Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and bestselling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

What does it look like to live out the gospel in your profession?

How can you make an impact for the kingdom in the public sphere?

In this month's episode of the Connecting podcast, Paul has a conversation with husband and wife, Makoto and

Hyzen Shim Fujimirah. Makoto is a prolific painter and artist who formed the international

arts movement and was appointed by the president to the National Council on the Arts in 2003.

Heijen is an attorney and is the CEO of Embers International,

a global organization that seeks to protect, restore, and empower victims of injustice.

We discuss their professional ventures and more on this month's episode of the Connecting podcast.

Thank you. and more on this month's episode of the Connecting Podcast. Well, I'm very excited about the podcast today because of the people that I am honored to be in the room with.

But I want to start the way I often start by bringing in some kind of physical object

that has way bigger meaning than its physical existence.

And I am holding in my hands the sermon notes of my dear father-in-law, Bert Jackson. He was in World War II, he was in the

the Royal Canadian Air Force, and then sensed a call to missions work and left with his young

wife in the 40s from Saskatchewan to Cuba and there worked he worked mainly in farming to support the work there, but he also had opportunities to preach

and began to preach more.

And when the revolution took place and they couldn't be in Cuba anymore, he pastored

a little church outside of Columbia, South Carolina, and I'm holding his sermon notes.

And these notes are a reflection of his love for God and love for people.

And when we discovered that we had these in storage,

I got so very excited because this just reflects the legacy

that Llewell and I were born into and how that that legacy has been passed down

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