I’ve (Brian) spent the last fifteen years working as a pastor at Grace. Grace Church is an amazing place that God is using to have an impact regionally and globally, and our whole family is grateful to call it our home.
Over the past seven years I’ve helped develop a church-to-church partnership between Grace and a Japanese church just outside of Tokyo. I’ve also had the chance to work with a variety of Japanese leaders and meet all sorts of people in my time in Japan…it became like a second home for me.
During that time, I began to feel a prompting from God to step out of my role as a pastor in Erie and pursue a call to cross cultural missions work in Japan. This calling came from a growing conviction that I could no longer just encourage others about unreached people groups while at the same time staying put and refusing to make those sacrificial faith decisions myself. Simultaneously, God led Converge to approach me about taking up the position of Initiative Leader to Japan.
Though it sounds so clear and obvious, it was not a decision that was easy or that we took lightly. It’s been a journey for both Rachel and I to really discern what God was telling us to do. After much prayer and conversation with people that we trust, we made the decision in September 2018 to make this transition into cross cultural missions work.
The Japanese are the second-largest unreached people group in the world—less than 1 percent of them are Christian and most have never been to a church, read the Bible, or have even one Christian relationship.
As Initiative leader, my role is to raise up and coach a team of missionaries who will work with Japanese nationals. Our team ministers by:
Currently, the Japan Initiative has projects in Tokyo, Osaka, and Shirahama.
Through these and other efforts, we plan to see a multiplication of disciples in Japan and a new gospel movement begin. Please consider joining the Luskys in this effort through prayer, financial support, and serving in Japan with us.
Websites: http://www.japaninitiative.org/ https://converge.org/missionary/brian-lusky
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