Tokyo - Japan

Dates: May 10-20, 2012

Open to: Young professionals

Target Amount: 10 people

Contact: Christina Stanton

Tokyo is one of the largest, most expensive, and most secular cities in the world. This is a first-time trip to Japan, and we are partnering with a Church Plant, Grace City Church Tokyo. From May 2010 it has begun meeting for weekly worship meetings in Ginza, a central shopping district in walking distance of Tokyo station, lowering the threshold for newcomers to attend.

Grace City Church Tokyo envisions to be a new community called to glorify God by loving and serving the city. It will focus on providing relevant answers from a gospel centered perspective to the many questions that young professionals struggle with on a daily basis. Issues like the meaning of work, stewardship of money or relationships. Together we will seek social justice and renewal of society. We believe that the Gospel will not only renew people’s lives, but that it will also affect culture and change the city. As Jesus became incarnate and lived amongst us in the ancient world where so much was wrong, we hope that he will now be palpably present among us in Tokyo.

From the pastor:

“There will be ways in which to serve the building up of this young church – from bringing special speakers to community groups, cold evangelism to connect with new contacts, to special outreach events (i.e. English/ business seminars). There will be definitely opportunities to be involved in relief work. This may be most fruitful if we can combine something with a volunteer team of Tokyo young professionals which we send out once a month. Most of the time would be spent in the financial (Marunouchi-Otemachi), political (Kasumigaseki), and entertainment/media (Yurakucho, Ginza, Shiodome) centers, which make up the focus area of Grace City Church Tokyo.”