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I enjoyed sushi during my layover in Japan.

This was cool. The first time my music was played in Japan on Apple Music! https://beacons.ai/ekitzing to find my music where you listen to it.

Editor’s note: This July, we are praying for the Chinese diaspora throughout Asia. This week Ruth, a Chinese missionary in Japan, introduces us to the many Chinese living in Japan. She and her family hope that, as they minister to Chinese, they will also be able to share the hope of the gospel with the Japanese. Today, she tells us about the struggles Chinese face as they seek to establish themselves in Japan.
Japan: Praying for the Chinese Diaspora
Meet the Missionaries
China Partnership: Can you introduce yourself, your family, and your church?

Lily: Before I married my husband, both of us already had a fairly clear missionary calling. We studied theology, then planted a church in [a northeastern Chinese city]. We hoped we could become missionaries, sent out by our own church. God prepared everything very smoothly. We were successfully sent out by our church as missionaries, and came to Japan a few years ago.

We have already begun an international church in Japan. So far, our main group is still Mandarin-speaking Chinese, but our goal is not only to serve the Chinese community. Our church has some second-generation bilingual Chinese, and some second-generation Chinese who speak only Japanese. We are also very grateful that a Japanese auntie came to faith among us a month or two ago.

Waves of Immigration to Japan
CP: What are the needs of the Chinese community in your city? What struggles and hopes do Chinese in Japan commonly face? And what kind of challenges do they encounter as they adapt cross-culturally?

Lily: It may be clearer if we briefly review the history of Chinese in Japan. There were three waves: the 1980s, where science and engineering international students came to earn money; the 1990s and 2000s, where many came for tech-related fields and better career opportunities; and then 2015 to the present, where many people brought their families seeking a better education and better life.

The main struggle of these groups is identity. They know they are Chinese. But living in Japanese society, there is a sense of not quite fitting in.

Then there are descendants of Chinese in Japan. The children of those first migrants may now be second- or even third-generation. Some were born and raised in Japan, while others spent part of their childhood in China and then came to Japan. The cultural world of first category is basically Japanese, and mainly shaped by Japanese culture. Another group is shaped by both Chinese and Japanese cultures.

The main struggle of these groups is identity. They know they are Chinese. But living in Japanese society, there is a sense of not quite fitting in. On the surface, they appear to form a stable part of the structure of Japanese society, and would find it hard to return to China. But even so – do they truly belong to Japanese society? This struggle is a major part of their experience.

Their dreams are not mainly for themselves, but for their descendants. Many Chinese born and raised in Japan choose Japanese citizenship when they grow up, because many basically cannot even speak Chinese. Some hope to migrate again, to what they consider an even better country.

For those who have not been in Japan very long and have not yet obtained long-term, stable status, the struggle is security and stability. Japan’s immigration policies toward Chinese communities have tightened, which creates great unease. Can people settle down amid a rapidly changing Japanese society and a rapidly changing global economy?

New immigrants here less than five years have even greater struggles. Language, finances, family, understanding culture and adapting to Japanese society all bring many challenges.

Identity: Who Am I?
For [children raised here], identity is a deep struggle: “Who am I? Japanese people look at me and think I am Chinese; Chinese people look at me and think I am Japanese.” They seem to know the gospel, but they have not truly gained a God-given identity from the gospel. They may be a confused generation.

Although Japan accepts immigrants from many countries, it is still a nation with strong ethnic homogeneity. Its culture is very strong, and is not highly open.

There are real survival challenges: basic consumption is very high. In Japan, it is even possible to go hungry, because the basic cost of living – rice, flour, cooking oil, food, housing, transportation – is high. These are struggles that would be hard to imagine facing in China.

For children of Chinese families who were born and raised in Japan, there is this issue: their families keep telling them, “You are Chinese,” but they have never understood China and cannot identify themselves as Chinese.

One feature of Japanese society that may be more pronounced than in other countries is that Japan is a collectivist society. There is a strong tendency to go along with the crowd; if everyone else is doing something, it is hard not to. Although Japan accepts immigrants from many countries, it is still a nation with strong ethnic homogeneity. Its culture is very strong, and is not highly open. There is something overwhelming about this. If someone does not have an identity rooted in the gospel, it can be very painful.

