CHRIST
IS ALL
Winter
(December 2025, January and February 2026)
Richard
Yerby,
PO Box
4, Matsuida-Machi,
Annaka-Shi,
Gunma-Ken
379-0200
JAPAN
“…Thy
testimonies are very sure…” December
2025
I
desired to migrate south in Japan at the beginning of December, but had to stay
in my home town of Matsuida
till late December to attend to necessary local business affairs. During that
time, I did much blessed outdoor preaching!
Back
on Sunday October 12th, Calvary Satellite Network started
broadcasting one of my 28-minute sermons weekly from 6:30 to 7 AM Eastern
Time on Sundays, to run 26 weeks thru 5 April 2026, Lord willing. In
Advance, we paid in full for the 26-week agreement. My sermons were to be aired
simultaneously on 407 radio stations thru out U.S. of A. and New
Zealand. But after the 10th sermon was aired on 14 December, CSN
abruptly ceased broadcasting my sermons, indicating that both CSN and their
radio listeners were dissatisfied with both the content and
with my delivery style. So be it! (They did refund the
remainder of our pre-payment.)
In most
every sermon, I invite people to visit my website, and
give the URL of this my site. Anyone worldwide can
open this website: scroll down to the link titled “Radio Sermons Audio”, click
to open that link to a list of all my radio audio sermons, &
select any of them to listen to. Numbers “2023-8 Whiter Than Snow”
and “2024-1 The Man That Died For Me”, are especially
MOVING, TOUCHING salvation testimonies of dying people (2023-8, a woman and
2024-1, a man) who had sunken to the lowest depths of a sinful life, and who
trusted in Christ shortly before each of them died from their sins. I highly
recommend you listening to those 2 sermons.
Would you please do so. Would you please tell everyone you can about those 2
sermons. Anyone who has a heart of compassion,
will be touched by them. Please assemble teenagers and
have them listen to those moving testimonies.
Would you
please consider asking radio stations in the area you live, to broadcast those 2 sermons. If God
leads you to “donate” that, I would greatly appreciate it. Thus,
souls in your area who knoweth me not, can hear my
website URL announced on each broadcast, and get to know me, as God
leads them. Thus far, most of the airing of my sermons, has been on Christian
radio stations. But many secular stations will air Christian
programs (especially “small” secular AM stations), just simply
pay them their standard fee for 30 minutes of broadcast time. I am
highly desirous for my sermons to be aired on secular
radio stations, because not many Hell-bound sinners listen to Christian radio
stations. The numerous Calvary Satellite Network Stations that could stomach
only 10 of my sermons, are FM Christian radio stations. I desire to also preach on
small, local, secular AM stations. Many local souls who
are lost, without hope in this world, listen to such stations that are close to
where they live. I’m interceding earnestly to God to save every lost
soul who hears a sermon of mine on the radio. You too, please intercede, and
please help me, as the Lord leads you to do!
Tentatively, I do not plan
to ever again board an airplane and fly out of Japan. In the very short
time remaining before the last TRUMP sounds
for the rapture (or till my ancient heart stops beating), I plan to batten down
the hatches here in The Land Of The
Rising Sun, daily lifting Christ as highly as possible in front of these
Buddhist Japanese. Thus, please consider being a
Missionary Helper to me where you are, in the ways I mention above. Also, if
you have Christian acquaintances who knoweth me not,
but have a heart and compassion for idol worshippers in far away, dark,
heathen lands, would you please tell them about me, giving them the URL
to this website. I greatly appreciate any cup of cold water that
you give me in Jesus’ Name. May God richly bless you for helping and
encouraging me in many ways thru out the year 2025. Glory!
Christ’s servant, firmly
rooted in Japan and ever most bless-ed to be
here, Richard Yerby
“…Thy testimonies are very sure…” January 2026
A few years ago, Japanese licensed drivers
in their 80s and 90s were increasingly causing traffic accidents. So, the
licensing department starting requiring those over 72
years old to take a written test and a driving test every 3 years. If they
pass, they will be issued a new 3-year license, as opposed to the 4-year period
license issued to the younger sprouts. Back in November, they scheduled me for
my written test. I passed. Then they scheduled me for my driving test on
Christmas Eve. I passed. When they issued me my new license early on Christmas
Day, I rejoiced to get that Christmas present, and hurried home to close up,
to travel far away by train (my
bags were already packed).
I rode fast Bullet Trains quite far
southwest to Mino Mission’s Oogaki Bible Church in
Gifu Prefecture to preach at their 7 PM church service on Christmas night. The following Sunday, I preached in the 10:30 AM and again in the
1:30 PM service in that church, and in Mino Mission’s Tomidahama Bible Church at 7 PM that night. The following Wednesday and Thursday, Mino Mission had special
NEW YEARS services in these 2 churches. So, I did not preach. The first Sunday
morning of this new year, I preached twice in Japanese and once in English in
Missionary Pastor Jeff Brigham’s church in Anjo City in Aichi Prefecture, not so far from Mino Mission.
Several times, over a few years, I have asked
you to pray for Jeff to be able to rent a larger store space to hold church services, as they were severely cramped in a 2nd story tiny
store space. Praise God, a few months ago in 2025, they relocated into a 1st
floor store space with about twice the floor space. They are SO Blessed to have breathing room.
That Sunday night at the Tomidahama Bible Church’s 7 PM service, I preached. I
stayed at Mino Mission till the following Wednesday, January 7,
when I rode the fast trains south, migrating to the warmer southern tip of
Japan, where God has provided me a building in Ibusuki City, Kagoshima
Prefecture. I’m doing much outdoor evangelism, rejoicing to be free of
ice and snow and biting cold. Please pray for the Holy Ghost to convict
hearers!
