“God is moving powerfully in Japan, the doors are open, and the time to step into God’s call has never been clearer for us. Now is the time, I believe, to take action and step into Japan.”

Senior Pastor of Victory Family Centre and strategic coordinator for Love Japan, Jeremy Seaward declared this at the LoveSingapore Summit held in January in Kuala Lumpur. “Blessing the nations” is one of three strategic priorities of LoveSingapore.

Love Japan is a unity and prayer movement of churches in Japan with a strong desire to see their nation won for Jesus. 

In 2019, after LoveSingapore met with leaders in six key cities in Japan, the vision for Love Japan was launched with a 120 pastors and leaders in Singapore: To serve and love Japan through partnerships, evangelism and church planting. 

LoveSingapore identified 20 top cities in Japan to reach, with a goal of planting 100 churches.

“Out of the 20 targeted cities, already 14 have been adopted, and we have 24 church plants, either underway or about to start in Japan,” Ps Jeremy told the gathering at the Summit.

“We’re a quarter of the way there, we got a ways to go, but I believe God’s with us. This is already a great step and great momentum. There are signs of momentum all over Japan right now, every region of Japan that we identified actually has cities adopted and church planting underway,” he added.

In 2024, a LoveJapan vision trip took place in May in Tokyo. 

LoveSingapore set a target for 20 cities in Japan to be reached and 100 churches planted. Fourteen of the cities have been reached and 24 churches started.

“I really believe this sparked a turning point,” said Ps Jeremy.

“We took 70 pastors from Singapore and we met with about 70 Japanese pastors, and had a powerful time of unity and prayer for the nation.

“After that, we spread out across the regions of Japan and the Singaporean pastors went to different regions to hear what God was saying, to see how God was moving there, and explore what they could do to be part of this vision, to reach Japan and see churches planted.”

There will be another trip to Japan this year, from May 19 to 23, which Ps Jeremy encourage the Summit attendees to join.

4 things that happen when you want to win Japan for Jesus

“What does it mean to go all in and bless a nation?” asked Ps Jeremy. “What does it mean to go all in and step into a place like Japan? It’s actually a principle in Scripture (that shows) how you begin to conquer and take territory in the Kingdom of God,” he explained.

He presented four things present in the challenge to take territory for God, drawing from Joshua 13.

1. There was an impossible task. Joshua was very old, but God told him that He would drive out the enemies and Joshua would have to go in and take possession of the Promised Land for the Israelites. It was an impossible task without God.

Likewise, the call to win Japan seemed impossible. “Even just a couple of years ago, it seemed like ‘How would we plant one church?'”, noted Ps Jeremy. “Today, we’ve got 24 church plants underway right now in Japan. It’s not impossible for God.”

For Joshua and the Israelites, no one had ever done what God called them to do before. It was difficult. There was no model, framework or example. They were called to go beyond what their own limits, noted the pastor.

“But these are the ingredients of this kind of challenge.”

2. There was a supernatural promise. Joshua 13:6 reads “I will drive out from before the children of Israel“.

“When He says I’ll drive them out before, it means God’s promise is for those that step in,” said Ps Jeremy. As each Israelite tribe steps in, God is a step ahead of them, driving out the enemies.

He continued: “There was a supernatural promise, and I’m here to tell you, God is fulfilling this promise right now. We have church planners in Sapporo, in Hokkaido in the north, and just this last November, they said  it’d be kind of hard, but they saw 46 people come for an outreach, and 22 of those 46 said they would join Alpha.

“Pastor Lawrence Kong did one of his magic show outreaches in Osaka this last year. In Singapore, he did 15 shows, attended by 1,000 people each, and there were about 385 decisions. But in Japan, in Osaka, they did five shows with an audience of 1,000 each time and they had 328 decisions in the five shows.

“If God doesn’t step in, we don’t see it. If we don’t send the workers, we don’t see it. If I don’t step in, I don’t get to access that promise.”

3. There was a commitment by faith. Joshua and the Israelites were together in the wilderness for 40 years, and now God was calling them to divide into 12 tribes.

“God’s promises come alive when we act in obedience,” said Ps Jeremy. “The question is, What will your step of obedience be today? Will it be to pray? Step into a vision trip, start to allocate resources, begin to send a missionary?

“There was a commitment from Joshua and the Israelites by faith to receive this promise and commit to the plan and say: ‘You know what, God, yes, this is for us. Yes, this is our time.”

4. There was a big step of obedience. “Beyond the desire to move, Joshua and the Israelites actually began to step forward,” said Ps Jeremy.

“I believe we all have a desire for Japan to be saved. We want the nations to be saved. We have the desire, I don’t doubt that.”

But he pointed out that that first step might not feel like anything.

“I think that’s what I felt as we went in (to Japan on the vision trip). What difference does it make going in? But it was spiritually significant, and God began to move.

“It might be a small step to say, ‘Man, I could get on a mission trip’ or ‘We’ll do a short term trip and just explore.” Or “We’ll just start praying about it. I’ll talk to my elders and leaders and see what is God saying.”

“It might seem so small, but it’s actually significant.

“What step will you take to see God’s Kingdom advance in Japan?” he challenged. “There are times to walk and there are times to run, and in Japan, it’s time to run!”

If you would like to join the LoveJapan vision trip 2025, click to complete the registration form here.

Click here to read the testimonies of Pastor Andre Tan and Pastor Samuel Phun shared during the LoveJapan session at the 2025 Summit.

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