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Pastor Cliff
Rapp
Senior Pastor for the
English language congregation
Cliff
is a native Californian, born in Santa Monica
and raised in West Los Angeles. He became a
follower of our Lord Jesus Christ while serving in the U.S.
military. Cliff and Linda, his wife, live with Aaron and Eden, their two
children, in Torrance.
Aaron attends Torrance West High and Eden
is being home schooled.
Pastor
Cliff has served with JEMS as a campus worker on two campuses for the
Asian-American Christian Fellowship. He has been an adjunct professor at Biola
University and a
professor Chafer Theological Seminary. He has written for the Chafer
Theological Journal and contributed to three books. He has helped to start
several non-profit organizations and has been senior pastor of three
churches. Cliff loves serving our Lord Jesus in the church and is grateful
for the opportunity to minister at South
Bay.
Pastor
Cliff enjoys time with family, reading and playing chess. Golf is his next
recreational challenge. He is a graduate of West
Los Angeles College,
Biola
University and Dallas
Theological Seminary.at
Pastor Ray Narusawa
Retired Minister serving as Minister to Senior Adults 
Pastor Ray is
a retired minister currently serving as Minister to the Senior Adults.
He is
originally from Wahiawa on the island of Oahu
in Hawaii. He
lives in Torrance
with his wife of 42 years, Ryoko
Joy. They have three children: Borden, Lois and Gary and also have
two grandchildren: Kayla, 11 and Daniel, 9.
Pastor Ray
served as Home Secretary of Japanese Evangelical Missionary Socitey (JEMS) from 1957 to 1959. He served in
various Free Methodist churches from 1959 until his retirement in
1993. He also served as a missionary to Brazil under JEMS from 1964 to
1979. In his first ten years he served through the Japanese
Evangelical Federation (Federacao Evangelica Japonesa) of Brazil
in cooperation with the Japanese Holiness churches, Japanese Episcopal
churches, Free Methodist churches, Baptist, Lutheran and other
churches. In the final four and a half years he worked together
with the Nikkei Free Methodist churches of Brazil. He made his
home in Sao Paulo
city.
He is a
graduate of Leilehua
High School (1946), Seattle Pacific
University (1952), Berkeley Baptist
Divinity School
(1958)
Pastor Ray
also leads a home town group that meets regularly, four times a year together
with a Planning Committee of 10 members. It's called Wahiawa--Leilehua Aikane
group. Also, together with his wife Ryoko,
he enjoys getting together with family.
Rev. Nobuo Kawahara
Senior Pastor - Japanese Congregation 
Graduated
from Osaka Christian College
and Seminary in 1986 with a B.Th. Graduated
from Western Evangelical Seminary in Portland,
OR in 1988 with
M.A. Became the pastor at Fort Lee Japanese Christian in New York
Conference in 1988 and was ordained as an Elder in 1993 Transferred from N.Y.
Conference to PCJC (Pacific Coast Japanese Conference) in 1999 and has been
the Japanese speaking pastor at South
Bay Free
Methodist Church
since then.
Rev. Kawahara
has a Wife, Hisayo and two daughters, Maria and Melody.
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congregation website
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