Meet Chris.
Dr. Chris Sadowitz is a lifelong pastor, missionary, and theological educator who has spent four decades making disciples in rural Japan. Serving with ABWE (the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism) since 1990 and as Senior Pastor of the Miyakonojo Christian Center since 1998, he relishes the ongoing privilege of not only introducing people to Christ but watching them grow into reproducing disciples who build His church.
He brings 40 years of practical ministry experience, theological depth, and organic zeal to the expansion of the church in Asia. His teaching spans local-church ministry, theological training, and cross-cultural missional engagement — with particular expertise in how multi-cultural and gospel-resistant contexts shape the way local communities form theology and carry out ministry. Since 2006 he has taught as adjunct faculty at Asia Bible Theological Seminary in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and he is co-editor of Paul Planted, Apollos Watered, but God: Vulnerable Weakness in Ministry and Mission.
What motivates Chris, his wife, and their family is the relentless love of Christ on their behalf and the privilege of being His servants among the nations. At Anchor, where he has served as adjunct faculty since 2022, that calling takes shape in raising up the next generation of young Christian adults — passionate for Christ's name throughout the world — and sharpening their ministry skill so they are fruitful in loving service to Him. It's the kind of teaching Anchor is built on: formed in the field, taught from real practice.