Hiroshima, Japan

In the summer of 2005, while driving an 18-wheeler across Montana, the Lord told Carol Franzen, "You are going to pastor a church in Japan." She immediately said, "No! You have made a mistake!" But her spirit started jumping for joy and she instantly knew, and welcomed, what God had planned for her life. She became a student at Rhema Bible Training College in the fall of 2014 and in 2017 graduated from the Rhema School of Pastoral Ministries. During that time she asked the Lord where she was going to go in Japan. The answer was Hiroshima. After navigating through the bureaucratic process of obtaining a religious activities visa, and with the divine connection to a former Japanese Rhema student, she moved to Japan in January 2020. She spent the next 22 months working with Amazing Grace Bible Church in Fujisawa. But the Lord had started tugging at her heart and in November 2021, she moved to Hiroshima. As God continues to unfold His plan for this beautiful country and its people, Carol is making plans to have a "meet and greet" for all the local pastors. "Uniting the Christian community, standing and praying in one accord, working together, is how Japan's "Great Awakening" is going to start. God's heart is with the Japanese people. It's time for His plan to come to fruition. And I am humbled that He chose me to be a huge part in all of this." Within the next year she plans to establish a church in the Asaminami district of Hiroshima. The vision the Lord has placed in her heart is awesome and exciting! She says, "If I didn't have faith in God to lead me and guide me every step of the way, I'd be scared! But God...! She is studying Japanese while believing God to equip her with supernatural fluency to speak, understand, read, and write. The best is yet to come!

Contact info: newlifehiroshima@gmail.com

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JAPAN

Jefter and Gabriella are the pastors of Word of Life Church in Tokyo. Growing up in Brazil, since his early teenager years, Jefter understood his calling to go to the nations. Japan was the country in his heart. He graduated from Rhema Brazil in 2010 and, since 2013, has been living in Japan as a missionary. He has helped with the implementation of Rhema Japan, in the Yamanashi prefecture. In 2016, he helped plant Word of Life churches in the Japanese cities of Okazaki and Showa. Gabriella graduated in Rhema Brazil in 2014. In 2017, she went to Broken Arrow, OK to study at the Rhema Bible Training College USA. That experience changed her life and represented the beginning of her missionary journey.

In 2019, they moved to Tokyo to start the Word of Life Church in the capital of Japan, following the calling to teach the Word of Faith to the Japanese people and Asians living in Tokyo. The church services are in Japanese and English. They have weekly evangelistic services called “Blue Sky Services”, which are held in open air and at a local park, in order to attract people passing by. They also monthly promote English Conversation Classes that are free and open for the community, using the English language as a powerful strategy for evangelism.

Both Jefter and Gabriella are teachers at Rhema Japan and Word of Life Bible School.

THAILAND

Life Impact International

Growing up in California, Lana found herself addicted to alcohol and eventually developing epilepsy from drug addiction. At 19, she heard the Gospel and everything changed. Lana was delivered from drugs and alcohol and healed of epilepsy. At that moment, it became her commitment to reach and rescue others, which has led her to some of the most desperate places in the world. For over 17 years, Lana and the Life Impact team have been relentlessly working to make a difference in the lives of exploited and at-risk children in Thailand, Myanmar, and the war-zones in between. 

The strategy is simple: Prevent, Rescue, and Heal. Prevent the atrocities of exploitation in all its forms, from trafficking, abuse and abandonment, to slavery and prostitution, rescue as many children as possible, and ultimately bring healing to their hearts, bodies, and minds. Life Impact has grown from the desire to reach and rescue others with the power and love of Jesus Christ, to an international organization effectively fighting exploitation across Southeast Asia and Brazil. Life Impact’s heart is that this impact would only continue to spread throughout the world!

Today, Lana and her team reside on the Thailand/Myanmar (Burma) border with over 150 children and with locations including our ‘Promise Land’, and ‘Boys’ Promise Land’, combining 40 acres and 17 family-style safe homes for long-term aftercare. Thousands of at-risk children, exploited families, and vulnerable poor have had their lives impacted and ultimately, forever changed through Life Impact International, Life Impact UK, and the Life Impact Thailand Foundation. And many more will follow, with the legalization of Life Impact Myanmar the official launch of Life Impact Brazil!

Recently, Life Impact International built the first-ever Rescue Headquarters on the Thai/Myanmar (Burma) Border and has played an active role in the Child Protection Team for the government of Thailand. The Government of Thailand has even claimed their Prevent, Rescue, and Heal model for all ASEAN countries in Southeast Asia, dubbing it the official model for Child Protection in Southeast Asia!

Life Impact International has grown from the desire in one girl’s heart to reach and rescue others with the power and love of Jesus Christ, to an international organization effectively fighting child exploitation throughout Southeast Asia and Brazil. Lana’s heart, along with the Life Impact team, is that this impact would only continue to spread throughout the world!

Website: www.lifeimpactintl.org

8/2020

SINGAPORE

Prior to entering the full-time ministry, Rev. Amos Wong was a very successful index trader. At the age of 30, when Rev. Amos was at the peak of his career, God supernaturally called him to attend Rhema Bible Training Center, USA. After graduating from RBTC USA in 1999, Amos and Doris devoted themselves to full-time ministry.

Over the past two decades, Rev. Amos and Doris have traveled and ministered in many countries of the world, including the U.S., Canada, Russia, India, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, Myanmar and China.

Rev. Amos and Doris have also pioneered two churches in Singapore and recently have assumed a Chinese-speaking church near Vancouver, BC, Canada. Rev. Amos also serves as the Director of RHEMA China and Hong Kong, directing the operations and expansion of Bible schools and churches within China.

Rev. Amos and his wife have been happily married for over 20 years and have two adult children.

Email: amosamos67@gmail.com

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5/2018