John and Elaine Mehn have served as BGC missionaries in Japan since 1985 with the primary ministry of cross-cultural church planting, direct evangelism and outreach, mobilization and equipping for church planting, leadership development, and spiritual renewal mentoring.

Since 1985 they have lived in the world’s largest city: Tokyo. Currently they live in Machida City, a large suburb of Tokyo with nearly 500,000 people. Their home, in addition to their residence, is the headquarters for the Converge Worldwide Japan Mission, the operations center for the JEMA Church Planting Institute (CPI), and a renewal center for women in ministry called The Spring.