Are your eyes open to the increasing wars
and domestic violence worldwide??? Pray for the Lord to DELIVER YOU FROM EVIL,
and FOR THE WICKEDNESS OF THE WICKED TO COME TO AN END. Let’s pray with a
passion, “EVEN SO, COME QUICKLY, LORD JESUS. AMEN!
Since arriving at my building
in the southern tip of Japan on January 7, by the Grace of God, I have daily
done outdoor evangelism. Opposition to God and His Words to created mankind, is
ever so strong in this region of Japan. Around January 9, as I was walking
about residential areas, leaving the printed TRUTH at each door, as I was
walking away from one house, a Japanese man approaching on bicycle, called out
to me. I stopped as he rode up to me to say; “No one lives in this house. It is
vacant.”Actually, he
lived there, and was
returning home. His washing (laundry) hung on the clothes line in the narrow front yard. Likely he well knew that
I preach Christ here, and did not want the postcard
size prayer that I had left at his door. Neighbors close by were outside their
houses, nosily looking and listening. It would lower me unnecessarily
in their sight for me to try to verbally reason with the man outside on
his property. He would highly oppose anything I said. It would appear
to the neighbors that I entered his property uninvited, to argue with
him.
So, I took my prayer postcard
that he obviously did not want, Then I walked back onto the narrow, public lane
in front of his house. And now standing in public, only
8 to 10 steps distant from him. I raised my voice ever so high, not
addressing him, but rather singing to his Creator God. He heard it all, as also
did a few close, nosy neighbors. Then I walked on, toward the eternal
bliss of Heaven, holding forth the word of life to other eternal souls,
as the 4 or so of us who were present there when he lied to me, head to our SOON-COMING
rendezvous at the Judgment Seat of our Almighty Creator God. (Likely I will be
present when God judges that liar at the Great White Throne Judgment.
Please pray for the salvation
of 2 junior high school girls named Aiko and Ryua,
who regularly ride trains to and from Nigatsuden Station that is right in front
of my house. Just a few days after I arrived at my Nigatsuden house, as I was
singing hymns out front, they came over to me after getting off the train
there. They said that they had gotten my prayer balloons when they were in
grammar school, when I then passed out the balloons to grammar school kids.
They chatted away, about admiring me, for what I was
doing. But when I said anything the least bit spiritual, they both would quickly
brush it off. Please pray with me, for the Holy Spirit to bring them to firmly
trust in Christ. Many junior high and senior high school students,
ride trains to and from Nigatsuden Station. For 6 or more years now, they have
heard me singing praise to God, ever since they were in grammar school. And
they read the prayers that I displayed along the front of my property, right
beside the train station entrance/exit.
Steadily, a few of these kids
become restraintly friendly toward me. Thus,
I know that the Holy Spirit is working in their hearts. Peer pressure
is ever so stong on them, for them to always give me
a cold sholder. Please pray with me, for them.
God bless you for doing so!!
On
Saturday, January the 17th, I rode the trains from Ibusuki City in Kagoshima
Prefecture on the western side of southern Kyushu over to Miyazaki City in
Miyazaki Prefecture on the eastern side of southern Kyushu to daily do outdoor
evangelism in the mild climate of southern Japan. Daily, I preached outdoors
and distributed a Christian tract from house to house, with my contact
information on the tract. No one who got the tract contacted me. A scant few
people talked with me as I preached in public. Doing much walking, I came upon
2 different Mennonite churches, each in a different locale, afterward attending
services in each church. I was blessed with their fellowship. Each church asked
me to give my testimony to the few souls present.
Two
different pro baseball teams have their spring training stadiums in that area,
and spring training was getting underway in the winter while I was there. I
lodged in a hotel where the Tokyo Giants pro baseball team members were
lodging. I found myself rubbing elbows with them in the hotel cafeteria one
morning as I ate the hotel breakfast. No big deal, as I expect that none of
them are born again Christians, simply lost souls on their way to Hell. I
stayed in that area for 3 weeks, returning to Ibusuki City on 7 February.
I
stayed in the building in Ibusuki that God enabled me to buy several years ago,
till the last day of February, daily doing evangelism. A few children and
teenagers gave ear to me, listening to me, and talking with me. It was evident
that the Holy Spirit is working in their hearts. Peer pressure, parent and school teacher pressure is so great on them, to ignore me.
Please pray with me, for God to set them free from all that binds them. Also,
that area of southern Japan was experiencing somewhat of a drought while I was
there. One important river & lake had just about completely dried up. I
think that was the first time that was ever known to happen. Perilous times are
steadily becoming more & more perilous. Food crops in Japan are likely to
suffer again this year, from lack of rain. “Even so,
come, Lord Jesus”.
I held
forth the word of life there in the mild climate of southern Japan till the
last day of February, when I rode the trains back northeast to Mino Mission. In
late March or early April, I desire to rent an additional
storefront in Karuizawa Town where I minister during the upcoming warm half of
the year, near my main Gunma Prefecture residence in Japan. The Nagahata family living in Karuizawa are good Christian
friends of mine, and they want to help me man an additional outreach
in that crowded summer tourist resort town. Please pray for God to provide in
accordance to His Will.
God richly bless you for caring for,
praying for, & supporting me in Japan.
Christ’s messenger in Buddhist Japan,
Richard Yerby