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4000-482-Siewert, Bailey

4000-482-Siewert, Bailey

Bringing the Gospel to the Japanese through practical support and relational ministry. Through the journey of studying the Japanese language and culture which began in 2017, Bailey felt God place a deep care for the Japanese people on his heart. This led to his first short-term mission trip to Japan in the fall 2022 after a 2-year delay due to COVID. After serving in ministry to the Japanese, Bailey knew this is what God has called him to and shifted his focus from a career in aviation to full-time ministry serving the second largest unreached people group in the world…
July 8, 2025
4000-571-Smith, Dewey

4000-571-Smith, Dewey

Dewey Smith is going on a short-term mission trip to Japan. He will be serving at a church plant in Morioka for one month. "I’ve been told it’s not going to be as structured as most mission trips are so I can’t give you a definite day-to-day plan. However, I know I will be serving under the pastor they have there, being discipled, and helping out with anything he or the church needs. I could be doing anything from youth and young adult outreach to helping with manual labor. I was told by the mobilizer in Tokyo that the pastor…
May 21, 2025
4001-908-Trocino, Henry

4001-908-Trocino, Henry

Dr. Henry Trocino (bi-vocational pastor; entrepreneur) and Brent Ralston (WorldVenture Global Director for Asia/Pacific) have been friends since 2015 when they helped to launch a non-government organization (NGO) called the Divine Business Appointments, Inc (DBA), in Cebu City, Philippines, which seeks to assess, train, provide access to capital, and coach, budding entrepreneurs in starting micro enterprises. With their joint passions for church planting (Henry has been the catalyst in starting four churches) and poverty alleviation, it was a natural fit. With his gifting for teaching, and his heart for world missions, Henry has become a Global Partner with WorldVenture traveling…
September 27, 2023
4000-784-Wilson, Rick and Diana

4000-784-Wilson, Rick and Diana

We are working in Myanmar and Kenya in evangelizing, church planting, helping children with school sponsorship, women of need, and business development. It all works together. About us: We were appointed as missionaries to go to Caracas, Venezuela in 1988 as church planters. During our time in Caracas, we helped plant three churches. Since 2000, we have been serving in our present ministry through WorldVenture. What is our ministry you might be asking; well, here is: 1. Church planting/evangelism - John 3:16, Matt. 16:18 2. Poverty alleviation - Matt. 25:31-16. Romans 12:13 3. Education/Training/Building 2 Timothy 3:16-17 4. Economic responsibility…
December 13, 2022
4000-169-Kay

4000-169-Kay

J and K will be doing the work set before them through training in medicine, both in the urban and rural setting of their Asian context. Please join them as they seek to meet the 360 degree needs of those their hearts have bonded with.
February 17, 2022
4000-466-Pietrantonio, Adam and Sabrina

4000-466-Pietrantonio, Adam and Sabrina

Sabrina grew up in the Greater Los Angeles area. The first time she visited Japan she was eight years old and visited family friends who were missionaries serving there. She felt called to Japan as a career missionary herself when she was a university student. She served there from 2016 to 2020: the first half of her term was spent in Japanese language school in Tokyo, and the second half was spent serving in Japanese churches in Kumamoto and Ibaraki Prefectures. Adam was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He decided to follow Christ in 2011 during his third year…
November 2, 2021
4000-112-Chanco, Rene

4000-112-Chanco, Rene

Preparing men and women for ministry across Asia is Rene's primary focus. Rene specifically works with Asian Theological Seminary which has students from not only the Philippines, but from other Asian countries as well. His passion is to see strong, vibrant church ministry leadership teams all over the region witnessing for Jesus in this needy area of the world. Expansion of training to nearby provinces has made courses of study available to the farthest corners of the islands. Rene and other teachers travel to these places to teach modular courses and help in the development of workers who cannot access…
October 28, 2021
4000-212-Worker Name Withheld

