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Barton
Bernie Barton
Missionary to Japan
Missions Focus:
- Serving since 1998 as principal of Tamagawa Seigakuin, a Christian girls' junior and senior high school located in Tokyo
- Pastoring at the Tamagawa Church
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Bernie will return to his pastoral and leadership roles in Tokyo, Japan following the loss of his wife Cheryl Johnson Barton in June of 2011. Cheryl went to be with the Lord after a two year battle with cancer. Bernie and Cheryl served the Church of God together in Japan as career missionaries from1982–2011. Nearly twenty years of this time was spent co-pastoring the Tarumi Church of God in the city of Kobe.
One successful program of the Tamagawa Seigakuin School is International Day. This special program is staffed by members of the international community who attend Tokyo Baptist Church (TBC). Because TBC has been focusing its attention on providing disaster relief, staffing large events is problematic. But God always provides. Seventeen countries were represented in 2011, and third year junior high school girls were able to travel the globe in half a day by visiting the various national booths where the students asked questions in English and learned about other cultures and what it is like to be a Christian in that place. Additionally, Bernie serves in orientation camps for 150+ first-year junior high school girls (7th grade) and 190 first-year senior high school girls (10th grade). It is a time for new students to get to know each other and for the school to introduce the Bible, faith in Christ, and give opportunity for girls to choose “Christ for Life.” Again, Bernie is thankful for your prayers that do support these significant events in the life of Tamagawa Seigakuin. From 1976 to 1979, Bernard and Cheryl also served as special assignment missionaries teaching English and helping two Church of God congregations in southern Japan. Bernie was born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. There he and his family attended First Church of God, the church in which he felt called to the ministry while a high school junior. Bernard transferred from a state university to Anderson University, where he met Cheryl, to pursue studies in Bible and religion. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1976 and a master of divinity degree from Anderson School of Theology in 1982. Project # 42.10037 |
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