横浜
Yokohama

City Facts:

Population: 3,741,317
Metro Area: Tokyo, 37 million

Yokohama, Japan’s second-largest city, lies on west Tokyo Bay just 15 miles south of the center of Tokyo. The nearly four million people in Yokohama, nearly 500,000 of whom commute to Tokyo each day, constitute a population roughly equal to that of Los Angeles in only a third of the area. After 250 years of Japanese isolation, in 1859 the port of Yokohama became one of the first opened to foreign countries, opening the city to then unprecedented foreign exchange. The telephone, modern running water, gas, railroads, photography, ice cream—all were first introduced to Japan in Yokohama.

Yet despite the wide impact of many of Yokohama’s firsts, one first has yet to catch on. Though the city was the site of Japan’s first Protestant church (and the first of any kind since the ban of Christianity in 1597), today just a tiny fraction of Yokohama’s millions have opened themselves to receive the Lord Jesus. Therefore, with so few having even heard of his great worth, Mustard Seed Network has launched a gospel-centered church in Yokohama so that the knowledge of the glory of God may spread in the city and in Japan.

Mustard Seed Christian Church - Yokohama

Planted March 2024

Mustard Seed Christian Church Yokohama first gathered together as a new church in March 2024. Meeting at first in a music venue and local community center, MSCC Yokohama was able to celebrate its first baptisms and become a community committed to sharing the gospel to any and everyone who crossed our paths. We now meet in the basement of a high rise building in the heart of the city near the baseball stadium and Chinatown. Through God’s grace shown to each of us, we are empowered by the Holy Spirit to love him and our neighbors as we carry out the great commission of making more disciples of Jesus Christ. Please pray that we would be bold in our evangelism, committed to the word of God, and focused on our Savior.

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