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Hokkaido

Hey everyone, here are 6 more days worth of prayer requests on Hokkaido, which is the northernmost island of the 4 main islands of Japan.

<Hokkaido>

  • Population: 5,650,573
  • Cities w/o church: 2
  • Towns & villages w/o church: 113
  • Churches/person: 1:14,233

Feb 17: Pray for the churches without pastor, and for those facing hardships because of the severe winters, the population decline and economic difficulties.

Feb 18: Pray that the gospel may spread to the remote areas through the TV broadcasts of Life Line, and the radio ministry of Light of the World.

Feb 19: Pray for the several camping ministries that they be effectively used by God.

Feb 20: There are five Protestant schools with close to 25,000 students, and over 6,000 children in 61 kindergartens and 10 day-care centers. Pray that the gospel will be clearly felt in these schools. Ask God’s blessing on the Hokkaido Bible Institute and CFNJ Bible School.

Feb 21: Several larger Christian hospitals, along with social ministries seek to represent Jesus. Pray that each staff member will sense God’s presence today.

Feb 22: Pray that churches will be started in the many needy areas. There are two cities with no churches and 113 towns and villages with no churches. In the city of Noboribetsu, there is only one church for the population of over 54,000.

*All information and prayer requests taken from “Operation Japan -Prayer Guide- Third Edition” -Japan Evangelical Missionary Association, 2005. To purchase a copy of “Operation Japan” book or the Interactive CD version, go to: http://www.jema.org/joomla15/index.php?option=com_banners&task=click&bid=10.

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Operation Japan

David and I have a prayer guide for Japan called “Operation Japan” and it has a lot of information on Japan and prayer item for each day. It starts with basic info and prayer items for Japan as a whole, and then goes prefecture by prefecture each week from north to south. It starts on Jan. 1st and covers the entire country in a year! It’s very informative and helps to know more about Japan and pray very specifically. So I thought I’d share them on the blog on a semi-weekly basis. It’s already a week and a half into February, but it’s never too late to start praying! So here goes the first ones! (I changed the dates for the prayer items to start from Feb. 11th instead of Jan. 1st so we can start right now.)

  <Japan>

  •   Population: 126,824,166
  •   Size: 372,244km
  •   Density: 340 people/km
  •   Cities with no churches: 10
  •   Towns/villages with no churches: 1,633
  •   Churches/person: 1:16,293

 

<Prayer items>

Feb. 11: Pray for salvation for Japan. May the 126 million Japanese people in 47 million households come to the Savior! Pray that in some way each home will have some contact with the gospel this year.

Feb. 12: Pray for Japanese living abroad (over 911,000 in 2003). Pray for the Japanese churches in different parts of the world. Pray that those who have found faith abroad or have become interested in the gospel, may be able to be integrated into church in Japan.

Feb. 13: Pray for the approximately 1.9 million foreign people living in Japan. Fom Korea there are 625,000, from China 424,000, from Brazil 268,000. There are approximately 2,000 Protestant missionaries serving in Japan. Ask the Lord for a speacial blessing for each of them as they work there. May they be effective servants of Chirst.

Feb. 14: Pray for the Japanes Christians, that each may grow and be obedient to the Lord. Church membership is only 0.44% of the population. Pray for the non-Christian family members. Most Christians are the only ones in their families who believe.

Feb. 15: The Bible teaches us to “pray for the king”. Let us pray for the salvation of the emperor and his imperial family. Pray that this year they may rad the Bible, and be attracted to the King. Pray for the salvation of this country’s “leaders in high positions”, for Cabinet and Diet members, local councilmen, and other government employees. Pray that the few Christian politicians and government workers might represent Jesus well.

Feb 16: Pray for the effective ministry of the several hundred Japanese missionaries who are now laboring around the world for Christ. Ask the Lord to raise up more people to go. As these missionaries return to Japan for deputation and rest, may their example of dedication stir up each local church to hae a burden to reach their own communities.

*All information and prayer requests taken from “Operation Japan -Prayer Guide- Third Edition” -Japan Evangelical Missionary Association, 2005. To purchase a copy of “Operation Japan” book or the Interactive CD version, go to:

http://www.jema.org/joomla15/index.php?option=com_banners&task=click&bid=10.