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Tokyo Drift

Mission
Tokyo Drift
Location
Tokyo and rural Japan
Partner
Owen Tucker, Creative Partner 1
Date
November 4 to December 4, 2025

The burning question

What would it look like to share Jesus in a secular YouTube video?

Tokyo Drift, the full video

The dream

We believe God places certain dreams on our hearts. Owen, a travel adventure YouTuber, always dreamed of drifting in Japan. He loves cars so we started there and we sought God daily: God, help us make something of eternal value. Help us to be bold with the gospel in this video and our lives. Help us reach a secular audience who truly needs to know you.

Filming on the streets of Japan
Japan
A night out with new friends in Tokyo
Tokyo

God moved

After our very first prayer walk, we felt led to talk to strangers with cameras. Five minutes later on the subway, the first strangers we met happened to be drifting YouTubers. When we were stuck in rural Japan with no ride, we prayed for one within a minute, and a Japanese grandma pulled over forty seven seconds later, on camera.

By the second week we were drifting in a six car tandem at the biggest drifting event in the world, invited by people we had met through that first subway conversation.

On the road in rural Japan
Rural Japan
The crew gathered under the giant lucky cat
Japan
Inside the light museum in Tokyo
Tokyo
In traditional dress outside an old Japanese house at golden hour
Japan

Beyond the video

We shared life deeply with four unbelievers: church, lunches, baptisms, theme parks, birthdays. We discipled Seven, a local Japanese creator who drove hours to our shoots and learned to seek God inside his art. And pastor Kento, moved by the work, invited us in to talk about the mission.

This trip is now the blueprint: help a creator seek God, encounter His power personally, preach the gospel through their creative gifts, strengthen the local church, and watch lives change.

Friends gathered at church in Tokyo
Lifehouse Church, Tokyo
A night shoot in the old streets of Japan
Japan
Sharing a meal with new friends in Japan
Tokyo
Arm in arm with new friends in Japan
Japan