Ainu

We have been focusing on the unreached cities/towns/villages since we first came to Hokkaido back in 1997. From then, we prayed that God would send His Laborers into the un-reached harvest fields by the year 2020, and we called it "Vision 20/20. In the past decade, the Japanese government had a plan to diminish the number of local government or urge the local government to merge otherwise the national government will cut the support for each local government under prime minister Koizumi. It used to be 212 cities/towns/villages before, but now it became 179. Now out of 179, we have identified 83 without a church or any Christian influence. From 2014, we planned to visit each unreached area to pray and intercede for that area each year. This made us busy to plan ahead and visit each 83 unreached area every year. At least, we visited twice both in 2014 and 2015 including isolated islands. In the future, we would like to purchase a ministry center for each unreached area so that when God sends His laborers into the filed, they will have a place to start with. A ministry center is a simple house with bedrooms and a space for gathering. Not necessary a church building, but a simple house to welcome anyone who wants to know Jesus. The approach can be very liberal although our faith will be very conservative. Sometimes, they can combine the ministry with business like teaching English or serving the community with a profession. This further lead us to start "International Vision Village(IVV)" which is a community of mission-minded international believers who like to start a Christian ministry in the un-reached areas in Hokkaido. It is loosely connected community that supports and encourage one another to further God's Kingdom in Hokkaido. It will be started in Sept. of 2018.