NEW WAYS TO REACH JAPAN!         12/87
--Pray for SUPPORTERS & Reach the ENGLISH Speakers!
Maria No.90      DO 2406

         1. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IN SUCH A RICH COUNTRY AS JAPAN WHERE PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO INVEST IN, why the Family there can't get clubs, store fronts & thousands of Dollars for "helping get your Japanese kids off drugs & away from crime & showing them a worthwhile way of life" etc.! It just seems crazy that there's so much there & yet the Family is piddling along hand-to-mouth & nobody has any money & nobody can even do their job because they're so hampered for finances! It's just crazy! There've GOT to be people there who are willing to support us!
         2. THE LANGUAGE, OF COURSE, IS A BIG BARRIER. But there must be SOME groups who speak English.--What about the banking community & the import-export people & clubs that Japanese English-speakers frequent, for example? Dear Family in Japan, why don't you start trying to find the people who DO speak English? (Peter: And PRAY for people that speak English!) Like the first night Marianne went to the Club, she PRAYED to meet an English speaker, & there he was, a real potential fellow fluent in English, a real miracle because she PRAYED!
         3. WHAT IS WRONG THERE? WHAT ARE THEY DOING? I think if nothing else they'd get so desperate that they'd cry out to the LORD for what they need!--You see your kids not having their needs & being neglected, & you don't have your visa money, wouldn't it make you get desperate enough that you'd really really PRAY & get down to business with the LORD & really DO something about your problems?
         4. YOU WHO ARE THERE HAVE SO MANY PROBLEMS, & ONE OF THE BIGGEST IS FINANCIAL, because if you had the money you could open Homes in good areas. If you had money for transportation you could go out & you could burn free & witness & go wherever you wanted to go! If you didn't have the pressure of having to get out enough Tapes & Posters every day to take care of your needs for the next day, plus your rent & your visa money, you could spend much more time personally witnessing & following up & winning disciples.
         5. YOU HAVE TO HAVE MONEY! Your rent has to be paid, your transportation, your food & all the thousands of Dollars that it costs to live there, plus money for very costly visa renewal trips if you haven't found a sponsor or some way to STAY in the country. You're so busy trying to raise MONEY, you don't have time to spend WITNESSING! You've become businessmen, not witnessers! You've been trying to carry huge financial burdens that the Lord wanted DONORS & SUPPORTERS to take care of!

AIRPORT MINISTRIES!

         6. IT SEEMS LIKE YOU JUST OUGHT TO GO ALL-OUT! I HAVE A VISION FOR AIRPORT MINISTRIES! I don't know if they'd WORK, but it wouldn't hurt to TRY. There must be many national businessmen at the international airports in the Eastern countries who speak English, because how are Japanese, Chinese, Thais & even Indonesians going to travel if they don't know something other than THEIR language?
         7. THERE YOU COULD CATCH ALL THE ENGLISH SPEAKERS & the top echelon too, the ones who are going out of the country, if you can manage to get'm while they're waiting for planes, & get their card.--Because usually they don't go out very long, they're just going on business & you could follow-up on them when they get back. An airport is a wonderful place, because people are just sitting there & usually don't have anything to do. Of course, it might be a problem to get into the departure lounges, but I'm sure the Lord would make a way to witness SOMEHOW.

THE SOLUTION TO THE LANGUAGE PROBLEM!

