For any questions regarding your stay at the venue, please contact the conference coordinator (not venue) at info@jcpi.net
Please do not contact the venue for shuttle questions, see below. Please plan to arrive early! You first meal on your day of arrival begins with dinner. You are welcome to bring lunch and eat it at the venue.
Kakegawa Station to Renown Venue shuttle schedule (no reservation necessary, free):
There are a lot of parking spaces at the venue.
You will want to know where you will be lodging before you park (Hotel North Wing or Hotel South Wing). Please first register before unloading your van. Registration will take place at the central lobby (see photo below).
Parking Fee: There is a one time fee of ¥500. Please bring your ticket stub to the front desk and pay your one time fee (you will need to get your parking ticket stamped to avoid payment at the gate). If you are leaving the venue during the conference, you will receive a new parking ticket once you return to the venue. You will need to go back to the front desk and get your ticket stamped to avoid payment at the gate (if you mention that you have already paid your one time fee, you will not need to pay again).
For any questions regarding your stay at the venue, please contact the conference coordinator (not venue) at info@jcpi.net
Hours: 6:30 to 9:00 / 15:00 to 24:00 (last entry 23:30)
*Free to all hotel guests, indoor bath only. Please bring your own towels from your hotel room.
There is a game room in the basement below the main lobby (coins need to be purchased at the machine in the game room).
Your registration fee includes dinner from the day of your arrival until obento lunch on Friday, November 15, 2024, lodging and conference participation fee. Single rooms are unfortunately not available for this conference and we are unable to accept off site lodging for this event.
Registration is necessary to attend Renown Conference. For this conference we are unable to accept day only participants. Thank you for your understanding.
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| ¥36,000 – Adult ¥30,000 – Middle/High School ¥21,000 – 3 Years – Elementary ¥1,000 – 2 years and under |
| Register and pay from July 1 (Space available) |
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| ¥38,000 – Adult ¥30,000 – Middle/High School ¥21,000 – 3 Years – Elementary ¥1,000 – 2 years and under |
| Extra Night (Space available) |
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| ¥15,000 – Adult ¥15,000 – Middle/High School ¥11,000 – 3 Years – Elementary ¥0 – 2 years and under |
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¥1,000 per unit (individual/family) – Before 7/1/2024 |
STEP 1: You first need to CREATE AN ACCOUNT (just one per family/unit is necessary)
STEP 2: In the process of creating an account, it will ask for your email to be verified. This means you need to go back into your email account that you gave on the registration and click VERIFY on the email. Check your spam if you don’t see this verification email in your mailbox.
STEP 3: Once you have verified your email that you gave for opening your account, you can log in to this account (main page will say LOG IN) or you will already be logged in.
STEP 4: Look at the menu list on the left of the screen. Click on REGISTER. This will take you through a process of registering. Be sure to click SUBMIT at the very end so your registration is confirmed.
Please note: If you plan to attend the pre-conference (Prayer & Worship Pre-Conference), respond YES and register for an extra night. Later in the registration it will ask who in the registration plans to come early in case the entire family is not on the same schedule (i.e. one adult might arrive earlier and the rest of the family the next day). For those wishing to stay an extra night at the end of Renown, a similar question is also asked.
If you have completed all the questions and it does not allow you to click “SUBMIT” but says, “you need to register an adult before submitting” then look at the bottom of the screen where it asks you to “add an adult.” You need to click here and answer a few more questions and then it allows you to click SUBMIT at the end of this.
19:30 – 21:00 | Breakout Session 1
Breakout Session 1 Nov 13 (Wed) 19:30 – 21:00
Breakout Session 2 Nov 14 (Thurs) 11:00 – 12:30
See detailed schedule, speaker and session info below.
Networking (1) Nov 13 (Wed) 16:00 – 17:00
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Faith & Works (Facilitator: Tom Shimatani) Location: Convention Hall SA |
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Art & Community (Facilitator: Chris Posseur & team) Location: Belle Feuille |
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Counseling Ministry (Facilitator: Chie Burns) Location: Convention Hall SB |
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College Ministry (Facilitator: Kevin Ewing) Location: Conference Center B |
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T4T (Facilitators: Hideki Kina, Makoto Saeki) Location: Conference Center C |
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SOMA・Missional Community (Facilitator: Yoshito Noguchi) Location: Convention Hall MA |
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Parakaleo (Facilitator: Cathlain Carter & team) Location: Convention Hall MB |
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Networking (2) Nov 14 (Thurs) 16:00 – 17:00
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Using Music for Evangelism (Facilitator: Andrew Wong) Location: Convention Hall SA |
The Kids Program takes place on the first floor of the Hotel North Wing (Business Center). Our volunteers are caring for infants to children who are still in elementary school. Wednesday & Thursday evenings from 21:00 – 23:00 there will be a teen night for middle school and high school Renown participants.
