Japan – A long obedience in the same direction

Servanthood, Love and Hospitality are 3 words I would use to describe Brett and Bong Cocreham and the work of Lifehouse Ministry in Chiba, Japan.

Though the history of the church of Jesus Christ goes back many, many years in Japan, in 1988 Brett Cocreham came to Japan with some friends with the dream of beginning Young Life in Japan.  In 1989, Brett attended the Asia Nexus Conference in the Philippines where he met his future wife… Yes, love at first sight, and three years later, in 1992, Brett and Bong were married.  Brett and Bong are two people who esteem the work of God’s Kingdom as paramount to any one organisation. Brett and Bong forged a strong partnership with Christian Surfers, Misaki Church and Young Life and the name of their work was to be called Lifehouse. The work goes on to this day now 21 years later. Many missionaries have come and gone from Japan but Brett and Bong remain in truly one of the more difficult places to share the Gospel of Jesus. Wonderful and Beautiful people and land and very, very difficult soil for the Gospel of Jesus. Brett and Bong keep on, keep on. Heroes of the Way.

(Above Left – Brett & Friends / Below Right – Cocreham Family)

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