4000-212-Worker Name Withheld

Teaching English through a language center and working with street children will allow me to build relationships where I can share the hope and love of Jesus with those whom the Father calls. Through these relationships, we seek to begin Discovery Bible Studies, which in turn have the potential to begin a Disciple-Making Movement among the unreached and unengaged people groups in the area. There are at least ten tribes that we are targeting to see a gospel movement. The major challenge is overcoming the false teachings of the dominant religion, which is mixed with animistic beliefs.
November 30, 2020
4000-942-Worker Name Withheld

4000-942-Worker Name Withheld

Articles and Blogs on WorldVenture: - A Taxing Thought - God's Timeline To Freedom - Afghanistan: Being Certain Of The Things We Cannot See - Plans Made, Plans Change, Molding Into God's Plan - Afghanistan: The Wait Becomes Weighty - Fuzzy Evacuation - The Long Wait Begins - A Women's Rights Activist Endangered and Left Behind
November 30, 2020
4000-555-Pardue, Frank & Rosa

4000-555-Pardue, Frank & Rosa

Serving in leadership training in the Philippines - Located on the edge of the 10/40 Window, the Philippines is a strategic hub for leadership development and church planting throughout Asia. The need for more Asian leaders is unprecedented and the Philippines is poised to help. It has a strong evangelical church, a growing missionary vision, and the privilege of open theological training. We feel God has uniquely prepared us to help groom these men and women for the task. For most of our time in the Philippines, our primary ministry was church planting, helping start two churches in Davao City,…
November 30, 2020
4000-127-Worker Name Withheld

4000-127-Worker Name Withheld

We prayerfully desire to plant a Hindi-speaking church in Asia with a focus on evangelism, discipleship, and solid biblical teaching. Although there are relatively quite a few ministries operating in the city, very few are focused on the masses of people moving from where Hindi is primarily spoken. As a means of entrance to the community, we will start a Christian school offering quality education based on Christian principles. This school will serve as a transformational presence in the community, aiding in establishing relationships with families through which the Gospel can be shared in a meaningful and relevant manner. We…
November 30, 2020
4000-048-Sao, Breanna

4000-048-Sao, Breanna

International Student Ministry in New Zealand New Zealand (Aotearoa) is known for its stunning natural landscape and rugby. You may have heard in New Zealand there are more sheep than there are people. That is true, but what you might not know is that New Zealand is a hub for International Students. There is a high number of students from China, India, and Japan, but this just scratches the surface of the different countries that are represented. I am serving alongside of International Student Ministry of New Zealand (ISMNZ). Their mission is to make disciples of all nations. ISMNZ is…
November 30, 2020
4000-415-Caldwell

4000-415-Caldwell

We are excited to join a team that is working among unreached people groups to share the Gospel in some of the hardest to reach places. Our vision is to see local believers be raised up and see churches planted where they do not currently exist. We long to see people from every nation, tribe, people, and language in this part of Southeast Asia worship our God! We would love to extend the invitation to you to prayerfully consider partnering with us in sharing the Gospel where Christ is not yet known.
November 13, 2020
4000-383-Sullivan, Nick and Vicki

4000-383-Sullivan, Nick and Vicki

We are the Sullivan family...Nick and Vicki, Mackenzie, Wyatt, Alannah, Loralei, Delaney, Cassidy! God has enabled us in many ways throughout our lives working as a Nurse/Nurse Practitioner (Nick) and Engineer/Teacher (Vicki), and He is now enabling us to use these things for His glory among the nations! Around the summer of 2018, it became clear the Lord was stirring our hearts for missions. Through a myriad of truly remarkable events (orchestrated beautifully by the Lord), Vicki and I began to pursue missions one step at a time. We attended “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement” and recognized our call…
November 3, 2020
4000-064-Brown, Janet R.

4000-064-Brown, Janet R.

