Missions Conference in Jacksonville, FL

What an opportunity it was! Eri and I were privileged to join a missions conference hosted by Westminster PCA in Jacksonville, Florida, from October 10th to 12th. We did not expect to fly back to Jacksonville at all when we were there in the fall last year. Roughly 100 to 150 people attended the conference during these three days. I was given opportunities to speak three times, including about our Bridge International plant in Kaneda, Kisarazu, Chiba. We were encouraged to meet people who prayed for us, our ministries, and Japan from Jacksonville! There were many highlights I want to share, but I would pick this if I were asked to choose one highlight: During the conference, a church elder came to me and said this: “Yuji, don’t you think God has given Japan about 500,000 believers there? Don’t you think we can first be grateful for these believers God had kept in Japan before you keep saying that you don’t have many believers there?

I appreciated his insightful comment. I should praise God who keeps 500,000 active believers in Japan! I pray that God motivates them all for the advancement of His kingdom.