Dave and Tomo missionaries with the Japanese Evangelical Missionary Society (JEMS) and serve in Iwate. They are currently in the early stages of a new church plant in Miyako City.
Dave graduated from the Master’s College and began serving in his home church as a youth pastor, while also working for the JESUS Film Project. He and Tomo met in 2003 when Dave went to work with Tomo’s home church in Tokyo on a Summer missions trip. He began returning to Japan regularly for short-term work and began to feel called to full time missions in Japan.
Tomo, who is Japanese, grew up serving in her church in Tokyo and while in college became active in student ministry. Through this, God began to put in her heart a desire to serve the Church in Japan.
Dave and Tomo were married in 2009 and felt called by God to serve in Japan as missionaries, and together joined the Japanese Evangelical Missionary Society (JEMS). In 2013 they moved to Iwate to begin partnering with Morioka Bible Baptist Church.
In 2018 they began partnering to help establish a new church in the city of Miyako, which was devastated by the 2011 Tsunami.