The descendants of Chinese in Japan face major challenges in their relationships with their parents. Some Chinese children are Japanese not only in language, but in their way of thinking. Their parents, however, may not even speak Japanese well. This means the generations may be unable to communicate deeply. It’s very common that children become dissatisfied with their parents’ Chinese way of doing things. Parent-child relationships are deeply entangled with language and cultural differences.

Passing the Faith to the Next Generation
For Christians, faith transmission is a major issue. Around fourth grade, Chinese children in Japan “must” attend cram school and take entrance exams for private middle schools. Not only does this consume money; more importantly, it consumes time. A lot of these children stop coming to church around this time. In their parents’ choices, the children see their parents’ values: “Oh, God is not that important; worship and commitment to the church are not that important. You tell me to believe in God, but when decisions are made, it’s cram school.” Parents subtly pass on to their children society’s values: faster, higher, stronger, and better.

This is a very, very big challenge. I met some sisters here who were deeply grieved their children no longer came to church. We reflected together on when their child’s attitude toward faith began to change, and they traced it back to those moments and choices. The important question is: what is your primary identity? Are you seeking identity from Japanese society, or are you living in the identity Christ gives you?

This becomes more visible in this Japanese social culture, but is a general issue in Christian families’ transmission of faith. If you care about your child’s faith, that concern must be embodied in every daily decision. This is the challenge facing the church: we cannot skip the first generation and directly shepherd the second generation. We can only reach children through the parents; we cannot skip one generation and directly enter the next.

What is your primary identity? Are you seeking identity from Japanese society, or are you living in the identity Christ gives you?

It is essential for the church to proclaim the gospel in a contextualized way. Children need to see God’s grace, love, and power in the gospel. They must not simply be pushed into church community or seek Chinese identity in the church community – they must truly come to know God there. In God, they receive a renewed identity. Then, as they live on earth, they can become genuine witnesses of the kingdom of heaven. That is the foundation for a stable identity in the future.

The most important thing for Chinese Christians is their faith, their relationship with God, their identity in Christ, and whether they can live out that real identity in society. This may also be the biggest challenge.

Guidelines for Living.
July 2nd, 2026

How to Trade Revenge for Forgiveness

If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. Romans 12:20



“I don’t get mad—I get even!” reads the message on a bumper sticker. The taste of vengeance is so sweet–or is it? When the Japanese invaded China in World War 2, William’s family was torn apart. His father was imprisoned and died there in what prison officials called an “accident.” His sister was also imprisoned. And eventually, they came for William. It seemed that one Japanese official had it in for the family which was active in the small church in their village.

William plotted his revenge. After the war was ended and William was eventually allowed to leave China, he determined to go through Japan on his way to the United States. His will was to locate the man who had so hurt the family, and, at least, discredit and shame him before his family and his colleagues at work. The long-awaited taste of vengeance seemed to grow sweeter day by day.

In Japan, he stayed with a friend. While he was there, he picked up a book by Corrie ten Boom, a Dutch woman who had also been badly victimized by the injustices of war. In her book, Corrie told how forgiveness—not vengeance—is the only answer to the hatred which destroys people. Through this, God began speaking clearly to William. He knew what he was about to do was wrong. Scripture speaks so clearly, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, says the Lord” (Romans 12:19). Could it any clearer?

William did look up the man, but instead of taking revenge, he forgave the man, and continued on his journey, cleansed and whole.

Few stories, however, end as this one, which is completely factual. Why does God say so specifically that we have no right to take vengeance on our enemies? Paul knew that treating evil with kindness is contrary to human nature, yet he also knew that revenge only multiplies itself in an unending torrent of pain and wrongdoing.

Here’s what he said: “[Don’t] take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay,’ says the Lord. On the contrary: ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.’ [Don’t] be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:19-21).

Paul’s reference to heaping coals of fire on a person’s head may have been an allusion to a practice that was observed in Egypt, where to show remorse over wrongdoing, an individual would literally take charcoal and bear the coals in a dish on his head. Paul is saying, “Leave the business of getting even to God because He has a long memory. Don’t worry about it! It’s His responsibility, not yours.”

