Global Voices: Stories from ELCA Missionaries

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We are excited to invite you to join us for a special opportunity to hear firsthand from ELCA missionaries, Andrew and Sarah Wilson. They will share the challenges and perplexities of communicating the gospel in the most populous (40 million!) but also the most alienated and disconnected city on earth. Why is the Bible a bestseller in Japan, but people don't come to church? Why do Japanese come to church for years on end, but never get baptized? Why is the church growing in every other country in Asia but not Japan? And yet, what signs of God's faithfulness and blessing do we nevertheless see in Tokyo?

We will welcome Sarah as a guest preacher at both worship services, and then you can join Andrew in the Langemo Conference Room for an education hour at 11:30.

Andrew L. Wilson is Associate Professor of Church History at Japan Lutheran College and Theological Seminary in Tokyo, a translator and scholar of the works of colonial Latin American bishop Bartolomé de Las Casas, and the author of Here I Walk: A Thousand Miles on Foot to Rome with Martin Luther.

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson is Associate Pastor at Tokyo Lutheran Church, co-host of the podcast "Queen of the Sciences: Conversations between a Theologian and Her Dad," and the author of many books, including Pearly Gates: Parables from the Final Threshold.