Bio: Takeshi & Dorrie Takazawa
Background
TAKESHI TAKAZAWA was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He became a Christian through a children’s English class held in partnership with A3 and a local Japanese church. After college, he joined A3 as Acting Business Manager for the English language schools and from there he worked with others to start the Church Planting Networks. He was part of the restructure of A3 to launch cutting edge leader development program in Asia. He continues to contribute to develop various innovate iniates such as Pan Asia Leader Development Program. Recently, he is helping to develop new iniatives in leader development.
DORRIE TAKAZAWA met Takeshi while serving as the TESOL director for the English language schools and programs and has been involved in training over a thousand cross cultural workers. She has been developing curriculum, training programs and has served as a trainer in various settings. Dorrie also assisted Takeshi in developing and leading the Pan Asia Leader Development Program. Currently, she is involved in public educational development in Japan.
Kei was born and raised in Japan and attended local schools through 9th grade. He attended a US high school for three years and graduated this past June with high honors. He is attending Wheaton College now. His current interest is physics. He has been a big help in serving both with us and on his own in Japan as well as in the States in a church plant targeting 2nd generation Vietnamese.
Kie was also born and raised in Japan and attended local schools through part of 8th grade. She entered 9th grade in a US high school without ever really finishing 8th grade! After a rocky start, she is now a senior in the same high school and doing very well. She is on the varsity basketball team and also enjoys playing in the Asian Leagues. She has a heart for children and serves as one of the children’s leaders in the church plant. She loves helping Japanese youth (she was invaluable when we hosted a group of kids from Fukushima last March) and is interested in social sciences and Japanese.
Ministry Assignment
Takeshi is the Vice President for Innovative Initiatives for A3. He served as the National Director of A3/Japan from 2015-'17. In addition, he currently serves on the A3 International Ministry Leadership team.
Since the three-fold disaster in Japan on March 11, 2011, Takeshi has been in Japan every month to serve pastors and leaders in the disaster area. He has been involved in various projects that have developed out of needs discovered on his visits and through his relationships. He also facilitated a three-year renewal process for JCGI Network (A3's work in Japan) that brought in younger leaders and culminated in 2017. He continues to teach and train in other parts of Asia when asked.
Dorrie and the kids continue to pitch in as needed.
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Created on 14 August 2018
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Created on 19 July 2018
A3 responds as misery compound
Japan (MNN) — “When it rains, it pours.” In other words, when something bad happens, more trouble is right around the corner. Such is the case in Japan. Earlier this month, a typhoon brought record-breaking rainfall to southwest Japan. Last week, flooding caused by the rainfall triggered massive mudslides and left people stranded on rooftops. Now, says Takeshi Takazawa of A3, a heat wave is complicating recovery efforts and the death toll keeps on climbing. More than 200 people have perished so...
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Created on 09 July 2018
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Japan (MNN) — Large sections of Japan are underwater following a typhoon and record rainfall over the weekend. The storm has claimed at least 100 lives and dozens are still missing. Two million people are under evacuation orders.A3 is equipping Japanese Christians to respond. “It’s getting difficult to find out all the information, but each time we have a disaster, [the] Japanese Church is getting more equipped, more prepared,” says Takeshi Takazawa, VP for Strategic Engagement...
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Prayer is needed as the nation continues to heal
Japan (MNN) – Seven years ago on the afternoon of March 11, a massive earthquake shifted Japan’s Honshu island by several feet. The moving earth resulted in a series of tsunamis, the first of which struck the Fukushima nuclear power plant at a height of 45 ft, knocking out its backup generators. Three of the six reactors exploded because the cooling systems stopped functioning. Many people died in what’s known as Japan’s Triple Disaster, also called 3/11. Hundreds of thousands of people had...
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Created on 05 September 2017
At A3 one of our core goals in our mission is to “unite the Church”. We put it this way, we develop leaders… “to unite the Church, multiply leaders and congregations, and extend the transforming power of the Gospel.” Jesus himself highlights the importance of unity in John 17: “that they may be one, even as we are one.” He’s speaking of times when the world will tear us apart and this is his prayer to the Father that we may be unified in the midst of the challenges the world throws our way. In my lifetime, I can’t think of a more important season for...
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Takeshi wants "Eastern Voices" to introduce Asian leaders to the West and to promote dialogue
On May 1st, A3 released a brand new series called, Eastern Voices: Insight, Perspective, and Vision from Kingdom Leaders in Asia In Their Own Words.
Takeshi Takazawa expands on how the reader can best engage "Eastern Voices"—getting to know the writers as people, hearing their stories, and thinking of questions that could be asked of their brothers and sisters in Asia that would help to build and deepen the conversation...
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Groundbreaking book released May 1 platforms national leaders across Asia
A3 is releasing a brand new series today called, Eastern Voices: Insight, Perspective, and Vision from Kingdom Leaders in Asia In Their Own Words.
Noel Becchetti, VP for Leader Development at A3 served as editor of the compilation of 14 stories from 15 different Asian authors. In his introduction, Becchetti writes:
"It's time to hear the voices. The voices have actually...
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Created on 23 March 2017
“For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.” — Matthew 17:20 A3 is passing some significant milestones in 2017. We are celebrating 50 years of ministry this year and are major celebratory event is happening at the end of April: Jubilee in Jakarta! Also this month, on April 1, A3/Japan passes another significant milestone: passing the torch from one national director to another. Takeshi Takazawa, whom many of you have been praying for has been planning for this moment for some time when he took the leadership post 3 years ago. On April 1st, he hands the leadership to Joshua Hari. I’ll never forget the day sitting in our A3/Japan board meeting last fall when Takeshi described this moment in time. He told his fellow board members...
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Created on 18 May 2016
Takeshi Takazawa of A3 reports that there are over 100 churches in the Kyushu earthquake disaster area and surrounding vicinity in SW Japan.
Those churches together created the "Kyushu Christian Disaster Relief Center" and it's already functioning. One of the on-site leaders is an alumnus of our leader development program, Pastor Yoji Nakamura. Together, they are distributing relief goods and helping out individual victims by removing debris from their houses...
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Created on 18 April 2016
Japan (MNN) — Over 500 aftershocks have followed two major earthquakes near the Japanese city Kumamoto since last Thursday.
“The continuous earthquake is making the situation worse and…rescue work has been delayed,” A3’ss Takeshi Takazawa says. “So it’s fighting with the time because [the] first earthquake has happened the fourteenth and it’s been more than three, four days has passed. So it’s getting difficult.”
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Written by Takeshi Takazawa
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Created on 13 April 2016
Hi I'm Takeshi Takazawa from Tokyo, Japan. I would like to say a big thank you for you—each of you—who have heart for Asia, praying for Asia, giving financially to Asia, and going to Asia. Thank you so much for getting involved in the ministry that God is doing right now in many countries of Asia. God is answering your prayer. God is working in and through you in Asia and this [video clip] is too short—I wish I could just come to you and say face-to-face...
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