Andrea's story

Benoit's story

Hello and welcome! Our names are Benoit and Andrea Cibangu. Benoit is from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Andrea from the United Kingdom . But God has called us from two different continents to Japan to serve Him as missionaries with OMF International.  

OMF is an international, interdenominational evangelical Christian mission, founded in the nineteenth century by a British man called James Hudson Taylor as the ‘China Inland Mission’ reaching out to the vast unreached millions of Chinese people living away from the main seaport cities. 

The mission served faithfully in China for nearly one hundred years before being forcibly removed by the government in the early 1950s. 

At that point the China Inland Mission started reaching out to the countries surrounding China and its name changed to the Overseas Missionary Fellowship (now OMF International). 

OMF has been working in Japan for over fifty years now, and we are part of a team of around one hundred missionaries reaching the Japanese people with the message of Hope through Christ Jesus. Please click on the OMF logo below or ‘Links’ to learn more about OMF international.

We live in Saitama prefecture in Japan , just north of Tokyo . Many people live here and daily commute into Tokyo for work. The prefectural capital city is Saitama city and we live in the south-eastern part of the city. 

We are involved in a church called ‘ Saitama International Church ’. It has around 20-25 active members and we hold two services every Sunday, one in English and the main service in Japanese. 

We are part of a team of missionaries (two couples and ourselves), although our vision is not so much centered on the church as in reaching out to the students at the nearby Saitama University. 

Please click on the ‘Call and Vision’ and ‘Current Ministry’ links above to learn more about what we feel the Lord is calling us to do and about the church in Saitama.

As you can imagine, our individual histories and how the Lord called us to Japan are vastly different. Please click on our individual links to hear the stories of how the Lord led us here and into partnership with each other!