The Jacksons

Bill, Jean, Aaron, Adam, Asa, Asher, Able, Amos, Abram

 Bill spent most of his childhood in the Pacific Northwest. He is a graduate of Eastern Washington University with a B.A in Education, and of Reformed Theological Seminary (May'88).

 Jean also grew up in the Pacific Northwest, attending the same high school as Bill. There they met, due to their related fields of interest Bill being a gymnast and Jean a classical ballet dancer. Jean, too, went on to study at EWU.

 Both Bill and Jean became interested in missions while Bill was attending Reformed Theological Seminary. Bill centered his studies in the M.Div./Missiology program, while Jean became active in the campus. Feeling a strong call to work with an unreached people group, the Jacksons were thinking of becoming translators in a tribal culture.
 
Through Dan Iverson, a former RTS classmate, Bill and Jean came to see the Japanese as one of those unreached peoples. Japanese Christians compose less than one percent of that nation's population!
 
Due to heightened materialism and a changing culture, there is a new openness in Japan to the Gospel.

 Bill and Jean, along with their children, Aaron (12/8/81), Adam (4/2/84), Asa (7/28/86), Asher (12/2/88), Abel (12/13/90) and Amos (6/8/93), are glad to be able to be a part of the Chiba Churchplanting team.