In giving this advice, Paul echoes what Moses wrote 1400 years before, as God told people not to take vengeance on each other. God said, “It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them” (Deuteronomy 32:35).

Overcoming evil with kindness produces shame in those who do wrong. It is the only kind of a transaction that forever cancels wrongdoing and lets it die.

A final thought. What Paul wrote is not easy, but it is possible. If you have been wronged and you secretly await your day of getting even, release that attitude in prayer and ask God to give you grace to forgive. God will, and when you forget about getting even, you will be amazed how quickly things get better. Leave vengeance to God; He’s much better dealing with it than we are.

Resource reading: 1 Peter 2:23-25

WEDNESDAY 24th June 2026 ON REVIVAL TRAIN.
We interceded for JAPAN

SPIRITUAL INSIGHT
# JESUS CHRIST was first preached in Japan in the 16th Century.
# Shortly after, serious persecution followed, twenty-six men were nailed to the Cross and Christianity was outlawed by decree.
# The ban was lifted in 1843 but Buddhism remained "State Religion".
# Presently, out of a population of 122.5 million, Christians account for roughly 1% of the population.

PRAYER POINTS
# Lord, visit and strengthen existing churches by outpouring of the HOLY GHOST in JESUS name.
# Ask the Lord to to visit and touch the youths in Japan with a mighty REVIVAL.
# Remind the Lord JESUS CHRIST of the blood of the 26 matyrs and plead for mercy and abundance GRACE for a massive harvest in Japan.
# Ask the Lord JESUS CHRIST to judge Buddha and sundry gods of the land and set the captives free.
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Praying To Grow. June 30,2026 After Lam Wai Chan moved from his native Singapore to pastor a church in Japan , he panicked .The church had barely twenty members ,in a nation known as a “missionary graveyard ,”where about once percent of nation’s people are Christian and many churches sit empty ,Lam felt felt “like I was taking over a sinking shio .”Crying out to God ,he sensed the answer :Offer the church back to Me . Rather than “ update “worship or kusix , Wai Chan asked members to pray for their needs ,family members , and friends who didn’t know Jesus .Slowly ,the church doubled in size Their faithful praying is a living , biblical model of how to community in Jesus .First , pray .” In every situation ,by prayer and petition , with thanksgiving ,” Paul wrote ,”present your requests to God ,” and do all of this without worry about anything (Philippians 4:6)In this way ,we offer our ministries ,churches ,and programs back to God .We may plant seeds and water them ,but as the apostle said ,”Neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything , but only God , who makes things grow “(1Corinthians 3:7). He was imploring believers at Corinth to stop quarreling about which church leader They followed (v3-6). as Paul said ,”No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid ,”which is Jesus Christ “(v1-)Let’s prayerfully give our churches back to Him .Then watch them grow . What tests your work to build a connote in Christ ?How can you give the effort to God ? Dear God ,as I stay faithful , plesse build your community -Patricia Raybon

Amazing Facts
Daily Devotionals

From Death to Life.

June 17th, 2026

Carl Ruse of the U.S. Air Force arrived at the Yokkaichi-Ishihara Sangyo labor camp in Nagoya, Japan, in September 1944. Captured by the Japanese over two years earlier, Ruse had been starved down to 80 pounds and had lost hope of surviving much longer. But then a fourteen-year-old Japanese boy who worked at the factory where Ruse was laboring began—at the risk of his own life—to smuggle food to the emaciated prisoner of war.

It saved Ruse’s life. A year later, the newly freed Ruse took food rations to the boy’s family as a gift, and the boy gave him a small photo of himself. The memory of this boy’s kindness made Ruse a better person throughout his life; he was devoid of the bitterness that gnawed at the hearts of so many POWs.

In a sense, we humans are all prisoners of war in the great conflict between good and evil. Due to the sad choice of our ancestor Adam, our enemy is able to enslave us, starve us spiritually, and destroy us. “Your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). Left to ourselves, we would have no hope.

