ANGIE IN JAPAN

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My name is Angie and I am a staff member for YWAM Tokyo. YWAM (Youth With A Mission) is a missionary organization that currently works in more than 1,100 locations in over 180 countries. 

 

In the year 2012 I did my Discipleship Training School at the YWAM Tokyo base. This was my first time in Japan, and it was then that I became passionate about the gospel in Japan and loving Japanese people in Jesus' name. 

 

In the summer of 2014, God released me to return to Tokyo, which is something I had been praying about even before I left Japan in 2012. Once I had been accepted as a staff member I began dreaming for Japan again. 

 

In Japan, there is only one missionary for every 56,800 people. The suicide rate in Japan is one of the highest in the world, reaching a near epidemic rate. About 30,000 Japanese men and women take their own lives each year. A recent Gallup poll found that 11 percent of the Japanese wish they had never even been born, and 85 percent of teens in Japan wondered why they existed. 

 

My desire is to see every person in Japan know the relentless love of God. I want to love them fearlessly, and let them know that there is immeasurable value to their lives in the Kingdom of God. Most importantly, I want to see the reality of Heaven bring freedom to this beautiful nation.

 

There is so much beauty in Japan. It is in the land itself and in the characters of the people who live there. The Lord is going to bring forth this beauty and turn an entire nation toward Himself. So I will go and see God's dream for Japan lived out in revival.  

 

If you also find yourself carrying the Lord's heart for Japan, visit the SUPPORT tab below and pray about being a crucial part of my support team. We all need each other, and Japan needs more than just those who go to live there. We cannot do this alone.