         8. SO YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO GET AROUND THE PROBLEM! Time's so short now, I don't even know if you have time to learn the language fluently, although you should certainly TRY to learn SOME. But just like Dad said about going to the cities & reaching the progressive educated people so they in turn can go into the boonies & witness to the people who speak the dialects, it's the same principle!
         9. YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO FIND THE PEOPLE THAT CAN SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE, & witness to THEM, & make TEACHERS of THEM, & THEY'LL go out & get the people that you CAN'T talk to, which are most of them! And the ones that speak ENGLISH are undoubtedly going to be the more FINANCIALLY well off. You need to go to where the English speakers ARE & reach the ones who are really well-educated & probably have even been outside the country. You've GOT to do SOMETHING!
         10. BUT YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE MONEY TO GO OUT & FIND THE PEOPLE WHO SPEAK ENGLISH! You don't even have the money to go out & WITNESS to them! But you'll have to break out of this vicious cycle some time or other & go by faith & just DO it no matter WHAT sacrifices you have to make!
         11. JAPANESE ENGLISH SPEAKERS ARE PRICELESS, & when you find one, even if you just bump into one on the street, you ought to just grab on to them & say, "Wait, wait, what's your name? Can you help me?" You could make a contact right there, just somebody you meet on the street. CERTAINLY you must have things like that happen, where you find such people in department stores or on trains or buses.

FOREIGNERS CAN REACH THE TOP!

         12. I THINK YOU NEED TO TRY TO GET TO THE TOP! But sometimes, like we said, if you reach the MIDDLEMEN & THEY get saved, they can be real good helpers. And if each of our Family Homes had three or four friends like that, you could probably be well taken care of, have a sponsor or guarantor so you wouldn't have to make costly visa trips, & somebody to pay the rent, too, if you could get at least a few thousand Dollars a month from donors, from kings. It sounds like a lot, but there's so much there if you just really have the faith for it.
         13. WITH OUR TAPE & POSTER DISTRIBUTION DECREASING WORLDWIDE due to our getting off the streets & doing more restricted witnessing, getting support this way will be more time-consuming, since you're not going to be able to get out so much so quickly, you're not going to be able to rely on that any more. But if you can have the faith to get DONORS, English-speaking or not, who can support you, then you can just burn free.
         14. IT'S HARD TO REACH THE TOP THERE, BUT IT'S A LOT EASIER FOR THE FOREIGNERS TO REACH IT. Like the people there have said, they EXPECT foreigners to break protocol & to do all kinds of strange & unusual & untraditional things, & they don't think too much of it. In fact, it really gets their attention! They're not so offended as when the JAPANESE do it.
         15. I UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS PRETTY DIFFICULT FOR A JAPANESE of a lower social or working class to try to jump those barriers & barge in on somebody important. It's not even a question of having faith, it's a question of courtesy & consideration, they're offended if their own people don't stick to the rules. However, they might even admire the FOREIGNERS for it, admire the courage of those who are brave enough to stand out among the robotic masses.
         16. THEY EXPECT FOREIGNERS NOT TO KNOW THE RULES & NOT TO EVEN ABIDE BY THEM! So it's a lot easier for the foreigners to reach the real rich. In all of those countries, the foreigners can go right to the top (it takes some WORK, of course), especially in the Eastern countries. Of course, you need to be able to find the ones who speak ENGLISH, but most of the very rich & the top people DO speak English.
         17. MAYBE THE LEADERSHIP WILL HAVE TO GET OUT & PROVISION, GET OUT & MAKE CONTACTS, LEAD the Homes by showing them all the things that they think they CAN'T do, really CAN be done! It's too bad our leadership has to take time from shepherding you sheep to do you sheep's work, but you sheep haven't been doing it, or at least not much of it, so the SHEPHERDS are going to have to lead the way. And if you sheep feel neglected for awhile, that's the sacrifice you'll have to make to SAVE THE WORK & help you to stay in the country & continue to preach the Gospel!
         18. (PRAYS:) LORD, DO GIVE THEM FAITH! There's so much there, Lord, there's so much potential! There are so many people that You want to reach, not only the rich but those whom the rich can help US reach, like their own young people, so many, & yet our people are so strapped & bound & hindered by lack of finances! Lord, money should be the LEAST of their problems, You've got so MUCH of it & You own it ALL, Lord, & control all those people. All that wealth, Lord, is YOURS, & You can use it for Your Glory!
         19. SO DO HELP OUR PEOPLE TO HAVE FAITH! HELP THEM TO GET OUT THERE! Help them to have faith for YOU to open the doors & send the finances in that they need, Lord. They just really are almost DESTITUTE in that country that's so expensive to live in, to even buy their three meals a day, Lord! They've GOT to have money to do the JOB & to do their ministries. So PLEASE give them the faith to ASK You & to SEEK, Lord, for supporters & donors & kings who can HELP them with their food & their rent & their transportation, all these things that they need to be able to get out on the field & WITNESS! Even if they could just find one donor who could support them while they can minister to him, it would be worth it, Lord. So please help them to do it, Lord!
         20. HELP THEM TO GET DESPERATE, HELP THEM TO REALLY BELIEVE & HAVE THE FAITH TO TAKE THAT STEP & ASK, & YOU SAID WE WILL RECEIVE, & SEEK, & You said we'd FIND, & KNOCK, & You said the door WOULD be opened!--Mat.7:7,8. So HELP them, Lord, to look in the RIGHT PLACES & we know You WILL open the doors! We KNOW You will if we ask it! We don't know why they're NOT asking, but HELP them to, Lord! Help them to start right NOW & to DO it, in Jesus' name! TYL!

