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Regularly exposed to missions while at Cedarville College in Ohio, he was given the opportunity to finish his teaching degree and receive his first teaching position at an international Christian school in Okinawa, Japan. After a year of being mentored by the Virginia Tech Navigators, Brian returned to Japan in 1995 to teach English for the Shimonoseki City Board of Education and served in a newly planted Japanese church. Yoko grew up in a Buddhist family in Shimonoseki and later during her studies at Kagawa Nutrition University she began following Christ. Brian and Yoko met at Shimonoseki Christ Bible Church where they began full-time ministry together in 1998 as a married couple and as PIONEERS missionaries. They started a church-based English language school for evangelism while Yoko led the church's childrens' ministry and assisted with a parenting class outreach. After ten years of ministry in Shimonoseki, the Broaddus family has now joined the PIONEERS Fukuoka team. Over the years, God has blessed them with three precious daughters and co-workers in ministry: Naomi, Sara and Suzanna. </p><br /> <p><strong>(L to R) Yoko, Suzanna, Brian, Naomi, Sara</strong></p><br /> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/broaddusfamily" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/4ff70dedf51506f517bf0bdffb4edf53.wix_mp_128" alt="No Frame" /></a>|<a href="http://https://ww4.pioneers.org/tabid/215/default.aspx?view=givinginfo&id=-2&name=missionary" target="_blank"><br /> <strong>ONLINE GIVING</strong></a><br /> <p><strong>SIGN UP & RECEIVE THEIR NEWSLETTER</strong></p> <strong>Page 2</strong><br /> <img src="http://static.wix.com/media/9351d779ee44d68a53311139baba279e.wix_mp_128" alt="3457-8x10" /><br /> <h2>Dan and Cindy Hoisington</h2><br /> <p>Dan and Cindy Hoisington first arrived in Japan with PIONEERS in 2006 and studied for two years at the OMF Japanese Language Center in Sapporo. They have three sons; Nathan (23), Keith (20) and Dean (13). Nathan recently completed a Bible certificate program at The Masters College and is now pursuing a Bible Teaching Degress at Columbia International University. Keith is in the CA. Army National Guard awaiting a deployment of service overseas. Dan worked for 20 years as an engineer and manager in the aerospace industry prior to joining PIONEERS. He is a graduate of California State Polytechnic University (BS Electrical Engineering), California State University Bakersfield (MBA), and Columbia International University (Cert. Biblical Studies). Cindy graduated from Biola University (BS Business Administration), and from Columbia International University (MA Intercultural Studies). </p><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/c4967da41ef4306fea44b26ca572000a.wix_mp_128" alt="nathan 1" /><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/f8009ab15ce2df597af1e40d254fc198.wix_mp_128" alt="keith" /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/cehoisington" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/4ff70dedf51506f517bf0bdffb4edf53.wix_mp_128" alt="No Frame" /></a>|<a href="http://https://ww4.pioneers.org/tabid/215/default.aspx?view=givinginfo&id=-2&name=missionary-2/name/missionary/default.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Shiny</b></a> <strong>Page 3</strong><br /> <h2>Stephanie Schatz</h2><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/42a2b5b0047ea15417ba2935568ee86b.wix_mp_128" alt="img_3354_edited" /><br /> <p>One Sunday morning on the windswept prairie of Alberta, Canada, Stephanie heard the story of missionary Hudson Taylor, and her life was never the same. With childhood faith, she knew "When I grow up, I'm going to serve God as a missionary too."