Today's program was on a gospel singer/songwriter who goes by the name of KiKi. She's had a tough life. Family life was rocky, and her parents split up when she was in junior high. She turned kind of wild, and after getting out of school worked in bars and night clubs. Music was one of the few positives in her life. She was so taken with the power and joy of black gospel music that she went to the US to study and learn how to sing it right.

While there, to make a long story short, she was led to the Lord and came back to Japan a new person. Her troubles haven't stopped, though. After releasing her first CD here, she discovered she had breast cancer. After going through all the treatments and getting it under control, she had enough new songs to make another album, and contacted another Christian in the music business to ask him to produce the CD. Then that same night she got a call from her doctor saying the her cancer had returned.

A sad story, but while she says it's hard, "There's no way that this can't be hard no matter who you are," she's not sad. The doctor says its terminal; barring a miracle KiKi won't be with us much longer. But she says she's not afraid of death, and gives a powerful testimony to hundreds of thousands of LifeLine viewers today.