Thank you so much for your prayers and support for Christ Bible Institute throughout 2025!

Preparing for the Next Steps

Thank you so much for your prayers and support for Christ Bible Institute throughout 2025, and particularly during the season of year-end giving!

By God’s grace, your prayerful and sacrificial investments in the four “Deeper & Further: Next Steps” projects have met and exceeded the matching grant we received. This means that the “strengthening families with the gospel” project is fully funded, and we have already made great strides toward full funding for the three remaining projects. Please keep praying for these endeavors as we pursue them for the glory of God, the strengthening of the Japanese church, and the joy of the Japanese people.

We will continue to work toward full funding for all the Deeper & Further projects in the coming months, so it’s not too late to give toward these projects:

Any funds raised beyond our goal will be used for other CBI efforts to take the gospel deeper and further throughout Japan.

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Building Renovation Update

We are excited to announce that Christ Bible Institute’s building renovation is complete! We have some furnishing work left to do, but all the major construction is finished and staff and students have moved back into their offices and classrooms, with much celebration.

The CBI building is central to all our ministry efforts, and the renovation has added many key features as well as updating the entire facility. We shot a walkthrough video to showcase some of those features—please take a look. Here are a few highlights:

Before

After

As we look back on a whirlwind year filled with many challenges but even more mercies and blessings, we want to thank you again for your prayers and support for CBI’s building renovation campaign and for partnering with us to take the gospel deeper and further throughout Japan. We have seen God work in amazing and mighty ways, and you played a special role in that story!

Ways to Pray

Deeper & Further projects: Please pray for the four “Next Steps” projects, that God will bless these efforts and that each project will be fully funded.
Christ Bible Seminary: Please pray for all the CBS students as they begin a new semester of classes. Please also pray for God to raise up the next cohort of students and lead them to apply this month.
Joy of Japan Center: Please pray for the planning and preparation for the church revitalization conference that we plan to host later this year.
CBI Counseling: Please pray for the current cohort of STEPS counseling participants, as well as for their mentors: that God will give mentors the words to say and will soften the participants’ hearts to experience the gospel at work amid their sin and suffering.
CBI Press: Please pray for God to lead us to the right children’s books to publish, and pray that this project will be a blessing to families throughout Japan.
CBI Media: Please pray for us as we plan a series of translators’ seminars, as well as for various new and ongoing translation projects.

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