‘God is using gospel music to draw Japanese people to himself’

The border-crossing power of gospel music has long been championed. Church planter Ken Taylor was amazed to find that the movie Sister Act has opened a door for the good news in Japan, an almost entirely non-Christian nation 

I was a professional entertainer before I met the Lord in my mid-20s. I was born in the Philippines, but I came to the US and, while there, God called me to become a missionary. 

I moved to Japan in 1997 to do church planting work. Two years after I arrived, my daughter’s babysitter invited me to watch her sing at a concert. I showed up and 200 Japanese people were singing gospel music – almost everyone was not Christian.