Who is the most unlikely and unexpected people group to share the Gospel with Japanese people? Perhaps Chinese. Yet God is doing a surprising thing in Japan.

Since January 2018, I have been reaching out to Japanese people in Birmingham and, for those going back to Japan as new Christians, helping prepare them for that transition. I started the Japanese student ministry at the University of Birmingham last September. I met around 20 Japanese students at the curry night I organised for [...]

On Monday morning, 15 July, a team of British and international students fanned out across the city centre in Sheffield to distribute flyers to international students, inviting them to join our Welcome Week activities. We were hopeful, but no one anticipated the enthusiastic response we were to see that evening! By 7pm, 60 students had [...]

Publications on diaspora:

Charles R. Ringma, Karen Hollenbeck- Wuest & Athena O. Gorospe, eds., God at the Borders: Globalization, Migration and Diaspora (Manila, Philippines: OMF Literature, 2015).

Enoch Wan, ed., Diaspora Missiology: Theory, Methodology, and Practice, 2nd ed. (Portland: Institute of Diaspora Studies of USA, 2014).

J. D. Payne, Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission (Downers Grove: IVP, 2012).

Katherine Lorance, Borderless Prayer: An Advent Guide to Praying for the People on the Move (Aurora, Illinois: Reveal and Renew, 2016).

Luther Jeom O. Kim, Doing Diaspora Missiology Toward Diaspora Mission Church: The Rediscovery of Diaspora for the Renewal of Church and Mission in a Secular Era, (Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2016).