Missionary

MEET OUR MISSIONARY PARTNERS, JIM AND CAROL SACK


If you haven’t had the opportunity to watch it, we posted a PoP Up! video from Jim and Carol Sack in 2020, the husband and wife missionary team in Tokyo, Japan, that we've been supporting since 2019. Jim serves as a professor in both the undergraduate and graduate Clinical Psychology departments at the Japan Lutheran College, as well as a seminary professor at the Japan Lutheran Theological Seminary. Carol is the director of “Lyra Precaria,” a ministry of prayerful presence through harp and voice at the bedside.
 
Interesting facts:
Jim also serves as a chaplain for foreign prisoners at Fuchu Prison in Tokyo. Carol has a special interest in the Psalms and their relationship to the harp. They have three adult children, a son, Jonathan, and two daughters, Bethany & Emily. The Sacks have been missionaries since 1982. Their home base is Minnesota, but Jim is rostered in the NW Washington Synod.
Their contact information is as follows: 
                                   
Address:           3-10-20 Osawa                         Email:  jsack@luther.ac.jp
                         Mitaka-shi                                             james.sack@elca.org
                         Tokyo 181-0015                                    carol.sack@elca.org
                         JAPAN 
 
Your support makes a world of difference! Here’s how to give:
  • By Check: Make payable to “ELCA Global Church Sponsorship” with “Sack MSG0462” in the memo line. Give through your synod office or mail your check to: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Gift Processing Center, P.O. Box 1809, Merrifield, VA 22116-8009.
  • By Credit or Debit Card: see https://community.elca.org/japan or call 1-800-638-3522 and specify “Sack MSG0462”. 
  • By automatic monthly withdrawal, or to establish a covenant of prayer, communication and support: 1-800-638-3522, x 2657 or globalchurch@elca.org.