But Jesus stepped in as the representative of all humanity and was willing to risk His life, and even to die, “that whoever believes in him should not perish” (John 3:16). Through His death and resurrection, we can receive spiritual food, forgiveness, and healing. Through His provision, we are rescued, reconciled to God, and given life that never ends.

Because of Adam’s sin, we’ve inherited the rebellious tendency to turn away from God—the only One who can help us—and are headed for certain disaster. As the prophet Isaiah wrote, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way” (Isaiah 53:6). But Jesus has the power to help us—if we choose—reverse our self-destructive path, point us in the right direction, and save us.

Apply It:

List three reasons you are thankful that Jesus is your representative.

Dig Deeper:

1 John 2:1, 2; Romans 5:18, 19; 1 Peter 3:18

Key Bible Texts
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:22 KJV)

The Rapture Truth # 4
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Signs of the End of the World

They just wouldn’t listen. Some of them even thought it was a joke. At a boarding school in the northern Thailand province of Chiang Rai, young elementary students were asleep one Sunday evening as a deadly danger crept upon them. Investigators believe a faulty fluorescent light broke and sparked a fire. Flames spread quickly, but not so fast that some of the students—as young as five years old—couldn’t be roused and warned about the danger.

The Bangkok Post newspaper reported, “Suchada Kong-arsa, an 11-year-old school girl who survived the tragedy … rushed back to wake up her friends and tell them to escape. ‘Most of them did not believe me and went back to sleep but others did and struggled to escape,’ she said.”

At least seventeen young students died in the fire.

It’s a tragedy, to be sure. But even at the last second, a warning was sounded, yet some wouldn’t, or couldn’t, listen. They had been in that dormitory for weeks, perhaps months. Every night they went to sleep, and perhaps on more than one occasion, pranksters tried to rouse them. The signs around them—frantic pleading, perhaps even the faint scent of smoke—just didn’t register.

Can such a tragedy be repeated, and exponentially magnified, as the world nears its final hours? The Bible says millions will ignore the signs of the times and pay a similarly fateful price.

WHAT ARE THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES?
If Jesus told His closest followers they could tell when His return is near, did He offer some concrete indicators—signs of the times? Yes! He certainly did:

“Take heed that no one deceives you. … You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. … Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places” (Matthew 24:4, 6, 7).

Not every earthquake, famine, or war is a specific sign of His soon return. We’ve seen these tragedies repeat on a regular basis during the 2,000 years since Christ walked the earth. However, from Jesus’ words, we can expect to see a dramatic increase in the frequency and intensity of these calamities just before He comes back.

Let’s look at some of these signs in detail …

WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS
It’s difficult to switch on the television and not hear news about war and other conflict somewhere in the world. While the last century was perhaps one of the world’s bloodiest, with upwards of 100 million people killed, this new millennium isn’t off to a much better start. Of course, conflict continues to plague these regions.

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States spawned a military invasion of Afghanistan. Eighteen months after 9/11, troops invaded Iraq. Each war lasted years—eight in Iraq, thirteen in Afghanistan—and each conflict left behind fractured regions in its wake, not to mention thousands upon thousands of deaths and injuries.

Africa’s sub-Sahara region has seen continued war since the independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s. In the past thirty years, blood-stained conflicts in the Sudan, Ethiopia, Liberia, Somalia, and Sierra Leone—to name but a few—have left their mark. In Rwanda, horrific inter-tribal war between the Hutu and Tutsi tribes killed tens of thousands. In many places, sub-Saharan Africa remains a powder keg, capable of igniting at any moment.

The Middle East, including Egypt, Libya, and Morocco, has been bathed in war for years. The “Arab Spring” of 2011 toppled established governments in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia and led to a massive civil war in Syria, as well as Yemen. Iraq remains in turmoil with civil war. Iran’s nuclear ambitions are of great concern in the region, worrying not only Israel—a nation its leaders have pledged to destroy—but also neighboring Saudi Arabia, a country with the means to field an invading army if needed.

South Asia: Periodic clashes flare up between India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers; in Pakistan’s northwest regions, fighting with Taliban invaders continues. There are also continued clashes between South Korea and the nuclear-armed North Korea.