Please pickup your child up immediately after the last session before all meal times and at the end of the day!
See Below
Location: Convention Hall MA
Presenters: Seima Aoyagi and Jeremy Sink
An introduction to SERGE’s curriculum on Sonship (this is also featured in CPI’s Grace Week, which is being held this year). We cannot share the gospel with others without continually applying the gospel message to our own hearts. In this session, together we will think about practical ways to live the gospel, speaking to our hearts with the life-transforming message of the gospel. We invite you to bring your entire team to promote a gospel-centered culture within your team.
Seima Aoyagi
Pastor of Grace Harbor Church. He was saved through Hi-B.A. (high school youth ministry) and was baptized at Chiba Midoridai Church of Presbyterian Church of Japan (PCJ). While he was at Sophia University, he was active in KGK activities and was invited by a missionary to serve in college student evangelism for seven years. He then completed a Master of Pastoral Studies (M.Div 2008, Th.M 2016) at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, along with a church planting internship at Harbor Presbyterian Church in San Diego. In 2009, he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA). He returned to Japan in 2011 and began church planting in Toyosu, Koto-ku in 2012. Grace Harbor Church was established in April 2015. Resident of Tsukishima. Father of four children. He enjoys camping, surfing, and city walking.
Jeremy Sink
Jeremy is a missionary with Serge. Jeremy and Gina helped plant a church in central North Carolina before moving to Nagoya in 2012 to support church planting in Japan. They helped plant All Nations Fellowship (ANF) in Nagoya where Jeremy served as the first pastor. Jeremy leads Serge’s team in Nagoya that works to see new churches planted by offering support and resources to Japanese pastors, church planters, and their wives. Their passion is to see Japanese leaders thriving and succeeding in their own callings to reach Japan with the good news of the Gospel.
Location: Convention Hall MB
Presenter: Dan Iverson
The great commission of Matthew 28:19-20 calls us to “make disciples of all nations.” This of course includes Japan and the Japanese. We certainly have great challenges in Japan in our evangelism, but we also have great challenges in “making disciples”, and especially in making “reproducing, gospel centered disciples.” Sharing from the Bible, and from three decades of experience in Japan as a church planter / pastor, and from many mistakes, Dan will also focus on the important Biblical value – and CPI core value- of being gospel centered in all this.
Dan has served in Japan with MTW/JPM for 35 years. He was lead church planter and then pastor for 28 years for Oyumino Church (PCJ), a multisite church in Chiba. He also served as the JPM Tokyo/Chiba Team Leader for 30 years, and as the JPM Mission Leader for 15 years. Dan and Carol have 9 children, and 36 grand children at last count.Location: Convention Hall MA
Location: Conference Center A
Presenter: Richard McLaughlin
Anytime we seek to influence the thinking, behavior, or development of others, we are taking on the role of a leader. Why do we lead? What are we thinking? What are we doing? How do we stay on track? What can we learn by taking a closer look at Jesus in each of these areas? Please come and see…
Richard has served in Japan for 4 1/2 years, and taken multiple short-term trips there. He has served in church planting, in Christian higher education (Trinity International University [Illinois, USA] & Christ Bible Seminary [Nagoya, Japan]) and presently serves as Senior Pastor at Lakeside Church of Chicago.
Location: Convention Hall SA
Presenter: Ryuta Kimura
Gospel Contextualization: Seeing our culture through the Biblical lens & How do we contextualize the gospel without watering down the gospel truth?
Ryuta worked as a pastor and leader in England, Switzerland andJapan for more than 20 years, planted Double O Cross Church 10 years ago,also serves as a City to City training director. Ryuta is married to Patrizia from Switzerland, and has two daughters.
Location: Conference Center B
Presenter: Kevin West
The greatest evangelist is not an individual, but the whole church! This session will explore ways churches in Japan can strategize and mobilize to reach our communities and nation with the gospel.
Kevin moved to Japan in 2003, married Nozomi in 2007, and has two children: Lia and Kai. Kevin has served in various Japanese-language and bilingual churches, including Mustard Seed Christian Church – Kobe (2016 – 2024). He is now leading a church plant in Saitama.
Location: Belle Feuille (Basement, take steps to the ground floor before entering the hallway to the Hotel North Wing)
Presenters: Tim & Chie Burns
Tim: Grew up in Seattle, Washington, after being an elder at our former church, moved to Japan in 2013, a church planter in Nagoya at Logos Community Church.
Chie: Born in Japan, moved to the states for college, graduated with B.A. in Biblical Counseling. After returning to Japan she serves as a part of church planting team, as a Christian counselor. A mother of 3 children, Mitsuki, Emi, Mei. An ACBC certified counselor.
Location: Conference Center C
Trainer: Yoshiya Hari
About a third of the cities, towns and villages in Japan do not have churches. How can churches work together to create healthy communities in areas where people do not have access to the gospel? We would like to share the vision and strategies of the Coverage Project and talk about how we can work together.
