Japan 2001
By LCJE Coordinator Teiichiro Kuroda

It is hard to believe a year has already passed and it is time to give you our annual report from Japan. God was so good to us and we have had a very blessed year with different activities among believers in Japan. First we published our quarterly magazine with eight pages, reporting the current Israeli situation and challenging our believers to pray for the salvation of His nation and people. And we were also able to keep our monthly prayer meeting in Tokyo and Osaka, our Israel Love Friends joined the fellowship in our prayers. These were not big events, but they were very good for Japanese to learn more details about Jews and Israel. I think that a burden for the salvation of His nation has been growing in Japan and we are getting to know how important it us for us to pray for the peace of Israel.
	We also had two big meetings with guest speakers from abroad. From May 18 th to 20 th, 2001, Rev. Wesley Taber, the Director of American Messianic Fellowship International, came to three cities: Tokyo, Osaka and Yokkaichi.
	Rev. Isaac Ishiguro interpreted his messages and we all enjoyed the meetings very much. His main theme was “Jerusalem, our God’s Holy City.” Rev. Isac Ishiguro is a director of AMFI and office director of LCJE Japan. And we also invited Rev. Tom Lori from England. He and his wife Esme took 10 days of their time for us, though her father passed away just before they came to Japan. Tom reported wonderful outreach ministries among Jewish people in Europe and also gave us messages entitled “The place of Law from Isaiah 51“, “Thora and Haraha”, and “Middle East problems viewed from the Bible”, etc.
	We had a blessed time with these prayer meetings and events last year. We believe that God is opening spiritual eyes of Japanese believers more and more from Replacement Theology. We encourage our friends to read the Word of God from the Hebrew point of view. Lastly I want to say that we Japanese Christians who love Jesus and His people sincerely pray for the salvation of the Jewish people.
Teiichiro Kuroda