Other contentious hotspots include Europe and the ongoing conflict in the Ukraine, where part of that nation was swallowed up by troops from the Russian Federation.

Nations surely are “rising against nations,” as this list of wars and conflicts demonstrates. Another threat comes from non-nations, such as the so-called “Islamic State.” This group has committed and encouraged terrorist attacks in Europe and the United States, declaring that it is rising to destroy the West in a holy war to end all wars.

The current dramatic escalation in "wars and rumors of war" isn't fantasy—it's reality. According to the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit, an estimated “1.5 billion people live in regions haunted by violent conflicts, whose damage to the global economy is valued at 14.3 trillion U.S. dollars per year.” The same report indicated “over 30 million children are homeless because of wars, natural disasters, and other crises,” the highest number since the end of World War II.

FAMINES
In the wake of war, famine generally follows. The millions of refugees from Iraq and Syria, for example, are often found undernourished in refugee camps or on their treks to Europe and other nations. The United Nations World Food Program says “some 795 million people in the world do not have enough food. ... That's about one in nine people on earth.” A sudden disruption in food supplies could quickly turn that into a massive famine.

DISEASE AND PESTILENCE
“Let me give you a stern warning. What we are seeing now looks more and more like a dramatic resurgence of the threat from emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. The world is not prepared to cope,” Dr. Margaret Chan, a physician who heads the World Health Organization, has declared.

Headlines in 2016 on the rapid spread of the Zika virus speak to this threat. This virus can cause debilitating birth defects and is believed to be carried by certain species of mosquitos; it caused widespread panic during the Summer Olympics.

For most of 2014, international headlines centered on an outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. It quickly killed more than 11,000. People carrying the virus showed up in nations far from the outbreak zones, sending waves of panic throughout the world.

The influenza crisis of 1918 killed 25 million people in one year. Other fast-spreading diseases have brought tragic
consequences, as with the ongoing AIDS epidemic that began in the 1980s.

NATURAL DISASTERS
Michael Snyder, in his highly regarded “Economic Collapse” blog, noted in 2016 that the earth’s crust is becoming “increasingly unstable,” with forty active volcanoes erupting at the time and more than 3,000 earthquakes in one month’s time. He wrote, “The entire west coast of the United States lies along the [seismic zone known as the] Ring of Fire, and virtually every other section of the Ring of Fire is roaring to life.”

An earthquake or a massive volcanic eruption can wreak havoc in minutes. Residents of the San Francisco Bay Area were stunned in 1989 when an earthquake hit one October evening, killing 67, collapsing a major bridge, and causing billions of dollars in damage.

Six years later, the Osaka-Kobe area of Japan was rocked by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake that killed thousands. And in 2011, the Fukushima earthquake in northern Japan led to a nuclear accident that spread deadly radiation and resulted in 1,000 deaths.

These earthquakes are increasing in frequency and, some observers note, in intensity. And as was seen in Fukushima, the damage from an earthquake itself may be nothing compared with the collateral damage caused by a subsequent tsunami or other disaster unleashed by a tectonic shift.

MORAL COLLAPSE
When Jesus told His disciples that no one knew the day or hour of His return, He added, “But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be” (Matthew 24:37).

What were the days of Noah like? In Genesis, chapter 6, the Bible reports, “The lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. … The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth” (verses 5, 11, 12).

You don’t have to look very far to see this happening today. In just a few years, the unthinkable in many societies has happened: Governments around the world have legalized marriages that fall outside of God’s original design. Sexual immorality is now paraded openly, demanding and receiving acceptance in society at large.

Divorce has skyrocketed, and in most nations, more couples live together without being married than those who tie the knot. More children are born without the traditional structure of a mother and father than ever before. It doesn’t take much imagination to see that the signs of the end are being rapidly fulfilled. We can know that God is ready soon to act upon the world stage to save those whom He has created, loves, and sent His Son to redeem.

But it won’t be by a flood this time as in the days of Noah—it will be the return of Christ to establish something new for those who trust in Him. No longer will famine, disease, or disaster stalk societies. “Neither shall they learn war anymore” (Micah 4:3).

What a glorious day that will be!