History of Detroit JCF

Detroit JCF was started as a church planting project of Michigan Baptist　Generaｌ　Conference (Michigan BGC) in 2002. There were only two families including the Pastor’s family who moved in to Novi from Canada. God blessed the small step of faith and many more families and individuals were gradually added. The first board meeting was held on January 31, 2004 and ever since all the major decisions regarding the church activities, administration and outreach have been made by the this board. Detroit JCF became an official and independent church on February 27, 2005. The first annual meeting of the newly formed church was held on the same day. The church mission statement, the bylaws and budget were made public, and the church board members were voted in.

The celebration to mark the birth of the first Japanese Christian church was held on March 27, 2005.


Detroit JCF Activities

In the past two and a half years a lot of programs have been started. They include the Sunday school, Pre-school, ESL class (English as the second language class) choir, worship team (with guitars, drums, and a piano), simultaneous interpretation service, youth meeting and sport teams including Detroit JCF's softball club, basketball club and golf club. Also, we started cell group meetings in which evangelism, discipleship training, prayer and fellowship take place. In 2005 we are planning to start the "Alpha Program" to reach out to non-Christians. The alpha materials have been widely used by many churches, and we are going to use the Japanese versions of 10 volume videos dubbed in Japanese by NHK.


Our Vision for the Future

Our goals are to be financially self-supportive as soon as possible and start giving for the next church planting and to be an excellent model church for the Japanese Church in the United States. May God be glorified by our ministry of reaching out to the Japanese community and by our discipleship in following the footsteps of Christ.