Who We Are

Name: Michael Mason
Birthday: October 27
Birthplace: Eureka, CA
Grew up: Eugene, OR & Spokane, WA
School: Western Washington University (BA, '88), Fuller Theological Seminary (MA '95)
Hobbies: computers (Macs only!), playing guitar, worship music, anything Star Wars

Name: Christine Mason
Birthday: January 4
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Grew up: Gardena, CA
School: Cal State Dominguez Hills (BA, '92), Fuller Theological Seminary (MA '96)
Hobbies: sewing, baking, reading

Name: Luke Masashi Mason
Birthday: June 10, 2000
Birthplace: Sakai, Japan
Hobbies: Computer games, Disneyland, Nintendo, Legos, Star Wars, Tomica cars and trains

What We Do

We are currently living and serving at a church in Sakai City, a suburb of Osaka, Japan. We arrived in Japan in the spring of 1997 and began working with the Rev. Teiichiro Kuroda and Sakai International Bible Church (SIBC). In August 1999, we became the associate pastors of SIBC and assumed the day-to-day ministry of the church. Then, in September 2001 we were ordained as ministers and installed as the head pastors of SIBC. This was a move made to allow pastor Kuroda to focus his time and energy on his new church plant in Osaka City.

Besides preaching every week (in English), we are also involved in teaching English, leading worship, teaching Sunday School, discipling believers and doing a myriad of administrative duties in the church office.

Honestly, we love our work and the people in the church. God has been so good to us and we are so thankful that he has called us to such a wonderful ministry situation as this.
To find out more about our work and ministry, see our newsletters page.

More About Michael

Michael grew up in Oregon and Washington and currently calls Spokane, WA home. It was after a summer mission trip to Taiwan in 1987 that Michael sensed a call to the mission field. Upon graduation from college, he taught English and served in a church in the Osaka area of Japan for two years. It was during this time that the Lord gave him a heart to return to Japan as a career missionary. Upon Michael's return from Japan, he started at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California and graduated in 1995 with a Master's degree in Cross-Cultural Studies from the School of World Mission.

More About Chris

Chris is a Japanese-American "sansei" (third-generation Japanese) who was born & raised in Los Angeles. After working in the banking industry for 11 years, Chris went on staff with JEMS as financial secretary in 1992. Also in 1992, Chris spent a summer in Japan. It was there that she began to sense that the Lord was calling her to a career in missions. In response to this call, Chris began studying at Fuller Seminary in the winter of 1993. At Fuller she met Michael and they were later married in March 1996. In June of that year, Chris graduated from Fuller's School of World Mission with a Master's degree in Cross-Cultural Studies and a concentration in Leadership & Leadership Development.