Yuko

Yuko was born and raised in Japan. Growing up in a Christian family, she came to personal faith as a teenager, while attending a Word of Life Camp in New York. Since then she has served the Lord as a counselor and evangelist in Japan. Following studies in Christian education and biblical counseling in the USA, she returned to Japan and earned a Master of Education degree in clinical psychology in 2003.

JOURNEY OF FAITH

I was raised in a Christian home, but we attended mainline churches where the gospel was not clearly preached and my parents did not know how to teach the doctrines of the Christian Faith clearly to my brother and me. I was saved at the age of seventeen when I attended Word of Life Youth Camp in Schroon Lake, New York for about a month. While there, Japanese missionaries gave messages with clear gospel presentations every day. For the first time I understood that Jesus Christ crucified for my sins and raised again was the only means of my salvation. I believed in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior on August 1, 1993.

When I was saved at the age of seventeen I dedicated my life to serving the Lord as a counselor and evangelist to Japanese women. Since then, the Lord has allowed me to study biblical studies and biblical counseling at Bible colleges in the United States, and clinical psychology at graduate school in Japan. He has allowed me to gain experience in both the field of education and the medical field as a school counselor and clinical psychologist. Beginning in 1999 I had the privilege of participating in an OMF church plant in Sapporo as a national (i.e. native Japanese) lay leader. It was a real blessing, and I learned so much from the OMF missionaries I served with. It is my prayer that these experiences will be used of God to better enable me to serve the Lord in Japan together with my husband.

EDUCATION
Hokkaido University of Education
(Master of Education in Clinical Psychology, 2003)
The Master's College
(Bachelor's degrees in Christian Education / Biblical Counseling, 1999)
Word of Life Bible Institute
(Certificate in Biblical Studies, 1996 / Certificate in Youth Ministry, 1997)
Markoma Bible Academy
(High School Diploma, 1997)

EMPLOYMENT
OMF International - OMF Canada → OMF Japan
(Missionary: March 15, 2013 - Present)
Kazamaura Village Board of Education - Kazamaura, Aomori, Japan
(Board Member: DEC 2005 - JUL 2009 /
School Counselor: AUG 2008 - JUL 2009)
Mutsu General Hospital - Mutsu, Aomori, Japan
(Clinical Psychologist: OCT 2007 - JUN 2008)
Goryokai Medical Corporation - Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
(Clinical Psychologist: MAR 2003 - MAR 2005)
Komazawa University Iwamizawa High School - Iwamizawa, Hokkaido, Japan
(School Counselor: JUN 2000 - MAR 2003)