John & Lydia Young

John and Lydia Young are joining MTW’s Tokyo City team, continuing their family’s multi-generational calling to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Japanese people. They will be accompanied by their four children: Eden, Celia, Jesse, and Silas. John is the fourth generation, and Lydia is the third, to serve as missionaries. They are leaving their professional careers—John as an arborist and business owner, and Lydia as a large animal veterinarian—to follow God’s call into full-time ministry to proclaim God’s “grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses …. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Cor. 9-10).

Driven by a God-given passion for community building, evangelism, and a deep, lifelong love for the Japanese people, the Youngs will immerse themselves in various aspects of Japanese culture and seek to build lasting relationships. The need is great, as “the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few” (Matt. 9:37). They will serve with Setagaya Grace Church, prayerfully seeking God’s mercy to revitalize and expand the church in Japan. Please pray for God’s mighty hand of redemption for the Japanese people, one of the world’s most unreached people groups.