Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! This is a change from the original plan: We will now be gathering online. Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. We will be observing the Lord’s Supper during the service. Please come worship with us and stay for a time of fellowship. We welcome those who are members of the WTUC community who are coming to please bring a finger food or snack to share during the fellowship hour.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us! You can also view the service replay after it concludes with the same link.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online for our Christmas Morning Worship service! Please use the link below to join us! You can also view the service replay after it concludes with the same link or on our YouTube channel.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online for our Lessons and Carols service! Please use the link below to join us! You can also view the service replay after it concludes with the same link or on our YouTube channel.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. Please come worship with us and stay for a time of fellowship. The youth (and adults) are welcome to stay after the service for a pizza fellowship hour!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. Please come worship with us and stay for a time of fellowship. If you are coming, please bring a finger food or snack to share during the fellowship hour.

Our sister congregation, Tokyo Union Church, will be holding a Blue Christmas service. Blue Christmas is a quiet, contemplative service focused on finding Christmas hope and joy even amid great personal struggles. There will be candlelight, Scripture readings, chants from the Taizé Community, prayer, and time for silent reflection. This service will be held live and live-streamed at tokyounion.org. All are welcome.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. We will be observing the Lord’s Supper during the service. Please come worship with us and stay for a time of fellowship. If you are coming, please bring a finger food or snack to share during the fellowship hour.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. Please come worship with us! We will have a special Thanksgiving fellowship off-site afterwards.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. We will be observing the Lord’s Supper during the service. Please come worship with us and stay for a time of fellowship. If you are coming, please bring a finger food or snack to share during the fellowship hour.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. Please come worship with us and stay for a time of fellowship. If you are coming, please bring a finger food or snack to share during the fellowship hour.

Special Thanks to Rev. Claudia Genung-Yamamoto for today's message. Rev. Claudia is a United Methodist missionary and currently serves as the senior pastor of Yokohama Union Church. She is also chaplain at Yokohama Christian School, a ministry of YUC with about 30 children from toddlers through 5th grade. She served as pastor at WTUC from 1993 to 2011 while also working as an editor for a Christian newsletter with the National Christian Council in Japan (NCC-J), where her husband, Toshi, served as General Secretary. Claudia and Toshi moved from Kobe to Yokohama nearly two years ago. In Kobe, she served at a Kyodan church in the Toyohiko Kagawa Center before becoming senior pastor of Kobe Union Church. Toshi, meanwhile, was Dean of Chaplains and Professor of Christianity at Kwansei Gakuin University. He is now retired but remains active as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Asian Rural Institute (ARI), President of the National YMCA in Japan, and pastor once a month at a Kyodan (UCCJ) church in Hachioji. He also serves on several NGO boards.

Claudia is originally from California and first came to Japan in 1976 as an exchange student, where she met Toshi. From 1980–82, she served as a live-in missionary at Bott Home, an orphanage in Machida. Claudia and Toshi married in 1983, and she completed her field education at ICU Church from 1983–84. Both graduated from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, and were ordained as clergy in the United Methodist Church. The couple has two sons. Their older son, Kai, was born in Hawaii in 1991 and now works as an occupational therapist in Los Angeles. He is engaged to be married in February 2026. Their younger son, Koh, was born in Fuchu in 1997 during Claudia’s pastorate at WTUC. He was married three years ago and now serves as pastor of a Lutheran church in Paris, Tennessee.

They still have one of their cats, Comet, that they got from an event at ASIJ when they were still living near the school.Comet is 22 years old and still genki.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. We will be observing the Lord’s Supper during the service. Please come worship with us and stay for a time of fellowship. If you are coming, please bring a finger food or snack to share during the fellowship hour.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. Please come worship with us and stay for a time of fellowship. If you are coming, please bring a finger food or snack to share during the fellowship hour.

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church! We will be gathering online! Please use the link below to join us!

Come join us as we worship the living God at West Tokyo Union Church on our opening Sunday of the 2025-2026 WTUC church year! We will be gathering in-person on the campus of Japan Lutheran Seminary in Mitaka. We will be observing the Lord’s Supper during the service. Please come worship with us and stay for a time of fellowship. If you are coming, please bring a finger food or snack to share during the fellowship hour.

During the summer break period at West Tokyo Union Church, we recommend that you visit any number of churches in the Tokyo area. One that we recommended is Tokyo Union Church located on Omotesando. You can visit them in person at 11:00 a.m. or join online with their broadcast. The links for directions and the video are below. West Tokyo Union Church will gather again at the beginning of September.

During the summer break period at West Tokyo Union Church, we recommend that you visit any number of churches in the Tokyo area. One that we recommended is Tokyo Union Church located on Omotesando. You can visit them in person at 11:00 a.m. or join online with their broadcast. The links for directions and the video are below. West Tokyo Union Church will gather again at the beginning of September.

During the summer break period at West Tokyo Union Church, we recommend that you visit any number of churches in the Tokyo area. One that we recommended is Tokyo Union Church located on Omotesando. You can visit them in person at 11:00 a.m. or join online with their broadcast. The links for directions and the video are below. West Tokyo Union Church will gather again at the beginning of September.

During the summer break period at West Tokyo Union Church, we recommend that you visit any number of churches in the Tokyo area. One that we recommended is Tokyo Union Church located on Omotesando. You can visit them in person at 11:00 a.m. or join online with their broadcast. The links for directions and the video are below. West Tokyo Union Church will gather again at the beginning of September.

During the summer break period at West Tokyo Union Church, we recommend that you visit any number of churches in the Tokyo area. One that we recommended is Tokyo Union Church located on Omotesando. You can visit them in person at 11:00 a.m. or join online with their broadcast. The links for directions and the video are below. West Tokyo Union Church will gather again at the beginning of September.

During the summer break period at West Tokyo Union Church, we recommend that you visit any number of churches in the Tokyo area. One that we recommended is Tokyo Union Church located on Omotesando. You can visit them in person at 11:00 a.m. or join online with their broadcast. The links for directions and the video are below. West Tokyo Union Church will gather again at the beginning of September.