Staff Members

  Renata Rossouw is from South Africa and joined Japan Mission in Sept 2011. Renata’s work with Japan Mission is quite diverse. David Verwey writes a short e-mail about various aspects of Japanese life and how they relate to Scripture. Renata sends out 3,000 of these e-mails twice a month and helps to maintain the…

Ed & Toby Thomas: Our call to serve with Japan Mission We met at church in Conroe, Texas, USA after each experiencing some very dark & difficult seasons of our lives. After becoming friends and serving in various ministries together, we began dating and were married on Christmas Eve 2009. Early in our marriage &…

Callum Kyllonen joined Japan Mission from Canada as an English Evangelism Teacher in January 2024. He currently travels to a number of churches to help them reach their communities for Christ through English outreach, helping with events, sharing his testimony etc… Many, who would not normally attend church, come to learn English and make friends…

The Wright family joined Japan Mission August 2025. Follow their ministry here:  https://www.thenationswillknow.com/ Our call to serve with Japan Mission: About 2 years ago, Gretchen and I felt God stirring our hearts to reach the nations with the gospel. In God’s providence, He led both my wife and I, at the same time, yet individually,…

Alison Quinlan joined Japan Mission from England in April 2022. Calling to Japan: Alison first received the call to mission work in Japan in May 2017, at a Christian conference. After this she began to pray for God’s leading and guidance. God confirmed His call to Japan in many different ways over the next few…

  Click here for the Swallow’s blog. Watch their testimony video here. Brandon and Laura Swallow joined Japan Mission from the USA in Sept 2016. LAURA is a certified teacher and is serving as a full-time middle school teacher at Kansai Christian School (KCS). KCS was established by Japan Mission (JM) and a number of other missions in…

Sunette Hugo is from South Africa and joined JM in February 2007. She says, “It is mind-boggling how the Lord, through the years and without me realizing it, prepared, equipped and eventually guided me to work with the Japan Mission!” Read the inspiring testimony of Sunette Hugo by selecting this link (PDF File). Sunette is…

David has been asked to speak at various evangelistic opportunities, serve as board member of Christian organizations and also served as Principal of a school (KCS) for missionary children for about 7 years. In an effort to sow the seed more widely, David has also served on two local city mayor’s councils, a police commission…

Mr. and Mrs. Takahara were both saved through the JM Hospital Evangelism Ministry and joined JM — he in 1964 and she in 1968. They were later married in 1973 and felt a burden to communicate the Gospel through audio-visual media. Because of their vision, many thousands of Christian DVDs, CDs and other media have…