Coordinating short-term missions in Japan. Subscribe to Janet Brown's Youtube Janet works with four main groups: 1. Japanese national churches 2. Missionaries in Japan 3. Short-term teams and individuals this includes internships and summer ministries for universities. 4. Sending churches, and universities Janet’s ministry is to place the Short Term Teams and Individuals with Japanese Churches and Missionaries who can use then to help reach the Japanese for Christ. She sets up programs, budgets, schedules, housing and ministries. Once the teams are on the field she does orientation, training, assisting and debriefing. Pray that the Lord will send workers who…
October 6, 2020
4000-171-LaPoint, Patrick and Megan

4000-171-LaPoint, Patrick and Megan

Reaching the Japanese for Christ through innovative ministries and educational communities. Japan is an unreached nation with less than 1% of the total population having a relationship with Jesus Christ. Two of the major challenges facing the Japanese are an extremely high suicide rate, and high rates of alcoholism, gambling addictions, and sex addictions. Also, September 1st is the deadliest day of the year for students as many commit suicide rather than return to school due to cultural pressures. Patrick leads a ministry called Roots of Redemption: A Journey of Recovery and Rediscovering the God-Given Self. Roots of Redemption is…
October 6, 2020
4000-487-Muenzenberger, Diana

4000-487-Muenzenberger, Diana

Teaching at Faith Academy in the Philippines - Middle School students, grades 6 to 8. Please pray that Diana can impact the lives of Middle School students so that they will know the love of God and will want to serve him; and perhaps burden others to minister as teachers. About me: Diana was introduced to overseas missions through a missions trip to Faith Academy in the Philippines in 1995. Her 3-week trip was turned into a 9-week trip. It was during this trip that God burdened her heart for the students at Faith Academy. Diana returned to Faith Academy…
October 6, 2020
4000-071-Stone, Jonathan

4000-071-Stone, Jonathan

Equipping local leaders to disciple kids throughout Southeast Asia and throughout the world! Discover how you can get involved in the 1for50 movement today! Learn more at the 1for50 YouTube Channel. Jonathan accepted Jesus as his Savior at the age of 3 and was fortunate to be mentored by godly parents and teachers, throughout his childhood. While only in 2nd grade, Jonathan had his first cross-cultural missions experience to the Democratic Republic of Congo. At the age of 14, he was baptized and reaffirmed his passion for following Christ. Since then, he has been on several mission trips to England,…
October 6, 2020
4000-381-Laverman, Kevin and Kaori

4000-381-Laverman, Kevin and Kaori

Planting New Urban Churches in Southwest Greater Tokyo Both Kevin and Kaori grew up in Christian homes and accepted Jesus at a young age. But Kevin's home was in the suburbs of Chicago, while Kaori's was in the mountains of Yamagata, Japan. The two met in 1990 during Kevin's short- term missions work at Zao Baptist Church in northern Japan. They married in the States in 1993 and have one son, Justen. The Lavermans were appointed by WorldVenture for career service in 1997, raised support and moved from Chicago to Japan in 1999. After Kevin completed language studies in 2001,…
October 6, 2020
4000-235-Gleason, Randy and Cathy

4000-235-Gleason, Randy and Cathy

Randall and Cathy Gleason's mission is to glorify God through making disciples with a Biblical worldview guided by Scripture, empowered by the Spirit and passionate to promote the supremacy of Christ among all peoples. They have sought to achieve this mission for the past 20 years by encouraging pastors, missionaries and church planters through theological training in godly character, academic excellence and ministry skills. Randall and Cathy's new Vision for South Asia! With their task completed in the Philippines, the Gleason's vision has now shifted to South Asia (or "Indian subcontinent”), which has the largest concentration of the least-reached people…
October 6, 2020
4000-161-Dodd, Peter and Debbie

