TMC in EFC Japan Context
16 Jul 2025TMC
TMC’s vision has always included becoming an official EFC of Japan church. EFC Japan has about 83 churches, 6 of which are multisite. Senior EFC America and EFC Canada missionary men church planting at TMC have been members of the EFC Japan Ministerial Association since the 1980’s. (Dale served on the EFCJ Ministerial Board for a few years in the early 1990’s when he was EFCA ReachGlobal Japan field leader.) Prior to serving in TMC church planting, these three missionary households planted two EFCJ churches each. So the original TMC church planters have been well connected to the EFCJ and have desired that TMC eventually become an EFCJ. The timing seemed right this summer, so in July Dale formally requested that TMC become an official EFCJ church. It will take a number of months to work through the process, but we have been receiving encouragement from some EFCJ pastors. EFCJ membership will identify TMC as part of the EFCJ movement while retaining its international mission agency connections.