Twenty Korean literature evangelist leaders explored an unprecedented challenge for spreading the Gospel to Korean/Japanese living in Japan, May 27-June 5.

During their special trip, in cooperation with 20 Japanese literature evangelists, Adventist magazines and books which were published in the Korean language were distributed to many Korean people living in Japan. This group were lead by Pastor Um, Gill Soo, director of the Korean Union Conference Publishing Ministries department and included 18 publishing leaders from local conferences and two from local churches.

Tokyo Korean Church Pastor Sung, Sun Jei provided lodging for the 20 visitors to help accomplish their 10 day mission. The Mission was finished with the help of the Japanese literature evangelists including Pastor Yoshikatsu Nakamura, Publishing Ministries Director of the Japan Union Conference, and Pastor Tadaomi Shinmyo who is a former Publishing Ministries Director of the Northern Asia-Pacific Division and currently Pioneer Mission Movement coordinator for the Japan Union Conference.

Japanese and Korean teams were mixed and organize thirteen to fourteen groups every day to reach Korean businesses and residents, business shops, offices, and house to house visitation was done in the Tokyo area. In spite of different cultures and language, the cooperative evangelism resulted in 17-million won in total sale and four precious souls accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

“Some people subscribed to Adventist monthly magazines such as ‘Signs Of The Times’ or ‘Home and Health’ and they will receive the magazine beginning July of this year,” said Pastor Um. “In commemoration of the 100-year history of Korean Adventist Church, we could open a new field of the literature evangelism for Korean people in Japan which has been a kind of ‘barren land of the Gospel.’”

Pastor Nakamura said, “The Korean Literature Evangelism leaders were evangelism-centered during this trip and they made a good accomplishment….Their methods of the literature evangelism are different from those use by Japanese, but we got a lot of impact from them everyday.”