Birchall Japan Missions

Levi Thomas Birchall
Age: 23
Born: July 8th 2001

Levi’s Personal Testimony

I am a second generation Christian having been raised in church all my life.
My father’s name was Phillip Wayne Birchall, an evangelist, Air Force veteran, and a great man of God. If it wasn’t for him and my wonderful mother raising me in church, I may never have heard the saving gospel of the Holy Ghost.
I was saved (Praise God) on march 3rd, 2013 at Oakwood Baptist Church in Flowery Branch Georgia. My father died on October 29th 2013 due to a heart attack. I just praise the Lord that he got to see my salvation prior to his sudden death.
For many years after that, I became lukewarm with God. I didn’t really care about church like I used to, and for most of my teen years, though I was in church, I might as well have been out in the world.
However, on August 1st 2017, My mom married Stephen “Carl” Huddleston, and I believe if it wasn’t for him and his biblical and doctrinal leadership in our home, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
Through the Holy Spirit leading my dad, we ended up as members of White Oak Independent Baptist Church where my dad took over as the song leader and I as a member of the sound ministry.
For the years going forward I was still not where I needed to be spiritually speaking, but through the wonderful Holy Spirit led preaching and teaching from my pastor; Andrew McAfee, as well as other men in the church, I finally truly got right with God and started to grow as a child of God.
In October of 2024, we held our missions conference and Bro. Danny Farley preached the whole week.
I knew the Lord was working on my heart about what he would have me to do in the future and I decided I wouldn’t fight it. And on October 5th 2024, God called me to preach.
However I knew the Lord wanted me to go to the mission field, I refrained from telling my pastor as I was still unsure whether or not it would be Japan. But on the morning of October 6th 2024, the Lord made it abundantly clear through the reading of His Word that Japan was in fact the correct choice, and on that day, I accepted the Lord’s call on my life to the mission field of Japan.

Why Japan

For many of my teen years, I had a fascination with Japan. Their culture, their media, their history, all of it was just very interesting to me.
Now I would like to remind you that at this time, I was not right with the Lord. I was not doing anything heinous but I just wasn’t reading my bible every day or really listening to the preaching. However when we joined White Oak Independent Baptist Church and I finally got right with God, I noticed something every year at our missions conference.
There were many flags that we hang around the church and they all represent missionaries we support around the world, but there was no flag for Japan.
You might not think that as anything but to me, it was a big deal.
I would think in my heart “I wish someone would go to Japan and have us support them. That country needs God just like the rest of us.” and I just knew in my heart, every time I thought that, the Lord was telling me “Why don’t you go then?”. And I would always just brush it off like “There’s no way I could become a missionary to Japan. I don’t even like leaving my house most of the time.” and leave it at that.
However after about 3 years of that, I finally surrendered my life to God and told him I will go anywhere to serve him. And after much doubt in myself whether Japan was the place he would have me to go, God gave me these verses when I was doing my daily devotions:

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; 2Corinthians 1:8-10

That right there gave me peace and showed me that not only was Japan where he wanted me to be, but it also reassured me that if I just trust in him, that he would protect me and take care of me through it all.

Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. 2Corinthians 1:11