How the American and East Asian Church are working together for Gospel Advancement

Crying out to God at Contend's 2026 Leadership Summit, where 47 youth signed up on the spot for Summer Missions in East Asia.

"We can take it from here," said an East Asian Youth Pastor in a vision at the end of an almost 4-hour evening prayer meeting. This youth pastor is someone our team has known since 2022; he is a forerunner in rallying the youth to prayer and fasting in Boba (Code name for an island-sized Mandarin-speaking nation). He is also one of the 30 youth leaders in Boba, who fasted with us to see the torch of the gospel be passed on from America to the East Asian church. Receiving this vision after a day full of three prayer meetings — morning, afternoon, and night — brought me to tears of gratitude. Especially because our evening prayer meeting was laborious, not only in cries like that of Jesus (Hebrews 5:7), but also physically through the incorporation of Aboriginal dances throughout our prayer meeting.

When we were in a circle, interlocking arms as the aborigines of Boba do, our prayer leader, who is an aborigine herself, began to cry out Lai-sha / lai-sa, which means Harvest in Amis (a tribal language). It was after this that we began to go around in a circle, praying one by one, while saying "Amen" to each other's prayers. Our prayer request was for God to send his angels to the Nazarite Intensive. This intensive is a yearly conference our team host in February, in partnership with many local churches of T-nation, to share messages specific to their nation, and teaching on fasting and praying for shifts in their nation. We were crying out for angels, because we know that the enemy doesn't want this Intensive to be successful. Hence, an imminent threat of invasion for this island, as stated by C-nation. If a youth army of contending prayer is raised in T-nation, the devil won't have his way in suppressing their national calling to take the torch of the gospel throughout Asia and beyond.

As we cried out for angels, we began to incorporate the word "Harvest" in Amis (an Aboriginal language). But then our circle had to get smaller. The Holy Spirit leads us to do an aborigine dance where we interlock hands in such a way that when we start to move our legs (left over right in par with going forward and back), we start moving quickly, like that of a cyclone of angels. This reel from our social media shows the closest thing to it. Just think of doing that, but with hands and arms interlocked.

The circle got smaller as doing this type of dance is not easy; it is hard. Having a large circle slows the dance down, and having one composed of only 3 people makes it impossible. I volunteered to stay in the dance circle. But those who were not in the dance circle surrounded us, while crying out, " TIME FOR T-NATION." They actually said the actual name of the nation. And it was so holy. Because we did this dance while praying for at least 15 minutes, and in the moments where I felt like I couldn't anymore, I would hear the prophetic word over this nation. That is the time for the youth of Asia to rise to save their nation. It is time for prayer in the hour of crisis, so that the Lord will hear from heaven and have his Nazarite sons and daughters! After we danced and cried for what felt like the longest time, we came together, and all corporate cried out before the Lord, " TIME FOR T-NATION!" for many minutes.

Why is it so significant that the churches that the Lord has led us to labor with have aborigines? Aborigines are the original inhabitants of T-nation, long before Han-C nation immigration. And it was particularly the Siraya aborigines who were the first to receive the gospel in their island around 1627 A.D. But in 1662, the Dutch, including Dutch missionaries, were driven out of Taiwan in 1662 by Ming loyalist forces under Koxinga, yet the aborigines rose alongside the Dutch to fight against the invasion. Therefore, because of the aborigines' history with God, we are honored to have their Christian youth lead us in how they pray. That is not only with mind and spirit, but also their bodies, for the glory of God!