TOKYO — 3.11.11
Five years after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated vast areas of northeastern Japan, 2,561 people remain missing in the three hardest-hit prefectures.
Five years after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated vast areas of northeastern Japan, 2,561 people remain missing in the three hardest-hit prefectures.
Japan is a land of spiritual darkness. We often forget that a modern, technologically advanced, well-educated society can be steeped in spiritual darkness, living day after day without hope. Yet this is the case for the vast majority of Japanese, actually 99.57%! Whether worshiping in the cultural tradition of Shintoism where nature, numerous gods and ancestors are worshiped or adhering to the empty philosophies of Buddhism, the Japanese are not finding answers of hope. Turning to materialism and humanism hasn’t provided answers either.
Jim Nielsen and his daughter Amie Nielsen appear in this video.
Jim and his wife Eileen have served with TEAM in Japan
for 25 years and we would like to introduce you to their work.
for 25 years and we would like to introduce you to their work.
Mid-City Christian supports this work in Japan
Jim Nielsen grew up in Japan, the son of TEAM missionaries. He graduated
from Bethel College with a degree in Fine Art. The Lord led him back to
Japan in 1981 as a short-term missionary where he met his future wife,
Eileen. The Nielsens have been in Japan since 1990 and finished a church
plant in Nagoya area. Jim finished his Master’s Degree in counseling in
2007. After the tsunami hit Japan in 2011, the Nielsens began doing
relief work and ran a volunteer base camp in Iwate for two and a half
years. Jim has served
for more than 10 years on TEAM Japan’s Ministry Area Leadership Team as
well as working with the Japan Evangelical Church Association.
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