Half-Japanese, Harry grew up in the USA. After graduating from Gordon College, he was an editor at Morehouse Publishing (when it was still the largest independent publisher for the Anglican Communion) while caring for his grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's, and studying ancient Near East languages. He earned his M.Div. while pioneering ministry to unchurched university students and helping to manage 60 staff for a $3M/annum award-winning business.
During +Martyn Minns's last 2 years as rector of Truro Church (Fairfax VA) and first 7 years as bishop of the original CANA network (which formed 5 dioceses for ACNA), Harry served as chief of staff for the bishop. During this time he also served David Harper+ in his last 5 years at Church of the Apostles (Fairfax VA), and helped Dr. Betsy Stalcup establish www.GodHealsToday.org. Dr. Steve Garber (InterVarsity Press author) tells a bit of Harry's story at a Gordon College convocation in this 3½-minute video excerpt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUNTZ70fxB8.
In Northern Ireland for 4 years, Harry led culture shifts in the second largest parish in the Church of Ireland, where he built ecumenical bridges between Catholics and Protestants.
Currently, he's been apprenticing imperfect heroes who self-sacrificially love King Jesus and their neighbors as they build bridges across demographic divisions in former Jim Crow country.
Harry & Nancy are empty nesters with one son (Biola University '23) on film sets in Los Angeles, and another working in the equine industry and studying at Aberystwyth University in the UK.
seminars by Os Guinness, Dallas Willard, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Anthony Thiselton, Christopher J. H. Wright, et al.
under the late Dr. David Dorsey (The Literary Structure of the Old Testament, Baker 1999/2004)
ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς
"as in heaven, so on earth"
—Jesus in Matthew 6.10
"More Like Jesus"
—Gareth Harron's summary of both the church's vision and mission
“If you make disciples, you always get the church. But if you make a church, you rarely get disciples."
—Mike Breen, Anglican leader
"Most American churches only appeal to the one-third of the population which is already Christian and sociologically and economically healthy."
—Verlon Fossner, pioneer of the Dinner Church movement in Seattle
“Plant the church your community needs, not the one in your head.”
—Patrick Bradley, Exponential Conference
"Oh, you're still doing 1990s renewal worship."
—Dr. Mark Cartledge, a charismatic Anglican from the UK upon visiting a prominent charismatic ACNA church in the USA
"A congregation that has not replicated itself in 2 years is no longer a church . . . it is a club."
—David Watson, pioneer of Disciple Making Movements
"81% of all non-Christians do not know a Christ-follower."
—World Christian Encyclopedia
"Until recently, Americans spent more on Halloween costumes for their pets than on outreach to unreached people groups."
—Joshua Project