</p><p>And that conviction never disappeared. Stephanie attended Prairie Bible College, graduating in 2006 with a BA in Intercultural Studies and a new interest in what God was doing in Japan. In 2008, she came to Japan as a PIONEERS missionary and studied Japanese for two years at the OMF Japanese Language Center in Sapporo. She is currently living in Fukuoka, where she is involved in church planting ministries with the PIONEERS Fukuoka team. </p><p> </p><br /> <a href="http://www.pioneers.ca/waystogive.php#" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/b272f7248a93c2cc8fd41b3bb3877d70.wix_mp_128" alt="No Frame" /></a>|<a href="http://www.pioneers.ca/waystogive.php#" target="_blank"><b>Text Only</b></a>|<a href="http://www.facebook.com/#/profile.php?id=554420569" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/02419d7d0c1040f1fd328700df476e57.wix_mp_128" alt="facebookred" /></a>|<a href="http://www.wix.com/fukuoka_steph/fukuoka_steph" target="_blank"><b>Shiny</b></a> <strong>Brian Tom</strong><br /> <h2>Brian Tom</h2><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/46802acd4d43dbf2c44e5fcfd4b94e15.wix_mp_128" alt="p1010710" /><br /> <p>Brian's first Japan experiences were with the PIONEERS EDGE summer team in 2007, which was a fantastic two-month experience in Shimonoseki. Since then, he made good use of his degree in Graphic Design doing freelance work under the alias of Hoshimo, studied up on some Japanese and after much prayer and thought, decided to head back in 2010. Now he is in Fukuoka, working alongside of Meinohama Christian Church as an English teacher and ministry worker in efforts to build up that church plant there. The rest of his time is spent trying to study Japanese and looking for opportunities to love the people he encounters in everyday life.</p><p></p><p>To get a fantastically detailed account of his everyday life, check out his photos and journaling from the facebook link below.</p><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/36fafd801fd45f53a1d3f10e54e7b078.wix_mp_128" alt="img_9875" /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/brian-goes-to-japan/135899369775107" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/4ff70dedf51506f517bf0bdffb4edf53.wix_mp_128" alt="No Frame" /></a>|<a href="http://https://ww4.pioneers.org/tabid/215/default.aspx?view=givinginfo&id=-2&name=missionary" target="_blank"><b>Shiny</b></a>|<a href="http://eepurl.com/pvyd" target="_blank"><b>Flash</b></a> <strong>Page 4</strong><br /> <h2>Why We're Here</h2><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/a05fc27e57bb0ed0137c0242cd209d0e.wix_mp_128" alt="Default Frame" /><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/dc3c7e120d3ff47288ce93e6eb9cf777.wix_mp_128" alt="fukuoka church" /><br /> <p><strong>Make Disciples</strong></p><p>Everything we do is focused on making disciples, or followers of Jesus, among the Japanese living in the Fukuoka metropolitan area. PIONEERS team members may be involved in many different activities, but whether we are passing out tracts, getting to know our neighbors, or conducting a Bible study, our goal is discipleship. </p><br /> <p><strong>Plant Churches</strong></p><p>Following Jesus is meant to take place in the environment of a local church. Our mission is to plant churches where believers can be baptized, observe the Lord's Supper, worship, learn, grow, serve, and be equipped and encouraged to reach the next spiritual generation through evangelism and discipleship.</p> <strong>Page 5</strong><br /> <h2>Our Priorities</h2><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/9d28895732135f88a2a86fd586eac726.wix_mp_128" alt="eric-liddell" /><br /> <p><strong>Faithfulness:</strong> We consider ourselves messengers, not salesmen. Methods of ministry have their place, but ultimately God honors faithfulness; He alone is responsible for the results of this work.</p><p></p><p><strong>Multiplication Mentality:</strong> We want to communicate God's Word to others by teaching and by life-example with the goal that they too will be able to teach others (II Tim2:2).</p><p></p><p><strong>Prayer:</strong> Through prayer we admit our total dependence on God's provision for every aspect of our life and ministry here in Fukuoka. </p><p></p><p><strong>Preaching the Word:</strong> God's Word is our text and our message. Cultural sensitivity is a critical part of ministry, but not at the expense of compromising difficult or offensive truths.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Interpreting the Bible:</strong> Because God's revelation is relevant to us today, we want every decision and activity to be based upon careful study and application of its teaching and principles. Discipleship includes teaching others how to read, understand, meditate upon, and apply God's Word for themselves.