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Chris and Lindsey Carter

Chris and Lindsey CarterChris and Lindsey Carter are Assemblies of God missionaries to Japan. Together with their three children (Wesley, Adelaide, and Hudson), they live and minister in Japan's science city, Tsukuba, which is about one hour away from Tokyo by train. Their ministry is primarily focused on three areas:



  • Chris makes use of his Ph.D. in New Testament Studies from the University of Aberdeen to train pastors at both the graduate and undergraduate level at Central Bible College in Tokyo.

  • Chris and Lindsey pastor Tsukuba International Christian Assembly, a bilingual church currently representing about 16 different nationalities.

  • Chris and Lindsey lead a Chi Alpha student ministry at the University of Tsukuba (Chris also teaches at the university as an adjunct faculty member).


You can learn more about Chris and Lindsey's ministry and how to pray for them by visiting their website and/or by following them on Facebook.


And you can support Chris and Lindsey financially by signing up to support them on a monthly basis or to contribute a one-time gift. Learn more at their giving page.


Photo courtesy of Chris and Lindsey Carter. Used by permission (personal correspondence).

Church Planting Along a Japanese Travel Corridor

By Frank Johnson on September 6, 2020 0

Tsukuba Express Line

The church has a history of using travel-related infrastructure for the rapid dissemination of the gospel. Just as the apostolic band made strategic use of the Roman system of roads, the Tsukuba Express line in Japan represents a strategic opportunity today. Assemblies of God missionaries Chris and Lindsey Carter, along with their developing church-planting team, are taking advantage of that opportunity.

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Hope in the Land of the Rising Sun

By Frank Johnson on July 29, 2020 0

Japanese Children

Over 43,000 children and teenagers in Tsukuba, Japan — raised in an honor-shame culture — are desperately in need of hope. Who will tell them of Jesus and His love? Who will tell them of the sun of righteousness who rises with healing in his wings? Josh and Erin McCoin, Assemblies of God missionary associates, have answered God’s call! Learn how God has uniquely qualified them to reach children and youth in Japan for Jesus!

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Tsukuba Express Line
Tsukuba International Christian Assembly is responding to God's call to plant 20 churches along the the Tsukuba Express Line (a train line with 20 stops from Tsukuba to Tokyo). Click to learn more.

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  • Reaching the Never Reached of Japan — The Carters in Japan
  • Canavan in Japan (Justin Chase Canavan): An AGWM Missionary to Japan
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  • Tsukuba International Christian Assembly in Tsukuba, Japan
  • TICA TEDS: Planting 20 Churches Along the Tsukuba Express
  • Japan Evangelical Missionary Society (JEMS): Jesus to Every Japanese, Jesus Every Day
  • RJC Network — Reaching Japanese for Christ: Enhancing Each Other's Ministries for Sharing the Gospel
  • Moving Works: Jesus Loves Japan (Six Christ-Centered Short Films)
  • Missions Box Content Library: Resources on Japan

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  • Reaching Buddhists with Mark Durene (The Antioch Initiative)
  • Understanding our Buddhist Friends and Neighbors (Global Missions Podcast)

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  • Lausanne Occasional Paper: Christian Witness to Buddhists
  • 4 Keys to Sharing the Gospel With Buddhists (ABWE International)
  • Proclaiming the Glory of God among Buddhist Peoples (IMB)
  • Beyond Buddha to Beloved: How I Became the First-Ever Christian in My Family Lineage (Christianity Today)
  • Revealing the One True God to the Polytheistic Shinto Culture (Answers in Genesis)

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This day, we swear allegiance to You, our King.

This day, we pray that You would set our hearts aflame for Your cause and for the over 3 billion people in this world who have yet to hear Your name.

We long for the day that we will stand before Your throne, surrounded by the most diverse community ever formed — from every tribe, every tongue, every people, and every nation — those whom You have purchased with Your blood — as we cry out together “Worthy is the Lamb!”

Until that day, we commit ourselves to loving our brothers and sisters in Christ — no matter what their people group, no matter what their language, no matter what their race, no matter where they are from — and to living in community with them — that the world may know that the Father loves them and that He sent You to save them.

This day, we devote our lives — our time, our money, our passion, our mind, our strength, our everything — to see Your gospel proclaimed in every corner of this world.

And we thank You for the astounding privilege of playing a small part in carrying Your name to the nations!

Pray for the Tsukuba Express Church Planting Team

Tsukuba Express Line

  1. Please pray for the areas surrounding these twenty rail stations: Akihabara, Shin-Okachimachi, Asakusa, Minami-Senju, Kita-Senju, Aoi, Rokucho, Yashio, Misato-chuo, Minami-Nagareyama, Nagareyama-centralpark, Nagareyama-otakanomori, Kashiwanoha-campus, Kashiwa-Tanaka, Moriya, Miraidaira, Midorino, Bampaku-kinenkoen, Kenkyu-gakuen, and Tsukuba
  2. Pray that God would raise up church planters and send forth laborers into the harvest fields surrounding these stations (Luke 10:2-4).
  3. Pray that God would help these church planters identify persons of peace in the areas surrounding these stations (Luke 10:5-8).
  4. Pray that God would enable these church planters to speak the word of God with boldness in these areas (Luke 10:9b).
  5. Pray that the proclamation of God’s word in the areas surrounding these stations would be accompanied by demonstrations of God’s compassion and power (Luke 10:9a).