'[Trey] Hillman says that when God told him to move his family to Japan, the message he heard was to “be bold with your faith, never back down.”
So when his team followed Japanese tradition and went to a Buddhist temple his first year there, he knelt and prayed to his own Jesus. Photographers caught the whole thing. Reporters asked him afterward about his prayer, and he told them the truth.
Japan is less than one percent Christian. Hillman looked at his public platform in that country as a platform for Christianity.'
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