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​Prayer Request

Updated in December

HOKKAIDO 
Region

  • For the remainder of this academic year, may each Christian student engage in activities with a missionary mindset. May they walk in sharing the gospel with unsaved students and bearing witness to Christ. May the various Christmas gatherings in December be used as opportunities for evangelism.

  • May the ‘Ish-Isha Retreat’ (on biblical male and female relations) held December 28th-30th equip participants with a biblical perspective on marriage. May the work of the retreat leaders Kanto Associate Lead Staff Nobuhiro Yamagata and Mrs. Yamagata be protected.

  • Pray for the Lord’s protection on the planning for the Hokkaido Region Spring Camp planned for March 10th-13th, that it may be a useful time of maturing in faith. Also may the Lord bless and protect the work of the speaker Pastor Kenta Osaka of Assemblies of God Yamatemachi church.

  • Pray for the preparations for next academic year. Pray for student leaders to be raised up in every place, and for smooth handing over of leadership responsibilities.

  • May the winter travels of Staff Workers Jun Sugimoto and Atsuki Inoue be protected, especially on the snowy roads, and that they may both be able to work energetically in body and soul.

  • Pray for full provision through the KGK Hokkaido Supporting Churches Group.

TOHOKU Region

  • Pray for the students who bear responsibility for KGK activities, and for the handover of leadership for the next academic year. May God raise up new leaders who will be responsible for all campus and regional activities.

  • May the Lord sustain the committees for regional activities, Spring Camp preparation, and for the monthly meetings in each prefecture. Pray that these will be partnerships based on God’s Word and prayer, and be a source of encouragement to participants.

  • Pray for the End-of-Year Camp scheduled for December 28th-30th. May the preparation and running of it be blessed and protected. As it will be during the cold season, Ask the Lord for protection on the weather and the participants health. Pray for the ongoing walk of those who attend.

  • Pray for the Tohoku KGK staff team. For Sosei Nagai (Responsible Staff Worker for Tohoku, Assistant Field Director, Member Care Director) and part-time Staff worker Kaho Nawaya, to be a good team in caring for students. Also, pray for blessing and protection on their daily lives.

HOKURIKU Region

  • May the second semester activities of each group be protected – that the leaders would be upheld, and people brought alongside to share in the work.

  • Pray that Jesus would be proclaimed at each of the prefectural KGK Christmas Meetings and at the Hokuriku Regional Christmas Meeting (on December 20th).

  • Pray for the Hokuriku KGK Spring Camp planned for March 10th-12th. May the service of the preparation committee (Kanazawa University group’s turn) be protected, and may it be a great opportunity to study God’s Word deeply with many attendees.

  • Pray for those affected by the Noto Earthquake and Flooding, for God’s support and comfort. Pray that He would use the relief activities taking place in various locations.

  • Pray for God’s protection on the KGK Graduate Fellowship Committee members, the service of those on the Supporting Churches Group, and the work of Staff Worker Tomoko Narumi.

KANTO Region

  • Pray that Kanto Region KGK will be increasingly used for the salvation and maturing of students, sharing in a vision of world mission, and mutual support in student evangelism. Ask that the Gospel may spread amongst the 1.17 million plus students studying in the 280 universities and many junior colleges in the 8 Prefectures and one Metropolitan Area (Kanto and Koshin) which make up KGK Kanto region. Pray for students and graduates to be enlivened by the Gospel wherever they are placed by the Lord.

  • Give thanks for the KGK Kanto Overnight Camp (for KGK student members) on 3rd-4th October and for the World Student Day Prayer Meeting on October 18th. We received fresh encouragement to be making the Love of God known in Japan and around the world. During October and November evangelism training also took place. Give thanks for this practical training about sharing one’s testimony and telling people the Gospel.

  • Pray that God’s Love will be shared through the Christmas Meetings held during December.

  • During this responsibility hand-over period, may those stepping down finish their responsibilities full of thanks, and those stepping up feel the encouragement of the Lord as they do so.

  • Pray for Kanto KGK Staff Team members to deeply know the salvation of Jesus, and to serve with joy.

TOKAI Region

  • Pray for the handover of student responsibilities for activities. May they handover the healthy spirit of KGK activities not just the work, so that KGK Tokai will continue to be built up together.

