Young Men of the Cross

Young Men of the Cross is the story of a Mission’s commitment to do something never before attempted- to place the Gospel message in every home in a nation. Their target was Japan, which at the time had 10,400,000 homes. The Great Village Campaign was launched in 1913 with young Japanese evangelists carrying Scriptures to thousands of homes on small islands, in dense forests and barely accessible mountain ranges. In 1917, ten young men from God’s Bible School in Cincinnati volunteered to work with the Japanese evangelists to complete this task.