In November 2005, while Vassula visited Japan she asked: “Why isn’t there a Beth Myriam in Japan? It is easy to start, try to give some food to just a few people, it’s OK.” Then Satoru and his wife Jacqueline did exactly so. They went out to the streets of Tokyo with other volunteers from the TLIG Prayer Group of Tokyo and found many homeless people living in the parks of this busy metropolis. They started bringing food once a week. They would simply choose a tree to hang up the icon of Our Lady, then set up their
tables in the park and start feeding the homeless people.
In the beginning they fed less than ten people, with four volunteers. After many twists and turns the Beth Myriam has grown by God’s Grace. In 2010 they have over 20 volunteers and feed over 200 people in a big hall of St. Ignatius Church, located in Yotsuya the centre of Tokyo. With collaboration from the parish they also give commodities like clothes, shoes, medicines and consultation for social welfare services (this consultation is not by the BM but by the specialists from the parish).
