Frank & Mary Kay Frank and Mary Kay Sapp arrived in Japan shortly before Christmas in 1971. They were appointed by the Presbyterian Church (US) to work in partnership with the Reformed Church of Japan, a Presbyterian denomination originally established by the Southern Presbyterian Mission. Frank is from Georgia and was educated at Presbyterian College of South Carolina and Columbia Theological Seminary where he met and shortly later married Mary Kay.
Mary Kay was born in China and had grown up on the mission field there until repatriation was necessitated by the entry of Japan into The Second World War. Her education took her to Wheaton College and Columbia Theological Seminary where she earned the Doctor of Ministries Degree. Frank was ordained in 1960 and they served in churches in Macon, Woodstock, Freehome, and Dalton Georgia before applying for service in Japan. They have three daughters who grew up in both the US and Japan, and now live and work in the States.
The Sapps studied the Japanese Language for two years at the Kobe School of Japanese Language after which the Joint Committee of the Reformed Church of Japan requested that they work in Central Japan centered in Japan's third largest city, Nagoya.
Frank also served as the Coordinator for the Hour For Christ Radio Ministry in Central Japan; was on the Executive Committee of the Trustees of Yodogawa Christian Hospital; was a Trustee of Shikoku Christian College, and Seiwa Gakuen; He served on the Board of Councillors of Kinjo Gakuin until shortly before his retirement; and of course, in his spare time was a husband and father.
