Pioneers to Partners: the Reformed Church in America and Christian mission with the Japanese by Gordon D. LamanPublication Date: 2013-02-02
Beginning with Japan's early exposure to Christianity by the very successful Roman Catholic mission to Japan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the resultant persecution and prohibition of Christianity, Laman lays the groundwork for understanding the experience of nineteenth-century Protestant missionaries, among whom those of the Reformed Church in America were in the forefront. The first Protestant church was organized with a vision for ecumenical mission, and during several promising years, churches and mission schools were organized.