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Japan - has .21% (21 per 10,000 people) christians that attend church. This means that out of 127,000,000 people in the nation, only 266,000 go to church. There are about 7,700 churches in Japan so the average size church on a Sunday is 34 people.
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Japan's youth - who reach reach out to them?
Now … as the overwhelming majority of these christians are over 60 years old, very, very few churches are reaching the next generation at all. Even though Japanese people live to a ripe old age, this means the size of the church in Japan is actually going backwards.
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One denomination has 200 churches, almost all have their own church building. About half have less than 10 members. 100 of the pastors are over 70 and wanting to retire. This story is repeated all over the country.
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We applaud the churches caring and blessing the older generation. We actually cannot do that very effectively at Jesus Lifehouse.
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But we desparately need 1,000 more churches - of any description - right now - to reach the youth generation of Japan.
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A Ripe Harvest in Japan
Come on - let’s pray the Lord of the harvest to send out more labourers to reach this generation who have never heard of Jesus, nor have ever seen a Bible, nor have ever had a friend who was a christian. Many middle and high schools do not have a single christian!!!
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This is an incredible moment of opportunity in Japan’s history to share the Good News of Jesus with a whole new generation. Let’s not miss this opportunity.
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Tom Says:
January 5th, 2009 at 8:20 pmI live in Japan and understand what you are doing and support you 1000 percent
