About JCPN
Overview
JCPN is a project team dedicated to planting new Japanese-language churches that cooperate with the Southern Baptist churches of North America and the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Cooperative Program, with the aim of mutual cooperation among ministers.
Vision
To plant Japanese-language churches across North America and expand mission work among Japanese people.
Mission
1
Share the gospel with, and cooperate in evangelism toward, all native Japanese speakers living in North America.
2
Raise up people who can actively take part in the work of Japanese missions.
Strategy
1 New church planting
- Seek to establish at least one church in each major North American city. To raise up Japanese-speaking pastors from Japan and from each member church, we gladly exchange mission information and cooperate in research and study.
- In planting new churches, call on the cooperation of local Southern Baptist member churches and denominational leaders, aiming for growth through evangelism to non-believers.
- Report JCPN's mission activities to member churches.
2 Prayer and care
- Pray daily for the pastors and leaders raised up in each church.
- Pray regularly by neighboring geographic region, centered on the pastors and their wives.
- Create prayer calendars so that member churches can pray for one another.
- Share testimonies and blessings in the quarterly newsletter (edited and published by Hasune Baptist Church) so they can be added to intercessory prayer.
- Hold an annual conference as an occasion to encourage and pray for one another.
3 Believer discipleship
- Exchange and provide discipleship-training materials among churches.
- Introduce believers saved in the US who return to Japan to churches in their local area.
- Invite believers to the annual conference as an occasion to share the vision together.
4 Church cooperation
- Have each member church introduce JCPN's mission activities to outsiders whenever the opportunity arises.
- Keep the steering committee united and appropriately communicate new church-planting locations to member churches.
- Introduce JCPN within each church whenever the opportunity arises.
- When a believer relocates within North America, help introduce them to a church in their new area.
5 Cooperation with missions in Japan
- Strengthen the cooperative relationship with the Japan branch (Hasune Baptist Church) and, through believer exchange, help returnees settle into healthy local churches.
- Send new believers and those dedicated to ministry to Japan to contribute to church planting and evangelism there.