We are focused on serving as catalysts to help encourage multiplication in Japanese churches. We are involved in coaching and encouraging church planters on the local, regional and national level. I (Jeffery) am also involved in supporting leadership development focused on Japanese pastors and church planters. I am actively involved in researching the churches of the disaster areas of northeastern Japan following the triple disasters of 2011. The lessons learned by the churches after the disaster are helpful and relevant for church planters and Christians across Japan.
I (Jeffery) felt called to work in Japan when I first visited the country as a university student on a short-term mission. In 1995 I returned to Japan where I met Akiko while I was on staff at a Tokyo-area Japanese church. I (Akiko) am a fourth generation Japanese Christian who was born and raised in the Tokyo-area. In 2000 we started as members of a church planting team in a small town in Yamagata in the northern part of the main island. From there we went on to work with three consecutive church multiplication networks on the island of Okinawa. In 2014 we moved back to the Tokyo area to help support local, regional and national church multiplication initiatives.
