Seven Rivers supports the following missionaries in Japan:

The work in Japan includes: evangelism; teaching English as a second language; discipleship; direct church planting; university ministry; training pastoral interns for future ministry; serving on the PCJ's foreign missions committee; helping start and providing ongoing leadership for a nationwide bilingual gospel-driven church-planting institute; operating a 1st-12th grade school for missionary kids; and as of 2006, working together with our Japanese brothers and sisters in starting a school for Japanese covenant children as well.

Japan is a rugged, mountainous island nation about the size of California with a population about half that of the United States and a density of 825 people per square mile, one of the highest in the world. Japan is known to be one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and most Japanese enjoy a standard of living much the same as people in North America. In a spiritual sense, Japan is a very needy nation. Of the country's 125 million people, less than one percent is Christian. Of these approximately one million Christians, 60% belong to a Protestant denomination while 40% are Roman Catholic. Freedom of religion is allowed in the Japanese constitution, and the entire nation can be reached by one language, but a combination of traditional and modern cultural factors presents a tremendous barrier to the gospel. Most Japanese follow ancient sects of Buddhism and Shintoism, or more recently, materialism.

Team vision: “A grace-based church planting movement in the east Tokyo area and throughout Japan”

The First Year Class at Community Christian School International

Chiba, Japan