A former summer missionary who served at First Baptist Church, Myrtle Beach, was recently appointed as a missionary to Japan by the International Mission Board.
K. Sanders
P. SandersPatrick Sanders, who was born in Anderson, will be involved in starting churches using a house-church model in Osaka, Japan. “Our goal is to teach new Japanese Christians to lead their own to Christ and to start their own house church,” he said.
His summers in Myrtle Beach proved formative in his calling as a missionary. “I was very blessed to have had the opportunity to serve such a great church,” Sanders said. “Seeing the love that the pastor then, Wayne Brown, shared for reaching the lost in the Myrtle Beach area, in other areas of the United States, and around the world only strengthened my call and fervor to be a witness for the Lord wherever I might be.”
During the summer of 1999, Sanders joined a group on a 10-day mission trip to Gartmor, Scotland. He later led a group of six other college students on a mission trip to Western Europe that included Scotland.
Earlier, as a student at Fruitland Baptist Bible Institute, he was involved with Operation Christmas Child and worked with about 300 volunteers in Russia and Eastern Europe.
A graduate of Toccoa Falls College and Southwestern Baptist Seminary, Sanders and his wife Katherine, and their sons, Joshua and Nathaniel, lived in Hartwell, Ga., prior to their appointment.