IMPORTANT, please read…

i’ve told a decent amount of people that my mission with GCM and Mars Hill is to reach Asian American students at UW. there is definitely a huge need here, upwards of ten thousand Asian students at UW. but in the past week, through my multiple encounters with Japanese people and opportunities to share the gospel, God was laying on my heart a heavy burden that i’m not called to Asian American ministry. Last night was decisive in my thoughts. i became convinced that i am called to reach Japanese nationals. right now, i am called by God to be here in Seattle, not Japan, working with Japanese students studying abroad in Seattle.

I communicated this to Matt (college ministry director) today. he had a baffled look on his face because he thought that’s what he meant when he said he wanted me to reach Asian Americans. after teaching him about the HUGE difference in terms and the people they correspond to, we were totally agreed that the reason he approached me to serve at Mars Hill in the first place was, is, and always has been to reach Japanese nationals. THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOO HUGE. I am being commissioned to reach Japanese people, NOW!

The opportunities and strategy for the salvation of Japan are vast. i’ll be working on putting it into a document that i post as a separate page on this website. give me a week and it should be up. but everyone, this is so AMAZING!!!!!! i had been struggling with being called to Asian Americans. i think there’s a huge need for that, and i want to see them reached, but God has not called me to that mission, he has called me to Japanese nationals.

I wish you guys could see my face right now. this is probably the most exciting encouraging thing i’ve encoutnered since God called me to reach Japanese people last spring. And it was right there all along!! Wow have i learned the importance of terms and being clear in definitions. hahaha. And God completed our core team for the College Ministry next year. Chris Balt is giving 30 hrs a week to drive the logistics/admin–God provided work for him to support himself and do ministry (YESSSSSSSSSS!), Stuart is going to be able to stay involved as a grad student next year because he got FULL funding for grad school TODAY (YESSSSSSSS!) Jesus is answering our prayers left and right. we need to pray MORE, because He’s answered everything we prayed for!!!!!