  • Pray for blessing and protection on each of the Christmas Meetings – may they be used for fruitful evangelism. For the non-Christians connected to KGK campus groups may they be opportunities to be saved, and opportunities for Christian students to marvel again at their salvation.

  • Pray for the students on the preparation committee for the Tokai KGK Spring Camp to be spiritually prepared for putting together the camp.

  • Give thanks for protection on the KGK Graduates camp, held for the first time in several years. May the Graduate KGK Tokai committee continue to be one which prayerfully works towards partnership and growth in maturity of graduates.

  • Pray for students to be challenged by the Lord, leading to KGK activities taking place on their campuses and structures being set up which facilitate their friends receiving the Gospel.

  • Please pray for work of the KGK Tokai Supporting Churches Group. In particular, as the 40th Anniversary Celebration meeting for KGK Tokai will be held next academic year, pray for protection on the preparations, and ask the Lord that it will be a gathering which looks back to the past with thanks to God, and looks forward with expectation.

  • Judith Ricken has returned from deputation, and so Tokai KGK once again has a staff team of 3. May they have wisdom to appropriately encourage students as they walk alongside them.

KANSAI Region

  • Pray that the new office provided in April will be increasingly used for student mission.

  • Pray that the Kansai KGK regional activities, the Local Area prayer meetings, and the campus activities would be protected, that the work of evangelism may advance. Pray for salvation of KGK-connected as-yet-unbelieving students. May each Christmas Meeting be used by the Lord for proclaiming the Gospel.

  • Pray for blessing and protection on preparations for both the Year-end Camp (December 26th-27th) and the Spring Camp (March 10th-13th).

  • Pray for each Regional Committee member, Local Area committee member, and each Campus group leader. Responding to God’s love, may they proactively serve God and people around them. Pray that the right leaders for next academic year will be brought into the different positions.

  • Pray for the Kansai Region KGK Staff Team. Ask God to sustain the health and godliness of each one, that as a team they may serve the students well. Pray for the Lord’s protection on Graduate Assistant Kiyonobu Sugihara who started in July.

  • Pray that along with the KGK Kansai Graduate Fellowship and the Supporting Churches Group, we would, with thanksgiving, share the needs for the work, that God may drive forward the work of KGK in the region.

CHUGOKU and 
SHIKOKU Region

  • Give thanks for the 10 new members of Chushikoku KGK who joined at the Autumn AGM, and for God also raising up students who want to begin KGK activities on their campuses.

  • Pray for students to respond to God’s Word, and for the Gospel to advance in very campus in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions. Pray for students to step up to leadership and to mature in faith. May the blessings of summer flow into the activities of the second semester.

  • Pray for the preparation of the remaining second semester activities such as the end-of-year ‘Ish-Isha Camp’ (on biblical male and female relations) and the Spring Camp (in March). May they be opportunities for students to focus on God’s grace, respond in fresh ways to His Word, and dedicate themselves wholeheartedly to Him.

  • Pray that the KGK Graduate Fellowship would continue to grow wider and deeper. Pray that fellowships might begin in prefectures and regions where there isn’t one such as Tokushima and Kochi.

  • Pray for the Staff Workers (Toshiaki Suzuki and Haruka Inoue) and the Graduate Assistant (Ritsu Iwai) in the Chugoku and Shikoku region to be upheld in health and godliness, continuing to serve both the Lord and students.  

KYUSHU Region

  • Pray earnestly that seekers attending KGK activities will be led to salvation and connected to local churches.

  • Pray for the Lord to raise up KGK members who will proactively build up the work of KGK Kyushu. May the handover of responsibility to new students next academic year be protected, and the values of KGK be well passed on.

  • Pray for the End-of-Year Camp on December 26th-27th. May the theme of ‘Relating to one another in the Lord’ have deep impact.

  • Pray for God’s blessing on the Graduate Fellowship Groups in each prefecture, and that the faith of each attending would be encouraged. Pray for groups to be formed in Saga, Nagasaki, and Kagoshima. Ask that God would uphold the Regional Graduate Fellowship Committee members and the leaders of each prefectural group.

  • Pray for protection and blessing on the preparation for the KGK Kyushu Spring Camp planned for March 11th-13th. May it be an opportunity for students to mature in faith.

