=JCFN Personnel for 2026 (as of July 1st, 2026)=

1. General Secretary position is abolished and changed to Japan/North America Director positions. 2. Staff Coordinator position is established. That position will be the representative of the organization and convenes and chairs the joint staff meeting. Japan and North American director with take responsibility for the the Staff Coordinator position rotating every two years.

<North America Head Office>

Setsu Shimizu, North America Director

She was raised in a ministerial family in Osaka. Though she believed in God from a young age, until after college, her faith walk was not an active part of her life. At 15, she moved with her family to Hawaii, and has been living the U.S. since then. From her high school years, it became natural for her to be involved in outreach to international students from Japan. At the Urbana ’90 Missions Conference, she re-dedicated her life to the Lord, was led to be a part of JCFN while studying at Fuller Seminary, and then became director in 1994. Her very supportive husband, Mao (himself a former international student who became a Christian in Denver) serves as a minister at Japanese Ministry of Wintersburg Presbyterian Church since May of 2022. She enjoys serving at the church along with her husband.

Yuko Ozeki, Staff

Yuko Ozeki came to know about Jesus Christ at the church she attended with her mother from the time she was in elementary school.After having experienced some of the joy and the hardships of Christian life in Japan during junior high, high school, college and working in an office, she arrived in bitterly cold Chicago on Christmas day 1996 to study at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. She came to realize the importance of evangelizing Japanese and equipping them for their return to Japan.In the spring of 1999, the Lord called Yuko to become a full-time JCFN staff worker and she has been working hard since November, 2000.

Daisuke Tsuchida, Staff

When he went to Los Angeles with the Praise Station Worship Band in 2013, the disappointment of not being able to speak English with his host family led him to dream of speaking English. He Moved to South Carolina, to study the Bible in 2015. Learned English at a language school, but struggled greatly. He went on to take theology courses at CIU (Columbia International University) and completed the Biblical Ministry course in 2018. He completed the Missionary Candidacy Training program at Hope Church (Columbia SC) in 2020 and returned to Japan in 2019. He is currently working as a father of three daughters with his wife in Miyagi Prefecture while continuing his fundraising efforts. He is installed on December 1, 2021.

Takako Narcisa, Admin Staff

<Japan Head Office>

 Maki Goto, Japan Director

Maki Goto was born in Hashima-shi, Gifu in 1970 as the second son and sixth child in a pastor’s family.As a child, he did not understand the true meaning of the gospel, but at the age of 15 he came to accept Jesus as his Savior and was baptized.Visiting his sister in the States at age 19 motivated him to study in the U.S.He realized this dream when he was 21 as a student of a junior college in Southern California.Later, he went to a Bible college where he began to care about Japanese returnees and was led to work for JCFN. Maki was blessed by his marriage to Mitsuyo. He now has a son, Mel, and two daughters, Miri and Maya. He has returned to Japan in the spring of 2004 to work in the Japan office and currently living in the west side of Tokyo.

 Izumi Takahashi, Admin Staff