Kenji moved from Osaka, Japan at the age of 6 and grew up in Greensboro, NC, a historic civil rights city. He identifies with both “Green Tea” and “Sweet Tea” and has lived a cross-culture life. By God’s grace, Jesus saved him from his sins and from himself at the age of 16 and called him to ministry in college while involved with Cru, a campus ministry, at NC State. However, he spent the next five years in the corporate world to honor his parents before attending seminary. Upon receiving his Masters in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary, his family moved to Fairfax, VA to pastor in a multicultural church in the Washington DC metro. Kenji has pastored for over 16 years and started All Peoples Community Church in September 2016. Kenji is married to Christine, his college sweetheart and they have three children, Charis, Alana, and Derek. They have a multicultural family, as Christine’s parents are German immigrants and she grew up speaking German in her home. He serves on the board for Mustard Seed Network that exists to plant churches in urban Japan. Kenji is a sports junkie (Lakers fan way before Lebron), an apostle for the Dallas Cowboys, a lover of God glorifying food, and has the metabolism of a humming bird.