Japan; A Missionary Graveyard
Hi, My older sister, Jordy, and I just spent the past month in Japan. I had written a whole blog post about some of the things we had done in Japan. But after I had written it I had some good conversations, read some other blog posts and decided to write about something a little deeper and way more important. Instead of writing about the adventures and places we went I decided to write about the church in Japan. The churches in Japan are suffering!!! You heard me right. The churches in Japan are really suffering at the moment. Their numbers are dwindling and missionaries are becoming few and far between. This problem is far more tragic than any of the tragic natural disasters that have hit the country in the past. This problem has eternal repercussions. The country has often been called "The Missionary Graveyard"! So, what's going wrong? Why is this happening? Our view of Mount Fuji by from our picnic spot. First of all, let me start this out by saying that Ja...