Today in the PC-USA Mission Yearbook

The Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is a daily devotional with 365 inspiring mission stories that come from next door and all across the globe. It inspires thousands of Presbyterians daily as they uphold the mission of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in intercessory prayer. How often have you wondered, where are the young adults in the PC(USA)? Wonder no longer. The 2014 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study is devoted to the theme of young adults in the church. Its stories, many told by young adults, lift up how Presbyterians of all ages are engaging and joining with Presbyterian young adults in reforming the church for Christ’s mission.

Today in the Mission Yearbook: August 18, 2014

JAPAN (continued) - As a test of advanced Presbyterian knowledge, the following question might be submitted: What Presbyterian-established university took for its campus a former prisoner-of-war camp and used its barracks as classrooms? If you answered Shikoku Gakuin University in Zentsuji, Japan, you would be correct. In 1949, soon after the end of the Second World War, the Japan Mission of the former Presbyterian Church in the U.S., together with Japanese Christians, founded this liberal-arts institution on the island of Shikoku. Where Allied POWs had languished under severe conditions, this center of Christian witness and learning—and symbol of hope and peace for war-ravaged Japan—was established ...

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