Half-Japanese, I grew up in the USA. After interning for Judge Robert Bork, I was an editor at a Christian publishing house while caring for my grandmother with mid-stage Alzheimer's. I earned my M.Div. while pioneering ministry to unchurched university students and helping to manage 60 staff for a $3M/annum award-winning business.
In Northern Virginia, I served two large congregations and helped pioneer an international network of 275+ clergy and 90+ congregations with 10,000+ members. I also helped Dr. Betsy Stalcup establish www.GodHealsToday.org. Dr. Steve Garber (formerly of Regent College) tells a bit of my story at a Gordon College convocation in this video excerpt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUNTZ70fxB8.
More recently I was recruited to lead culture shifts at a multi-site church near Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK) where I also built ecumenical bridges between Catholics and Protestants.
Currently I am coaching imperfect heroes who self-sacrificially love King Jesus and their neighbors as we build bridges between Blacks and Whites in former plantation & Jim Crow country along the Virginia/North Carolina stateline.
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 the church's vision
“If you make disciples, you always get the church. But if you make a church, you rarely get disciples."
—Mike Breen
"The Church doesn’t have a mission. God’s mission has a church."
—Christopher J. H. Wright
"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
"Most American churches only appeal to the one-third of the population which is already Christian and sociologically and economically healthy."
—Verlon Fossner
“Plant the church your community needs, not the one in your head.”
—Patrick Bradley