Since early childhood, Lauren has had many seeds planted and watered, like learning Japanese in middle school, studying world history through the eyes of missionaries in high school, and experiencing mental health struggles, which have guided her to the calling of full-time ministry in Japan. In 2022, she went on a summer internship to Tokyo which gave her clarity and affirmation of this calling. She assisted existing ministries through administrative work, discipleship conversations, and teaching English.
The Japanese are the 2nd largest unreached people group. Even though Buddhism and Shintoism are the primary religions of the country, most people are skeptical of religion with most Japanese now identifying as Atheist or non-religious. Japan is also ranked in terms of having the most mental health-related issues in the population, including high rates of suicide.
With her own experience in spiritual darkness and mental health struggles, Lauren desires to see the joy of the Lord brought to the Japanese. She is passionate about discipling and bringing up the next generation of Christians and seeing the church grow across the country. She plans to assist the existing church with outreach and discipleship through her skills in hospitality and holistic growth.
Lauren would greatly appreciate your prayer and support in partnering with this ministry to the ripe but somewhat dark field of Japan, where an epidemic of loneliness and depression can only be healed through the life-giving water of salvation in Jesus Christ.
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.”
– 1 Corinthians 3:6-9
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