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Redeemer City to City in Tokyo

March 13, 2019 by Drew Glosson Leave a Comment

We are grateful for our brothers and sisters in arms amongst the Grace Church Planting Network who are helping to make the gospel known throughout this great city!

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The Key

February 1, 2019 by Drew Glosson Leave a Comment

It’s been 8 years since the Great Earthquake and Tsunami disaster struck Japan. God used the disaster and the events that followed in many ways. One of which was to reignite gospel urgency in the hearts of his people and begin a revitalization of church growth and church planting throughout Japan. I’m thankful for brother Yuji and the way God spoke to his heart to lead him to plant a church.

I challenge you to consider your own heart and ask yourself if you’ve been like Yuji. Have you been keeping the keys to yourself?

In the years since the disaster, I’ve seen first-hand a multitude of churches being planted in and through Tokyo and across Japan like never before. It’s an exciting time but it’s only the beginning. There is still so much work to be done in Japan. We have the keys to the kingdom. Jesus is the key!

Friends, would you help us share this message with the people of Japan? Would you also share the good news with those around you as well?

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New Year, New Pod

January 26, 2019 by Drew Glosson Leave a Comment

Welcome to 2019!

We are a little late to the party but we hope you join us as we dive into a little of what New Years in Japan looks like. New Years in one of the biggest holidays in Japan.

In this episode, we talked about Osechi, and the various traditional Japanese foods eaten around the new year.

And of course Drew’s favorite, the process of making mochi!

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A Need for Urgency

January 25, 2019 by Drew Glosson Leave a Comment

I’ve been reading the book, In Japan the Crickets Cry, about the life of Steve Metcalf who was a missionary to Japan. He was raised as a missionary kid in eastern China in the early 1900’s and endured the oppression of the Japanese occupation of China during his school years as the Japanese turned his school into a prison camp.

While imprisoned in the camp he met an Olympic athlete turned prisoner who encouraged him not to hate the Japanese but to rather see them as a people that needed the forgiveness of Jesus. He eventually promised to become a missionary to Japan once the war ended.

As he shared about the beginning years of his mission work in Japan I was struck by this story of an exchange he had with a young man during a survey of Northern Japan.

The town of Imabetsu on the north coast, now the entrance to the rail tunnel to Hokkaido Island, was one of the many that I visited. I booked into yet another inn and “tucked into” another dish of dried fish, seaweed with rice and raw eggs. A young man, about my age, approached me holding a Bible. I am the innkeeper’s son,” he said. “I work in the Post Office.” “Please.” I invited him to sit down. He was keen to tell me his story. My seaweed could wait. “When I was younger I had TB,” he said. “I went to a sanatorium. I learned about Jesus. From then on I always wanted to believe in him. There is so much I do not understand. But nobody can teach me. I have no one to pray with. I can never sing hymns. I am the only one interested here.”

“Why have you come to me?” I was puzzled. Did it seem so obvious I was a Christian? “Your name is Sutepano. I saw it in the guest book. I have read the story of Sutepano in my Bible. You are a missionary. You can teach me the truth.” He was right. I was named after Stephen, whose story he had found in Acts 6 and 7. My father had been translating that passage into Eastern Lisu when I was born. I was a missionary and I could teach him the truth.

It’s been over half a century since Mr. Metcalf had this encounter with that young man and still Japan remains less than 1% Christian. It is both humbling and daunting to know that there are still many in Japan to whom the gospel seed has been sown but for varying difficulties it either hasn’t taking root or is struggling to survive.

The truth is that I too am a missionary, and I too can teach them the truth. Since reading this story I’ve been wrestling with and repenting of the ways I’ve avoided difficult conversations and prime gospel sharing opportunities due a lack of boldness and confidence on my part. There is a urgency to the gospel that we must cling to if we are to see this nation changed. I’m asking the Spirit to help me walk daily with confidence and urgency as I strive to share the truth this year. Friends, Would you do the same?

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Church Planting in an Honor-Shame Culture

November 7, 2018 by Drew Glosson Leave a Comment

We now have four Acts 29 church plants here in Japan. This month, these churches will gather for the first-ever A29 Japan pastor’s retreat. We are grateful for how the Lord is working to plant more churches throughout Japan. I’ve had the privilege to meet one of those men, Joey Zorina, and look forward to partnering together with, the Bridge Fellowship, in the next year. You can hear his story in an article recently published on the gospel coalition.
Read the article here: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/church-planting-honor-shame-culture/

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