Built for the gap.
By Colby, Founder
"I wanted to share my faith with her, but I couldn't find the words, in any language."
Sukui started with a simple problem. My girlfriend is Japanese. I'm a Christian. And when I wanted to explain what I believe (really explain it, not just translate words), I found almost nothing.
The internet had resources in English. Japan had its own resources. But the gap between them? Almost empty. And it wasn't just a language problem. It was a cultural one.
Japanese people encounter Christianity through a very different lens than Westerners do. The questions are different. The entry points are different. The things that feel like obstacles are different. And almost none of the resources I found understood that.
So I built Sukui. For her. For anyone in that gap. For every Japanese speaker who has ever had a question about Christianity and couldn't find a place to ask it in their own language, with the care that question deserves.
Sukui means "salvation." The name isn't a claim. It's an invitation.
– Colby, Founder · Honolulu, Hawaii
How the Japanese Here Is Written
You should know how what you are reading was made. The Japanese on Sukui is written with AI, ChatGPT and Claude, working from the Bible.
Scripture itself is never paraphrased. Japanese quotations use the 口語訳 (1955, public domain) and English uses the World English Bible, and every passage is cited so you can check it yourself.
AI can be wrong. If something here does not match what you read in Scripture, trust Scripture. Sukui is not a substitute for a pastor, a counsellor, or a church.