DRASTIC CHANGES NEEDED NOW!

         21. IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOMETHING DRASTIC TO REACH JAPAN & TO HELP THE FAMILY TO STAY THERE TO DO IT! It's going to take a MIRACLE, the LORD'S intervention, when you who are there realise the NEED & get DESPERATE enough to CLAIM the land! Street work has to be stopped because it's too open, door-to-door by foreigners is usually not well accepted by the Japanese, & office-to-office is very difficult.
         22. IF YOUR PRESENT METHODS AREN'T FRUITFUL IN BOTH SOULS & FINANCES, THEN YOU HAVE TO CHANGE THEM! I think you've just got to try to find ENGLISH-speaking Japanese to minister to! You've GOT to PRAY for English speakers, instead of just trying to go around door-to-door doing your little spiel in the few words of Japanese you know. How can you really minister to the people that way? So you sell a few Tapes, great, you got a little support, but then what are you going to do to MINISTER to them? You can send them some follow-up literature, but how do you know how it's affecting them? The ONE NATIONAL in the Home can't be running around taking care of EVERYBODY!
         23. THERE MUST BE THOUSANDS OF ENGLISH SPEAKERS IN JAPAN--YOU JUST HAVE TO GO TO THE PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN SPEAK TO! You just have to search them out. They may be like needles in the haystack, but there are a lot of haystacks, so there are going to be a lot of needles! You need to pray & you need to find out who the English speakers are, WHERE they are, where they congregate!-Universities, clubs, language schools, international businesses.
         24. IF YOUR HOME COULD GET EVEN ONE OR TWO PEOPLE WHO COULD REALLY HELP SUPPORT YOU, whom you could minister to, even if you couldn't go anywhere else, even if you didn't have time to do anything else, you could pour into those one or two people, & THOSE people with their circle of influence could win OTHERS!
         25. WHAT IS THE FAMILY IN JAPAN ACCOMPLISHING? It seems as though you're just existing & making a little bit hand-to-mouth just so you can stay in the country & say you're witnessing to the Japanese by giving out a few Posters a day & a few Tapes. But what is THAT to what the NEED is? That's not accomplishing much at all!
         26. THERE MUST BE AN ANSWER! The Family needs to STAY in Japan because the potential is THERE! Investment in the Japanese will reap great dividends! They're leaders of the World now, & they're going to be leaders in the MILLENNIUM! Like Dad says, it's the most potential country in the World! We don't want you all to go off somewhere else because you can't make ends meet in Japan & because it's cheaper to live in the Philippines or it's cheaper to witness in Indonesia!
         27. IF THE LORD WANTS YOU THERE, HE WILL SUPPLY YOUR NEEDS!--HE'S PROMISED TO!--And He MUST want you there with all the emphasis He's putting on Japan & because of how potential it is! So there MUST be a SOLUTION! Your present methods are not working & the Lord is not blessing. But we KNOW He always blesses FINANCIALLY when we do the job He WANTS us to. Even getting out Tapes & Posters is not God's ENTIRE Will & plan, unless we're winning SOULS & teaching CONVERTS as well!
