Okamoto Keiyaku RP Church

Location: Okamoto, Kobe, Japan

Presbytery: Japan

OrganizationDate: 1975

Membership: 23 communicant; 22 baptized

Pastors: Shigeru Takiura and Kihei Takiura

Web Site: keiyaku.tea-nifty.com (Japanese)

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Our church has two names, and they show the early history of our church. Keiyaku means “covenant.” This came from the Covenanter Book Room (CBR) in the downtown area of Kobe. Pastor Gene Spear started Bible class on the second floor of the CBR, and eventually the group started gathering for worship in 1957. The other part of the name, Okamoto, comes from the name of a suburb area on the east end of Kobe.

In 1966, they searched for a more fitting place for worship services. They found Okamoto, moved there, and started morning services. After that, God added members by baptism every year and the ...