Born in Yokohama, Japan, Yoshiya studied in Yamagata and worked for a printing company. After retiring as an engineer, he and his wife studied at a seminary and he became pastor of Saikyo Nozomi Chapel in 2003. In 2011 he was appointed as the Asian Access JCGI Network National Director.
For JCE6 he served as the project lead for the Church Multiplication Project and since JCE7, has been serving with the Coverage Project.L
Location: Convention Hall SB
Presenter: Jay Greer
The church is central to God’s mission to reach the world. All local churches started as church plants. Let’s talk about God’s design for the church and how we can join in God’s global mission through the church.
Jay and his wife Caitlin have lived and worked in Japan with Mustard Seed Network since 2008. They have been a part of church planting teams in Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo. They live in Tokyo with their four kids and a very manly, ferocious toy poodle.
Location: Convention Hall MA
Presenters: Seima Aoyagi and Jeremy Sink
An introduction to SERGE’s curriculum on Sonship (this is also featured in CPI’s Grace Week, which is being held this year). We cannot share the gospel with others without continually applying the gospel message to our own hearts. In this session, together we will think about practical ways to live the gospel, speaking to our hearts with the life-transforming message of the gospel. We invite you to bring your entire team to promote a gospel-centered culture within your team.
Seima Aoyagi
Pastor of Grace Harbor Church. He was saved through Hi-B.A. (high school youth ministry) and was baptized at Chiba Midoridai Church of Presbyterian Church of Japan (PCJ). While he was at Sophia University, he was active in KGK activities and was invited by a missionary to serve in college student evangelism for seven years. He then completed a Master of Pastoral Studies (M.Div 2008, Th.M 2016) at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, along with a church planting internship at Harbor Presbyterian Church in San Diego. In 2009, he was ordained in the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA). He returned to Japan in 2011 and began church planting in Toyosu, Koto-ku in 2012. Grace Harbor Church was established in April 2015. Resident of Tsukishima. Father of four children. He enjoys camping, surfing, and city walking.
Jeremy Sink
Jeremy is a missionary with Serge. Jeremy and Gina helped plant a church in central North Carolina before moving to Nagoya in 2012 to support church planting in Japan. They helped plant All Nations Fellowship (ANF) in Nagoya where Jeremy served as the first pastor. Jeremy leads Serge’s team in Nagoya that works to see new churches planted by offering support and resources to Japanese pastors, church planters, and their wives. Their passion is to see Japanese leaders thriving and succeeding in their own callings to reach Japan with the good news of the Gospel.
Location: Convention Hall MB
Presenter: Dan Iverson
The gospel comes with precious promises to us and our children, great power, and a blessed mission. Sharing from the Bible, our own experiences, blessings, challenges, and failures, this father-son team (and hopefully our wives) will focus on Biblical promises, principles, and practical helps in disciplining our families to be gospel-centered, missional families.
Dan has served in Japan with MTW/JPM for 35 years. He was lead church planter and then pastor for 28 years for Oyumino Church (PCJ), a multisite church in Chiba. He also served as the JPM Tokyo/Chiba Team Leader for 30 years, and as the JPM Mission Leader for 15 years. Dan and Carol have 9 children, and 36 grand children at last count.Lo
Location: Belle Feuille (Basement, take steps to the ground floor before entering the hallway to the Hotel North Wing)
Presenters: Yukikazu Otomo and Yukimasa Otomo
Yukikazu Otomo
Yukimasa Otomo
Location: Conference Center C
Presenters: Evan Easom and Brooks Cain
Come with your questions about teens and let’s talk together with practitioners from all over the country about how we can reach the next generation!
Brooks Cain
Since graduating from Seminary and joining MTW in 2011, Brooks and his wife Riva have been living and working in Nagoya. There Brooks leads the NEXT team whose mission is to “serve the church in reaching the next generation.” The Cains have spent the past 11 years teaching youth ministry courses, caring for missionary kids, and reaching Japanese teenagers through a city-wide youth ministry called Connect. Their deepest desire is to help young people know God, grow in their relationship with Him and His people, and go out as agents of his grace in kingdom living. The Cains are also raising 4 children of their own (ages 10-2) and are keenly aware of their need for grace in this and every area of their lives.
Evan Easom
Evan is a British Texan who has been in Japan for 7 years reaching out to young people through hi-b.a. ministry, coaching volleyball, board games, spikeball, cooking and baking, and camps/conferences. These are a few of his favorite things, to quote a musical, another one of his favorite things.
Location: Conference Center B
Presenter: Asako Eguchi
Location: Conference Center A
Presenter: Yoshito Noguchi
Location: Convention Hall SB
Presenter: Jay Greer
Our teams are some of the greatest blessings God has given to us for ministry. How do we care for them and help our teams all reach our purpose of making disciples in Japan? Let’s discuss how to build, develop, and lead your ministry team for gospel effectiveness.