         28. SO THERE'S GOT TO BE SOME SOLUTION, THERE'S GOT TO BE A SOLUTION TO THE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS THAT WILL ENABLE YOU TO STAY THERE! So what is it? The System's got the MONEY, we've got to GET it! You KNOW it's available. But you've got to witness PERSONALLY & TALK to people & make FRIENDS if you expect them to SUPPORT you & SPONSOR you. They can give you their MATERIAL help in exchange for your SPIRITUAL blessing. If you faithfully sow unto them spiritual things, it is no great thing if you reap their carnal things!--That's what the Bible SAYS!--1Cor.9:11.
         29. YOU NEED TO GET OUT & TALK TO THEM! GIVE'M JESUS! Give their KIDS Jesus! Tell them, "Look at your kids, they're on drugs, unhappy, suicidal, pressured, they need HELP, & WE'RE here to help them! Don't you want to sponsor our family to help? We can't reach very many, but we can reach a few, & they in turn can reach others, & we get them turned on, give them HAPPINESS! Look, here's a SAMPLE!"--And trot out YOUR kids or SOME sample or some pictures or videos or something.
         30. JAPAN'S GOT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE, BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, & YET YOU'RE STRUGGLING & hardly able to feed your families because you're NOT doing what you're SUPPOSED to be doing! You're not really MINISTERING to people! We've got the most important Message in the World & we're the most valuable thing that ever came to Japan, but they don't even KNOW about us because we're so busy being SALESMEN, not of the Gospel, but of Tapes & Posters only, intent not on winning SOULS, but only on making enough YEN to buy FOOD for the next day!
         31. YOU'VE GOT TO CHANGE YOUR METHODS DRASTICALLY! You have years & years of instruction in the Word & in the Lord, & you could minister to those Japanese people in English, but because you're not doing it, you are in danger of losing your place in Japan altogether, because you have no sponsors or donors to help you stay in the country! Think how sad the Lord must be!--Seeing the POTENTIAL of Japan & knowing that you're not DOING it, you're not REACHING them!--A big portion of our Family is there, yet you're doing very very little comparatively speaking to what you COULD be doing!
         32. I WONDER IF YOU HAVE CONTACTS THAT YOU'RE SLIPPING UP ON, contacts that you have sitting on the shelf somewhere that you haven't done anything with, provisioning contacts or other business people whom you've met & you've had something to do with who have liked you & maybe bought a Tape & expressed some interest, but that you haven't cultivated, you haven't done anything with?
         33. LIKE ONE DOCTOR WE HEARD OF RECENTLY, he was really hurt because the Family members he'd helped hadn't contacted him again! Sad to say, too often with our people it's, "When I NEED you I'll get in touch." You may have kings like that who are just sitting there WAITING for you! "What is that in thy hand?"--Maybe they're right there, maybe you've ALREADY met them & you just need to FOLLOW UP on them!

YOU'VE GOT TO REACH THE ENGLISH-SPEAKERS!

