All Nations, Vancouver
Global Mission Projects: Church of All Nations, Vancouver, BC
– Rev. Shihoko Warren
Church of All Nations under AMMiC has taken seriously our call to be part of the Great Commission:
"Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation." Mark 16:15
Our community consists of people with Japanese backgrounds and people with other ethnic backgrounds, who have a burden for Japanese mission. More than 99% of Japan’s 126 million don’t know the Gospel. As you see, Japanese Mission is greatly needed to complete the full Body of Christ.
Global Mission in Japan
Church of All Nations has been committed to Japanese mission, creating networks with local churches in Japan, organizing annual mission trips to Japan (pre-COVID), supporting pastors, missionaries, and Christian artists in Japan.
We have a particular burden for missions in Fukushima, where the catastrophe of the Nuclear Disaster occurred in March 2011. Over the past decade, Church of All Nations has supported people, churches and pastors in Fukushima. We have visited there annually to share the Gospel, as well as continuing to provide financial support to local churches. As the 10th commemoration of Fukushima is this year of 2021, we have organized online prayer meetings with pastors in Fukushima and continue to support them, even though we cannot visit in-person (the file attached).
Global Mission in Canada
Canada is actually a significant mission field for all nations! Many Japanese people come to know Christ and become Christians when they are living abroad / outside of Japan, as they are free from the pressure of Japanese society, religious customs and cultural practices. Our community here in Vancouver, Canada has a great opportunity to reach out to the Japanese people with the Gospel.
Church of All Nations has also focused on “proclaiming the gospel to the whole creation”. In response to the great destruction of God’s beautiful creation in Fukushima, our community has been leading a Creation Care ministry, called ‘New Eden’ over the past 8 years. This gardening / farming ministry has reached out to first immigrants and refugees from nearly 30 different ethnic backgrounds.
People from Japan have also visited New Eden to learn from it as a unique evangelistic model. Pastors, Christian workers and artists from Japan also visited New Eden as a place of spiritual rest and retreat.
Church of All Nations has also valued Christian arts as one of ways to reach out to the world with the Gospel. We have organized art exhibitions, art outreach events and so on. We also value sharing meals with others as one of the essential outreach mission opportunities. We intentionally grow produce to share with the lost, homeless, the sick, hospices, senior homes and people with special needs. Our people joyfully cook meals with our produce and use this to reach out to the people.
Church of All Nations continues to participate in Christ’s mission to the world through our unique ministries! We are also open to joyfully share our resources for the Japanese mission as well as our New Eden Creation Care model.