A Resilient Faith

Born on Bainbridge Island, Washington, Tsutomu Fukuyama was a graduate of Seattle Pacific College and a student at Berkeley Baptist Divinity School in the spring of 1942. He served as co-pastor of Federated Christian Church at Minidoka. After leaving Minidoka, he was director of Brotherhood House in Denver, Colorado, a hostel that provided housing for Japanese Americans relocating to the area. He pastored several UCC (United Churches of Christ) churches and eventually returned to Japanese Baptist Church as pastor. He later worked a chaplain at the American Lake VA Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington.