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We have just had our annual field conference. After prayer, we delayed choosing the new leader until next year. Until then, Martin and Julie Crowhurst will continue leading. Do pray for them!

A mission team of four Japanese women from our churches are serving in a church in the Philippines this week. Pray for their time there, and for long lasting impacts through them to others!

Pray for Madi Robb and for Nick Mason; both are waiting for a mis-sionary visas to Japan, so they can come here again from Australia and Canada respectively, to church plant.

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Our history

At the end of the Second World War, General MacArthur called for a thousand Protestant missionaries to Japan. WEC's work began as a response to that call when Lon and Yvonne Fulton arrived in Japan on February the 23rd, 1950.

Opposition and Openness, but not much fruit

Aaron Tay continues our series on Japanese mission history, taking us from 1640 to the present day...

Why still just 1%?

The gospel message first came to Japan 450 years ago. Many are now asking why it would seem that the message has, as yet, failed to reach significant numbers of Japanese. Just thinking about this prompts a number of questions. Is this assumption even a fair one to make? What has been achieved? What has hindered Japanese from being more responsive? What hope is there for change?

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