         34. BUT I'D SAY YOU'VE GOT TO REACH ENGLISHSPEAKING JAPANESE FOR THE MOST PART. You can't depend on nationals who are young in the Lord & the Family to do all the follow-up on those people & to really FEED them.--They may get sucked in themselves unless they're well overseen, fed, strengthened & instructed! But of course, if you already HAVE precious friends & contacts you're responsible for, your NATIONALS will have to follow up on the only-Japanese-speaking contacts, with lots of supervision & help from the rest of the Home.
         35. EVEN IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME MINISTERING TO ONLY ONE OR TWO KINGS WHO ARE SUPPORTING YOU, AT LEAST YOU'RE POURING INTO THEM. If you're going to spend hours & hours pouring into somebody, then they should be really getting STRONG & learning to SUPPORT & TITHE, so it's WORTH it. And if it DOESN'T take all your time, then you have the rest of your time in which you can go out & reach the young people!
         36. FIRST OF ALL, PRAY THE LORD WILL LAY IT ON THEIR HEARTS TO GIVE, & THEN "ASK & YE SHALL RECEIVE"! After these people are saved, you can approach them with something like: "Now that you're saved you can lay up treasures in Heaven! You can't take any of these riches with you when you die, but you can send SOULS ahead by SUPPORTING God's Work!" You can present this to them as their opportunity to make the greatest investment of their lives!
         37. THE FAMILY IS DONE IN JAPAN IF YOU DON'T DO THAT! With the World situation the way it is, help from WS is going down, not up, & many of you will have to LEAVE Japan just because you can't SUPPORT yourselves.--So LORD HELP US to do something QUICK! You can't stay in Japan without SUPPORT! But you can't get SUPPORT without MINISTERING, & you can't minister effectively without COMMUNICATION in a language you BOTH can speak WELL.
         38. SO WE'VE GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT JAPAN, BECAUSE IT'S A REALLY DESPERATE SITUATION! It gets more desperate the more we hear of it! It's been desperate quite awhile, & it keeps looking MORE desperate all the time, & if you don't break this terrible cycle you're going to really be OUT, you're going to be in Indonesia or the Philippines or Thailand or maybe back in the States if you don't hurry up & DO something!
         39. OF COURSE, THAILAND & INDONESIA ARE IN SOME WAYS IN THE SAME SHAPE if you don't reach the ENGLISH speakers. But I want to see us WIN these battles for JAPAN because that's where there's the GREATEST potential, & I'd like to see the Family STAY there, & MINISTER to the people.
         40. WHATEVER COUNTRY IT IS, WE HAVE TO REACH THE ENGLISH-SPEAKERS! Dad's said that time & time again: Go to the universities, go to the cities, go to the people that can speak YOUR language & they in turn can reach those who CAN'T! (See Nos. 1418, 927.) Of course you're not supposed to live long in a country without learning a LITTLE of the language, or what kind of sample is THAT, to show such a lack of interest in the country & its people? But the BASICS are all that you can learn, unless you're going to spend all your time in a language school, & then you're not going to be getting the JOB done!
         41. YOU'VE GOT TO BE DESPERATE! YOU'VE GOT TO READ THE WORD TO INCREASE YOUR FAITH! You've got to show the Lord you're really DESPERATE & you really mean BUSINESS! (Peter: Maybe they can FAST for a day or two or three!) Tell the Lord, "We're not going to EAT until You BLESS us! We WANT to do the JOB here, & we've GOT to have the HELP, & a LOT of it!"--Then put FEET to your prayers & go out & FIND the kings, supporters & helpers that God has for you!
         42. I WOULD THINK THAT YOU COULD HAVE MORE FAITH FOR GOING OUT & FINDING KINGS & DONORS WHO SPEAK ENGLISH & CAN HELP YOU, than to go doorto-door to unreceptive people who won't even come to the door, just speak through an INTERCOM & say NO, where you have to drag your poor little kids around in the cold trying to get people to take a Tape or a Poster!--Whose attitude is, "We don't want you, we don't understand what you're about, you're foreigners & you can't speak our language!"
         43. PERSONALLY, I THINK I'D HAVE MORE FAITH TO GET THE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS PER MONTH that it costs for a large Home to operate in Japan from some donor who speaks ENGLISH whom I can TALK to than I would dragging my poor little kids around in the cold getting out only five Tapes a day, going to door after door!
         44. IF YOU KEEP THAT UP, YOUR CHILDREN ARE GOING TO BE SICK OF WITNESSING & TURNED OFF TO IT! Because it's TRUE what people say, they're just being USED!--And getting so much antagonism & such a lack of response, our poor kids can get really discouraged! It's really sad!--And not getting any schooling, not getting any excitement, just having to be dragged around by you parents from house to house, most of which you can't even go into, the door's slammed in your face, you can't SPEAK to the people, you can't even SING to them because they don't UNDERSTAND your songs! Think of what it's doing to your CHILDREN! Think how DISCOURAGING it is to EVERYONE!--You poor people!
         45. THERE MUST BE MANY PEOPLE IN JAPAN WHO SPEAK ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH ETC., for Japan does business with all the countries of the WORLD & they don't do it in JAPANESE, that's for sure, because hardly anybody ELSE in the World knows JAPANESE except the people in JAPAN!