  • Pray for blessing on the KGK Kyushu’s 50th anniversary meeting (Saturday 14th March) and the 50th anniversary commemorative magazine; as well as considering God’s grace in the last 50 years may KGK Kyushu be revived and sent out in fresh missionary spirit.

  • Pray for Staff Worker Yuya Kawano, Graduate Assistant Tasuke Kaneda and Volunteer Staff Worker Yui Kido to be a good team as together they serve the students and graduates. Pray for God to provide all that is needed for each of their families.  

OKINAWA Region

  • Pray for the Lord’s sustaining hand on KGK Okinawa region Staff Worker Hajime Shiroma’s work, family, health and church.

  • Pray that Staff Worker Hajime Shiroma would be building good relationships with students, graduates and churches, joining in prayer for God’s mission in Okinawa as he serves.

  • Pray that through the work of KGK, the students at different universities in Okinawa would discover the joy of living in the light of the Gospel, and may that joy spread its influence to the whole of Okinawa.

  • Pray that the second semester activities will be full of heartfelt passion for the Lord Jesus.

  • Pray that as a result of the ‘Considering Peace’ camp held on November 23rd-24th, peace in the Lord would deepen.

  • Ask the Lord that praying groups would be formed at each campus, so that the work of evangelism may advance.

  • Pray that through the work of the KGK Graduate Fellowship meetings, the faith of each participant would be encouraged, and the meetings would raise up mutual prayer and support for the ministry.

INTENRATIONAL
STUDENT MINISTRY

  • Currently there are around 300,000 overseas students studying in Japan. Pray for more and more overseas students nationally to be shown the love of Christ through KGK, and be accepted and welcomed in.

  • Pray for God’s work through ‘OCF’ (The Overseas Christians Fellowship) and ‘Crossing’ in Kanto, and ‘IBC’ (International Bible Café) in Kansai. Pray for God to raise up Japanese students and graduates from across Japan with a heart to serve overseas students.

  • Give thanks for the good start to the Chinese Language Bible study which began in April in Kanto. Pray for abundant blessing on it through the winter season.

  • Pray for inspiration and wisdom to come from the International Student Mission conference in Thailand in January, through mutual encouragement across borders.

  • Pray for a growing awareness of the need of International Student Mission, and continued partnership. May ‘ministry only for people who are good at English’ thinking give way to widespread understanding of doing international student evangelism through using simple Japanese language.

  • Pray for Staff Workers Yu Kobayashi, Chenny Thie and Yufu Kutaragi in Kanto, and for Staff Worker Kelly Nicholas in Kansai. Also pray for those who serve as volunteers. Pray that more and more people who share the same heart for international students would come alongside in this ministry.

NATIONAL OFFICE

  • Pray that KGK General Secretary Yoshizawa Shinya, and Assistant General Secretary Yoshiki Tsukamoto, will be enabled by the Lord to support the 44 Staff Workers and Graduate Assistants who are working around the country.

  • Pray that the work of Student Mission Field Director Ryoskei Ikebuchi and Assistant Field Director Sosei Nagai would effectively support the activities of each region of KGK, as well as the work of the National Student Consultative Committee. Pray for the preparation for the National Evangelical students Training event (NET). Pray also for the Lord to use the work of the Training and Member Care Department (Staff Workers Momoko Watanabe, Mayu Nakagawa and Miyuki Haitaka), and the World Mission Department (Head of Department Yu Kobayashi).

  • Pray for protection on the daily work of the mission office Staff Workers (Department Head Yuki Takagi, and Staff Workers Risa Karikomi, Izumi Kinoshita and Kotoha Sugiyama). Pray that they would faithfully administer the assets such as personnel, finances, real estate, literature and publications etc which the Lord has entrusted to the work of KGK.

  • Give thanks for the many graduates and churches who share the work of Student mission by prayer, financial giving, encouraging words and acts of service. Pray that all the finance needed to sustain the work would continue to be given. May the Lord be pleased to use the work of the KGK Graduates Mission Department (Department Director Yoshiki Tsukamoto, and Staff Worker Hikari Ogawa) and the work of the marketing and media section (Department Director Hisako Tsukamoto).

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