Sogoro Ogawa was saved as a young man in the very first service Dr. Don Sisk preached in the Senri Newtown Baptist Church in Japan. He was the first person to be baptized, married, and called to preach at Senri Newtown Baptist Church. For 40 years now Sogoro Ogawa has pastored Senri Newtown Baptist Church, and today the church stands as a dynamic lighthouse—the largest independent Baptist Church in Japan. Since the inception of the church, more than 50 members have given themselves to God for full-time Christian work and have become missionaries or pastors. Through many years of faithful labor, and through difficult trials, Dr. Sogoro Ogawa has given his life to serve his Saviour and to help send laborers around the world for the Gospel.