Nida Cabrera was working as a nurse in a hospital in Saudi Arabia when she felt the divine nudging to leave her secular job and become a full-time missionary to Japan.

"I was having my quiet time when I had a clear vision…that of the map of Japan. All of a sudden, I had this burden I couldn't contain. I then decided to resign from the hospital where I had been working for 13 years already," recalls Nida.

During the time the Lord revealed His plan for her, Nida's husband Benny was already in Japan, sharing the good news to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and planting cell churches in various prefectures in Japan.

After much prayer and fasting, Nida received confirmation of God's will for her. She thus filed her resignation pronto, went home to the Philippines, and signed up for a six-month training at the ACM National Office in Makati City.

Pastor Benny, who already had a network of OFW contacts in Japan, was Nida's hands-on trainer during the first six months of her missions work in the province of Saitama-Ken. He taught her how to ride bullet trains, how to link up with Japanese Christians, and most of all, how to evangelize to OFWs, especially those who work as "guest relations officers" and/or those married to Japanese men.

"We focus on Filipinas married to Japanese men since they would be the ones who would win their husbands and children to Christ," says Nida who was issued a one-year missionary visa within a 14-day period.

She frequented spots where OFWs usually stayed - in bowling alleys, restaurants, and shopping malls. She befriended a lot of them, and her efforts soon paid off: she earned the go signal to visit their homes.

Nida was able to minister to some 40 OFWs who surrendered their life to the Lord and led their families to Christ. GROs left their easy yet high-paying jobs and opted to work in factories which, in contrast, offer hard work and minimum wages.

Fortunately, her path was less obstacle-ridden when she arrived in Japan in 1998: her husband had already met Japanese pastor Hiromasa Amano who paved the way for Nida to hold Filipino worship services and conduct healing and deliverance sessions at the Riverside Chapel in Soka-Shi, Saitama-Ken.

The coming of Filipinas and their Japanese husbands and kids to Riverside Chapel, as well as the couple's gift for "power evangelism" caused membership to swell to 500. By laying hands and invoking the power of Jesus, Nida has seen a cancer patient in a wheelchair healed, a car accident victim in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital revived, a drug addict restored, and women suffering from fits of violence and depression set free from the demons that tormented them.

To reach out to Japanese students, Nida will enroll in a Japanese language course at the Tokyo University which has a student population of 10,000.

She is optimistic that God's Spirit will move missionaries in Japan to work wonders and see the country freed from the strongholds of ancestor worship, materialism, occult pratice, and new age theology.