From Sapporo To All Japan

Born in Sapporo in 1985, after graduating from college I worked at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust Bank for 3 years. After receiving a calling for mission for Japan I completed a one-year training course at Kansai Bible Institute (KBI). In March 2012, I married, Sunglim Ku who was serving as a full-time staff member of  CCC (Campus Crusade for Christ) at that time. We first met through a short-term CCC summer mission trip to my home church, Sapporo Fukuinkan Church.  After serving as a teacher for one year at Sapporo International Christian School (SICS), a small Christian school connected to Sapporo Fukuinkan church, I went to Korea to continue training through a Master of Divinity course. Over the course of three years, 2013 to 2015, I completed  the program at Torch Trinity Graduate University. During this same time, I also served as the lead pastor of the Japanese worship service in Oryun Community Church in Seoul. After graduating, starting in 2016 I returned to my home church, Sapporo Fukuinkan Church, as an associate pastor.

Formal training includes:
Otaru University of Commerece - BA
Kansai Bible Institute (KBI) - 1 year training course
Torch Trinity Graduate University - MDiv (Master of Divinity) 

My wife was born in 1980 in Geoje Island, in the Gyeongsangnam-do province on the southern coast of South Korea. She became a Christian while attending college. She received training through K-CCC (Campus Crusade for Christ, Korea). After graduating from the university, she worked as a full-time CCC staff member from 2005. She served on the campus of Chungnam National University in Daejeon, South Korea until 2011. It was on a short-term mission to Sapporo in 2010 that she received a calling to become a missionary to Japanese. In 2012, we were married, and shared the same calling for reaching Japan with the Gospel. During our three years in Korea, from 2013 to 2015, she worked at the CCC headquarters as a full-time worker in Family Life. She has served as a missionary with with me at Sapporo Fukuinkan Church since 2016.