My Two Japanese Fathers - Shion

Shion Torihara's journey has bounced her back and forth between traditional Japan and laid-back Australia. But not even she could imagine she would accumulate three fathers along the way - two Japanese, and one from above.

Show Notes

Shion spent her earliest years split between Japan and Australia, absorbing the traditions of the first and the laid-back lifestyle of the second. 

However, wherever she lived, she found her footsteps dogged by continuing interactions with the Christian faith - beginning with her very unlikely name, the Japanese word for 'Zion'.

But as she struggled to come to terms with her distant Japanese father, and her faithful Japanese father-in-law, Shion learned the qualities of still one more Father who longed for her to enter the Kingdom of God.

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