Prayer requests for the wonderful nation of Japan and its incredible people...
Pray for Japan following the Tropical Storm Etau which pounded Japan's eastern coastline this past weekend. These are things to remember in prayer: 1.) Pray for our partner local churches in all the places Etau has hit. They are consistently serving the disaster area. A3's role is to help empower these local churches to minister effectively. 2.) Pray for people in Fukushima. Etau hit Fukushima, site of the nuclear reactor damaged in 2011 by the tsunami. Decontamination efforts are continuing and water has been put into sealed containers, so that no more radiation leakage would occur. In spite of the effort, there are about 70,000 people still not been able to go back home. There is still a strong focus on ministering to those people still living in temporary housing. A3 is coming along side churches...
With the Japanese expatriate population in the U.S. the highest number of any country in the world, this is an important group for us to be praying for. By 1924 so many Japanese had immigrated to this nation that Japanese were the largest Asian ethnic group. Here in Pasadena, Japanese began arriving as early as 1891. In the Los Angeles area, 164,000...
TohokuThe 2011 triple disaster of a 9.0 earthquake, flattening tsunami waves and a nuclear meltdown galvanized the church in Japan. Many local observers said that they had never experienced the church working together like this in their lifetime. Not only did it wake up the church internally, it also brought an international prayer and relief focus for the country that had not been seen since the end of World War II.
Traditional models and methodologies...
Leaders in Japan have characterized their own nation as "a super power without a moral compass." This is a relatively new phenomena in a country that was guided, for centuries, by a moral and religious ethic that came out of Shintoism, Confucianism, and the discipline of a samurai warrior. All of this ended following World War II, when the emperor disavowed any claim to deity. This shattered the notion, widely held among Japanese, that they were a sacred people by virtue of being a part of the Japanese family headed by the emperor.
As a result of the military defeat in World War II, ...
Here are some of the sociological needs, bearing pressure upon Japanese society:
Japan has the oldest and the most rapidly aging population of any country in the world (27.4% over age 65 by 2005). This means that there will be more and more people living on pensions, with fewer and fewer people in the work force to support them. Sadly, the suicide rate among the elderly is on the rise...
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