4000-161-Dodd, Peter and Debbie

Training leaders for the Chinese church from Taiwan, working with Mandarin-speaking Chinese, of whom only about 3 percent are Christian, less than 0.3 percent in the Dodds' area in central rural Taiwan. The challenges include strong family ties rooted in ancestor worship make becoming a Christian difficult, and make becoming a Christian leader almost impossible. Materialism decreases interest even more. Pray that the church leaders will remain strong and that they will have a vision that extends beyond the border of Taiwan to the greater Chinese world. About us: "I will be a committed Christian as long as you won't…
October 6, 2020
4000-190-Eyestone, Joel and Betsy

4000-190-Eyestone, Joel and Betsy

Having served in the Philippines from 1988 to 2021, we wrapped up our ministries in the Philippines in August 2021 and moved “home” to Washington State. We are now serving the Philippines WorldVenture team and doing ministries in Washington. Our ministry plan has four parts, and all but one are largely continuations of what we were doing in Manila for the last few years. One – Mobilizing God’s people to be on mission with him. We use classes and workshops to educate, inspire, and get God’s people involved in what he has called them to be and do. We believe…
October 6, 2020
4000-703-Taylor, Ken

4000-703-Taylor, Ken

Sharing the gospel in Japan through church planting, leadership training, music, and innovative ministries. Japan is a land where Christianity is strongly perceived as a foreign religion. Japanese Christians need encouragement and equipping to effectively minister to their own people. Resources (short-term missions and funding) are needed to assist with on-going and startup ministries. Our target people are: --Seekers and not-yet-Christians during evangelistic concerts and Black Gospel workshops --Christian lay leaders --Christian musicians and artists Pray for finding fresh, creative, and culturally relevant ways to reach the Japanese. Pray for equipping the emerging Japanese Christian leaders. And pray for a…
October 6, 2020
4000-671-Simons, Russ and Ramona

4000-671-Simons, Russ and Ramona

As Global Specialists, Russ continues in semi regular involvement with partnership issues/virtual gatherings and mentoring. He finds those extremely gratifying to see younger leaders providing godly leadership and maturing in their own spheres of influence. Ramona continues with virtual mentoring of 2 young leaders in the Philippines and advising their leadership. Russ and Ramona have made two trips back to the field in 2022 and 2024 and prayerfully anticipate another one in 2025 or 2026. The highlight of their last trip was the opportunity for Ramona to travel by sea to another island where one of her 180 Degrees graduates…
October 6, 2020
4000-539-Owen, Barry and Peggy

4000-539-Owen, Barry and Peggy

Barry and Peggy Owen work alongside Taiwanese co-workers in evangelism, discipleship and church development in both urban and rural settings. Taiwan is a thoroughly modern country, in which most people enjoy a comfortable standard of living, and where education and health care are readily available. For many, materialism and postmodernism are barriers to accepting Christ, but traditional beliefs and a reliance on idol and ancestor worship continue to be major obstacles to faith in Christ, particularly in more rural areas. About Us: Barry and Peggy Owen both developed a sensitivity toward missions through frequent exposure to missionaries as young children.…
October 6, 2020
4000-576-Penner, Mary Esther

4000-576-Penner, Mary Esther

Mary Esther and her husband, Mark, went to Japan in 1983 to work in the Deaf community. There, they saw the need for Deaf people to have a Bible in their own language. In 1993, the Japanese Sign Language Bible translation project got underway. The project has transitioned to being completely run by Japanese Deaf leadership and is a leading voice in sign language Bible translation. The Penners relocated to the US in 2019 but Mary Esther’s goal and much of her work remains the same; helping provide a Bible to the Deaf communities in their own languages now not…
October 6, 2020
4000-398-Low, Roy

