Japan may be facing a shortage of pastors

[John of Japan]

How can we help Japan John?

many ideas?

yes, I will add prayer for Japanese pastors to my group

TIA

Prayer would be he main one. If you know a missionary or a Japanese pastor, a letter of encouragement saying that you are praying would be in order.

A Japanese pastor friend of mine, Brother "Nobby" (we couldn't say his given name in Japanese when I was in college with him: Nobumasa), went on to be with the Lord recently after struggling with cancer. He kept his joyful spirit to the end; while he could still stand up, he sent me a brief video through a friend. My Japanese partner in translating the NT, "Uncle Miya" Miyakawa, is now in Heaven also.

I think back on other Japanese pastor and missionary friends, many I'm still in contact with, and am so blessed to have known them.

 

[Marooncat79]

Any chance you could send me a couple of email addresses for a couple of pastors?

mid not, I understand

TIA

 

[John of Japan]

Any chance you could send me a couple of email addresses for a couple of pastors?

mid not, I understand

TIA

I appreciate your effort. Few of my Japanese pastor friends would understand English well. Here is the mission board I was with: Baptist World Mission - Independent Baptist Mission Board

You could contact the board and ask how to write the missionaries.

 

[JonC]

Interesting.

My son wants to go to Japan as a missionary.

 

[JonC]

Oh, right. Thought you meant me, but I don't hit the big seven oh until this December.

Wow.

Did you fight for the North or the South?

 

[John of Japan]

Interesting.

My son wants to go to Japan as a missionary.

I'm all for him, but he should know that it's a very difficult field--Gospel resistant, the missiologists used to call it.

It all seems exciting at first. Everyone is polite, the land is beautiful, the Japanese love English so you can teach that if you want; but underneath it is a very immoral country, as an old guy I visited once in Yokohama told me about that city. The missionary must keep pure and prayed up, or he or she will become a casualty.

And the language is one of the hardest in the world. Some say the written language is the hardest in the world: two syllable alphabets, tons of "respect language" (also called honorifics), 2,000 or more Chinese characters to learn in order to become fluent.

 

[John of Japan]

Wow.

Did you fight for the North or the South?

I fought for the Independence of the South.

 

[John of Japan]

Interesting.

My son wants to go to Japan as a missionary.

Just so your son doesn't think that all is negative to a missionary to Japan, I'm going to attach to this post my story of the salvation of several yakuza gangsters, which I plan to rewrite as a salvation pamphlet.

 

[JonC]

Just so your son doesn't think that all is negative to a missionary to Japan, I'm going to attach to this post my story of the salvation of several yakuza gangsters, which I plan to rewrite as a salvation pamphlet.

Thanks.

He is not sure where he is being called (thinking missionary or youth). He's helping with a church plant this summer but will be back in college in the Fall.

 

[John of Japan]

Thanks.

He is not sure where he is being called (thinking missionary or youth). He's helping with a church plant this summer but will be back in college in the Fall.

Great start for a young missionary!