The OYiM (One Year in Mission) Tokyo 13 missionaries are four young missionaries sent to Tokyo, Japan, by the Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD) Youth Ministries Department in order to support the Tokyo 13 Project. Missionary DongWon Kang is the central figure of the missionary team as he came back after the successful completion of the New York 13 Project. The team implemented intensive mission activities in Japan until December 31, 2013. For effective short-term mission activity programs, they developed their activities in following three aspects.
First, they stayed in the Tokyo Central Church, and the Tokyo Korean Adventist Church. They supported churches in many different ways including tract distribution, HisHands mission activities, Sabbath School participation, helping harvest in church member’s farms, song leaders, recreation, cleaning the church, painting and papering walls, picking up new believers, and a play performance.
In addition, OYim missionaries operated discipleship training, and small group activities as their own primary mission project. Every Sabbath they implemented discipleship training, and every Monday they did small group activity with the new disciples. The small group started with four members, but now 13-15 members attend every week. As a part of the community outreach program, the Tokyo Korean Adventist Church, and the Tokyo Central Church provide English class and a Korean language class, respectively in that order, to secure faithful young interests.
Lastly, OYim missionaries promoted their work to local churches. They participated in, and supported special meetings and events of many churches, as the conference, on occasion, served to positively advertise their mission activities. Through these opportunities, they ultimately aimed to inspire Japanese young people. They did promotion at the event hosted by the Japan Union Conference (JUC) Youth Ministries Department on December 21, and at four to five other meetings.
Moreover, they held an evangelistic meeting for youth on December 16 and 20, 2013, inviting all young people they had contacted. Pastor NakHyung Kim, NSD Youth Ministries Director, was the main speaker of this evangelistic meeting, and preached the message on “Your Hope.” We would like to ask for your powerful prayers for the continuous ministries of the OYim Tokyo 13 missionaries, and the revival of the Japanese Adventist young people.