Half-Japanese, Harry grew up in the USA. After university, he was an editor at a Christian publishing house while caring for his grandmother suffering from Alzheimer's, and studying ancient Near East languages. He earned his M.Div. while ministering to university students and helping to manage 60 staff for a $3M/annum award-winning business.
During 8 years near Washington, D.C., he served two large congregations and helped pioneer an international network of 90+ congregations. He also helped establish a trauma-healing ministry (www.GodHealsToday.org). Dr. Steve Garber (an InterVarsity Press author) tells a bit of Harry's story at a university convocation in this video excerpt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUNTZ70fxB8.
In Northern Ireland for 4 years, Harry led culture shifts in a multi-site church near Belfast, 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.
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