Christians are losing the battle for the hearts of the Japanese people -- as Christianity has decreased 50 percent in Japan in the last 20 years. There are fewer Christians in Japan than in North Korea and about the same number as in Iraq (less than 1.5 percent). Japanese churches are dying because the younger generation is not coming to Christ. Ironically, this is in a country where their Constitution guarantees freedom of religion and believers can share openly.

Most Japanese see Christianity as a foreign religion irrelevant to them and are skeptical of established religion, following Shintoism and Buddhism and focusing on ancestor worship, materialism, and group conformity. Spiritual oppression engulfs Japan and suicide is on the rise.

Because we believe God wants to bring new life through Jesus to the Japanese people, Grace Point is partnering long term with the Hikari Project, Will and Elizabeth Peevy’s ministry in Osaka.

Beneath the beauty of Guatemala’s land and people, malnutrition, which has been called the silent killer, robs children of the opportunity to experience the healthy, full lives God intended for them.

In the Western Highlands of Guatemala, 67% of children under the age of 5 are chronically malnourished.  Malnutrition stunts cognitive and physiological growth in the first 1000 days of life, and the stunting is irreversible.

We are grateful to be partnering with M4 Institute who has been working with the Maya in the Western Highlands of Guatemala since 2011.  Their access to impoverished remote highland communities is provided through a partnership with the Guatemalan Ministry of Agriculture (MAGA) and local municipalities.

Their partnerships provides opportunities to serve in: 

• Food production
o Constructing micro greenhouses which grow over 6000
vegetables (teams can build four greenhouses in one week)
o Rabbit husbandry
• Nutrition training and cooking demonstrations
• Hygiene and sanitation instruction
• Small business development and best practices
• Medical clinics
o Physicians, PAs, NPs, Nurses, Physical Therapists,Occupational
Therapists. Audiologists, Dentists, medical students, etc.
• Church training

Refugees fleeing war-torn countries like Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq, finally reach Greece, their first stop in the European Union. Tired and desperate, these emigrants are flooding into that country. Greek evangelicals, who only make up less than two percent of the population, are overwhelmed with helping the influx of refugees. Grace Point is partnering with the Greek Evangelical Fellowship of churches to provide encouragement and help for those churches that are caring for so many. We are also working directly with refugees to show and share Jesus.

One of our major focal points is Community House Damaris, a Christian organization that operates a safe house based in Athens, Greece, and offers a long-term recovery program (3-7 years) for women ages 18 to 35 and their children, who have been, or are, at high risk of sexual exploitation or trafficking. Most of the women are from North Africa and the Middle East. Grace Point continually sends teams and material support to the ministry. Our prayer is that these resources will help bring faith, hope and love to these women and children.

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