A self-employed landscaper from South Carolina. A seemingly random encounter with a missionary at his church. A call to go into all the world.

Isaiah’s story of short-term missions in Japan began when he was young. He came to faith in Christ in middle school and almost immediately understood the importance of missions. He shares, “It was like a light switch that went off for me. Before, I never understood why people would go overseas…. But [once I was] changed by the Gospel, I understood the call to go and to tell other people, to serve and be an encouragement and provide service where possible.” He continues, “It was really at the moment of salvation that it felt like God put some sort of call on my life that I’d be doing overseas missions at some point.”

Isaiah immediately began to serve the Church in whatever ways he could. He traveled to Puerto Rico on a short-term mission trip. He became involved in his local church, and he volunteered with churches that his own church partnered with. He helped with vacation Bible schools, building projects, and door-to-door evangelism.

Little did Isaiah know that by learning to live missionally where he was at, the Lord was preparing him to live missionally in a country halfway around the world.

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