One Man's Vision for Japan: A Memoir
Stella Cox and her husband, Ralph, have been missionaries to Japan for over fifty years. She is the mother of three children, all ‘made in Japan’. Together, they were a catalyst for influencing fifty individuals into entering full time overseas ministry and have planted over ninety churches. Stella’s delightful cooking class ministry, along with English classes, hospitality, and the use of media is a vital component to her and Ralph’s rapid foundation laying method of church planting. Their ministry reshaped mission work in Japan through utilizing short-term missionaries of all ages as part of their team. These individuals were discipled to become future missionaries, similar to Christ’s and the Apostle Paul’s evangelism teams in the New Testament. Stella’s cooking classes that aired on TV, led to the publication of three cookbooks and her life-story book printed in Japanese. Ralph also published in Japanese and English God Is, God Spoke, God Came, an apologetic approach to reaching those of non-Judeo Christian background. This is currently being used as a textbook both in Japan and the United States. Stella, the “Gospel Butterfly” now in her eighties, following her husband’s death, demonstrates Christ’s love to each person she visits and continues to share the light of Jesus to those in need.