Praying in the Suicide Forest
by Abi H., Bible School for the Nations student In the breathtaking photos of Mt. Fuji, the shadow at the foot of the mountain is a forest. It’s known as Suicide Forest because so many people go there to end their lives. (Japan loses nearly 30,000 people to suicide each year.) Young teenagers and businessmen who simply cannot take the …
Learning a Valuable Lesson in Japan
We came to Japan to tell people that they are valuable because they are created in the image of God and loved by him! What makes people valuable is not what they offer to society, not their position in their job, not their social status. This is the message we brought to Chi Alpha students at the prestigious University of Tokyo.
Ways we show how God values and loves the people of Japan
From the beginning of our outreach here in Japan, God put it on our hearts to communicate value to the people we meet by the way we treat them, how we pray for them, and in the way we teach them. That’s exactly what we have been able to do!
Praying for hope
The campus outreach team in Japan meets with and encourages a new Christian.
Outreach team asked to worship in Tokyo airport
A team from YWAM Madison campus ministry was welcomed to the airport by a Japanese TV crew asking where they’re from, what they do and why they’re in Tokyo. When they saw Tim’s guitar they asked if the team could play them something. So they worshipped in the middle of the airport!
Compassion Asks Us…
photo credit: Jackie Streng “Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless …
Opening our minds to God
by Ben, BSN student Sunday night we began a seminar on “Identity in Christ.” At the end of our time my teammate, Mark, and I began talking with a man who had come to the seminar. “I’m not a Christian,” the man said, “but I heard American Christians were coming and I wanted to see what you had to say.” Knowing …
Worship in Any Language
by Ben, BSN student I was in awe again while my team was worshipping God alongside our new friends in Japan. We were singing the same songs, us in English and them in Japanese. While the literal translation may have been different there’s one thing that remains the same no matter what: the love & joy it brings God to …
“If I want to understand Western economics I have to study the Bible”
by Manuel, BSN Madison Director Tokyo, Japan We were full of expectation as we entered through the old gate of the University of Tokyo. What an honor it was to teach a Bible study in partnership with Chi Alpha at the most influential university on the Pacific Rim. Students enrolled at the University of Tokyo have prepared all their lives …