In his pre-council address, "Pushing Back the Darkness - Why, Where, and What It Will Take", Vice President of International Ministries of the C&MA asked this important question:

    "If we as the C&MA were to stand before God and He were to ask us, 'Why are over one billion people still without easy access to the gospel?' what would we say?
    Those people are just not responsive. Too much cost and too high risk for what? They’re just not ready yet.

    Lost people matter to God and he wants them found! "

Less than 1% of the Japanese know Christ, their Savior. Holding this nation for nearly 2000 years unchallenged, Satan fiercely defends this territory.

The 126 million people of Japan matter to God. He wants them found.

“Sunday mornings, you can see people lining up outside of buildings, just waiting for them to open. What are these businesses that have such an excited clientele who will wait to get in and get a prime seat?

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Sometimes we feel like we are living in someone else's missionary story. Events brought on by God's leading stun us.

Yesterday we led a Bible study in a farming village called Daiwa Cho, a forty minute drive from home up mountain roads through valleys tiered on both sides with rice fields and mountains covered with pine and bamboo. The drive is breath-taking, but the evangelistic Bible study is awesome.

The Bible study meets in the home of a Christian family. About a third of those who attend are Christians. The other two-thirds are not just non-Christians; until now these Buddhists and Shintoists have never heard the gospel before.

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by Ken & Kathy Young

Day by day, we continue to ask God for revival in Japan. We thank Him for each one who follows Him in baptism.  God is the Lord of the harvest, and has faithfully met needs in our Alliance churches this past month. 

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