Primary Ministry Focus:  Church planting and music ministry
The People:  Christian musicians, artists, and others related to the music industry. Also, unbelievers and seekers during evangelistic concerts and Black Gospel music workshops.
Major Challenges:  Japan is a land where Christianity is strongly perceived as a foreign religion. Gaining fluency in Japanese also poses an immense task.  And start-up funding is needed for music-related ministries.
Prayer Focus:  That God would open the hearts and minds of Japanese to the gospel through indigenous, Christ-centered, culturally relevant Japanese music.

1) Church Planting and Evangelism

With less than one percent of evangelical Christians in Japan, Ken and Bola will be involved in church planting activities and evangelistic strategies. After language and cultural studies, their first church plant will be in a suburb city of Tokyo. One target is the rapidly growing city of Toda with about a population of 90,000 and only two churches.

2) Evangelistic Opportunities with Filipinos in Japan

The number one export of the Philippines has become its labor force. As a result, there is a growing number of Filipinos in Japan as contract workers. Their jobs range from being housemaids in hotels, entertainers, and unfortunately, Filipinas enslaved into prostitution. As Filipinos themselves, Ken and Bola envision ministering to their own people in a foreign land. This should be a natural bi-product of their ministry.

3) Develop Japanese Christian Music

The most impressionable goal God has given Ken and Bola deals with the creative arts. There is very little indigenous Christian music in Japan today. What is being sung in churches is borrowed Western hymns and American praise songs. There is nothing wrong with that except that it is foreign.

Ken and Bola will be involved in developing programs that will encourage and inspire Japanese Christians to compose and perform their own Christian music. This is in the hope that the Japanese could reach their own people through their own musical forms.

Another area which deals with the creative arts is ethnomusicology. Ken and Bola would like to search for culturally relevant performing arts and insert the Gospel message into it. For example, presenting Biblical characters and concepts in the Kabuki style theater; or even including Biblical principles in the tea ceremony; or maybe coming up with an alternative-Karaoke bar where Japanese Christian businessmen can take their non-believing clients