Church Introduction

Development of SEFC

The SEFC is one of the church belong to "Evangelical Free Church of JAPAN" (EFCJ). EFCJ is consist of 57(in 1998) churches and first church is Urawa EFC. SEFC has been developed as memorial mission of EFCJ's 40th anniversary. It was decided on Domestic Mission Committee of EFCJ that they sent Yoshida family, then Higashi-Ohmiya EFC's pastor, as domestic missionary to Sendai development in 1989. Also Stan & Joyce Conrad and Berra Lau were sent from EFCMJ(Evangelical Free Church Mission of Japan) when mission started.

Growth

By Lord's blessing, SEFC got over 400% growth in first 4 years of development(see table1). In 1995, SEFC has started Furukawa development with Bowman family, they are missionary from EFCMJ.

table1: transition of Sunday service average attendance
Year	'89	'90	'91	'92	'93	'94	'95	'96	'97	'98	'99	'00
Sendai	17	42	66	74	78	87	83	88	99	100	102	108
Furukawa	-	-	-	-	-	-	19	20	20	25	26	23
Total	17	42	66	74	78	87	102	112	119	125	128	131

Furukawa is one of major city in northern part of Miyagi prefecture. It is about 40km far from Sendai and it takes 1 hour by car.

Pastor

see Pastor Introduction page

Activities

see Activities page

Pictures

chapel from northside

Sunday service

10th anniversary service

wedding ceremony

platform

children's festival