</p><p></p><p><strong>Biblical Church-Life:</strong> In this age of seeking to find the irreducible minimum that defines church, we find in Scripture a mandate to maintain such elements as the Lord's Supper and baptism, expository preaching and teaching, the offices of elder and deacon/ deacon-ess, accountability, church discipline, and active ministry by all members according to their gifting. </p> <strong>Page 6</strong><br /> <h2> International Mobilization Bases</h2><br /> <p><strong> PIONEERS Mission</strong></p><p><em>PIONEERS mobilizes teams </em></p><p><em> to glorify God among unreached peoples </em></p><p><em> by initiating church planting movements </em></p><p><em>in partnership with local churches.</em></p><a href="http://www.pioneers.org.au" target="_blank"><b>Pill Glow</b></a>|<a href="http://www.piafrica.org" target="_blank"><b>Pill Glow</b></a><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/11b95d9535821141d7e544eca4e5b199.wix_mp_128" alt="No Frame" /><a href="http://www.pioneersinasia.org" target="_blank"><b>Pill Glow</b></a><br /> <p><strong>1700 Workers</strong></p><p><strong>178 Teams</strong></p><p><strong>80 Countries</strong></p><p><strong>130+ People Groups</strong></p><p><strong>2000 Local Church</strong></p><p><strong> Partnerships</strong></p><a href="http://www.pioneers.ca" target="_blank"><b>Pill Glow</b></a>|<a href="http://www.actionpartners.co.uk" target="_blank"><b>Pill Glow</b></a>|<a href="http://www.pioneiros.org.br" target="_blank"><b>Pill Glow</b></a>|<a href="http://www.pioneers.org" target="_blank"><b>Pill Glow</b></a>|<a href="http://www.ecfa.org" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/456382114abc5a43065f354bbf3accce.wix_mp_128" alt="ecfa-logo" /></a><br /> <p><strong>Accredited by</strong></p><a href="http://www.pioneers.org/about/statementoffaith.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Pill</b></a>|<a href="http://www.pioneers.org/about/corevalues.aspx" target="_blank"><b>Pill</b></a> <strong>Page 7</strong><br /> <p><strong>WHAT IS THE GOSPEL?</strong></p><p></p><p>The gospel is articulated in many ways throughout Scripture; however we believe the critical elements are: </p><p></p><p>The self-revelation of the one true God through Jesus Christ. </p><p></p><p>Mankind was created by God in His image meaning that we have a will, emotions, and reason. The sin of Adam, the ancestor of the entire human race, marred, but did not erase, the image of God in mankind. Thus, while still capable of reason, will, and emotion, man's use of these faculties is no longer for God's glory but they are bent toward selfish desires. Man is powerless to correct his lost condition. Adam's sin passed a physical and spiritual death sentence on the human race so that every person is born under God's condemnation, without hope, and subject to eternity in hell. </p><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/25bc0ef06522fe6301b0fd9068f22ab1.wix_mp_128" alt="475px-george_whitefield_preaching" /><br /> <p>In eternity past, God conceived a plan whereby He sent the Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, into the world as both a fully divine and fully human person. Jesus Christ lived a perfect life and so did not come under the condemnation of Adam. Yet, God punished him for the sins of people gathered from every tribe, tongue and nation. He received the penalty of rejection by God and abandonment by Him. God declared the validity and sufficiency of Christ's redemptive death by raising Him back to life on the third day. Christ is the perfectly obedient representative for those who will place their trust in Him. When God looks at His chosen ones, He sees the blood of Christ covering their sins. </p><p></p><p>In Christ, believers are forgiven, delivered from sin's power, are being set free from sins, accepted as perfect, adopted into God's family, alive with power to live for God, and will be ultimately honored by Christ when he returns. The proper response to the gospel is for a sinner to recognize his sinful condition in light of God's holiness, to repent of sin which separates him or her from God, and to embrace the free gift of salvation that is found in the person of Jesus Christ. </p><p></p><p>Key texts: