Andy and Judy Carrick
Chikara-machi 4-86
Nagoya 461-0018
Japan
Email: Andy and Judy Carrick

The Carricks ended their service in February 2008.

Andy and Judy Carrick came under appointment as PC(USA) mission personnel in January 2001. They serve with the Reformed Church of Christ in Japan in youth ministry.

Both the Carricks are "mish kids," that is, children of missionaries. Judy was born and raised in Nigeria and didn’t take up residence in the United States until her senior year in high school. Andy was the child of Presbyterian missionaries in Japan and lived there until he was 18. "Growing up as a missionary kid in Nigeria influenced me to accept the missionary call as a natural response to my faith in and obedience to Jesus Christ," writes Judy. "As a 12-year-old I set my face in the direction of overseas mission work, and my college and graduate school training prepared me for this vocation."

The Carricks were living in Kobe, Japan, in 1999 when an earthquake devastated that city. In fact, they’ve been been living in Japan since 1993. Andy taught English at the Palmore Institute in Kobe and Judy was a homemaker while she home-schooled the Carrick’s four children. During this period Andy was also a "mission associate" with the PC(USA), but he wasn’t satisfied with his ability to reach out and share his love of Christ with students at the high school where he taught English, so he sought a post where he could bemore direct help the Japan’s churches.

Letters from
Andy and Judy Carrick

• March 2007
• January 2007
• July 2006
• September 2005
• August 2005
• June 2004 (2)
• June 2004 (1)
• May 2004
• July 2003
• January 2003
• December 2002
• October 2002
• September 2001

From 1988 to 1993, Andy was the pastor of two Presbyterian churches in Ignacio and Allison, Colorado. From 1984 to 1987 he was pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, California, a Japanese-American church that is part of the Japanese Presbyterian Conference.

Judy has been a home care provider, home school teacher, full-time parent since 1989. She taught English as a second language in Japan (1977-1980) and was director of Christian education at Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in East Los Angeles, California (1972-1974)

Andy holds a master’s of divinity from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California and a bachelor’s of arts degree in general studies from the College of the Ozarks, Clarksville, Arkansas. Judy has a master’s degree in cross-cultural communications from Fuller Theological Seminary and a bachelor’s of science degree in Bible and mission from the Grace College of the Bible in Omaha, Nebraska.

Andy was ordained by the Presbyteryof the Pacific in 1985 at Christ Presbyterian Church and is a clergy member of the Presbytery of Western Colorado. Judy is an active member of Kobe Union Church in Kobe, Japan, where she was superintendent of Sunday school and a Sunday school teacher.

The Carricks are the parents of four children, Naomi, Nathanael, Joseph, and Sarah.

Birthdays:
Naomi Elisabeth - October 17, 1980
Nathanael Isaac - July 17, 1990
Joseph Elijah - August 31, 1993
Sarah Yohanna - January 22, 1996
Andy - September 26
Judy - October 15