1. How did God lead us here? 2. What is God doing now? 3. Japan’s spiritual needs 4. Prayer...

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  • 1. How did God lead us here? 2. What is God doing now? 3. Japans spiritual needs 4. Prayer Requests
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  • Moved in with a family from our church Quit full-time teaching job Hoping to be in Japan within 10 to 12 months
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  • Which Part of Japan? map www.gojapango.com
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  • Fukuoka Bible Church
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  • www.welcomekyushu.com
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  • 1. Percent Christian 2. Suicide Rate 3. Hikikomori 4. Kodokushi Less than 1% evangelical 32 thousand/year, (Almost twice as high as the U.S.) Young men locking themselves in their rooms for months and years Lonely death; dead people discovered in their apartments months later
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  • Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Generations come and generations go
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  • 1. Gods provision of the monthly support level we need to go to Japan within the next 10-12 months 2. Gods help for our boys with the transitions 3. For Japan, for God to open the hearts of the Japanese to Him and His gospel, and for a great movement of His Spirit there 4. For Jonathan learning Japanese