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Article updated: 10/12/2011 8:55 PM

Japanese church seeks help with rebuilding plans in Chicago suburbs

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The Rev. Akira Sato, a minister whose congregation is trying to rebuild after losing their homes and church to the Japan nuclear power plant meltdown caused by the earthquake and tsunami, visits the Japanese Mission Baptist Church in Schaumburg.

Bob Chwedyk | Staff Photographer

Rev. Akira Sato, a minister whose churches were lost after the Japanese tsunami, talks at the Japanese Mission Baptist Church in Schaumburg.

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The Rev. Yugo Kobari of the Japanese Mission Baptist Church in Schaumburg hosted the Rev. Akira Sato, left, who lost his churches to the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant meltdown.

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Members of the Fukushima First Bible Baptist Church in Japan evacuated after March’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant meltdown.

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This is one of the stops the congregation of the Fukushima First Bible Baptist Church made during its multistage evacuation journey.

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Members of Japan’s self-defense forces help members of the Baptist congregation evacuate their homes.

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The Japanese catastrophe convinced several people to seek baptism from Rev. Akira Sato.

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Seventy members of the 200-member church are living at a retreat near Tokyo owned by a German missionary organization.

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The congregation built its fourth church about three years ago. Radiation levels forced its abandonment.

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When 70 people evacuated their homes, the journey in March led through the snowy mountains.

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The congregation is grateful to receive shelter at the retreat center owned by German missionaries.

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Rev. Akira Sato talks with children in his congregation at the retreat center where they are living.

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About this Article

Akira Sato, a minister whose church is just three miles from the nuclear plant meltdown that occurred after the tsunami that hit Japan, was in Arlington Heights and Schaumburg to tell of his congregation's flight, its efforts to stay together and its plans to rebuild 25 miles from the power plants. “I was surprised the church never died because of this. We became an everyday church, not a once-a-week church.”