Want to serve in japan?

 

Want to serve in japan?

We are seeking new long-term missionary evangelists and missionary associates!
We'd love for you to have the opportunity to serve with us in Japan. Please contact us with your requests and inquiries and we will be sure to get back to you.

New missionaries

Definition of a missionary-evangelist

A missionary-evangelist is an ordained minister called to and installed for the work of evangelism in Japan. If installed by a presbytery of the OPC, he is eligible to join the mission, as is his wife (a non-voting member). If installed by a comparable judicatory of a sister denomination he may apply to the mission for associate missionary status, including voting rights as in the case of OPC evangelists.

The work of an evangelist comes from Scripture and is summarized
in the OPC Form of Governement: https://opc.org/BCO/FG.html#Chapter_VII

Qualifications for Service

A missionary should,

  1. Have a sense of calling to the work of evangelism in Japan;

  2. Have that calling confirmed by call and installation as a missionary-evangelist to Japan with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church or a sister denomination;

  3. Be seriously interested in a career of missionary service.

  4. Be able to work in Japanese, or willing to learn it.

* If you fulfill these basics and wish to work with us please contact (See below)

Duties of a Missionary-Evangelist

The task of an evangelist is to preach the Word free of pastoral charge in a particular flock in order that he may labor to bring in other sheep. And to those sheep whom Christ has brought in, evangelists shall administer the sacraments until a congregation shall have been regularly organized.

Missionary associate

Definition of Missionary Associate

A Missionary Associate is one who goes to a mission field under the sponsorship of his local session or presbytery to assist a Mission of the church in its task for evangelization, to provide an opportunity to test his gifts for permanent service on the field, or to enrich the Associate’s life for greater service as a member of the church to which he returns.

Qualifications for Service

The Missionary Associate should be:

  1. normally a communicant member in good standing of the OPC or of a church of like faith and practice.

  2. a dedicated Christian, understanding that the primary purpose of going abroad is to serve Christ.

  3. a college graduate, having either a skill through which to support himself on the field (usually the ability to teach English) or sufficient funds saved up or promised for transportation and self-support, or a combination of the two.

  4. Ordinary missionary associates serve in pairs; two men, two women, or a husband and wife.

Duties of the Missionary Associate

The Missionary Associate is responsible for:

  • accepting the authority and direction of the Mission, and reporting orally on work and activities each

Mission meeting.

  • all financial needs and arrangements (the MA is responsible for independently raising their own support); please consult with the Mission for details about how much will be needed.

  • ongoing language study.

  • actively serving at his assigned chapel (e.g. encouraging contacts into attend worship and to walk as Christians, encouraging community contacts to visit worship services, visitation of community contacts, tract distribution, assisting in hosting church events and meetings, etc.)