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Directions to our church Wesley United Methodist
Church is located at 566
North Fifth Street (between Empire and Jackson, on the east side of
the street) in San Jose's
Japantown neighborhood. We are conveniently located close to
highways 87, 280, 101 and 880.
If you take Light Rail we are 4 blocks east of the Japantown/Ayer stop. Take either the Alum Rock-Santa Teresa line or the Mountain View-Winchester line. Bus line #66 also serves the same stop. Other bus lines within one mile include #180 (the Fremont Express), #22 (serving El Camino Real), #23 (serving Stevens Creek Blvd), and several others. For more transit information 511.org
Parking locationsOn Sundays, worshippers at Wesley have a number of options:
Please do not park in the
parking lot of Soko Hardware which is reserved for their customers.
![]() Rev. Douglas Norris is Wesley's new interim pastor. Prior to this appointment Rev. Norris had served in Minnesota, Texas, Illinois and California, as well as in Japan and Australia. Graduating from Hamline University in St. Paul where he studied philosophy and religion, Rev. Norris received his Master of Divinity degree from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He and his wife, Eleanor, have been married 49 years and have 3 sons and 8 grandchildren. He enjoys traveling, spending time with his grandchildren and music.
Rev.
Michinari Matsushita has been the Japanese lnguage pastor of Wesley
United Methodist Church since July, 2002. Prior to coming to Wesley he
served the Tosa Church and was the associate pastor of the Takanohara
Church in Japan He holds a Master of Theology from Doshisha University in Kyoto. Rev. Michinari enjoys playing baseball and cooking. He loves his wife. He loves the dog he left behind in Japan. Above all, he loves Wesley Church. Rev. Matsushita and his wife celebrated the birth of their first child in January, 2007. Congratulations to the entire family!
Rev. Motoe Lucy Yamada holds a BA in
International Relations with a Psychology minor from the University of Toledo, Ohio, a
Masters
in Educational Administration/Student Affairs
Administration/Multicultural Education from Michigan
State University,
and a
Masters of Divinity from the Pacific
School of Religion/Graduate Theological Union. She
previously served as an associate pastor at Buena Vista United
Methodist Church in Alameda before starting her appointment with Wesley
United Methodist Church on July 1st of 2005.
She also serves on the World Council of Churches Central Committee. Their website is http://www.oikoumene.org/ "And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love." (1 COR 13:13)
The Wesley United Methodist Church (WUMC) of San Jose traces its origin back more than 100 years to 1895, when Japanese immigrants, seeking a spiritual haven in their newly-adopted country, began meeting in the Santa Clara Valley. For most of its history, WUMC has ministered primarily to people of Japanese ancestry, both immigrants and American-born. In its early years, WUMC functioned as a mission outpost of the Methodist church, including the period 1949-1964 when it was a member of the Pacific Japanese Provisional Conference, before being integrated into the San Jose District of the Cal-Nevada Annual Conference in 1964. While remaining true to its Japanese heritage, WUMC in recent years has become a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-generational church family. All are welcome to worship and fellowship at Wesley, where people of diverse backgrounds seek unity in the common ground based on the teachings and example of Jesus Christ. Wesley United
Methodist Church Web Team
This page last revised September 18, 2008 Wesley United Methodist
Church - 566 N. 5th Street, San Jose, California, USA (408) 295-0367
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