We are proud supporters of Baptist Mid-Missions (BMM). This page features excerpts from the BMM website. To find out more, please visit the BMM website.

God burdened a Michigan pastor and his wife, William and Genevieve Haas, for the people of Africa and led them to serve there in 1911.  This missionary experience compelled them to seek Him for more workers. The Haases returned to the US to gather pastors, and William convincingly presented the opportunity and urgency.  They organized the General Council of Cooperating Baptist Missions of North America, Inc. (now Baptist Mid-Missions) on October 15, 1920, at the First Baptist Church in Elyria, Ohio.  Our first group of six missionaries courageously sailed a few weeks later to bring the gospel to French Equatorial Africa.

In 1953, the name was formally changed to Baptist Mid-Missions. Today, they continue in the same spirit of reaching places and people who have not yet heard or responded to the gospel.

God led Baptist Mid-Missions to enter Japan in 1949, and in 1953, BMM moved its center of work to Fukushima Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo. Gradually, the ministry of Baptist Mid-Missions expanded and opened new areas, including the Tokyo suburbs and Okinawa. Later, missionaries began churches in Chiba and Saitama prefectures and started a camp in Fukushima. Working in cooperation with Baptist Mid-Missions, missionaries helped form a Japanese mission agency, which has sent missionaries to Bangladesh and rural Japan. Missionaries also teach at Grace Baptist Bible School, which offers three-year and four-year courses for Bible, theology, and missions.

• Assist current church plants
• Disciple Japanese believers, teaching them to teach others how to disciple
• Strategically plant new churches
• Train new Japanese pastors

The Joshua Project estimates a need for nearly 2,500 workers in Japan. No matter what skill set a person possesses, God can use it for His glory. Everything from church planters to IT specialists can serve God in Japan, furthering the reach of the gospel. Parachurch ministries such as the Bible school, camp, podcast/video ministries, and English classes allow one to use one’s God-given gifts. Ultimately, Japan needs more church planters and church-planting support to help the Japanese build up the church in Japan for God’s glory.

Nobumasa (Nobby) was born to a Buddhist family in Japan. At the age of 19, he heard the Gospel from an American missionary and accepted Christ as his Savior. On the other hand, Beverly was born into a Christian family in the United States. Because her father was a pastor, she was raised with a vision for missions.

Nobby soon realized the need for the Gospel in Japan and felt a calling to ministry. He went to Temple Baptist Theological Seminary in the States, and there met Beverly. They were married after graduating and felt God calling them back to Japan as missionaries. They have served together in Japan since 1978 and have seen the tremendous need to spread the Gospel there. Bev continues to pray that the Japanese people will be more receptive to the love of God and accept His salvation.

(Nobby entered Heaven in 2022.)

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