Gen. 3, Isa. 53, Rom. 1:1-6, 1 Cor. 15:1-8 </p><a href="http://www.matthiasmedia.com.au/2wtl/" target="_blank"><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/71a9b177156ae5bddb3d04f4b68e2ab9.wix_mp_128" alt="No Frame" /></a> <strong>Page 8</strong><br /> <p><strong>WHAT IS TRUE CONVERSION? </strong></p><p></p><p>Conversion is a marvelous work of God often referred to in terms such as the new birth or the new creation. Therefore, we recognize that the following will not be able to adequately describe this miracle; however, the following is our attempt to describe what happens in a person who has passed from death to life. Here are what we believe to be the critical elements: </p><p></p><p>--Drawing by the Father through the Holy Spirit so that he or she comes to Christ. </p><p></p><p>--Admission of one's wretched condition and repentance towards God. </p><p></p><p>--Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. (Note: the focus is not on what a person did like: making a decision, praying the sinner's prayer, being baptized, etc., but the focus is on repentance toward God and submitting one's soul to Christ trusting His ability to save through who He is and what He has accomplished.) </p><p></p><p>--Ongoing repentance and faith in Christ which results in a life of good works. (Note: while perseverance and good works are elements of true conversion they are a fruit of true conversion; they are not a prerequisite to salvation.) </p><p></p><p>Key Texts: Jn 3:16, 6:44; Acts 16:31, 20:21, Eph. 2:8-10; Col.1:19-23) </p><p></p><p> </p><img src="http://static.wix.com/media/89e1f23ef2b280e899888b819bf6ddc4.wix_mp_128" alt="No Frame" /> <strong>Page 9</strong><br /> <img src="http://static.wix.com/media/e3d0eae36339df41b579d4291ca7dbe8.wix_mp_128" alt="photo-1" /><br /> <p></p><p><strong>WHAT IS THE LOCAL CHURCH? </strong> </p><p></p><p>The church is a group of converted disciples of Jesus Christ with qualified leadership that regularly gather to spur each other on toward love and good deeds by devoting themselves to teaching God's Word, to praying, to praising God, to joyfully sharing life together, to meeting needs, to sharing in the Lord's Supper, to eating together, and to influencing their communities. In the following areas we would say that: </p><p></p><p>Baptism is an act of obedience but it is not a prerequisite to be saved. It is an outward expression of an inward work in the life of a believer. The mode of baptism is immersion. </p><p></p><p>The Lord's Supper is open to all believers who are willing to examine themselves as recorded in 1 Corinthians 11 and is not offered to unbelievers. </p><p></p><p>Leadership in our churches begins with the truth that God gives both men and women spiritual gifts at salvation. As with all the gifts, we encourage those gifted in leadership to use their gift according the guidelines found in Scripture. We recognize that Scripture makes a clear distinction of roles that has specific application in the church and in the family. Therefore, we do not place women over men in church teaching roles and we do not place women in the church leadership roles of pastor/elder. We view the leadership role of men in the home as both a model and as an indicator of suitability to exercise leadership in the church (I Tim.3:5). We recognize a variety of roles in the home and in the church that are uniquely designed for women. </p><p> </p><p> </p><br /> <p><strong>WHAT DO WE CONSIDER TO BE SECONDARY ISSUES OR NON-ESSENTIALS?</strong></p><p></p><p>We recognize that there are aspects of God's revelation that are not agreed upon by all believers including those who in good faith take all of God's Word as their authoritative guide for life. Our team does not hold to any specific interpretation on the following issues. Instead, we recognize and encourage the right of individual team members to believe and teach their views in a non-divisive way that recognizes and respects other views. These would include but not be limited to: views about the timing of the rapture, the age of the earth, and the present existence of miraculous spiritual gifts in the church. </p><p> </p><br /> <p> © PIONEERS Fukuoka Team 2011 All rights reserved.</p><br />
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