Christian Missionaries to Osaka, Japan. Missions development, training and church building.

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Why language learning is missions OR: Why I stopped waiting for the gift of tongues and just started studying the language

Post author By Erich Boileau
Post date April 30, 2016

For those Americans who have had the experience of studying Japanese (or any foreign language), they can understand that is no easy task. Some would go so far to say that among the world’s most commonly spoken languages, there are no two tongues so different in grammar, form and use than English and Japanese. With […]

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Japanese Christianese: 200 Spiritual Vocabulary Words

Post author By Erich Boileau
Post date March 28, 2015

While school stretches year round for me here in Japan, I’m thankful that the YMCA rewards our dedicated study with lengthy breaks between terms–breaks that enable to us to catch up on work, hobbies and do a little traveling. We have a some great photos from our trips we’ll put up in another post, but for […]

Tags Christianese, Japan Missions, Japanese, Japanese Christians, language, mission, spiritual vocabulary