THE DESPERATE NEED FOR KINGS!

         46. YOU'VE GOT TO STOP WHAT IS NOT FRUITFUL! YOU'VE GOT TO START GETTING KINGS & DONORS & PEOPLE WHO SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE whom you can really get turned ON, & then who will HELP you to get in to distribute the lit, to sell it under their patronage, into their Lions' Clubs, hospitals or whatever. Those kings can say, "OK, these are my friends, now take these Tapes," or maybe they will distribute them for you themselves! We still need to get the Word out, but look how much MORE you could get out through these FRIENDS! Look at our major king in Japan, he was the lit shiner of the month! That's a perfect example!
         47. POSTERING & TAPENESSING HAS BEEN FRUITFUL IN INDIA & OTHER PLACES, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S WORKING VERY WELL FOR JAPAN. Even in the places where it works great, it still isn't fully supporting people, you still need KINGS! Dad's been talking about that for years & years! In JAPAN it's a NECESSITY, it's IMPERATIVE that you have kings there! (Peter: If some of those people had KINGS to support them & take care of them, they could have gone to LANGUAGE school, gotten a VISA to stay in the country, LEARNED the language & STILL done the job of witnessing & winning disciples! It doesn't take ten years to find a king who will help you, it just takes going out & PRAYING desperately & the LORD could turn them up for every Home in the country if you'd pray!)--Amen!
         48. LOOK HOW MANY NATIONALS YOU COULD BE WINNING if you had the money so that you didn't have to worry about all the day-to-day problems & needs, & you could go out & win the kids at the universities or wherever they congregate!
         49. (PRAYS:) LORD, YOU SAID THAT IF WE DESPERATELY CALL ON YOU WITH OUR WHOLE HEART THAT YOU'LL ANSWER!--Jer.29:13, 33:3. You said You'll supply ALL our need according to Your RICHES in glory by Christ Jesus! Lord, You've certainly got a lot of riches in JAPAN, & You said You'd supply ALL our need & there's a BIG need there, Lord, & it's NOT being supplied, but we know it's not YOUR fault! We know it's because they're NOT doing something RIGHT, & probably because they're not WITNESSING as they should.
         50. HELP OUR POOR PEOPLE THERE TO REALLY LOOK TO YOU & TO ASK YOU, TO CLAIM YOUR PROMISES & TO SEEK FOR YOUR ANSWERS, LORD! You said when we SEEK we will FIND, & when we KNOCK, the door will be OPENED. So they must not be doing it, Lord! Give them the FAITH, help them to SEE the need & understand that all they have to do is RECEIVE, Lord. You said ASK & they will RECEIVE, that You're more willing to GIVE than they are to RECEIVE, & they're just crawling along on the ice when they could be RUNNING, Lord! They could be doing so much more! They're just feebly doing a little bit that they can manage with their few little Yen when You have MILLIONS of Yen You could be giving them so they could do the JOB!
         51. LORD, YOU'RE MORE INTERESTED IN GETTING IT DONE THAN THEY ARE, so You'll certainly SUPPLY & You'll certainly bring in the MONEY! It's all YOURS! YOU own the cattle on a thousand hills! YOU own all the people there & all the banks!