4000-398-Low, Roy

Teaching and mentoring at Singapore Bible College. More than 400 students from more than 30 countries come to Singapore Bible College for training in ministry; many come from the 10/40 Window. Roy Low was raised in California, Amy in Texas, but other circumstances of their lives were amazingly similar. Both came from stable, hard-working, close-knit families that espoused traditional Chinese values. Three of their four parents, in fact, emigrated from China. Both of them earned civil engineering degrees, then entered into successful corporate careers. Yet both realized that education, job, and accomplishment could not fill the void in their hearts.…
October 6, 2020
4000-019-Swenson, Greg and Asa

4000-019-Swenson, Greg and Asa

The Swensons on Facebook Japan, known as the “Land of the Rising Sun", while prosperous materially and technologically, is a nation steeped in spiritual darkness and despair, and remains largely unreached. Since our deployment to Japan in 2009, we have had the privilege of serving alongside both missionary colleagues as well as Japanese church leaders to build up the church and shine the light of the Gospel of Christ among the Japanese people. I (Greg) was born and raised in Japan, where my parents served with WorldVenture. Through my parents’ testimony, I came to faith in Christ at a young…
October 6, 2020
4000-039-Smith, Travis and Aimee

4000-039-Smith, Travis and Aimee

Our family has been living in Bangkok, Thailand since May 2016. For our first few years here, Aimee and I initially partnered with an organization that disciples women coming out of Thailand’s sex industry. We learned a lot about poverty culture and trauma as we watched these women overcome significant challenges in their lives. It was amazing to see the transformation that Jesus brought about. Currently, Aimee is the Elementary music teacher at International Community School (ICS), where she invests in the lives of about 400 students, most of whom come from non-Christian homes. She describes it as the dream…
October 6, 2020
4000-243-Lacey, Shereen

4000-243-Lacey, Shereen

Hello! We are from the USA where we have raised our four children. He worked as a registered pharmacist and she taught and homeschooled our children through high school. God led our family to serve in a cross-cultural ministry for 11 years in the USA. Then in 2014 through trips to Africa, Europe, and Asia, the Lord showed us that He has called us to Asia to be a light in the darkness. God has showed us how our experiences, our gifting, passion, and education, could be used for His glory in another context. We want to think those that…
September 11, 2020
4000-202-Underhill, Brian and Holly

4000-202-Underhill, Brian and Holly

Mobilizing local communities of Christ followers through discipleship and training so that the unreached people groups of Kalimantan would be transformed by the Gospel. Like in any developing country, serving as a Gospel worker in Indonesia has its challenges. Poor infrastructure, political tensions, widespread poverty, and even religious persecution persist. Deep-rooted tribal religion and the predominant religion are excessively resistant to the Gospel, and the Indonesian churches struggle with a tendency toward misunderstanding the Gospel as just another way to work your way to heaven. Please pray: --that our individual hearts would be continually transformed by our Lord and Savior…
September 2, 2020
4000-224-Geary, Paul and Rebecca

4000-224-Geary, Paul and Rebecca

Serving at Bethesda Mission Hospital in Indonesia, working with Indonesians from many tribal, cultural and economic backgrounds including believers as well as animist Dayaks, Buddhist Chinese, Islamic Malayu and Javanese, who are seeking compassionate affordable medical care. About us: Paul and Becky Geary have been in West Borneo, Indonesia, since 1998 working in partnership with the Indonesian Christian Bethesda Hospital Foundation. The vision of Bethesda Hospital Foundation is to partner with believers from every tribal, cultural, educational and economic background to be an instrument for spreading the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ to as many people as can possibly…
September 2, 2020
4000-435-Macomber, Dave and Martha

4000-435-Macomber, Dave and Martha

Pastoral training and development in the Philippines. Filipino pastors may have some formal training but need personal refreshment and continuing education. The Macombers are also working with younger students in full-time training. Both Dave and Martha grew up in Christian homes and were "preacher's kids." Both received Christ during their childhood and were educated in Christian colleges and seminaries. Dave pastored two U.S. churches for nine years before the family moved to the Philippines. Briefly, Dave and Martha were called later in life to missions by the words of Jesus, "the harvest is great, but the laborers are few." They…
September 2, 2020
4000-379-Decker, Justin and Jennifer

