John Mehn has served as a missionary in Japan since 1985 with the primary ministry of cross-cultural church planting, leadership development, and mobilization for church planting.  He is the director of the Japan Church Planting Institute (JCPI) which has two broad purposes: 1) envisioning for multiple gospel-driven church planting movements and 2) stimulation for personal spiritual renewal and transformation through the transforming power of the Gospel.  Since 1994, CPI has trained more than 1,200 foreign missionaries and Japanese leaders at the CPI national annual conference.  Participants have come from over 100 agencies and denominations, from every area of Japan, and from over a dozen foreign countries.  JCPI is a ministry of the Japan Evangelical Missionary Association (JEMA).  John also serves as Field Coordinator for his mission: the Baptist General Conference Japan Mission.  John has a Master of Divinity degree from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is completing his Doctor of Ministry in Missiology at Trinity International University (Chicago).  Before moving to Japan, he served in district church planting ministry, worked with Hispanics, served in the Philippines with another mission, and also pastored a BGC church in a transitional urban community in his native Chicago.  John and his wife Elaine live in Tokyo, Japan.  Elaine’s ministries including personal spiritual renewal teaching and mentoring.  They have two grown children, Tim and Beth.