Our vision:
Our vision is to glorify God by helping Grace City Church Tokyo to love and serve the city of Tokyo, Japan! We will do this by joining their efforts to develop a church-planting movement from city-center Tokyo. It is a new work, having started in Dec. 2008 by a Japanese pastor and Christians. Two of their biggest needs are church-planting pastors and counselors from the United States who are willing to work with them on a long-term basis. That's us!
Our story:
Sean first went to Tokyo while a college student in 1998 for a summer of relational ministry with Campus Outreach. This experience left a deep impression on my heart to see redeemed both the beauty and brokenness of Japan. As students at Covenant Theological Seminary years later, a Japanese classmate and now church-planter with Grace City Church Tokyo persistently recruited us to serve with him. Lisa really became dialed into the vision of the team and began to be able to picture our family serving there after we visited in March 2010. Since that time, her enthusiasm and commitment has carried me when I feel discouraged! We were approved to serve with Mission to the World in October of 2011. At that point, The Church of the Good Shepherd thankfully allowed me to essentially shift roles from assistant minister to "overseas staff." They are generously supporting us 15% of our overall monthly needs with the prayers that we would be able to raise the rest of the 85% of our monthly budget.
If you or your church will allow us to share in person the ministry vision, story, and financial goals for this church-planting ministry, we would be so grateful!
Reflections on mission to Japan's next generation
