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The challenge of creating new sharing tools for reaching the hearts of members of a specific ethnic group, such as Japanese- and Asian Americans, is to present the gospel in a way that’s both biblically sound and culturally sensitive. It is no small task when traditional western  presentations of the Gospel are considered “sacred cows” in the evangelical world. But someone had to try something new and different at the risk of being labeled a “heretic” because the traditional presentations were not working very effectively with this ethnic group, and so many lives were at stake. So Iwa did it, more than once. Some are in print. More are on the way. Now if people would just try them. . . .

Learn about the reasons behind what makes Iwa's resources different here.

Finding Father and Becoming Family

This booklet is a tool that presents the Bible story in a relational way–as a family story about God as our Heavenly Father; and human beings as children who broke away from His family; and God’s Son, Jesus, as the one who came to bring us back into the family, at infinite cost to Himself and to the Father because of their incredible love for us.

It is not a ‘tract’ to be passed out indiscriminately. But it is a story to be shared with those who already have had some exposure to Christ through Christians, and who want to find out more about the Bible and seek a clearer understanding of what it means to be a Christian. The story also helps deepen and enrich the faith of Christians who have only been exposed to a traditional Western presentation of the Gospel and not to a non-traditional, relational, group-oriented presentation, such as this story is.

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Beyond the Secret Door

This fictitious story, set in feudal Japan, is one of Iwa's early attempts to present the gospel to people of Japanese ancestry in a non-threatening, imaginative way.

May I Introduce Someone to You Who Changed My Life. . . .
This booklet is the result of an attempt by Iwa Executive Director, Cyril Nishimoto, to create a new and different kind of sharing tool—one that introduces people to a living and very real person, Jesus Christ, rather than to the Plan of Salvation, through stories.

There are seven stories from the Bible about the encounters of real-life people with Jesus, and seven stories about Cyril’s own present-day encounters with that same Jesus depicted in each of the Bible stories.

Designed also to encourage Christians to write their own stories and use them as sharing tools for introducing people to Jesus, the booklet ends with an invitation to the reader to begin an intimate relationship with Jesus, or in the alternative, to get to know Him better.