, there was no computer therefore no spell checker. Our papers were not accepted if there were more than 5 typos. I thought that the college standard was bit high for even some American students. I felt that it was a big deal for me since English was my second language. Nonetheless, Prior to going to the college in the US. My pastor thought that my English was not good enough for the coll...