Eriya Kato aka Elijah [intern]

Elijah was born in Fukuoka and raised in Kanagawa / Tokyo Area in Japan. He grew up in a Christian family but began to stray away from God when he was teenager. At the age of 21, he started building a real relationship with Christ when he traveled to the west coast in the U.S. After he came back to Japan and graduated from the university, he went to JTJ mission seminary for 2 years.

In 2002 he started planting a church with his family and also started using his rap music for evangelism. In 2005 he released his 1st CD and he traveled to the States again for outreach concerts for Japanese Churches.

Elijah met Pastor Tommy at Purpose Driven Conference in CA in May and then he came to Fla.vor Fest 2005 in November. In 2006 Elijah moved to Tampa to serve as an intern at Crossover. Elijah plans on eventually going back to Japan to plant a church similar to Crossover.

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