Our Identity
All Nations Fellowship (ANF) is a bilingual international church in Nagoya, Japan. We are a gospel-centered Christian church with bilingual worship services at several locations in the Nagoya area, serving the greater Nagoya area to spread God’s grace to Japan and the world.
Our Vision
We desire to see God’s Spirit at work in a movement where Nagoya, Japan, and all nations are being transformed for the glory of Christ.
Mission
To proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, teach the gospel, make disciples, raise leaders, and develop churches in Nagoya by living the gospel.
Six Core Values
1. gospel-centered
We value who we are in Christ. Through Christ, we have been made children of God, forgiven, accepted, saved, served, loved, and righteous. We are saved because Christ lived a perfect life in our place, loved and served us, was forsaken on the cross as our substitute, was condemned, suffered the wrath and judgment of God, died, and rose again. We believe in the life-changing power of this gospel.
2. community
Gospel-centered living is practiced in the community. As Jesus cared for His community of the day, we care for the community of the body of Christ (the church). We disciple one another in the community, serving and ministering to the city through the community.
3. Discipleship
A disciple of Christ is a person who believes, trusts and seeks to follow Jesus Christ as Savior. Discipleship training takes place as Christians walk together. This is done during Sunday worship services and through building relationships among us in our daily walk together, seeing each other’s strengths and weaknesses. This is done by regularly engaging with the community, belonging to it, and using our gifts.
4. Serve the city
God loves our cities, so we love the cities we live in. We will not wait for people to come to us in church, but we will value incarnational mission, where we go out to the people and share the gospel through learning about their culture, serving them, and walking with them.
5. The next generation
We have a responsibility to teach the gospel to the next generation. As God’s family, we are committed to teaching the gospel to the next generation through our walk with our children.
6. Kingdom thinking
Our goal is not simply to see our church grow but to see the whole body of Christ grow and the Kingdom of God advance in Japan. We hope that new churches will be born as fellow workers encouraging each other (church pioneering), and we use 10% of our church budget for missions to support the work being done in Japan and abroad.
Staff Introduction
Yu Eguchi, Pastor and Elder
Yu met a missionary when he was 18 years old, which led him to the United States, and he became a Christian in 2005 while in Tucson, Arizona. The following year, she became involved in the launch of J Lodge, a college student evangelistic cafe in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, where she served as manager for five years.
Asako became a Christian in 2011 in Irvine, California. She has completed counseling classes at Christ Bible Seminary and is an IFM Certified Counselor and a licensed Professional Psychologist (National Association of Psychologists).
They met at Christ Biblical Seminary in 2011, married in February 2014, and completed their Master of Divinity degree process in August of the same year. They reside in Nagoya, Japan, with their family of four, along with their daughter, Ikoi, and son, Yuto.
Yu was installed as pastor of ANF Downtown Campus in May 2019.
Brooks Cain (Elder, currently inactive)
Brooks and Reeva grew up in Christian homes in the United States, so they don’t remember when they came to faith in Jesus.
They met in 2005, married in 2007, and began serving in youth ministry shortly after. They visited Japan shortly after graduation and have been nurturing their love for the Japanese ever since!
The Cains have a burning passion for ministering to Japanese youth and supporting other missionary families as they navigate life in a foreign country. This is why they began worshiping at ANF in 2013; in 2019, they gladly answered the call to serve a mission with the Eguchi family.
Brooks was initially approved as an Elder in the Presbyterian Church (PCA) USA, and Reeva is a professionally licensed counselor. God has blessed them with three beautiful and energetic children: Quinn, Marley, and John.
Paul Kang (Elder)
Paul and Yu are part of the mission team at Christ Biblical Seminary (CBI), the parent organization of Christ Biblical Seminary, which trains Christian leaders and pastors in Japan. Paul is an ANF elder and serves as a chaplain and interpreter for CBI. Yu is Japanese from Nagoya, Japan, and leads a children’s ministry with young mothers. The Kangs’ two children’s names are Isaac Soon (with the hope that Jesus will return soon) Kang and Sarah Faith (meaning “saved only by faith”) Kang. Please pray for the Kang family serving in Nagoya.
We believe that God can accomplish His plan without our help if He so desires, but He has given us the privilege to participate in His plan freely and joyfully. The freedom and love that God is giving us far exceeds our expectations. This freedom and love is a strong motivation for us to follow God. When we remember that through God and the cross of Jesus Christ, God loves us and gives us more than we can imagine, we can love and use God more than we can imagine.”
Jenny Martin (Administrative Support Staff)
Growing up as the daughter of Korean immigrants in the U.S., Jenny’s heart was transformed by the message of God’s saving love through Jesus Christ, and she became the first Christian in her family at age 14.
Jenny left a career in speech-language pathology to follow God’s call to full-time missionary work. She first came to Japan as a single missionary serving in Tokyo (1999-2002) where she met her husband Tim. God used this time to open their eyes to the need for the gospel in Japan! Sent out as TEAM missionaries by Park Cities Presbyterian Church (Dallas, Texas), their family returned to Japan in 2013 for ministry in Nagano prefecture, then God opened the door to serve in Nagoya in 2018. The Martins started attending ANF (Nagakute) in 2019 and have been members of ANF (Downtown) since 2022.
Jenny has a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from Dallas Theological Seminary. She is mom to two kids whom she has homeschooled from kindergarten through high school.
Noyuri Sawada (Intern)
I was raised in a Christian home and was baptized at the age of 12.
As a college student, I actively participated in student evangelism through groups like KGK. After collage, I worked as a midwife at a hospital in Nagoya for four years.
During that time, God gave me a growing desire to know more about the Bible, and in 2024 I began studying theology at Christ Bible Seminary.