         52. PLEASE, LORD, HELP THEM TO GET DESPERATE! We can't imagine why they haven't become desperate before now, but Lord, something's been WRONG, so now the Enemy's really working to DEFEAT them & really get them OUT of Japan so they won't have ANY influence & they won't have ANY witness! Help them to go on the ATTACK & WIN people to YOU, our FIRST priority, the people who can speak their LANGUAGE, & the people who have the MONEY to HELP, the people who can get SAVED & TITHE & LOVE the Family & LOVE You, Lord, & Your Word, just like their major kings, Lord, that can give so much.
         53. THAT'S WHAT YOU MADE THE KINGS' MINISTRY, LORD. You have them sitting there & undoubtedly You caused them to be rich & helped them to have those jobs in preparation for using them in Thy Work! But Lord, the Family is NEGLECTING them & they're letting these opportunities slip by! Those people that You want to win & You want to use, they're not reaching & they're not looking for & they're not seeking! They're just getting neglected, Lord, getting passed by because of the Family's lack of FAITH!
         54. SO LORD, DO HELP! DO SOMETHING TO SET THE FAMILY IN JAPAN ON FIRE, to get them GOING & DESPERATE & looking for ANSWERS to their problems!--Not feeling they just have to suffer & sacrifice & scrape by day-by-day in the cold & with unresponsive people, Lord, but You have so much MORE that You want to do for them & with them! It's such a WONDERFUL country, Lord, such a POTENTIAL country!
         55. WE KNOW YOU DIDN'T TAKE THEM THERE JUST TO LET THEM EXIST & THEIR CHILDREN TO BE NEGLECTED & THE WHOLE FAMILY TO HAVE TO GO WITHOUT! Lord, there's so MUCH there, please help them to ASK! They've GONE there & they WANT to do the job, so Lord HELP them not to go in their own strength, but just to look to YOU & get DESPERATE with You & let YOU lead them & have the FAITH that YOU'RE going to do it because YOU want the job done! Jesus, please HELP them!
         56. PLEASE DO SOMETHING IN THAT COUNTRY, LORD, DO SOMETHING TO HELP OUR PRECIOUS FAMILY! Our Family are the most valuable people there & they're a wonderful GIFT that You've placed in their midst, but Lord, unless they're able to let their light SHINE, the people are not going to be able to SEE it! When they're so burdened with everyday FINANCIAL needs, food & clothing & housing, they can't really be the WITNESSES You want them to be, Lord!
         57. SO PLEASE, JESUS, WAKE OUR FAMILY UP & GET THEM DESPERATE & HELP them to FIND the people that You have WAITING to receive the Word & receive the Light, & to in turn be a HELP to Your Work! Jesus, prepare their hearts! Prepare these kings that You have just WAITING to be a blessing! PREPARE them to receive our Family, Lord, & give the Family the FAITH to give them YOU, Jesus, & to ASK, & You said they WILL receive! So DO something, Lord, HELP them, in Jesus' name, before it's too late! TYL!--In Jesus' name, Amen.
         58. YOU'D BETTER DO SOMETHING NOW!--Wouldn't it be sad to LOSE Japan?

