Japan​Allied Church of Christ

The history of this church begins on November 22, 1891, when 15 missionaries landed in Yokohama. They were dispatched by the Scandinavian Alliance Mission (SAM) in North America, which was founded by Frederick Franson and his associates in Chicago, USA. They evangelized the Izu Peninsula, the Boso Peninsula, the Izu Seven Islands, and the Hida region, which were unreached areas, and also attempted to evangelize the Ainu region. Although it was not originally intended to establish a church, the churches that were created through the cooperation of missionaries, pastors, and believers organized the Japan United Christian Association in 1922. Under the wartime regime, the Japan Sanctified Christian Church was established in 1940 with the enforcement of the Religious Organizations Law. In 1941, he belonged to the 8th Division of the United Church of Christ in Japan. Some of them left the church after the war and re-visited Japan in 1948, forming The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) with the missionary group SAM, which was renamed The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). Although cooperation has now ended, we have been working with the Swedish Alliance Mission and the Swiss Alliance Mission to promote postwar evangelism and church formation.
The decision-making body of the church is the church general meeting, and in 2013 the church shifted to a representative general meeting made up of missionary district representatives. Teacher training is provided at Tokyo Christian University (opened the Graduate School of Theology in 2012), whose predecessor was the Alliance Bible Institute (opened in 1950), and other schools.
The purpose of this church's existence is to glorify God by responding to Christ's missionary commands through the power of the Holy Spirit, with the three pillars of "Bible faith, missionary cooperation, and collegialism." In terms of missionary cooperation, we are working on three driving forces: domestic missionary work, overseas missionary work, and youth missionary work. In Japan, a mission district system was introduced in 2006 for active pioneering evangelism and solid church formation, and as of 2018, there are 255 churches and mission stations in 16 mission districts nationwide. In addition, since the first missionary was dispatched to Taiwan in 1975 as a religious organization serving "Japan, Asia, and the world," we have served Taiwan, Indonesia, Canada (indigenous people of North America), Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Brazil, Mongolia, South Africa, etc. sent missionaries to Youth evangelism focuses on the salvation and development of young people using the church's Bible camps at Lake Matsubara and Lake Hamana.
In addition, the declarations made at the 100th anniversary and 105th anniversary conferences, the ``70 Years After the War Declaration on Church and State,'' and ``Our Statement on Today's Political Situation'' have all been made to address the sins of idolatry and war cooperation in the past. He repents, sacrifices generously, and declares his commitment to maintaining his faith in Christ until the end of the world. Due to the recent frequency of natural disasters, we are actively engaged in support activities for disaster-stricken areas. Through support for areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in 2011, they decided to establish a church in Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture in 2019.