Remembering Japan

I accompanied Ben to his mission team meeting last night at Kemaman Kopitiam. They are going to Northern Thailand for a short-term mission trip next month. Due to my MBA exam during the same period, I m unable to go with them but I m trying to help as much as I can.

Through out the meeting, my mind flashed back to my own thoughts on mission. The last time i really gave mission a serious thought was way back in year 2000 when i first encountered some Japanese friends in Wellington. When i get to know them better, lived with them in the same hostel, party with them and hung out with them, i had a strong desire to tell them about Christ.

Almost all the Japanese I met, told me that they don’t need and they don’t believe in the existence of God because what’s most important to them is that they must believe in theirselves. Their capability, their strengh, their unique culture. Why do they need God when they have so much material wealth?? Yet, Japan has the highest suicide rate in Asia.

I dont know why, somehow, I realised that despite being the wealthiest asian nation, their people need the Lord! Is there hope for Japan amongst the tall skyscrapers, the high-tech gadgets, the exhilirating entertainment, the mystical love hotels, the well-sculptured shrines and the materialistic culture?

It seems like a hard ground to harvest among the Japanese until I came across Japan Mission through a friend, Aaron Wilson. From then onwards, Japan Mission has been supplying me Japanese gospel tracts to be given out to the Japanese around me both from Wellington and when I was working in KL.

Watch the passionate short-term missionaries in Tokyo below and catch their enthuasiasm for the people in Japan! God loves you and me and surely He loves Japan too—and many other un-reached nation in this world.

Ganbatte to the KCMC mission team to northern Thailand next month! May the Lord works among u all as u reach out to the villagers there!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLDjI1VbSaY

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