4000-379-Decker, Justin and Jennifer

Justin is using his technology skills to empower missionaries and ministries in their work among the Thai people. This takes many forms such as repairing and providing computers for local schools, producing media for churches and missionaries, assisting with technical security, and more. Jen uses her sports education and discpleship backgrounds to reach Thai and expat youth in our community. She is using sports, art, and Bible studies to share God's love and hope to middle and high school students, many of whom live in surrounding slums. Every day we strive to faithfully follow wherever God leads us in order…
February 28, 2020
4000-183-Bauer, Alissa

4000-183-Bauer, Alissa

“Missions exists because worship doesn't.” – John Piper Japan is a place that has often been named the "missionary graveyard" because of such little fruit that is produced here. Less than 1% of Japanese are following Christ. I live among one of the largest unreached people groups in the world. Though physical persecution is no longer present in Japan, there are many other barriers to the gospel here. Japan is a place that values harmony, social conformity to the group, and has lots of skepticism when it comes to religion. "Don't be the nail that sticks out, or you'll get…
February 25, 2020
4000-348-Tan, Steve & Shirley

4000-348-Tan, Steve & Shirley

About us We met at a local church in the Chinatown neighborhood of Chicago. We have a heart to serve the children mainly from the working class. Steve was an elementary school teacher and Shirley was a high school Mandarin and math teacher. After we tied the knot in 2011, we spent the first four years of our marriage enjoying playing video games, traveling, and serving the youth fellowship. We have two beautiful children; a 4-year-old toddler named Stefany who loves school and sings songs to the Lord, and a 1-year-old named Stefen (pronounced Stephen) who loves to play with…
February 12, 2020
4000-352-Koerlin, Eric & Kari

4000-352-Koerlin, Eric & Kari

Creatively Engaging the Japanese for Christ In 2019, we felt God calling us away from our careers in accounting and computer science; to serve with our kids in Tokyo, Japan where less than half of one percent of the population are evangelical Christians and the majority of people have never even heard the gospel. We arrived in April 2022, with a ministry focus for our first term of language learning and cultural acquisition. Even in this first term, we’ve had opportunities to support the field office with accounting and technical needs, provide technical consultation to church leaders, and begin building…
February 12, 2020
4000-938-Riggins, James and Brittany

4000-938-Riggins, James and Brittany

On March 7, 2009, God redeemed James’ heart. Shortly after, at 16, he was given the excellent opportunity to serve cross-culturally and hasn’t turned back since! After graduating from Emmaus Bible College with a degree in Theology and Intercultural Studies in 2017, James moved back to Houston to raise support to move to The Philippines full time. Around the same time, Brittany moved to Houston to share the Gospel with UPGs by moving into a Muslim community. She was saved at a young age and has been sharing the Gospel among internationals since 2010. God Brought them together in 2021…
February 12, 2020
4000-080-Walker, Jeff and Malia

4000-080-Walker, Jeff and Malia

We believe that God is preparing for a revival in Japan but that leadership for such a movement must come from within the next generation of Japanese believers, not foreigners like ourselves. Instead, God is calling us to seek out and invest in a few future leaders who will ultimately spread the good news of Jesus Christ in a uniquely Japanese way. Initially, we will learn language and culture and train with seasoned missionaries in a church-planting project in Kawasaki, just south of Tokyo. We hope to disciple new believers, empower youth and women, shepherd families through life challenges, and…
February 12, 2020
4000-931-Zody, Addison and Abigail

4000-931-Zody, Addison and Abigail

We are serving as Short-term Coordinators in Japan. In this role we are hosting and connecting teams, as well as individuals, from the US to missionaries and local churches in Japan. This involves everything from the scheduling and preparing of short-term workers to arriving on the field, to their debriefing and departure back home. In this support role, we listen to the needs of local churches and finding short-term workers that can come fill those needs. We have a passion to serve American short-term workers, Japanese pastors, the unreached of Japan, our fellow missionaries, and the Japanese church. Japan is…
February 12, 2020
4000-287-Luebben, Clifford and Jennifer