THE ANSWER!

         59. AFTER GIVING THE ABOVE TALK, "NEW WAYS TO REACH JAPAN" (#2406), we sent it to the NOs & other Family members in JAPAN, & received in return the following amazing information: That in that strange country with a strange culture & a difficult-to-reach populace, one thing that almost all of them want that we have is to learn ENGLISH! Astonishingly enough, practically everybody in that country of 185 million people is clamouring to speak ENGLISH! Housewives, students, businessmen, politicians, tourists, technicians etc.-people in all walks of life are in a mad rush to learn to converse in English!
         60. THE "HELP WANTED" COLUMNS IN THE NEWSPAPERS ARE FULL OF APPEALS FOR NATIVE ENGLISH TEACHERS, as well as positions that require Japanese nationals with a working knowledge of conversational English, so the foreign language schools are doing a thriving business! The demand for native English speakers to teach in these schools is far greater than the supply, & for that reason many schools & companies are willing to accept teachers who have no degrees & no previous experience! Competition for English teachers is so great that some language schools, high schools, colleges & companies offer GOOD WAGES, WORKING VISAS, FREE JAPANESE CLASSES & free or very reasonable ACCOMMODATIONS to teachers whom they hire!
         61. WE FURTHER LEARNED THAT THE BIG CRAZE IN CLOTHING IS FOR JACKETS & TEE-SHIRTS with English wording printed on them, crazy stuff, some of which doesn't even make sense, but it doesn't seem to matter, just so it's in ENGLISH! The restaurants & radios play almost nothing but Western music. Many of the Japanese executives read the English language newspapers, of which there are 3 or 4, & the key to advancement in the business World is to be able to speak ENGLISH!
         62. FROM MARIANNE & HER HOME WE HEARD THE INTERESTING NEWS that when men in the clubs meet them they prefer to try to speak in their broken English in order to be able to practice it with someone qualified to help them. In fact--& there's another piece of amazing information!--the high class clubs in Japan are begging for FOREIGN HOSTESSES who can speak not only ENGLISH, but FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH & other languages as well. On TV you can even find classes in all of these languages as well as others. There are also many English CONVERSATIONAL LOUNGES where Japanese & foreigners can meet informally to get acquainted & to speak English together.
         63. WE WOULD SUGGEST THAT ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY OF EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR WOMEN THERE WOULD THEREFORE BE CLUB WORK, since the demand is so great, the requirements are minimal & often the clubs will accept women who have little or no knowledge of Japanese, just so they can speak fluent English or other languages with their customers.
         64. MARIANNE IN HER EXPERIMENTAL WORK IN THE CLUBS IS CERTAINLY PROVING THAT IT PAYS in fruitfulness of witnessing & many are very receptive to listening to what we have to say, especially since it helps them at the same time to practice their English. It seems like they are able to accept anything if it comes in the form of a FREE ENGLISH CLASS! One of the girls made the subject of Salvation & how to receive it a little English class that was well-received in this form, helping the man to pronounce the words "Jesus," "Salvation," "free gift" & filling-in-the-blanks exercises & repeating the little prayer!
         65. FOR FOREIGNERS, IT WOULD SEEM THAT ENGLISH TEACHING & CLUB WORK WOULD BE THE TWO MAJOR JOB OPPORTUNITIES which they could fill in Japan, both of which should provide excellent opportunities to reach English speakers with our witness, as well as an added means of support.--And for the more enterprising there are even OTHER jobs that might be available, although requiring more specialised talent, such as for musicians, artists, editors etc. We understand that some of the Family & their children even did some MODELLING in the past in Japan at very good rates & short hours!
         66. NONE OF THESE ABOVE-MENTIONED JOBS, with the exception of a few English teaching jobs, would automatically provide VISAS, however, but if it's the Lord's Will, if the Lord has laid upon your heart to stay in Japan, we're sure the Lord will provide as you cultivate kings & supporters, & we're sure that He could provide even through some of these employment opportunities by giving you friends that you will meet through these jobs who may be willing to help you.
         67. THE OPPORTUNITIES SEEM ENDLESS in Japan or elsewhere for the man or woman of faith & vision, the one who refuses to give up, & who is determined to go GOD'S way & do it HIS way, making WITNESSING their PRIORITY job in whatever way the Lord leads! We believe you should certainly PRAY that if the Lord wants you to take on one of those System jobs, that He will open up the one for YOU that will be the most fruitful in WITNESSING as well as in support, & the one least demanding in hours, subject matter & other requirements.
         68. IN ANY JOB WHICH OUR FAMILY ENTERS, WE BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD DEFINITELY PRAY FOR FREEDOM IN WITNESSING, making it a MEANS to do our job for the Lord instead of just a DEAD-END for support only. Don't be misled into thinking that just because you can go to Japan, get a job, use it as a means to witness & make good support, that this will be enough.
         69. SO IT'S TOUGH GOING IN JAPAN, but for the brave pioneers & the people who really want to WIN the Japanese & feel CALLED to Japan, it will be a thrilling challenge! Living in Japan will continue to be a battle, but with putting WITNESSING FIRST & being willing to do whatever is necessary to reach the TOP, we know the Lord will bless & make a way for you to continue in what can be a very fruitful field!--Amen?--Are you game?--GBAKY WITNESSING!

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