The People Behind WILDBRANCH
Jeremy came to Japan in 2000 with a sense of calling he couldn't shake and hasn't stopped since. In nearly three decades of ministry—planting churches, pastoring, sharing the gospel beyond church walls, and leading disaster relief in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami—he has learned that the gospel is not a message to be delivered but a life to be lived. That conviction wasn't cheap. It was forged through testing, heartbreak, and the gift of finally reaching the end of his own strength, letting God excavate and refine what was left. Now he is more convinced than ever that true life is found only in God, and more hungry to follow into the unknown. His passion is helping people move past borrowed answers toward a living encounter with God, and to discover, often for the first time, who they actually are.
Kumiko has always had big questions about life and eternity, identity and belonging, feeling and perceiving things deeply, especially as a third culture teenager. After encountering Jesus in her late teens and finding a cause to live for, she devoted herself to community life and serving others. Her work has always grown out of love for Jesus and for people’s real stories, from doing health advising in England to hosting a radio show in Japan, to sharing the gospel and dancing at street outreaches to speaking and interpreting in churches. Her quest for real freedom has been the motivator for her curiosity. That pursuit has required letting go of expectations, titles, and familiar structures along the way. Her passion is to see every person, starting with herself, to be truly free to fully live out the beauty of our one and only life.
