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What is your role in the Church?
Japanese pastor
What do you love about our church?
We are filled with warmness and laughter.
Peter or Paul? Both. Peter because I act before I think enough.
Paul because I have a very strong conviction about Christ.
What is your career background?
I have served as a student missionary, a pastor, and a counselor. I also have worked in the education field such as a teacher at high school and business college, and at exchanged student programs.
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What is your Educational Background?BA in International Relations (University of Southern California), MA in Biblical Counseling (Luther Rice University / Seminary).
Tell something people don’t know about you. I used to model when I was a teenager!
What is your favorite color? Just come on over to my office in the church!
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Salvation Experience:It was March 24th, 1984, while staying at my American family’s house in Boise, Idaho during my spring vacation (I was a 21 year old college student). Around that period, I used to listen to lot of classic rock music such as the Beatles, the Who, Jimmy Hendrix, etc. I particularly was very fond of Pink Floyd. On that day, I was watching the movie called Pink Floyd the Wall. The story is that a main character of the movie grows up to become a rock star. However, he has experienced many rejections in his life and escaped into drugs, alcohol, and show business. While he was locked into his hotel room during the tour, he gradually started to go mad. In his imagination, he kept adding bricks of the wall to protect himself whenever he was rejected. After all, he was totally alienated from everybody including himself. In the end, he judged himself to be exposed to the rest of the world (tearing down his defensive wall), in order to be connected once again. While I watched this movie, I started to relate myself to it. I felt so sad and miserable with all the sins I had committed. After the movie, I was mourning deeply. I went to backyard of our house and just crying. I asked myself, “Why am I so sad and miserable?” At that moment, I heard a voice inside of me (not audible voice but thought came to my mind), kept saying “I love you, Toshi. I love you, Toshi.” I knew it was a voice from God. I just broke down and received His love. I invited Christ into myself at that moment. I felt “my” defensive wall which used to protect me from all hassles and pressures of the world, was torn down by God, and I became free!
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