{"id":1017,"date":"2022-08-11T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T01:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2022-08-11T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T01:37:52","slug":"vol-5%e3%80%8c%e3%83%b4%e3%82%a3%e3%83%ac%e3%83%a0%e3%83%bb%e3%83%9c%e3%83%bc%e3%83%84%e3%81%95%e3%82%93%e3%81%ae%e3%81%8a%e8%a9%b1%e3%82%92%e8%81%9e%e3%81%93%e3%81%86%ef%bd%9e%e9%81%93%e7%8e%84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/nfsj-cafes\/202208\/1017","title":{"rendered":"Vol. 5 \u201cLet\u2019s listen to Mr. Willem Botes\u2019s Findings through Dogenzaka Night Walking\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"(NFSJ Cafe #4, March 21, 2016 at Musashino Place)<\/p>\n

In Feb. of 2015, Willem Botes, a South African diplomat in Tokyo, started prayer walking in the red-light district of Dogenzaka on weekends. He shared with us what he\u2019d learned from a year of praying against the dark sex industry in Japan.<\/p>\n

He prayed mainly for the female victims of sexual exploitation, and also for the men who are involved on the business-side and those who support it as customers. He did so both daytime and often even in the middle of the night or dawn. During his prayer walking, he met many people including prostituted women. He was able to briefly talk with them which helped him understand their situations, and tried to share his hope in Christ with them. Sometimes when he encountered a woman for the 2nd time, she said she \u201cremembered him and his God\u201d.<\/p>\n

Over the year, he made a prayer route stopping at various love hotels, shops selling women\u2019s underwear or sex toys, clubs, and even a place where he suspected women were forced into performing in AV films. They\u2019d come out crying and devastated. He then shared this information with his church\u2019s ministry against human trafficking and led us to pray monthly the route on Sunday afternoons, when all was quiet. He saw answers to prayer, like some establishments closing.<\/p>\n

I was very impressed with his commitment to pray against satanic symbols seen along the route and for the victims to be set free in Christ, who can break the chains of slavery.<\/p>\n

Willem actually completed 91 consecutive weeks of prayer walking before returning to SA. He later shared some of his experiences and breakthroughs in his self-published book \u201cThe Miracle is to Walk on the Earth\u201d. An ebook version is available for download at a cost of US $8.00 (proceeds go to missionaries in Japan).\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/zB2w?fbclid=IwAR1KkmgFRT3qUv2Ukv7mPkW50ieEvpyjsfSrR1jaokSNcd5LrPZ4dUjFEsI<\/a><\/p>\n

\uff08Bonnie Jinmon\uff09<\/p>\n

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(NFSJ Cafe #4, March 21, 2016 at Musashino Place) In Feb. of 2015, Willem Botes, a South African diplomat in Tokyo, started prayer walking in the red-light district of Dogenzaka on weekends. He shared with us what he\u2019d learned from a year of praying against the dark sex industry in Japan. He prayed mainly for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfsj-cafes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notforsalejapan.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}