4000-287-Luebben, Clifford and Jennifer

Partnering with Filipino believers to plant churches amongst the unchurched communities of the Visayas As a couple we come from different backgrounds yet in the following ways are similar: We both began following Jesus Christ at young ages and both began to realize God's call to cross-cultural missions as adolescents. Raised in Kennewick and Walla Walla, Clifford was led to Christ as a boy by his father. Raised in Tacoma, Jennifer’s family turmoil drove her to seek refuge in a neighborhood church. There, in her middle school years, her faith blossomed, and she received her missionary call. Clifford realized his…
February 12, 2020
4000-218-Yee, Eric and Tina

4000-218-Yee, Eric and Tina

In 2010, Eric and Tina were sent by their church in Michigan to Indonesia to be part of a church plant in the suburbs right outside the capital city of Jakarta. And in 2015, they were sent out again from their church to plant another English-speaking church in the capital city, where Eric currently serves as a pastor. Eric and Tina have two children, and they are committed to the long-term work of building healthy churches that make Christ’s disciples in Indonesia … with your help. Help them be sustainable over the long-term as a life-giving church in the heart…
February 12, 2020
4000-264-Lintang, Deborah

4000-264-Lintang, Deborah

I work with a local church in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. I help them with Bible studies, outreach, summer camps, and church recreational activities. We hope to spread confidence and freedom in the Lord, to make disciples, and to raise up Taiwanese Christians to be strong leaders, so that they can go out and make disciples of others. I am a Chinese American expatriate, who considers Taiwan home. My family is Christian and I am a pastor€'s kid. I have a love of words and literature, which is why I majored in English at the University of Michigan (bachelors) and New York…
February 12, 2020
4000-275-Chang, Gary and Jennifer

4000-275-Chang, Gary and Jennifer

Subscribe to Our Newsletter Serving alongside other missionaries to make disciples of Jesus and planting churches. We desire to impact the Japanese community with the love of Christ, through building spiritual community, and experience true joy as God’s people. We seek to serve young adults and young couples, helping them to learn more about Christ through relationship building and Bible study. Jennifer seeks to serve the children through crafts and creative Bible stories, we hope to plant the seed of Gospel in their hearts while they are young. Pray that the Lord will continue to draw the hearts of the…
February 12, 2020
4000-215-Mitchell, Justin and Lindsay

4000-215-Mitchell, Justin and Lindsay

In partnership with Denen Grace Church, our local partners in Kawasaki and Yokohama, our purpose is to see Christ known through the starting and building up of Azamino Chapel. Read here to learn more about Azamino Chapel. As the Lord gathers His people and His church is built up, we pray and hope that the Lord would see new church plants even beyond Azamino Chapel. People in Japan face many pressures from their society that create obstacles when presented with the gospel. These pressures are materialism, an intense reverence for tradition/culture, being a conformist society and the indigenous religions of…
February 12, 2020
4000-214-Day, Adam and Anna

4000-214-Day, Adam and Anna

Our ministry vision is for holistic discipleship of ministry leaders- developing leaders in head (theological education), heart (spiritual formation) and hands (ministry training) to disciple others in unreached parts of the world. About us: Anna and I both attended Biola University which played a significant role in our growth in Christ. In our college years we were blessed with many opportunities to deepen in our grasp of God's Word as well as be discipled by mentors who opened up their lives to us. Over our time in college and afterwards, God grew in us a vision to train and equip…
February 12, 2020
4000-188-Sample, Bri