Jay and his wife Caitlin have lived and worked in Japan with Mustard Seed Network since 2008. They have been a part of church planting teams in Nagoya, Osaka, and Tokyo. They live in Tokyo with their four kids and a very manly, ferocious toy poodle.
Location: Convention Hall SA
Presenter：Seita Sakaguchi
Why do we gather as the church and sing together? The participants in this session will discuss how the gospel shapes our corporate worship that is aimed at our encounter with God and our transformation. Some gospel-centered resources will be shared.
Seita and his wife Emma live in Tokyo and have four children. Seita serves as a pastor at Toyosu Community Church and also as a member of the CPI Leadership Team. L
Junko Takahashi (Bilingual)
Conference Room: Music Garden M3
Licensed psychologist, School psychologist, Clinical developmental psychologist, Traveling special needs education counseling psychologist
Junko Takahashi is a Japanese licensed psychologist and certified as a school psychologist and clinical developmental psychologist in Japan. She has worked as a preschool/kindergarten teacher, Japanese language teacher and a guidance counselor at Christian Academy in Japan (CAJ) and two church schools over the course of her career. Currently, she works as a traveling special needs education counseling psychologist at public elementary and junior high schools in Tokyo. She is able to consult in Japanese and English and her aim is to encourage and support whole child development.
To schedule an appointment, please email her at junkotakahashi721@gmail.com
Jayne Hiramoto Fong, M.S. CCC (Bilingual)
Conference Room: Music Garden M4
Speech Language Pathologist
Jayne is an ASHA certified Speech Language Pathologist and has been working with pediatric clients since 1996.
She has extensive knowledge of the US public school special education system and has consulted with multiple schools in Japan regarding support for students with learning difficulties, multiple language learning, and neurodivergent needs. Jayne has worked with students and parents with a variety of needs/diagnosis (i.e. speech/language delays, motor speech disorders, genetic disorders, autism and social skills).
To schedule an appointment, please email her at jaynefongslp@gmail.com
John Houlette (Bilingual)
Conference Room: Music Garden M1
John is the director of Three Stream Ministries, which provides marriage counseling for couples, coaching and mentoring for pastors and ministry leaders and consulting for churches. He is bilingual and meets clients both online and in person. www.threestreamministries.com
He has a Doctor of Ministry degree in Congregation and Family Care and is finishing up two counsel certificates at the Christian Counseling Education Foundation (CCEF).
He was a church planter for 30 years and a mission executive field leader for seven years. He has certificates in coaching, marital counseling, and disaster response chaplaincy. He and his wife live in Sendai.
To schedule an appointment, please email him at threestreamministries@gmail.com.
Chie Burns (bilingual)
Conference Room: Music Garden M5
Born and raised in Japan, went to the states for college. Graduated from the Master’s University in L.A. with BA in Biblical Counseling. Served in a local church, discipling and leading a small group, worked at the counseling center at her home church as a counselor, helping people with depression, abuse, marital issues, eating disorders, trauma in the past,etc. Returned to Japan along with her husband Tim, serving as a part of a church planting team and as a Christian counselor. One of the trainers of STEPS program hosted by Christ Bible Institute. ACBC certified counselor.
To schedule an appointment, please email her at chieburnscpi@gmail.com.
Remy Mullins (English)
Conference Room: Music Garden M2
Remy serves as the Global Outreach Pastor at Canyon Hills Community Church in Bothel, WA, where he has also served as a counselor for over 10 years at their Counseling Center, helping individuals and couples with issues like marriage, depression, addiction, grief, and more. He also counsels missionaries on the field, understanding the unique issues of the mission field and working across cultures. He and his wife Kimberly have been married for 20 years and have 2 sons.
To schedule an appointment, please email him at chccglobal@gmail.com
Dale Zarlenga (English)
Conference Room: Music Garden M6
Dale Zarlenga has served as a high school choral director, Minister of Worship and Music, Pastoral Counselor, and now as Therapist. I currently am a Teaching Elder in the Blue Ridge Presbytery of the PCA and am a Resident in Counseling in the state of Virginia working towards full licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor. I’ve studied at Covenant Theological Seminary (Master of Divinity) and Regent University (Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling). I’ve participated in various workshops and studied under Dr. Dan Allender and his team at The Allender Center in Seattle, WA. I’ve also am a Level 2 Gottman Couples Therapy trained clinician. I work with individuals, couples, and families from ages 12 thru adult who struggle with loneliness, depression, anxiety, addictions, relational conflicts, and suffer from various trauma and abuses in their lives. I offer counseling that is biblically faithful, Gospel-centered, and clinically sound. I have particular interest in working with folks through trauma.