Koza Baptist Mission Trips

Koza Baptist Mission Trips - Winter 2024 and January 2025

By Chris Eyre, pastor

The mission statement of Koza Baptist Church (Okinawa) is “To become followers of Christ on mission with God.” This is based on the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19) and the charge from Jesus (Acts 1:8). From September through January, members of Koza engaged members of the local and global community through many missions opportunities.

This included a Jesus Film Outreach in the Local Okinawan Language at a secluded northern township. Many members and friends of Koza helped with translating, recording, and distributing the film. Koza members also hosted multiple prayer walks through the community preceding a showing of the film accompanied by a BBQ in September, 2024.

Koza Baptist also did multiple trips and engagements with a new partnership in the Yaeyama Island Chain. This new partnership is with a local Baptist Church and is serving to engage an Unengaged/Unreached People Group, the Yaeyamas. This trip took place from September to December of 2024.

Finally, the church continued partnerships with two separate ministries in India (Rebecca Home for Children in Sulliguri and King of Kings Church Planting Network in Maharashtra) by hosting mission trips to these areas to pour into those ministry partnerships. These trips took place in January of this year.

Koza Baptist looks forward to more trips in its future in order to continue working towards its mission statement.