4000-188-Sample, Bri

I began serving in ministry in Japan in 2014 by showing and teaching about God’s love through conversational English classes, arts & crafts, hospitality, and everyday interactions with people in the community. I have developed relationships with many people in my community through everyday life activities as well as with English class students and their families. Through the love of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, I have been able to grow and nurture the relationships I have in the community I serve through sharing the Gospel, my testimony, reading Scripture, and praying for my students when they…
February 12, 2020
4000-103-Yates, Calista

4000-103-Yates, Calista

Sign up for her newsletters! My primary role is teaching at an Indonesian Nursing School with 130 students enrolled in a 3-year program. This involves teaching in the classroom and supervising their practicum experiences. I also spend time mentoring and discipling both Indonesian nurses and nursing students in the roles and responsibilities of serving as a Christian nurse. I work with Indonesians from many tribal, cultural and economic backgrounds including believers as well as animist Dayaks, Buddhist Chinese, Islamic Malayu and Javanese, who are seeking education opportunities and compassionate affordable medical care. Pray for renewed vision at the Nursing School…
February 12, 2020
4000-104-Yunker, Lisa

4000-104-Yunker, Lisa

- Visit Lisa's Website Here I am a physical therapist serving children affected by disability in Cambodia, along with their families and communities. My goal is to model to these families and those around them the value that God places on each individual as someone who has been created in His image and for whom Jesus Christ died, ministering alongside Cambodian staff who are doing the same. Among the many marginalized peoples in Cambodia are those who are disabled. Families affected by disability are likely to be among the poorest and face discrimination and barriers on numerous fronts. Additionally, fewer…
February 12, 2020
4000-262-Harrison, David and Ruth

4000-262-Harrison, David and Ruth

My name is Ruth Harrison. My life has been filled with many unexpected twists and turns, and I’ve been blessed with very wide connections. I married a Canadian and we expected to move to Alberta after Dave completed his MA degree in Oregon. Instead, we joined CBFMS and moved to Hong Kong in 1970. We were a team involved in education, church planting and missionary training. Some medical issues resulted in new locations and ministries. After Hong Kong, we served in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and China. Dave’s heart attack in Shanghai in 2006 changed our plans to move back…
February 12, 2020
4000-268-Hedlund, Roger and June

4000-268-Hedlund, Roger and June

Officially retired, living stateside, engaged in ongoing writing, editing, publication projects in India through the Mylapore Institute. At present I continue as Managing Editor of DHARMA DEEPIKA, A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research. Two issues per year, 100 pages each, focusing on various contextual themes. I also served as Chief Editor of the OXFORD ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SOUTH ASIAN CHRISTIANITY, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi, covering aspects of Christian history, beliefs, personalities, institutions and traditions in all of the South Asian countries, i.e. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka as well as Burma/Myanmar and…
February 12, 2020
4000-168-Meeko, Andy and Junko

4000-168-Meeko, Andy and Junko

From Tokyo we mobilize worldwide for discipleship, evangelism, and mental wholeness. It's hard to admit, we are celebrating more than 80 years of combined ministry to Japan. Junko is born and bred in Japan and was ministering long before meeting Andy. As the youngest son of missionaries to Japan, Andy knew the challenges of ministering in Japan but couldn't resist God's clear call back. We believe Japan will be reached by average Japanese Christians, and we have seen believers in Japan can do amazing things—if they are given a little assistance. So, we train people as community caregivers reaching the…
February 12, 2020
4000-198-Wolf, Jay and Jen

4000-198-Wolf, Jay and Jen

Jay and Jen reach out to missionary kids (MKs), other international students, and their parents through their ministry as boarding home parents of Faith Academy in the Philippines. Most of the students of Faith Academy are walking in the Lord, while some are questioning the role of God in their lives. The students come from a variety of countries, with Koreans making up the largest nationality represented. Whether their parents work as missionaries or businesspeople, the students have been exposed to international concerns and therefore have a high level of world awareness. We pray for continual building of relationships, knowing…
February 12, 2020
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