
Ryoichi became a Christian in 1965. He had been struggling as a teenager with an acute sense of uncleanliness within when an American missionary standing outside a church beckoned to him in broken Japanese, “Why won’t you come in?”
He holds a BA in Commerce and worked for several years for the Japanese federal government. He earned his M. Div. from Regent College in British Columbia, Canada. Ryoichi has pastored in Japan, Toronto, White Rock, BC, and Blaine, WA.
Pastor Ryoichi cherishes the church as a community. His vision is to see BCF grow up together, in all aspects into the maturity of Christ and to be actively involved in the global Church. Ryoichi initially came to BCF in 1997 to assist in a time of transition and has been a pillar of our church family ever since.
Ryoichi and his wife, Lydia, met in Japan while she was doing missionary work there. They have two adult children.
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