Amanda Knoke, BGEA

Pastor Tamotsu Uchimura poses with Bible in hand in downtown Naha, the capital of Okinawa, Japan. Photo by Ronaldson Slim/Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

OKINAWA, Japan (BP)--Japanese and Americans on Okinawa are working together to spread the name of Jesus throughout their island.
      Traffic was stopped in both directions as Bo Russell, the American pastor of Koza Baptist Church in Okinawa City, Japan, was on his way to his office. “Hey, Pastor Bo!” he heard in broken English from the window of another car in the gridlock.