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About Our Church

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  The Baptist Church
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  Church History
.Baptist Evangelism in Kochi began in 1952 and under the leadership of Pastor Tatsuo Harada and the missionaries Bill Emanuel and his wife Rebecca of Northwest Baptist Church in Oklahoma. The Mission its first baptisms celebrated in 1953; 5 new believers were baptized in the Kagami River . Kochi Isezaki Christ Church formerly Kochi Baptist Church was first established in May 1954 as an outreach mission church of Takamatsu Baptist Church For the first year the church was lead by lay pastor Tadashi Takada. In 1955 the reigns were taken over by Pastor Nakamura. The church took up temporary residence in Urado Machi and in the next year the meeting hall was completed in its current location in Isezaki –cho.

 In 1972 The Takamatsu Baptist Church Scripture theme was taken from Psalm 119: 125 - gIt is time for the Lord to work.h They felt that this was a clear leading to give independence to the Kochi Mission. On June 20 th 1977 Kochi Baptist Church became an independent church of the Japan Baptist Convention establishing itself as Kochi Isezaki Kirisuto Kyokai under the leadership of Pastor Sueo Kitahara. The church continued to grow and in 1978 established the kindergarten Kohitsujien (Little Lambs Kindergarten).

 In 1988, it was time to consider rebuilding. It was a hard decision to make but a necessary one. Funds were gathered and in April 1998 volunteers from Masterfs Service construction mission put up the present meeting hall.

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  Our Pastor
Minoru   Hirabayashi

Hometown:  Kyoto City

Born : September 1958

Baptism: April 15th 1979
   Tanritsu Kyoto Migiwa Christ Church

Hobbies: Movies,  Mozart

Fav. Team  Chiba Lotte Marines

Seminary: Seinan Gakuin University  (class of 97)

1997 - 2003 
Pastor     Omuta Baptist Church

Feb 2005 ~    Pastor  Kochi Isezaki Christ Church

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