UNSURE JOURNEY TO A SURE CALL

2 years ago after hearing that 95% of Japanese will never meet a Christian in their lifetime, making their chances of hearing the gospel very slim, God placed a desire on mine and Bella’s hearts to move to Japan and plant a church. Over the course of the last year, after leaving our life in Uganda and in the face of many closed doors and challenges, while moving across the world, we numerous times wondered whether Japan was something we made up ourselves.

When Jesus called Paul and told Ananias that this man is his chosen instrument and that he will preach the gospel before kings, Paul didn’t know that the opportunities to share the gospel with kings would come through his imprisonment. The way God leads us makes the journey as important as the destination, strengthening our muscles of faith.

While far from being imprisoned or facing any of the trials that Paul did, we have many times doubted out of our own lack of faith. In the face of the hardest challenges, it was easiest to doubt. But then God would open the next door and has faithfully led us step by step. One moment that stands out to us is back in September 2021 when at the height of our uncertainty, Bella and I prayed asking God why it had to be so hard if He truly was calling us to Japan, he answered us both “So that when you are there and it is hard and you doubt, you may know that you are not the ones who got yourselves there.”