Jessica is serving with OMF Canada and involved in the marketplace pilot project in Japan. The project focuses on collaboration between corporate workers, professionals, churches, and mission organizations in hopes of sharing the gospel with and equipping Japanese disciples who work in corporate and professional settings. She has been in Japan since 2020.

Jessica graduated with a M.Div in Clinical Counselling from Tyndale Seminary and is a registered psychotherapist trained in marriage and family therapy. She has worked with Canadian, Chinese and Japanese-speaking individuals, couples, and families in both agency and private practice settings. In Japan, she hopes to build relationships with urban-dwelling Japanese professionals and co-labor with the local church in evangelism and discipleship. She also hopes to facilitate emotional and relational healing with Japanese and expatriate communities in view of individual, marital, and family flourishing.

Growing up between Vancouver and Taiwan, Jessica moved to Toronto for university in 2009 and has been a part of Grace Toronto since 2010. Jessica is passionate about integration, story-telling, photography, trekking, and discovering delicious food. She treasures your prayer and emotional support and would love to stay connected.
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Prayer Requests
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‍Pray for my heart that I would be able to spend time with God as I transition out of the home assignment in Taiwan and return to Japan after almost a year away.  

Pray for a life partner in marriage.

Pray for a smooth second term in Japan, renewed relationships, stronger language skills in Japanese and clarity for counselling ministry.
    
Pray for protection from spiritual warfare, for wisdom, discernment and clear communication through carrying out the ministry.

Pray for Japanese pastors and lay leaders who have to carry heavy burdens in shepherding God's people without adequate financial, personnel, and energy resources. Pray for changes where space is made and hurdles lowered for young Japanese Christians to serve in ministry. 

In 2010, Matt moved to Toronto to begin his career as a structural engineer. He grew up in a rural community and mentions that he would not have moved to Toronto except for work. Matt recalls, "Work became the focal point of my life. It was getting busier and more stressful all the time. After a lengthy period of busyness came to an end and I had some time to reflect back, I realized that I was not satisfied with where my life was heading. I enjoyed work most of the time, but I did not want it to be the focal point of my life. I began praying for God to show me where my life should be going. After another wave a busyness, I was beginning to contemplate different options."

At that point, Matt had just heard about EMI (Engineering Ministries International) at an event hosted at Grace Toronto Church. He was excited about the work of EMI and was ready to get involved. Although he did not plan for this to be a long term commitment, God had other plans.

After a four month internship with EMI UK in 2013, Matt returned to Toronto for only three months and then continued with EMI in Uganda for one year. Instead of returning to Toronto, Matt decided to join EMI full time in Uganda, where he met his wife in Uganda and got married in 2015. Matt and his wife Ashley have settled into life in Uganda and are raising their family there until God directs them somewhere else.

Prayer Requests

Pray for EMI to find the right projects to work on: schools , hospitals, mission centers, and more. Pray for God to be glorified by the way EMI designs and builds these projects around East Africa.

Pray for our children to continue to learn Luganda (the local language) and for them to have confidence to practice and use it within our community. Our neighbours feel very loved and appreciated when we take the time to learn Luganda and speak it even though English is widely spoken.

We moved to a new neighbourhood in January. Pray for us to build stronger friendships with our neighbours and be able to show them God’s love through our words and actions.  Pray specifically for one of our Muslim neighbours, Zam Zam, to come to know Jesus as the Son of God.
    
Pray for us to get our work permit renewed for 3 more years before the end of the year so we can continue living and serving in Uganda.

Many people in Uganda are feeling the financial strain of high fuel prices and a rapidly weakening currency. Pray for things to stabilize and for people to put their hope in God.

Jo serves in Taiwan, working alongside local church planters to bring gospel renewal to the neglected cities, where many live in despair and bondage. Her ministry focuses on walking with women through biblical counselling and discipleship that point to the healing hope found in Christ.
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Jo came to know Christ during her university years in Toronto through the witness of a loving Christian community and the power of God's Word. As she grew in her walk with Christ and served others in the local church, God stirred in her a passion for the nations and a calling to missions. This eventually led her to Taiwan in 2020. Her prayer is for lives to be transformed, communities to flourish, and Christ to be known in every corner of the city.
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Beyond structured ministry work, Jo can often be found on a coffee adventure. Whether in quiet reflection or heartfelt conversation, she is always up for a good brew. Jo cherishes the opportunity to connect, listen, and care, believing that God often uses these ordinary moments to open doors for deeper friendships and blessed conversations.

Prayer Requests

Pray for Jo to always find rest in Christ, contentment in His glory, and hope in His kingship.

Pray for the women and counselling ministry to be arenas where gospel-centered growth, care, and community take place.
 
Pray for the people to know that, in Christ, they are not at the mercy of their circumstances. May they find hope and freedom in the gospel to respond rather than merely react or carried away by one difficulty after another with little hope or sense of agency.

For the safety of these missionaries, their names and location are kept confidential.

Prayer Requests:
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Pray for continued open doors for work and family reunification visas so we can stay here. 

Pray to persevere and make the most of the opportunities we have been given.
    
Pray for a possible meeting place for a future gathering.

For the safety of these missionaries, their names and location are kept confidential.

‍C & P serve in South Asia with their two boys at a mission hospital in a town of about 50,000 people. P serves as a medical doctor providing inpatient and outpatient medical care. C serves as a social worker in the hospital’s Pastoral Care and Social Services Department, providing mental health and addictions support to patients and to residents living in a community psychiatric rehabilitation center.

Prayer Requests
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Pray for the mission hospital and those we serve, that God would use the hospital as a light to the community and that many patients and families would come to know and experience the hope and healing found in Christ.

Pray for our family as we settle into life in South Asia, especially for our two boys. Pray for grace and dependence on God as we develop our local language skills, adjust to the culture, and build meaningful relationships in our new community.

Pray for our spiritual walk, that we would remain rooted in God's Word, grow deeper in our faith, and continue to trust His calling as we serve Him there.

For the safety of these missionaries, their names and location are kept confidential.

Prayer Requests
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Pray for believers facing pressure, detained leaders, displaced families and our local Christian friends.

Pray for those exploring faith, for healing where there is illness and for hearts to be opened to the Gospel.

Pray for helpful Christian resources, more long term workers, and God's guidance and protection over new team members