Lewis & Esther Lee
Lewis and Esther are Chinese, both born and raised in traditional Chinese style family in Hong Kong. They met at their mother church in 2000 and got married in 2008. They both lived in Hong Kong for over 35 years. They traveled many times to Japan as tourist, volunteer preacher and marketer. Until 2019, God responded to their prayers serving long term in Japan with his mercy and grace as little Matheo joined in their family.
Lewis was baptised at the age of 20. He studied Computer Graphics and worked in university Information & technology department and advertising holdings company as a graphics designer and IT Manager. He responded to God's calling and entered Seminary in 2010. In 2014, he got his pastoral master degree (MDIV) at Evangel Seminary in Hong Kong, which have a very close relationship with Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), Illinois, United States and accredited member of Asia Theology Association (ATA). After graduation, he responded to God’s calling in 2011, after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami by applying Oversea Mission Fellowship (OMF) as a Partnership Missionary. With the chance provided by his wife’s company to live in Tokyo for 2.5 years, he served as a volunteer preacher in a Chinese church in Kita-Senju, Tokyo and helping a Japanese pastor and Japan Campus Crusade for Christ to explore the evangelical ministry in one of the main campus in The university of Tokyo in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. In 2016, his whole family went back to Hong Kong to seek for God’s further calling. He then served as a youth preacher in a mid-scale Evangelical Church and large scale Rhenish Church of Lutheran denomination until his whole family confirming the calling to Japan for long term ministry in 2018.
Esther was baptised at the age of 23 although she started going to church from 5 years old with her brother and cousin. She served youth and as worship member at church for several years after baptised. She graduated with a bachelor degree in occupational therapy and a master degree of science in marketing management. She worked in a Japanese pharmaceutical company for 10 years as marketer and with God’s leading, she had a chance to work at Tokyo for 2.5 years. With this 2.5 years’ experience, she strongly felt the need of missionary in Japan after working closely with Japanese colleagues. She confirmed the calling from God in 2018 at Japan yearly evangelical meeting held in Hong Kong to serve as a long term missionary.
Lees Family first contacted Christar in 2011 for the short missionary in India, they further contacted Christar again after confirming calling to Japan for ministry in 2020 as their mother church responded to be their sending church. Although the world first Japanese church were born in Yamaguchi City, the Christianity in here is minority and the church members in here are ageing. Christar is the only mission organisation still running ministries and church planting in this prefecture. As Lees noticed the need of inheritance of Gospel in here, they arrived Kudamatsu-city in Yamaguchi prefecture in 2022 after Japan re-open the border after Covid and they were now working with Christar discovery team as a church planter and developing the potential gospel proclamation point among Yamaguchi east region in Shunan, Kudamatsu, Kaminoseki and Yanai for the least-reached in Japan. We are welcome in co-operation in missionary, Please take a look of our CV for the possibilities. And please dont hesitate to contact us if you are interested to know more about God's work in here.
Lewis was baptised at the age of 20. He studied Computer Graphics and worked in university Information & technology department and advertising holdings company as a graphics designer and IT Manager. He responded to God's calling and entered Seminary in 2010. In 2014, he got his pastoral master degree (MDIV) at Evangel Seminary in Hong Kong, which have a very close relationship with Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (TEDS), Illinois, United States and accredited member of Asia Theology Association (ATA). After graduation, he responded to God’s calling in 2011, after the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami by applying Oversea Mission Fellowship (OMF) as a Partnership Missionary. With the chance provided by his wife’s company to live in Tokyo for 2.5 years, he served as a volunteer preacher in a Chinese church in Kita-Senju, Tokyo and helping a Japanese pastor and Japan Campus Crusade for Christ to explore the evangelical ministry in one of the main campus in The university of Tokyo in Shimokitazawa, Tokyo. In 2016, his whole family went back to Hong Kong to seek for God’s further calling. He then served as a youth preacher in a mid-scale Evangelical Church and large scale Rhenish Church of Lutheran denomination until his whole family confirming the calling to Japan for long term ministry in 2018.
Esther was baptised at the age of 23 although she started going to church from 5 years old with her brother and cousin. She served youth and as worship member at church for several years after baptised. She graduated with a bachelor degree in occupational therapy and a master degree of science in marketing management. She worked in a Japanese pharmaceutical company for 10 years as marketer and with God’s leading, she had a chance to work at Tokyo for 2.5 years. With this 2.5 years’ experience, she strongly felt the need of missionary in Japan after working closely with Japanese colleagues. She confirmed the calling from God in 2018 at Japan yearly evangelical meeting held in Hong Kong to serve as a long term missionary.
Lees Family first contacted Christar in 2011 for the short missionary in India, they further contacted Christar again after confirming calling to Japan for ministry in 2020 as their mother church responded to be their sending church. Although the world first Japanese church were born in Yamaguchi City, the Christianity in here is minority and the church members in here are ageing. Christar is the only mission organisation still running ministries and church planting in this prefecture. As Lees noticed the need of inheritance of Gospel in here, they arrived Kudamatsu-city in Yamaguchi prefecture in 2022 after Japan re-open the border after Covid and they were now working with Christar discovery team as a church planter and developing the potential gospel proclamation point among Yamaguchi east region in Shunan, Kudamatsu, Kaminoseki and Yanai for the least-reached in Japan. We are welcome in co-operation in missionary, Please take a look of our CV for the possibilities. And please dont hesitate to contact us if you are interested to know more about God's work in here.
