Teacher/Database Development

Stephen and Barbara Duhrkoop are missionaries, serving in Japan with OMS International. Working at the Christian Academy in Japan in Tokyo, they minister to English-speaking children from the missionary, business and diplomatic communities. Stephen teaches social studies and serves as senior class advisor and senior ministry project coordinator, which includes helping supervise the senior ministry trip to northern Thailand. Barbara works in the school business office as accounting coordinator and doing database development. Stephen also teaches an English conversation class and preaches occasionally at the OMS-related church in Iruma as part of their outreach program.

Stephen graduated from George Fox College in 1975 and later attended the University of Oregon, where he received his master’s degree in education in 1981. That same year, he went to Japan to teach at the academy. He met Barbara there, and they were married in 1983.

Barbara graduated in 1976 with a degree in math from Huntington College (Indiana) and then returned to Japan where her parents were missionaries with the Christian Church. A graduate of Christian Academy, she has worked at CAJ since 1976.

Stephen presently also serves as the Japan field leadership team coordinator, working in partnership with the national church to share Christ with the spiritually needy people of Japan.

The Duhrkoops say of their work in Japan, “We are ministering in a country that has been an economic giant and to a people who seem to be self-sufficient, but they are in great spiritual need. Today, they face a breakdown of the family and many people have great personal needs. This is an excellent opportunity for us to help the Japanese laity reach their own spiritually desperate people.”

The Duhrkoops have two grown children, Joshua and Pamela.
 

Missionary ID #801478